4/8 AUHSD Board Meeting: Open Session (6:00PM)

001[Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music] yeah [Music] no no [Music] no [Music] yeah [Music] [Applause] yeah away me [Applause] go [Music] me [Music] no no [Music] no okay we will reconvene into Open Session and we will begin with our Pledge of Allegiance and moment of silence our student representative to the Board of Trustees Elizabeth o will lead the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and per provide us with a moment of silence please stand everyone thank you please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance place your right hand over your heart ready begin I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all you may be seated thank you I

002would like to dedicate this moment of silence to the eight asian-americans who are Fally killed in Atlanta Georgia on March 15th according to the stop aapi hate this will only exacerbate the fear and pain that the Asian-American Community continues to endure unfortunately there has been a surge in hate towards the asian-americans since the pandemic and my heart goes out to the families of lost ones and our own Asian-American community so please take this moment to recognize and honor them thank you okay thank you now the clerk of the Board of Trustees will report actions taken during our closed session 4.1 no reportable action taken regarding public employee performance evaluation superintendent 4.2 no reportable action taken regarding unrepresentative represent employee negotiations 4.3 the Board of Trustees by a vote of five to Zer approve the settlement

003agreement in oah case number 2021 01 0164 resolving all issues in students due process complaint by amending students IEP conducting assessments providing compensatory services and providing other reimbursements in the amount of $99,500 4.4 the Board of Trustees by a vote of 5 to Zer approve the settlement agreement in oah case number 2021 01 0585 resolving all issues in students doe process complaint by reimbursing tuition and mileage funding compensatory Services agreeing to assess and providing other reimbursements in the amount of $9,995 4.5 the Board of Trustees by a vote of 5 to Zer approve the settlement agreement in oah case number 2021 02 0267 7 resolving all issues in students due process complaint by amending students I conducting assessments providing compensatory services and providing other reimbursements in the amount of $88,500 4.6 the Board of Trustees

004by a vote of 5 to Zer approved the settlement agreement in oah case number 0289 resolving all issues in students due process complaint by Pro providing assessments a compensatory education fund and $7,250 in reimbursements the Board of Trustees by a vote of 5 to zero approve approve the settlement agreement in oah case number 0609 resolving all issues in students due process complaint by amending students IEP conducting assessments funding compensatory education and providing $99,500 in reimbursements 4.8 no reportable action taken regarding negotiations 4.9 no reportable action taken regarding Personnel 4.10 the Board of Trustees unanimously voted to accept the agreement with employee HR 2020-21 d139 4. 11 the Board of Trustees unanimously voted to demote employee hr- 220 D21 d140 and lastly lastingly 4.12 the Board of Trustees unanimously voted to make the following appointments Gilbert

005Amano principal at Brookhurst Junior High School Yol Anda Maha principal South Junior High School thank you um are we going to invite the principls in to speak would that be after my recognition here or and while we you know I guess I can acknowledge here um that the Board of Trustees would like to recognize our community stakeholders for their interest in the Anaheim Union High School District and for attending our board meeting thank you so much each of you for your participation and contribution as we create an educational Environ that graduates socially aware civic-minded students who are College and Career ready for the 21st century and hold up just a minute we have Jackie Brock from CSA who will I believe is here in attendance in the in the other room Sylvia anopa apga co-president

006and Hilda Vasquez Alta president of Anaheim leadership team now we have two newly appointed principles and I'd like to start with Mr amama manio yes Gilbert Amano [Applause] yes good afternoon everyone I have a great speech for you thank you Madame President piery good afternoon Board of Trustees superintendent matsuda executive cabinet and ah uhsd teachers staff and Community I'm deeply honored and humbled for this opportunity to continue to serve ahsd and in particular the brookers community I'm looking forward to continuing the work of being educational agents to support students development in the 5 CS to be college career and life ready I would also like to take a moment to recognize the Brooker faculty and staff for their support for students and their commitment to their well-being and for the positive caring collaborative culture that

007has been developed during our time together in particular I would like to thank Miss hild devasquez for her support and outstanding leadership during these three years it was a pleasure working with you lastly I would like to thank my personal support system my friends my wife sons and daughter who inspire me everyday to be a better person always pushing me to the next level to my migrant education family who gave me the great pleasure of serving your families and allowing me to experience servant leadership firsthand you really help me understand the meaning of life finally I would like to especially thank my two Heroes my mother and father even though my mother is not here physically she is here in spirit to my father who has always been an amazing role model I dedicate this

008to you thank you for teaching me that being humble and serving others before yourself is the key to a well-lived life thank you very [Applause] much okay all right I have a slip of memory here Yolanda I can't remember your last name Mah Mahia I was going to say that but I wasn't sure I was right so okay Yolanda Mahia will you come forward she's our new principal at South Junior [Music] High good evening everyone first of all I would like to begin by thanking our aohd Board of Trustees superintendent Mike Mike mura and cabinet for the opportunity and honor of being selected as a new principal of South Junior High I first became part of this District so many years ago as a student and at that time I was not aware of the

009journey I was about to Embark in this District I'm grateful for many opportunities uh the many opportunities this district has afforded me as a student and as an employee it is because of this journey that I am dedicated supportive and passionate of the work the district is doing to support our students and families I'm amazed at how Progressive our district has been in implementing initiatives such as the 5c approach to 21st century skill building the pledge CT Pathways uh the supports through youth voice and Civic purposes initiatives and I could go on and on it is supports such as these that will allow our students to embark on their own Journeys I am grateful to all the great leaders I have met along the way most recently Mr Robert salivar who through his leadership dedication

010compassion passion has been a tremendous influence to many of to many of us at our site I must also mention that I will always have a soft spot for laera high school who saw me grow as an administrator you will always be part of my part of me laera team I will definely miss the anim high school team who have been so welcoming and supportive in my short time there I would also like to thank my husband Robert my son my son Gabriel my daughter seleni for putting up with me when times got tough or when days got long I could not have gotten here without all of you lastly I'm very excited to continue to continue on with the great work that Mr Romero has done at Sou South I look forward to working

011with the newly appointed principal roxan Hernandez at catella and the South and catella parents and Community to create smooth Transitions and opportunities for our students I can't wait to meet you all South team thank you all [Applause] right we're very lucky we have some topnotch employees who just keep getting better and better all the time thank you both Bravo congratulations now we'll move on to recognition uh we have some donation recognitions we need to do here the Board of Trustees would like to recognize Mr Sasa sios Musa and Mrs Katherine marks for their tremendous donation of $21,000 to to Savannah High School Their donation made it possible to purchase a scoreboard for the aquatics teams and additional campus needs please know that your donation will make Savannah a much better place for our students today

012and for years to come on behalf of the board staff and students please accept our heartfelt thanks that's just phenomenal generosity is is outstanding uh right now that was item 7.1 7.2 will be the Anaheim Union High School District's teachers of the year the Board of Trustees would like to recognize the Anaheim Union High School District 2020 to 2021 teachers of the year now each School select elected a teacher of the year and submitted him or her for consideration for the auhsd Teacher of the Year Awards a committee then had the very difficult challenge of reviewing the nomination letters for each of these outstanding teachers and then 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

013Year recognition program Five County teachers of the year will be honored at an award ceremony in November and our three teachers starting with now did you want me to do all this or did someone else was someone else can okay I can continue I got to make sure I'm not stepping on somebody's toes okay mallerie Haida at Gilbert High School her subject special education 10 years in Anaheim Union High School District and her special contributions Mal's classroom is filled with warmth and inquiry she knows the story and the need of each student and utilizes relevant information to teach the whole student and she often spends hours outside the school day to find relevant materials to meet the needs of her students mallerie is also a teacher leader and she seeks out information to continue to

014evolve as an educator and shares this knowledge with her colleagues all with the focus of doing what is best for students Kennedy High School's teacher Peola Rosenberg teaches Living Earth and IB biology she has also been in the district for 10 years and her special contributions poola creates a meaningful and engaging learning environment for her students and is mindful of being inclusive of all skill levels she piloted a website that translates any Google slide from English to at one of the Google trans translation languages in order to enhance access to the curriculum for English language Learners poola supports staff as Kennedy's current education technology coach she has made herself available to teachers during working hours and Beyond often taking evening calls to provide assistance she is caring and energetic with her students as well as

015creating in her lesson creative in her lessons then Magnolia High School teacher Katrina Mundy she teaches English and she has been with Anaheim Union High School District for 17 years and her special contributions Catrina leads by example and ensures that her students feel welcomed safe and respected every single day from the start of the pandemic Katrina has been instrumental in organizing food deliveries and essential items for students and their families she founded a nonprofit called safe Sentinel assistant funding Essentials and has raised several thousand for Magnolia families Katrina is an excellent teacher she's a natural philanthropist and a kind-hearted individual these are our three and we're behind them to be part of the five that come from Orange County we always win something and we're good we're good okay item 7.3 is kindness matters Awards

016and I'm going to have Rita Ray come forward and do this particular item for us good evening Board of Trustees good evening cabinet and community in 2011 the Board of Trustees recognized that kind acts can impact others can impact uh with generosity and Inspire them to be kind to others tonight sorry tonight we honor more than 30 indiv individuals with our kindness matters award the first recipient of our kindness matters Awards tonight is Linda Wong parent Oxford Academy boosters board next slide oh okay our first recipient is Linda Wong parent Oxford Academy boosters board Linda gives TI tirelessly to the Oxford Academy Community she is on the board of the Oxford Academy band boosters during distance learning Linda had encouraged Oxford staff through struggles and loneliness by treating them to snacks and treats she was

017nominated by Susan Steven a teacher at Oxford Academy next we have have Susan Sharon Hughes lead counselor Cypress High School Sharon has served the district for over 20 years first as a math teacher then mtss coordinator and now as a lead counselor at Cypress high school she has helped students beyond the Call of Duty with acts such as finding non-traditional housing options and giving from her personal funds next we have Daniel Henderson small groups pastor Vineyard College Vineyard Church during his work at Vineyard Church in Anaheim Daniel has donated weekly groceries to our families in the Brookhurst and Savannah communities and established a food pantry at Brookhurst Community Center at the beginning of the pandemic he and the church donated 50 hygiene bags to our families he was nominated by Angie Gomez next Vidal Valdez

018a assistant principal Anaheim High School Vidal an assistant principal at Anaheim High School is also an alumni of the school he has returned to the community to help where he grew up he takes time to meet with students and families while that may be part of an administrator's responsibilities Vidal uses his time in the evenings and on weekends and according to his nominator it's how he meets with students and parents care calmness and followup are his notable attributes according to his nominator Allison Conrad Aaron doy teacher Cyprus High School Aaron goes beyond her regular duties as a science teacher she supports students in many committees related to social justice she is the school's social justice Club adviser a co-advisor of the black student union and a member of the district's black lives matter task force

019most importantly she listens to students concerns and follows up with Administration on their behalf she was nominated by Marian Stewart Cypress teacher Robert Pacho Community member Nextdoor app Robert is a Community member who has donated office and school supplies for our students he is also provided food donations as well as assistance for struggling families during the holidays he was nominated by Lisa Cruz senior administrative assistant at Savannah High School Elizabeth o student and choir President Kennedy High School Elizabeth is a student at Kennedy High School according to her nominator she goes above and beyond as president of the Kennedy singers choir at the school in addition to being an outstanding student Elizabeth is the student ambassador for the ahsd board Board of Trustees she was nominated by choir teacher Jana West Lana McKenzie psychologist Western

020High Western High School Sy as a school psychologist Lana supports staff with IEP preparation and review supports students with counseling needs and coordination of services beyond that she gives an extraordinary amount of her own personal time and does so with care concern and kindness according to her nominator who wishes to remain anonymous Julianne Riel teacher Anaheim High School Julianne is a teacher at Anaheim high school but she goes beyond her regular curriculum during this time of distance learning to meet students emotional needs and to help them reduce stress she offers live cooking lessons on weekend mornings jeie Becket teacher Oxford Academy jeie organized the ladies of Oxford luncheons during the workday which can be stressful and where teachers often work in silos Jeanie opened her classroom during lunchtime for women to gather eat lunch share

021stories and play bridge during distance learning jeie connected by sending cards and doing check-ins Jeanie's nominator wishes to remain anonymous Jason starkman Community member State Farm Insurance agent through his insurance agency Jason was able to assist a senior at Anaheim high school he performed free notary services after the student was displaced from her family the student was able with Jason's help to replace her birth certificate and Social Security card Jason also answered the call to be a guest speaker in the teachers virtual classroom he was nominated by Leah con teacher at Anaheim High okay did I don't think I did Kyle okay sorry here we go Kyle Cleveland Pastor Saddleback Church Kyle is a campus pastor at Saddleback Church the Anaheim church has provided several community building activities to help connect families with staff besides

022an ongoing food distribution Saddleback has held a paint night and a cookie decorating event they have also stocked the Savannah High School parent center with essential items such as toiletries and school supplies for struggling families he was nominated by Mike pulley Savannah's principal John Thomas and cre Vang pastors anaas Musa and Katherine Katherine Marx parents as pastors at Mariners Church and Anaheim John Thomas and cang have been instrumental in providing donations to several schools Savannah high school was a recipient of teacher care packages from the church Savannah parents Dr Musa and Dr Marx shared how hard the staff Works to serve students and families prompting the donations they were Don they were nominated by Mike pulley principal Savannah High School Shan Griffin teacher Dale junor High Shawn is a teacher at Dale Jor high but

023he supports the school and Community beyond the class classroom he helps with Dell's adop a family program which provides clothes blankets and gifts to needy needy families one time when Shawn was told the school had three blankets to raffle off but more than 40 students showed up he purchased 60 blankets and donated them to the program Lisa hormuth a teacher at Dale nominated him Italo badis Pastor River Church as pastor of River Church Italo has been assisting Savannah High School for the past 2 years one example of the compassion shown our community was when a family was evicted from their home the church went to the family's new apartment and completely furnished it he was nominated by Maria Trill Faith specialist Maria Olivas parent and executive parent Ambassador Savannah High as a parent volunteer at

024Savannah High Maria has helped with monthly food donations according to her nominator Maria has a job that requires long hours but she continues to give her time to the community nominated by Maria truo Faith specialist Sophia Sophia chz student and president of kindness Club Walker Junior High sop IIA is an eighth grade student at Walker Junior High School she is also president of the school's kindness Club each week she connects with other students virtually and leads them through games and activities that promote kindness Sophia was nominated by assistant principal Jennifer sesai Jennifer sesai assistant principal Walker Junior High as an assistant principal at Walker Junior High School Jennifer has a full plate of activities to keep her busy so assisting community members in getting appointments for covid-19 vaccinations is going above and beyond Jennifer made

025phone calls and posted links online to assist people who were having difficulty securing appointments she was nominated by Brooker teacher Eve Sullivan Natalie Rodarte student and vice president Pals South Junior High Natalie 7eventh grader at South Junior High is Vice President of peer assistance leadership at that site she has created several personal service announcements on south social media advocating for student self-care she is a model of leadership and kindness nominated by lesie Gomez teacher and Pal's advisor Edgar Munos manager Home Depot Henry urbina IIA Gilbert High Henry is an instructional assistant at Gilbert High School he was able to facilitate a connection between the site and the Home Depot in Stanton where Edgar is a manager that connection with the Community member resulted in a donation of arts and crafts supplies and pumpkins for painting

026and carving their nominator was Gilbert teacher Candace Sosa Christina eito student Magnolia High School Christina is a student at Magnolia High and according to her nominator Christina is always the first to share something good to brighten someone's day as the students navigate distance learning Christina demonstrates that being a part can make connections stronger Margaret Betty dowy retired secretary Savannah High Betty is a retiree of Anaheim Union High School District but she continues to demonstrate her love for Savannah high school during the pandemic she has helped families by supplying gift cards to help cover their basic needs she has also supported students by anonymously purchasing school yearbooks for them nominated by Maria truo Fai specialist Alejandra bagara parent Ambassador Savannah High Alejandra is the parent Ambassador at Savannah High she has volunteered at the school and

027during distance learning she has sent daily inspirational messages before the pandemic when students gathered in the parent Center during lunch she provided treats for them and would later help clean tables she was nominated by Maria truo Faith specialist Samantha Hernandez student catella High Samantha is a 10th grader at catella high who goes out of her way to help her peers in the English language development program she volunteers to meet with students in the school's online ELD tutoring group she also assists students while in Virtual breakout rooms Samantha was nominated by teacher Mindy Lorden Veronica cabaa Raquel lisar Raga Mi miralda and haiday Berber language testing assistant English learner office Veronica Raquel and heiday are language assessors with our district they have gone above and beyond during this time of distance learning since July of last

028year they have continued to meet in person with students to administer assessments and provide support for our English Learners nominated by Dr Renee Bryant director of English learner and multilingual Services as you can see all of these recipients have gone above and beyond to show generosity and kindness throughout this community we want to thank them and let them know that we appreciate them congratulations to all of our recipients let's give them all a big hand superb thank you Rita I love this program Pard I love this program oh I know it's just it's amazing what some of our people do and it's just uh it's phenomenal okay um item eight is reports and we'll have first our student Representatives report Elizabeth eleth o is do we have connection with Elizabeth oh there we go she

029got the thumbs up she's here okay you're on Elizabeth thank you so much Miss piery I will be recognizing a this evening starting with Anaheim they air they their ASB is aiming to create a positive atmosphere where students step on campus for their cohorts they've been making positivity posters as a way to make someone stay also their student ambassador is organizing a processing circle surrounding race and ethnicity that will allow students a safe space to talk about the challenges they face at Gilbert they have done a week of Wellness that is geared towards maintaining a healthy lifestyle and building strong habits at Magnolia they are hosting a schoolwide fundraiser as a way to get excited for graduation they are selling their own LS as a means to give back to to their school and community

