001okay call the meeting to order roll call maria or present rick raleigh wilson so dennis bender christopher nunez will you please stand for the pledge of allegiance ready begin i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all please remain standing at this time we would like to pause in a moment of silence to remember haley roland a granite hills high school sophomore who passed away last week thank you very much board bylaws 9323 meeting conduct is available at the signing table whenever a member of the public initiates specific complaint or charges against an individual employee the board president shall inform the complainant of complaint procedure cf 1312.1 complaints concerning district employees kylie do
002we have any public comments pertaining to closed session we do not uh if none if we have no cards for public comments um [Music] mr rawley will you please read out what we have for closed session yes we have nine items uh item number one pupil personnel expulsion cases exp number six two one two two through exp 921 through 22. item number two conference litigation government code section five four nine five six point nine subsection a current litigation seven cases c i v d s one eight one three nine five two one nine zero seven one seven two two zero one one one eight three two zero two two nine five six two zero two three three six six and civsb 210-3396-2111303 government code section 5494 correction 54954.5 subsection c and five four nine five
003six point nine subsection d two and e one anticipated litigation three cases 2018 1907 20 20 21 05 20 20 21 07. item three public employee discipline dismissal release reassignment transfer leave title certificated and classified employees item four public employees appointment resignation retirement reduction title certificated and classified employees item five conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator dustin conrad b employee organization apple valley unified teachers association item six conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator dustin conrad employee organization california school employees association item seven conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator trenay nelson b employee organization unrepresented eight conference with real property negotiator government code five four nine five six point eight eight negotiation parties matthew schulenberg apple valley unified school district b a p n three one one two two four one seven one zero zero zero
004cjc holdings llc and item number nine superintendent evaluation uh with that i'll ask for a motion to go into closed session all in favor all right any opposed thank you now we go to close session so you calling the meeting to order at our four o'clock meeting uh we paused for a moment of silence so i'm going to ask you to please rise for a moment of silence and this is to remember hayley rowland a granite hills high school student a sophomore who passed away last week thank you we have student reports rio vista elementary school strobing preston ed meyer bree maglinte zachary hammerstrom melissa jaime olivia angel thomas jones and jordan creason hey guys good evening apple valley unified school district board members administration and guests my name is carson strobing and i'm the
005rio vista asb president with me tonight i have my vice president brian mcglente secretary zachary emerson and preston admire activity commissioner melissa jaime and olivia angel pride commissioner thomas jones and reading commissioner jordan creason tonight we're going to read you a little story spooky the square pumpkin a family to be thankful for halloween had come and gone it was time for thanksgiving on holiday hill farm spooky wondered about this new holiday did you get treats and wear costumes and give candy away jack scarecrow said no it's not like that at all thanksgiving is another holiday that comes every fall it's a day when families gather together and give thanks for having each other forever spookily thought about thanksgiving and felt a little sad everyone gathered around to see why he felt bad i don't have
006a family spooky said with the moan i'm the only square pumpkin that has ever grown i know it is thanksgiving but i'm not really sure a square pumpkin has something to be thankful for jack said spooky my friend maybe you should think a bit more spooky thought and thought as he shuffled along he thought i wish i had a family in a place i belong strictly was shuffling down the first garden road when a pod full of peas shouted spooky don't go spend thanksgiving with us and you'll have lots of fun you may not be a pee but we'll treat you like one maybe later speak we said and then you turned in once more shuffles off to find something to be thankful for and in the next row that the the tomato said howdy
007the corn called yuhu the carrot said steaks release date and we'll play with you spend thanksgiving with us and you'll have lots of fun you may not be a carrot but we'll treat you like one not now as bigly said then he turned and once more shuffled off to find something to be thankful for and in the next row this squash called good morning the pepper said hi the bean said why speakly why are you passing us by spend thanksgiving with us and you'll have lots of fun you may not be a bean but we'll treat you like one can't stay sweetly said and he turned and once more shuffled off to find something to be thankful for and in the next row the eggplant said and slowed down the onion said whoa the potatoes
008said stop spooky stop that's as far as you should go and in the next row well there was no next row spooky has had shuffled too far he was lost and alone he wondered why he wandered so far from from his home now he wished he had stayed with his friend friends and played it played instead he was alone alone and afraid he called out for help and hoped in his heart that someone would hear him someone did and that was just the start the potatoes heard spooky and they knew something was wrong so they told the onions who passed it along the onions told the eggplants who let the peas know so they could tell the pepper is growing in the next row then the peppers told the squash who let the carrots know
009so they could tell the corn growing in the next row then the corn told the tomatoes who let the peas know so they could tell jack standing in the next row and when jack heard the news he came running on the double so did all spooky's friends once they heard there was trouble spooky saw them all coming and was thankful as could be and they hugged him and hugged him and hugged him times three spooky smiled at them sweetly and could finally see they were more than just friends they were his family and that's what spooky really had to discover that no one family tree grows quite the same as another and that's why thanksgiving such a special day it's a chance for people who love you to say my life is much better because
010you are here and that a family is something to be thankful for each and every day of the year spooky thought about thanksgiving and all he had seen and decided it was his favorite holiday well right after halloween [Applause] we could get up here and tell about all the great things rio vesta is doing like how we raised over 4 100 for the leukemia and and lymphoma society during our penny races this year or how we have more service projects planned it to help out our community like a hydrangea for the veterans and sock drive for the homeless [Laughter] let's not forget that the march of dimes will be coming they'll be a great month we are definitely taking steps to make our school community a better place how about that we have many asb
011kids going to read to our younger grades on campus let's not leave out the friday morning music to get our day started and the fun spirit weeks we get to take part in yeah also amazing costume for we had or the fall art project led by miss erica and the fall fun boost led by asb we know our steps matter and we take steps each day to make our school a better place [Applause] true and how about there are classes given to sixth grade teachers more gray hair than ever and put mrs paul for more time out and make mr webb take more steps each day than ever we are impressive yes we can mention all that but we won't we just want to say that we are thankful we are thankful of families that
012want the best for us and to be in a district that also wants the best for us we are thankful for school teachers and the staff that want the best for us tonight what are you thankful for [Applause] phoenix academy mary eats asb president and conor brown asb vice president good evening i'm mary eads president of asb and i'm connor brown vice president of asb we are very excited to share some of what we have been up to at phoenix academy while these last few years have been a roller coaster to say the least we are finally back and doing everything we can to make this year great we started this year with freshly painted campus and a bright new school sign the newness of our campus has helped us keep excited about returning to
013school after being away for so long phoenix academy is an avid school-wide site of distinction and we have been working hard to keep up the momentum with our avid program our campus supports grades k through eighth as part of our other program including avid at cell all of our teachers have been working really hard and are doing a a great job of implementing avid strategies throughout all of our grade levels we enjoy seeing our younger students grow and look forward to joining our middle school avid students our avid and avid cell students recently pursue participated in the city cleanup day in on september 18th we enjoy working together while doing something positive for our community we are also excited to announce that we have several field trips planned including trips to local universities and a
