7/16 Board Meeting: Part 2 (10:00am Open Session)

001e I have my mic off uh I just wanted to let uh cabinet know that we're going to I'm going to ask you to do U introduce yourselves after the board members do a roll call if you wouldn't mind and I see Anna am I the only one so far so it looks like Mr O'Neal is the only who has joined here Katherine are you on I am okay all right and someone let me know when Brian gets on good morning everybody Mr O'Neal is that is that you joining us by phone yes I'm also coming online okay do we have a cabinet yes okay there you go can't start without you all right hey good morning everyone Welcome to our regular Board of Trustees meeting on Thursday July 16 2020 uh Open Session and

002uh going to have a call to order a roll call Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar hi Miss piery here miss hi and uh I'm here as well I'm anmie rle tro president of the board all right and um can we have introductions with our cabinet starting with the superintendent thank you uh Madam chair Michael matsuda superintendent morning everyone jiren freed assistant superintendent Educational Services uh good morning Brad Jackson assistant superintendent of Human Resources good morning Jennifer Roode assistant superintendent of business good morning uh Carl wiell District Council good morning mon colone Chief academic officer and Paulina and Connie please Paulina Morales executive assistant to the board Connie kobian senior executive assistant to superintendent Michael Maura thank you very much everybody and uh we're all glad you're here and we will begin with uh trusty O'Neal

003leading Us in the uh Pledge of Allegiance please stand and join me in the pledge to our nation's flag ready begin I pledge allei to the flag of the United States of America and the Republic for which it stand Nation indivisible Liberty thank you Mr oal and uh for Our Moment of Silence um as we all know we're experiencing a lot of turmoil and uh I would even say dissent um and uh just a lot of trials and tribulations that we're all going through and I just want to remind everyone that when we look at each other we're more alike than unalike and I always believe in that you look to our board members uh you know as diverse as we are uh we have a lot of things in common uh two of us

004have backtack birthdays um three of us are all in the same era uh I think we're all I think we're all the same sign uh two of us love classical music uh you know and there are just a lot of similarities I think four of us have been raised Catholic uh two of us have um parents that are uh uh uh laid to rest in the same Cemetery I mean you just you just you just find out these things as you go along and you learn more and more about people and so um I want to express Unity um as we move forward and this is from Mahatma Gandhi I offer you peace I offer you love I offer you friendship I see your beauty I hear your need I feel your feelings my wisdom

005flows from the highest Source I salute that Source in you let us work together for Unity and love and thank you everyone and next uh we'll have our uh 5.3 Clos session report the clerk of the Board of Trustees Miss Smith will you please read out the report actions taken during Clos sessions 4.1 no reportable action taken regarding public employee performance evaluation superintendent 4.2 this item was pulled prior to the adoption of the agenda 4.3 no reportable action taken regarding negotiations 4.4 no reportable action taken regarding personel 4.5 the Board of Trustees unanimously voted to suspend without pay for one day employee hr- 2020-21 d01 4.6 no reportable action taken 4.7 this item was pulled prior to the adoption of the agenda 4.8 the Board of Trustees unanimously voted to make the following appointments Claudia

006Ruiz assistant principal orang view Junior High School Lorena Stout assistant principal Magnolia High School Bravo thank you Miss Smith for the report and uh jiren could you uh introduce our um appointees and uh have them speak and introduce their themselves elves and family so we can properly congratulate them sure so let's start first with Claudia Ruiz uh Claudia go ahead and introduce yourself you have some with you this will be your opportunity to address the board good morning everybody and I am so honored to have been appointed with such a you know Wonderful position I think that um first of all you know I I I have been surrounded by wonderful mentors on my life 29 years of education and uh so many capacities I'm a former proud classified employee that has really showed me

007the ropes and got me to where I am um so my family today unfortunately because of other prior commitments were not able to join me but I am blessed with the wonderful supported family as many of you know them so um being a counselor for 20 years I think has prepared me uh to where the journey will take me as an assistant principal so I am honored as I said and I pray that you know everything that I've learned with the wonderful mentorship I've had will just take me to better places and keep serving our community that I love thank you so much thank you Claudia and then I also would like to introduce Lena Stout she's on the screen Len why don't you go introduce yourself ince your daughter and and go ahead and

008address the board uh good morning everybody U my name is l stelle um I've been an assistant principal in Anaheim Union High School District for five years prior to that was a math teacher at Adan ad sorry Anaheim high school for six years um I've been blessed to work in this district and I just want to thank the board and cabinet for this opportunity I am look I'm very excited excited and looking forward to being an assistant principal being part of the magnola high school Community this is my daughter Zoe hello she's GNA be a senior this year so um you know we're those years go by fast so um I just I I think my family because I think as many of you know we you know we couldn't do without our families unfortunately

009my husband's not able to be here today um he works for Union Pacific Railroad and there's no days off for them so um again I feel blessed and I just want to say thank you for this opportunity and thank you to all of those in Anaheim Union High School District that have mentored me and given me support from day one till this point so I'm very excited thank you so much thank you Lena thank you Claudia uh board president Rand Tre back over to you well thank you so much uh trustees would you like to uh add any comments Mr O'Neal just welcome to your new positions uh we know you're going to do well based upon your your your past track record so we look forward to seeing you in your new schools and

010look forward to hearing all the good things you're going to do thank you Mr Jabar well congratulations I know both of you are very passion individuals so I know that you're going to bring your enthusiasm and passion to their job so we're very lucky to have you thank you Miss piery congratulations ladies I'm very happy for you and I'm sure you'll do a great job I will be walking your campuses and I'll be coming by to say hello so I hope it's a great year for you I know we're in the midst of a a unique year uh let but uh we'll all rise to the occasion and do the best we can so welcome aboard and your new positions thank you Miss Percy Mrs Smith good morning and welcome and congratulations and we wish

011you well in this coming school year thank you and I just would like to add uh that uh in ahsd we are so blessed and we are so lucky to have two of the finest women that I know uh and we're so happy for you uh but we know that we are getting much more in return and you're you're just both wonderful um just uh just outstanding human beings so welcome to your new positions and thank you so much thank you for stepping up we appreciate it okay uh moving on to uh introductions um we're so happy that all of you uh are joining us today uh but we do have some folks that uh we'd like to introduce so uh I'll call your name and you can uh just announce uh how you represent

012the district so uh Grant I'm Grant Schuster president of the Anaheim secondary Teachers Association and I think I saw Brian on the line you did okay my name is Brian Bannon I go by buck and I am the uh co-president of Anaheim uh the apj and I'm professional guidance and Association think I got all those letters right thank you Brian and uh I believe Corey's on the Lin as well hello Corey K I'm the co-president with buck for apj thank you and I saw Hilda good morning everybody I am the Alta president which is the Anaheim leadership teams Association thank you Hilda I think that's uh all did I miss anyone okay Bor due to the um interest of time uh I would like to move to item 9.2 thank you board president Rand tro

013um this is our presentation on school reopening school closures uh Etc and before we start today we we do have a special guest with us so I'm gonna we're gonna actually be doing this presentation in two parts uh the first part will be with uh Professor from UC Irvine and the School of Public Health Dr Daniel Parker uh he will be giving some important and really relevant information uh that is uh specifically important to our local community uh this information of course is regarding the co decision you'll be making later in this meeting in terms of which model we'll want to use for the open of school in August um normally U we ask the Board of Trustees to hold your questions until the end of the entire presentation but given Dr Parker's availability and

014time constraints after his portion of the presentation we'll go ahead and stop uh so that way you can interact with him and ask whatever questions you might have of him and then when that is over then we will we'll continue with the presentation on our end with some of the updates that we have with myself Dr Roode and Mr cologne giving you some important updates uh regarding the school school reopening so having said that just a reminder to everyone in the in the in the Google meet room please don't use the chat box function uh because it's being recorded again board when it's over we'll go ahead and turn it over to you to interact with Dr Parker having said that Dr Parker I'm G introduce you I think he's gonna scare share his screen

015because he has a presentation for you and I'll stand by in case he has some technical difficulties then I'll go ahead and intervene so Dr Parker I'll turn over to you thank you J Darren um let's see I'm trying to figure out if I can let's see there you go are you seeing slides right now it's coming on now okay right now we're so oh okay and everybody can hear me I'm sorry say again right now yeah we're here you have a picture of you when you hit the present now you need to H um click on the actual presentation and then share that so that way we'll see that screen so I hit present now you'll see a box come up click on the presentation and then hit share uh while Dr Parker's doing

016that just a reminder to please mute if you're not speaking thank you I'm sorry Jason can or jiren can you please can you repeat that I didn't hear what the bottom right you're gonna now click on now then it'll give you an option it'll say your entire screen a window or a tab probably click a window and then box will appear and then click on the PowerPoint and then hit share okay and then we should okay hey there you go can you yes we can see you so I'm gonna go aad and mute but we can see you now or see the presentation excellent okay thank you okay so uh sorry about that anual Parker I'm an infectious disease epidemiologist i i special in studying infectious diseases I'm also an assistant professor in public health

017and epidemiology at UC Irvine um and what I wanted to do today was just try to there's lots of information coming at us really fast and there's a lot of things we don't know about covid-19 but what I wanted to do was kind of summarize our local situation um with regard to what's going on and where we are with that um but I think to start off what I really have to stress is um how fast of a how fast moving this disease is um reason has to do with some of the particulars of how it spread KN symptoms it's usually about five days infectiousness though can begin about two days before those symptoms show right so you could be so so that's about three days after you become infected and what that means is

018that you've got two days there it's got youve got a short window of time but when you spread the disease and for probably two days there you don't even know that you're uh that you're sick yet and you could already be spreading it that essentially as a public health expert that gives me about three days to try to track down people who've been exposed um to to ask them to isolate quarantine right so this is a really quick moving disease there's there's a lot of data that um that we're getting for example from the Orange County healthcare agency they they they report data on the number of tests that have been done number of cases that have been done and on the number of deaths related to covid-19 um and It's tricky to make sense

019of this in them ways because there's fluctuations from dayto day right it has to do with um reporting um delays in reporting delays in uh classifying deaths and this sort of stuff so one way to look at this and try to examine the actual Trends is to use a model um and so I've done this with my colleague Vladimir men also from UC Irvine and what we've used is the number of tests so the model accounts for the number of tests um the number of cases that are being reported and the number of deaths that are being reported um and one of the most important outcomes that we get from this model is what's referred to as the basic repr basic reproductive number or not it's that little r it's a capital R little Zero

020by it and what AR not tells us is how many people on average one infectious individual would infect in a completely susceptible population so if rots two that means if I'm infectious um I'll spread it to two different people and in turn those two people will spread it to two more and it's growing quite fast um this is important from a public health standpoint because what we want is an rot that's less than one um and that would mean that the disease is going away the epidemic is going away um but when you have an rot that's greater than one it means that the numbers of cases are going to increase until something changes like a vaccine or a public health intervention that's actually working um and so what my colleague has been doing um

021Vladimir what we've been doing together actually is we've been plotting this R not over time and so I hope you guys can see this this figure at the bottom here um if you look at the little the little blue dots in the middle of the lines um first one or the the second one actually on the far left there um this is from the begin epidemic so that's that's mid mid-march and what you can see is it was up around 1.5 so on average one person was infecting one and a half other people and the epidemic was going really fast we shut things down and after that you can see that R not went down to about one it looked like it was going a little bit below one um then in May it started

022Rising again essentially we're right back to where we started um uh so so transmission right now is almost exactly the same as what it like when we shut everything down um what worries me about this though is that our overall case numbers now are much higher so we're now reporting close to a thousand cases a day um but we are at a growth rate um be five one day a couple days later it' be 10 consistently a couple days later it would be 20 but now we're talking in now we're talking about a thousand so with that growth rate um it's it's problematic um and so using this model to kind of project what we expect to happen in the future if things don't drastically change um you can see I've I've plotted here cumulative

023deaths so that's the number of deaths that are being reported over time cumulative incidents so that's the number of new cases new infections that are happening over time in the middle and on the right that's the number of overall people who have an infection and can spread it and I'll Focus mostly on that one on the right because I think it has some um real relevance for thinking about school for example um so if you look at that this our forecast says that if things don't change um if you at the beginning of August we would expect to have hundreds of thousands of infectious individuals in Orange County right so I'm taking just that middle projection it could be higher it could be a little bit lower but that middle projection would suggest that given

024a day in early August we would expect that 100,000 people would have uh this infection and would be able to spread it and let's think about what that means for school opening so so if we have 100,000 infectious individuals on Sunday in early August this means that roughly 3% of the OC population is infectious on that day and if you have a school district with for example 30,000 students we would expect 900 of them to be infectious on this day and this is a conservative estimate because it doesn't account for the uneven distribution of cases across Orange County which is the next thing I'll get to this is just smoothing it across the whole County if this school district also had 1,200 teachers th000 staff St members we would expect 36 teachers and 30 staff

025members to be infectious and this is just one particular day so I hope that these calculations kind of give you an idea of what if things don't drastically change if they keep going on the trajectory that we're on right now this this should give you some idea you could expect with opening School in August and then now I want to quickly move to um the geographic distribution of covid-19 um in Orange County and the way I'm going to show this is this is the number of reported cases per ,000 people per week and the color ramp it starts off uh with low cases at a yellow color and then High cases very high cases in this really dark blue kind of purple color and I'll do this across time so you can see how the

026how the epidemic has kind of changed over time and Al so in this map if you look up at the top I've taken the zip codes and I've kind of highlighted them so you can see the white border around the zip codes that I think are of of primary interest for you all um so so in March what you can see um the overall was uh the highest burden of this disease was actually in the central coastal areas our most affluent communities if you Woulda Beach that's Newport Beach Chrono delare those areas I it quickly moved though um started seeing a little bit of clustering in April up in that North Central Area um cases were increasing everywhere of course this time as well um by May though um we started seeing a real cler

027of of high burden of disease in Santa Ana um and then then through June you can see that it's increased everywhere but we have really we have really strong clusters s and and Anaheim a few other as well um so what what can we take away from this um first off infectious diseases are not they're never evenly distributed across Landscapes I see this with when I'm working with zika malaria all all diseases do this um and this Duality the burden is going to be much higher in in anah High Santa Ana um so I I think it's important that um let's and Jaren I don't know if I need to to hand it back over to you there you go perfect D Daniel can I I know we lost you a little bit there but

028can you go back to can you go back slides or three slides please yeah Daniel when you saw last showed the March County spread but it didn't show the the later ones so if you could put the presentation back up and do those last few slides yes I can missing yes yes no no problem let me know if you need me to walk you through the steps again I think I I think I have it uh okay yeah then if you could also go back to the slide where you're talking about the 30,000 students uh I mean essentially giving the example of our school district yes so okay the first one I believe would be this hold on Daniel you didn't put it back up you put up the picture of you okay so this

029is Daniel you okay yes I can yeah you just put the picture of you so again go to the present now click a window and then when the Box opens up you're going to want to click on the PowerPoint and then hit share yes perfect there you go okay yeah we see it now so this is just okay okay so so yes um and I don't know I hope I that accounts for the number of tests the number of cases that are being reported and the number of deaths that are being reported so this would be a projection using that model um and just picking a day in early August on that was there was there a specific question that someone had about about this well I think uh Daniel this is uh superintendent matsuda

030um the these are really important numbers that you're projecting because on August 12th uh if we were um coming to school physically we could based on your projections uh based on the current rate of the spread uh we could expect uh 66 uh classified and certificated uh teachers who were sick that day and 900 students who are sick on day one correct those are astounding numbers based on uh the rate of growth right now Daniel yes yes and and that's conservative because it's just this is based on the numbers for the overall County so some parts of the county like Anaheim and Santa an actually have a higher burden of disease so I I would expect it to be even higher so Daniel that's what I was going to ask you based on this uh

031slide this is a general for Orange County but if you were to take this numbers and maybe take a look at Anaheim proper you're probably going to have to increase the rate on this correct yes absolutely absolutely okay yes yes I can I'm sorry so so my answer was yes absolutely this this is is a this is a conservative estimate to that can you show the chart after March the most current chart yes so so let me let me walk through these again um can you see March right now yes yes okay so March and then April no not and then may those charts are not showing those are not showing they're not showing Daniel okay start at Mar let me try again here I'm sorry but I'm sorry guys um okay can you see

032a map from March yes yes yes okay so April now yes all right now we see April yes and then May and then June no may may isn't we see June we see June that's fine that's good I mean just keep it going there's may all right there's May okay it's gotten progressively worse Yes W yes and then June June is through the charts I literally had to change I had to change the scale bar because of June wow so and and and you don't have a July yet right we a delay of so there are some it's just getting worse um but the there's a delay in the cases so in the next in the next by the end of this week I can do the first week of of July wow so so

033uh if I may um could you define uh what you said was uh susceptible uh a susceptible person to be infected um you know for example uh is that going into uh a situation where there are no masks or uh going to a store you know what I'm saying yes yes that that's correct so completely susceptible person would be someone who does not have protection against the disease yeah that does not have protection okay thank you that's correct usually what we're thinking about is some kind of immunity but but uh other protective measur should help with that as well thank you this was founding So Daniel based on your own as a health care professional in a re researcher scientist what is your advice in terms of school reopening I so so I and I

034I can't speak as an economist or anything else I'm I'm just a public health expert right um but but I I I can't what I keep recommending to everybody is being indoors with lots of people is a bad idea right now I'm avoiding it I'm keeping my family away from it being indoors with lots of people is one of the number one risk factors for for this disease spreading a lot so so so so I I would I would recommend not having not having a situation where you have lots of people indoors in the same room okay uh board members any other questions so Daniel this is albar again um you don't have any numbers for U 0 to that you put on a chart to show right I know that the healthcare agency just

035put out some uh uh information I think last week about numbers related to 0 to 17 population uh for zip code I have the city numbers but I just want to ask if you had the opportunity to dwell into it I I have not yet um but I I I do know they should be able to break that further down by ZIP code as well yeah yeah but so I don't have that today what I can tell you looking at I was recent looking at some data from Florida um where cases are also taking off um and what we're starting to see is the at first the cases were really taking off in the younger ages in the like the 20 to 30 year olds and this is these These are people who are Sheltering

036in place and they're going to the beach and the bars um but then they back home and now we're starting to see it in younger and older ages as well so so even even the people that we've been protecting through the epidemic so far are now um getting infected there um presumably because those those 20 to 30 year olds are coming into contact with them inside a household right yeah because uh the numbers for uh I I was going to present this during the rest of the presentation so I'll I know your time constrained too so we'll talk about it well thank you could you could you just talk about that really quickly about uh because we have uh multi-generational families living in the same home could you just really quickly um tap on that

037what you're seeing yes yes so this is so this is a disease that really spreads within household and it's not particular to households it's so so so at the beginning of the epidemic we saw cases mostly especially severe cases in in older age group um they the most severe and we had um a real problem with getting tests um what what it appears now is that younger people they are they are quite able to be infected um some of them will have sever disease but not as much as older people um but it does contribute to transmitting to other people in the same household for sure so this would this would be my this would be my concern for sure children are going to get sick some of them severely sick um but the the

038real risk is people with comorbidities and and older age groups and if they're living in a household with with children or other people then they can catch it from from those people so so I think you have to consider that it's not it's not just the children we're all part of a community together we live live together thank you any other questions from So Daniel just to yeah I I had a quick question regarding your first couple of uh slides which I've seen prior to uh I want you to emphasize the fact that I know you mentioned that we have a window of about three days to catch or contact race to figure out so if you could kind of dwell into a little bit about that because I think it's very important in terms

039of opening a school when we bring in students and if we don't know I mean if there is symptomatic and if we really don't know what's going on that's a huge huge uh burden on our district yes yes so this is a this is a task that I'm working on is trying to train contct tracers for Orange County um and this is this is a major challenge because of as you say we have to do this so fast so that means you've been in within six feet of somebody for more than 15 minutes so that's that's a contact and within three days of you being in contact with somebody who has this disease we need to be able to locate you and ask you to isolate for 14 days or quarantine for 14 days um

040and there are many problems with this even in the best scenario um so so the best scenario would be that you you can contact those people you know all of the persons that were contact and you can get them to to actually quarantine for 14 days but we're of often times not getting the results of tests back for a week or more um and then the the county system has a delay on that even more so it could be it could be a couple of weeks after the fact before you even find out about a case and then you're looking for contacts and it's it's it's several weeks of transmission behind um and and so we my goal right now is to try to set up a lot of contact tracers for Orange County in