030at Oxford their school organization youth philanthropy worldwide hosted a benefit concert to raise money for Laura's house Laura's house is an organization dedicated to housing survivors of domestic violence and for a spotlight student moment Colin Doss has made it to be among the top 10 saxone players in Southern California and was chosen to audition for the all Southern honor band lastly as a district is preparing for the next school year I think it's important to note how instrumental the rising seniors will be in establishing a positive School climate and culture half of each side student body will be stepping onto campus for the first time in 2021 for the 2022 school year and their needs need to be intentional and implemented in resources and ways for students to easily transition for from online to in

031person and I want to stress that we can that we can be prepared in helping all students for their upcoming return to camp campus thank you and that is all for my school report thank you Elizabeth okay um moving on to 8.2 we will have the reports of our associations the officers who are present from our District's employee associations will be invited to address the board of of Trustees I believe we have some that are waiting or you would you like to start okay uh our Mr Carl wadell will read for uh ASA reps that are unable to be here thank you thank you president piery uh yes unfortunately uh the ASA representative was unable to attend this afternoon and so asked me to read uh the ASA statement trustees superintendent matsuda cabinet and public

032at home our association report tonight is based in Hope and optimism for the first time in over a year all signs seem to be pointed in a direction that will bring our students teachers and families back together in the near future we continue to work as an association to expand the learning cohorts that began last week as more and more of our members become vaccinated we have seen member posts on our social media showing their work with students on campuses with the joy it is bringing to all involved we have also seen posts from vapa programs Athletics student governments and others as we safely begin to bring our campuses and communities together on a path to a full reopening in August our teacher input group continues its work on a weekly basis to plan the

033path forward with the district these relationships that have been fostered have not only been invaluable to what we have been able to do for students during this unprecedented time but they are primed to help us move forward with what we have learned to make the public schools in our district second to none as we come out of the pandemic looking forward now includes visions of graduations an expanded offering of in-person summer school programs and welcoming all of our students back to campus at the start of the new school year we also want to thank the ahsd board for all of the work and effort that they have put in this year as elected leaders the appreciation of our community has also come with questions concerns anxiety and sometimes anger at a Relentless pace through it

034all aohs D has had thoughtful discussions made plans in Earnest changed plans when necessary and held together with the goal to serve our students community and employees as best we could we have not always garnered unanimity or even consensus as we move forward but our relationships have allowed us to be honest with each other and in the end to move forward together I would also like to specifically thank trustee Smith this month for stepping up and Publishing a letter to the editor in the Orange County Register with so much passion and frustration building up over the last 13 months it was incredibly important that the public hear about all that has gone on while every school has been opened this year whether campuses were safe for a return or not we have faced more adversity

035than just about any community in the county during this pandemic and it will make us that much stronger on the other side finally I'd like to thank the district and the board for the work that was done bargaining M us regarding safety protocols and our distance learning model immediately followed by a full contract negotiation the tentative agreement before you this evening was ratified by ASA with a 98.4% approval which is the highest rate that I have seen in my career these difficult times have brought us closer together while the relationships throughout the district were strained we have all stood side by side delivering Food Supplies resources and a supportive education under almost impossible circumstances we we are proud as an association for our part in this and proud to be part of the team that

036makes up the aohd we look forward to the great things we will achieve for our students moving forward into the future thank you this concludes asa's report thank you okay we will have Jackie Brock come giving the CSEA she's our CA president you have a hello it's nice to see everybody all of you um unfortunately my report is not going to be as wonderful as grants was as far as our memberships are going um I've been asked to make sure that I bring this forward to you so that you can hear it directly from us um in a couple of different areas in which I'm going to speak on um one of the areas that is very bothersome to many not just our members but um this new position of executive director of fiscal services

037this position is a new position for our district it has never been utilized in the history of our district at this point and basically it is an upgrade to Jerry sharan's current position as director of fiscal Services the problem that is really circulating in in our opinion is that this money this position will be funded through um onetime Monies to begin with um that being said what are we going to do and how are we going to be looking going forward and and um paying for this position at such a higher rate um we do know that we'll be deficit spending we do know that we're going to be dropping in our Ada in two years the money is going to be lessened and that's only going to lead further into layout possibilities and other

038factors which doesn't sit well with all of us to be honest I I sat down with Nancy we discussed this and where she was coming from but at this point in time we don't feel that it's necessary to go this route and that we should be sitting back and taking some time to to see this through on the same lines we have another position that's being created a brand new position and it's going to be called The College and Career Readiness specialist one thing I did forget on the other position it also is going to require higher ing of different other positions as well as an as an analysis position and then it'll probably lead to secretarial staff and other other creations this one here is a brand new position it will work underneath the

039counseling area it also is being funded with one-time monies what are we going to do in two years when we don't have the funding who and how and how many more are end up with laid out positions and um it's not an upgrade it's strictly a new position so those that are currently working in it as the counseling secretary School support um may not even be in move into these jobs this job here so it follows in the same line deficit spending what are we going to do in the future and how are we going to relate to that the other thing and I hate to bring this one to you but it's very strong within our membership and that is that all class ified in our area has been called back to work for

040the final weeks of school they feel that this is not fair um they've been working very well working at home and in office at the same time different days different times um being able to as you know classified has always been there to step up when it's needed and they do it very well at this point that wasn't even an option for them with these pods coming on the camp campus um right now they're not even at that capacity some of the school sites don't even have any doesn't mean that they won't but at this point in time they do not we are repurposing our staff willingly all this time in order to get things done that need to be done as in contact tracing and other factors they do give more of themselves than

041this there is no reason if you want to bring everybody back have every right to do so but they also feel you could bring the teachers back then into the classroom and teach the last couple of weeks remotely the instructional AIDS can be there with them if the rooms are set up right now for safety purposes why are we not doing that so they feel they're not being treated equally and it's growing and growing and growing and I don't want to see anything happen with the Rapport and the relationship that we have with the district but they're very very angered by this they feel that they should be allowed to go back and stay the way that they were and do the things that they've been doing successfully so I know the cabinet is not

042real pleased that I'm up here talking about these three items but unfortunately I have to do so for myself as far as being the leader of our chapter um we will work together on some of these we're working together currently on the job description for career and college readiness I still believe and I did voice this opinion to jiren even today that we're not thinking this through we need to slow down a little bit wait find out where we are what we can be doing is are these duties something that they're currently doing already in the secretarial positions do we need to go to the extreme now and pay that money out what's going to happen we don't do temporary positions in the Merit rules and in the Merit District in which we belong so

043we can't do part-time to your contracts that's not what we do so you're hiring these individuals they'll be coming in taking jobs and who knows what's going to happen in the future within the next two three years we're doing a drastic drop in our Ada it matters and it always does come back to the classified Staff first and that's just a heartache after everything that we've gone through the last year and then some through next year we would not like to see that take place unless extremely necessary that's really all I have to say we are looking forward please understand that they're not angered that they have to be in the office many of our staff members prefer to be in the office I'm one of them um it's much easier to be at your

044desk in your office on a daily basis to do the jobs but many of the jobs can equally be done working from home as well so um I just hope you take that into consideration talk to this talk with it to Cabinet do what you might do but um when you voted last month to stay status quo it was then assumed that it would remain status quo for the staffing purposes as well and we found out that that is not the way the way it's going to be and is not so I don't want to see them cutting things short not being available for things volunteering for things as we all know they do a great deal of and aren't patted on the back because they don't make a big point of it but um

045so they're asking me to bring it forward and I have to because I do believe it's necessary that you understand and hear that Viewpoint and opinion other than that I look forward to working together with cabinet and everybody um to try and get this eliminated as far as the tension goes um we'll see what we can do to do that but I hope that you take some time to really think this situation on the new positions as well um with the deficit spending coming up the year after next year sorry I forget to breathe when I'm talking so that's all I have to say we welcome the new year we welcome the students coming back we have no problems with any of that um but this is really for eight weeks worth of work it

046doesn't much make much much sense to do what they're doing right now so that's all I have to say I hope you all have a good night thank you thank you Jackie okay um moving on where did my list go here okay we have Sylvia here okay Sylvia for um apga apga apga okay what happened on my list oh it's right here okay hello good evening trustees District cabinet auhsd students families and community members watching from home I am honored to speak on behalf of apga counselors are providing oncampus support through student cohorts which were referred to as student pods at the March board meeting counselors are providing support in the following areas academics social emotional College and Career and extracurricular counselors are continuing to provide Core Curriculum lessons which included helping students create or

047update their six-year academic plan which is part of the auhsd Pledge counselors are continuing to meet with students and families to provide academic support and guidance as well as mental health resources for those in need need Gilbert High School had 25 12th grade students meet the auhsd 220 credit graduation requirement at the end of third quarter on March 12th that's 25 early graduates way to go students W and lastly during the third quarter counselors documented nearly 85,000 interactions with students in the following areas academics 61,500 93 careers 3,834 social emotional 13, 639 and extracurriculars 5,926 thank you for your time this evening thank you okay and we have Hilda Vasquez for ala good evening mad president piery uh Board of Trustees superintendent matuda executive cabinet uh parents ahz staff community members and students watching from

048home it's a pleasure to be here this uh evening afternoon seeing you in in person so excited uh I just have a just an overall uh report as we end kind of the school year starting already planning for summer and so want to let you know that school sites have been busy welcoming back student athletes on campus and sports competitions are now taking place I got a chance to go to the bell game last week uh Western and Anaheim it was great seeing the teams out there um we're also doing small cohorts of vapa programs and districtwide sites have been conducting a variety of students cohorts on campus ranging from academic supports enrichment opportuni today I got the opportunity to see the night at the mum with Miss uh Brown on our campus and she

049had some students doing some improv uh pieces so really excited um also we are continuing to provide authentic learning opportunities connecting with our Civic engagement and so that work is still continuing in our classrooms and also our high school students many of them are already prepping for capsom events so iage en you if you have the opportunity to attend some of those capsum um interview and panels I know for Savannah is coming up quickly in May so we're looking forward to those also really a continued emphasis on our crisis response and mental health workshops we know our social workers have been actively providing our parents and also our students with some strategies and coping uh techniques during particularly obviously for this pandemic um but something they could uh utilize in the future as well uh

050we've been meeting with uh Dr Cruz uh District y to just um discuss further our systems of support and moving forward what we're going to do to welcome back our students um for the upcoming school year lastly as I said although we are still in this year we're preparing for the next year so our registration process is taking place we're also in the midst of developing our Soo programs which will be in person so really excited about that and being able to continue to to provide services for students over the summer at the junior high and high school levels and we're looking forward to the end of the Year celebrations at our school sit and also our high school graduations so thank you it's a great um it was great being here and seeing you

051and I hope you have a great evening thank you thank you Hilda okay do we have anyone was there anyone from the parent teachers Association no okay okay well we move on to number nine in our presentations 9.1 will be our first design Bill solar pH photo Volta PV system power purchase agreement pfmg solar LLC and I am going to defer to Patty Neely Adam Todd and Michael Beverly for this presentation well uh good evening um Board of Trustees superintendent must matsuda cabinet and members of the public uh today we're here to present on our um very exciting project it's the districtwide solar implementation project and um I'm really honored actually we're very honored to be here because um it is actually the first presentation since um the pandemic so in-person presentation so and we're

052kicking it off with this wonderful project that we're here to to discuss so um introductions my name is uh Patty Neely I'm director of facilities planning design and construction and um to my side we have um Adam Todd from uh cuming Corporation cuming Management Group um Todd is a project manager senior project manager and then we have U Mike Beverly he's an executive with um the uh uh pfmg solar they the solar uh company that will be um hopefully um constructing all these uh solar structures on our campuses so um together we will be providing a background on the selection process how we got here it's been uh pretty extensive um if you just consider the the time it took from the the moment we issued the RFP to this moment now it's it's been

053about 18 months but um judging by the box I have on in my office and the stack that I have on my desk it's been more like three three and a half years so just making sure that we get it right we get the locations right and still uh after we've been going through the process uh we' still been uh tweaking locations and looking at the numbers and we're here today really um comfortable with what we're presenting I think we have a solid contract that uh we would like to present for you for ratification and um the numbers are quite fabulous so um this these gentlemen here will are going to uh discuss that um they're going to provide actually some of the details of the uh contract and what I would like to do

054is just kind of give a background specially for um the public uh who need to understand what kind of process we went through um so uh that that they know that this is something that's been vetted for quite a while um with the disc part of the discussion that um uh we're going to be um uh I mean items that we're going to be talking about is um the pp PPA it's a power purchase agreement that is how we're going to procure the installation of the so the solar structures uh they're all going to be going uh on parking lots and uh we're also going to be talking about the cost benefits to the district uh over a period of 20 years um also we're are going to be discussing other aspects of the cont

055uh contract including how this uh this PPA uh or the installation of the solar car ports or just bringing solar to our district will enhance the learning experience of our of our students uh additionally we're going to be talking about um Outreach opportunities that we're going to be providing uh our Comm communication with uh the sites and with the community uh overall schedule information there's still the the schedule is still being refined and uh we'll it's going to be more what we're going to discuss today is more broad brush and um also other things that we will will be discussing is uh the solar system monitoring equipment uh and a dashboard that will be um part of our basically posted on a website and I know Mike will be talking about that a little bit

056more um so before uh we turn it over to all the details of the contract I just want to go over just historical background of what our what our process was like was like during the 18 months so I would say in September of 2019 uh we issued uh an RFP uh for um uh to um companies that would be interesting in uh providing their qualifications and um and proposals for our solar our districtwide solar program uh we had in September uh we had um about 31 contractors that walked sites with us for two consecutive days uh a month later uh they um uh provided their turned in their proposals um the 31 um uh contractors that came represented repres uh actually were represented um 13 companies of the 13 only eight turned turned in

057their proposals in October and at that time that's when we started uh just uh re reviewing the rfps for completeness that's the first thing we do and also reviewing them just to make sure that um you know we're we're there the completeness right of of the proposal and also just to make sure looking at what th those numbers are uh after that uh we uh narrowed it down to three uh companies we came to the board back to the board uh to request authorization to start the proc procurement process using um uh the uh government code 42710 uh to procure energy conservation um contracts and uh at that moment uh after that it took us about a year to narrow it down from three we interviewed three companies uh with the assistance of coming corporation

058uh staff from facilities and staff from our M department and um within that year we narrowed down to two more companies and um and then we uh and that that was the opportunity when we went back and really looked at the locations looked at the numbers and we determined that uh one of the companies uh provided the the best value to the district and that company is uh pfmg so um with that November of 2020 we came back to the board just to basically uh ask author authorization to start uh negotiating with uh pfmg and uh 3 months later we're here and uh we we feel we have a solid contract with a pretty nice rate and um and really we're seeking to um receive um you know your favor as far as ratification of

059the contract after you hear your what we have to say here with in the presentation all the details and everything that we're going to get so um with that said I think at this point I'm going to turn it over to Adam and then Mike uh at the end um we will have um uh we'll open it up for questions but I also want to mention before I turn it over that we had um assisting in this entire process Jennifer Keys she's the procurement contract specialist from facil facilities and she has done a wonderful job for us so kudos to her good evening very nice to see you all uh so as Patty had mentioned my name is Adam Todd I work with coming Management Group uh we work with the district in two separate

060capacities one on the programmatic side and then my group is on the energy and sustainability side which has been working with the district as part of the prop 39 program for the last uh four years so I'm going to give an opportunity recap uh and if we can go to the next slide here so my group was engaged uh with Anaheim for the proping program and to give you a very brief overview on Prop 39 uh that was a program that lasted six years where the state of California gave each district an allotment of money to spend on Energy Efficiency projects uh to which we supported uh Patty in identifying those Energy Efficiency projects and then also in implementing those Energy Efficiency projects over the last four and five years uh so as part of

061that process uh when we uh identified the opportunity for solar at the campus um what we say is from a procedural standpoint we want to make sure that you are reducing your energy consumptions prior to considering solar projects on any of your school campuses and the reason being is when you're sizing a solar system for any particular campus you're sizing it for the consumption that you have on that campus uh so if you don't reduce your energy consumption and you go and you build these very robust systems and you reduce uh after the fact then you're paying for all of this construction work and all of this energy based on consumption that's no longer available so what we do here is we take the opportunity to reduce your energy consumption at all the canvases get

062you as efficient as we can and then we consider solar after the fact and make sure that we're izing your systems correctly so in the beginning what we did is we looked at the prop 39 program as an opportunity to identify Energy Efficiency measures within the electrical systems The Lighting systems the heating and ventilation the mechanical equipment and uh over that process uh we found about $500,000 a year in annual Energy savings and that's utility bill cost savings as well as maintenance that goes to the district uh and the total program was about $7.4 million uh for the profit program that's so that's the opportunity overview so then the transitions into the solar project itself itself so after we've gone through we've done our assessments and our installations of the solar of the Energy Efficiency

063projects then we move into identifying the opportunities for solar so in this case what we did is we did a solar feasibility study and that takes place by going to each of the individual campuses the dist the district has identifying opportunities for where solar can be placed how much solar can be placed where would the runs go to your main electrical gear in order to connect these systems and they what are the best opportunities uh for laying those systems out to get the the most maximized power out of those systems we can go to the next slide here so after yes please question absolutely the the on slide three you mentioned 546k energy cost per year yes that's not cumulative but that's every year that's our savings yes so that that is that is on

064on an annual basis uh all of the schools that were impacted by the Energy Efficiency projects that were done uh the delta between what your original consumption was and the consumption after those projects were installed that's the that's the benefit that the district receives by installing those projects so I'm going to ask her off off the top well it's not off the topic but it's kind of concerning this is that I know we hired an Energy Efficiency manager the manager is still in place yes yes and what does that have to do with this in terms of I mean if these guys have done that work I'm looking at that position now in my head is like a extra position that we don't need uh this this is just for the project itself then as

