001okay good thank you okay well welcome to the may 20 at the 2021 apavi school board meeting and i'm going to call the meeting the order at uh 5 33 p.m and kylie can i get you to re uh roll call please sure maria oppara i'm present rick rolling here wilson out here dennis fender here adeline blasting game present all right thank you everybody is present so please uh join me and i pledge allegiance to the flag [Music] one nation under god indivisible okay we're going to move on to a moment of silence at this time we would like to pause in a moment of silence to remember the following retired apple valley unified school district family member no longer with us and that retired family member is brenda jackson so please join me in
002a moment of silence thank you okay moving right along we have any uh public comments for closed session uh we have no public comments pertaining to closed session at this time okay thank you okay so with that uh i'm going to read everything for closed session we have seven items the first item will be discipline dismissal release reassignment transfer of certificated and classified employees number two public employee appointment registration retirement reduction number three conference with litigation government code section five four nine five six point nine subsection a current litigation five cases eighteen one three nine five two one nine zero seven one seven two two zero one one one eight three two zero two nine five six two zero three three six six in government code section five four nine five four subsection five subsection
003c five four nine five six point nine subsection d and two and e one anticipated litigation two cases 2018 1907 2020 2105. item four conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator dustin conrad employee organization apple valley unified teachers association item five conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator dustin conrad employee organization california school employees association item number six conference with labor negotiators agency negotiator trenay nelson employee organization unrepresentative and finally item seven superintendent evaluation so with that i'll ask for a motion to um go into closed session second okay we have a motion bender second blessing game all in favor aye aye any opposed during them that'll be the order we'll be going into closed session at 5 37. you so [Music] perfect man hi ron how are you okay we're back uh from closed session uh
004it's uh 6 31 so we'll call this uh second portion of the meeting to order at uh 6 32 and uh with that we will move on to item two is reports from granite hills aaron you're up this will be the last time we see you huh we're gonna miss you good evening board members superintendent nelson and attendees it is absolutely crazy to know that this is the last time i will be saying that but when i think about it everything about this past year has been crazy but it's also been amazing we started the school year in a complete completely virtual setting and while our teachers and staff were well prepared for this it was still something we had never experienced before the first semester of distance learning was filled with virtual activities to
005stay engaged with our student body we found new ways to interact with people like having a virtual stay at homecoming and hosting club rush over zoom while both these events and all of our others were successful it still felt odd of course everyone on and off campus tried to make it as normal as possible but we all know it was different even though even through these different times though all of granite continued to work hard and help each other wherever they could it truly showed how united our school is as we returned to school in the second semester this unitedness continued to shine through for the first time ever we navigated through introducing freshmen to the campus in spring having friday night lights in april and so much more our sense of community stayed strong
006and everyone managed to find a place and routine whether that be at school or virtually our return to school also gave us the return of many sports teams our teams performed well this year with both our cross country teams placing second in dsl our football team finishing two and two both are tennis teams placing first in dsl both our soccer teams winning dsl titles our softball and baseball teams working towards playoffs our track and field team winning their first league title in 10 years and our basketball team fighting for third place in league as the year is almost over we have been looking towards and preparing for the future in every regard we've held various events to introduce our new freshmen to the school and we will have a formal dinner tomorrow and a graduation
007for our seniors on the 26th not only will we be celebrating this year seniors but we will also be celebrating our 2020 graduates on the 24th we are so excited to celebrate our students and greatly appreciate the work done by superintendent nelson and the board to make this possible these end of the year ceremonies also mean that it's almost time for me to introduce you to granite's new governing council president before i do that though i wanted to say thank you delivering these speeches for the last two years has been the highlight of my high school career and i could not have asked for a better experience i formed meaningful relationships with everyone here including apple's president went to a buddha meetings and overall learn more about our district than i ever thought possible thank