014trip to the museum of tolerance our asb program is also a branch of avid asb is important at our school because we organize our school dances and other school sponsored events asb was able to host our first after school dance which was held outdoors we all had lots of fun and we look forward to hopefully being able to host our winter dance the last week of october was red ribbon week asb hosted a door decorating contest for our k-6 students and we are amazed at all the fun ways our elementary students showed their creativity and pride for red ribbon week we also organized ghost grams which was a fundraiser for halloween asb also hosts fun friday where we are able to play music during lunch which is something new for our students they really enjoy
015it and the dance offs are super fun to watch instead of our usual fall festival fans academy hosted an outdoor trunk or treat on friday october 29th we had multiple stations by grade level with lots of fun decorations and themes it was super fun seeing our teachers and fellow classmates dressed up then of october also started our school club program we are proud to announce that we have several clubs to choose from including yearbook sports comic booking board games tutoring and homework help each week we have more and more students participating and hope to add new clubs in the future last year we started focusing on social emotional learning and began working with zones of regulation with our k-6 students this year zones of regulations have become a successful school-wide program using the zone systems
016our students have learned new ways to communicate their feeling along with learning new and healthy ways to self-regulate their emotions we have seen so much success with this program and continue to build on it we would like to thank the school board for all of your help and continued support of phoenix academy we are off to a great start and we are excited to see what this year will bring thank you granite hills high school ella houseman um hello good evening board members superintendent nelson and attendees my name is ella houseman your 2021-2022 granite hills gc president it's nice to be back in person giving out the monthly update on our school first i would like to thank our board member christopher nunes and board president maria akipara for the their attendance and support at
017the welcome meeting at for wasc as well as our district's i.t department for their help in supplying the ipads for the virtual visit so thank you all for your help and support throughout this week the wasp visit highlighted numerous areas of strength for granite hills school one including that our students are acknowledged for being articulate and able to demonstrate learning during the student focus group meeting and during encounters with students in the virtual world the campus has been filled with excitement with lots of events going around spanish speakers class helped celebrate el dia de los muertes by creating projects and giving presentations on famous members of the latinx community isp held a lunchtime pep rally and a spirit week to celebrate the upcoming winter sports and halloween costume contest which had a great student participation
018and was lots of fun saturday was our potter puff game and unfortunately the juniors won over the seniors to be fair normally seniors already have some experience with their junior year although seniors took the loss the event was still a success with many people coming out and watching the players and coaches participating was just all around enjoyable our mighty fall sports are ending their seasons off strong volleyball with second place and made playoffs tennis made second place and made it to playoffs as well as the cross country finishing in second place and had their league finals game today and cif starting up for them next week our football team made second place and are going to playoffs for the first time in 10 years before we were division 14 and now moving up to division
01911. we also are doing a breaking down the walls event this week and nearly 500 students involved and 30 staff members that have participated this program is growing this program is growing empathy and compassion among students and staff and better our school culture we are having a great time participating in the event and appreciate the support of the district wasp visit was a great success with lots of celebrations including el dia de los muertes spirit week and pep rally transitioning to winter sports an entertaining powder puff game and our mighty cougar fall sports ending off with a bang and we are excited um for our growing school culture and the future of our students thank you thank you [Applause] apple valley high school danielle orianna good evening steam board members it is my pleasure to
020bring you news from apple valley high school first i will start with our school sports our football team had their last home game with the homecoming game against sultana they were able to beat the sultans 64-0 and finish second place in the mojave river league moving to cif our volleyball and girls tennis team also advanced to cif with tennis moving to the second round of cif after winning their first game 14-14-0 against western christian high school the cross-country team also moved on to the mojave river league finals having their race yesterday the winter sports season is starting with basketball and soccer holding tryouts for our student athletes and our esports team receive a special recognition from the county superintendent and it was showcased by a couple of network news stations moving on to cleveland activities
021the long-awaited homecoming dance took place october 9th and was very well received among students eco club started weekly trips to the recycling center so far recycling over 9000 bottles some stations and the sun devil actors guild held their annual monster bash with live performances from our talented students hosa had a blood drive and a fall festival to help bring the community together and new clubs have joined our school the bowling and the anime club lastly during the month of october we learned what it means to be part of the sun devil family when tragedy struck our school we look to each other for support and comfort teachers students and parents alike gather together to honor the memories and grieve the loss to our community and it is through this unity that we're able to keep
022moving forward in spite of our grief i appreciate your time and effort to keep our school and our students safe and remember sunnyvale pride is contagious [Applause] thank you very much to all the student representatives we now have a report from union representatives california school employees association csu good evening thank you for giving me an opportunity to speak to you this evening um i'm not going to beat you up too bad tonight actually at all there's plenty of people here that will be voicing their opinions on the mandates and i really don't want to stress too much on that this evening i would like to thank you for approving our recent agreements we work hard in negotiations for solutions on how to resolve the things that you see before you one of the things that
023that where i think we're all passionate about is working on methods and strategies to be able to recruit and retain qualified employees no matter what they do here in the district whether they're teachers classified employees administrators no matter what we do and we have a real challenge getting people back to work and um i thank you for being supportive in giving good credence to our agreements and approving those i thank you very much for that um i have been here i don't want to age myself too bad more than 25 years and for my entire career um there's not been one person in the transportation department that hasn't been on in layoff status there's always been somebody who had experienced a reduction in hours which is the most common thing and this year for the
024first time in my career and like i said it's been more than 25 years i really don't want to give you the exact number of years not one person in the transportation department remains in layoff status i'd like to thank all of you for your hard work and helping make that happen so having said that i'm gonna leave the rest of the comments to the rest of the people here this evening have a good night thank you apple valley unified teachers association avuta good evening school board members and district admin far too often we seem to be at loggerheads and that makes me sad i don't want to be the bad guy but i don't want you to be the bad guys either so tonight i wanted to share the amazing things avuda is doing
025within our community oh my gosh you guys should have saw the trunk or treat event at this at the civic center this weekend the kids were amazing some spent so long choosing a book they wanted others wanted more than one we serviced over 2 000 kids at and the town of apple valley said our line was the longest and it never died down and the kids were so excited to receive a book like the parents were shocked that it was free and so it was really important uh we could not have done uh could not have had as much success as we did without kristen wallace's organizing committee the organizing committee also has a strong showing at the town of apple valley's community cleanup day with many of our new teachers and boy scout troop
026150 showing um 157 showing that avuda cares about our community school board members i invite you to attend the avodah booth at the town of apple valley tree lady lighting on december 7th 2021 i will be sending you an invitation we are looking forward to handing out more books and goodies to the families who will be attending the tree lighting we're also planning um soup and sandwiches to feed our volunteers i look forward to seeing you there regardless of the politics happening around us evuda is focused on the joy of having students in class being able to learn in person and students progressing and the challenges to meet our students needs thank you for your time the clerk of the board will report on any action taken in closed session all right um we have