041general so that when we have cases back down to a manageable level that we can kind of uh kind of put this fire out if you would but as I'm watching the case numbers when we're when we're talking about a thousand cases a day if you have a thousand that's a thousand people who've come into who knows how many contacts in the last two weeks and then you have to go back and try to track all of those people down um it's it's it seems that's that's AJ ordeal from from what I've heard in the best scenario each contact will take you about one hour of Labor in the best scenario that's you already have their phone number they're gonna pick up the phone and they're going to cooperate that's at least one hour per

042contact and you could imagine with with say 900 cases all of the people that they would have come into contact with in the last two weeks it's it's a major it's a major job right I think you made a valid I mean very important point which is the delay in somebody getting their tests back uh I know that in Orange County it's uh upwards of uh right now it's upwards of at least a week right so we are exposing our students and then if you put that in the context of Anaheim if you don't know that and if you open up school and bring students on campus especially in certain zip codes where you know know we know that families are living together that's a huge huge uh uh you know uh component of spreading

043this even further yes absolutely and so at this point contact tracing by itself I would I feel like it's a little bit hopeless I'm still I'm still training people because I hope we'll come through this epidemic and we'll get down to low numbers again and at that point it will be very important to have contact tracers but when we're talking about such high numbers we're basically at a point where we just have to ask people to not not be in contact with other people W well thank you Dr Parker um we really appreciate your time I know we you have a time constraint I think we're at that point um that you would have to leave us I hope that you would be available to speak to us again uh this is so important but

044thank you yes and um my slides I've shared um I'm sorry about the internet trouble so if if um if you'd like to go back and look through my slides please feel free believe jar a copy of them and maybe maybe you already have access yes jiren if you could forward those uh slides to us that'll be great I will do that thank you Dr Parker I appreciate you being here with us today thank you thank you thank you no problem thank you okay so I we're now going to go to part two of the the presentation now that Dr Parker is leaving I'm going to go ahead and share my screen and just like before we we respectfully ask if you can to hold questions until the end so for our folks viewing on

045live stream that it can be recorded and clear and at the end uh our team will be happy to answer any questions you have regarding our School dismissal and distance learning uh update um just you know there's three areas that we're really going to focus upon this morning uh one is on the a parent and staff survey we did a lot of work to input get input from our stakeholders uh in terms of um the covid-19 and how they're feeling about the reopening uh so that will be something that I will be sharing this morning and then from there as you know from uh last board meeting we have been doing a lot of work in preparing for the reopening of schools potentially with a blended model and even if we even if you as

046a board decide today to um support our current recommendation which is an online model the pure online model uh at some point as you know we will be transitioning back um to some type of in-person setting so the work that Jennifer and her team have done is still important to highlight uh because it's still it has already been done and it's being done right now so she's going to talk a little bit about that process so you're aware of what we have done what we will do when we are in a position to potentially transition back to an online setting and then thirdly as you know Mr cologne last time said a lot of time going over the schedules and how things will look if we were to come back in a blended model because

047at last board meaning that's kind of where we were he's going to spend some time this morning with you talking about the virtual schedule and what that's going to look like since that's where we're of course recommending and leaning so having said that I'm hoping you can see my screen yes okay let me know if there's any problems if you need me to make it larger um I'm going to goad and start with the parent and and staff survey data so I think what's really important I do want to start off by than jar do you want to put it on a a a slide mode because I think you're yeah that way it's uh pretty let me know if you if you uh s read the wrong one hang on can you see it

048better is that better yes Jaren thank you perfect I can't see you guys so I'm I'm kind of in the dark here so we're gonna start off with our our our parent survey I want to start off by thanking Dr Henry uh we did this work in partnership with the Orange County Department of V that's where you see the ocde they really supported the survey and Dr Henry was our liaison and working closely with them to not only get both the the parent but also the staff survey out and then she's been working with them on the data collection piece so I want to thank her for her energy her efforts and working with them to get us this this data uh for our parents I think this is an important piece the survey opened

049on June 25th and closed on July 10th I think this is particularly important because as you just heard from Dr Parker how fast moving the covid-19 spread has been um we do believe even though the data is still very telling in terms of what you're going to see um we do believe that had our parents taken the survey last week their responses might look very different because of how fast spreading this is as you'll see also our staff when they took their survey it was definitely closer to the timeline that we're talking about now so you'll see a difference in the way that they are perceiving and feeling about the way we we reopen so I think that's just important to note that the parents took the survey um a few weeks back um I

050think it's important to note this parent survey information was translated to our three major languages outside of of English Korean Vietnamese in Spanish uh it was sent out to our families via email also via social media we've been given dashboard results as it relates to these surveys and of course any family who had not responded we sent out reminders every 3 days trying to get as many families uh to participate as as we could um just so you know we sent out about 26,4 n surveys the reason why that's less than our 30,000 students is is obviously if a family has siblings that attend our school you know a son that attends a junior high and a daughter that maybe tends to high school only one email went out to the family so it didn't

051duplicate those efforts and then as you can see we got about uh a little bit half 13,238 responses back which we do feel is a pretty strong sampling of how in general our parents were feeling but again I want to remind you this survey went out a couple weeks back so we recognize and you'll see a slide here that talks about their perception of how fast spreading the covid-19 is we think that the results may be a little different you can also see the response by grade level it's pretty balanced across the board obviously the small little 1% you see is our adult transition of course um there're a small percentage of our student body anyways but I want you to see how it was distributed across the board um in terms of parent needs

052we the question was asked in terms of what supports so what needs do they have um 26% of our parents responded with the support of needing food that's why the work that Carlos Hernandez and Chavez our faces have been doing with the mobile clinics um and our school has been doing with Orlando greo done a great job has been so important that's that's continues to be a high need for our families you can see 177% need support with our mental health Adella is on the call today so if you have questions at the end she is and her social workers along with the psychologists and counselors have been doing amazing work as well to support our families and our students with their mental health supports and needs 14% need child we're asking for support with

053child care obviously if we came back with um a blended model or a full iners model this potentially could become an issue it may become an issue now if kids are at home and parents are essential workers and have to go to work so this is something that we have to continuously be mindful of and I know again Mr Hernandez Mr col have been working with local agencies as well to see what we can do about getting some additional support to help families maybe even in this area and then 5% needs support with housing uh and 37% had a need for other support I think it's important to note that um the County right now because they were the one hosting the survey we're waiting on getting this data from them so we can identify

054what those other needs are uh just so you know once we get that information from the county we will make sure to share that with you so you know what those other supports were identified by our families in terms of responses by school you can see pretty pretty level across the board Cypress High School had a higher level participation and then what I also want to show is this is obviously by percentages but you'll notice uh the 19% kind of in the middle of the screen we also were able to survey our incoming seventh grade families so I think that's important to note that um some of the questions we asked were about their experiences last year so obviously their experiences were not with us they were with one of our feeder elementary schools but

055um we nonetheless wanted to get their impact input in terms of how they felt about returning to school because now they are our students and we want definitely want to know what they think and feel about the return to school in terms of what they feel is is best for their students uh so that's at 19% uh a pretty large chunk coming from our incoming students into into seventh grade so again we have three options that we had presented you one was the Traditional School model this is where students would return back five days a week um so as you can see from our parents at that time they took the survey again letting you know this was a couple weeks back about 67.4% either marked the preferred or acceptable when and I want to

056clarify when they say preferred that means this is what they preferred but they were okay with with something else the acceptable is again this is what they really wanted uh the Do Not prefer clearly is something that they were not in favor of or did not want so at that time 67.4 were okay with a Traditional School model when you look at the combination or hybrid model which is where we were leaning a few weeks back this is where students stud would be in school a couple days a week I think we were doing the third model or a Tuesday Wednesday Thursday model where a third would be on Tuesday another third on Wednesday and the third final third on the Thursday and Monday and Friday not being inperson days we had from our parents

057a 74.1% rating where this was a preferred or acceptable model again at that time this is one of the reasons why we were leaning in this direction based on where we were with the data but as you know the data has has changed and gotten worse so we do believe this might also change with our families as indicated by the release that we had put out when we had shared with the community our intent to recommend an online mod a pure online model we got a lot a lot of feedback from families and parents very much in support of our changed recommendations so we do think this would also change and then finally we asked our families about distance learning this was the third option where we would be pure virtual this is obviously the

058recommended model that we're bringing for you for before you today at that time we had a 57.8% uh rating in terms of preferred or acceptable from our parents um uh but again we think this might change given the data that was just shared by Dr Parker and what we're seeing out in the community another question that was asked and again I want to preface with you that um 19% of our students that or families that took the survey were not with us last year but I do think this uh speaks volumes to our staff and work they did last spring uh when they were asked as parents how often uh the students were communicating or interacting with their with their teachers you had 5% that said no communication at all you had 48% that said

059not too often interacted with teachers one to two days per week and as you may recall in our model last last spring teachers held synchronous models one to two days per week so that's consistent with when they were interacting with kids on the other days those were asynchronous and that's when kids had office hours or they could check in with teachers if they needed to that was um uh you can see an everyday interaction was about 177% and a somewhat regularly which is the three to four days was 31% and again this is pretty consistent with the model we had in the spring as you know we're doing a lot of training and work with our staff this summer and I'm going to be talking more about that a little bit later um we we

060obviously have a higher bar to start the fall this was more survival learning in the spring this fall with our distance learning plan it is going to be a higher bar higher expectations it is newer content so we do expect um interactions to be uh more more um a regular occurrence between teacher staff and our students but this was based on the spring experience so I wanted you to see that data and again 19% came from our feeder elementary schools because our students were not yet with us when they did the survey data now here's an important piece that I think is an important outline perceptions of the covid-19 spread and keep in mind this was done about two weeks ago so I would imagine and we we would imagine that this would be even

061uh worse but you can see 77.1% of our families believed at that time conditions were getting worse 12.4% had no opinion 10.5 thinks conditions were getting better but at that time two weeks weeks ago 77% is a high percentage of people thinking it's getting worse and I think we could all make the case given what Dr Parker just shared and how fast moving this spread is and how the data specifically in our in our district boundaries in I think the Sycamore the 92805 92803 921 area codes has really been hot beds for the county um I think we would agree that that even this data would be considered worse or perceived as worse if we were to Res survey appearance now I want to now shift to our staff survey this as you can see

062the window opened July 7th through the 14th so about a week and a half after we had opened up with parents when when more current data was provided to our teachers and I think you'll that will reflect in the data that you see from our our teachers I'm proud that the questions although we've been working with the county they were developed in collaboration with our cabinet and asked the leadership as as I think we've mentioned prior we do meet with Assa as executive board regularly uh to vet different things that we're dealing with so this piece we got feedback from them and invented some of those questions into the survey that went out this survey did go out via email and other social media in reminders were also sent out regularly to staff I think

063it's important to note that we have about 3,000 employees in the district we had about 2100 plus responses which I think is fantastic especially given that most of our employees are on summer break um of the 2192 that responded uh 62.8% of them were teachers 29% were classified 5.9% were other credentialed could be counselors administrators um directors Etc and that 2.3% that's those are folks who identified specifically with their job title and because they did their job title it didn't get sorted into the classified or other credentials so obviously they that's going to fall into the classified or or other credential it's most likely not teachers who who submitted the other but that's what that 2.3% reflect now here's uh one of the first questions we ask our staff Comfort level with traditional model and

064just for those who aren't familiar with the lyer scale we began with a one through five rating one being not comfortable at all and five being very comfortable so when staff was asked about rating their comfort level with implementing a traditional model this goes back to the five days a week model you can see only 27.5% of our staff was considered comfortable or even very comfortable with this model so the majority not being comfortable with this model and again that reflects on the more current data that we have seen and that Dr Parker shared this morning when we asked our staff about a distance learning model not comfortable being one and a five comfortable five being very comfortable we had at that time a 64 4% of Staff being comfortable or very comfortable with the

065distance learning model so again well more than half and as you can look at the the graph below you can see a steady climb um with that with the way staff had perceived um this as a comfort level and then Comfort level with the hybrid model uh the hybrid model is again the Blended model that we were had been proposing uh a few weeks back you can see it's pretty much split across the board 30% of our staff was considered comfortable or very comfortable with this model and again this in addition to the data that Dr Parker had shared really was what um I think helped the cabinet feel very comfortable in in um in recommending to you the online model because of where we are as a community and we've always maintained as have

066you as a board that safety for both our staff and our students and our community is always going to be our top priority uh so this is what I think helped us really get to that place where we are very comfortable with the recommendation that we're providing um in the survey we also gave opportunities for staff to give comments um so here are some of the comments that were mentioned I'm not going to go through and read them all but as you might imagine the the the ones that came back with the highest percentages are no surprise to us health and safety of our students 80.6% my health and safety so 74.7% and of course the safety of my work environment 69% kind of speaks to again our priorities why I think people were concerned

067with the in-person traditional model and there are even concerns with the Blended model as you heard from Dr Parker um the more we can restrict or not have people together in our room the better this made it very easy for us in making that pivot you can also see some of the other um concerns that were outlined in um the survey other concerns that were listed there was a 6.4 and I think this is important these were often reinforced concerns that you saw um already listed in the survey data again some or student Behavior you know what do you do if kids are in the Blended model and a kid joking around coughs on another student so those are the kinds of things what if what if the mask is pulled or people aren't social

068dist distancing so supporting staff and and just so you know we have been holding um our student discipline task force meeting so we are looking at how and the protocols we need to have in place when we do ultimately come back but we're also looking at protocols and how to handle behaviors even in a virtual setting so we have protocols in place to start the school year but you can see some of the other concerns around special education PPE which Dr rude is going to talk about in a little bit and then again just juggling both the virtual and inperson uh setting because as you know many of our staff are also um parents and have their own students who are going to be going back to school in some capacity in the fall as

069well in terms of what kind of support do you need we asked um our staff these these questions uh per personal protection equipment or PPE as it's also referred to 73.2% and again Dr Roode is going to be speaking to that after I talk about the survey data because even though right now our recommendation is not to come back to stay virtual um we do want to make sure that you are fully aware of the work and the great work that has been done in preparing for these efforts because we will be coming back at some point as you know even if we are virtual we will still have some staff who are coming back to the schools to do their work anyways uh they just won't have students there so it's it's it's emphatically

070important that we make sure that they are properly protected and that we've created conditions so they can be safe even in those those environments school training and professional learning the Schoo training is also important I am super super proud to share that um the training that we've done this summer in preparing our teachers over 900 teachers have participated in the online standards training that we're doing um I want to give a huge shout out to Jackie accounts and our curriculum Specialists they are just amazing amazing very talented and very bright people who've done remarkable work in really preparing our teachers for the start of the Fall I also want to give a shout out to our 5c coaches they're really going to be taking the heavier lift when we do return back to school and

071supporting their colleagues back in sight they've done a remarkable job and of course I'd be remiss if I didn't thank our teachers uh for for them for 900 folks to show up in the summer uh I think speaks volume to the quality of their character and really wanting to do well by our kids so again just super proud of of our folks as a whole for coming back embedded in that training is schooly training we're asking our participants to go through the experience as a student themselves so they are actually seeing firsthand what it feels and looks like from the student perspective as they go through the training so we are really confident it's going to have a really positive impact in the way that we instruct students again very different than what you may

072have seen in the spring our teachers are going to be in a much better place this fall to really hit the instructional piece hard and as you know training is never a oneandone in our district we believe in ongoing training and as Manuel cologne talks about the at the end of this presentation we are building in time so we can consistently each week if need be uh do ongoing training with our staff as it relates to online teaching and learning and then also that structure of professional learning communities where teachers can work together to share best practices to support students so those things are going to be embedded into what we do as well and then you'll see the technology in Internet uh Mr Greenwood who his team has done a remarkable job in getting

073technology this spring and really prepping for the technology this fall when we go back to school and whatever form shape or form it looks like they're going to be ready so he's on the call too so if you have questions regarding the technology internet he'll be able to speak to that but that was some of the support they felt like they might have needed and I'll elaborate a little bit more about that just so you know the other the 99.1% those are things like that they want to make sure there's proper ventilation in the classroom they want to make sure there was a nightly nightly cleaning uh routine in place so when they came back to their classroom each day it's cleaned those are the kinds of things you saw in the 9.1 or they

074were reinforcing items that they had already uh indicated on the survey in terms of Technology leads now these numbers are not percentages this is the work that Dr Henry did uh in in really teasing out um who uh the number of people who brought these concerns up so in terms of folks needing a laptop or computer at home about 40 or 50 people made that request people who may need internet or hotpots about 50 people and again this is the staff's survey portion that we did cameras for my computers better software Etc you can see the numbers uh in terms of what people are asking for again Mr Greenwood's on the call so at the end have some more specific questions he can address that uh and we do have plans that we're putting together

075to make sure these needs are met for both staff and of course our students now I want to shift in terms of preparing for retur to school this is where Dr rude is going to take over and again I want to highlight the great work she and Diana Gaeta and her team have done Zora and really preparing for the return of school even if you do decide that we need to return back with a pure virtual model which is what we're recommending there's still going to be people coming back to the campuses to even deliver that model so I'm going to turn over to Dr root who will share um the preparing to return to school in terms of the PPE and the way we've been preparing classrooms so Dr root I'll go and hand

076it over to you thank you um so just to remind you from last month you had presentations from Orlando grego our director of Food Services who outlined that we will continue to be providing meals breakfast and lunch for all students that would remain the same whether we are fully at school a hybrid model or at home we would always ensure that our students have access to um health and delicious meals you heard zor Cronin our director of Maintenance and operations present and she presented on the new um supplies that we've purchased to be able to disinfect rooms and clean rooms um you also heard from Matt Thomas our director of Transportation who outlined um what TR the transportation department is doing to ensure that our buses are socially distanced and disinfected um but the planning

077goes on every day and so we wanted to share a couple new pieces with you in addition to that and so the first is that personal protective equipment and safety items um it's something that we probably have have not talked about in in numerical form as much as maybe we should have the reality is when we closed school on on March 16th or when we um had School dismissal because we've never closed schools um that this work began and so our purchasing department um Brad manami our director of purchasing and Central Services Todd gag nth our um Mona Hernandez Karen weand who just retired and Mona and Michelle um they've been ordering these things since March and they've been not only having to work with the reality of how to work from home to do

078this but also at the supply chain um we are often told by Mr manami that it is the Wild Wild West out there um so much that it has kind of become a joke with us but reality is if you remember when we went into this pandemic you could not find toilet paper anywhere and so the same thing has happened with these um PPE type of equipment and so um Brad and his team have worked tirelessly in locating them and locating them at the best price when this started masks were going for over well over a dollar a mask we now have them down to tens of cents the difference had we ordered at the height to now for our 300,000 Mas that we've already ordered would have been a cost of $300,000 to the

079district so I also want to commend that whereas we have also been able to get this um these types of equipment that we've done so at a cost that has been financially responsible for the district um so what we purchased thus far and and again this is probably just a snapshot and actually probably has changed from a week ago when we made this slide we've ordered over 300,000 masks we've ordered over 3500 packs of alcohol wipes 1,500 human um face or face Shields 27 100 Humanity Shields and the goal with that was one per employee that is a specialized face shield that has a fa fabric drape at the bottom that if you um tuck that drape into your shirt it will allow a person not to wear a mask and a face shield it

080allows them just to wear that mask which is critically important especially when we're looking at instruction um our English language learner teachers our choir teachers our band teachers our speech and language Pathologists people that you need to be able to see how their mouth is moving it is important um but also it's a comfort thing as well um tough to sometimes talk for five or six hours with those masks on we've ordered over 530 thermometers 360 plus sneeze guards which would be kind of the um plexiglass we've ordered 450 flute guards and I included that one um probably one of our smaller purchases but important for our board to understand that our vafa um team has been actively looking how do they continue to have instrumental music for our students when we return in a

081safe manner we've ordered gloves in three different types latex vinyl and nital and then we've ordered over aund uh I'm sorry 1500 plus gallons of hand sanitizer in all different shapes in all different sizes we've ordered 1500 touchless dispensers one for every classroom which would be approximately 1,200 and then about 300 extra to go in other areas as we seem um feel are important we've ordered 40 foot operated dispensers primarily for outside the cafeteria um food service area so that if a student walks up they can touch it with their foot they get their hand sanitizer they can walk up and get their food and then we have about 405 standing um dispensers that we've ordered um for school sites that would hold gallon bottles of hand sanitizer um that people would have access to

082around the um campus and again there there are other items I just picked out the ones I felt really were truly um a necessity additionally we have had a lot of um PPE that's been donated to our district um so for um from the governor's office of emergency services we are receiving approximately 6,400 cloth masks and that was two masks per every um staff member and two masth cloth masks per every student we've received about s ,000 disposable masks that was two and two but I think it was four for staff members which is why that number is a little bit higher we've received about uh approximately um 240 gallons of hand sanitizer 4,800 face Shields 200 medical grade maths which were um maths that the the state sent us specifically for our nurses and