008you all for the opportunities you've given me and always taking the time to listen to me talk about granted with that being said i cannot think of a more worthy person to take over as gc president she is someone who is astoundingly dedicated to granite hills and promoting school spirit i know that she will do an excellent job representing granite and i could not be more excited to see how she does her name is ella houseman and i'd love for her to come introduce herself good evening board members superintendent nelson and attendees my name is ella houseman and i will be the 2021-2022 president i'm really looking forward to attending board meetings next year and giving you guys reports on granny hills high school thank you [Applause] with that thank you all again for your
009time tonight and for the last two years as my last words to you always remember maroon and gray lead the way thank you aaron before he leaves aaron [Applause] before you go what's your uh what's your plans would you where are you going oh yeah you got it covered for me okay i wasn't gonna let her off that easy yeah and mr perfect can you turn me on the camera yeah yes every board meeting erin has been here with a smile on her face whether it was virtual or in person and she is the first governing board council of president that has served for two years i think in the history of apple valley unified school district we were so proud to have a junior and then as a senior because we knew there was
010going to be consistency aaron has quite the history and both both of our presidents do she is part of the national honor society the president of mock trial and aaron is an active member of the principal student cabinet she's a recipient of the principal's student of the year award and she is one of five valedictorians that's worth cheering for everybody [Applause] after high school she will be attending the university of california at riverside i know the area well i didn't go to school there but i lived there for a while and with a full ride scholarship and wait for it she's going to be a political science major ultimate goal of attending law school i have no doubt that we will see great things from erin in the future and i'm so happy thank you
011so much [Applause] i believe ella is going to do a wonderful job absolutely my son did the same thing he was a valedictorian speaker for 2005. he graduated and he's still talking he's a director in charge of strategy for bill and linda gates foundation today good so you're gonna go somewhere thank you aaron good luck [Applause] okay we have apple valley high yes mezzel hazel i'm sorry we're going to miss you too are you going to miss us our future oh our future asb line president has been in our sun devil asb since his freshman year he came to abhs as the freshman class president served as the sophomore class treasurer continued as the junior class president and finally will be the asb line president since his freshman year he never failed to impress me
012by his hard work and dedication whether it came to simple things such as moving tables sorry to complex events such as helping plan our color our annual color run he was always someone i could rely on to do jobs others didn't want to do i'm ecstatic that i was able to watch him grow over these last three years and i'm so proud of the leader that he has become it is my honor to introduce next year's asb line president daniel oriana it is my honor to be here as next year's apple valley high school school representative i look forward to bringing sunderland news and updating you with our current events this year has been nothing like we have ever seen before it came with highs and lows mostly lows but we persevered through it all
013and we kept moving forward we were able to host events such as the nation drives a virtual talent show numerous recitals and weekly trivia nights hosted by a beloved principal as the school year comes so close all of our efforts have gone to recognizing seniors for the how for the hard work they've done during these past four years yesterday we heard we held our senior nights awards and today we're recognizing our ffa students with their own award ceremony we're very excited for our graduation this tuesday to finally bring the 2020 2021 school year to an end thank you [Applause] i would first like to thank our principal miss howell for being so supportive to us students during this pandemic and for all the time she has served as our principal we are sad to see
014her leave but are excited for the next chapters at of abhs next i would like to thank our asb advisor mr collins for putting up with our craziest asb class i would also like to thank all of our sun devil teachers and staff for their perseverance through this very abnormal year i would like to thank the board for being a constant support system that i always knew i could rely on and finally i would like to thank superintendent nelson she has always made sure to greet me when i saw her and always checked up on me and aaron assuring that we could come to her for anything thank you everyone i'm so happy that i was able to serve as your avhs asb 2021 line president and remember sun devil pride is [Applause] contagious boy
015this is tough i started with aaron and i remember um sitting in the uh at the diocese one time and looking out and not knowing who her parents were and i knew immediately because i watched this woman and i thought holy toledo that woman has aaron mannerisms and i realized she was aaron's mom and so i have to say that these two have just carried us this last year through a countdown and they have been shining stars daniel no pressure i promise you'll be fine but here's the deal not only do we have one valedictorian but maisel is a valedictorian at apple valley high school as she mentioned she's been in ant all four years she um is an integral part of the apple valley high school sensations miss o'kara never missed a concert and