027a couple reportable items from closed session and the first one was b4 public employee appointment resignation retirement reduction and it was to appoint brian goodro as high school principal alpha valley high school range 16 on a motion by dennis bender in a second by wilson so the board unanimously supported this motion [Applause] item 4 public employee appointment resignation retirement reduction on a motion by maria ocpara in the second by wilson soh the board unanimously supports susan kim lasko as ka k8 principal marina mariana academy range 14. congratulations [Applause] and finally b6 conference with labor negotiator organizational california school employees association on a motion by oak para second by so the board unanimously supports approve the memorandum mou dated october 5th 2021 between av usd and csea 828 regarding open and promotional assessments requirements thank you
028thank you the board may approve the agenda as is or add and or pull items from the consent agenda for the discussion and or action we need to approve the agenda as is i need emotion all in favor all right um i have one person that wants to add go ahead no not yet this is just the agenda okay so all in favor right right in your post um discussion information presentation by legal counsel update on kovit 19 health and safety mandates by atkinson and anderson lawyer road and roma good evening members of the board thank you for this time my name is mark thompson i'm legal counsel to the district and i'm here to give you a brief uh update on the current status of the mandates that school districts are under in the
029covet 19 landscape the first question i usually get is what do you mean by mandate and so my answer to that is we're not really talking in legal terms we use mandate in its practical sense a mandate is any rule or requirement or regulation or law that we're required to follow the mandates that i'm going to talk about tonight unless otherwise specified we're talking about rules and regulations that do have the force of law that apply in the school district context so starting with the mask mandates that we're all familiar with we're subject to the rules issued by the california department of public health and these came out some some months ago and were most recently updated on october 14th and these rules simply require that all students in the school setting in indoor locations
030must wear masks in addition that applies to a certain extent to extracurricular activities and to athletics similarly it requires that adults in the school settings also wear masks when they're indoors in the presence of students that's been the rule for several months it continues to be the rule and that's one of the mandates that we're under pursuit to cdph guidelines as a school district you're also subject to osha regulations cal osha these apply to your employees and the mandates from cal osha say that all employees who are not fully vaccinated must wear masks indoors or in vehicles unless they're by themselves or actively eating or drinking this is pursuant to the most recent guidance from osha on june 17th coming back to cdph school districts do have a mandatory obligation to report cases of covid
031to the local health department county health and the district is required to assist county in contact tracing and so you have a program that designates how that happens here in your school district the next category is quarantines there's two sources of guidelines for the quarantine rules are being followed the first comes from cdph there's a quarantine requirement of 14 days for any known exposures or close contacts that can be modified in the case of students and shortened to approximately a seven day period under certain conditions provided the students wear masks as appropriate and submit to twice weekly testing separate from that osha has their own quarantine requirements that are applicable to your employees that is a 10-day quarantine requirement unless the employee if there's a close contact unless the employee is fully vaccinated the real
032challenge for school districts is how to navigate the inconsistencies between those two rules but i know that this district has a program in place that is applicable to both students and employees under these quarantine guidelines the newest and perhaps most controversial so-called mandate is this question of mandatory vaccination there is not currently a vaccination mandate what it is is a requirement for the school district to ensure that any employees who are not fully vaccinated submit to a weekly testing program so it's really a testing mandate because it's not a mandate there's there's not really any discussion of exemptions to the vaccination requirement right now because it's not a requirement there's a built-in opt out for your employees if they agree to the testing routine so that comes from the cdph's most recent guidance on that
033subject well it started on august 11th with an implementation date in october as far as the vaccine mandate goes that everybody's been talking about what we have right now is just a heads up from the governor that he has directed cdph to implement a vaccination requirement if and when several things happen first and foremost fda approval of a vaccine that's authorized for use in the two grade spans that are identified for younger kids and for older kids once that occurs according to the governor's announcement the plan is to implement a vaccine requirement at the next start of the next school term either in january or july this is down the road we don't have this yet when it comes if it comes it's going to come with a requirement for exemptions for medical reasons for
034religious beliefs and for personal beliefs that can be changed depending on how and whether the legislature acts and whether the legislature decides to amend the statutory requirements for vaccines there's no indication that that's happening now or whether it'll happen in the future so right now all we have is the governor's announcement of what is intended down the road and our advice as legal counsel as always is to keep your ears open and and see how that develops what may be coming is an osha mandate for vaccinations we know that at the federal level uh the president has announced that federal osha will be implementing vaccine requirements on the private sector side whether that whether and how that applies to public school districts at the state level in california remains to be seen but as it
035stands right now i do want to be clear there's no actual vaccine mandate and if it comes it appears to be so quite a few months down the road that covers my brief comments i did try to be brief are there any questions for me no questions well thank you very much for your time thank you [Applause] i just want to say that the lights were not a cue for you to leave it's the stage it does this and it automatically they have to actually do a key in the sound room and um okay lights are going to go out for just a second thank you mr thompson um oh just a minute they'll come back up again educator effectiveness grant funds block grant information by patrick schlosher educational services thank you this is a
036brief um informal discussion information item regarding educator effectiveness block grant this is uh this funding source and the rules govern it and some of in our plan going forward was provided in the packet in a brief presentation here before you these were categorical funds set aside as part of ab-130 this was this year's omnibus trailer bill uh budget bill however it was intended to be used over the next five years uh they the they are therefore state funds but they will be governed by the same rules that govern title ii a federal categorical for professional development it's an easy set of rules that apply to the same kind of professional learning it's focused on professional learning for those who interact with students so we'll be focused on those who work at the school sites there's
037ten possible areas that were allowed for in the in the statute we selected six there was no requirement to select all ten we did however we budgeted all of the funds these are again one-time funds and we have until june of 26 to expend them um our allocation at this time is estimated to be uh uh in two million six hundred eleven thousand four hundred seventy eight uh that's the current estimate again that's not annually that's the complete allocation to be spread over the five years our plan reflects staff input from the staff survey regarding what areas for professional learning were their highest priority from the lcap parent feedback of course from the lcap survey that we received in the spring um most recent needs analysis from things like as you heard the granite hills
038high school recently did their full self-study that wasc document produced recommendations from the staff and the visiting committee and we were able to include those kinds of things in this plan and of course principal and staff suggestions so just briefly we're going to we have funds that we're going to expend in area one and two one is instructional coaching and twos core content training these will be um smaller dollar amounts um the the year by year breakdown was included but it's funds for training new and existing coaches and this is uh over five years the ability to bring on and train new coaches as they come we included science teacher training supplies for the apple valley center for innovation where we do train do teacher training for science more equipment to make sure that things
039stays up and running and at state of the art and um an annual license for the next five years for an elitist literacy program for teachers to use in the k-6 classroom area three and six is the area of accelerated learning and then special education co-teaching these are both very exciting in area three we'll be putting bringing on board a dedicated teaching position for the focus of professional development for teachers mostly in the k-8 realm for accelerated learning and someone we're hoping to have expertise in this area so that we can have in-house teacher training that is led by our people for our people and then the special education co-teaching idea is something that's actually already in place this would be an expansion of so that the high schools and and other places with a