083our our um lvns and our um Health techs and an additional 80 thermometers we also through the state Council on dis developmental disabilities which was coord coordinated through one of our amazing aim Partners Brian ton we also received 30,000 masks and 50 gallons of hand sanitizer and um that particular donation was really um their way of helping families of uh poverty and ensuring that kids that may not have the ability their families may not be able to purchase masks for them that we would have those so we allocated those um based on our free and Lun free and reduced lunch population to each school so that schools with a higher population of free and reduced lunch students have more of those masks assuming they will have a greater need um in addition to that we've

084also had our um maintenance team going out in physical distancing classrooms so again we have approximately 1,200 teachers throughout our district and so we needed to find a solution to going out and quickly ensuring that we had physical distancing all of our classrooms um Mr cologne had gone out to Orange view um at one point with Mr Hernandez and they had looked at Rooms and they figured they could get about I think it was 13 chairs in a room at that point and so we've been looking at a goal of 12 to 15 per room we've um set the bar for our maintenance workers that we want the um if the teachers desk is at the front of the room we wanted to keep that as similar as possible knowing that um classroom are like

085your home I I I told the crew that you know having been a teacher I'd rather have you come move the furniture at my house than move the furniture in my classroom um because I spend more time I spent more time there so they've worked really hard when it all possible to leave that familiarity for our teachers um because it is 1200 rooms we've it takes about 45 minutes um per room and so we are allowing between 45 to 60 minutes per room per day and we're scheduled to finish approximately July 28th we also know from um again from having been a teacher and and being in classrooms that some teachers are going to think of alternative ways if they want their furniture and we've asked our our as a um group who have been

086out there at every um every day they're out there at the schools were doing at this point because of our time frame we we really have tried not to take on um individual requests but we've created a process so that when we start to return and in this case it still maybe August that teachers could submit a request to have the room design done differently and then we would have um a maintenance um service worker come out redo it recheck for the distance um but our goal at first is to get everything done and so I I definitely want to give a shout out to zor Cronin and um our team of Maintenance Service workers our Auditorium texts have been repurposed out there to do this task um Julianne Ferguson our energy manager um Albert

087Guerrero our maintenance manager George Moreno our maintenance Foreman they've all been out there every single day making this happen and they're getting um about one high school done in two days and a junior high done in one day so this is a big task to take on um but we definitely are knocking it out of the park and getting it done um so again we will continue in in on the business services side just as I know Ed division is doing is we are still planning for when we return um even if we do go to a full virtual model at this point and that is it thank you Dr freed thank you Dr rud and now we're going to shift to Mr colone and as the board may recall uh the last board meeting

088we spent a lot of time going over the complexity of the uh hybrid or Blended model uh because at that time based on the data we had at that time that's where we were leaning uh but as as you know if things changing uh we wanted to take some time with Mr cologne to to share with you what the virtual schedule would look like uh so you're fully aware of of what um to expect if you improve the virtual model when students will be connecting with teachers and what that would look like so Mr cologne I'm going to go ahead and turn it over to you thank you Dr freed um if you remember back on July the the 2nd uh we shared with you three models uh that we were prepared to implement and

089I think that we're still prepared to implement I want to thank our opening of school's task force with over 50 members representative of all of our stakeholders um you know who really thought through each of these models and and and as we've always stated that we will be prepared to implement any of the three models depending on the current health and uh Health guidance that we have from our local Health officials and so back on July the 2nd um we did uh uh present to you the Blended model because at the time uh that was the the model that uh that would best fit the current health situation and as you just heard from our local um experts uh the situation has changed and and and we are in a different situ ation in terms

090of the local Health uh guidance and so because of that um we are recommending a full virtual model which is one of our three examples and uh to to fully Implement starting on August the 12th and so just to recap what that model is is that it will be uh a Monday Wednesday and Friday synchronous schedule meaning that students are with their teachers virtually they will see all their teachers the entire uh uh schedule on Tuesdays and Thursdays it will be an asynchronous they continue to do work but it's in independent um the teachers will provide instruction for the full five days um but they will only see their teachers on Monday Wednesday and Friday uh we also talked about the continual uh professional development that we are going to have with our teachers so

091if you remember in the Blended model we had professional development happening on Friday so in our virtual model the professional development will happen on Thursdays so Thursday will become a professional development day where we can really focus on that we can also uh we will also be providing additional services to students and providing office hours as well as uh giving students an opportunity to meet in clubs and activities uh virtually so again this is now the full virtual learning model which is what we are currently recommending to to the board now in looking at the actual schedule Dr freedy you can go to the next one this gives you an overview of what that going to look like for a student uh so if you look at the high school schedule uh we do have

092a zero period starting at 7:35 each period is going to be 40 minutes one of the recommendations that was given uh specifically by our teachers when we were having our discussion about the models was that in the virtual model and what they learned from the spring um was that uh going from class to class was very difficult for them and for the students and so they recommended that we have uh some breaks longer breaks in between each period And so we've accounted for that in these schedules with giving each uh uh giving the teachers and students a 15minute break between each period uh it gives us 40 minutes of instruction and uh with the new Guidance with the S sp98 uh requires us to have 240 minutes per day of instruction uh so if you

093calculate the six periods for the high school it does add up to the 240 minutes so once again again uh each period is 40 minutes for the high school with a 15minute break in between each period uh the other thing to to consider is the lunch break in talking to Mr grego with Food Services we talked about the grab and go how much time um should we allow and can we allow reasonably for the students to get a lunch um so we felt that an hour uh was sufficient and uh so we have an hour break for lunch for students to do the grab and go uh and then be ready for their class so that is the high school uh schedule for the junior high schedule um because they have seven periods um the

094schedule once again we do include a zero period because we do have some of our Junior highs that they have a zero period but for the uh first through seven periods uh it's 35 minutes per period and and again um meeting the minimum requirements uh that the state requirs under sb98 so once again um these are the two schedules for the highs and the high schools uh as we move into the full virtual schedule all right so this concludes um our presentation now uh board this would be the appr time if you have questions or comments uh we can go ahead and do that if it's okay with you though I'd like to take off the presentation so I can all of you I can always put it back up if you need it thank

095you everyone thank you Dr freed um I'll just just open it up for uh questions from the board just go ahead and chime in I have one question here because you say Thursdays would be for professional development on the virtual schedule and also you had office hours and clubs and what have you office hours are they just on Thursday or are they going to be on that other on asynchronous state it didn't um we have that option of providing office hours on both the days um so again that's still work that we have uh to do with our teachers we have a teacher group that is meeting of over 30 teachers we're meeting weekly uh and so we will discuss uh how those office hours might look in terms of the asynchronous days uh but

096we also want to um reiterate that the support that we're providing for our English Learners and students with disability in terms of the ongoing progress monitoring that can happen during those two asynchronous days the Tuesday and the Thursday yeah I think what's important for the board to know too is is I don't want anyone to think for for a second that on Tuesdays or Thursdays teachers aren't working they are absolutely reporting to work and doing work it's just going to look different the one thing that we found in the spring is especially I know Adele is on the call too for the questions um the mental health both of our students and our staff to be in front of a computer all day long it is daunting and then for the kids on top of

097that to have to go back and do work right now they have to do their class work or their home homework it was overwhelming and it was very very difficult so this kind of breaks up where it's it's it's also being Mindful and protective of their mental health um the train that we're doing really hits three big areas and this is an important piece I think for everyone to understand is one is the engagement piece two is the building of an online community you know the great work that we've done with like capturing kids Hearts well we have to be able to do that kind of work virtually now how do we create a community where kids and Staff feel connected in an online presence right so it has a lot to do with teacher

098presence in that online community and the third aspect is really through the lens of project-based learning it's not about uh quantity it's about quality right how do we how do we ensure our kids through Project B learning through the 5c's are engaging in the content so we're not we're not minimizing the standards right we're still expected to hit the standards but we're doing it in a way that is mindful of their well-being and also looks at quality over quantity and the teachers will be working connecting with kids on those asynchronous days and as Manuel said um there may be some targeted interventions and things we're doing on those days with specific student groups uh so we can give them the attention they need uh to continue to grow and Achieve academically so I think that's

099an important note to mention because I know on paper it looks like what are they doing those days they're going to be working they they're and I know ASA is fully supportive of the schedule that we develop to really build in those supports for both the students and for the staff okay and I have a question also as far as oh shoot um the okay in schoolagy okay everything is done I mean are are our students doing everything online or are they able to do things on pencil and paper and then scan it and feed it in or whatever I mean I mean if they're gonna be sitting three days online for classes and then they do the work on you know on their own does it have to be on the computer or C

100or you know how is that going to work that's my question in other words are they able to sit down and write or they have to type everything into the computer that was yeah majority of work obviously is going to be on schoolo but as you know there are now so many cool apps where you can very easily take a picture of something that you did so if the math teacher wants the kids to work out their problems they can do that take a quick picture and it downloads as a PDF that they then can upload into schools you so that's what I was wondering okay it does have that capability then there are lots of features and availabilities that we can provide with teachers so kids can still do basic true writing as opposed

101to just the typing so there's a lot of those features that we can still embed yes okay good well that was my question I didn't know whether schooo had that capability or not that you know because I don't use it so I'm not sure you know well thank you I have a question um are teachers being given any special instruction on how to help students in mental health and physical health on a daily basis whether it's just 30 seconds uh in their curriculum uh every day or once a week or whatever yeah so I can answer that and Adele I know you're on the call if you also want to chime in but yeah so we actually uh Mr Kona MJ cook have done a lot of work in terms of PE in terms of

102what that guidance might look like so we can still have um kids doing exercise and work from home uh so they can still maintain um that movement also as you heard from Mr colone that was intentional with the bell schedule to put that break so people can stand do the stretch break go to the bathroom Etc um we are also embedding in the training that that that second concept I talked about the building of an online community part of that is this seal it's the the social emotional learning it's connecting with kids it could be simply starting your class off with tell me something good those are the little things you can do to build community but also address some of the mental mental health um of our of our students and our staff Adella

103do you want to chime in on a few additional things that I know you are doing to support this work as well hi yes so one of the things that that we are looking at with the social worker team is is just kind of building the capacity to um not just to engage kids but how do you keep them engaged and how do you maintain that motivation because one of the things that we're that we that we've seen with adolescence is is that we're kids who were originally motivated to do this gradually we began to lose them because they're just this just just draining them it's just getting to them so we're looking at how do we build our teachers up to maintain that engagement and that motivation with our kids and the specific skills

104that that needs to happen so um we're looking at the long term um not just the initial contact with the students but but an aside from that is is how are we connecting them um outside the classroom um to services and how are we engaging them outside that time that they're with the teachers um to make sure that we're checking in with them in an appropriate way and assessing them so and and also to piggyback I want ad said too just a reminder the great work that we did prior to covid-19 with mindfulness and illumination that doesn't go away like We we have many teachers who are very very gifted and talented with the work that we've done with illumination and who've been embedding even in the spring we're embedding those practices in the classroom

105um so those things are going to continue and we do have plans to continue to expand that support um for our students and our staff even in this covid-19 so more people can be trained in mindfulness as a way to also address the mental health trusty Jabar you got a question yeah well said what she wanted to say but then I I didn't really grasp and maybe Adela could give me a example of how we plan on doing it because we can say it but I just want to kind of see in practicality how we're going to engage our students so can you give me an example so the the have the the traditional way that we refer students to Mental Health Services right these are kids that we see um are struggling so what

106we do at the beginning of every year and what we did at the beginning of our closure is we made sure the teachers understood that those services are still there that if you see students are struggling that this is the referral process during uh a staying at home order right so what does that look like the next level was what do you do if you student if a student in crisis and you can't connect with anybody we did the training for teachers on what to do then what is what are some of the things a lot of the work that we were doing and we were looking at at the mental health task force is what lessons do teachers need um that are not related to curriculum but they but related to engagement motivation and

107social emotional learning a lot of the work that we're going to be doing with the counselors is um what trainings do the teachers need in the area of mental health and social emotional learning we just did our trauma um informed and responsive training for leadership and we trained about 37 administrators and leaders within the district um and I and I outlined for the principles what that's going to look like moving forward and the required training that we need to do um with the teachers to make sure that we're doing that work when it comes to the social emotional mental health of kids we have to look at building up our teachers to be able to do this work a lot of teachers don't have the skills of Engagement and and how do you motivate kidss

108to stay um to stay connected with us that's something that we have to keep working on so there's a there's a connecting to Services there's clear training for teachers and then ongoing support for teachers that we're planning with the social worker psychologist and counselor so and that training is been scheduled during the summer we're the training that we're doing out for leers is is having that that um for teachers for teachers is going to be during uh when they come back from from when they come back to school we're asking principes to prioritize that for teachers okay so that that's exactly what I want to do is to ask to prioritize that because I think at the end of the day you know we're buring the teachers with a lot more work to do uh

109especially being a social distancing envir or you know distant learning environment I think we need to give enough tools and training for them so that they could identify and do what needs to be done for our students if they identify kids uh on a social distancing setting that they're having emotional issues right so I want to make sure that that's prioritized if I could just interrupt um being part of being the president of apj I think that there's a I I think we need to be clear that apj counselors provide curriculum to students on social emotional graduation all all of those aspects of uh getting removing the barriers so that they can access curriculum and so that they can learn this model will still provide us an opportunity to reach out to students and provide

110that curriculum for students so I just want to make sure that the Board of Trustees understands that counselors will be working tirelessly and innovatively to meet the needs of our students absolutely thank you Buck and and out to your point that is a priority for us um the training that we're doing this summer with those three elements I spoke to that obviously the social emotion learning is embedded into those elements so that is something that's going to be ongoing with our with our staff and it's it's obviously teachers are the front line with the kids in the classrooms but it's it's all of our staff um because we're all going to be connecting interacting with students in different ways I have a question for Dr root on uh on page 10 uh uh it's a

111personal protective equipment uh there's a number of 300,000 plus surgical maths which sounds like a lot of math but when we have almost 30,000 students uh they can go through that technically speaking in 10 days if they don't bring a mass to school and they everybody was coming back to school are we I don't know what the plan is on passing them out but are we Contin in to uh uh buy and stockpile The Masks the wipes Etc all these protective equipment pieces so when we first ordered that 300,000 masks and it it's actually we've ordered more than that it was based on the model at that point that students would be returning three days a week one day a week three days um so we would have 10,000 students three days a week for

11230,000 total and staff five days a week and we do recognize that's about two to three months worth of masks um we did we have encourage we always will encourage that folks bring their own mask I have my own sitting on my desk and so I choose to use mine I know our schools have done a fabulous job uh for Branding school spirit and making the mask more inviting have done fundraisers to order masks that say Walker um Cyprus on them so kids are ordering those as well um my what how we planned on handing them out is that when they do the attempt checks in the morning or when they get on the bus in the morning that those um staff would have boxes of masks and if a child's getting on a bus

113without a mask they would be handed a mask the child's walking up they would be handed a mask um we are also we we went back and forth this was a really long discussion about how many to order um we talked about 500,000 400 and we really felt like we would stick with the 300,000 right now um knowing that the prices come down and then we would look to see when the prices start to escalate again what we needed to order but one thing we don't want to do is end up um spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on masks that will not we would not use an example of this is our first pallet of masks that we used when this happened were back from the H1N1 virus which was back about 10 years

114ago and we'd had extra mass sitting in our our warehouse for that long so it it you're you're absolutely right to be asking this question um trusty O'Neal and we are talking about it probably daily and figuring out what right numbers and pivoting and ordering as we see yeah I want to jump in too thank you Jennifer but uh we've been messaging already Mr O'Neal the to the parents and also to the students and as you know we are going to launch a pretty massive uh student uh health advocacy uh program and that's going to be part of the messaging uh they feel pretty confident that uh a very high percentage of students will be bringing their own mask and working with the faces and uh getting the message out um I think we're going

115to have uh hopefully we'll be pleasantly surprised that a lot of our people will come with their mask obviously we have plenty for anybody that needs one as well okay so uh if Mr President if uh if nobody else have any questions I have a a few questions that I want to ask you Katherine do you have any more question do you have any questions I just want to thank everyone this has been a Quantum Leap for our school district and for people in education and I just have always felt very comfortable in my conversations with the district uh management that they have filled all of the the um realities that we are faced with and I just want to let the public know that are listening to this that I think they're being enlightened

116and probably Overjoyed by the quality of work thank you thank you Katherine um I had a just a couple uh questions Mr Jabar uh so uh menuel I know we still have one more task meeting um for the for the you know the task meeting but um so probably uh there'll be a little bit more discussion since it's going to be virtual um but uh which day would clubs meet is that set or is that going to be open on a Tuesday or Thursday um it can be open on the Tuesday or Thursday um if you remember from our original Blended model it was going to be on Fridays so um right now Thursdays is our professional development day if we had gone to a traditional regular school year our late start was going to

117actually be Thursdays so professional development uh would fall on Thursdays which then would be when we would Target that for for our clubs um we are meeting with our teachers on a regular basis uh as I mentioned we have an amazing group of of teacher representatives from all over the district that are meeting weekly uh we meet every Tuesday and so we will talk through each of those pieces to to make sure that we can um you know get that cleared up in terms of of of of the specific days but I think as of now um we moved everything from the Friday to the Thursday okay and on the survey um jiren uh do you have any clue about what that 38% um you said that you're going to find out the data from

118ocde and uh how how soon did you say we were gonna get that information so I have Dr Henry on the call I know that we've been working with them and um I think she found out some information on one of the surveys but Dr H you want to answer that yes hi so um the parent survey is is the data is being held by ocde um they supported us I can see some of the comments but not for that question the other the 38% of needs um and so I am in contact with the data person from ocbe to get them to release that um that information to me the way that they released the data was a series of graphics and dashboards and um so while I can see some other um of

119the longans questions uh that one has not been provided at this time and so um I have reached out and um I'm asking if we're going to get either a comprehensive report or if they can just provide us with the raw data then we can go ahead and format uh that for you and then just so you know also with that question about needs um with the data that I currently have we have been able to drill down uh by school so we'll be able to provide that to our principals so they can see those what you saw was a district percentage but principes will also be able to see the needs of their families for their particular schools as well okay because I'm just concerned that's kind of a high percentage and if they

120wrote something personal you know I need uh you know I need police support or I you know uh somebody's hurting me or something like that I'm just really concerned about that that data I I I hope we can see that really really really soon and then Manuel um I'm really concerned that a lot of our staff uh actually did not see the report that was done a couple weeks ago uh because of the um the comments that we received on in our emails it really showed that um they did not um read even the letters that went out um sorry staff I'm a little disappointed um because I think we try to be as transparent as possible so I just would like um maybe to get that um maybe uh get that report out again

121to our staff uh and uh just really look tell folks to look at the letters that went out um the one that just went out this week earlier and then the one that was presented there's there's a plethora of information that that we as a school district as cabinet that we are trying to to to uh disseminate to everyone um out there and it was a little discouraging to get um data back you know in a letter form as if we don't know this information and so just know um believe in your school district believe in the processes believe in the um thoroughness and believe in the transparency and accountability that we have uh to to you uh as parents you know to staff that um that we're doing our utmost best I'm I'm hearing

122rumors that the task force only met one time um which is not true and so um I just really want to make sure that everyone knows that we are being completely transparent and trying to keep you as a prised of the information as it's coming in and we saw even today uh it's rapidly coming in I'd like to uh re uh trustee uh Randall tro i' just like to also chime in here we've had the letter that went out that uh recommended the closure of schools that went out Monday I just checked 39,000 people have seen that okay and U the task force the presentation of the last board M uh meeting you had something like 30,000 people have seen the uh the presentation on the hybrid model um the uh Facebook social media uh

123commentary on the letter of the recommending School stay virtual is probably running nine to one uh supportive in favor and as uh Dr freed pointed out in the survey I think that the changing the rapidly changing climate is is shifting a lot of people's uh opinion and um you know I I Echo what what you just said though and those people who are watching this should really uh you know be part of ahsd Facebook social media YouTube um and and read and you know we can only send out so many times and people need to press that button and and open it up and read it right especially our own people so thank you for reminding them okay thank you Mr Jabar well I'll I'll lead with that maybe uh since Grant's here uh on

124the call uh he could also chime in I I would like hopefully Grant you guys are sending out communication on your end to all the teachers because I'm sure that they're probably looking at your emails as well diligently about the decision that we're taking because I I I was also kind of alarmed right after that email went out how many emails I got from teachers who are saying like hey we want to Advocate to go distant learning I'm like oh didn't you just read the email that came out from the superintendent but anyways uh having said that I want to go to uh the presentation uh which basically is the the I know that uh Stephanie just mentioned that we will be drilling down by School in terms of the numbers I I am I