065far as keeping up with the records and all the the the maintenance and the Energy Efficiency that happen throughout the year after once we're gone it's still with the energy manager our manag also okay not and what I would also say uh to that effect is the $7 million that the state gave to Anaheim to spend on Energy Efficiency projects is a fraction of what the total identifiable opportunity is at the district um there's no way that that could sufficiently handle all of the Energy Efficiency measures that could be identified and completed that was just a portion of it so um what we did is we we took our priority list and said what's the loow hanging fruit that we can identify and spend those dollars get them in the ground and really get some

066Energy savings going uh and leaving some of the harder stuff to be identified uh and and continued later on as the program wound down absolutely Lighting systems are T typically out yeah and it's um so I would say an opportunity where you have the ability to do a plug-in play System where it's uh let's say a lamp comes out and a new lamp goes in that's really the easiest one uh it's the most cost efficient uh it's the cheapest to put in and it has the the easiest payback opportunities and then as you you scale up the SC the opportunity scale there it gets into uh full lighting system Replacements and then controls uh and then as you get further down the chain it's uh HVAC equipment mechanical equipment and and so on and so

067forth y well I mean Mike maybe what you could do is I'm sure the rest of the board would like to hear it is maybe in a Friday letter to give us a little bit about the Energy Efficiency manager uh uh job description and what they're doing now compared to what they were hired for right uh and I I want to see the cost benefit analysis of that position I think when we hired them if I'm not mistaken at some point in time we said that we wanted to see that cost benefit analysis on a on a at least a yearly basis for us to figure it out so I think this will give this is a timely discussion so maybe we could have that and I'll PR letter we can go one more slide

068uh so as Petty had mentioned uh we went through the process of identifying what a potential project would look like for solar at the district and we put it out to Market and we aided the district in creating that procurement document uh all the documents that went along with putting this out to to Market uh we aided in that process we helped bring contractors to the bidding process and helped evaluate uh when the bids came in in order to determine who was the most responsible biders and as a result this is what you see here as the potential for the district to be receiving as as a benefit of this project uh so just going down the list here in terms of robust miss this is one of the larger projects that you're going to

069see in terms of solar at any District uh for us at at coming this is this is one of the bigger projects and one of the most that we're proud of uh due to its size and the complexity of just getting this to Market so we're we're very happy with how this project is turning out so far uh the way that this works is it's done through a power purchase agreement uh we'll get to that a little bit later in our presentation here uh but that's a mechanism for procuring uh a project without paying any Capital upfront and you're paying through it through energy costs uh over time and so this power purchase agreement was done over a 20-year period which means that you're paying for the entirety of their project over 20 years you're

070not paying for it right up front uh in terms of your District sites all the sites were considered and all the sites were included uh so we'll get to another slide here that shows the sizing at each of the sites and we can go through why they were chosen that way uh and how they're going to be allocated throughout the project uh in terms of your energy rate so this this pertains to what you're paying for the actual utility cost so all of us have utility bills at home uh we all pay some rate per some unit of energy uh this is what you're paying uh to the contractor for the duration of that project so the way that this works is as you consume energy you're paying this flat rate for all of that

071energy for the 20 years there's no escalation there's no increases it is that flat rate for the next 20 years whereas through Apu or Southern California Edison uh the expectation is that they will raise rates somewhere between three and 5% every year uh annualized over the next 20 years and so that that rate that you would see uh will be quite a bit more expensive 20 years from now versus what the solar contractor will be providing you uh the way that that works out is uh in theory a $14 million net benefit over that 20-year period and that factors in utility cost escalation uh and bringing the future dollars back into uh present dollars next slide please what is the 12.6 MW yeah so that is the size of the collective systems um so on

072the next two slides I'll show you what each school is going to be receiving in terms of the size of the equipment that's going to be installed uh the aggregate of that equals uh 12 and a half megawatts of power and if any of you understand how much power you consume at your house that that's quite a bit of power you probably consume uh maybe a th000 kilowatt hours a month um this is this is substantially larger this is tens of thousands of homes equivalent per year uh in power generation so this is a very large system let me ask you the question about and know you mentioned uh Edison and Apu is an high Public Utilities right yes now have we already worked it out with APU in terms of I I know at

073some point in time I think they didn't really support U us having uh solar right so a Apu has joined now they do accept power purchase agreements and what's going to be done is uh there are phasings of the of the entire project that I'll get to in a later slide uh and I'll call out when those when the process of engaging the utility company as as well as having them do the interconnection agreements will happen next slide please so from a project overview standpoint uh I'm going to go through all 20 of these and what I'll say is uh each one of these was identified this system size is a is a combination of the utility consumption that is currently taking place at that site as well as the size of the available space

074that we can put solar and the orientation of those parking lots and that's how we really come to a a total sizing of these system sites and as you'll see there are some sites that are larger and some sites that are smaller and it has to do specifically with consumption at the site some sites consume more than other sites uh some sites have better parking lots than other sites they're better oriented they're larger they have more capacity for uh bigger offsets and so all of that is taken into consideration when we're identifying how big of a system and how much of a payment how how much of a return on that investment you can actually get from installing solar on these projects did you look to see why some of the schools that are of

075equivalent size has such a disparity in their consumption and why what is consu why one campus is consuming more than the other yeah so that's one of the factors I wouldn't say that's the exclusive factor for why one system is larger than another a lot of times it actually has to do with parking lot sizing orientation and sizing so some parking lots you'll have is a north south which is not as good as one that is an East West because you have different orientation of those solar panels um some parking lots are bigger than others and better configured to allow a very large robust system to be placed where others are small and more Compact and you can get one or two array sizes in those parking lots so there's there's several factors that are

076uh impacting that um what I will say is it it really just comes down to looking at all of it uh from a from a return standpoint when we modeled all these projects uh and these were the numbers that came back the best this is the best return for the district at each of these given sites maybe I didn't say right these numbers here this is the current consumption that's not the current current consumption this is the current sizing of the system that they're going to be installing okay can I ask a question too I mean because you're saying it's the it's the configuration of the parking lot that makes a difference because if you have north south you're not going to do as well as an East West is that correct that that's potentially

077yes is it possible Patty that we could reconfigure some of these parking lots I mean is it impossible let's say if we've got one that's a north south to change it to an East West we might be able to do that certain situations maximed our parity me a lot of parking striping uh and uh it was done considering access layout of the parking lot cap the need for parking stalls and some are just naturally oriented in such a way that they're going to be facing south north south or really ideally South and then just have to West we may have some [Music] pars me that's that's the way it's going to be right because they're the newer ones right okay thank you okay uh so these these two pages right here is a combination of

078all these School sites uh added together and as I had mentioned the total system size here is about 12.6 megawatts which again is a very very robust system so just I I would focus on that that you're getting a a wonderful project here we're very excited about it uh and I wouldn't be up here preaching this if I didn't want to stand behind it so I I'm very excited about the product that we've uh presented here we can go to the next slide um as Patty mentioned so in the uh the bidding process uh we wanted to go with a a a procurement method that allowed us the opportunity uh to find the most responsible bidder for the district uh what we wanted to avoid is a low bid scenario uh which could have given

079us uh a low cost but in real reality would have presented challenges in terms of getting the best possible project to the district uh at the end of the day and so this is a representation of some of the qualitative components that we included in our selection process and what we used uh to score each of the contractors against one another in order to narrow it down from the original eight that she said uh had been submitted down to the final uh three and then ultimately the last contractor that was uh brought here today go to the next slide uh I won't get too far into this because obviously there's quite a bit of text on this but again this is just a representation of what's included uh in our bid documents in order to

080uh evaluate who we felt was the most responsible bidder uh based on the criteria that we put in our uh procurement papers thank you uh and after we narrowed it down to the final three we went through uh two rounds of best and final uh and at the end of the day it was NG and pfmg over the last two as part of the final round and at the end of the day we're here with pfmg as the selected contract who we would like to perform their work on this project uh and in doing that right there I will pass this over to Michael to take it off to discuss pfmg and their role in this project well thank you Adam and and thank you Patty for the nice introduction and thank you to the

081team here at the district and at the board for uh for having me here today to talk a little bit bit more about this solar project as Adam said my name is Mike Beverly and I'm with pfmg solar uh we are in Orange County based uh solar energy company that does solar projects for school districts so in total we've built solar for uh 37 different school districts in Southern California locally here in Orange County uh we've done the work for Tustin Unified Fullerton School District Saddleback Valley Unified um as well as uh we're under contract with bua Park School distri in Los Alam Unified School District so we are the number one provider of solar energy projects for school districts in Southern California with a total of 37 districts and almost 400 individual schools for

082solar projects delivered just like the one we're talking about here for Anaheim High School District could you go to the next slide thank you and so I think Adam and and Patty have done a good job of describing um in some deal the solar project and and the process to get here uh in addition to that there are are a c couple other elements to this project that are also included that we thought was interesting and would be important for you guys to hear about uh the first is that each of your schools will now have an electric vehicle charging station included as a part of the project so each station will have um two ports so that electric vehicles can be charged on site by uh folks that are visiting the district um in

083addition to that as a part of the solar project we're bringing only top tier highquality components and contractors as a part of this project uh that includes Hana 425 watt modules which are first-in-class investment grade solar modules manufactured in South Korea and among the most efficient and um and effective solar panels available in the market and in addition to that in addition to the components and the equipment that we're bringing as a part of this project we're also working with uh first in-class contractors and partners on this project specifically our uh our selected electrical contractor is a group called rosenan electric which is a uh a NAA contractor which means that all work will be provided by ibw um Union electri electricians and in addition to that rosenan is a group that we've been working

084with at pfmg solar going all the way back to 2010 on our first project and so we know that they have the quality and the team to deliver on your project but they're also located and have an office in Anaheim so they have a a broad um and a robust presence here right in the community with a large office right off of uh South Anaheim way uh near the five there so that they're a preferred contractor in one of the groups that we bring as a part of this project to help do the work of solar at your project in addition to that um as as Patty mentioned uh each of your individual sites will have an online production dashboard that will be accessible to the public to the staff and to the board members

085as well so you can monitor hour by hour day by day the performance of each of your solar systems um down to the hourly production of the systems and so we've seen that that's a nice way for the district to be able to see what's going on with the solar systems that are operating at their campuses but also we've seen that teachers and students have been able to use that and incorporate some of that in the classroom and see the actual performance of their systems operating in their parking lots and what the effect of things like weather and seasonality has on the performance of solar and then finally as a part of this an important part of the contract that we're asking for ratification of today is a performance guarantee So within that contract if

086we don't perform up to a certain level in terms of producing enough solar energy for your schools there's actually a penalty payment in there that we have to pay back to The District in the event that uh we don't produce enough power and so what that means that is that if we don't produce as much power as we say we will within the contract then we have a payment in there that is designed to make you whole for the Lost energy and that's based on what your expected energy cost would be um based on your Southern California Edison and Apu rates um taking into account the price that you pay for solar which is your um avoided utility cost and so we feel like that provides a lot of incentive for both our group and

087the district to be in the same um working together to make sure these systems are as productive and as effective as they can be uh and so in addition to all the different components and the technical components that go into these projects uh pfmg solar also brings a couple other aspects that we think are unique and represent the experience we have working with school districts here in Southern California and in particular around the education aspect uh we have a couple different elements that we've talked with the District staff about and we'd like to offer as a part of this project to the district uh if interested and the first is that we've developed uh Next Generation science standard compliant curriculum for both Middle School and High School based on solar energy so the curriculum is

088provided to district teachers and they're able to bring the lesson plans into the classroom and teach about things like electricity seasonality sustainability and the environment that all tie back to the solar arrays located on campus in addition to that we have what are called solar toolkits and these are boxes of experiments that we provide to the district so that teachers can get a hands-on experience for their students uh and try to create some excitement about renewable energy and the environment and so these are things like um miniature solar panels that are used to power a fan or volt uh voltmeters that can be used to run different experiments uh all the way down to things like uh glow-in-the-dark beads to understand you know U solar Radiance and the effect of that and so that's something

089that we offer to all of our district uh customers and something that we would offer to Anaheim High School District as well and then finally you can see a couple pictures up here on the slide but given our proximity in Southern California and given the number of districts we've had uh or that we've worked with we've had a lot of opportunities to work in special projects and at special requests from different districts based on um things that are important to them you can see down there in the in the bottom corner there's a green solar car which is a project that was put together from a team at Palmdale High School where after we completed our solar project there were a group of students that got really interested in solar so they created a solar

090team that went and built a car and then compete in that car around the country uh in different races against different high schools and that's something that we've participated in through both funding and providing some technical expertise to um to the team there and given the proximity of of our office which is Huntington Beach and our electrical contractor rosenan which is in Anaheim we definitely feel like there's a lot of opportunities for our group um to participate in the educational component along with the district through things like internships career Affairs special projects really anything else that the district may be interested in um you know we fully support and would look to support our district Partners as a part of that could you go to the next one thank you in addition to that um

091something that we found in working with school districts over the last 12 years or so is that one of the key metrics of success is the involvement and the understanding of the community in the project and so something that we try to do at each of the districts we work at is put a strategy in place to involve the community at different phases along the way so that they understand the scope of the project what the project is doing and the importance of solar energy in their community and so what we would typically do for a project like this is prior to starting construction we would host a series of town halls where members of the community are able to come and attend as well as District staff teachers board members if you like uh

092and hear more about the solar project in terms of where the arrays are going why they're going in a certain in a certain location how they work uh as well as ask questions of members of the pfmg solar team as well as coming and District staff to help get ahead of any questions that the public and the community may have about the solar project because we've seen a lot of excitement that comes with these projects and as a part of that uh we want to make sure we're providing a lot of good information out there to the community to understand all the benefits the district would be receiving from a project like this in addition after completion of the solar project after completion of construction we typically have a solar celebration or a ribbon cutting

093event or sometimes we call it a flip uh flip the switch event and what we do is we celebrate the beginning of the district receiving renewable energy from the solar arrays and this is an opportunity for uh local media local public uh publicly elected officials as well as community members to participate and come see the solar array and celebrate the beginning of renewable energy for thect district and we found that to be quite um quite popular we've had marching bands there mascots a lot of different groups celebrating the the initiation of the solar project um and then finally once the system's in operation what we typically do is provide an annual performance report that goes back to The District staff and then we can also present it to the board comparing what we expected the

094system to do versus what it actually did that's also a nice time to be able to Circle back with any other events or for um educational components that have gone on over the course of the year so that the board and the community can understand uh exactly what's going on with the solar project other than just providing shade and generating energy thank you um and then just a little more detail on the structure of the power purchase agreement which as Adam Adam mentioned is the the method of delivery for this project so what's called the PPA is the power purchase agreement and the way that that works is PF fmg solar brings all of the capital to install uh engineer and interconnect the solar system so all The Upfront Capital cost for the construction as

095well as we're responsible for all the ongoing maintenance operation and repairs to the system that need to happen that also includes everything from panel Washings to um to to uh equipment that breaks to routine maintenance all of that is included in the contract and is included in the price um that we're selling energy to thect district for so truly the only responsibility of the district is to purchase the energy from the arrays for the term of the of the um contract everything else is on us from installation to maintenance to operation and uh monitoring of the equipment um and so as a part of that as Adam said the price that you pay for power is fixed for 20 years so as utility rates continue to increase your price for power under the power purchase

096agreement would be flat for the entire term so the same price you pay in year 1 is the same price you pay in year 20 so it provides a nice opportunity to save money up front also save money over the long term and provide stability in terms of what your annual cost for energy is because you now have a contracted rate for full 20 years um also as a part of that you only pay for energy that is actually produced by the array so as I mentioned before there's a performance guarantee where if we don't produce enough energy there's a penalty but also the only only way that we recoup any of our investment and our entire business model is set up to sell energy from the arrays so if these arrays are underperforming for

097whatever reason then we're fully incentivized to come out repair the arrays fix them and get them operating back at the capacity that we expected because that's the only way that we that we um generate any Revenue off of the arrays is by producing power and that's what you guys want because you want to save money on your utility bill but that's also what we want because that's our entire business model I have a question on it sure um are are there any installations that will be generating more electricity than what we're consuming now so each of the systems and this was part of the process that went through into the uh in the RFB and then some of the followup each of the systems has been designed to produce less than 100% of your annual

098usage at each of your schools so something that was included in the RFP was we had your historical energy usage then we also had your expected Energy Efficiency um Energy Efficiency measures and what your load would be net of those um efficiency adjustments and then we sized the system based on that information so we took into account your current load plus Future Energy Efficiency to size the system so that we were never over 100% of your usage at a particular site over the course of a year okay so there won't be any time that we're we are paying for uh energy that we're producing producing but we're not consuming that amount so um so with over the course of a year on an annual basis that's correct on a month-to-month or even a day-to-day basis

099there may be times where you're producing more energy on a particular site than you need um from or than you need to use on that site and so both Anaheim public utilities and Southern California Edison have a program that's called net metering and what that means is when you're producing more than you're using you can send that energy back to the grid and then you get a credit on your bill for the amount of energy that you send back and so that's particularly important for schools because obviously on the weekends you guys are not using as much energy as you as you would be during the week but also um a lot of times over the summer when you're using less energy over the summer you're developing a bank of credits during that summer period

100that you can use off in the fall and winter when production from the solar has come down a bit but your consumption on school is higher because because the students are back so it's kilowatt credit not dollar credit uh it's a it's a dollar credit so but we sell back at wholesale but we buy at retail uh you sell back at retail so it's retail net metering that's right okay yep okay good going back on page six and seven I'm looking at um uh where did I see it um an Anaheim High School which is our biggest school so that should be our biggest consumption is 553 KW M on page 7 and then I'm looking at um Walker Junior High which is a a school a quarter of its size is is generating almost