040master schedule can have some sections where they put two teachers in the same room to support students some of whom may have special needs and so this is an exciting we already have this going it's well received it's well recognized and this is an ability to expand that finally support for english learners expanding some of the training that we do in the summer to bring in teachers to get things like qtel quality teaching for english learners and some long-term english learner support and so our next steps really are to answer your questions get any feedback you have complete the state assurances that we must submit prior to submitting this finally and then at the next board meeting the final draft will be brought to you for approval and i'll pause there any any question from
041any member my only question is it's i'm glad you asked we as much as it was so interesting to talk about a five-year plan because in our heads we professional developments all the time but it's to be honest really stuck right now on wednesday afternoons or saturdays or mornings because we just don't have substitutes so we're excited even though we're budgeted the money pretty much evenly across the five years we know that in many cases some of those things won't happen probably until maybe next year when we have the ability again to pull folks out of the classroom or offer and again this will be any instructional focus para educators bcbas and then hopefully the behavior intervention technicians anyone who's working with students in an instructional capacity but we probably will do more of that
042in the spring and summer but the funds are out allowed to be used all of this school year is your mic on okay any other question well i have one question my question is um you have this 2.6 million dollars that has been allocated um to be expanded as of june of 2026 correct so 2026. um how intensive was the survey that you put out for the participants to tell you where they wanted the funds to be expended we we didn't we didn't do a news survey for this we got the template actually just a couple of weeks ago from the state and found out that it had to have two board interactions so we utilized last spring's lcap survey which was extensive it was an any per any person in this in the system
043who wanted to answer we had about 750 of our staff classified and certificated respond and this was last spring yes so now things have changed since then are we going to conduct a new assessment or new uh survey um things keep changing in the world of uh teaching right now in the world of classrooms in the world of student needs in the world of emotional needs of the student in the world of where the government is willing to spend their money are we going to go back and revisit to see where we need to really spend the money and not because we need to hire additional um uh we need to hire our additional coaches to these schools maybe that's not where the need is right now maybe the need needs to be on how
044do we get this poor children who have been sitting at home for 18 months to get them social emotional care so is that where we need to look at instead of looking at what was done last spring when we didn't see the need interestingly the social emotional focus was number one last spring remember that that was the number one item from parents and teachers but absolutely we survey every year because remember we have this two million dollars for over five years but we also have the esser funds it's 36 million dollars over four years and then we have the lcap supplemental concentration funds which are another over 20 million dollars every year which all of those have similar and overlapping targets and so yes i i understand the question we will continue to gather input
045from all stakeholders to ask them what is the most recent target you see thank you kylie do we have any public comments as provided on our public comments card speakers are requested to limit comments to a maximum of three minutes if more than one person wishes to speak on the same topic subsequent speakers should limit their remarks to new information only public comments shall be limited to a maximum of 20 minutes per item in a situation where we have additional public comments and have exceeded the 20-minute maximum time per item members of our community will be able to submit electronic public comments to kylie k-i-l-e-e underscore cardel c-a-u-d-e-l-l at avusd.org by monday november 8th 2021 at 12 p.m these public comments will be publicly posted and distributed to all members of the board of trustees
046an information card with this information is available at the sign-in table shauna aquiletta good evening my name is sean archuleta i had my speech ready but now in addition my concern is where was your attorney on the 25th the night your resolution was proposed seems odd he shows up tonight definitely an odd scenario something to ponder i wanted to thank the apple valley unified school district board for hearing the parents against universal forced vaccinations and passing a resolution for vaccine choice this is consistent with how a free society handles things like this let the people choose my comments are more towards those who want government to force vaccinations on their friends and neighbors who don't want the vaccination it's been said that all government comes from the end of a gun think about it you
047are asking the government to compel others to vaccinate there will be those who refuse you are asking the police or military to arrest them if they resist if they resist the police will increase their use of force further resistance will be met with a gunshot that is what you are asking that is what you are okay with by demanding mandatory universal vaccination without exception for natural immunity without religious exemptions without medical exemptions without rejections for simple choice have you thought of your pers have you thought your position through the vaccine doesn't prevent the spread of covid it doesn't prevent you from getting it or transmitting it in theory it lessens the severity of your case are you really okay with asking the police to brutalize your friends and neighbors who don't agree with you who
048is the extremist thank you [Applause] jennifer reese hi i am a teacher in the apple valley unified school district i have been teaching for 16 years and consider my career a calling i would fight tooth and nail for my students my four children and the teachers i work with this is why i am speaking i am not an anti-vaxxer sorry i am not an act an anti-vaxxer i support anyone who feels they need to be vaccinated i am all about parents having the right to choose for their children and you and teachers being able to choose what is right for themselves a few years ago sorry a few years ago i was diagnosed with cancer um i had chemo and radiation and since then i've been very careful about what i put in my body
049i applied for a medical waiver and was denied i fear the effect this vaccine would have on my cells i feel the effect this vaccine would have on my children this is not the vec this vaccine is not like other vaccines it does not eradicate the illness it does not stop the spread of the illness and it has proven to be ineffective and even dangerous last week you chose to follow what you know is right you stood up against ridiculous mandates that will harm our children please stay strong continue to do what you know is right we stand with you we pray for you if you enforce these mandates you will lose teachers teachers who love their jobs and their students you lose students students who thrive at their schools it is not easy to
050take a stand but it is better to take a stand even in the face of opposition knowing that what you are doing is right we stand with you in reference to the lawyer who came up um we know that the vaccination is not a mandate yet if we wait for the vaccination to become a mandate it will be very difficult to fight against it we must speak up now let the governor know that valley does not support these harmful mandates we stand with you please stand up for us [Applause] amy bateman my name is amy bateman i have worked for apple valley unified school district for 28 years i have three children who have been or are currently students in this district first i would like to say thank you and acknowledge the tremendous effort
051that has been made by our superintendents and do staff during the last two years they have been handed a difficult task by the state and have consistently done what they could do under constraints to open schools and meet the needs of both students and staff it pains me to see the intimidation and verbal abuse you have all had to bear second as both a parent and an employee i am disappointed that you the board did not gather any information or send out any surveys to gather your parents and staff's opinion before you voted on not upholding the vaccine mandate that was irresponsible you just asked mr schlosser about surveys and did not do that yourselves third i want to address the one of you who released a private letter from an apple valley unified school
052district parent to then be released on social media and is circulating here tonight that act was irresponsible and unethical especially in light of the threats and intimidation by the vocal anti-vaxx group that continues to harass our district office staff sharing that letter was unacceptable as an elected public [Music] [Applause] [Music] servant i hope you're not counting them as my time to speak please that you prayed i am asking you one more time to be quiet and let us speak you should not have placed your personal political agenda above the well-being of our students staff community and that parent i expect whomever did that to resign immediately i also expect that you other board members hold your colleague accountable thank you for your time thank you brandon brandon sorley [Applause] hello board um i'm up here
053today because we did the resolution the last meeting uh the resolution did not really say what i actually expected it to say i thought it was a lot weaker than it should be maria had mentioned that the mass and the vaccines go hand in hand and in this resolution it does not really point out that there's the mass go hand in hand with the vaccines so now we're dealing with can we have our kids go to school without mass you said it's parents choice now the only rec the only reference you have is other health decisions to me mask is a health decision so kids are going to start going without a mask and i expect no principal or dean of discipline or anyone else to take him out of class trenay i would like