125want to make sure that we are paying attention to the schools in terms of the support for mental health um support for child care so I know Manuel we had a chat about support for child care just for the the audience uh to for them to hear uh what are the steps that we're taking in terms of child care I know that we are in a we're going into a virtual uh uh model so we don't have to worry about some of our staff but now that we're going to that virtual model I'm also concerned that you know some of our parents do have to go to work and now they'll have to have kids at home uh sometimes two or three kids at home and so what are we doing to connect child care

126to our uh parents and our community members thank you Mr Jabar um that has been a huge concern since the beginning as you as you as you know um we have met with local community agencies we've met with the cities the city of Anaheim in particular to see what options are we going to be able to provide not only for our students but for our staff or for our families but also for our staff um and so we have been uh trying to get some um some clear um uh commitments in terms of of of the child care so as of now we are working with local agencies such as the Anaheim achieves program that are already on many of our sites who uh can potentially be expanding services to provide child care services um

127we've had conversations with the uh tiger W Learning Center uh again to see how they can provide some services to our families and so we will continue to do that in terms of not only seeking what's out there but also what services can we uh possibly provide uh on our campuses okay uh excuse me I just wanted to let you know that these are the types of questions that are being asked as well in the task force so a lot of our teachers are bringing and employees are bringing up these concerns as well yeah I I'm I'm sure they are I just want to make sure that the audience gets to know what we are doing as well uh in terms of uh needing support for housing I know it's about 5% but I want

128to make sure that we're drilling down in terms of schools and then maybe providing those Services I I'm assuming the the survey was Anonymous correct so we we wouldn't be able to I track who said what correct Stephanie with the parent survey um the ocde holds the data and because parents were um had to access the survey through a personalized email they were sent there was not an open link there could be a way if we had some kind of an emergency that they uh like uh president Randall tro mentioned um something um of that kind of nature that we could drill down to the timestamp but I at this point do not have access um at the individual Le level and then for the staff survey just so that I'm uh transparent we do

129not have access um and any ability to see who the respondents were for the staff survey okay so for the parent survey if we can access it I I would assume that we could go back and drill down especially if it's school and the principes are receiving it maybe go back into folks and find out what kind of mental health support they need what kind of child care support they need and then drill down into the specific family and provide that support if possible and then I I am interested in knowing the 38% I know you said that you're going to be working on that um the next question that I have is when it came down to the communication during closure uh I I saw that there were I want to get the numbers

130right because that makes a difference in terms of the context of these percentages is it question nine which says generally speaking interaction with teacher occurred and then gives the percentages is that the 6,499 responses or is that the entire 13,000 I just want to make sure that we're making that distinguish in between the numbers and then does this number also include the 19% who responded who are incoming uh parents because that makes a big difference too yes um okay sorry just one moment um so when I pulled up we did the the presentation a little bit earlier I pulled up the dashboard right now only I can see it but that question had 10,060 total responses so families that answered that question so higher but the percentages are the same um so the percentages didn't

131change but more people answered and then yes um it does include the 19% however in the supplemental tables that I created for principles I do have the data without the incoming students so that we could just see our kids and then also um those same questions asked by school so principals can see the percentage of families that that report the level of communication by school all right so if you can send that data to the board members as well uh I would appreciate that absolutely in terms of trying to figure out if there were 5% who were saying that during disclosure there was no communication at all I want to find out a little bit more about or maybe Manuel could uh reiterate what's the difference between then and what's the difference that we're going

132to have right now in terms of you know we're going to have a three-day uh uh session where students will be in front of teachers uh I want to kind of make sure that because that's a concern that I always get from parents is that look you know what we're not getting enough touch from our teachers uh let mear can I jump in before you go to uh or jiren on that it's that's really the big huge question I'm reading uh what some of the uh folks are saying on the uh YouTube channel as well because um you know it's I want to make it clear to the audience that this is the new law there's an accountability provision built into the law that the governor signed for um online virtual models Hybrid models and

133it is about accountability and um that's we the district will be creating a u continu continuance plan it's the acronym is the same as an alcap but uh we need to assure our public and our parents that there will be accountability measures built in and as everybody knows though it's a balance between that and the mental health of students in terms of what um from their perspective what does a school day look like and that's why we have uh Mr cologne has mentioned those 30 teachers have chimed in on creating a um sort of a compromise right because Monday Wednesday and Friday is uh uh syn those are synchronous days in which you have starting at you know um 8:0 uh regular classrooms times but if you notice the the time has been reduced plus

134there's a 15minute incr increment between classes right so it's not just you know go go go go go and the other piece is we are doing massive training this summer um on really about engage engagement on how to use the uh learning management system in ways that you can better engage kids breaking up into small groups and there's a lot more uh Project based learning going on the whole covid-19 teachable moment will continue we have a lot of teachers interested in sort of developing projects and many units that are going to be more engaging for kids as well I'm really I I'm I'm confident that we'll be able to um make a deeper pivot and assure our parents that uh not only are classes going to be different from the spring but um with the

135teacher support and having 900 of them say let yes I I I need to improve my game I think that's pretty awesome um and then the layered piece of the mental health we have systems in in place um and as Brian uh mentioned too uh apga that you know every all hands are on Deck um and I I do feel that we have a a pretty comprehensive complex plan in place I don't know if jiren and and well you want to add to that but again this is the law I mean the accountability piece is part of what we need to um uh be we're ultimately we're accountable to the parents to the taxpayers and uh there you know there is concern that um student engagement is not U you know what it used to

136be and um we all we're very aware of that and our teachers are aware of that and that's why they want to up their game so Mike I I I think you answer uh I don't want to you know drag this on I think you've answered some of the questions uh related to that for me so what I want to propose is I want to see if we could because I think we're going into a new model if we could get into use the same template or maybe refine the template in terms of a parent uh parent input survey uh maybe middle middle of our semester or towards the end of the semester so that we could get that input back to see how we as a district improved on that because that goes back

137to the accountability part and if we can drill down based on schools in terms of numbers that allows us to kind of go back and hold systems accountable which I you know I'm a big proponent off is that we need to make sure that we're upping a game on a regular basis I have all the confidence in our teachers once you give the necessary tools to them that they're just going to rise up to the challenge it's just that we want to make sure as a district have the data to go back and make sure that we are be we're able to hold people accountable um the the other question that I had was in terms of uh schooly training I this is now I'm going into the uh the uh staff staff survey and

138it said School uh what kind of support do you need and it says schoology training 33 .2% but I thought that we already gave and you know in the past presentations uh we've had we've been told that 100% of our teachers already got the training so I'm I'm I want to kind of bridge that Gap can you explain that Jaren yeah yeah so not not so yes we've done multiple trainings over over the last year with with with our with our teachers but as you as you know before covid-19 not all of our teachers were using Schoo think it was about 60% using 40% were not so even though they've received the training they were not regular users so when covid-19 hit and everyone was gone schooo um there were a number of folks who

139were using it and but they weren't using it with all the features and bells and whistles that it comes with because they haven't been regular users so that's where this summer the training that we're doing is really bringing that back to light but again it's connected to those Concepts I mentioned earlier so it's not just about using schooly it's about how to you use schooly effectively to engage to build an online community and to do Project based learning through the F Seas right so it's it's really hitting that we and I think now more so than ever you have not just an awareness from our our teachers across the board but a hunger to really grow that now because some folks were just resistant because they were nervous it was technology that wasn't their comfort

140level that now that they were forced to do it they see that it's not so bad now there's a higher interest in wanting to do that which I think is evident when you have 900 people show up to training in the summer um so I I I do I think part of that okay so that so what I'm my understanding that that 32% will be like ra training then right yeah but I mean but just like any good teacher we have to differentiate and scaffold so there will be some teach some teachers that need the basic level support of schooly and there will be many teachers who need the enhancements of schooly because they're already proficient at the basic level so that's again where the skill set of our curriculum Specialists and our LDC or

1415dc coaches come into play where they can really scaffold and differentiate to better meet the needs of the teacher where they're at so they can grow their own practice okay so the next question that I have is regarding special need students I know we've discussed this multiple times but I want to make sure that you know every single time that we talk about it that our our parents have an opportunity to hear this is that how does this affect how does the virtual model going 100% virtual model affect our special needs students and how we as a district uh uh I mean it's kind of like mental health right how are we going to specialize in supporting our needs of our students if you can explain that again for the audience yeah so again big

142shout out to Celeste Krueger Amy Maya our um special head staff I know Tracy Olson's done a lot of great work um you know it's gonna affect all kids and let's be honest it's goingon to affect all students um but with our students with disabilities um there's a number of things that they're working on and as Carl will also say um this is something the whole state is wrestling with what does this look like for um students with disabilities because let's be honest there are some students who for example may have autism and they may struggle because they're not with a teacher in front of them they're on a screen so how do we think outside of the box to provide that additional support or that unique support to help a student as that example

143to help them be successful so there's a lot of discussions taking place I know Celeste and Amy are working with our support staff our instructional AIDS and our our teachers and really building what that model might look like they're also working with other special ed directors and the Cela director Pauline on these supports as well I know um part of our plan is to be flexible and adaptable that we it can't be what we do for all is just going to work for them we have to be thinking creatively at the end of the day our charge and our expectation is that the goals and objectives that are outlined in each students's IEP or individualized education plan they need to be adhered to right so we need to figure out ways creatively to support students

144in Meeting those goals and objectives um we it's looking at repurposing some of our staff right so some of our special ed staff may be needed to use to help support students in different ways than what they used to and how they used to support staff so there's a lot of that work and a lot of those discussions that are happening as we speak I know my law and I met with Celeste and Amy yesterday and we were talking just about this piece that there's a lot of discussions in terms of what this is going to look like and supporting them knowing that it it's not business as usual and we're going to have to be thinking outside the box to provide those supports so now going back to what uh but thank you thank

145you Jaren for that in again I'm very confident that Celeste and her team will do a great job uh with that part um I want to go back to the original question that Brian asked in terms of PPE Jennifer I'm assuming that we don't have to purchase more uh PPE in terms of masks or stuff like that as of right now with the stock that we have I'm very comfortable but I'm assuming because we're going virtual 100% virtual that we don't have to purchase more uh for at least the upcoming semester is that accurate correct what we're yes so what we're doing though is keeping an eye on the prices and how they're going up or down um to know when we can pull a trigger because we also don't want to wait till they're

146back you know at $150 a mask and then find us having to buy them at that cost so right now with going virtual we're completely comfortable for the semester um if that's the length of time we are on Virtual and and probably beyond that even okay so here here's my ask and I'm gonna ask this publicly in terms of uh because we we do have a uh I mean we do have 300 plus surgical masks and all that and then I'm assuming that 300,000 does that include the 30,000 Mass donated by brianton no so it's separate that's yeah separate okay this is an ask that I'm going to be asking a I'm assuming the the rest of the board members would also agree Latino Health Access did a request off me uh just because I'm

147my day job to look into uh Mass donations to them uh because of the work that they're doing in our our nebor Hood uh in terms of Anaheim zip code related uh testing so I'm not sure how much of that we could actually allocate to help out because in essence it is going to some of or most of most of it will be to our families uh they are having a little bit of shortage I'm trying to work with the county to see if they could receive a little bit more but that is something that uh I would see to work with latino Health Access to see if we have an opportunity to maybe provide some of those MTH to them um and then I think I have some comments in terms of opening of

148schools and I have some numbers to uh share but I'll I'll I'll Reserve that for our resolution part of it thank you Miss president thank you Mr Jabar did uh Katherine did you have any other questions or Brian no no I'm fine Anna no questions so uh just a a suggestion maybe um I know uh when we begin the uh the fall uh semester that it's going to be very important uh communication I just was wondering how soon were our principales going to be reaching out to our families to have uh you know coffee with the principal something like that to that effect because I think they're going to be more important than ever and I I think we're going to have they're going to have a lot of H attendees since people can do

149this Zoom so um I I would just suggest that they start doing those and especially having the uh staff um staff uh meetings as well as soon as possible yes so and just as a reminder next week we have our um annual leadership Advance with all of our leaders that's officially Technically when our assistant principles return back to work some of our psychologist BR professional so we'll be meeting with him and we have um a large chunk of time allocated on the first day in the morning uh to really go over the reopening school and all the little elements U that that are factored there in so so we will be doing that um and the principles we've been meeting with them already every Wednesday even though some of them on summer break they've been

150great about coming back on Wednesdays to connect with us and to get for us to be able to give them regular updates so that is something that we'll be sharing with them I know many of them are probably watching right now as we speak so um yes we will be working with them on a strong communication plan because one some of it is on us as a district to communicate but then they're going to go to their principles with I want the specifics right um so so yeah we need to equip them with the the answers and the howto so that way um they can have those meaningful conversations with their Community okay I I have a I'm sorry uh and Marie I I sorry I just had one more question quickly regarding the technology

151needs uh I looked at it um so on our staff one it talks about the laptop or computers at home and it says 40 to 50 does that mean that we're looking at 40 to 50 teachers who are I know 40 to 50 teachers who need laptops is that is that accurate it's 40 to 50 staff um we'd have to go back and drill down whether it's a teacher classified Etc but yes that's what that that survey indicated okay so I think that's very important right I mean if it's teachers especially teachers who are getting into to interaction with our students uh we need to figure out that part and then it also again 50 hotpots or Internet uh internet access right so we need to make sure that those are taken care of uh

152again we can't if we can't drill down based on schools uh maybe AA could help out in reaching out to their membership to figure out who is in need and then we could work with them and I see that there is like camera for my computer a better software microphone microphone for my computer so those are all things that will be uh needful for for a quality delivery of education so I want to make sure that we we are getting on top of that in terms of our staff correct and I know Eric's on the call as well but yes and and you know last spring we had a number of teachers ask if they could come to their classrooms um because no one would be in them but the teacher because then they would

153have strong internet they'd have all their materials there so that's something we've also talked about as a Cabinet since the schools have done a risk assessment so there is a protocol in place to keep them safe they would be social distance and they'd be in their rooms by themselves that's something we've also talked about as a possibility for those staff that have those kinds of needs or those requests um so that might also help um with some of those folks um who are making those requests or who have those kinds of needs as well okay now you got into a different different topic for me so are we asking teachers to come on campus then or you're saying like the teachers who don't yeah not necessarily we believe that if if someone can do their

154job from home they can do it from home um just like we did in the spring but there may be situations or circumstances where it is appropriate for someone to come into the to the classroom or to the campus they would just need to follow the risk assessment protocols make sure wear their social distance and then they could access their classroom to do a lessons for example yeah I personally know some teachers have that want to come in because they've got so many of the materials in their classroom that they need to Iz so we really do need to allow teachers who want to come we're not going to tell them to come but who want to come and I'm sure there's a varied number of reasons but I'm thinking about all the as myself

155as a teacher you have all your references all your tools or whatever and I can see especially in some where they they they need the classroom so right I certainly hope and like you say they're in their classroom by themselves okay absolutely and I I agree with you but again we're we're going back to the whole issue of contributing to the numbers right um I I want to make sure that we are in terms of covid numbers right because we don't want to be in a position where we're asking or we're allowing teachers to come on campus yes we're going to ask them to socially distance yes we're going to ask them to wear a masks but inevitably we're opening that where people will congregate because they're seeing them after a long time and we

156don't want to be that uh uh venue or the access for them to uh have that situation I will probably encourage like we did uh when we closed schools and we told them to come in and pick up their stuff maybe ask them like if you want to come in and pick up your stuff and go home do it now I have I still have a concern if you have teachers who don't have access to Internet don't have access to uh computers inviting them on campus is not something that will be Pruden if you're if you're taking a decision or making a decision that you know what you shouldn't be on campus then let's make it blanket and not invite folks to say like hey if you want to come in you could come in

157type of a a mixed message that's not what I said I'm saying there are teachers who are requesting it and I'm sorry there aren't going to be that many teachers out of 140 teachers on a campus you're not going to get that many of them that feel they need to come in but there are going to be a handful that want to utilize what's in their classroom and I think we should allow that and I'm not afraid that they're adults and there they'll know what the rules are and they're not going to be standing around and and kitzing and all because they're supposed to be working to begin with I I kind of disagree with that that opinion so we will yeah we've talked about this internally and we will support the teachers that do

158need to come in but I think there would be very uh strict protocols uh you know a list of teachers coming in where they're teaching that sort of things because sure there are going to be those who want to come in and we do want to support that so um you know the district is uh is listening to our people and we know um we want to support them but we want to support everybody responsibly yeah so good questions all around uh thank you and we we also could be working with uh schools first because I know that they have um grants and things um for uh devices if if they want to outright purchase teachers want to outright purchase them so I know they have low um they zero zero interest loans uh for

159that and if we could just allow them to um to have that knowledge uh because sometimes people just would want want their own devices too so thank you everyone um thank you for the the uh information um it's a lot a lot of moving parts and a lot of moving pieces to this so next we're going to go to our reports uh of our associations uh Mr I'm sorry to on I I would um you know encourage those who are watching uh to um compare our virtual 100% online model with uh other districts uh because I I do think that um it is going to be tough on kids to have them come Wednesday and Friday every period but I want to uh we're trying to balance but many of the districts that are going

160virtual are every day um you know regular classroom instruction virtually and I we felt and and Manuel's Committee of the 30s something teachers felt that would just be overkilled so we've taken uh a compromise but also uh still feel that we're meeting the requirements of the accountability law as if the audience want to take take a look at it it was signed in the law by the governor uh June 29th it's the big b Bill uh s sp98 um take a look at that inside of there there's a there's a lot of accountability Provisions in there so you know I'm really proud of the work that the task force has done and with input from uh the teachers who are on the front line um Al that will demonstrate accountability to our parents and our

161community at the same time mindful of students uh mental health needs as well so thank you hey Mike uh how how big how huge is that bill how many pages is that do we know is it too too large to put on our website yeah it probably is there's a lot in there because that's the bill that uh supports the uh the entire funding for uh this year it also protects certain of of our essential workers and uh U but but you know that was part of the tradeoff because in order to um you know support um our public schools during this crisis um the the public uh wanted uh more accountability we all get that we're we're funded by the public okay thank you okay and with that um can we have our report

162of our associations uh Grant uh yes thank you amme um good morning to the trustees cabinet community and the many teachers tuning in uh to the online online for the meeting uh today the board is gathered to make a decision based on countless hours of planning discussion and work that in the end is controlled by a virus and its impact on public health going back to the time school campuses were shut our members have been working working harder than ever to adjust their lives their teaching their teaching and their support of students the lockdowns uh increase of Inc of our community have actually increased the amount of time we have spent planning for next year with several possibilities as options the largest work group has been the opening schools task force which is met several

163times since May it is so important for all of us in the district to have have a voice in the planning and decision-making process to give input as well as to have a say in what actually what we actually decide to do today I have one of our teachers from the task force hea Taylor an English teacher from Cypress High School to talk a little bit about the work that's being done good afternoon I almost said good morning and then I realized it was already noon uh good afternoon and thank you for allowing me the opportunity to speak on behalf of teacher on the opening of school's task force as you are aware since May the task force has been working to create models for upcoming 2020 2021 school year and I'm honored to be

164a part of this Dynamic group of dis District personnel and Educators doing this challenging work the district realized how critical teacher input is and subsequently formed a teacheron task force with representation from every site and across disciplines I too serve on that team as well thank you Board of Trustees for considering the distance learning model for the 2020 2021 school year as we move closer to the opening of the school year the task force and the teacher input team we'll be pivoting our Focus to the distance learning model we have some of the basic work completed for the model but there is more work to be done and teachers need to continue to be a part of the decision-making process it is now time for the district to pull its resources and expertise in creating

165a robust distance learning model that addresses both the academic and socio emotional needs of our students the district must allocate time and resources into additional professional development training and opportunities for teachers to learn best practices in online teaching and refine their technical fluency these learning opportunities for teachers will not only give them the agency to curate their own online curriculums and Implement them with Fidelity but also Shore up teacher capacity in technological literacy these investments in teacher capacity that we are asking the district to make can have long-term benefits and payoffs for instance all teachers will possess and be able to confidently utilize 21st century skills daily teachers will then be able to impart these skills with confidence onto their students in creative and innovative ways that might have never happened had this crisis not