016i know this because she'd always talk about it and we'll be attending my alma mater cal state san bernardino in the park [Laughter] but here's the other thing about um nasal that she probably doesn't know for years i've watched her in the choir at our church and i've always just been amazed at her poise and ability to get up in front of an audience and just do her thing and so i don't know if you knew that but i so appreciate you and aaron for all the work you've done and i'm gonna miss you you [Applause] okay just going to pause for a few minutes and let um the you guys can leave we'll excuse you so you don't have to stay but good luck to you and um i can guarantee you're going to
017be very successful and we're looking forward to the new representatives we'll see you next time so have a good night thank you bye guys okay so do we have uh kylie do we have any reports from csca tonight yes representative you're here there she is you're ups [Music] and after that we'll have a buddha okay um well good evening wilson says is that better yeah can you hear me now [Music] is that better can you hear me mr yes um first i would like to say to everyone congratulations kudos and what a good job all of you here all of the kids all of the administrators we have survived an unprecedented year it's amazing and it's amazing that just as you had said tonight the students are the shining stars here because they've shown us
018as adults we can get through this this is what we're going to do and here's the adjustments we're going to make this is not our permanent condition it's just our condition on the way to something else so i want to tell you all how much i appreciate you you as board members have had to make a lot of decisions this year that weren't easy more definitely weren't comfortable and certainly not predicted um having said that um this week we've been celebrating classified school employees week and we're winding down at the end of that and we currently are winding up with our scavenger hunts we've had a virtual scavenger hunt going on the last couple days where members were encouraging our members to become more familiar with the school district website and just different things at
019their own work sites and so um it's been hard it's been a rough like i said a rough year but the classified school employees week has been a great way to end the school year um this evening i hope that you had an opportunity or will have in the next club session an opportunity to address our health and welfare agreement i'm hoping to hear something about that um any agreement that you see come before you um represents hard work and a lot of thought and consideration and some roll up your sleeves problem solving and um i appreciate the people that we've been given to work with um let me tell you matt schillenberg and dustin both were awesome in being able to help get this agreement put together and worded in a way that it
020said what meant um in closing i i'm hoping we're we're going to be in negotiations again tomorrow for the last time for the school year we won't be convening again until august and i hope that our exchanges tomorrow will indicate a renewed dedication to the things that we've worked for over the last decade or so so thank you have a good summer see you next year thank you thank you [Applause] you're up good evening board members and district admin i'm terry ray i am the vice president of a buddha but i'm this is i'm stepping down from that position to look forward to some other moving up into the district hopefully um so this the end of this year is fast approaching has been in trying year and year and a half with the pandemic
021but our members have not only made it through but we have excelled i've seen teachers make learning come alive in our zoom meetings members have had little to no technology experience has taken it with stride and hit the ground running learning how to do things in a very short amount of time i have seen counselors struggle with all the social and emotional needs of our students and make it work because they need to do what is best for our students which is why we got into this profession in the first place we have always been a family at avusd but this pandemic has only strengthened our bond and showed everyone that when we the district the members and the buddha work together there is nothing we can't do the district has really listened to the
022members and taken their feelings and worries into account before implementing any changes which only makes us work want to work harder lastly i want to thank the district and the school board for all they have done this school year and here's hoping to come back in the fall to a normal year thank you for your time thank you thank you so moving right along um we have some readouts from closed session and i have my order kylie i told you earlier so i still have them in order okay i know you're very organized so the very first item that we're going to read out and it's a appointment for adam powell as principal at granite hills high school range 16 column one on the search management salary schedule so uh with uh holding no further