054you to send a letter to all the teachers all the principals and everybody and let them know you have agreed that this is a parent choice now this is your test for what you had said about mandates and laws you said that you would push back against it you said that if it's against the law you know what we're gonna do it anyway those are the words from rail so if we're gonna actually do this test let's do it you test your kids it's time to test you time to push back i expect letters and emails sent to everyone thank you [Applause] marie savisky good evening trustees my name is marie savitsky i've been a resident of apple valley for 36 years i graduated class of 1995 from apple valley senior high school go sun
055devils i'm a mother to five children in the apple valley district and i'm now an apple valley property owner first i really would like to commend you all for standing bravely with us do not envy your positions i sincerely imp applaud your bravery i know you've receded some heat for taking such a staunch position and i appreciate it be assured the parents who showed up on that sopping wet rainy night on october 25th as well as tonight stand with you i would like to ask where mark thompson was on the 25th it would have been nice to address him then the barn doors are open and the horses are gone though um i tend to give attorneys a run for their money i pushed the limits i commented to rick raleigh after the meeting adjourned
056that the resolution still needed some work there were others in the audience that had additional concerns with some of the statements made in the resolution it was declared during the meeting that the board would likely make some revisions in the future it is my hope that that declaration was sincere as promised i emailed a revised resolution to all the board members provided i guess the correct email addresses they are not readily available on the public website i did not receive rejection notices so i presume you all received them yesterday i am also passing out copies that i have available for your review in the email i included both a highlighted pdf version for easier review of the changes tonight on the printed it's bolded i only have a black and white printer some of the
057changes are as follows on paragraph two i would like to have added at the end governor newsom also stated there would be exemptions for personal belief religious and medical exemptions probably could be stated a little bit better um in between six and seven paragraphs six and seven i apologize i did not get to notate yours um i would like added that whereas av usd has operated in-person learning safely since march 2021 without available vaccines for most of that time and without mandates after seven be it further on paragraph seven in that text i would like testing added um to restore local authority to create and implement covet 19 safety plans including guidelines for testing masks quarantines vaccinations and establishment of normal classroom instruction i would like a paragraph added that says be it further resolved
058the apple valley unified school district of education lacks legal authority to mandate coveted vaccines up thank you anyway please review the changes i have copies thank you people thumbs up thank you [Applause] shelly ames hi good evening i want to say thank you for allowing us all to speak tonight i came here tonight to share an experience that i've recently had with mandated testing and it wasn't pleasant at all while working at my desk my supervisor approached me and what i felt um [Music] was definitely not the normal approach i was in the middle of a task and when i was spoken to it was with authority and i immediately thought that i had done something incorrectly and was being questioned for it um then it was made clear that i was to go to
059the testing room to be tested for covid i immediately felt degraded at that moment and i was very discouraged when i went into the room with other co-workers where we were all questioned about our our birth dates our names and how we were feeling were we experiencing symptoms then we stood in that room and we swabbed our noses in front of each other and went back to our desk i felt defeated it was quite humiliating even more so when my supervisor came back and awkwardly apologized for the position that he was put in i find that unreasonable and unfair to all of us who are having to deal with this we all know the stats concerning natural immunity and what vaccines are doing and not doing for all of us there is no reason to
060think that only some should be wearing a scarlet letter at this point i've been here for a long time and i've always really really enjoyed my job and i've always felt to be a very integral part of our system and how it runs and for the first time i considered being done [Music] this has been my second family for a long long time and i'm really hoping that we can make better decisions on how we're separating people thank you jordan bechtel hi my name is jayden bechdel i'm 12 years old and i'm a 7th grade student at vanguard preparatory i like to start off by saying thank you to the five board members for voting no on the vaccine mandate i'm here tonight to talk to you about wearing masks at school for me personally
061i absolutely hate wearing masks it irritates me and also makes it hard for me to learn because i cannot breathe when i am talking to a teacher or other students we cannot hear each other over the mass me and my family had covert a couple months ago and we had very mild symptoms i now have antibodies so i think it should be my choice on whether i wear a mask or not me my friends wish we could play school sports this year it doesn't make sense that we can't play because of kova but when i turn on the tv i see thousands of people at sports events when i'm asking that you so i'm asking that you please let us kids breathe again and go back to our normal lives by removing the mass mandate
062starting tonight thank you [Applause] greg taylor craig taylor i just got in from salt lake at four i didn't do a speech again um i'm kind of glad because we got to go over a few things to kind of enlighten my thoughts um [Music] oh pat wow that's embarrassing um i would definitely return that one to kmart um you know all my life i've i've yeah you do so the [Music] the federal government's always doing something in front of your face but that's always not the problem is it it's what they're doing behind this the curtains this vaccine this mask thing it's ridiculous right um the daily routine in a classroom is out of control um everything that my daughter asks me on a daily basis you know it's embarrassing i have to answer the
063questions you know she turns down a boy to not give her her number and she's a the teacher tells the boy to just go sit down the teacher told heard the whole thing and does nothing about it i told coach skurlock to screw you one time and i got suspended for five days you know my kid gets told no that she can't go to class or can't go to the restroom because of whatever reason i mean i didn't know that you were allowed to pick and choose when you had to go to the bathroom but yet two boys making out in the middle of the hallways okay but we can't say anything about it can we it is random but what are we going to do is sit here all night talk about vaccines and
064masks does anybody even understand the situation the principle back there at sitting bull i told them tuesday tuesday why are we having my daughter wear a mask five out of nine people on the uh on the stage weren't wearing them aren't we leading by example here they said the mask and the vaccine travel in the same direction but we can talk about that all night are we gonna get our way is it the mask in the vaccine that matter or is it the day-to-day education our children are receiving that's it for the evening nathan frankie good evening board members superintendent and other staff members uh my name is nathan frankie and my son attends appa valley high school and my daughter attends vanguard prep tonight i wanted to address you regarding athletes wearing masks indoors
065while performing their particular sport you see my son is on the basketball team at the valley high school and they're required to wear masks while practicing and playing imagine that having to cover your mouth and and or nose while running and sprinting up and down the basketball court my son told me and i quote that's the hardest thing i've had to do during basketball now i'm not a doctor but i am a former college level athlete and i know that during any type of athletic event the body needs more oxygen especially when you are running for any length of time your blood needs more oxygen for your muscles to perform properly and mass prevent that on friday october 22 2021 cif released an updated document on face coverings that provides two alternatives in place of
066wearing a mask indoors for athletes one is to conduct the sport outdoors which really doesn't work for basketball up here in the high desert and the second one is perform at least weekly pcr antigen testing to all individuals regardless of vaccination status the document also mentions that schools should consult with their local county health department if testing options are being considered i try to find any communication from san bernardino county health on mass requirements for indoor sports but but couldn't find anything so on monday october 25th 2021 i emailed the athletic director for apple valley high school blake robbins i included a link to the cif communication and asked if the pcr and ign anti-gen testing was going to be an option for basketball players this year his response was i don't know yet i
067am working on it but i hope so and i understood that it was three days from when that communication came out so i followed up with blake via email on november 1st this this past monday to check on the status of testing for athletes and i did not receive a response to my email i included a link to a company that does weekly saliva testing um which is being used by the school district that i'm employed by less invasive for the athletes they spit in a little while and that's that's it so during last year's basketball season weekly testing was provided the only time the basketball players had to wear a mask was when they're on the bench so why not this year so in closing i'll say this it's hard enough to breathe with