166forced a technological response this crisis is an opportunity to elevate our technological gain and learn new skills and tools tools that will allow us to approach teaching and learning in unique and clever ways tools that teachers will have long after covid-19 has faded and Abad the district has an opportunity right now to invest in teachers and develop teach capacity in online teaching and we implore you to make that investment thank you for your time thank you hea um and I can not emphasize enough how important the work with this group will be no matter what the decision of the board is today eventually this Public Health crisis will dictate a hybrid model that will be part of our return to a regular schedule and I also want to say it's very important and it's understandable

167that for for the length of this process we focused on the hybrid model because the public health situation dictated that that's what we should do and what was most likely we only spent about 5% of our time looking at the distance learning model and I think it's incredibly important for this committee to continue to work and look at the needs of the students and the teachers and the campuses as we go forward and be able to uh pivot Mr freed to whatever sort of situations uh might be dictated by that um in regards to the decision being made today about the return to school I want to make it clear that ASA stands 100% behind the decision to implement distance learning to start the year make no mistake in understanding that teachers want nothing more

168than to return to class with our students unfortunately the current health public health conditions leave distance learning as the only safe Choice by now we're all aware of the not only climbing numbers of cases in Anaheim but also the higher r rate of covid positive tests indicating a faster and deeper Community spread that would endanger students staff and Community ASA calls on each member of the board to support this model of return to school until we are able to come back to campuses safely I also want to commend our uh practice uh our proactive District leadership and partnering with County Health officers to bring testing sites to several of our high school campus uh in our community this kind of partnership can help our local neighborhoods stop the spread of the virus and fill the

169gaps uh created by government in action I want to commend our teachers for everything they have been doing this summer as well our members have been part of the opening schools task force our own a as to return to school committee uh groups working on the ex ex expansion of e-learning and C VA as well as community outreach programs getting food to our families which was the top concern in the district survey uh several members have also been spending Monday and Friday mornings delivering milk to communities on the east side of the district um during this meeting today if the board does implement the district learning model distance learning model I want to also explain the importance of building the best model we can to educate our students this model will never replace in person

170uh seat-based classes and the relationships they build to this end ASA is very pleased with the training that began with the help of teachers and to become proficient and eventually uh expert within the model uh we must continue to invest in training and get teacher input to determine how to best support them in this new model finally I'm hopeful we can come to a quick resolution on our 1920 contract negotiation we put them on hold at the start of this crisis and we look forward to coming to an agreement uh quickly so we can focus solely on the implementation of our new learning model in closing the gravity of our Public Health situation cannot be overstated and ASA as an association and I personally appreciate all of the district all the district and the board

171has done to put put into this decision-making process we will all support each other moving forward thank you and this my report there we go thank you so much Grant thank you hea for uh giving your presentation um would uh Brian or Corey like to speak I'll go ahead and speak really quick um I really don't like following hea Taylor but um that was very well put grant thank you very much um I think uh at this this point I'm going to let Corey talk uh because she'll do a much better job than I can at this moment thanks for the time board Thank you Buck um hello everyone this more than likely will be the last time I will be able to address the board as apj co-president while my tenure is up there

172is great news another counselor will be potentially joining Mr Bannon next year to highlight Advocate and support the apga union I would like to thank you all for your kind words support and appreciation for what counselors do in ahsd for our staff for our students families and Community as counselors our job is to guide students to be the best versions of themselves we do this through academic advising social emotional support and College and Career Education we advocate for students staff parents and anyone or anything that makes a school a place where everyone feels welcomed supported and valued I would like to highlight the tremendous amount of work counselors were doing at every School site being flexible with navigating our Ro roles virtually counselors have and will continue to support our students in the following ways

173created Google phone numbers to contact students and families on their personal devices had at least weekly grade level meetings with their students to keep them engaged held office hours where students were able to request one-on-one counseling appointments conducted atrisk meetings with students that teachers reported were not attending sent out Google forms to assess for student social emot social concerns contacting those in need or requested and referred out if needed conducted and when needed collaborated with social workers and school sites in conducting suicide assessments and continued support made CPS rep reports attended virtual IEP and 504 meetings conducted hundreds of meetings to offer covid waivers for students to graduate on time attended graduation ceremonies after our work year ended scrambled to offer summer school options to students who were credit deficient or wanting to take advancement

174courses or dual enrollment many again worked extra days over the summer to ensure every student was enrolled contined to respond to student emails over the summer regarding summer school or other concerns attended sum summer virtual PD how to support social emotional health of students and other navig and other meetings such as navigating the virtual schooling learning for students created and implemented implemented mindful lessons that have also continued for some over the summer achieved as ASA goals created annually IC counselors reported we have reached 1,000 graduates in our in its 10-year history the a through G rate increased by 4% at Western's ilc counselors are also busy creating lessons for students focusing on social emotional health mindfulness and how to be successful virtually just to name a few this is just a fraction of what we

175do but I felt it was important to highlight I want to thank Mr Carlos Hernandez for his leadership and advocacy for our team Mr Brad Jackson Dr freed and Mr cologne for our countless meetings emails and patience while I learned my role of apga co-president Miss Amanda Bean for creating systems structures and support Dr root for your guidance support and friendship on the sidelines at our football games finally our Costa Mary Joe for all our hard work during the last two and a half years as a huge support Advocate mediator and leader the counselor and special assignment was a vital position to creating systems and added support for counselor growth when the budget allows I hope the position is reinstated I want to especially thank ahsd school counselors oftentimes our group goes unnoticed we have

176not always done the best job of highlighting all the positive things we do using data and the new systems we have set in place I am sure we will continue to advocate for how important our roles are on our campuses it can it can go often thinkk thankless and for many of us the best token of gratitude is when our students are successful I want to take this time to thank every counselor in ahsd for their commitment and love to our students staff and Community I hope that collaboration growth and support remains a focus for our board especially as the budget tightens and possibilities of of cuts are considered while all positions in our district are extremely important I believe counselors have made huge shifts and strides to meet the current need needs of all

177students additionally I believe everyone has enjoyed the reports for from our union members highlighting how much counselors do at our school sites I hope the team reports continue and data shows how much of an influence each team makes on their students growth and success thank you to our students and families we miss you all terribly but we will see you all online soon and that is it oh fantastic um you whoever's going to replace you has a big shoes to fill Corey we've uh really truly uh been blessed to have um all of the highlights that you've brought to and the awareness um that you've brought to uh the not only the board cabinet um our our um ahsd family and so uh thank you so much for your service and I know this is

178just not the last time we're going to see you I know you're going to be checking on everyone um so board members have anything to add I do yeah Corey and I miss you your presentations at the board meetings and hopefully somebody else will step in and be just as vibrant as you've been you've done a great job you really have and uh uh thank you much for your service thank you well I I'll EO that I know I mentioned this you numerous times before that was uh awesome to have you know the school presentation I think that came under your leadership so I appreciate that and I know as anur said uh huge shoes to fill so good luck Buck got this I'm not worried yes I'll did that too twice maybe three times

179um I really enjoy the presentations that you uh instituted this past year it's been very informative hearing from the various campuses what they're doing different perspectives so I hope that whoever uh takes over your position along Buck will continue on those presentations we wish you well thank you for your service thank you and Cory I just wanted to add thank you um for everything and for your professionalism I know that you leave this position feeling with great heart that you accomplished all your goals and again thank you and best wishes thank you everyone that was wonderful uh I know uh Adrian that you uh had sent a chat uh would you just like me to read that or would you like to to uh go ahead and um respond Adam Marie good afternoon this um

180I'm out here at Ball Junior High i' just like to say thank you uh with regardless of the decision you guys make uh you've given us an opportunity to prepare the schools for whether in a moment it's time we open or we don't open we're ready to go uh August 12th was our deadline it seems that some of our sites are trying to get there and um whatever whatever decision you guys make um I support um again it gives us more time to get some of our projects done that we're able to do in the summer uh those are talks that we are having right now with maintenance and operations as far as um projects that were on on hold because of time uh so I'd just like to say thank you for everything and

181um keep going thank you nice job thank you Adrien uh president of of asme uh appreciate you you know uh we're available always as board members to uh to you and to the team as well um and we appreciate your um we appreciate your appreciation thank you and um Hilda are you still on the line yes okay thank you Madame President Randall trov good afternoon Boards of Trustees superintendent matsuda and cabinet thank you for the opportunity to give you a short report although I will say that our team uh has already shared a lot of what has been going on uh so I'll just recap some of the the things but more uh more than anything I want to again thank you for uh including so many of the stakeholders into the conversations as we're

182dealing uh with this pandemic and trying to make the best decision um holding both the safety of our students community and members uh as a top priority so I wanted again to share that food distribution continues to take place at every side those have been going really well and the Partnerships um the partnership that our leadership has built um with communities and organizations um have been a tremendous um help for our communities and so I want to appreciate that and I want to thank you I know some of you have been out to the sites as um as food is being distributed also uh all the risk assessments as I was mentioned earlier they are done at every site so we are ready to go uh whichever way that you decide this morning uh we

183have been very proactive in making sure that we're following the social distancing guidelines and uh we've been doing a lot of work in the opening task force so I want you to know that our sites and our leaders are ready to take on whichever it is that that we decide today um also uh we attended uh trauma um informed training uh we are very much aware uh that there's going to be um social emotional needs not just of our students our community and our staff members so we want to make sure that we are implementing some of those best strategies and practices and that we are aware of those uh and so we're we went to some trainings and we we're doing some additionals uh trainings next week um um additionally uh currently right now

184uh sites are working on the return retrieval and pickup of personal items so um we are making sure that we're following those protocols but we do still have um students that are on needing to pick up their um their PE stuff or they are returning the band instrument because they're not going to be in junior high anymore and so we want you to know that those are being held and we are making sure that everything is followed um and we're doing Alpha scheduling and so we're taking every precaution as possible um and we're only Distributing things that are needed uh additionally we are going through registration finalizing that process and uh making sure that our students are are um coming in are feeling supported especially if they're coming from the elementary school and then again

185transition into high school so the registration process is going and uh we are calling parents and also making sure that if we have to do virtual appointments and things like that we're doing those as well um as I mentioned we have leadership Advan yesterday so we look forward to hear more details uh based on the decision today on how we can uh uh open up strongly obviously whether it's online or or in hybrid model um and again I want to uh commend so many um of our leaders out there administrators um who I've seen on their own time on Facebook group groups uh and book clubs um just wanting to learn more about cultural responsible uh and Equity practices and so there's a really strong dialogue and uh a need for us to make sure

186that those things are coming um into our professional development and so many of us um I see each other we see each other um off you know the work hours and so I want you to know that also we're spending some of our time um really um reading about learning about and um thinking about how we're going to implemented Implement those and make a stronger practices our School site um and lastly it was already mentioned but I just want to commend our leadership and our being so proactive and making sure that we have the right data and that we have Partnerships um really um looking at our partnership with latino Health Access in the County of Orange and opening up the test center uh for our communities and the mobile uh testing center so just

187really important um about being um aware of the needs of our students and knowing what they need and so I just really want to commend everyone for their work it has been a lot of work um but as it was mentioned it has really been a collective effort and so we're ready to go and uh we really appreciate the time uh you give us to give you some of these reports thank you Hilda and I'm glad you brought up again one more time you know the partnership that um you know they were drawn to us as a district because they know that they can count on ahsd do imp part to our leadership team doing part to our counseling doing part to our teachers being out there and um our classified staff um being at

188the ready being so positive and pivoting and researching and collectively um working as a team uh to solve these issues and so uh you know that that is due in part now we're now we're trying to uh figure out how to solve the covid crisis because of all the work that you all do um we we don't do it in silos we don't do it alone and as you said uh many of us are out there in the Facebook and then and showing that we're out there in the community and working so we have such a a valued reputation uh with that um and so um it could be undue uh stress that we're having to deal with this issue but who else is going to do it at this point uh so go ahead

189I I just also wanted to add because I forgot to mention and you U Were um asking us to do this um I'm actually meeting with my staff today at two uh many of us have these checkin connects informal just to keep people updated and so I want you to know that communication from the site level um has been happening I know some people send maybe a weekly or a monthly um you know update and things like that um I know already from my staff I probably have like 40 people that have said that they're going to come and connect um and so we we know how important it is to keep the communication the transparency and also we want to make sure that we meet people's needs because we tend to forget that we

190as adults are also going through a lot of stress and we want to be in the best state of mind to serve our community so that's really important so I do want you to know that um the sites are communicating and are meeting uh with staff um many in a volunteer basis uh but that is already happening and we have been meeting um with the principles and the leadership and so we want we want to stay connected when we know this work is really important and crucial at this time thank you you knew I was going to ask you that it is important work that we stay connected because yes the adults are going through a lot too any other uh board members want to ask any questions okay you did a thorough thorough job

191thank you so much Hilda we appreciate that uh and so moving on to our public comments um I'm sure we have many uh I was wondering if we could possibly uh kind of categorize the the comments condensing uh because usually we only allow about 20 minutes for the same subject if there is a way that we could do that Carl um maybe just and highlight some what about 7.2 oh um I don't know I didn't see uh PTSA on on the uh on the call but I apologize uh is there anyone here representing PTS say okay thank you uh okay um moving on um Carl I I'll just uh I mean we want to hear the comments uh how many do we have but I'll just ask that question now well so this morning we

192have public comment um that is on non- agendized items so we have a number of those 1 two three four five six 78 n 10 about 11 um and they're they're primarily about ethnic studies um that was a topic of conversation that came up a while ago I was going to suggest that we take the non- agendized public comment now we also have public comment on reopening of schools under 10.1 so perhaps we would hear that public comment when we get to the resolution um we can certainly do it all now but it may make sense to break that up how how would you prefer I think that's why okay and it's it's a little hard to sort of estimate so there's those two broad topics um it's a little hard for me to tell

193you know how long it will take to read through these um but if you do feel that I'm exceeding the time limit let me know and I can I'll I'll try be efficient with my reading okay well we just want to hear we want to hear uh what everyone has to say okay so our first public comment this morning comes from Randy Quinn uh who is an Anaheim uh Union High School District resident and again this is about ethnic studies I am a student of ahsd and I along with any many students in the ahsd community want ethnic studies to be a graduation requirement for all ahsd schools our current curriculum teaches American history from the perspective of white Americans while skims over some events addressing Race For example we looked at how America annexed

194northern Mexico during the Mexican-American War but not how Mexicans living there were affected by the border changes and the Civil movements led by Caesar chavit we looked at how the Japanese were put in interment camps during World War II but did not analyze their lives within them as well as some Japanese Heroes who came from those camps we looked at slavery and the Jim Crow laws but skim over the Harlem Renaissance and ignored the Tulsa Massacre with our country severely divided right now it is crucial for every Young American to learn about how each race with how each race acts within the events of American History I truly believe that this division within America is caused by misunderstanding and ignorance and I truly believe education and a proper curriculum would be one of the best

195solutions to restore the unity in the United States our second comment comes from Martha giri also an ahsd resident also on the topic of ethnic studies when will the board consider making ethnic studies a requirement for our high school students given that the district serves a majority of students of color and underrepresented students it would be expected that these students can learn about their history in their K12 public education and that non- students of color may also be educated on other cultures through an asset-based culturally responsive curriculum rather than a deficit based white- centered curriculum as a former ahsd student myself went on to UCLA and am currently enrolled in a PhD program it was saddening to me that during my time with aesd and ahsd that my curriculum was one-sided and not culturally responsive

196quente was probably the only program that offered me literature and curriculum that was related to my culture and identity I enjoyed my time at ahsd and I'm very lucky to have had a great education but I was also in honors and AP courses where teachers are often time more invested with their students and hold higher expectations than with their regular students this is based on personal communication with other students what can we expect from the board and District in regard to this request for mandatory not elective ethnic studies high school requirement the next uh comment is from Angelina abano also a district resident on teaching non-eurocentric history I want to start my comment off by acknowledging that though I am no longer a student of ahsd and the experiences I will be sharing may seem

197extremely specific they are meant to illustrate the ingrained socialization of whiteness and white acceptance now in my time as past student of aohd I was a student of the Junior High High School Oxford Academy particularly famed for its high standard in quality of education and student life however I believe it's important that more than just a select amount of people understand how I and several others feel about this school and its brand as it ties directly to what I want the Board of Trustees to address within the aohd education curriculum Oxford Academy Harbors students from privilege and Prides itself on unaccommodating standards this is a well-known fact of the school's purpose an existence as an entity to which I say I wasn't too unexpectant of the environment and I was choosing to get myself into

198yet besides my already somewhat pessimistic regard for the culture that awaited me several aspects of Oxford Academy remained completely inexcusable throughout my time enrolled it was normalized to perpetuate micro microaggressions against students of non-convention conventional ox Academy mold teachers and students alike were condescending and borderline racist I say this as most memorably strong Prejudice was held against students of non High socioeconomic residence which seemed to most teachers be directly linked toward student performance that is if a brown student couldn't particularly articulate their words as well as an Asian student you can probably guess how they typ casted and treated them for the rest of the year Oxford is most definitely a place that values academic performance of its student body yet there seemed to be a crucially fundamental screw missing basic moral empathy most of

199the misguided stereotyping was most times in some form of elitist disconnect from the perspectives of high academic achieving students despite almost the entirity of the student body being minorities there was a divide and the Perpetual existence of this particular particular Gap seemed to grow as we got older instead of smaller I found the greatest issue in being unable to minimize this disconnect was the lack of willingness to educate students on situations outside of a white appeasing context the lesson from day one as a student seem to be how can I best equip myself to become a tool for capitalism my personal Vendetta for the capitalist propaganda isn't necessarily what I want to touch on today so I'll skip over that but what but to want to ingrain monetization of time and existence in children growing

200up in inherently colorist and racist cultures due to years of imperialist and Colonial colonialist propaganda before articulating the structure of historical racism didn't sit right with me it's reflected in the students disconnect with each other and simple despise for city colleges it's connected in the way teachers want wanted to normalize having dumb students and smart students it's connected when teachers told kids that they'd never make it and should settle for reality like explain to me what exactly is reality I use my experience at Oxford simply to highlight that even in spaces placing academic success foremost quality education and understanding of others seems to fall second therefore including this area of study in the ahsd curriculum would most likely give way towards more worldly and empathetic students the next comment is from Juliana fan also an

201ehsd resident also about ethnic studies ahsd has made several efforts over the years to encourage Civic engagement and education enforcing a graduation requirement on volunteer hours and hosting events such as TED talks and Civics projects however while these efforts are effective to some degree they present activism in Civics is just another bullet on the checklist to graduate and apply for college as an Aluma of Oxford Academy I have seen the ramifications of that calculated approach to Civics education many Oxford students particularly those more privileged in terms of ethnic and economic background live in a bubble where grades and college acceptances have precedence over social issues in my experience initiatives such as the volunteer hours requirement and Civic engagement projects have made little to no impact in changing the mindset because it only provides a momentary

202surface level exposure to advocacy and social justice and Injustice instead of actually fostering Future Leaders that tends to foster a self-advancing distorted version of activism that benefits students resumés more than the actual Community many students complete their volunteer hours and their project successfully without fully understanding why their volunteering was important and without any intention to continue that service after the project is over and or their requirement is fulfilled that apathetic pseudo activism is the fault of neither the students nor the teachers involved students especially at Oxford are brought up and educated in an environment where time is limited grades are glorified and sociopolitical issues are ignored while the teachers in schools have good intentions the volunteering and Civic engagement requirements are are by Nature insufficient without additional civics or ethnic studies education on the other

203hand an ethnic studies course forces students and the entire campus alike to have a prolonged in-depth education understanding and discussion about race and the people's role in democracy this will by no means resolve all issues surrounding race or guarantee that every student will graduate so socially aware and actively anti-racist nevertheless an ethnic studies course is the first step toward changing the culture of the student body it can encourage ahsd residents from childhood to see the true status of race relations in America have empathy for those less privileged than themselves and be more willing to challenge injustices As civic-minded Leaders unlike the district's current efforts it can offer students the background information that will make them more likely to actually choose volunteerism and activism once they graduate and it is no longer just a school requirement

204our next comment comes from Dan Tran also an ahsd resident also about ethnic studies good morning Board of Trustees my name is Dan Tran and I am an alumnist of ahsd Oxford Academy class of 2017 I'm grateful that my six years at ahsd have prepared me to enroll in and thrive in postsecondary education with that being said the district has failed to educate students like me about living in a diverse World by not having ethnic studies as a graduation requirement I took a quarter-long ethnic studies course during my sophomore year of college as a graduation requirement the course involved reading 10 plus Page Long peer-reviewed articles every other day film analysis and engagement with current affairs the class did not not teach me to hate white people or America nor did it involve angry Rants