023do uh on a motion by so wilson so in a second by blessing game the board approved 5-0 to appoint you adam to principal and we're glad to have you thank you adam is a home-grown apple belly been here most of your life glad to have you thank you and his parents are here supporting him as well good to see you guys again thank you that's right that's right okay the second item that's uh that we're going to report on as b2 public employee appointment resignation retirement reduction and as to a point pamela garrett as principal desert knowles elementary school reigns seven column one uh where she's [Applause] the board voted 5-0 to appoint you desert knowles principal so welcome aboard thank you she's another homegrown graduated 2000 uh from is it apple apple apple
024hi and now she's principal at desert knowles elementary school welcome aboard uh the second item a third item and this is to appoint dennis zimmerman as director of human resources range 13 column five to the human resources position on motion by bender and the second by raleigh the board voted four to one to appoint you to the where is he he's here area stand up 2.2 welcome [Applause] mr zimmerman's been in the business for a long time 30 years in the teaching and he comes over from snow line school district so welcome to apple valley yes thank you the best district in the high desert okay moving right along so item b5 was conference with labor negotiators so boards on a motion by uh uparra and a second by blessing game we approved the c-s-e-a
025chapter memorandum of understanding regarding the par supplementary retirement plan so on a vote of five to zero in closed session item b5 again and this was approved the apple valley unified school district and csea chapter 8 828 tentative agreement article 11 compensation regarding health and welfare dated april 21st 2001 motion by so second by oak parra on a 5-0 vote motion pass so those are the items that um good okay okay moving right along uh we need to uh make an adoption of the agenda board may approve the agenda as is or add or pull items from consent uh agenda for discussion or action so do we [Music] is there any opposition to the motion okay hearing them that will be the order okay so basically the next one up is the recognition represent presentation
026by matt schulenberg on the maintenance operations department of team members thank you mr raleigh thank you we're getting close to public comments so if you guys are here to speak just the thing type will be there quickly shortly i'd like to share this evening a little bit of information and recognize some of my team members that support the students and the staff here at apple valley av usd participates in what's called the riverside schools insurance authority one of several one of several jpas that provide property and liability coverage to school districts in southern california regular property inspections are provided by this jpa as a service to school districts to assist in identifying possible hazards on and around school campuses representatives from our liability insurer southern california relief did conduct one of these inspections for apple
027valley unified earlier this year and did identify some potential hazards for repair and remediation some of those items are i don't know if you're familiar with the high desert and the temperature extremes asphalt seems to crack up here quite a bit wherever you go they did identify some excessive cracking on some of our campuses we have some schools and some teachers that like to put paper on their windows and they consider that a hazard unfortunately so we have to take care of that from time to time uh furniture that isn't uh in great condition so they did identify some of the furniture items that needed to be remediated um many of you have probably seen squirrels running around the high desert well they dig holes unfortunately they dig holes in fields so we have to
028pay special attention crystal uh to holes and fields but i want to recognize the apple valley unified maintenance and operations team because they responded to every item identified in this inspection repaired and remediated all items listed for the follow-up inspection in fact apple valley unified because of the dedication of the maintenance and operations team was on one of only five districts in this jpa of over 30 districts that completed these tasks for their follow-up inspection and i would like to introduce and have them stand where they are seated and be recognized i'd like to introduce jim hopper director of maintenance and operations kirk howe our maintenance supervisor and colleen bond our custodial supervisor [Applause] okay well they want to sit down but i just want to thank them for leading their team members on this
029effort and i want to thank them and all of the team members in the maintenance department and the custodial department who unfortunately couldn't be with her with us here tonight because of rules and distancing requirements but i do want to let them know apple valley unified because of their efforts was awarded the excellence in safety award by socal relief jpa again one of only five districts out of over 30 in that jpa presented in recognition of correcting all priority hazards before the follow-up audit so i want to thank jim colleen and kirk for your efforts and publicly recognize them so if you could join me again in honoring and thanking them and their team members you're here [Applause] thank you matt thanks for all the employees that showed up and hard work you guys do
030thank you appreciate it thank you moving right along uh we have pat schlosser's can recognize cli by literacy volunteers for 2021. thank you this will be a brief presentation the volunteers are not here because we weren't sure we could bring there but i have a brief presentation and we'd like to recognize them and we'll get their certificates to them this is for the seal of bi-literacy effort that we do at the end of each year this is a really special recognition that students can earn that shows that they are literate in two languages and so the way that kind of works is first of course they must demonstrate proficiency in english they do that by a variety of ways but their their their course grades or test scores which we did not have this year