068a mask on under normal conditions while walking around imagine how hard it is while exercising and running up and down a basketball court for two and a half hours which these athletes are doing every day monday through friday mass should not be worn especially while playing sports i challenge you next time you exercise or throw on to throw on a mask for two and a half hours so you can see how it feels if weekly testing is an option then it should be set up and used immediately thank you thank you gin hi i know the speaker that just got up and was talking about mr schwarzer in this letter that was circulating and i kind of wanted to talk about that tonight i'm not sure where she's been this whole time but i've been
069at every single board meeting since august and this is the first anyone's even said anything about pro-vaccine anyway for children and so um it's good to have someone like that i guess to try to understand where they're coming from i still don't understand it but um a letter's been circulating and maybe she'll understand us a little bit better after i read my speech a letter has been circulating from mr schlosser's wife opposing the board's decision to stand against the vaccine mandate and although everyone is is entitled to their own opinion they aren't entitled to their own facts and after reading the letter it seems that it reflects what we already kind of knew about mr schlosser that he hasn't really been listening to us i mean he's writing down the whole time always but or
070looking at his phone um i was told by mr schlosser in a recent letter to me about masking and testing he stated while you have a different view regarding the efficacy of mass or the risks arising from covid19 infection the district is is all within its rights to rely on the public health guidance which established required use of face mass indoor settings as one of the primary methods by which the district can protect the safety of its students and staff a lot to unpack there i know but i'm going to save that one but i wanted to read you guys a letter i wrote to you guys it's been two weeks now since apple valley unified school district made their decision to stand against the vaccine mandate and hundreds of parents and students and staff
071couldn't be more proud of you u5 board members are elected leaders of the district truly listen to the parents and students personal stories peer-reviewed studies professional testimonies our constitutional rights and true science to guide your actions thank you for your leadership and for working these past months with us in an effort to do what's right i know you may have lost sleep over these hard decisions we have too many sleepless nights worried that our children would be forced to take a vaccine for a virus they effectively have a zero chance of dying from but are more at risk from the vaccine worried that after a whole year of everything being taken away from them that they would again be denied an in-person education worried for our awesome teachers that they would lose their jobs they
072love feeling despair and hopelessness but with your five to zero vote you gave us back our hope thank you for your leadership that is now focused on the well-being well-being of all the students and staff as well as protecting our rights i know you may be under intense pressure from opposition but you have an army that has your back many could take lessons from you for your courage and strength you heard our voices are passionate resolved and rooted in love love for our children and beloved community of teachers unlike sheep that follow what they are told you decided to follow what was right and true even in the face of adversity the ramifications of this decision will be felt for generations even after you're gone time's up thank you i'll submit the letter to you
073personally but thank you again thank you melissa moon hello my name is melissa and i currently have three children in apple valley unified i'd like to start by thanking each and every one of the school board members for your resolution that passed at the last meeting and to let you know that my family supports you 100 to make sure that there is no illusion that you might be following parents that are just trying to be loud and are somehow using wonky science i would like to tell you my background and why i would never use misguided science to make my decisions i graduated in 95 from apple valley high in the top 1 of my class i went on to uc san diego and received my degree in neuroscience by the age of 21. i
074am fully capable of and actually enjoy reading scientific studies and clinical trial data and i have dedicated hundreds of hours analyzing most of the studies that have come out regarding covid i can tell you that when it comes to the current covet 19 injections one has to use the word clinical trials very loosely these vaccines did not even exist a year ago and they did not even start testing them on young children until the end of march of this year which gives us possibly six months of data to look at determined to determine safety and efficacy i am not typically opposed to vaccines but i am adamantly opposed to this injection because six months is not even close to the amount of time needed to determine true potential side effects both short and long term
075in addition clinical trials are typically conducted on tens of thousands of participants before being approved the kova 19 injections were given to just over 500 children in their clinical trials so for anybody that would like to argue that these injections have been thoroughly vetted i do not consider 500 children over six months conclusive data what i do consider to be relevant are the scientific studies that have been conducted on millions of people over the course of the last 18 months assessing the safety and efficacy and the overwhelming majority of these studies show that natural immunity is more robust and longer lasting than vaccine immunity new studies are showing a dramatic increase in serious illnesses and cancers and are making existing cancers more aggressive in the vaccinated a recent study found that 82 percent of people
076who are dying with covid were vaccinated in the journal the american medical association just published this monday a study conducted by the mayo clinic found that there is a 350 increase rate of cvst which is a rare and deadly blood clotting disease that directly correlates to the johnson johnson injection a study in israel looking at data on almost 5 million people for the pfizer injection showed over a 300 increase of myocarditis especially in young men in another paper published in jama assessing data on 12 and a half million people in the u.s it shows a nine and a half time increase in myocarditis and pericarditis in 12 to 39 year olds 85 of them were male all three of my sons are in this age and gender group there is so much more data that
077i would love to present but my point of presenting all of this data is to show that the science is still coming out and it continues to show that these injections are not efficacious not safe and could potentially be even more unsafe for young children whose bodies are still developing and there are zero long-term studies thank you [Applause] josh malek i still don't understand why we face the board it's like the board's hands are tied uh we heard from from an attorney tonight and it just seemed like we got a huge run around and still nobody knows what the answer is um and i'm just reading right here thursday november 4th 2021 regular meeting of the board of trustees i guess i got to be the one to point out the obvious at any time
078a student or students are present in the boardroom or any apple valley unified school district building all adults and students are to wear their face masks there's kids here the board's not wearing their mask i'm not wearing a mask what are we doing like this is crazy do i have to like bring this up are we not going to talk about the obvious um again just we can all agree this is a huge run around with the whole vaccine mandate in the mass mandate apple valley unified school district children just stop wearing the mask [Applause] stop wearing a mask and tell the district i will not be vaccinated problem solved i mean the voice of reason i was like asking myself this i'll just ask the community who is going to be the voice of
079reason in apple valley the children all i could say is if i was in school i wouldn't wear my mask i wouldn't be vaccinated and neither would my friends but i guess it's the liberal way you go to college in a 90 of all your professors are liberal and they just brainwash you so god bless you children for showing up and speaking just don't wear your mask don't get vaccinated and if you do go ahead wear your mask go ahead get vaccinated but don't tell us we have to that's it [Music] [Applause] superintendent's comment i appreciate all of the students being here tonight speaking and it was great having them back in person and i appreciate the students that got up to the podium and spoke i'm sorry if a student wants to speak and
080did not submit their card on she's been here since time o'clock she's been here since four people go ahead what is that card let her speak somebody spoke for her did somebody speak for her somebody took fun vivian nelson go ahead and speak hello my name is vivian nielsen and i used to be an abusd but i wanted to go to a school that did not mandate masks online schooling and believed in choice i now attend a private school but i was extremely high hopes to return to absd i also had the chance to go to the school district and meet trenay nielsen i had a great experience but we never got to finish or work due to cobid and never heard if or when we would be invited again i am asking this board