205and rallies for certain political parties or beliefs it did teach me about the often neglected stories of many ethnic groups in the US and how many of the injustices we see in the world today were created and are maintained by current social economic cultural and political institutions discussions took place in a Socratic seminar format and centered on the relevant topics of the week with participants expected to be respectful towards one another the class became more relevant to me as the last day of lecture occurred hours after the Christ Church shootings in New Zealand that lecture was given by a guest lecturer who discussed islamophobia and how Western involvement in the Middle East soed the seeds for the terrible events that day the history and Civics courses at ahsd schools failed to adequately teach students about

206the stories of different minority groups in the US I'm so grateful for wonderful teachers who aim to incorporate viewpoints not found in the curriculum but these Noble efforts were eclipsed by more utilitarian purposes specifically preparing for AP exams having ethic studies as a graduation requirement will allow all ahsd students to learn more about the history of marginalized communities without the pressures of high stakes testing ethnic studies is relevant to many students in their communities 49 languages are spoken by students in ahsd schools according to the district's website ethnic studies asked why speakers of some of those languages and their families ended up in the US in the first place your vision statement declares that aohd will graduate socially aware and civic-minded students ethnic studies educate students of all backgrounds about the social divisions that prevent

207liberty and justice for all from being fully realized in our country and encourages them to participate in Civil Society to conclude the creation an ethnic studies graduation requirement would allow ahsd to a achieve its mission for students by allowing them to hear student stories not mentioned in current classes tie historical events to current affairs and engage with issues that they may not have thought about or may disagree with ethnic studies classes are not a Panacea to for all of society's ills but they offer a platform for some of these issues to be studied and discussed thank you for listening to my comments our next comment comes from anha of Anaheim also about ethnic studies last summer I took int intro to Cho studies at Cypress College I just turned 17 and will be a high

208school senior at Oxford Academy this fall during this ethnic studies course which lasted only five weeks I learned more about my community and my voice than I ever did during the 5 years I've been at Oxford Academy the second best school scho in California as someone who has been at Oxford for so long I can say this with confidence Oxford Academy does not shape Minds to change or improve the World Oxford is a robotic institution of rigor that relies on calculated numbers for reputation and measures the worth of their students based on classist elitist inherently racist standards why is it that my peers with Straight A's and high SAT scores are the ones who use racist homophobic anti-sm I slurs at school and are uninformed about world affairs and government these kids will soon enter

209the workforce with internalized bigotry and bias perpetuating the cycle of inequality in our world our school system has failed us and washed away our identities it seems that ahsd loves to speak about diversity only when it's convenient for them but continues to neglect nearly 90% of its students or people of color we want ethnic studies human ities public policy teach us the racist history of Orange County teach us Asian latinx black indigenous self Asian North African culture give us Compassion or your five C's mean nothing superintendent matsuda you sent out an email following the outrage of George Floyd murder and said you were proud to see us stepping up for our black peers today we are stepping up for ourselves and our peers and we have every right to be angry and empowered make ethnic

210studies graduation requirement now next comment is from an anonymous resident of Anaheim about ethnic studies ethnic studies should be an ahsd graduation requirement because it is extremely important that the students of our district learn the history that actually represents them I am an alumni of ahsd during my six years of being a part of the district at Oxford Academy I hardly learned anything that truly accurately described the history of our country I went into my first two years of college completely clueless on the history of the US it wasn't until I took ethnic studies 101 during my fall semester that I learned how much I didn't know it angered me to know that I wasn't taught the true history it is extremely important that students learn the true narratives in order to feel represented and

211understand that we are still not past racism our students should not be graduating without learning the truth the next comment comes from am cower of Cyprus Also regarding ethnic studies on July 4th I created a petition calling for ahsd to adopt an ethnic studies graduation requirement and since then it has received 1,190 signatures the students and parents of ahsd want to see the curriculum represent the student body and be actively anti-racist ahsd is a minority and majority district with the student population being 67.8% Hispanic or Latino and 13.1% Asian in 2017 ethnic studies classes in countless Studies have shown to improve academic achievement Empower and increase student engagement even in diverse student groups that include white students ethnic studies classes have shown an increase in empathy improved racial attitudes increased cognitive development and higher democracy

212outcomes in students students of color deserve to see themselves represented in the history and English curriculum in an analysis of the history social science framework for California public schools of the 96 Americans that were named for study at the secondary level 79% were white schools are doing a disservice to students by failing to adequately include the perspective of people of color in the curricula adding on History classes often see the past through Rose tinted glasses and fail to recognize that racism is a current issue and not one that ended with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 we are not taught about red lining the War on Drugs Black Wall Street which is misleading and doesn't show the full picture of American History we're also calling for ahsd to revise the curriculum to be accurate anti-racist

213and contain a more diverse represent representation of indigenous black Latino Asian Etc groups in history English and other other subjects as deemed necessary some people might hold the belief that ethnic studies classes are divisive however ethnic studies as a graduation requirement would help students Bridge differences that already exist in experiences and perspectives Los Angeles Unified School District and Santa Ana Unified School District have already decided to make ethnic studies as a graduation requirement and I believe that ahsd should follow suit in order to actively raise a generation of empowered and socially aware adults next comment comes from uni Kim uh also about ethnic studies the way that schools have taught history has favored white stories over black indigenous and people of color stories for some time now with an Ever diverse and Progressive Era the

214education for the new generation needs to reflect that as a school district with the majority of black indigenous and people of color students you have the responsibility of making sure that each student learns applicable life lessons equally and that starts with teaching black indigenous and people of color stories that have long been covered up to favor a white demographic so that all students feel represented and proud of their ancestry history should teach students about people about the decisions that they made and how it led to a better or worse outcome much of the world's development has come from talented people not just talented white people students should know that by adding representation you are teaching an accurate version of History while spreading the message that black indigenous and people of color students are valued please

215consider adding ethic studies to the curriculum our next comment comes from Gren cower uh an Anaheim Union High School District resident about ethnic studies I believe that ahsd should be making ethnic studies of graduation requirement in history we study many people in events and the majority of them aren't not people of color however looking at ahsd student population the majority of students are people of color I believe these students should see themselves represented in the classroom as well speaking from personal experience I pay more attention to topics in class when they are related to me if everyone is represented in their classes they will try harder and be more engaged in class this graduation requirement would also help non- people of color students understand more about other cultures and be open to new ideas the

216next comment comes from Ashley buy an ahsd resident about ethnic history this past summer I was able to take the course American ethnic studies at Cypress College over the duration of that course I felt more empowered and knowledgeable about American history due to the fact that it did not continue to regurgitate the same eurocentric based history by the end of the course I was ashamed that my high school education left out the Deep struggles of assimilation and systemic oppression that many groups went through in order to favor a history that is pro colonization and IGN ignores important history like Native American assimilation deep impacts of Jim Crow sleepy Lon case Japanese internment camps Etc or simply put a history that glosses over these very struggles in favor of a history that sees people like me

217as very Side characters of American History I learned more in that class than I ever did in any honors or AP course at Oxford Academy and has empowered me in so many ways possible ahsd is composed of different ethnic backgrounds yet we only learn about history from a perspective that praises the efforts of the white man and ignores the beautiful and complex history of all of us where is our Cho history our indigenous history our Asian history our black history we want to learn our history and I feel it is it should not be a question question of whether or not we should get to learn that please make ethnic history a graduation requirement that concludes the general uh public comment M president uh can I ask a clarifying question real quick sure all right

218so um I I want to first of all wow uh powerful statements by our current students and alumni on H requesting an advocating for ethnic studies so kudos to all of them who actually put in the time to uh write this uh I asked this uh last board meeting I asked the board to join me and also asking the uh superintendent looking into uh bringing uh ethnic studies as a graduation requirement uh since we have folks I'm assuming all of them are watching as well uh can jiren can you uh kind of give us a a little bit of an update and where we are at and I know that you could also talk a little bit about the access to ethnic studies that we have on at ahsd yes uh before that uh Mr

219Jabar I was just going to remind everyone that um usually uh board members are not um uh allowed to respond to uh public comments I just want to make sure that we understand um this is uh a little unusual you're asking a clar in question you're not actually responding to uh to what we hear today um but yes before that uh Mr H matuda would you like to respond to that first or would you like to respond after uh uh Dr freed I too would like to Echo um the uh the board's comments and thank the students uh and alumni for timing in on ethnic studies I it's a very complex issue we do have a uh couple of uh committees that are uh looking into this uh the black uh lives matter task force

220with teachers involved and I know that ASA uh with uh with Grant uh under grants leadership as also have uh a committee that's looking at sort of uh what are we doing to uh address more of a climate of inclusiveness including ethnic studies so um I think you're going to hear the board is going to hear more as we get more information from these uh task force yeah so just to chime in and add a little bit more to what Mike said first I also want to thank um our students or for and former students for submitting their public comments I'm also um just blown away and uh super impressed with the power of what they what they shared and I do want to share um I think as a c that we're all in

221agreement of how important ethics nutes is and I I think we mentioned this at our last Bo Mee I know trusty Jabar just asked me to kind of rehashes since they may not have been a part of the last boarding but I'm also super proud of the work our district has done where um although it's not a graduation requirement um we have been one of the first districts SEC secondary districts in the county where we have been offering ethnic studies for a number of years now and again I want to clarify it's not um a requirement but it is something we've been offering we've offered it at a number of our sites Western ilc Anaheim ilc it's been offered um and been taught by um you know Lera High School by one of our teachers

222and I'm high school by one of our teachers we also currently offer ethnic studies as a part of our dual enrollment opportunities for our students um so Cypress College and Forton College have been a part of that process with us which we're excited about many of our high schools are currently offering it through one of those formats but there's a couple schools where they did offer it initially but because of low interest or low enrollment it had to close but as you know with everything that's been going on the last especially the last several months I would suspect the interest is is definitely much higher for these kinds of opportunities per our last board meeting uh Mr clone and I have met with Mr Hernandez he just for the folks who are watching he's our

223director of curriculum and instruction he's going to be overseeing this task force and looking really at at a couple of options one is is ethnic studies as a grad requirement a standalone class and if so where would that Fall Would it fall under social science would it fall under English Etc so that's one of the things the task force will have to r with two is is it a class that could be integrated um uh into existing courses so as as you heard from the students who just did the public comments um could it be embedded or integrated into our current US History government classes world history courses um and English courses there's a lot of teachers in our district who through the work that we've done with Civic engagement have already begun to integrate

224lessons and activities that that clearly um support ethic studies and bring that awareness in their classroom and then three could it be a combination of the two right could it be a standalone and something that's integrated into current existing courses so when we met with Mr Hernandez our first task was putting a task force together making sure we have the right people in the room so we're working with getting um both administrators current teachers both in English and in social science to be part of that task force we'll also be working with Grant uh for asked to select a few teachers in addition who would serve on that task force as Mike indicated simultaneously we have uh through Dr eagens and Carlo Davis teacher at kall high school they're going to be working with the

225black student unions and black Liv matters movement uh to really build capacity and awareness in our district uh especially uh this fall and into the year um so a lot of things are happening simultaneously and I will be able to report back updates as we progress but uh we anticipate beginning this task force when school begins and our teachers are officially back at work um just you know we have a couple of um folks who who are in our district that that are we're going to definitely tap into to be a part of this task for as you know Jose L is a resident expert in ethnic studies has done a lot of great meaningful work he will also serve on our task force and then um Paul mgal I know he's a teacher in

226our district who just left to be a professor at Cal State Los Angeles um but he is still living in the community I know that he has done a lot of great work really being the Pioneer for ethnic studies in our district he will also I think serve on this task force as a consultant and giving feedback um before he left too I have gotten his files I have all of the uh materials activities all of the work that he has done I will be sharing that with Ruben patino our social science curriculum specialist who is working with Carlos on putting some names together who would serve on that task force and then again uh I'm excited about the work ahead and I agree with what the student said it is something that is of

227high importance to us and we will be coming to you shortly with some recommendations but but I do want to put the caveat um this is not something that's done overnight as you can imagine if we decide to integrate for example um there's some work in not only integrating that curriculum within existing curriculum but then there's a lot of training that's involved in getting our teachers up to speed in terms of how they deliver that curriculum and doing so with sensitivity and and and again that culturally response of teaching and then nicely the nice thing is we already have the course work and the curriculum that for the Standalone classes uh that have been in our district so that may not be as heavy a lift if that's the direction we go but again it's

228training teachers making sure we have the right folks who are teaching that because that's going to be critically important too that when kids are being given this content this curriculum and these experiences that it's done with a teacher who exercises great compassion great sensitivity and that awareness of of of the larger context of what's happening in society as we speak so so we will provide you updates along the way in terms of how this task force uh progress so thank you for the opportunity to speak about that work C jaar thank you Dred I'd like to add a couple of other things too I noticed that in the YouTube chat box uh one of our pente teachers Robin trer pointed out that we've been uh H we're a very strong District in pente we have

229that at many of our schools and even uh we are piloting at some of the junior high schools as well and as uh Dr free pente of course is an English uh uh class uh that had culturally responsive teaching especially a lot of Latino literature in there we also are a leader in the the whole seal of biliteracy and we have a number of uh World language teachers including uh DLI teachers that incorporate cultural and cultural role models and uh a lot of integration of um the the histories of minorities in this country um and the thing too is we are a district that does not teach to the test the teachers currently have a lot of freedom uh art teachers U all across the curriculum and we've seen so many great examples of uh

230sort of integration of ethnic studies into the curriculum and into the projects uh look at the the whole covid-19 teachable moment projects there are a lot of cultural components in there grounded in social justice uh one of the students mentioned the the emphasis of uh Civic engagement in democracy schools and I um you know that it's it's a there's a whole Spectrum out there but I can tell you enough teachers really believe in it for the right reasons and are trying to position Civic engagement in ways that are grounded in social justice so students have opportunities to um help make change in the world for the better making the world a better place through that fifth SE and I'm glad that some of the students are are are writing to hold us accountable in terms

231of what our five Cs really mean what democracy really means uh this is certainly the time to uh to address those issues but it's very complex and we are um I think um ahead as you know of many other districts and offering ethnic studies with through dual credit you had mentioned on Oxford Academy there are ethnic studies courses through Cypress College that you can take at all of our U at all of our sites so in a way by default especially at the high schools we have that opportunity with our Partnerships with the community colleges as well so um thank you again students in alumni for uh uh voicing your opinions and um one thing I noticed too is that it was not like you cut and pasted those uh comments those were all well

232crafted separate based on your own experiences and at least you can thank the Oxford teachers for that right because you can write a good argumentative essay and I I really uh commend you and uh you know U we're listening we we hear you thank you thank you Mr Jabar for uh bringing that forward at the last meeting um we learned a lot and I'm hoping that the the students in alumni who wrote in understand that we are listening we are hearing um a lot of us are likeminded uh and and the more you learn about what we have and the more you learn about what we are uh what we have in place and what we've already been doing I hope that assuages um you know a lot of your concerns and that we are

233working on this um and um uh you know we're just really impressed we love when our students uh voice their opinions and you did learn your Civic engagement uh practice your Civic engagement today so thank you any more uh comments Mr Jabar no I thank you again and thank you Mike and jarn for um taking a look at that I I hope to see something uh in the coming at least weeks uh to figure that part out as a graduation requirement thank you I also have a clarifying question when people are uh talking about uh sanana uh my understanding they only have like three courses I'm not sure what they have in terms of how many courses and I know the when they just approved I think it's over a few years for them to

234to work towards developing the requirement I'm not sure what it's going to look like I think they like like us will be putting a task force together um to determine what that's going to look like but I don't know what they've done prior I can look into it and get back to you but I don't know off top of head so I want to it was my understanding not to put them down but I know people are are holding uh you know their their uh their graduation requirement um as if it's happening yesterday and I know we we know that it's not it's taken uh some time and I know that what I thought I heard is that we had more courses uh comparatively to them so just saying just saying um Sharon did you

235uh hi our csca president did you have any comments we can we can bring you in at this point I actually just remembered that you guys were doing this so I uh I'm like oh my God I got to get on here so sorry about that because I've been dealing with employees and stuff so I actually didn't hear what you just said I actually just got on so I'm not quite sure what you're talking about so I okay well do you have a do you have a report uh to give us you miss that portion so I just wanted to make sure that you gave your input um we haven't uh gotten to 9.2 yet if you wanted to chime in okay um yeah well I'm I I do want you guys to know I've

236had um quite a few people calling me because they're very anxious very concerned very um worried very you know I mean they're all over the spectrum of what's going to happen um and um with us going 100% virtual and I understand that um uh I have to say though I think the district has done a fabulous job of getting us ready to do the hybrid and it's a shame that we're not doing that because they have Diana Guetta has been working like nonstop and I'm very proud of our district on how well we've done that and we you know we're actually ready to go to where it is possible to do that so I was kind of sad that they went all virtual but now everybody's fear is what's going to happen to me what's

237going to happen to me because you know we can we can negotiate and do us to try and get um people repurposed and to do things so they don't get laid off or they don't have nothing to do or whatever but there's we have a lot of people in our group and and I don't know I mean I'm sure I'll be working with Brad and jiren and whoever to try and you know repurpose all these people um so they all have something to do so nobody feels like they have to be laid off because people are scared they think they're going to lose their job so and they're all being very understanding I sent out an email yesterday to everybody explaining what was happening what we're going to do you know just don't worry we're

238gonna work it out the district's always been good to everybody so which kind of caled a lot of people's nerves because I got I got an email back from them a lot of people saying thank you thank you thank you so that made them feel a lot better but there's still others that aren't sure you know what's going to happen or what have you and they're kind of chomping at the bit wanting to know what is going to happen so and and I think that's pretty much everybody but you know I'm very proud of our district how well all you leaders have done to get things going and and and making sure that we could do this for the kids thank you Sharon and we appreciate all the time that you've been uh available to

239have meetings and and being part of the task force and uh representing all of the employees um we share your angst we share you know as we know all of this is unfolding every day there's new information and so uh we're we're we're trying to be as um transparent and accountable and we're trying to put out the data we're trying to uh you know work within um our means but yes we we still um we still have a lot of things to work through but thank you for your comments uh we appreciate it so much thank you thank you board members I also wanted to give you a chance if you wanted to make a comment uh about what we heard um I know we're not usually supposed to be speaking um about uh public

240comments but uh if you had anything that you just wanted to to clarify no Anna uh Katherine clarification I I would like to say that I send a virtual hug to everyone who spoke and gave their uh thoughts in the comments and um they're taken to heart and it's just a big thank you thank you Katherine and Marie I have a lot of comments but I don't think it's the time right now in other words so I want to wait until this is a subject we can actually discuss gotta gotcha any clarification Mr O'Neal I see you but I don't hear you I guess you couldn't see me either no not now okay thank you all right uh we will move on to our uh 9.1 45 day stay budget revision um Dr root good

241afternoon U Board of Trustees um board president Randall tro superintendent Matt suudi cabinet and Community I'm gonna share my screen real quickly with you so that you can see the presentation so this is a presentation that we have not done in in a few years here in Anaheim Union High School District maybe in many years but it is called the 45 day revise and the purpose of the 45 day revise is because when we present the budget to you in June the governor has actually not signed the formal budget and so things can change for the positive or for the negative between the time we present to you and the time the actual budget is accepted and then as you all well know we don't come back to you with a budget update until December

242so this is um a budget update I want to again um just recognize the work that we do together as a budget um Team Jerry did a fabulous job getting the information and making the changes we needed to change in our budget so that we could present this to you today so again go the legislature passed and Governor Nome signed an ontime budget um Education Code 42127 I4 says that for no later than 45 days after the governor signs a budget the district shall make available for public review any revisions and re um revenues and expenditures that it is made to its budget to reflect the funding made available by the budget act and so that is what we're indeed doing today so with the budget there were some major changes and I'm not going

243to go into every change but the ones that that were most impactful to our budget we had some definite positive budget changes if you recall when I did the budget presentation for you in June I presented two budgets the governor's bu proposed budget the legislator's proposed budget and my final closing comment was that it would end up somewhere in the middle and that indeed is what happened so from a positive front there was an elimination of thega 7.92% deficit Factor um there was a maint maintenance of an in the increase in funding for special education from $557 per student to $625 per student and that's for all students um we're funded based on all of our students for special education not not just our students that are identified as having um special needs there was

244an ADA hold harmless for 2021 to the 201920 Ada that is beneficial to us in two areas first it helps us because with covid with school closures um we have no idea as a district or anyone in the state has an idea of how that's going to impact students ability to participate in education and be here but for Anaheim Union High School District it has another layer of benefit in that because we're a declining enrollment um District our our Ada goes down so this will hold harmless that ADA for that as well we also had the reinstatement of several categorical programs most notable to our budget is the reinstatement of the Career Technical education incentive Grant we've received that for theast past several years um most recently it's about $1.6 million a year so we