101exact same kilowatts why is there such a discrepancy in size but not uh proportional in kilowatts MH yeah well I think you know like Adam was talking about part of what we're trying to do and what we try to do along with the the team here and with coming was locate the arrays in areas where the solar canopies are beneficial to the usage of the campus so typically that's in parking lots where we're providing shade over the over the cars and so in some cases and I believe Anaheim may be one of those cases where uh the the capacity is large and the school is large but if the parking lot is small then there's only so much uh solar that we can fit on that particular site and in some cases that limits the

102amount of solar that we can provide um to the school so you're you're only involved in parking lot structure Shades uh well we've done I mean we Ed the same canopies both in parking lots as well as sometimes in areas like along the grass or in areas throughout the campus part of our conversation with the district was making sure that we were locating those arrays in areas where there would not be any problems with path of travel or usage of the camp uh of the campus and other ways or locating the arrays for example we couldn't put the array directly in front of a two-story building because then that that building would shade the arrays um for a significant portion of the year so that was a big part over the last 18 months or

103really maybe even two years really was trying to find at each School what's the optimal location and really we're trying to fit as much capacity as we can on site without going over their annual usage for the year and without somehow negatively impacting the usage of the um of the campus and certainly some schools and some locations were much easier to get up to that maximum capacity than others others we really had to try to squeeze it in there and fit it in there and I know Anaheim was one of those schools where we tried to put as much as we could but we also didn't want to end up having put arrays in areas where they were creating um conflict with use on on the site there but Patty with the with the new

104parking lot is that where we're going to be one thing I want mention is imped ourg as as student denser sites but in reality the site is small for a school of that size weed solarscot but a future master plan you will see for TW building building those were the decisions that we've beening just looking into the future we need to consider this is a contract we have building in we back we to advance it doesn't sense as far as the size of the of the campus but we took into consideration any future development um and the other thing I want to say is there are future opportunities because the the California Cod C uh anytime you are building new buildings it will require new infrastructure for solar so for instance the Magnolia Cy SEC

105building the TW building that we're designing right now that one has all the conduit that's going to be ready and staged at the roof for future Sol so far or requiring that we install the solar panels but I'm thinking in future generations of calary cod or um they may that might be a possibility where they will now say not just the infrastructure but also the solar so there's always opportunity to bring more solar it may be in INR installation in the parking lot it may not be possible just because we're going to have quite a bit of development we're thinking hopefully at Anaheim so we made those decisions the placement of the of the arrays are based on any future plans that we may have all AR are parking lot through the district's nothing scattered

106through the throughout the campus originally were looking at maybe bringing some um solar arrays into into the campus for shap structures uh that was part of the vetting process that you know why this took this this long uh at the end we determined that now we were going to keep them in the parking lot making sure they're close to our switch gears and our uh interconnection points but also DSA will be involved in this project they will look at path of travel and we have some path of travel issues that we need to address and it shouldn't go along with this District the new stimulus uh money that we're looking at that we have received with the cares act and maybe a future stimulus we will just be we will be doing more of these

107Outdoor Learning areas covered areas and at that time we're going through DSA addressing path path of travel so we have that funding source now we don't have to look at solar structures to create lunch areas covered lunch areas so we will have different ways of getting the work done so ultimately this ended up all our Solar are now in parking lots and there's only I believe one school and that's Lexington where they require requested an inground installation so there's going to be a solar array in their close to the to their [Music] fields here before end of the term at the end of 20 years the district has three different options first option is that we the contract for another 5 10 15 years to keep the contract going where we continue to own the

108systemer energy the other option District purch the solar from at that agreement those options contract we to remove syst Rive try and reach agreement with the district over one of the first two op in the all the all the hard work has really been done so to renew a contract put some fresh panels up there or uh upgrade the system at that time you know the the cost to do that would be relatively low so you know we think that there's a high likelihood that we would be able to reach an agreement to either sell it or renew the contract but the district does have that option which provides security at the end of term that you guys can decide what the best use of your sites is and if you want to continue with

109solar or not uh and also as a part of that a different points along the way in the PPA contract the district has the right uh if they so choose to purchase the system outright and own the system themselves if you wanted to so there's no obligation to do that no requirement but at different points within the PPA you do have that option if you so choose so we haven't seen a lot of districts do that but it is an option that exists within the PPA and if you guys so choose to do that that's um that's your right um and one piece I did forget I wanted to to get for Patty um as a part of the solar canopies as well there's going to be LED lighting underneath all the canopies in the

110parking lots that's included as a part of the project and in addition to that we're running conduits so uh channels out for future security camera locations so at a at a later point when the district's ready to install security cameras um the plumbing has already been put in place to run those back to um the point they need to go back to so that's all included as a part of this project so appreciate your time and Adam did you want to hop back over here yeah sure I'll do one thank you CL here on the schedule and I'll show you some don't need this up here do you that's mine thank you okay here so this is where we'll talk about the schedule for this project uh so in the contract it is a 30-month

111contract that is start to finish uh cap on both ends that is absolutely completed uh the actual construction timeline of this project is 23 months and so once this contract is actually approved and they can get into the due diligence process that's when we would expect the 23-month clock to start on that uh the 30-month uh duration includes engagement with utility companies in order to get them to sign off on the project to do final installation of their uh gear if there's any uh to do final interconnection uh close out the project make sure everything is good and done with Thea uh full stop so that's that's really where we get that full con project timeline uh but we're focused on the construction timeline at this part of it so for construction as I mentioned

112it's all 20 sites um Coming will be supporting for construction management and project management purposes as we did in the development of this project so we'll be uh sitting with the district to to watch us through all the way to the end um over the dur of this project we're going to be starting with due diligence and real estate uh so as as you had mentioned earlier with the utilities uh there is a discovery process where they uh with pfmg goes to both utility companies collects two to three years worth of data uh and makes sure that the sizing of these systems matches what the last two to three years of data is uh we obviously understand that Co was a little bit different for the last 12 months and so that's why we're requesting

113a larger block of data in order to go farther back uh and then be able to blend that data and make sure that we're getting a a better assessment of what the consumption looks like at these sites and once that Baseline is established then they can move forward into other real estate activities in order to close up the final designs of these projects and get it solidified and then submit it to DSA uh we're expecting about a six month six and a half month timeline from start uh to the DSA process and then from there we'll move into phase one of construction uh and then phase one and phase two will run concurrently and we will have a final schedule for which uh schools are going to be installed in which order and in which

114phases they are but for now we are bucketing in two separate distinct phases for construction purposes uh and with the Final Phase uh phase two that will lead into what I mentioned to you earlier in terms of close out and initiation with the utility company to get this project signed off go to the next slide here so we'll have uh five slides five or six slides or so these are just basic representations of uh some of the school sites we don't have all 20 in here um we figur that would probably take quite a while to go through these but this is a good representation of what you can see from from an aerial perspective so when we're laying out these projects we're looking at the total complexity of the campus how it's oriented where

115is the main switch gear located and then how do we get the the project to be maximized to go from the Home Run uh to that electrical gear in order to get this project established uh so this one Lera this is the biggest one and you can see that there's quite a bit of parking lot space and it's oriented in an east to west configuration which means that your panels are north south uh which is the best uh solar exposure full full South is your best solar exposure so these are set up very well and you're able to get quite a bit of power generation out of the system uh we can go to Cypress can I ask a question first on the map the red square is that your controls is that where everything

116you know the yellow line leads to this red dot what does that mean uh the the Red Dot on the upper left on the map yes on each map right so that'll be your switch gear or what your switch gear so that that's your main electrical interconnection right okay yeah and that's where so everything ties into one one individual system and then that gets run all the way back to the switch gear and connected to get pushed back to the grid are they all around are they all that long um some of them some of them are longer than others the way that this works is these are these are bored through the ground so this is not going to be disruptive uh to to members of the campus um it it's it it's going

117to be completely out of sight for them just the way it worked out I guess exactly yeah the only part that is going to be uh impactful in any way is is going to be the actual construction uh of these systems where they're they're putting the case the concrete quasons the uh the steel columns and then the solar panels uh once those are up and done uh they can open the parking lot back up uh for for major purposes of parking and they'll really just be using a little buet truck to do their work underneath those canopies to finish up the project so we're expecting I would say probably two months at each site will be kind of the the real uh construction you know the Brew of the construction timeline and then the duration

118of that we'll really just be finishing up the minute stuff and in connecting those systems together which can be done with one or two trucks uh at each site okay so let me ask you a question uh te technical question and I don't know so if I take a look at Anaheim High School yep I'm looking at this yellow line go all the way to that big red uh X right the corner of the uh field yep I'm assuming those are the yellow lines are all the line the the connectivity l Line That's goes all the way down yes conduit yep conduit that is the underground conduit what happens if it C conduit is damaged or something happens where what's the possibility of us losing like uh electricity temp of connection to the entire campus

119um are you talking about after the project is installed it's up and running and it's operational and something happens to the underground conduit yeah yeah so that that'll be a that'll be an O andm uh procedure that will engage pfmg to come out and and assess the damage and get an understanding of how it happened what happened and what are the REM remedies to get that fixed and then they also are depending on how it happened um there are Protections in the contract that afford the district the opportunity to recoup some funds if it was if it was uh installer error or if it was something uh other than that well let let me ask a question in terms of uh the the projects that you've already completed have you had any issues in those

120campus sites where that H that has happened so no you know we have not had that issue and I think to Patty's point one of the reasons that we use underground Directional Boring is to try to avoid you know as much of any kind of interference as we can while we're while we're boring and locating the uh conduits in areas where they're not in conflict with anything else that may under ground so that's part of the process we're going through right now is doing real estate assessment of what else is out here in terms of underground gas lines or other electricity lines so that we can route our conduit in ways that don't uh won't affect that and so this is our anticipated conduit route but we are doing further diligence to make sure that

121we can go there and a lot so that that responsibility falls on you in terms of taking that route and making sure that it's connected so in case something happens in the future our contract is protecting the district in terms of if it falls on you to fix it that's right so the conduit is a part of our system a part of the solar system which means it's our responsibility to maintain it and make sure it's working and in the event for any reason the arrays were to go offline for any reason you are still connected to the utility and would have uninterrupted power on your site okay even this whole solar system went down okay so that that's I think that was my original question was if that were to happen then we still

122have power it's not like we're going to go dark correct yeah it's actually um you're I don't think you're actually allowed to disconnect completely from the grid um so yeah you you'll have Edison and Apu power still powering your campus in the event that you have some problem with the system how big is the conduit uh that would be a might question yeah so typically if we're talking about the conduit we'd be looking atbe three or four inch conduit under the ground but it can depend on the size of the system obviously it gets a little bit larger we go with larger conduits but that's typically what uh what we run and how how deep do you go in well it depends how deep we need to go um I think typically we're looking you

123know 5 to six feet underground but a lot of times if we see that there's some issues we can go significantly deeper to get underneath that whether it's some kind of a root ball from a tree or some other kind of power lines because we're using Directional Boring we can go deeper underground and that allows us to sometimes get past issues if either we know there's some kind of an U underground issue or sometimes if we don't know exactly what's there and maybe the the plans aren having been updated in a while um then we have the ability to go kind of as deep as we need to go to avoid my I my I guess my question is related to how how far the the uh the parking lots or even the areas some

124areas that will be like for example Anaheim high school you know if you're going through that route you probably going to have the parking lot closed for uh you know a number of days so I wanted to kind of figure that part out yeah well actually so actually the way that they do the Directional Boring is they drill uh they dig a bore pit and they they put the Directional Boring equipment in there and then they drill another board pit and it comes out the other side so actually it it's actually not quite as impactful as you would think because it's all underground except for the two Bard pits or three B pits depending how many turns you need rather than doing um like a trench where you would have to trench the entire area

125which that's what I was thinking okay yeah so that that's one of the reasons that we try to use Directional Boring wherever we can is because it's less impactable to the site and allows things to stay open can I ask a question about your red dots these are okay uh you have five of them or six at Anaheim and yet Cyprus has one so what is what is the difference there I mean when you've got more Towers on Cyprus than you do on Anaheim you know to be to be frank that could actually just be it's just a red dock it's a what it's a red dot I'm assuming that these are supposed to be where things are controlled but yet which side are you looking at Anaheim the one he's just was referring to

126the last one Anaheim comparing to Cypress compared to Cyprus and district office has none I don't even see that one yet but there were like at Lera you have six at and then a big well you you have red dots on the on the structures themselves and then you have that one way off in the corner yeah um so the one the the Red Dot with an X is the interconnection uh that's where the main utility is the solid red dots are likely trees that will be removed as part of that installation you're removing trees wait a minute you're removing trees oh god oh uhoh that was the wrong word to say I'm going to retract that statement so so there's there's a number of things that it could be here so there are in

127our program and I I apologize for the lack of clarity on this in our program they tend to have items that are scattered around this typically that will be something that we put as a carve out if it's a if it's a potential for a tree it also could be um inverters on some of these campuses some of them don't have any so um to be frank I think it could just be a carryover where we had inverters on some and not on others and it was just a screen grab that we took these are preliminary drawings okay right this is not this is not finalizing and so I apologize if I upset anybody in the room on on taking any trees out I we will relocate trees Anna absolutely Anna is going to hop

128in a car tomorrow and go track those dots down all right and I think that brings us to the end of the presentation here so uh I I have one quick question um I always like to wait till the end because you answered a lot of questions um thank you so much this was um we've been waiting for this we're so excited and congratulations to you for getting the bid um you you mentioned uh sign offs for the electrical companies what is their incentive to sign off on this for for us with this sure so there there's there's State mandates at this point that are that are uh legislating for a push towards Renewable Power um are you talking about in terms of allowing you to to create these solar projects um so there's not

129really a mechanism that they can deter you what they what they have done is they've made it a little bit more difficult for them to pencil over the last five years um what the utilities have done is you have a demand period which is you you have a higher charge of of energy at a certain period of time a day uh typically that was you know let's say 12 to 400 p.m. and what they do to slightly disincentivize it is they take that and they move it further back in the day uh which makes it for elementary heavy school districts um the the advantage has been lost because their their primary use of the school site is between 7:30 8 in the morning and 3:30 hard stop whereas high school campuses tend to operate well

130into the uh evening hours of Campus um so it it did impact other districts but the reason why you guys have such a great rate on this is because you do have those very uh heavy demand charges in the afternoons that they were able to capitalize when they were building this uh and so this is this this project is not affected by that okay thank you MH okay are there any other questions okay I would like to um ask the board's permission to move on immediately to 11.9 and so these gentlemen don't have to sit and wait for us to get to this um 11.9 is the design Bill solar photovoltic PB system power purchase agreement RFP number 2020-7 pfmg solar LLC so moved second I have a motion and a second okay any questions

131any further questions are we going have any presentations what okay being funny okay roll call vote starting with an Marie Mrs as long as uh we relocate trees that's an ie for me Mr oil hi Mr Jabar hi Mrs Smith I and I vote I and thank you gentlemen for a really good and Paddy for a good presentation we have been looking for this a couple of us have been after solar for a long time and it's going to be great when we get it and it's districtwide you know yes thank you it's just like and I have to say I hope one of the starting places is Cypress High because the students started this thing a couple of years ago a student group brought up the possibility of how it could happen at Cypress

132high and I think we have all the the infrastructure already there in the parking lot ready to go yeah so it's ready to go do do one on the east and one on the west just to make it fair bra thank you very much all right all right all right okay going back to 9.2 our second presentation okay 9.2 is School dismissal and distance learning and Dr Fred will make a presentation for us on this well I know that you have been equally excited about what I'm about to present so I can't wait to to share with you all the great work that's being done uh for tonight's presentation just so you know it is going to be fairly succinct as you know the past several board meetings my presentations have actually been quite lengthy

133tonight's it's going be pretty brief uh and I'll explain why in a little bit why that is cuz we're going to have a few presentations for you in the month of May uh to give you some greater updates tonight I'm really going to be focusing on two kind of timely updates that we wanted you as board members to be aware of but I also want uh to our families and our community who are watching on our live stream to also get these updates because I think they're also very timely for them as well so again good evening board president piery members of our board executive cabinet again also welcome to all of our families communities and colleagues who are watching on our live stream gives me a great pleasure to be here with you tonight

134to share just a couple of these quick updates we're going to start off with the first update is around the small learning cohorts or the pods that we talked about at our last board meeting I'm proud to say that we've already begun doing that work on our campuses as you may recall uh that was going to begin the week we got back from spring break which was last week uh just like with Athletics though it is a process as you know right now we're about 4,500 athletes strong on our campuses plus what we have with GAA but didn't start like that week one and week two it gradually grew we're expecting the same with our cohorts so I'm going to share a little bit about some of the numbers and where we're at right now

135and what those offerings look like and then I'm going to finish tonight with a brief update on graduation and what that looks like uh in terms of the planning that's taking place just so you are all aware and also our community is aware of what what um our Ed division is talking about in terms of th those plans with the small learning cohorts and pods you have before you a document I want to reference this because it's a little bit easier to see so if you pull out it's a single page document and you'll see student cohort parameters I'm going to spend a little time just going over a few key um parameters that I want to make sure you are aware of as I talk about what we have been doing on our campus

136when I spoke to you last month uh that was one of the things that we were going to be developing because we were exploring at that time what it might look like since then we have developed pretty specific parameters and expectations around these small cohorts what they look like how they're going to operate we've done this in partnership with our teachers our opening school or teacher input group we've also done this with our administrators in in their oversight in terms of what this is going to look like as it rolls out uh real specifically if you look at the next slide I'm want to talk about a few different things in terms of the cohorts they are on Tuesdays through can you define cohort yeah it's a small group uh well I'm I am going