031and of course they have to demonstrate proficiency in a second language they can do that also in a number of ways an advanced placement test um coursework and then of course if they're if it's via four years of course work there also has to be an interview and for some languages that's easy for us to conduct and for other languages we have to rely on our community volunteers this year these are the languages we had um many students in spanish and french and then some other languages including vietnamese and mandarin that were represented this year this is uh 68 recipients so far and nine pending their ap results which is for us our highest year and maybe that i could find ever in the midst of a pandemic and the way that happens is our
032volunteers teachers working extra time bilingual support staff tirelessly interviewing conducting zoom sessions with these students and grading their work and so we're really proud of the this effort and what this represents for our community and this is a designation that helps students when they move to college level because often it will take care of their foreign language requirement at the university level and so we want to uh thank michelle pham who helped us in vietnamese she did not provide a picture although we asked her to and so we will make sure and recognize her and give her and vet her well when we see her again soon and uh her for her role in that work and then this is chao ying su who also for our chinese mandarin speakers did a wonderful job of
033helping them to demonstrate proficiency and so just a round of applause for those two community members thank you pat okay we'll move on to uh public comments uh and i'd like to remind you guys the board of trustees would again like to remind members of the community that you may remove your mask while making your public comment if you feel comfortable doing so and with that um you're limited uh to three minutes uh per speaker and the first one up is uh brandon is it sorely friend yes your first stop sir thank you [Music] i think i got it that's good good evening um i'm just here to talk about mass mandates at the school um i didn't really prepare anything other than i printed out a few uh documentations on research and studies done
034i feel that math should be an individual choice for both students and teachers i of course teachers they have to deal with the union so that's their thing but i have two two two kids that are going to school and i really think that they should have a choice whether they wear masks or not so on these three items that i printed out i just show i have here one directly from the cdc website um on their discussion which is their closing statement they say that they show there's no evidence that mass do anything um so i printed out three copies here so if you guys watch these you can have them um the other thing i printed out was a a compiled research done by a guy named rancourt i don't know if you
035guys have heard of them all he did was compile all the studies done from 2009 all the way to 2020 and it shows that in all of these studies mass against there's no evidence for a basis of mass so um again you guys can have those and then i printed out a third one here this one is uh it was done by a doctor uh that is the 17 harms that mast can do to people um you can go through these and everything but the most important thing that i came across um on page three in here above the number four uh comment there's a guy named dr omar clark and he did a video and on his video he takes his own daughter to a doctor another doctor who uh hooks her up to
036an oxygen machine to see how the oxygen is affected in her body it's very intriguing so i would recommend for you guys to check that out so okay thank you brandon um next up is emmy after emily would be monica hello my name is emmy lease i'm a resident in apple valley and my son goes to school in apple valley and um again i'm just here to talk about the masks i don't have anything prepared but just to say um we hope that the 20 2021-2022 school year can have mass be an option for the kids um for the very same reasons he pointed out and um so i just hope that maybe it gets to the point where the board can vote on that being an option um i know that we have to
037follow county guidelines and everything and i have also made public comments to the county supervisors meeting so hopefully we can all get to that point and that's all i have to say thank you thank you thank you [Applause] monica king after monica will be i believe it's our marquez marcus good evening everybody my name is monica and i just want to start by saying how grateful i am for all of you during these times i can't imagine the difficult decisions this past year has brought our schools have done their best with the information that is flip-flopped you've received conflicting guidelines i really commend you i want to talk today specifically on mass i strongly feel they need to be a choice by parents this has gone on way too long and my children will not
038return to public school next year if this doesn't end now i know you feel you don't have the power to make a change but you are all very smart people that can think for themselves these parents tap dollars tax dollars fund these schools and it is not okay to sit back and let this continue on it is time now to stand up and give families their choice to decide what is best for their own children's health the cdc odh dr fauci have proven their inconsistent guidelines over and over again and have proven to be not credible at this point they are not in charge of our freedoms our rights and our liberties these mass on these children and allowing them to carry this burden of this pandemic has affected them long enough and i'm done