081and superintendents that sit up there to keep your promise when i was told about the resolution that happened last board meeting it gave me so much hope to return to avoc but i was told not to get my hopes up there are superintendents and possible board members that are not being honest and might go back on their word or be persuaded by others i will not go back if you mandate or require this so-called vaccine which causes horrible reactions for kids my age older and younger i am also here to ask the board to make masks optional for the students and staff i currently have asthma and there is no way i i could perform my best every day if if i was required to wear one i believe in choice and forcing anyone is
082not right either is segregating people for their choice i am i'm looking forward to one day returning to nvsc thank you board for a step in the right direction [Applause] you want to come back to that i'm gonna have to come back to that so that we can have both comments i'm gonna come back to those cards because she has to sort them um i'm gonna go to board comments dennis bender i'd like to thank all the parents and the residents who showed up the last three meetings this is probably the purest form of democracy you'll ever see and it's a good way to express the first amendment thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] is your mic on mr is your mic on okay yeah can you hear me [Applause] i apologize didn't turn on uh
083no i i just said like what mrs mr bender said about the all of you and we appreciate the input and i think you know there are two opposing views even in our community but the board need to listen and and then let's see what happened and uh i like you and i'm no i took the vaccination because i want to be safe too to my grandchildren but i said two two young ladies graduate same year with my oldest daughter jennifer soul you know and also for apple high school and uh let's we all we're gonna listen to you and then we are going to look at what the state what well especially the stupid federal governments do in terms of this uh vaccine policy and we'll see how it comes down to california and
084and we'll work with you both side and address it that's all i have uh mr raleigh uh thank you you know it's becoming quite evident that schools uh in school boards and what's being done in schools is becoming one of the nation's number one issues with residents you see this across the country and it's evident in apple valley everywhere i go i've been around for a really long time everywhere i go dentist office grocery store walking down the street people ask me rick what can we do it's just not the mandates it's the violence in the schools the sexual harassment of the young girls the lack of discipline in the schools and the only way we're going to make change in the schools is by parents getting involved and i've been on the board for
085three years now and very few parents have shown up until now but it's very enlightening to see this and uh i encourage everybody no matter what side of the issue you're on to show up and speak because that's the only way we're going to make change in this in this country and in this community for schools and apple valley has a lot to offer to students and has very good staff and very good teachers but there are issues that we need to deal with and i encourage everybody to keep showing up keep voicing their opinions thank you very much [Music] there we go there we go gotcha okay i just want to say thank you very much to all the student representatives representatives who presented tonight and congratulations to granite hills on a very successful
086wasp accreditation process and it comes to me i'm going to start off by thanking the center for innovation i had the opportunity to go on that campus and i had no idea that little cars as small as my finger could move using the force of the sun or the light and i had so much fun that i as soon as i left there i ordered my own so i can play in my yard um and today we saw students teaching us a few things about cooperation the students who presented from rio vista and phoenix academy they were cooperating one person held the mic the other one turned the page and they're just helping each other it was just so seamless it felt so good that i thought we could learn a few things about just
087getting along you know and that was that was real heartwarming the students from granite hills high school i am really proud of your wasc visit it was the very first time we have done a virtual wasp and i was participating from a hospital room in orange county because that's where i was but i needed to see it in play um i am extremely um thankful for all of their playoffs i couldn't keep up with the playoffs i was trying to write so i remember which one it was so i know which which one to attend um because i'm one of those that goes to football games only when we get to the quarterfinal um i don't want to go one day i'm going to go watch the losing team and it's like oh they're hurting
088my feelings the apple valley high school december 7th apple valley school district i will be a teachers union i will be there if you if i get my invitation on time and if life doesn't happen to me i have had so much of life happening to me in the past few months and life continues to happen so if life doesn't happen i will be there i'll be present now we go back to the meat and potato americans call it meat and potatoes right i don't know what it is but i just know there's something about meat and potatoes um so and and gravy there's gravy in it right um it's about the mass mandate and the vaccine there's a difference between the mandate and a resolution we had a resolution which is like we are
089speaking our minds and when the state tells us that we have to do certain things we will have to obey the state rules so we need to get to that point we just we jumped the gun to get to that point and now we need to wait to see what the state is going to do and then we'll dislike a game of chess they if they make their move we make a move we make they make the mess next move we make the next move uh and right now we don't want to play all of our hands because the state hasn't played all their hands so be patient and one of the things that i know for a fact when it comes down to it we've got also have to protect the rights of the
090teachers no matter what happens we have to protect their rights because if we don't protect their rights then we all need to get into this school and teach our own children because if the state comes and comes for them we've got to protect them so let's just wait and see what the state does it is called the game of chess and when they play their hand we will know what it is that's all i have to say superintendent has a comment because i i cut her off when we were doing that and then i'll go back to the uh there are three uh four cards that just came in last and i need to get them to uh speak you wanna go first that's fine i'm glad we got vivian up there we're sorry your
091card must have gotten stuck behind somebody's and i do want you back so that we can do our um program that we did needs to be finished um it was great having students up on stage we want them here in person following the completion of a census we are required as a school district to review the trustee areas and so davis demographics has looked at the demographics of the census and our current trustee areas meet the criteria under the ed code 5019.5 we will be working with milton foster from fagan phil fagan freeman in full frost to get you a resolution that acknowledges that um as the recommendation so there will be no change to the trustee areas and then as far as mr goodro and miss lasko being named principals people are probably thinking
092they already are the principals um they were named as interim principals and so that just corrects it to um give them the understanding that they're permanent they're there let's change their their business cards in the the letterhead okay thank you i'm going to go circle back back to uh the four cards that i received i want to be able to uh hear you um and have the rest of the board to hear you danielle vias okay so i am here briefly just to let the board know how thankful i am and many parents are for how patient you guys have been with hearing all the parents and concerns and more importantly acting on it i know this has not been easy at all so again thank all of you i have a five-year-old and a
093seven-year-old and i know that having you guys as our school board has eased a lot of concerns to know you are listening and you are fighting alongside with us please continue this fight with us and know that you have so many thankful parents i want to see my children have back to school night and be so excited to show us their classrooms have their mom help in the classrooms before it isn't cool anymore have award ceremonies where i can watch and take pictures and keep these memories for them letting a kindergartner figure out that they can go home to mom if they go see the nurse and say they don't feel well and if you're like my child you do that two days in a row and for them to figure this out without being
094sent home for 10 days and most importantly for them to know what it's like to come to school and not wear a mask seven hours a day as my children don't know any differently with that said i know we have the right board fighting for our children and you all have proved that so again i just want to express my gratitude for how much you guys have helped ease some of our concerns and more importantly set a precedent in california for what we can accomplish in getting our kids to have the same school experience most of us were so fortunate to have so the point of me being up here again just thank you and thank you for being our voices thank you kay greg k greg good evening board my name is kelly greg
095and i am not a resident of your city or your town i am a resident from your sister city hesperia an elected official myself as an elected member on our board we took a stand to keep our parks open in the city of asperia to not force social distancing to keep our our meetings open throughout the entire cobot pandemic we had zero cases of covid reported to us even throughout our equestrian area and our softball baseball leagues that came from out of states to play on our fields i want to commend you board tonight uh mrs akpara mr raleigh mr bender mr so and mr nunez for showing us your faces for showing us your expressions for showing us that you care the attorney that you presented on the stage today was more nervous than