137to talk about that it's a small group right now it's a 15 to1 ratio so uh we're not talking about a full class or or or something of that nature it's a small group of of students who are coming back to do various tasks and I'm going to explain what some of those tasks might look like as they come back uh so it's not necessarily uh someone's third period English class because we can't bring back all the students so it's a small identified group and I'm going to talk specifically about the parameters that we've set in terms of how sites are selecting the students who get to experience uh coming back to the campus because of the need so right now our small cohorts take place on Tuesday through Fridays as a reminder with our

138current schedule Mondays is a complete synchronous school day where they're in class from 8: in the morning till uh 2:30ish in the afternoon so we don't have the cohorts coming on Mondays it's a Tuesday through Friday experience we have capped our Junior highs and our senior highs because of the we want to make sure that we're also being compliant at the physical distancing and giving them some flexibility and creativity to be out so they're not all necessarily in a classroom as you'll see in a moment our Junior highs have a cap of 250 and our senior highs because they're larger have a cap of 350 the criteria that has been established and again this was based on need we established that we wanted to Target students and prioritize students who had three or more FS

139we wanted to prioritize students who are in our ELD or English language development programs one two or three we also wanted to look at students who have an IEP or a 504 however we also gave the site some discretion because we recognize that they've been having lots of conversations they've been doing Outreach efforts and they know their students and there may be students who don't necessarily meet this criteria but have a unique need where it's appropriate for them to be given that opportunity to come to the campus and receive these supports so that's where that fourth category is important as the sites have been working with families and students who have identified uh those kinds of needs also when we talk about that site discretion that takes into consideration the mental health right there may

140be some students who are actually doing okay academically but they are struggling with their mental health it has been hard being at home and they need to be on a campus that's where that discretion would come into play and then again that 15 to1 ratio is what we've been looking at with teacher or classified staff to uh student in terms of ratio also the one thing that we wanted to stress with our schools is that this is a voluntary process we did not want students to feel like they were required to come to campus if they were asked or invited to uh this is something that they can choose to do that was important because what we didn't want as an example is for let's say a teacher who's preparing students for an AP exam

141to tell their students you must come to campus for the study session we we we didn't want to require students to do that now of course it doesn't mean that that couldn't be an option but it can't be something that is required it's something that would be voluntary where students aren't penalized if they choose not to come to the campus also the safety protocols that we've had in place for the return to school were still in place so students are still being screened they're still going through the protocols we still have the campus isolated with the stickers on the ground so we know how to separate students keep them physically distan they're coming to school with their masks uh all those parameters are still being followed and adhere to and then of course the last

142thing that we I want to stress with the with the parameters of the cohorts is the way the sites are determining the list of students who are being given this invitation the sites are the ones contacting the students the sites are the the ones who are building that systemic approach and they are the ones who are taking attendance each and every day so we're tracking actually who is coming to campus and that's how I know how many students participated that first week that we did the cohorts and then of course the district is also collecting that data as a whole as part of the weekly logs that we're expected to do um can I ask a question you a question yes you're saying the no site discretion on identified mental health needs but the in

143other words what about when a parent call up and wants in other words they're not identified by the counselor that you know nobody knows about it because you're saying they have to be invited but if a parent calls up and says my kid needs that's something allowed that's something the site's take into consideration yes uh we have students who have been invited because of conversations the sites have had with parents so that is possible yes what we what we couldn't have happen is open the floodgates where all students can just choose to come back we may not have all the Staffing there the parent says my kid needs to come back and I mean but he hasn't been called or invited but the parent calls up then we cannot tell that parent no if they

144feel their child needs it right and those are the conversations the sites are having with the families so if a family has called that's a conversation and I know I've spoken to some families and have connected them to their site principal who' have had those conversations to connect them to one of the small cohorts so yes all right if you look at the next slide I'm going to talk a little bit about some of the course offerings and these are just examples of what our sites are doing to support students so for that first week of our small learning course we had 970 students districtwide um brought to our campus is specifically for the cohor these do not include the athletes or the vapa students who are coming after school after 3:00 these are for

145just the cohorts in the in the the pods um just so you know the first week last week there were four schools that hadn't yet begun uh the the process they are beginning this week and next week so those schools Dale Junior High Lera High School Walker Junior High and Oxford Academy this week Lera began I believe Dale has also begun I know Walker did begin Oxford is beginning next week part of that reason is there there was setup and an Outreach and work being done to connect to the pods connect to the staff identify what courses you were going to offer because it's not necessarily connected to a class for example we do have study halls as an option so some kids are coming to campus just to study in a place where they're

146with other kids and they have a staff member there to assist we have small group counseling we may have kids who want to be in circles and who are just given us space to talk with other students uh as as as to how they're feeling and processing what they've experienced this past year we've done Fitness activities as you'll see in some of the pictures that I'm going to show where kids are engaging with one another playing various physical activities that are not necessarily Athletics or sports like the football team is doing or the soccer team is doing and then of course we have the traditional academic support where students are getting the academic help they need if they're struggling in one of their classes and then we have some of the more um not necessarily

147connected to content classes but we've had for example you've seen this first picture to the left Miss Harps who's an outstanding teacher at Lexington she brought kids back and began doing cooking where in this picture they're cooking pizza right right so some of those activities that may be connected to the class it may be an opportunity for kids just to engage with one another and be on campus doing something different than they've done these last several months we have yoga and mindfulness activities taking place on campus we have thematic cohorts that's where at some of the sites they have students in kind of stations where for the because it's from 1: to 3:00 but for maybe the first 45 minutes they're in one group doing one of these kinds of activities and then they rotate

148to another activity so they're getting to experience different kinds of things on their campus again not all connected to the academic content some of it is just for that release for them to get out and be kids and do other activities and then we have arts and crafts those kinds of activities also happening so a variety of opportunities for kids to connect with one another to connect with adults and to engage back on campus in schools you can see the other slide with some just additional pictures uh the picture on the top left is at Walker Junior High where student is playing uh competing with another kid in kind of a small-sized little tennis court on the quad you have students working on computers doing the work that they were getting the help with you

149have yoga as you can see kids playing volleyball pingpong just a number of opportunities that are that we've been able to give to our students uh as we began last week so we'll give you updates as it goes on as as we collect more data on the numbers we anticipate this continuing to rise in terms of the number of students who are participating and getting these experien and remember some of these pods they're not necessarily Tuesday Wednesday Thursday and Friday you may have some pods that are only on Tuesday and Thursday some that may be Tuesday Wednesday some that may be Wednesday Thursday Friday so they vary based on teacher availability staff availability and and what the the pods are it may also be that I'm a student who takes advantage on Tuesday and Thursday

150but the teacher then has another group coming in on Wednesday and Friday so more kids get to experience because we have that 15 to1 ratio so there's a variety of ways that it's being rolled out across our campuses and that's part of that system mic approach that our sites are taking to ensure more kids get that opportunity and that it's done in a way that we can track and monitor what is happening on our campus that was a quick update on the school small cohorts and pods obviously we're only week in so I will have more data more information to share as it's being built but I'm really excited about the work that has been done I will tell you yesterday we had our assistant principal meeting and they were really really excited about the

151work that's being done with these cohorts matter of fact Mr josi made an effort to unmute during the meeting and say how much he loved the pods and that it has been such a game changer for the students at Lexington in terms of what they're experiencing on campus and the kids just love it and the staff who are working with the kids are also just enamored by The Experience so and that's just after week one right so it's it's going to continue to grow as word gets out and as staff gets to see the the impact it's making and having on our students okay second update I want to share with you is graduation so I'm really excited to share that with graduation as I had mentioned at the last board meeting we are planning

152an inperson graduation at both Glover and handle stadiums um it's going to resemble what the regular graduation would look like with obviously some minor tweaks and adjustments to still keep compliant with CDC and local health agency expectations but in terms of the student experience it's going to look very and feel very similar um there's some logistical aspects I will cover in this but I'm not going to cover all as you know Joe Sal Dr eagin Vidal Valdez are working closely with all of our High School site administrators to plan all the bells and whistles and Dot all the eyes cross the teas in terms of what this is going to look like with graduation you can see before you the tentative schedule and this is what we're going to communicate with all of our stakeholders

153I believe tomorrow uh this is going to go out we want to share it with you first uh so the team has been working to schedule this uh this schedule to meet the needs of our families so as you'll see Friday May 21st this is when we will have the graduations for CVA Cambridge Virtual Academy and hope school you'll notice because of the size of their senior class it's not as large as a catella high school or Anaheim High School senior class it is going to be at the Kennedy Performing Art Center it didn't make sense to have their graduation at a stadium when CVA is graduating I think a little over a dozen seniors and Hope usually has I think 40 50 students so we want to give them the more intimate while still

154being able to maintain social distance and the compliance guidelines at a beautiful venue which is the Kennedy Performing Art Center so that's why you're going to see it there on the Friday the 21st at 1:00 for CVA and 4:00 for Hope on Tuesday May 25th as a reminder with the and I think tonight before you is the amended student calendar with the negotiations that we had with ask our teacher Union as you may recall we had those two floating professional development days one was normally set for October and one is normally in January and we had negotiated with him that those were going to become flex days dependent upon if and when we came back because the decision was made to remain virtual those two days are being linked to the end of the school

155year so school now will end on May 25th that will be the last student day then on the 26th and 27th those are the quote PD days but I'm not going to I'm saying PD days because that's what they were right but those are the two flex days that have now been built on the end of the school year the reason why that's important is we're going to need to obviously staff our graduation events and we're going need to have staff back so on those days all staff are coming back to begin uh to help support uh the graduation ceremonies plus the textbook and Tech collection process that are going to have to happen at schools or the instrument ction that has to happen at schools so that's why those days are going to be

156important that we don't have kind of school happening so we can support those events um with our students okay so on the 25th which is the Tuesday that is the last day of school so that's why you see the ceremonies uh on that day starting at 4:00 p.m. because because that's the last day it's like a minimum day of school it's finals for our high school so we need to make sure there was enough time between that last day of school and the ceremony for um alternative education Gilbert and player schools and Oxford Academy so they will take place on the the 25th both at 4:00 with Oxford Academy being at handle stadium and alternative education being at Glover Stadium then on the 26th and 27th we have four ceremonies scheduled for those days two

157at Glover two at handle the same for the 27th of May again two and two and that's important because as you know normally we have it all on one day right but we needed to maintain um some space in between the ceremonies to help with traffic and crowd control we also needed to give our maintenance and operation enough time to disinfect uh the chairs and things going on at the stadium so that was a reason why we spread it out over those days so it is a little bit easier for us to manage it's also um more meaningful in terms of helping to support the students in the way we stage graduation because that's going to even look different as you know we used to Stage underneath the home bleachers both at Glover and handle

158well we're going to need a bigger space so now they're going to have to Stage kind of on the infield behind where the Jumbotron used to be to create more space to help stage and they'll walk in differently or they'll stage on the the grassy field um by behind the stadium or kind of on the soft fields on the side of Western Western's Glover handle stadium so those Logistics are still being worked out but we can't do business as usual because of some of these guidelines that we have to follow so those are some of the logistics that working and that's why this schedule makes sense for us to be able to spread it out versus what we have traditionally done so on the Wednesday the 26th you'll see that Lera and Savannah are at

159handle Stadium at 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock respectively and then Cypress and Kennedy again 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock respectively at Glover Stadium now I will say that part of the reason and part of the thinking behind who is scheduled when we had to do some research in terms of the advanced placement or AP exams because we're typically giving AP exams at this time uh we wanted to make sure that there wasn't a conflict with any of our seniors so part of what we were doing is making sure that no school had students testing during their time so that's why they've been given the schedule they've been given so students aren't testing when they would be graduating Believe It or Not we've had students in the past that were in that predicament so this year

160not going to be the case because we've taken that into consideration as as we built this ceremony and then you can see finally on Thursday the 27th you have magnolian Western who will be at handle Stadium at 10:00 and 2 o'c respectively and then Anaheim M catella at globber Stadium the next slide you see some of the just the key Logistics I want to make sure you're aware of that we're having to work through as we build out the ceremonies and all that comes with it uh in terms of planning so the California Department of Public Health graduation guidelines they say basically if you're in the orange tier which is what we anticipate being in it's a 33% capacity in our stadiums and that includes the attendees that are our graduates our staff and the

161guests so as a result we are going to be giving each graduate two tickets right so if you have a school of catella that has maybe 700 graduates that's now 1,400 people that are part of their family whether it's Mom dad mom Grandma dad Uncle whoever their plus two are they can be at the ceremony that allows us to still meet the guidelines that have been given plus the graduates plus our board members plus cabinet and the staff who are there to work the ceremony as you know each sta has row monitors and people who help with the staging they're all factored into the capacity so that's part of what we um had to figure out to make sure that we meet compliance uh attendees we asking to sign up in advance so we can

162pre-register and that's going to help with the the also the Jumbotron we're making sure that for those families or students who wish not to attend for for perhaps safety reasons maybe they um are still uncomfortable coming to in person for whatever reason they can still be embedded into the ceremony right so we need to know that so we can as we build the ceremony those names can still be announced in a flow that makes sense and have their images on the Jumbotron and be read where it's not it's a smooth flow as we go through the process so that's going to be an important piece for us as we as we move forward with the graduation ceremonies as well and then one of the requirements that they've given to to schools is that the audience

163seating must be fixed or marked so think about when you go to the traditional Stadium you have your ticket that says I'm in row 15 you know seat a right whatever that is we have to work with our stadiums to have some type of marked seating so when parents are and families are coming in they know exactly where they're going it's the guidance that we've been given so we have to honor that the nice thing is with with Glover Stadium we're potentially looking at having families coming from the East and the West so we don't have to all come in through the same entrance so we'll be able to divide the students up too by their alphabet where it's easier to to manage but those are some of the logistics that Joe SEL Vidal are

164working with the site administrators on on so they're considering send giving a ticket with their seat that's right now that's the guidance that we have to have the seats actually marked so when a family walks and they know where they're sitting right well then I assume then we're going to get we're assigning the the seats to the ticket correct which also goes into the why the attendant must sign up because we need to be able to account for who has tickets and where they're assigned so it's it's it's a it's we're planning a big party right and it's a lot of logistics that have to have to be factored in part of the things too is again the the compliance says you have to have at least two hours between ceremonies well as you can

165see for ours as you know under normal circumstances our ceremonies are about an hour to an hour and 20 minutes so even if we take a a little bit longer we still have more than two hours in between ceremonies which again gives us time to clear out families from the first ceremony and give time for the next ceremony to get to get ready into the into the parking lots or into the the schools if it's if if it's handled no food and drink are allowed in these ceremonies as part of the guidance and then the no hand shaking or hugs and that's more in terms of how we um are giving the diplomas and the certificates they they don't want people coming into context so we're working on a way for you still to be

166on the dis and be in the picture without you having to touch a student as they as they're receiving their diploma cover uh on the stage for the picture and photo off so those will all be factored in uh we're going to limit obviously the folks who are on the stage it really right now will be the board members and probably the principal and the students who are speaking at the ceremony so we won't be on the stage we'll be working the event just like uh the staff at the sites and then finally just as a caveat one thing that we've been made clear of is that the local Health departments can have more restrictive requ criteria and different um closures based on on guidance uh we believe that the guidance that I just shared

167with you is what we're going to be able to do but the caveat as it could change is is rates or data changes in the county but this is kind of what we're having to work with right now and we're we're very optimistic that this is where we're going to be headed when graduation takes place good all right all right so if you look at the last side that was really my update for tonight I told you it was going to be succinct but if you look at what's happening in may we have several things that we're going to be talking with you about uh we're going to have a more in-depth presentation around our summer programs so as you know we're preparing for summer school summer programs and what that might look like we

168want to make sure you understand what what we're going to be presenting and offering for our students as we move into the summer a lot of logistics are being planned right now which is why in May we'll have a lot of that finalized and we'll be ready to to share what the the scope and sequence looks like for summer programs I'm really excited about what that's going to look like the one thing I want to stress and this is also for our families who are watching summer programs will be in person okay other than the summer Language Academy who we already approved a contract with with uh our partners at Cal State floron to develop curriculum for virtual which was a while back we're going to continue with that being virtual but everything else will

169be in person so summer programs is planned to be in person which is great preparation obviously for our fall as well which we've already said in a message that superintendent matsuda put out uh I think it was last week or week and a half ago that we're planning a full five-day return in the fall right so that's that's what we are planning for as we speak uh we have an opening the school's task force that is reconvened as you recall last March when we first went to school closure that task force began doing a lot of meaningful mind work and preparing for the this current school year we are beginning that process with our stakeholders and when I say stakeholders we have parent Representatives on that group who are a part of the decision-making we

170have students who are part of that group we have teachers counselors classified staff administrators all part of that group who are part of the brainstorming and thinking in terms of what next August will look like when we come back full-time in person so I'm really excited about that work more to come on that obviously we just met our first time this week uh which we really set the stage and set expectations and then Mr cologne's going to re uh Rel that process again for what the fall will look like when we come back in August so more to come on on that as well and then the other two big items that I want to share which is why this was a little more less succinct is in the May board meeting we're going to

171have two separate presentations coming out of our Ed division which is the ethnic studies Task Force update and the math Task Force update I'm really excited about the work that that we've done in both those task force we're going to have a recommendation for you regarding ethnic studies and a propos timeline uh in next steps as it connects to ethnic study so stay tuned for that I'm super excited and then same with math as as you all know the math task force has done a lot of meaningful work this school year as well and we have math textbooks that we're going to be bringing to the board next month for you hopefully to approve um that the junior highs and the senior highs have selected through that process and I will tell you they had