245were able to budget that back in which is a portion of how we pay for our Roop program and then something not impacting our general fund but currently right now there are talks we're still getting specifics on it of um a provision for an additional 75 cents for reimbursable meals during school closure why that could be important to our general fund is that that we've been um held harmless to maintain all of our employees within Food Services yet we've seen a drastic decrease in the number of of meals we have served to the community and so um every month um the Food Services Program program is losing money fortunately we had a um robust ending fund balance but should that go away within the next year the negative would come to the district and general

246fund would be required to pick up those expenditures so this could be helpful should we continue in this covid environment um for a longer period of time the negative change is that they're still recommending the elimination of the cola for all years and just to give you a perspective on that for us for Co the elimination of cola and assuming a 3% Cola um for all four the four years we budget out for that's a loss of $120 million um if we take everything on the other side with the exception of that deficit Factor it doesn't add up to that amount over the four years so this this one bullet is highly impactful we've chatted before about the reality that um to maintain status quo we need a 4% fulla cost of living adjustment and

247that 4% covers any increases to Health and Welfare it increases the increases to stirs and purs which we did continue to have a hold harmless on um stir and purs a reduction for two years um but also our step in column and Longevity that we pay for our employees um we have a natural increase of about 1.5% for employee salaries and so that is part of that as well and then again it prohibited layoffs of certificated Personnel minus that of um management Transportation staff food services staff and custodial staff that also be can be an issue in some respects because there may have been some natural need for attrition due to declining enrollment within our district and the fact for new food services in the elementary school district we also serve that we now cannot

248do um based on this law our enrollment we have um continued that to remain the same um for the next years but where we see a change is within our Ada so if you look at our Ada um we now have that little blue hold harmless right there um so just to indicate that that's there but then the next year that we we'll see a double drop and I'll show that to you in a moment on a further slide we have our Revenue went back up into the 400 Millions so we're anticipating a revenue of 403 million 666,666 and again that is about 93% um state revenue and there still is a lot of talk out there that we're going to see we may rece um revised state budget come August or September for most

249of you know that um you're personal income tax was um revised from an April 15th date to a July 15th date so it was just yesterday that many folks held off to pay their taxes so the state is just going to be reconciling what they have um as opposed to revenue so we do need to keep an eye out on that again another way of just looking at how our dollar is um received we also have our duplicated pupil three-year rolling average and to just put this on the Forefront this is how we are alloc part of the way we are allocated um our supplemental concentration grant funding so unduplicated people count includes our foster youth our English language Learners and our free and reduced lunch students one one concern we have is that if

250this is being held harmless with the ada8 still waiting to hear on that but also ensuring that we are able to get a very um loud message out to our community in both the Elementary District and the high school district that we still need families to fill out the free and reduced lunch forms regardless of whether the state were to remain on the waivers that we've had for Food Services where everybody is free um this money which is again about $62 million for our school district is money that is used to do so many of the so much of the important work we do with counselors and mental health professionals and additional programs and so we want to ensure we have that funding to support our students especially during this um difficult time so spending

251our money we are are projected to spend $411 million and um of that you it's about 80 plus percent that is our certificated salaries um classified salaries and employee benefits another way of looking at that so what does so what happened with the when the governor signed the budget is we changed the assumptions that we worked with to schedule the budget so we were able to when I showed the slide to you in June you were able to see that there was a deficit Factor we've removed that we've adjusted the Colwood to zero we've put in that instead of a decline in funded Ada that we would have a hold harmless and there were some minimal um changes in some of these years to the unduplicated count by just a 0.01 um so not anything

252that was substantial we also removed from this if you recall on the the budget that we presented we had a global reduction of $10 million a year in ongoing expenditures that we had assumed in the budget for 2021 we have removed that at this point also looking at the out Years you'll see the the continuation of the zeroc cola you'll see the decline in enrollment in Ada and then again we had some minor changes in duplicated count so this is and I'm not sure why that's looking like that um we have um our multi-year projection and I always draw you to the bottom line anyway so it's very clear what you can see if you look at I Roman numeral 2 number two available reserves um and out to that very last column you will

253see that based on the the governor's adopted budget um we will we are projected to be negative $30.6 million in the third year out by law we are required to do current year and two years out so to be positive so that would be a six where the 6.77 million is so we are still currently positive there um when you're looking at those three years is about $1.2 billion dollar um to have six million left is is smaller than we have had recently at that level um but looking at that 30.6 million in that third year out we will buy by June of next year need to present a budget to you with reductions of over $30.6 million to be able to continue to have a positive budget the reason that we see that going

254to $3.6 million is because our budget is currently under a structural deficit this year we're scheduled to do 20 $3.2 million structural deficit in 2021 13.9 million doll structural deficit in 2122 and you'll notice a very large jump to that next year 2223 to 38.5 million of structural deficit and again growing to 45.6 in that fourth year most of the money that the governor um provided us that was on the left side of those positive changes a lot of it was just for a couple years um the stir and purs was a two-year the Ada is just a single year and so as we continue to not be able to project a coess that all goes into becoming a deficit for us one of the other things that is going to be challenging for our

255district is this um area of deferrals um I've been very fortunate as a as an assistant superintendent of business in my six years I came right after the deferral period but prior to my time as an um assistant superintend a business this was commonplace for multiple years in the Great Recession and so this chart shows you what the state is doing so the state right now is saying we are going to allocate this money to schools but we really don't have it to give to you and so it's you know the popey and the Wimpy I actually heard a very similar thing on a presentation the other day um that they're saying we're gonna uh pay um we want a hamburger today and we're going to pay you next week so if you look at

256the very bottom of the chart where it says February next February February 2021 they're going to defer part of money they provide to us out to November of 2021 so they're going to say yes Anaheim Union High School District we're giving you the money but we will not receive the cash the same thing will happen in March and that money will be paid with us in October April paid to us in September May paid to us in August and then June paid to us in July our current estimates on what the deferrals for that time will look like is about $58 million and so what that means is that we will continue to keep a very very close eye on our cash flow because just because it's budgeted doesn't mean the cashes is here yet

257and maybe money that's received later and so we always do a two-year cash flow but we will keep it even um closer eye on that to make sure that we um we understand when we might be getting low in cash because that would require us to borrow money from the treasury which could be would be a cost to the district as well um we you'll also see on the very left hand side we had a deferral slight deferral this year as well the state had one so what are our next steps would be to review this um continue to review the state revenue for receipt of personal income tax as well as sales taxes as people are um quarantining at home they're spending less money and so that will be less money at the state

258in that area we need to monitor um for a potential Federal relief package the goal right now of that Federal relief pack package would not be to give more money to public education it would be at this point what I'm reading is it would be to um be able to mitigate the deferrals so the state would be able to pay us when we were supposed to receive and again the most important thing right now for us as a district is to continue to review the impacts of declining enrollment when we see how many students arrive um back into our um hybrid virtual or in classroom um School in August and see how many students are still here or did we sustain additional loss due to um the economy um as well as our competing fiscal

259demands and then we do need to look at starting to implement Implement cost saving reductions um and Staffing reductions to be able to have a plan for the that $30 million shortfall we're going to see in our uh third year out so that is the presentation for today I'm G to stop sharing my screen so again like Dr freed said it's always nicer to see your faces are there any questions today thank you Dr roote um I we'll just go in order uh Mr O'Neal did you have any questions no very very good U presentation thank you Dr rot thank you uh Mr jaar well a couple of questions one is um Jennifer I'm sure this was presented to our uh Asar ASA folks and all our bargaining uh teams in terms of all the

260numbers we had we had shared our tenative numbers with them about a week and a half ago I believe and they're very similar to what they are now they're off by it sounds funny but off by only about a million dollars which isn't big in on our budget overall so all the numbers that we saw ASA members got to see um they have they I don't know if I showed them per se the structural deficit as it was but they have SE they have heard the numbers of the ending fund balance yes okay and then the next question well I think the that's okay I that that's enough yeah Miss piery no questions because Jennifer you've done a very good job of of letting us know what is going to be happening and it's not

261great I mean this delayed funding I that I find really confusing but in other words it's like you said they're going to give it they're going to let me pay for my hamburger two weeks from now you know um good job Jennifer thank you unfortunately we are so dependent upon the state and they're just pushing things out further and further and we need help so okay good job though thank you thank you thank you uh my my comment is for the people listening in we have to have a 3% Reserve correct correct and that will not ever be touched and it was reassuring because we're coming into unknown territory monetarily and uh with this um uh virus so I felt reassured and we we and rest assure we will stay close to your information and

262listen to you as it changes thank you thank you and uh Jennifer you said that we are dependent about 93% uh on the state budget so uh we're really hoping that the federal dollars come in uh what is the buzz out there with the money people what are they saying is it coming in or you know I haven't heard anything super recently I know they are are hoping for that they're assuming that we had that back in the last recession and that will happen um but at this point I've not heard anything more concrete recently unfortunately I can look into that though and to clarify uh the last recession uh we're not going to get as much money as we got in the last it's not projected that we're supposed to get as much money

263as we got in the last uh recession well currently the money they're looking at is restoring to keep the budget whole versus going into reductions the money that we have currently received for federal relief has all been targeted toward covid relief so it's all been for PPE learning loss mitigation um really serving our students and ensuring that we minimize any impacts that they have due to this time not necessarily to um address the budget as a whole and and supporting what we're already doing okay just to add a comment I think uh board members we have some work to do we've got to contact our um our Senators and Congress uh persons out there and Advocate um you know we want to we want to keep our folks and we want to make sure that

264we can stay afloat during this this hard time but thank you so much Jennifer for your time um I and Jerry uh and everyone that uh works on these uh presentations very concrete I wish it was better news though could have been worse I guess we can go with that Al righty um moving on to 9.2 School dismissal and distance learning and that's the presentation that we held earlier out of order oh thank you so since this is an action item do we have to start with the motion and then don't vote on 10.1 okay there we go 10.1 uh resolution number 2020 sl21 db-02 reopening of schools for the 202 -21 year action item second okay Paulina you'll have to decide who said it first um any question or comments well I guess we

265just take everyone in order Mr and Madam president this is this is the one that has the the public comments oh that's right I could read those wow um so my question to you um in kind of perusing over the uh the the comments are um are are most in in favor of of of uh well how many how many did you say we had there I believe there are fewer and shorter comments than the last round it will be less than 20 minutes okay I I I thought maybe there were were a dozens more okay okay go ahead and um read the comments thank you I apologize no of course uh so the first comment comes from Daniel Kang of La Palma please make reopening of 2020 fall semester session to be 100% online

266only this is not just for teacher and student but also it is for the entire community in Orange County and Los Angeles County prepare 100% online session in advance as soon as possible please do not waste any seconds any longer debating on hybrid or online only make a solid statement of 100% online class will be provided for Anaheim un High School District as soon as possible the next comment is from Joe kosi of Cyprus thank you for your time this afternoon as a parent of two children in ahsd and a middle school teacher in a neighboring District I strongly oppose sending students back to school campuses when the surveys went out for parent input I was torn by all of the different models and online possibilities like Cambridge which was being touted as a virtual

267option after speaking to their staff they don't accept all students who enroll but the biggest issue wasn't being addressed what happens when a student gets the virus I read about transmission and more morality rates like everyone else but it just takes one student to bring it home to a parent with an at risk condition if the true mortality rate of children is 0.0016 this is probably higher because students were the first to quarantine back in March but I'll use it as a starting point and ahsd has 33,100 187 students then 53 students in our district would die one life is too many but 53 it is to much of a gamble I understand the enormous pressure of a teacher doing distance learning and how difficult it can be but I also see amazing Ingenuity and

268perseverance in the teachers of our district my son's teachers at Cypress High were thrown into the fire and I thought they did a fantastic job I know they have even received more training this summer so I know my boys will get a top tier education whether they are home or at school we shouldn't put these hardworking people at risk either they deserve our Applause and protection I guess my point is there is no rush to reopen the conservative approach is to not reopen until we know the virus is under control if we follow wh guidelines and get the positivity rate under 5% I believe we can reopen safely please follow the experts science and data thank you the next comment is from Jennifer Morales uh a district resident children going back to school 7th to

26912th grade is easier to keep at home and away from from the possibility of getting the virus these are important measures to take for the safety of our children and their family please do not let students return back to school until it is safe again when the virus is gone the next comment comes from Ryan clock a district resident dear ahsd Board of Trustees I'm writing to Advocate to you my preference and reasoning for the return to school in August 2020 for your upcoming vote on the matter on July 16 2020 first of all all I would like to say that I have three children at schools in the district one at Lexington Junior High and two at Cypress high school before you for your consideration are three options on the reopening of schools one

270full return to school sites for in-person instruction and activities two a hybrid model of combination of virtual and distance learning and on-site learning three 100% full virtual distance learning I would like to say that I'm heartbroken for students of the 20 20 20 21 school year especially the seniors of which my daughter is one I am sure you and most parents are with me when I say that my wish is that the students could return to on-site School however after my research and thoughtful consideration I believe that option number three full virtual distance learning is the best most prudent option for the physical safety of our children and the students I implore you to cast your vote in this direction unfortunately option three is not the best in interest of children academic Health social and

271mental health I recommend strongly that programs Outreach and resources be created to provide and engage our children and teachers to a rigorous and structured V virtual academic program that holds our students their teachers and their administrators accountable for attendance participation performance and that inspires Excellence furthermore I recommend that our students teachers administrators and parents and Guardians be provided strong district and Community Support perhaps this can occur with programs that engage one socially and creates opportunities for engagement the purpose being the fostering of healthy and robust psyche during this challenging season I believe that strong financial support of the Visual and Performing Arts would be a great Ally to Foster our children's expression of their thoughts and feelings as they Traverse this time thank you for the opportunity to communicate to you my views on this

272matter our next comment comes from Hannah an ahsd student I personally don't feel safe going back to school because the number of cases are rising and mostly in Anaheim so I'm not entirely comfortable with returning to school but school is also the only place I can actually focus on doing my schoolwork at home it is quite easy to get distracted and since we are at home we sleep late and wake up late that means we're missing classes while at school we have a set time to get there and get ready it's quite hard to choose one it's either the safety of all of us or students education but I think most students can agree with me that it might not be the best idea to return but it is easier to actually learn at school

273it doesn't make it easier to decide but it is also something to think about next comment comes from Amin cower of Cyprus ahsd should not have any in person instruction this coming school year yes covid-19 has a lower mortality rate for children but it's not worth the risk also I would like to ask what is being done to protect staff and older family members of students who have a much higher mortality rate from the possibility of Contracting the Corona virus if ahsd plans to make four or five days online then why not make the entire week online if there is in-person instruction I believe that there is a high chance that there that student students and staff will be more focused on keeping themselves safe rather than focusing on instruction which makes reasons for inperson

274instruction somewhat invalid as cases continue to rise it just doesn't make sense to have any in-person instruction if there were around two to three th000 cases on covid-19 nationally on March 14th and schools were closed then does it make sense to reopen when there are 3.48 million Los Angeles and un and Sandy unified school districts have already declared that their instruction will be all online this fall so I don't see a reason why we shouldn't also the board should be taking guidance of public health professionals and keeping the health of students staff and their families in mind first and foremost which the hybrid model does not fully consider in my opinion the next comment comes from Ella kamaren an ahsd resident Frank it is disconcerting to see that it is even an option at this

275point to have in-person classes as a student of the district I can see that many of my peers continue to be unsafe continue to congregate and participate in unnecessary activities and I'd much rather not risk come becoming infected at this point in time seeing how many schools are handling things such as item drop offs or pickups Sports programs or other non-essential events I honestly do not feel as if the district is protecting me regardless of class size in a hybrid model I see peers posting on social media about their unnecessary excursions or going up to each other to talk and hug at item drop offs for hanging out in large groups the precautions taken by a few and enforced by even less will not have any effect against a vast majority of careless people it

276is simply not yet time to begin taking risks this large numbers continue to rise to record-breaking highs so the suggestion of this seems ludicrous the next comment is from Cecilia HOSA of Cyprus good morning I want to thank the superintendent for his leadership and all the teachers and all staff for the amazing job they did in distance learning for the last months of the 2019 2020 school year also want to thank you for the decision of bringing the distance learning model for the upcoming year to keep students safe and staff the next comment comes from Allison Lee hello thank you for your time my name is Allison and I am a new teacher in the district when we first heard Whispers of the covid-19 pandemic students asked me what I thought about it I brushed

277it off remembering my experiences seeing H1N1 Ebola and zika fears come and go I told them that more people die from the flu I told them as long as they wash their hands and cough into their elbows they would be fine on the the day that would be the last day of school I met a student who was not my own they were in utter Panic about covid-19 because they had a health condition that put them at higher risk of dying and I comfort them saying covid-19 would not impact our community I was wrong I was wrong online learning this past spring was terrible I worried about my students particularly their emotional well-being if I wasn't doing well emotionally how would an adolescent feel another concern was learning loss these worries are on my mind

278now as we consider reopening plans there is no learning loss worse than losing a friend a teacher or a family member to covid-19 there is no learning loss worse than a student dying themselves if we are to believe the non- expertise of Betsy divos only 0.02% of students will die with ahsd serving over 30,000 students that percentage comes to six children six children how many families is that how many other children will get sick how many teachers get sick how many people will have their lives crushed knowing that a child we should have helped Thrive and succeed instead loses their life because we decided we had to go to school in person six children who will never again get to play sports six children who will never get to finish High School six children who

279will never get the chance to apply for college regardless of the learning loss this past summer s six children who will be acknowledged for the last time in a school year book spread we know Anaheim is one of the hardest hit cities in Orange County with over 3,000 cases and over 100 lives lost at the time of my writing this is without schools being open for in-person Education even if we use a hybrid model with temperature scans and masks and social distancing spread from asymptomatic carriers can can and does happen all it takes for our communities to be at risk is one small mistake or one big fear one teacher afraid of losing their job or one parent afraid of losing theirs we need to be supporting our community in safely staying home this past

280spring teachers and students had to make an immediate unprepared transition and yet we saw the resiliency and Brilliance that students have always had albeit buried somewhat due to the circumstances I urge you to vote for 100% online learning until there is publicly available vaccine online learning will not be perfect the teachers can do better and students can learn even if the majority of their learning gains are years from now when schools reopen they just need a chance in to be alive thank you our final public comment with respect to this item comes from Stephany Wade of Anaheim good morning president Randall tro and trustees my name is Stephanie Wade I'm an Anaheim resident residing in Mr jabbar's first trustee area though I am the parent of a grown child and a third grader who attend

281School in Culver City Unified I am as a former PE and social studies teacher with 15 years of experience writing to express my concern about agenda item 10.1 concerning the reopening of school I do this because we are all stakeholders and the entire Community even those who live outside of Anaheim will be affected by the decisions you make here I do not envy your position the matter of school policy has become hyperarid that this matter has become a political football is indicative of the broader ills of our society this is not to say that there are easy choices to make here even those who suggest that we should simply follow the science are wrong the truth is that you must make a decision about school safety that while informed by the best data and science

282possible must at roote to be a moral decision this is so because no matter what you do there will be great harm done to some parties thus your decision is not a scientific decision it is a moral and ethical one in which there are no right answers your opening of school's task force was charged with coming up with which formulated three options for opening the district schools a blended instructional model a full virtual slist learning instruction model and a full in-person instructional model I hope it is clear now with the entire State moving to tighten its restrictions as we Face outof control viral spread that we must plan for the fully distance leing model but I also hope that the board can give guidance to the task force to come up with not only the

283best possible distance learning platforms but also some Provisions for families that may not have the ability to teach or even care for their children at home perhaps employing teachers and certificated staff in socially dist homes visit and helping to create PODS of families that can be mutually supportive and help ease the burdens of this very difficult at home schooling task most of all however I want to apologize for the position you are in you would be utterly unfair to say that's why you make the big bucks because I know you are hardworking public servants who draw no salary so let me tell you that while I expect you to act courageously in the public interest I will support you in making difficult decisions that will displease many partisans on both sides just assure us that

284you are acting in the best interest of all stakeholders and that you are doing your best to way and Portion the benefits and inevitable harms of your decisions equitably thank you that's the final comment thank you so much for coms and uh appreciate all of your public comments and we appreciate the uh the understanding okay um Mr O'Neal we'll start with you with comments or questions or clarifying questions yeah first of all I want to say uh how much I appreciated receiving emails from many people expressing their opinions and it doesn't have to be on just the subject we're talking about now but at any time you should be able to uh send your opinions to myself or any any board member so that we can hear what you have to say second I I