039with it i've heard things like children are resilient but are they at what cost this is a cop-out to justify our lack of willingness to advocate for them mental health is the easiest thing to ignore i've spent so long on research on this and have highlighted some points worth sharing that proved mass do more harm than good according to cdc 266 ages 0-17 have died from covid19 this is tragic during the 2018-2019 flu season 477 kids in that age range died of the regular flu also in 2019 we lost 2 485 kids under 18 to traffic accidents 766 to drowning and an alarming 2156 to suicide that has gone up we have not banned swimming or cars we live in a world full of risks so what do we know at this point it is
040rare for children to spread coven 19 to adults asymptomatic spread is not common spread in schools is not common kids have a 99.997 percent chance of survival rate after coming in contact with covet 19. so what about safety of staff at this point they need to take the initiative for themselves they have the choice now to be vaccinated if they so choose they can double mask wear a shield but my children's health mentally physically and emotionally will not be sacrificed for the comfort of staff members all of my children and all the children all they want are their basic human rights back take off the dang mass give a smile and a hug let our kids breathe fresh air let them smile at one another and let them be free and let them be children
041i won't comply with this unlawful coercion there needs to be liability so who is liable for the psychosocial physiological effects on our children please make mass a choice and do it now it is not ethical to continue this path when there is no scientific justification for our children to be wearing these masks thank you very much thank you monica thank you [Music] is it a cruise and after um next will be rochelle thank you for allowing me to speak here today um never done this in my life so excuse me if i get emotional or nervous or anything like that hello my name is mary cruz elise and i have been an apple valley resident for 15 years my kids have attended abusd schools they're in their whole school life we love living here and
042are grateful for the amazing teachers and staff throughout their lives so far i'm here to speak out against the use of face coverings i do not agree with them and believe they may be harmful the only reason why i allow my kids to return to school is because they desperately wanted to see their friends and be with their friends i also felt it would bring some kind of normalcy back into their lives although masks were a requirement i felt the benefits outweighed the risks it was only two days a week for a few hours so i felt fine and i i thought it was okay i'll allow it and anything more than that no i will not i have taught my kids that masks are nothing more than a facade and that government overreach is
043a real thing i want to raise free thinkers and people who use common sense i have also taught them in the beginning how to properly wear a mask under their nose so they can breathe the fresh air that god created and now i don't wear them at all and i don't put any on my kids i don't regret my decision and my kids are better for it by the cdc's own admissions an organization you all have been following guidelines for say that children have little to no chance of contracting covet or giving it to others so before you impose all these guides on our kids did you ask yourselves what are the long-term effects on wearing a mask is oxygen level being affected what are the physiological effects well i don't know if you did
044or what your thought process was but a big red flag for me was when the cd flipped the script from you don't need to wear a mask two they are mandated now dr fauci in the beginning said that there's no reason for anybody to be wearing a mask and it just makes people feel better for a little bit and it might even block some droplets but it doesn't provide the perfect protection that people think that it is that is also the man who has just been tied to funding a lab in wuhang china for doing gain of function research so if that doesn't raise any eyebrows to you i don't know what will also u.s surgeon general dr jerome adams says that surgical mass do not protect you from respiratory viruses it has leaks all
045around it is designed to barrier protection for people in the or hence the name surgical mask the n95 mask must be do you have a few more comments you'd like to make real quick i can't hear you your time is up give you a few more wrap it up sure thank you basically i feel the same as all the other people have spoken before me face masks should not be required they haven't been proven to work if they had then you know what was all this why did all this end up happening um yeah i just feel like the cdc is getting it wrong they've been getting it wrong this whole time and we need to step up and stand up for our kids thank you for your comments um rochelle areas sure she had