172a very they were very much at the table our teachers um helping to decide which texts were going to be the ones we wanted to use so their voice was absolutely a part of that process unlike like previous processes that I know you all know too well um so I'm excited to share the work and we're actually planning to have members from both ethnic studies and the math task force here to be a part of that presentation so you can hear from them personally in terms of the work that they did to to make these things happen so that's what's upcoming I want to make sure you're aware that concludes my presentation for tonight I want to turn it over I know you've already asked a couple of questions but just in case there's any

173additional yeah one question on the cohort and pods I see where it's theoretically start March 30th but maybe I missed it end date it's I mean really goes through the school year it's it's this this quarter is when we're planning to do okay it's not into the summer it's this this school year yeah but but as we'll hear next month at our summer program update we are looking to expand the pods where're but that'll be a different it'll be okay it'll be part of summer programs but it's we're going to take the concept from the summer these small qus and expand it into the summer okay so not all students need credit recovery right some students may just need to connect again or continue to engage so we're looking to create those kinds of opportunities

174in the summer as well so yes we're going to have traditional credit recovery and some of those opportunities for students who need to make up classes that they maybe didn't do as well in but then we're also going to have opportunities for kids just to come back and get enrichment uh because we have the onetime money for that reason we want to create those opportunities for our students so you'll get more more on that uh next month when we can share really what that looks like but yes any other questions that I can answer any other questions I have a couple of questions okay Mr javar so I have a couple of questions regarding a graduation presentation um the well let me start off with the obvious one in terms of logistics I know we'll

175be in Orange deer 33% but I've also heard uh that there might be opportunities uh that the governor might revise were um maybe increase the capacity based on people who have been vaccinated so I I'm I'm curious to know have we thought about maybe increasing ining the number of tickets to families that might have already gotten vaccinated because if they do then they have the opportunity and it's an incentive also for folks to get vaccinated and come out and get vaccinated uh because if you take a look at it vaccination is the key for everything so if you are in a position to increase the number of tickets and increase the capacity uh you know I want us to take a look at it and see yes Mike here come over here I'll move oh

176you might want to use the microphone I know I think you're talking about the proof of vaccination and the card itself because I know the federal government also had said that the card itself is not a proof of vaccination no longer but I'm I'm hoping uh I know that the county is also in the process of putting a passport together vaccination passport together which will be digitally recognizing rather than a cart right um but if there is an opportunity I want us to take a look at that and see sure I think we will take a look at that but you know it's it's a good ide it's a good suggestion we will look into it yeah so the the the second part that I had was I know we have CVA and hope at

177kpac how many graduates are we looking at at CVA and hope in terms of uh being in that facility because as I understand K KAC is a pretty enclosed location and I'm I'm again I'm a little bit leery of the fact that we're going to cram in even 100 or 200 people in in a uh location where you might not have that much of air circulation so I think CVA has a total of 12 seniors oh okay and then hope I want to say it's usually in the 30s usually 30 30s that or less yeah we're keeping the same two tickets per I mean it's consistent so they have 30 graduates that's another 60 parents 90 people plus the staff maybe have the doors open yeah yeah yeah yeah and and that was the thing

178we were trying to figure out a way like who we use the because Dale has been renovated should we use for CVA the Dale quad I mean we're they're having lots of conversations but Kennedy obviously has the feel that you're a you're in a a beautiful facility it feels special for the seniors because we still want to do something special for all of our seniors so that's kind of what we landed on and we felt like the stadiums were just too large they would have gotten lost 12 seniors would have gotten lost on the field to that's that's where we came of landed on that piece right but yes we were absolutely thinking about that kind of stuff trusty Jabar and terms of the safety and the air all all those things okay perfect I

179think those two questions and just on a a consideration um I always love to go to the alt Ed um and you have it at the same time as Oxford and I happen to know couple of students that are is there a possibility staggering that time well we can't do well we we struggled doing it earlier than 4 because it's the last day of school and we need students are in class and teachers are teaching so we wanted to make sure there was enough separation for families to be able to get there students to be able to get there and staff to be able to get there the one challenge we're having is is because on the 25th all staff aren't back yet they come back on the 26th remember those two days so we

180were also anxious about that if we did it on the 25th at let's say 7 o'clock at night that they may not be able to get as many staff to work the ceremony as we would need um which is why we did it at 4:00 which is still pretty closely connected to the school day so that's why the decision was at 4 and 4 we can explore I know there's a reason that was the ration that was the rationale is cu the staff this the principles doing surveys with their staff to kind of get a sense of who is willing to volunteer at our PRI our priority has been to get staff to volunteer for these events um at the end of the day our default of course we can assign people but we want

181people to volunteer the nice thing is you have many teachers for example at the high school who teach sophomores or freshman who never really get to go to the graduations because they're teaching the Freshman of sophomores this gives them now the opportunity to work a graduation event that they normally would get to so right now the early feedback is we're getting lots of teachers to volunteer which is great but it's also partly because it's connected to the school day uh which is when they're at work okay so that was the rationale for that got it okay Mr Jabar yeah I I I just want to make the final comment on this uh I know we made the decision and uh we we've been reached out to by many parents uh especially Cypress uh Kennedy folks

182who have been sending out emails but I I just wanted to kind of talk about the 92805 I presented data last time but I want to kind of close the loop we are we made the right choice we I I think we made the right choice for all our students uh taking a look at the numbers 92805 numbers are coming down 92801 numbers are coming down 92802 numbers are coming down but the significant part is the debts we had 21 debts since the last meeting to this meeting as of last night in 92805 23 deaths in 92801 and 20 deaths in 92802 right so these are significant decisions that we have to Grapple with when we make a choice it's not because we don't want students on campus it's because it's a life or death

183situation and then I also want to make the point I I also presented data in terms of covid numbers in schools which have been opened uh for inperson learning throughout Orange County Just Between the last board meeting and this board meeting we had 138 students who have been reported having covid in those schools which have been open 19 teachers who have had covid in those schools which have been open and 24 staff who have been have who had Cod a total of 181 so I think we as a board have made a good choice in terms of being precautious for all our students and our families and our communities so I just wanted to congratulate you for putting this and then the entire Education team which has I think you guys have had uh uh

184numerous nights without sleep just trying to come up with good solutions for our families and as board members I know that when we take when we make decisions we're not taking this lightly uh so I want to thank all of you for doing what you've done in terms of uh bringing back even this uh pod concept and bringing some of our kids who need the help back on campus so thank you thank you okay Mr Jabar I beg to disagree with some of your comments you have how many school districts did you total together to get those numbers because how many students have died from covid you are you are stating facts of numbers of people who' have died or gotten Co in those zip codes but I come from an area where my grandchildren

185have been going to school my little ones all year no one has none of the students have come down with covid there have been covid alerts because somebody in their family had covid so then they were quarantined just in case no teachers have gotten it from any students they have done studies that have shown teachers got it from other teachers or teachers got it from other family members or what ever so you are bringing a lot of numbers here and like anything statistics it depends upon where you want to get them okay I disagree I disagreed with the decision now I say how many kids died from covid none how many students died from suicide how many of our kids have been depressed that are suicidal we just got another one the other day and

186I totally disagree I'd have disagreed with this decision all along along I have the right to have my opinion and I don't agree with all these numbers from a two or three zip codes yes they go to other schools but science has shown the kids aren't the ones getting sick it's the adults okay so anyway you brought it back up again and I'm going to say again I disagree I felt we should have gone back one day a week would have been better than nothing I I mean I I just I am sick because I look at my grandson who's a seventh grader he does not look the same he is so depressed he has gained so much weight he can't even look outside properly because he has been inside so much all year long

187on a computer he's become a Hermit because he's had no social interaction with anybody else okay so I am going on some of my background feeling and what the way I have felt all along so the majority of the of the board felt they had to do this because of those zip codes well we did it I disagree and I think those kids could have come to school you know and and if they were that afraid I think it's a it's a Fear Factor if they were that afraid they would have stayed home and there are still going to be people that are afraid and there are people who are not going to want their kids to go to school next year and that's why we will have to offer online because it's fear and

188that's not rational it's emotional and a lot of that I mean I I I'm not going to go into why I think it's happened but the decision was made I don't think it was a smart decision that's my opinion okay four of you did four of you voted that way but I still hold that I I think we should have gone back now we're going back in pods okay and we're going to get well let's see how many of them come back because there will be a lot of them they're already 4,000 athletes back okay that's 4,000 kids that aren't afraid plus the ones in in vapa or the ones that are coming back and here we have some that don't come back okay but anyway let's move on I know but no I know

189but I'm just want to acknowledge you I I did not disagree with the vote you took because as you said oh I know that no but you had to bring it back up again I'm gonna say okay so I'm going to bring up my voice on it again too AB you have your right and I have my right that's right and like I said when we took this decision or at least when I took this decision I had to take a look at those zip codes because those are the zip codes where we have kids coming from those zip codes yeah and and as a result I have to present you may not you may not agree with the data that's presented reported by these schools and reported by Healthcare agency I'm sorry if you

190do not look at the data you're not going to make the right choice and I the data because it depends upon how you want to use the data we're talking statistics okay let's stop right now I'm sorry I disagree with your statistics okay if you just I I I I'm glad that you say that in public that you disagree with Statistics but the rest of us we agree with Statistics thank you it is how you use statistics okay let's face it you can manipulate f f figures and facts however you want let's stop right now well I can tell you that health does not manipulate public comments this is the opportunity for public comments to occur at the beginning of each agenda item and at this time for items not on the agenda comments may

191be submitted online prior to the meeting and submissions will be read aloud during the board meeting by the board president or my design which I'm going to assign to Mr Vell each speaker is limited to a maximum of five minutes and each topic or item is limited to a total of 20 minutes board members cannot immediately respond to public comments as stated on the speaker request form thank you madam president uh we do have a number of public comments this after or this evening um because we do exceed the time limit we will summarize some of them uh however I will start with a public comment from Jimmy Fuller I continue to be disappointed by the Board of Trustees and the district office staff regarding the complete lack of transparency and care for students and

192families who wish to have an in-person option for learning in the fall 2021 calendar I see lip service statements by the district on Facebook you have had an entire year to get plans together and the lack of such plans makes it clear to me and the the other taxpaying residents of Cyprus that you do not have our students best interest in mind I urge you to immediately include parents in the planning process and release an actual plan for the fall school year Kim Lan Choy States I strongly urge the district to offer a full-time Traditional School schedule as an option for the 2021-22 school year as a parent of three Elementary age children that were allowed to return on campus in October 2020 I can attest that it made a huge impact on my sixth

193grader by returning his mental health his mental well-being improved and academically he did much better in person he will be a seventh grader at Lexington next year and I plead with you to provide a traditional schedule to the families who want it Erica disagrees with last month's decision not to bring students back to campus to finish the school year she's concerned about her high school boys an anonymous parent disagrees with last month's decision not to bring students back to campus to finish the school year in addition uh it is unclear what the return to in-person learning for the next school year 2021 2022 will be as students are currently enrolling for the 2021 2022 school year we feel that ahsd needs to be transparent with their reopening plans and clearly communicate their intentions it is

194imperative that that parents have this information so we can make an informed decision about our students enrollment for the upcoming year we deserve a choice we appreciate your time and consideration in reviewing our concerns Donna Sipple disagrees with the decision not to bring students back to campus to finish the school year uh schools need to open for students that will elect to choose an in-person learning enrollment for this year and set a date for 2021 2022 Jennifer a disagrees with last month's decision not to bring students back to campus to finish the school year she's concerned about students with special needs Stacy King disagrees with last month's decision not to bring students back to campus to finish the school year she's concerned about her teenage daughter Jackie Mina States Anaheim recently moved into orange tier

195meaning my son can go to an Angels game Disneyland or get a massage however he cannot go to school due to your current policies the California Department of Health on August 25th 2020 provided guidance for in-person specialized supports and services for special needs students the law and procedural safeguards of the individuals with disabilities Education Act have not been waved and it remains a district responsibility to provide a free appropriate public education for some students distance learning is not appropriate and educators are unable to even provide measurable progress towards legally mandated IEP goals I urge you to consider an amendment to The Learning pods which are allowing some students to be in person in a hybrid model to include students with special needs at Hope High School I question a district decision to continue denying an

196appropriate Service delivery model for these vulnerable students by mandating distance learning for them while at the same time opening up Sports Performing Arts and Technology learning pods for general education it is negligent and discriminatory please reconsider and make necessary changes to ensure students with IEPs receive fape Tracy aoui States I'm writing this in response to ahsd recent announcement about their reopening plan for the 2021 2022 school year I need a more concrete plan that is going to guarantee that my three kids will go to in-person school 5 days a week there are several school districts around ahsd that have reopened for this current school year and have provided actual plans of what they are doing for next school year they have been successful in their operations of teaching kids in person safely I am beyond

197worried for my kids my 13-year-old son struggles on a daily basis with with being away from school from teachers and from Friends yes his dad and I support them but we also work full-time outside of the home they have been home all day every day for over a year now this is not acceptable and it shouldn't be for you either there has been enough time that the district the Board of Trustees and teachers union could come up with a better plan than what they did this year the mental well-being should be your number one priority if you truly care for these kids and preparing them for their future I have family and friends in other states that cannot believe that we weren't given a choice why weren't we given a choice an anonymous parent disagrees

198with last month's decision not to bring students back to campus to finish the school year Jessica Henson disagrees with last year last month's decision not to bring students back to campus to finish the school year and objects to a raise for the superintendent an ahsd parent disagrees with last month's decision not to bring students back to campus to finish the school year and objects to a raise for the superintendent stating I would like to ask you what has he done to deserve a raise it surely couldn't be limiting our kids' education that he deserves this or the families that have suffered the ultimate tragedy of losing a child ahsd families State we are writing once again to urge Anaheim Union High School District to open our schools the latest communication that was released from Mr

199matsuda regarding fall opening did not leave parents feeling that there was a firm commitment to return to full 5day in-person learning in August especially when we were made aware of the internal communication within the district regarding the proposed 50/50 hybrid program for fall which is still not acceptable transparency is an issue with the district and you have lost the trust of your families you already gave us a return date for this year and took that away at the last board meeting how do we know you will not do the same in the fall the decisions made by the board were made based on politics emotions and inaccurate facts for you to tell parents that it isn't political is insulting our intelligence we want our schools open right now and we want a full opening in

200August Mr Jabar said in February that many other school districts look up to Anaheim Union High School District we find it hard to believe that other districts would look up to ours as an example a district that has deprived its students of their right to an in-person education please open our schools now Wendy wheeler disagrees with last month's decision not to bring stud students back to campus to finish the school year and objects to any raises stating no one there deserves a raise at this time that should only be considered when you have got out have got our children back in class successfully all of you are more than adequately compensated at this time this is not a time to be rewarding anyone when you have failed our students and School Employees counselors and teachers

201this year and the poorly handled reopening or lack thereof this year an anonymous parent parent disagrees with last month's decision not to bring students back to campus to finish the school year Mary Stewart disagrees with last month's decision not to bring students back to campus to finish the school year and objects to a raise for the superintendent stating it's unfortunate that while the parents of the 17 schools in the district have had to work less or even quit jobs because the kids are home and then Mr matsuda is being considered for a raise shows the real focus of this board spending the money and the time on everything else but getting our kids full-time back in class pretty sad Irene States no to arrays for superintendent matuda no to mandatory vaccines for students no to

202the removal of parent consent for students to receive vaccines no to hybrid schedule open our schools full-time and allow each student to attend 5 days a week on campus open all sports and Student Activities enough of this control young people are not affected by covid Shauna Riggins disagrees with last month 's decision not to bring students back to campus to finish the school year and objects to any raises stating I also want to discourage any one voting for any salary raises at this time your families have been hurting because of your choices Tina Ferguson disagrees with last month's decision not to bring students back to campus to finish the school year Gretchen Lindner disagrees with last month's decision not to bring students back to campus to finish the school year Kelly Engles disagrees with last

203month's decision not to bring students back to campus to finish the school year and states I would assume the facts supporting your decision will be used for the 2021 2022 school year on whether our kids will return I saw the notice the district plans on offering a five day a week or a 5-day week but after being told throughout this past year we would return I do not trust any information provided pacifying parents by continuing to make empty promises only alleviated the amount of of complaints you would have received it had nothing to do with the safety of our kids but rather an agenda you put in place over a year ago I would like to make an informed decision on whether or not to stay in the district or find one where my kids

204education comes first over political propaganda an anonymous commenter States as a parent of two students in the district I have been concerned by the generic comments being made about next year's opening plans teachers are being vaccinated students have been home and safe this is no reason the district should not be planning a full reopening in August to say that we will provide 5 days instruction does not commit to five full days instruction for every student I ask that District be transparent with its plans very soon so that parents can make alternative alternate plans if necessary I know how hard teachers have been working and I do not blame them however it is not possible to not have learning loss with reduced teaching minutes over a year no matter how wonderful our teachers are and the

205experience online is just not the the same I hear over and over again from teachers I am better in person and of course that is true teachers need to interact with their students and vice versa so again I ask that you please present your plan for next year to your parents soon we deserve that much and so do your students educating our students should be the District board and superintendent's primary concern Rachel French disagrees with last month's decision not to bring students back to campus to finish the school year and States some of the most vulnerable students are suffering knowledge deficits they'll never make up that fact is absolutely indisputable and as is the fact that forcing students to wear masks is teaching them that they are constantly in danger and are the source of

206danger to others this is nothing short of abuse I ref respectfully petition and simultaneously strongly advise auhsd to commit to a full reopening of maskless schooling for our precious young people for the 2021 22 school year Joy Harper disagrees with last month's decision not to bring students back to campus to finish the school year in States all the schools around us have reopened yet ahsd remains closed I'm asking you to commit to a full reopening of your schools for the 2021 2022 school year we parents and taxpayers demand that our children return to school five full days a week no hybrid options please the choices should be fulltime or full distance don't fail this students one more year Ryan clar disagrees with last month's decision not to bring students back to campus to finish the