285want to say thank you for the uh input that uh our our parliamentarian just read to us concerning your thoughts about opening up the schools it is a very difficult time for everyone not just the teachers and the students but the whole Community uh at Large because the teachers and the students uh interact with the community so that is very important on my mind as I'm sure is on everybody's mind um our staff and our children must come first in safety we want them to be back in class we need them to be back in class so they can learn to the best of their ability they can teach to the best ability and they can become better citizens as they grow we know that uh being at on a virtual whether it's full virtual

286or Blended is not the best course of of Education possible but it is the best possible education we can provide them at this time when we think about their safety must come first so uh I'm all in favor of the whole virtual um learning at this point in time with a caveat that as time goes on we need to keep our finger on the pulse of what is going on in the community and in our district and surrounding communities so that we can uh go to the next step in bringing our students back and our teachers back into the classroom so thank you and I'll pass it on thank you Mr O'Neal Mr Jabar yes thank you thank you call for uh taking the time to read those comments uh I you know for the

287last I think the last couple of weeks I've been receiving uh not only phone calls but also um emails and I think it's indicative of our uh parent survey that we did uh we I I did get calls about people who wanted a uh you know complete virtual distant learning model uh from not only parents but also our teachers um but I also got calls from people who wanted uh in person and I think if you take a look at the uh parent survey you had about 67.6% who were looking for a in-person or preferred uh model in terms of wanting to have their students back in school but at the end of the day I think as as board members we have to take a look at and make sure that we're making the

288right choice for our our student safety our employee safety and I'm sure that the rest of the board members are doing the same when they cast their vote uh I am concerned about our English Learners I am concerned about our special ed students I'm concerned about our mental health of our students by uh going virtual uh but at the end of the day I think I'm confident and confident that our staff ahsd staff have looked into all of that uh when they recommended uh first the Blended model but then you know coming back and saying that let's go the virtual model um I think it's important to know and I don't know how many of the folks who are actually advocating for in person have taken a look at the numbers for our cities uh

289yes some of our cities have low numbers but if you take a look at Anaheim we have uh as of yesterday uh 4,515 covid cases in bua park we have 716 cases in Cyprus we have 245 cases in laama we have 86 cases in Stanton we have 295 cases now all that if you take a look at and go deep into the zip codes I think I think you're seeing a different picture where you know there are a lot of hotspots and what what really what we really need to look at is the numbers in our children Orange County healthcare agency just recently put out numbers uh uh city-based in terms of the numbers of 0 to 17 age population and I'll rattle those numbers off as of yesterday we had in Anaheim 281 cases

290in Buena Park 42 cases in Cyprus nine cases and laama five cases and instanton 22 but if you take a look at today those Anaheim cases went up to 293 the bonapart went to 44 uh Cyprus went up by one to 10 Lea stayed the same but Stanton stayed the same but if you take a look at and correlate those with what Dr Parker just mentioned uh this morning in his presentation it's hard for us to contain this this uh this uh disease if we were to send our kids to our school when it takes about three days to figure out contact tracing or you know three days to kind of figure out if the person is infected or not they're on campus infecting everybody else and we won't know until three days later and

291then compounded by that is the fact that Orange County has a delay in testing results so we wouldn't technical know if a person is actually sick or not almost a week after so we want as a district we can't take that risk and I think another part that I wanted to kind of emphasize where a lot of these parents hopefully would would uh uh take a look at and evaluate is that we have I mean there's a hot bed in Anaheim in terms of uh covid cases some of those students actually go to Oxford go to Cyprus go to Kennedy so we don't have control over who is going to those campuses if we were to open up and say we are inviting all these kids back on campus it's not only that I think

292you know you looked at the uh uh numbers that Dr Parker said in terms of uh making sure that I mean if you have about thousand teachers right we're looking at about 36 teachers and staff members getting infected so as a board member uh I I take all this into consideration um although I would love to have our kids back on campus I think I'm going to side with the fact that we need to go full full-blown virtual for the next uh school so um having said that I'll yield my time thank you Mr Jabar Miss piery okay like my previous two fellow board members I received lots and lots of emails from our parents and teachers and I want to thank you all and I when I started getting them at the very beginning

293I start tried to answer them well then I got inundated and I couldn't really get to answering all of them there were so many of them and there many of them were expressing their opinions both both sides but um as I went along you know we we were initially you know working on this hybrid model which I thought was fine you know even though it was only one day a week which I thought was not sufficient I mean kids need to be in school getting socialization but then as the numbers in our community in our Orange County Community started to rise and then we get this influx I started thinking well wait a minute maybe this isn't a good idea okay and so in other words like a lot of people what I thought at

294first I sort of started changing my mind because of what was happening um and you know opening school is a danger for not only the teachers but the students I mean right now in light of this gr growing numbers and and you know we're in an unbelievable time and I had to think not only of the students because I've got kids that will be going to our schools my grandkids I have a daughter who's a teacher in our school and I have to think about them you know and it and it make and I think about what what I do I actually ask myself how would I feel if I had to go back to work in the classroom right now so you know when you when you start thinking about it on a real

295you know personal level you realize we're we're in such an unbelievable time we can't go back full-time you know and I don't and there are some people that still believe nah kids aren't going to get hurt well Al just read some statistics of numbers of students 0 to 17 that have now come down with it they're not immune so like you know we we start out right now I think we need to start off as a total virtual but we're ready to go hybrid and we're ready to go back I mean we're our district is really on top of it we have planned for all three so as things change because it's been bouncing ball with this this you know this virus has just been unbelievable we know we don't know one day to the

296next so we'll start off virtual I believe that's the best and then if things get better then we can always change and maybe try hybrid so um that's how I'm feeling and I and I know there are there are students out there that are dying to come back to school because that was their socialization that was their escape unfortunately some people people you know but we have to take the the safest path right now and I believe that is virtual so that's where I stand thank you Miss piery M Smith well in short form I can say that all the elements of what we're dealing with are all unknowns and it I know one thing that in order for us to do the right thing we need need to stay in are on it in

297uh with the virtual uh teaching thank you Miss Smith um just like my colleagues I did receive uh a lot of emails from parents teachers especially uh a couple of students and I will respond to the students I know Anna it was hard to start responding to all of them um I spoke before that I think that if our employees would just take a minute and really look over and and our our parents who are watching and anyone else out there look at the PowerPoint presentation there's there's a lot of information there that really speaks to the efforts that the school district has been making to come to these uh to these decisions with the with the hybrid and um or the virtual uh or the fullon uh just waking up today listening to the

298news California has the second highest numbers of cases in in the state um and it's increasing of of hospitalizations um and increased deaths um you cannot ignore those headlines it's real and it's happening uh I was leaning towards the hybrid because um uh weeks couple weeks ago because I was sat on the task force and I listened to the thorough um uh content of how uh we're going to clean the classrooms and uh the number of students and the social distancing and the masking and temperature taking and so a couple weeks ago I was very very confident that our school district had thoroughly vetted all of the concerns um that a lot of the teachers were writing uh to us about but then uh we saw those Hotspot data from UCI and um extremely alarming

299extremely alarming that we didn't even have those those numbers uh up until just uh about a week and a half ago that's alarming uh that we're not even getting the correct data uh uh properly vetted to us which is which is should be a concern for many people out there um so um you just have to you have to look at the science you have to look at this data um and you can't ignore it um of course we want our kids we want everything to be normal at this point in time um of course um but we have systems in place our uh curriculum and um and our education systems are going to be I don't want to use the word rigorous that's not the word that we use in our district but it's

300going to be quality education our teachers uh that are asking for us to go virtual are going to put their 100% effort into uh teaching our students because they are going to feel safe uh at home uh and our students out there we're going to do our utmost best to try to combat this issue uh our school districts working at this time to uh to help the agencies out there to combat uh covid and we're uh we're learning every day about the the best ways to to stay safe and healthy um and just know that we care for you just know that if there's anyone that you need to reach out to that we're here and we're thinking about you uh we are not abandoning you and we are going to reach out to you

301even more so uh and parents uh we we feel you too um I have two children and I don't know um would have been very difficult to send mine in on a personal note um I am a classified employee and I'm not sure what my District's going to do uh if we're going to go virtual or if we're going to go hybrid or fullon uh and I have INX too uh I'm not sure so um you know th that comes into play with my decision as well um so on that note if anyone else has anything to add uh I'll just let you uh chime in this is a really important decision that we're making any other comments clarifying questions all right okay so we will call for the vote Mr O'Neal I for the

302virtual for the virtual yes uh Mr Jabar I for the virtual Miss piery I for the virtual Miss Smith I for the virtual and I vote I as well for the virtual thank you colleagues uh you know I should have read the considerations but I think we're just gonna we'll just move on I think everybody understands what we've done so thank you so much item 10.2 resolution number 2020 21- f-01 State allocation board and school facility program Beyond Bond Authority acknowledgement the roll call I mean and Mr O'Neal seconded any questions or comments or presentation okay hearing none call for the vote Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar I miss piery I miss Smith I and I vote I item 10.3 resolution number 2020 sl21 df-02 approval of notice of exemption for the Anaheim high school

303fire alarm upgrade great action item second moved and seconded questions or comments clarifying questions okay hearing none calling for the vote Mr O'Neal All Mr Jabar I miss piery I miss Smith I and I vote I 10 10.4 resolution number 20202 1- f-03 approval of notice of exemption for the Magnolia High School site Improvement project action item so moved second okay moved and seconded is there a presentation or uh questions no okay questions or comments from the board okay hearing none comment I will comment you know this I I really I'm glad to see this know you need some improvements and they're going to get some shade which is great over that band area and I mean quite an extensive uh amount of cover which they need because they have this massive Courtyard I mean

304or Center area with no shade and a few trees thank goodness for the trees but um no this is H welld deserved long needed and U I'm for it it let's get it done all right here here I agree it looks the plans look beautiful all righty coling for the vote Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar hi miss piy I miss Smith I and I vote I item 10.5 board policy multiple policy second reading action or information item move 1 through 11 second second okay moving 1 through 11 any questions or comments okay hearing none call for the vote Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar hi Miss pery I Mrs Smith I and I vote I item 10.6 rejection of liability claim action item second moved and seconded any clarifying questions on this okay hearing none calling

305for the vote Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar I miss piery I miss Smith I and I vote I item 10.7 inter agency agreement anah Academy DBA vibrant Minds Charter School action item so moved okay do I get a second second okay uh any questions clarification okay um this is a vibrant Minds uh forly known as goals Academy just to want to make sure uh folks know uh this is in the Anaheim elementary school district and we're providing food services for them okay uh M I also wanted to uh I know this is about the food service but I wanted to say that I reached out to Adel from our district to reach out to uh the principal of uh Debbie schroer because she needed some help with some of their mckin vinto students for our

306students so I know uh Adella I think reached out to him so she did we're partnering with reach out thank you perfect thank you so much Mr Jabar we are we are a team and they're all our families yes uh Mr O'Neal we're calling for the vote Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar I miss piery I miss Smith I and I vote I item 10.8 memorandum of understanding template mobile code 19 testing I will second this second uh can we just provide our audience with h just a a quick clarification information yes quick information as to what this entails Mr um matuda are you there or is Carlos part of a partnership with latino Health Access in the Orange County healthc care agency and uh to provide uh mobile testing at Anaheim high school for symptomatic

307uh people in the uh high impact zip code near Anaheim high school and uh it was all filled of over 200 U uh appointments plus some walk-ins so it does reflect um the data that spread is going on in these areas so we're grateful to the partnership for uh bringing some testing mobile testing clinics uh right away and uh I know that we're going to continue that uh over at Magnolia High School uh and I believe catella High School beginning next week so uh thank you again for the partnership yes we are honored and uh I was wondering well I just had a couple uh just putting that out there maybe you can find this get this information to me later but a number I heard a number of people were coming up uh and

308asking um if they could uh without an appointment uh off the street and so um just was wondering if that would be o if we were open to that possibility uh I know you kind of don't want to get flooded and they have a we had some Walkins but as um as you know too the um yesterday the um Orange Orange County Supervisors I think uh Mr chaffy and others announced a partnership with Orange County healthcare to open up the Anaheim Convention Center as a uh free testing uh drive-thru um place and uh I think you you can go online at the Orange County healthcare agency to make appointments it's free and uh that's open to all residents of Orange County so I think with that uh we'll be able to maybe catch up on

309some of the testing uh piece as well okay thank you okay any uh any questions okay calling for the vote Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar hi Miss piery hi Miss Smith I and I vote I item 10.9 memorandum of understanding International Korean Educators Network ik Keen action item some second okay moved and seconded questions comments okay calling for the vote Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar hi Miss piy I miss Smith I and I vote I item 10.10 memorandum of understanding with Cyprus College action item okay mve second moved and seconded questions or comments from the board hey hearing none Mr calling for the vote Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar hi Miss piery hi Miss Smith I and I vote I consent calendar does anyone have anything to pull Mr O'Neal Miss 10.11 Right 1011 you

310missed one sorry I'm going too fast 10.11 thank you agre Explore Learning LLC DBA gizmos some moved I get doesn't say action but I'm assuming it is me too uh Miss fery uh moved it do I get a second I did okay thank you any questions on this item yeah I just wanted to uh kind of take this back to the whole issue of uh teacher input I know that it says that 200 teachers and over 4,000 students participated in the pilot but I want to make sure that our uh teachers were given the opportunity to give input and all that jar yeah so this was part of a grant and the feedback that we had been given from the teachers that participated absolutely loved it and keep in mind this grant was prior to

311covid-19 uh so this was already a tool that was enhancing and supplementing the work that we already doing but now that we have been virtual um they had said that this allowed them to continue doing labs and the work that they couldn't do in person right which uh for our class room me a through G and those elements we have be able to continue offering Labs so uh the teachers that participated absolutely loved it um I know we're going to be doing some training with our teachers to enhance that and we have representation from every site as part of that piece which they spoke to it uh and how much they valued it and of course with cbaa with that being pure virtual even when we're able to go back they're going to remain virtual

312this is going to help them as well offer a3g labs and all the Sciences so yes all right thank you so much any more comments or questions from the board hearing none calling for the question Mr O'Neal V thank you Mr Darbar hi Miss piy hi Miss Smith hi and I vote I now we are in consent calendar anyone wish uh or just go I'll go in order Mr O'Neal you have something to pull uh yes uh 11.13 BB thank you Mr Jabar do you have anything to pull Miss piery do you have anything to pull no Miss Smith do you have anything to pull no I didn't hear a a no from Mr Jabar I don't see him on my screen did did he go no all right I didn't see that okay may

313I have a motion for the balance Mo the bance okay uh move for the balance and miss piery seconding calling for the vote Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar got got it I'm sorry I accidentally clicked so no no okay you didn't have anything that you wish to pull we're voting no I didn't oh we're we're voting voting for The Ballot yes yes okay Miss piery I and Miss Smith I okay 1113 may I have a motion okay 1113 BB uh moved in seconded um calling for the vote Mr O'Neal abstain Mr Jabar I miss piery I miss Smith I and I vote I thank you do we have any reports from cabinet I'm seeing rep no reports okay moving on to report of the board members Mr O'Neal I just want to thank all those

314that have communicated with with myself over the past few weeks concerning well about their concerns um and um thank them for it and unfortunate we have to move forward in the direction we're moving but um let's just really look forward to the future when we're back more back to normal and we can start giving the students the education that they so rightly deserve thank you Mr O'Neal Mr jaar yeah ditto I just wanted to mention you know first of all thank everybody who communicated but at the same time uh I want to take the opportunity to thank Orange County healthcare agency and Latino Health Access for partnering with Anaheim Union High School District uh on this testing of uh uh our community in uh certain parts of Anaheim uh I wanted to especially thank Dr

315Jose Moreno is the council member for Anaheim for really taking the lead in the absence of leadership in Anaheim uh talking about this particular issue and bringing awareness to this issue and making sure that uh bringing people together I think he called a meeting of all the school districts to make sure that uh they understood the severity of this uh he called a meeting of faith-based organization so that we make sure that they knew what was going on uh so that we could get to the point where we are at we are now in the testing phase I know that we're going to have locations we're going to have locations in Magnolia and uh Savannah in the and catella in the coming days uh but also at the same time we are uh um you

316know the city we supposed to supposed to kind of get their act together and uh step up and work on something so I'm glad that as a county are we partnered with uh when I say we my day job we partnered with uh uh Anaheim City to open up this testing site in Anaheim Convention Center but I wanted to take that special moment to thank Dr Moreno for his work on shedding light to this thank you Mr Jabar Miss piery well I again want to thank everyone that contacted me and and like I wrote back in a couple of responses you are more than welcome at any time to contact myself or any of the board members that's what we're here for we are here to represent you whether it is uh a parent or

317a student or an employee and we listen and we try our best and I I got both I mean I got all sorts of opinions on what we're doing unfortunately we cannot make everyone happy um but I do believe we are doing the best we can and we are trying to keep everyone as safe as possible and still learning and I want to encourage everyone listening all these parents that maybe are listening in or teachers we have a big job to do teaching virtually it's it's going to be a learning experience for the teachers and the students both and let's remember this is our school right now and you have to work at it everybody has to work at it and we will adapt we are able to adapt and uh let's let's Forge ahead

318and do the best we can and hopefully when things get better we can go back to the oldfashioned way of school at some point in time but right now 2020 is a unique year and it is one we are going to remember forever not necessarily favorably but we will remember it because it is a very different time so let's let's hope all we'll all be working to to get school started and do the best we can thank you Miss piy Miss Smith I uh listened in on the disciplinary committee and I learned a lot about discipline all law virtual uh teaching and um it was very informational and I did want to share that my husband told me something recently that from what he where he has coming from from background in medicine that pandemics

319happen roughly every 100 years and I never remember my father or his generation talking about living through the last pandemic pandemic which is rather interesting because I'm hoping our kids and our grandchildren will share this experience with the Next Generation and uh then then uh lastly I never knew about the event in Tulsa Oklahoma so as we go along in life we learn and we take that with us and make new decisions and decide what we're going to do thank you one and all and um we keep you all close to our hearts thank you thank you Miss Smith uh I just wanted to report that uh um at our Roop meeting uh we entered into a pension stabilization plan and I see Jennifer noding your head I hope maybe we can explore or look

320into that uh ourselves um I it's uh we entered into a moderate growth plan um you know I think we're just trying to figure out ways to to save uh and not have uh those types of plan e eat the budget eat out the budget every year so I thought that was a a pretty smart move um I have attended various webinars and uh still talking to a lot of our um uh assembly folks and I think pressing hard on them really um help them to realize what the school districts are going through and push back on that um that uh that uh budget proposal of the governor with the 10% cut straight across so I think we still have a lot of work to do with our federal folks um and you know I

321think I think they're listening so we've got to keep up um I attended uh a couple of a food distribution uh one that just happened uh like within a day because we have fa uh fabulous people like Kathy Woodard uh she uh we work with her on the Black Culture history parade she had a milk distributor uh and uh that had been going on but this one day event happened that they had milk cheese butter uh and dairy products in boxes to give out to the community and Marissa Bermudez our fabulous ahsd uh parent um extraordinaire has all kinds of the connections with the public with the community and got that dist distribution taken care of within you know 24 hours so a shout out to her shout out if I may add I know

322that the Bros actually helped in that Distribution on couple of occasions so that's our Anaheim Bros yes absolutely absolutely and uh our teachers uh were helping as well um who who are connected with that that group um you know just a lot of wonderful uh selflessness going on um uh you know heartfelt kind kind actions are taking place uh within our district and all of the fact that uh these uh organizations can come to us because they know that that we're going to get it done um take care of the community um I I attended the uh Anaheim High School testing uh facility yesterday and just amazed at the profession ISM uh and how how that all uh connected and and I'm really looking forward to really combating um a lot of this uh covid

323issues and on that note I just want to give um uh a shout out to one uh of uh to a person that we all know and love uh who's deserving of our um hearts at this time um our former super intendant Jan Billings who lost um her husband um there's is a love story that uh you just you just um if you know them you know that um Ross loved her with every fiber of his being and um he built a castle for her uh if you will and um I just know just want to send out our best wishes and um Love uh and I hope that uh we'll get to you know one day uh hug her um and such a sad uh sad uh thing to happen but uh it's just

324an amazing love story if you hear about it so um on that note I will entertain a motion for adjournment if uh anyone has anything else to say I will open that up for any agenda items or uh adjournment I move to a second I'll second okay moved and seconded uh Mr O'Neal hi Mr Jabar hi Miss piery hi Miss Smith I and I vote I thank you everyone have a great the work for