046ffa awards her shoes that she had to go to an ffa award for her child [Music] that's it back once more um i'm speaking for rochelle tonight michelle arias um she just has a quick um update says hi i'm michelle i'm sure you all remember me from last meeting i just wanted to give you an update on our fight towards mask making mass optional for our students i have been in contact with superintendent nelson and also supervisor paul cook's office and a contact at the county department of health we are all working toward a common goal and i am confident that we have the great that we have a great team together with all the parents here today and at home i was able to attend an unmask the kids rally this week and it
047turned out great throughout the summer we will be continuing our fight and i will be updating you all at the future meetings thank you okay that does it for public comments uh kylie is there any more cards anybody coming late and uh i want to say we appreciate the parents coming in here and speaking it takes a lot just to spend some time in the middle of the evening coming here and getting up podium and speaking on this topic it is a very contentious topic there's a lot of interest in it and we're very hopeful that when school starts in the fall that this won't be the issue anymore but well i can say speaking for myself i agree 100 with you yeah like dressing your kid up for halloween every damn morning so but
048again thank you for your comments and um we appreciate it greg if i may i think for the parent that's that spoke i spoke last time last poor meeting we i'm also in a uh not an agreement with where i'm at because it's my i have two dollars there are doctors okay and i might you know see i don't where it just see we have to follow the county and stake ionized that's a problem with the being a school district so we're going to conflict about that but we want to make we and i as a as i think as a board member and fully uh understand the the constraints on the kids for example i watched tv about the mentor live sport meeting that the young lady don't get enough oxygen when she was
049running with the mass she fell down okay so these are concerns that we have but we have to follow the safety guidelines imposed by the county health and the county superintendent of schools as well as state department education so we're going to work with a state in the county and say one can we get rid of this requirement on mass well may say something sure um unfortunately as the board we really do not have a say so in regards to this however the superintendent has made contact with all of the elected officials and all of your comments will be forwarded to them so that they know that you are really serious about this mask mandate so if if i can employ you to just sit tight with you pushing and the superintendent pushing we are
050going to hopefully have a response for you in the near future okay thank you thank you again moving along we have uh superintendent comments from uh um in response to all of the comments i first want to point out that um what ms okpara said is accurate i contacted supervisor colonel cook's office and i feel like we are extremely fortunate tonight to have um kimberly messin in the audience kimberly if you just let everybody know who you are you are field representative for um supervisor cook's office yeah sorry you are not a field supervisor um i didn't demote you i promise so um but kimberly i reached out to her and invited her um and she was more than happy to show up here tonight um willing to take that information back because as the
051board of supervisors part of their role is the work with the san bernardino county department of public health and so any of the comments that are provided tonight will be provided to all levels they'll be provided to um supervisor cook's office assembly person thurston smith representative jay albernaulty and senator scott wilks and i don't want you to believe that the board can take a vote to change what has happened we are a public entity that is governed by the rules that are set by the state um i'm going to read you the email that i sent to each of those groups yesterday um that is i had already talked to kimberly so the others i felt needed the same information because this is not something even san bernardino county supervisors can necessarily change it has
052to continue up the chain for for a couple reasons so i'm reaching out to all of our state and local officials to communicate a concern the families we serve in the apple valley unified school district have expressed at our last board meeting a parent came to advocate for students to be able to attend school mask free in the fall i understand the local concern and the fact that the data is limited however the conflicting messages from the cdc are state and local governments governmental entities does not allow school districts to appropriately answer the concerns we are often told it is a local decision however we all know if a local decision is made that is contrary to guidance we are risking our liability of stewardship of public funds tomorrow night we will hold our regularly
053scheduled board meeting at 5 30 pm which was for tonight and i have been given a heads up that parents are planning to attend and comment publicly again i am unsure if this means one parent or 15 but i want to reach out and encourage each of our elected officials to recognize this is an issue and help us to have a united consistent message to our local community and then i signed it with my information and then i will tell you that i also was on the phone with the department of public health different issue but asked to talk about mass guidance and any change in direction that is occurring and so i was immediately sent an email that conveyed the current status so i want you to have that as parents to understand that