096a a cat getting ready to be thrown into a dog kennel he made no sense at all whenever he realized that his mask was off his nose after about four minutes of speaking only then did he make the correction and put it back on we applaud you for taking a stand the city of asbury has also taken a stand the mayor and the city council of the city of asperia have taken a stand to stand beside you not in front not behind you but beside you and these parents you have here in your audience tonight will also take a stand right beside you not behind you pushing you off the cliff and not in front of you to try to deflect anything i'm going to end with i appreciate you board president akpara for taking
097the consideration of letting all members speak that is something that we pride ourselves at this very recreational park district we work for the people you work for these people i work for our people and that's the way it works so i applaud you guys for doing that i'm gonna end with this mr schlosser i am very unhappy with the letter that your wife circulated or sent to this board of directors um voicing her concerns and her displeasure with this board i want you to remember this in asperia we have these three sayings freedom choice and parental rights you guys need to either get behind those or step down have a good night jeff jeffrey lundly is jeffrey here amanda arroyo [Applause] good evening i'm standing here tonight to show my gratitude i have an eighth
098grader at sitting bull and a sixth grader at rio vista as a parent i wanted to be heard and i wanted to maintain the ability to choose what goes in mine and my family's bodies i can't express enough my gratitude to the av avusd board members for listening to us and for hearing our concerns that we have been so passionate about let's keep the main thing the main thing and here and now that's our children we don't want to fight against you we want to fight with you and we truly appreciate your efforts to make that possible we know it's not easy we know that it's been hard for you all but we must work together do what is right and let's stay strong together we appreciate you guys and i also appreciate all the
099hard work that's gone into my personal story and with my daughter at rio vista it's appreciated all the behind the scenes work i know it doesn't go unnoticed even though we might not talk about it every every single detail but you guys are working hard you guys are working towards all those disciplinary issues and all those things that are kind of being overshadowed by the this bigger issue right now the vaccines and the masks so i do appreciate you all thank you it is recommended that the board of trustees discuss and take action on the following items amended 20 20 20 21 2022 board meeting schedule i need a motion in a second and before you vote just so that we understand why we're doing this we're moving it till monday night because this facility
100will be used for the nutcracker play at the school and so for us to be able to maintain this facility for the remainder of the year this is the one board meeting that will need to be changed to a monday night it's monday the 13th and it still meets the requirement for our what did you say so we're trying to change um the meeting the agenda um item indicates that we are moving the december board meeting from thursday the 16th to monday the 13th and that's to accommodate keeping this facility and it will also meet the requirements for the reorganization meeting because there's a 10-day window two-week window that you have to do that so that will be your annual reorganization meeting as well okay and every other board meeting you stated um conference room
101a so we're going to the rest of them we are booked here at granite hills high school for as long as we need it for facility use for size okay all right so that needs to be changed on the schedule to show granite hills high school as the location it will that's correct all right um all in favor i apologize the emotion wasn't picked up by the mic where jason the motion wasn't picked up by the mic the motion was by mrs and the seconded by mr nunez [Music] did you get that they're not hearing it through the recording that's why they're asking bikes need to be on as we're making motions um i need a motion to amend the 2021-2022 board meeting schedule all in favor all right in your post approve the recommendation
102of the administrative hearing chairperson effective immediately expulsion case expulsion case number six 2021 2022 i need a motion move it all in favor any opposed explosion case number seven twenty twenty one twenty twenty two i need a motion so move all in favor any opposed expulsion case number 8 20 21 2022 i need a motion second seconded by chris mr nunes um all in favor any opposed expulsion case number 9 2021 and 2022 i need emotion and um all in favor in your post approve the certificated and classified personnel action as listed all in favor approve the requested leave as noted all in favor uh consent agenda uh it is recommended that the board of trustees consider approving a number of agenda items as a consent list consent items are routine in nature and can
103be enacted in one motion without further discussion this procedure conserves meeting time for a full discussion of significant issues i am going to pull item number two i need a motion move okay and now point of i'm going to have the discussion for um for it before we vote right you approve the ones that you listed so we approve one three four five six 9 10 11 and 12. i need a motion to approve 1 3 to 12. so move seconded uh all in favor okay now i pulled uh item number two uh because there are quite a few federal holidays and one of the holidays was not listed in that uh schedule and i would like to make sure that is added in your calendar before we bring it forward for a full board
104approval and that is the holiday that was just enacted juneteenth that's june 19th of every year and we need to have that in the calendar so mr para you can recommend that that be added and amended tonight so it doesn't have to come back and then the board can take action okay you have to make a motion that that's what you'd like done um i would like to see it when it's already on paper i don't want to vote until we see it on real paper if you make the motion it is in minutes and it's done it becomes the thing once it's in minutes it's recorded and it's finished okay and we will send you a copy of it at it i promise yeah i just want to be sure it's there because this
105is i don't want to mess up this one so make sure that you make the motion so i move that we passed the 20 21 20 2022 calendar with the edition of juneteenth added to the camera yeah in i'm sorry okay so i'll have a question wilson seconded yeah now you need a vote okay now we will get the vote that will add juneteenth for the final document can i ask for one clarification yes so the 2021 through 2022 do you want all three all of them to have them is it federal holiday it's three years of calendars let's make sure we have all these all have to happen from here on okay yeah it's it goes all the way to 25 i think it's 75. so it so it will be added to the
1062022 22 2023 23 24 and the 24 25 yeah all three calendar years proposed and then stays on forever unless something happens okay um you have to take it out i need a motion let's vote on that all in favor opposed okay do we have anything else to go too close uh we need to go uh with now i need a motion for us to uh uh adjourn this meeting because we have nothing else you have to do um any other any other person want anything else that needs to be added for the next meeting well it's it's superintendent and board comments here down at the bottom oh sorry oh my gosh i helped somebody superintendent's comments sorry mr parr i did hold something till the end because i wanted to close this way um
107as i was turning my calendar today it was a little bit late i was a little bit amazed that it was already november and i noticed a quote i don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness that's right in front of me if i'm paying attention and practicing gratitude and that quote came from brene brown and i just realized that every day that i'm on a campus which is pretty much every single day that i experience moments like this because of the kids and the educators in our system everybody that steps up and does whatever it takes to make sure kids are there and supported i'm just grateful for that today academic letters were given at apple valley high school and then there's an event going on that ella mentioned regarding um breaking down
108the walls here at granite hills high school it's been going on all week um i got to participate yesterday and um they have offered that if any board members would like to come by and see it you probably don't don't get to just observe you would have to participate um tomorrow is the last day and they will be here um they'll be here all day with students but for you to see something that's pretty powerful is about 11 50 to 1 o'clock so if you have an interest let me know and i'll be sure to get you here and get you in um and then finally um our abusd family and our granite hills family absolutely mourned the loss of a second student apple valley first and now granite hills high school haley rowland and
109i appreciate doing the moment of silence again after the audience was here because i think it's important that her family understands how much our thoughts are with them and that our crisis intervention counseling team is available to students and staff on an ongoing basis thank you does anybody have anything else they need to put in the future item for next board meeting we did we already did that having heard nothing and moved to uh adjourn them wait a minute did anybody else want to speak no no second okay there'd be no further business to come before the board of trustees it is recommended that the meeting be adjourned i need a motion uh second second uh all in favor you