207school year Kathy Lee Shin disagrees with last month's decision not to bring students back to campus to finish the school year Paul Shin disagrees with last month's decision not to bring students back to campus to finish the school year and Jennifer Arnold disagrees with last last month's decision not to bring students back to campus to finish the school year that concludes public comment okay thank you okay moving on to item 11.1 School sponsored student organization this is an action item do I have a motion so move second a motion in a second any questions comments okay um I have one this is a uh an application for a curriculum related Club okay is was Wellings a teacher is she the choir teacher I believe so you believe so okay um because I thought well it's

208almost like another choir but you know it's open to anyone I'm sure but okay I was just curious the way it was you know put forth so okay no other questions or comments all right we'll take a vote Mrs tral tro I Mr O'Neal I Mr Jabar hi Mrs Smith I and I vote I okay item 11.2 public hearing temporary interfund uh EXC do we still have uh Elizabeth pardon do we still have Elizabeth oh we good here just barely barely Elizabeth can you hear us okay okay we you guys have to remind me ahead of time I forgot okay Elizabeth we're we're voting on school sponsored student organization awesome I all right very good we have a we have All Eyes thank you Elizabeth okay moving on to 11.2 public hearing temporary interfund transfer

209open the public hearing I guess how does that work because it's an information item all public hearings are information item yeah but there is a um resolution that's coming after that so that's what we just want to make sure that the item is on there okay 11.2 is the information item 11.3 is the the resolution yes okay any questions nope were comments okay all right seeing none we can close the public hearing resolution number 2020/21 db16 temporary interfund transfer no mve I have a motion no I have a second all right questions okay uh roll call vote Mrs tro hi Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar hi Mrs Smith hi and I vote I okay item 1114 resolution 2020/21 db-17 interest income and investment Administration fees Special Reserve fund 4040 I moved second I have a

210motion and a second any questions comments okay seeing none Mrs tro hi Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar hi Mrs Smith hi okay item 11.5 resolution number 2020 21- e-9 state seal of Civic engagement so moved second I have a motion and a second questions comments can I make a quick comment board president piy so I'm just really excited to have this resolution come before the board um as you know our district is leading the way with Civic engagement with all the all the cfor Democracy schools we have the Civic Awards of of Excellence that we've received I'm excited to say that even though this is a pilot year and it's not on the dashboard we have over 1,00 students that are eligible for the state seal of Civic engagement and keep in mind uh some

211of our schools who recently got the distinction of as a California box School some of those activities are taking place in their sophomore or or freshman year so when they become seniors they will be eligible for that state seal so we expect these numbers to only go up so it's very very exciting we're not only going to lead I think the county we're going to be leading the state again as it relates to the Seal of Civic engagement much like um Dr Bryant has done a wonderful job with leading our state seal of by literacy where we lead the county and the state I think that Ruben patino who's our curriculum specialist working closely with our our teachers in Civic engagement along with Dr Henry who oversees our dashboard have done a great job overseeing

212this process so really excited that it's before for you tonight very good thank you just a comment yesy I just wanted to congratulate um uh our Ed division congratulate all of our schools um 1900 is an amazing number of students and um in the interest of time uh I just wanted to uh reiterate the qualities of that our students are leaving with um engaged in academic work in a itive way uh demonstrating competent understanding of the US and California Constitution uh the third uh uh criteria that they have to demonstrate is Civic engagement projects uh to address real world problems uh four to demonstrate Civic knowledge and self-reflection um and exhibit five is exhibit character traits that reflect um you know Civic mindness and a commit to POS positively impact your classroom your school or

213um your community and if those are not the qualities that we want to send our kids off into the world with I don't know what what they are so um just congratulations and congratulations to all of the students Bravo okay any other comments all right seeing none roll call vote Mrs tro I Mr O'Neal hi Mr javar hi Mrs Smith I and I vote I 11.6 resolution number 2020/21 DHR d04 day of the teacher so move second have a motion in a second now I have any questions comments okay let's take our vote that'll be on May 4th it'll be our day of the teacher uh Mrs tro and if there's an year that we could totally honor all of our teachers this year is this is it so uh I vote I Mr O'Neal

214I Mr javar I and Mrs Smith I and I vote I okay 1117 resolution resolution number 20120 D21 hr-5 national school nurse day roll call vote so moved second I have a motion in a second any questions or comments I think we should called this for US national school nurse and health technician since we don't have you know they're the ones on the front line oh let's remember them also on May 12th absolutely okay Mrs tro I vote I Mr O'Neal I Mr javar I Mrs Smith I and I vote I 11.8 resolution number 2020/21 db-3 condemning hate against asian-americans and Pacific Islanders so move second I have a motion in a second questions comments I just want to I just want to highlight uh something that we already have on the binder but that

215California represents 45% of uh Asian hate reported and according to Orange County human relations uh hate against Asians in Orange County during 2020 increased tfold and this is something that is unacceptable and I know that we have been seeing some Trends all over the country uh I know as a district we're taking this stance especially uh standing with our Asian students and families so with that okay any other comments it's a shame we have to be doing something like this it's a sad commentary on our society that we are you know distribute you know displaying hate toward any ethnic group but you and it's just it's uncalled for so let's let's hope we can educate our kids more deeply in how to be inclusive of every ethnic and nationality so okay any other comments absolutely

216just uh just a piggyback on you know what you guys have said it's it's a sad commentary that we have to do it but this is what um auhsd is all about we step up and we say no to this that we condemn this these acts and we condemn the way that uh folks are treated in um the uh asian-pacific Islander community and these uh statistics that we have in in this um resolution they've gone up numbers have gone up since since January um and I was just looking online in 503 up to that February date uh just this year and it's just really sad uh commentary that we have to do this uh Anna but we do because this is what ahsd does we set the example okay roll call vote Mrs tro I

217Mr O'Neal I Mr Jabar I Mrs Smith I and I vote I 11.9 we have already done moving on to 11.10 revised board policy 548 and in parentheses we have 3555 nutrition program compliance first reading any uh comments or questions on here okay moving on 11.11 memorandum of understanding for John Hopkins University Health Education and Training cores which is the acronym for heat okay or the heat acronym second I have a motion in a second um I have a question uh how many do we have involved in this now I I was noticing that in our Friday letter it was an update but yeah so we have three cohorts based on the school sites and we've been averaging between eight to about 17 students per session so times three right you have you know anywhere

218from from 24 to almost 50 students participating on the in these cohorts it varies it's after school so it's during the uh it starts at 3:00 our time I think 7 o'clock up East Coast time okay this is amazing I I look at this and one of our students Rahi Patel he may recall he was the first student who really began the ahsd talk when he was a student at Dale he's now a junior at magnolian he's the one who made the connection with Dr G and brought John Hopkins to us now we're actually talking with them about other ways to connect with John Hopkins beyond the co project so that's phenomenal very exciting it really is phenomenal we have some super students and and I jumped on one of the the the meetings and

219they get personalized you know in instruction and it's just uh they're they're very warm and gracious and um it's amazing information for our students really excited to listen to that and remember that name Rahi Patel oh yeah he's going places yeah he is okay any other comments or questions okay roll call Mrs tro hi Mr O O'Neal hi Mr Jabar hi Mrs Smith hi and I vote I 1112 memorandum of understanding Family Health matters mobile vot covid-19 vaccinations so move second questions comments I had comments uh I just wanted to take this opportunity again to thank uh Anaheim Union High School District staff uh specifically RSL Chavez arela Taria Garcia uh led by Carlos Hernandez for doing some great work collaborating with not only Orange County Health Care Agency but also Family Health matters I

220want to take this opportunity also to thank the Coalition of clinics and uh the CEO Isabel Basera uh drop of a hat uh go gave her a call and asked her if she could do some extra clinics for our uh families specifically targeting 928 4 805 806 and 801 802 because they are the highest number of covid uh uh cases in those communities we wanted to make sure that they are vaccinated so I really thank our staff going out uh pretty much uh every single Clinic that we've done from the custodian all the way to our admin staff they've been very supportive and doing everything possible to make this happen I know that uh this week at laera and at Magnolia we are having two clinics uh with the leadership of supervisor Doug chaffy in

221Orange County we had requested to bring fiser clinics to these two particular clinics uh at the school to high school sites primarily to Target 16 and older uh students and their families uh hopefully encouraging them to make sure that they get vaccinated so that they could have a good graduation ceremony we're hoping to bring more clinics that we could open it up for other uh uh ZIP codes in uh Anaheim and Cyprus all across ahsd so thank you very much okay any other comments okay seeing none will'll vote Mrs tro I vote I Mr O'Neal I Mr javar I Mrs Smith I and I vote I 11.13 memorandum of understanding education vaccine clinics move second I have a motion and a second questions comments okay seeing none Miss Mrs tro I Mr O'Neal I Mr

222Jabar I Mrs Smith I and I vote I 11. 14 joint venture training agreement North Orange County Regional Occupation program mov second I have a motion and a second questions or comments okay seeing none Mrs tro I Mr O'Neal I Mr Jabar I Mrs Smith I and I vote I 11.5 educational Consulting agreement Michelle msus so move second I have a motion in a second any questions comments seeing none Mrs tro I vote I Mrs Mr O'Neal I Mr Jabar I Mrs Smith I and I vote I 11.6 educational Consulting agreement but Brian bka moved second I have a motion in a second any questions or comments seeing none Mrs tro hi Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar hi Mr Mrs Smith hi and I vote I 11.17 contract independent education evaluation with Marlene Barb okay

223I have a motion do I have a second second all right uh any questions comments seeing none Mrs tro hi Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar hi Mrs Smith I and I vote I 11.18 memorandum of understanding auhsd Foundation storage of Kinds set products some move second I have a motion in a second is there a question or comments on this okay seeing none Mrs tro I Mr O'Neal I Mr Jabar I Mrs Smith I and I vote I 11.19 amended 2021-22 student teacher calendar moved second okay comments questions okay I gotta say my piece here I'm on the horse here about the calendar I disagree uh mainly just the whole beginning and end of the year I think we need to look into a this calendar again it doesn't happen overnight but in light of

224all the comments about climate change and how we're getting hotter around here and what uh the back you know the the effects of this year's change has done I'd like us to look into you know what what has it cost us you know moving the calendar up a month you know now we've got kids kids going back in the heat of August we are Southern California and I think we need to think like Southern California and not back East um August and September are our hottest months and we are now in session and we've got kids passing out on the fields practicing for softball um I I just think we need to to take a look again at our calendar and um I I'm going to ask this this is one of my recommendations at

225the end but anyway right now we're just amending it for those two days right um yes and also just okay so but you know we can't change this this calendar for next year it's it's kind of set but we can start looking at changes for the future so anyway said my piece uh any other comments seeing none Mrs I appreciate your comments and I heartily agree with you thank you Kathy it is something we'll have to you know we'll delve into I I'm you know I just think we really need to to to look into it that's you know that's another time about that opinion right now we're just amending this year's and so we'll get on to next year's calendar afterwards Mrs tro hi Mr O'Neal hi Mr javar hi Mrs Smith hi and

226I vote I 11:20 public hearing disclosure of 2020 collective bargaining agreement with ASO open public hearing uh no public comments were received okay since there's no public comments we will close the public hearing 11.21 adoption of the 2021 collective bargaining agreement with AA some move second I have a motion and a second any questions comments okay seeing none Mrs tro I Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar hi Mrs Smith hi and I vote I no we got one day down okay here we go Mo moving to the second 11.22 public hearing disclosure of collective bargaining agreement with the MMA open public hearing no public comments or receive no public comments seeing none close the public hearing okay 11.23 adoption of the 2020 collective bargaining agreement with MMA so move second I have a motion and a

227second any questions or comments okay Mrs tro hi Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar hi Mrs Smith I and I vote I and we got two down all right 1124 initial contract proposal Au uhsd to CSEA this is an information item only any questions comments all right seeing none moving on to 11:25 public hearing initial contract proposal a uhsd to CSEA open the public hearing no public comments no public comment close the public hearing initial contract 11:26 initial contract proposal cssea to auhsd information item any questions comments moving on 1127 public hearing initial contract proposal CSA to Au uhsd open the public hearing no public comments no public comment close the public hearing 1128 revised policy 6602 catastrophic leave program first reading any questions questions or comments on this seeing none we'll move on to 1129

228superintendent compensation so move second I have a motion in a second questions comments All right we are here [Music] to discuss his compensation would someone like to [Music] sure you know we we were provided a list of of salaries of superintendent throughout Orange County and uh looking at where Mr matsuda Falls in line with that he's number uh 19 out of 27 19th down uh more more than halfway uh obviously uh his salary is less than feeder schools that come into us and you know that those feeder schools have two three maybe 4,000 students and we have uh about 29,000 students uh over the years he has shown us as board members and the district in in total um his his leadership in the way of being a cre creative educational uh leader he has

229going along with that he has implemented along with his obviously his staff that he directs uh career Pathways uh CVA which is new this year artificial intelligent uh program biotechnology program uh cyber security uh iLab and and developed relationships with uh higher education which is all uh benefiting our students not only today but in the past over the years and especially for the future to come we know that um education is changing drastically uh in the United States and it has to in order to keep up with the world uh we cannot teach to the test we cannot teach to get uh test scores uh we have to be Innovative thinkers and that is one thing that Mr matsuda has has showing us is he is an Innovative thinker and has led his uh executive

230cabinet to do the things that we are doing now and to be uh paying him a salary at the level that he is being compensated at right now um I think is I maybe this is this is my word a misjustice uh he came in I think he's uh I think he's on his seventh year or has completed his seventh year now and all this time that he has been the superintendent he has always been at the lower threshold uh when he became a superintendent um he had a very steep heill to climb but he proved proved himself by by climbing that that uh very steep mountain and he's still climbing uh we are all still climbing to to we will never reach the top but he has I think shown uh his ability to

231be a a definitive leader not only within our district but within the county within the state and he's being recognized throughout the nation for his leadership and his ability to to bring these new and Innovative and necessary ideas in education so I think we need to start um uh compensating him for what he has been uh bringing to the district okay I will can I okay no you can't talk I'm going to talk no I I just wanted to add on that are you done Mr O NE for now for now okay I just want to say too and we've had a few comments from the public um angry at Mike and want wanting him to know he doesn't deserve a raise well I totally disagree um if anything we we were lucky this year

232we got a cost of living increase from the state and we've been able to pass that cost of living on to our employees uh you know our our and so he's an employee and he deserves that if and more because this has been a tough year and like Mr O'Neal has said Mr matsuda has been climbing that mountain of you know learning and doing things in this district and he has come up with some phenomenal ideas that he has held you know the cabinet to work on we are now I think even better District than we were before because we are we are teaching and going trying to teach our kids to live in the 21st century we're not just doing Reading Writing and arithmetic we are preparing them for careers and living in the

23321st century and that's because of some of these unique programs that he came up with I think our aim program is outstanding and phenomenal and then we have you know artificial intellig and we have biotechnology we've got all kinds of programs that are unique and are setting our kids up for Success so you know there a lot of our parents were angry because they know we didn't open school and they're kind of taking it out on I think I feel they're taking it out on Mike but it's not Mike that made that decision it was the board so I think we need to remunerate him I agree with Mr O'Neal he is uh under what our feeder districts are and I don't believe in having to be the best or matching everybody but I do

234think we have to remunerate him and the base not just you know the minimum cost of living but an additional amount because he has really worked hard this past year and the years in the in the past as well so I agree we need to kind of bring him up and so um I just wanted to say that because there were some comments about not wanting him to have a raise but I had to cover that because I I don't think that's right you know so now Mr javar your turn well um I want to concur with but Brian mentioned I think you had a whole host of programs that were actually implemented under Mike and uh but not all inclusive either that was just part what's that that was just part of the list

235part of yeah that was part of the list and I think I mentioned this uh when we were discussing before when you are giving a race to someone you evaluate based on their performance from last year to this year and you also take into account the overall aspect of where the district was from the time that you were hired or he was hired to the time that we are in right now and I think you have not only established our strong team with you and that's part of your talent to look at folks who are talented and bring them aboard and they might not necessarily agree with you but you bring them aboard because you want to build a strong team and as a result we've actually established a strong ahst I know during a

236comment there was a parent who mentioned that I said that all of the districts around around Orange County look up to a uhsd uh I might be wrong it's not only around Orange County but around the state and around the nation people look up to what we're doing because we are being Innovative and the reason that we're being Innovative is because we have a person who is bringing innovative ideas to the board and to the team in order to make our students better for the 21st century and beyond um and I think as a result you look at other districts and not to put other districts down but you take a look at the other districts and compensation also Begins by evaluating where other superintendent are and what they bring to the table and how

237it uh how you evaluate our superintendent against what they're doing in their districts and I firmly believe that we're doing a of course I'm biased but I firmly believe that we are doing a better job than most other districts in terms of moving our students to the Future uh I think biotechnology and uh uh artificial intelligence nobody else is thinking about that and we are bringing up for the new programs all under your leadership which I think is a very Innovative path that we're taking so I agree we got to take a look at it and uh we got to not only compensate uh the the amount that we give in terms of cost of living raise but beyond that so that's where I'm at I don't need to add to what has already been

238said Mike matsuda is an innovator and when I look over the years that I have served in this position the changes that we have made in our class classrooms and in these um types of programs that we have are now entertaining and running we've gone from what I used to see as everybody should go to college and I have known that my entire life that is not a good thing to think people young people need to be given an opportunity to find their pathway what brings them joy and happiness in life whether they go to college and make a presentation at a school board about solar or they do plumbing or construction if they're happy we've done our job and I think the fact is when I look back when I was in school it

239was a choice of teacher nurse or secretary that's all the the mentality was and I think of I look around in this this room with these pictures of all of the things that have been innovated primarily by our superintendent the public does not understand or could they possibly know the work that has gone into creating these programs bringing them in establishing them finding the teachers that can teach them and considering this horrific time that we have had with this covid and dealing with it I live in one of the highest covid areas and I understand because we I know so many families that have lost more than one more than two people in their families so you can't just open one school and leave the other's clothes or pick and choose it's not the reality

240of what the laws are the other thing I'd like to say about our superintendent is truly a person that I trust when I ask him a question I can believe him and the people that he has selected to be on his team follow in that same path and I can tell you as a board member when we handled the deals that we do in schools Beyond solar Beyond construction Beyond buses and all the changes that have occurred it's a huge undertaking and um very stressful for many people I worry about many of the people that are dealing with these different areas of education but I feel we've done the very best considering the information that we have and that we will open these schools and um I just want to say uh to our superintendent

241thank you and I want to thank every person in this room that works with you because I I think of you every day and I feel very blessed that you are the ones running this school department and I thank you uh totally agree with everything that everyone has said so far um as Brian said there's so much more um the reason that you are a superb superintendent is because of the people that you brought in and the people that you you know that you brought in to us um you our Partnerships we have now what 70 75 different Partnerships um people want to work with our kids and that's due in part to um your leadership to your your vision of of bringing them in um that's why Al people are envious of auhsd what

242do you mean you have 75 Partnerships businesses nonprofits that want to come in and work with your kids how do you do that we get that all the time um when we talk talk to our colleagues and other at other sites in Orange County they're always asking us how do you how did you get your teachers to agree to this it's like it takes work and it's taken seven years of working together as a team because you come in and you came in with compassion and you came in with kindness you came in with a service attitude service learning that was one of the first things that you brought to this District you said we're going to teach our kids to give back that's why ahsd um is is is um looked at and envied

243throughout the county the state the the N the nation because we lead with compassion Mental Health Services you brought in we started with with one social worker and we have now almost one at every site you've expanded where we've needed to expand yes this year was challenging but this team Rose to the occasion um the people that don't understand what education is in auhsd doesn't they do not understand that we had our teachers trained in the in in the the most uh with the most Integrity they're not just giving out worksheets and busy work and we were able to Pivot in the middle of the year to make it even better to dive deeper um everything that this board has asked you to do you have done it every year um I don't know how

244you do it but you get better and better and better every year you you have had outstanding and I can say that to everyone you've had outstanding evaluations and that deserves comp compensation um I hope that you're not out there looking to leave us uh but you know I'm sure people want you I'm sure people want to pluck you out of here um but you've remain focus and steadfast with this District um we know why you love ahsd we know your story we know um we know where your heart is and where it lies and you've worked without the compensation that you've deserved so it is only appropo that we do something about that when we can so I wholeheartedly would agree with um AR raise so the question is how much much do we

245recommend or how much do we decide to to uh uh recommend I just did a real quick calculation um he is almost 40% under the highest superintendent in Orange County and he's about 30 three or so percent under the second highest so as I said he is he is number 19 down the list so you can see there's a huge huge huge gap and I don't think anybody at the dasis is suggesting that we even try to to uh bring Mr matsuda up into that range because we we also think they are overcompensated at least some people do maybe not all but some people do um but Brian before you get into that to I just want to highlight one of the things superintendent from our feta School District who have fraction of our student

246population are above uh our superintendent by a significant amount uh there's Centralia there's Magnolia there's Anaheim elementary uh so I I want to take that into consideration too but I will be um happy to see what you're proposing and then yeah I don't I don't know if there is a right number at this time I don't know if there's a right number in the future uh Mr matura um because uh I how do you put a value on what we just said so as I said in the beginning it's a it is a beginning of uh bringing you into um an area of reasonableness not going to happen this year not going to happen next year um but I'm going to I'm going to put out a percent and of course it's up for discussion

247you can tell me to leave for a while or you can even boost it that's that's up up to you but I'm going to recommend the 6% increase for Mr matsuda I think you're in the same ballp pack as what I was thinking just gonna I would agree with that yeah that put you okay um okay Mr O'Brien oh O'Brian I did it again you almost say that earlier but I I CAU myself earlier yeah okay Mr O'Neal well that's what you for having Brian O'Neal your name say it's O'Brien and O'Neal okay um okay I hear what you're saying and um I I you know we are kind of doubling what the cost of living uh raise is um I hope that um you know I I I don't know I'm I'm not sure

248I totally agree with that but uh um we need to be careful as well you know right now with what you know uh the where we're going I know we're getting some monies from the state you know we got cost of living and we have a lot of other monies coming in but they are with strings attached you know they have you know a lot of conditions to them so and then we're going to be hit in in a year with a real decline in enrollment income so um I understand the desire to bring him up I I would like to do that too but I'm not sure that I'm up for 6% at this time um I I I I think five I don't know about six though all right so that's where I'm

249coming from what do we do do we uh make a motion and then take the vote and I think that probably would be appropriate to make a motion and uh and then if it goes down then we take another motion okay all right so were you going to agree or do you want me to make the motion you can make the motion okay I make a motion that we increase Mr matsuda's salary by 6% second yes so discussion's I think pretty much done we could take a vote and then further discussion obviously further discussion just to you know I I always look at you as our financial Guru on the board uh I think we all you know we all uh understand numbers but youve in particular the the the nine years that I've been

250on the board have always been fiscally um thoughtful and responsible and so um I trust that um 6% is something that I think the district can handle I think we're doing very well with the money um I think that um you know we've been compensating our employees um when we can um as well as we can and you know we've brought them up we've been bringing up employees uh to to the fair wages I think that um 6% is a very fair number and so I would agree with you trusty if I if I could ask a clarifying question um just about the motion um if if we could clarify the intention of when the change would go yes I I wanted to clarify that thank you so this 6% is retroactive back back to

251July 1st as the other increases for the rest of the the um District are receiving thank you thank you okay so for clarification basically you are giving him a 3% raise I'm going to look at it like that a 3% raise because the cost of living is just everybody's getting that well they're getting a right now some of them are getting was at 3.26% so it's he's getting a 2.74% over the rest or some yeah because it's not all negotiated but yes I I and I don't think that is a a a [Music] huge huge amount of money compared to what we're seeing here and what you know if he was to say well you know you guys aren't doing fair to me I'm I'm going to I had an offer down the down the

252street and we have to go and hire somebody else at uh where we don't want to be well or we can't afford to be and I I think that's a fair point to make because at the end of the day you got to also look at I mean hopefully Mr muda will stay here on with us for the rest of the term but if he were to to right leave we have to increase what we are offering to a new superintendent because for us to be competitive and hire somebody who's uh topnotch I I think we might have a challenge attracting favorable candidates for the amount that we we've been paying him right now so that needs to be taken into consideration as well so I agree okay Mr Smith any comments no okay seeing

253none take a vote yep do we have to do this roll call too can we put the question out one more time yes there 6% increase retroactive back to July 1st of 2020 like everybody else like everybody else in the district thank you I think it needs to be a roll call aboute right yes okay yes it is a roll call vote okay Mrs tro wish we could do more I Mr O'Neal very good after how many years I know your name I'm sorry it's just like 4.2 okay I Mr javar I Mrs Smith I and I will vote I okay so it's unanimous okay moving on to item 11.30 Board of Trustees proposed meeting date change action item move second okay any questions or comments we're moving the June 10th meeting to Thursday June

25424th that's the um else see that's anap workshop on lcap right okay any questions comments seeing none Mrs tro hi Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar hi Mrs Smith hi and I vote I okay consent calendar would uh someone like to pull yes please pull 12 .10 e and 12.11 okay anybody else 12.6 and 12.15 12.6 and 12.15 Y okay anyone else balance pardon move the balance for the balance do I have a second second all right all in oops okay roll call vote Mrs tryo hi Miss Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar hi Mrs Smith I and I vote I okay moving to 12.6 yeah bids so move second I have a motion in a second all right I I just wanted to get a quick update I know as board members we know what this

255is but for the Public's consumption if you could go over what the Western High School and Gilbert high school projects are is uh P's not here P's not here here well we know that one is Roofing one is we know that that's a small amount that Western High measure H fund yeah so okay all right well that is it okay well all righty so just vote just vote okay call for the vote Mrs tro hi Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar hi and Mrs Smith hi and I vote right okay 12. 11 no 12.10 e and 12.11 some second I have a motion in a second okay any questions or comments okay um can we take these together sure all right Mrs tro hi Mr O'Neal abstain Mr javar hi Mrs Smith I and I vote

256I okay 12.15 some move second second second okay okay so I I just wanted to highlight this uhou uh I know that this will be basically uh maybe Jaren you could talk a little bit about it and I want to highlight a couple of things there actually here she connected with this group to bring help bring this this uh partnership in and it is supposed to helpes those I believe that are notur to help na okay so that ucational aspect all right that's two that's zero for two okay right we don't have we didn't have two people to answer the questions but I'll go ahead and highlight it I just wanted to make sure that we highlight that we're enrolling uh eligible youth to available Healthcare and Social Services uh also using this program to

257educate families on how to navigate their child's health coverage and these all key issues that we have to be really focusing on especially uh with the covid uh I think we've seen that our our communities are facing a lot of uh need in terms of navigating the the health coverage issue so uh increasing the utilization of Health Services increasing re-enrollment so I'm glad that we're doing this uhou so having said that call for a vote okay Mrs tro I have vot I there Mr O'Neal I Mr Jabar I and Mrs Smith I and I vote I okay that takes care of the consent items moving on to item 13 superintendent and staff report no report no report Nancy what was that what the oh yeah I thought you mentioned it yeah yeah okay I just

258wanted to get a update just for the public conception but yeah I thought we mentioned it yeah okay Nancy did you have any report to give okay all right Board of Trustees Mrs tro okay um really quick uh I attended my Roop meeting my Gela meeting uh they're still not um in person I think uh I think we may do that next week uh attended the uh John Hopkins one of the um the sessions there uh attended the um ethnic studies task force meeting um and two elap meetings which are just phenomenal that we're doing all of that I think what we're getting up to 200 people 250 still um uh attended the um South talks and they did a recording for their open house and we judged uh three amazing students it was very

259difficult to have to judge them uh but we did it and um but uh it was just a delightful event um for their civic engagement projects um I met with uh three students that um needed that wanted to meet with a board member and I think they also met with you miss piy on their civic uh Action project um and uh if I'm not mistaken they were also going to try to meet with uh one of our uh County uh board members and um they talked about uh racial um issue R racial bias issues uh very delightful students um Teresa shimawa students I'll give a shout out to her and and um I attended the Ambassador interviews it seems like it was like a long long time ago uh we uh came up with um

260amazing ambassadors for next year they're going to be phenomenal and our student rep is going to be phenomenal too um can you tell us what school the student board rep is from can we announce what can we announce what school I think if we say the school you'll know so we better not okay we better not I don't want to jump together yeah we better we better not uh I I know that they've been notified the students but I think let's let's let them but it was grueling it was 8:00 in the morning till 5:00 it was 530 day of interviews like 20 minute interviews and they all showed up and they were all phenomenal students we are an exceptional District um there was a legislative action week with csba and uh I was able

261to work uh to uh go meet with two of our legislators um actually one of our legislators uh the other was with the AIDS uh Tom D's AIDS and uh then Sharon cork Silva met with our group uh advocating for um education public education I also um sadly attended um the uh service for um Joe Treo and um although it was a lovely service it was um extremely emotional heartfelt um many of our employees um attended and um so sad for their family and uh may he rest in peace and that's it Mr O'Neal okay I attended uh you did you say years of service did you tend that and years of service let me put on my glasses so I can read um four open houses and they're always interested interesting online because each

262school does does it differently uh so you have to try to figure out what they're doing but excuse me uh orange view catella Oxford and Dale um I attended a sister city meeting and a principal meeting and a budget meeting and so I'm looking forward to when we can do them in person but instead of online that's it Mr javar yeah I've been uh attending some of our obviously our clinics and uh glad to see our partnership like I mentioned before uh many of our staff have been helping out with uh getting folks vaccinated in Anaheim so that's uh nice to see ahsc taking the lead uh in making that happen for our community I did attend the sou Junior talk uh it was really tough to judge all three students but they were fantastic

263and I think uh if you get an opportunity we should probably have uh at least the winner come out and speak at one of our board meetings because uh it was was the contest down uh one was regarding uh the importance of wearing masks oh um yeah so I think that's the person who actually won if I'm not mistaken right uh and uh she did a fantastic job of uh explaining why we should be doing it and so I think I I'll highly encourage her to come and give the speech at a board meeting one of the days or when I say virtually maybe if possible uh I did attend sadly our uh service for Joe tro was a very lovely Service uh and then we I attended the ROP meeting and uh I also

264had the uh honor of escorting some of our Anaheim High School journalist students uh visiting couple of our clinics they had such amazing questions to ask of uh folks uh and really uh did their due diligence in terms of coming and looking at not only the the clinics but also asking questions from the doctors and the patients who are coming through or not the patients of people who are getting vaccinated um and really writing up and I'm looking forward to the story they actually went through uh two of the clinics that we were at and they had a really good opportunity to take a look at it I also attended the csba ledge uh briefings uh went to uh Senator Josh Newman's briefing uh Senator was there in person always very uh enthusiastic to talk

265about education and then we also had a briefing with uh assemblyman daily staffers that's it thank you okay I haven't been as busy as all of you but um I did want to ask uh the superintendent if can I can I interrupt I just want to take and also thank you for writing that oped I think that was something really really uh important that needed to be said and I appreciate you taking the time to write that and uh well I had some wonderful help from our IPO he typed it out and sent it off and I did speak to a a parent called me and suggested that that be put on Aries because part of the big problem that we have societally I don't know what people don't know I don't know what people's

266sources are and people might hear something but they don't believe it so I think that explanation of uh if it went on our website on Aries uh per the suggestion it might be very helpful for people to understand why we have done what we have done and then I wanted to ask the superintendent if we could have a list of the feeder districts that come to us how many of them are open and how many are closed or how many are hybrid cuz Walt Disney is around the corner for me and there's no activity but there's seems to be some activity at times so I think that that is a telling because that's in that high CO District or um zip code Kathy what did you ask I didn't hear you want to what if

267we could have a listing of the feeder districts that come from the elementary feeder districts I couldn't hear all that she said and I know it's so hard how many are open and how many are closed how many are on hybrid cuz Walt Disney around the corner from my home I see some activity but I can't even until the school is open there's no Bell no sounds no nothing so but I see cars they've been giving out technology well some of the schools require their teachers to come to to the classroom to teach and that might be but if we could at least have a handle on what because that helps the public to understand what the reality is thank you and I want to thank the board I think you are very caring people

268you really love this community and we're we're wonderful community and I just feel so blessed to have lived here this long and to have served on this board and have had wonderful people in my life I have nothing more to say okay um basically you know some of the stuff I've done I did the Ambassador interviews with an Marie and it's just some of these kids are so outstanding it's just so much fun it was a long day but it was still enjoyable um I did attend a parent learning walk at catella that was very interesting uh lot of parents I don't know um I attended the legislative action meetings through csba I did the one with uh uh Sharon cork Silva and she was really understanding I mean I just love meeting with her

269because she was a teacher and she understands and uh we brought up some things for her that she said oh she agreed with them and she was going to work on them um I went to another couple of go-to webinars uh different ones throughout the county several of them I don't have them all listed here I have the wrong list on my pad um I did a couple of open houses um I did the uh opening of schools task force and the Ethics Committee I went to a couple of those and I attended the principal's meeting um oh one of the fun things too was the like we were talking earlier I did an interview with was it three or four students of that were students of Teresa shimawa online learning and they you know

270we sat down and had an interview and I have to say this I was so proud of myself I actually set up the zoom meeting I sent them a connection I wasn't on Zoom Google I think did it on Google so I had to figure it out how to do it and send them the Google link and we all got together and it was just it was really fun um sharp kids and then I did visit Lexington um the other day and uh saw the cohort that the hch teacher was beginning and and saw green grass in the center of that school which just such a rarity you know so it was um and that's about it you know a lot of online meetings Okay interviewing and okay so it's been an online World okay

271and I you it's it's nice to be able to get to a meeting in person rather than online even if we do have to wear these yeah so okay item 15 Advanced planning future meeting dates our next meeting will be Thursday May 6th and we have now may the Thursday June 10th meeting to June 24th yes May 6 you said 5th I think May 6th yeah 6 May what did I say I thought you said fifth no May 6th okay okay suggested items item 15.2 I I don't have a suggested item just um taking off from some of the comments that our parliamentarian read and that was about uh the school calendar uh I don't know if it's on the website yet for next year but if it's not uh be definitive about it's full

272school days it's back you know really lay it out so people can understand what to anticipate I know it's a number of months off uh and I always get hate to throw in the caveat but you know T things can change depending upon what's going on and in society but we were're all hoping that we can get back into nor normaly with uh the new year but I think it should be out on the website if it's not already out there and I I didn't look to see if it is okay um well as I said earlier I wanted to uh bring the school calendar up and and look into some of these things the cost of the electricity that since we've made the change and here and the idea of climate change and what

273we need to do in the future we're making changes now with solar energy and trying to take advantage of that so I'd like a little bit more information on you know this is something I want us to bring up uh anybody else okay seeing none do I have a I have a motion okay I have a motion in a second we adjourn let's just say all in favor I just have a question of our parliamentarian I can understand where we needed a roll call vote when we were a distance uh meeting but we never used to have a part a roll call vote for every single item but now we are is there a reason why we have to be um roll call vote for every item now that we're back uh face to face

274the reason we're continu that practice at this point is because we're still operating under the exective order that allows us to meet this is essentially a virtual meeting the okay all right thank you okay so as long as we're virtual for the public it's going to be by roll call thank you for the explanation okay okay so that means at 10:02 meeting is adjourned okay