054there is some other things going on on may 17th the california department of public health cdph so that's the the one over the san bernardino county department of public health released the most recent statistics on covet 19 update and mass guidance so i'm reading you from them this is not my words california will keep its existing guidance around masks in place until june 15th when california aims to fully reopen the economy as of may 3rd 2021 face coverings are no longer required outdoors except at crowded events and for unvaccinated people when physical distancing cannot be maintained in indoor settings outside of one's home including public transportation and schools face coverings continue to be required regardless of vaccination status after june 15 california plans to implement the cdc's guidelines around masking to allow fully vaccinated californians
055to go without a mask in most indoor settings this four week period will give californians time to prepare for this change while we continue to our relentless focus on delivering vaccines particularly in underserved communities we urge all californians to get out and get vaccinated to ensure that infection and hospitalization rates remain low across the state and that we can all return to activities we love those are not trenay words those are from the department of public health but i want to let you guys know that on top of that my question followed up with um there is no requirement for students to be vaccinated so i want to make sure that that information is shared with you and the fact that there was a rumor that we were holding vaccine um discussions as town hall
056meetings none of that has happened nor has the the rules changed that we can require staff nor students to be vaccinated nor can we vaccinate your children without you giving permission to do so so all of those are rumors my biggest recommendation is if you hear something please contact one of us we are here to answer your questions and we are here to set the record straight as for masking i asked what that meant for our students that cannot be vaccinated because right now the 12 and above is available for vaccination that's a parent choice however the they are currently in trials for younger children so i asked what that meant how what's the timeline because there are families that might take that as an option i'm not saying that that's their you know the
057option i'm just saying from a choice perspective and they are in trials and do not anticipate children under age 12 having the ability to be vaccinated until the earliest in november so that means opening school based on this statement would include masks that's the assumption i am making but that does not mean it will come to fruition because this is a fluid situation the department of public health was very clear that it can change at any minute and we've seen that we've seen that with the changes but having kimberly here means that supervisor cook's office will have the information and be able to take it back and i will continue to send those things those directions okay thank you thank you thank you thank you board member comments uh adeline first of all congratulations to
058all the departments for their wonderful work um we can't do it without you so um the other thing is i'd like to say i was again impressed by the performances that i watched last last week and um really entertained super job i have to take my hat off to those teachers that are in charge of that program because if you haven't seen those kids perform you need to because they are absolutely outstanding and in this time and age where they're going to school from their homes to put on a show that they put on was absolutely incredible and um i look forward to all of you seeing you all next year um and thank you very much thank you wilson i just want to extend our congratulations to the staff new members that's going to
059join us congratulations thank you thank you dennis i like to come and all of you that got promoted tonight i hope you enjoy your new charge and especially the makings and operations you guys are the ball bearings of the school in world war ii that's what we killed bombed barbarians and oil and i'd like to compliment our secretary of the school board and your secretary she ran that american hero at vanguard and she's the equivalent of a marine drills instructor i'm glad you called it american hero instead of american idol because we're still not allowed to report on that [Laughter] good job kylie maria all the way uh from uh texas texas texas um i have to take this time um to thank all the parents who came out this evening to speak on behalf
060of their children um this is what we are really looking forward to we want parents to be involved and to ask all the key questions and to expect response and i'm hoping that the response you received from the superintendent today gave you everything to actually pause and and know that we are looking at your children secondly i would like to congratulate the two presidents of the two high schools um who served their schools faithfully even during the pandemic and i'd like to also congratulate the staff of the maintenance and operations for keeping our schools open and this uh functional thank you ma schulenberg um for leaving that group and again i'll see you all on monday when i come back on sunday thank you so much for allowing me this opportunity to welcome my new
061grandchild thank you maria i just like to mention that the i'm going to have in person graduations um beginning on may 24th for all the uh high schools and i believe it will probably be on our website of the dates and times where these are at uh beginning on monday may 24th uh at the newton bass uh stadium so it's good you know the kids last year they missed out on this but this year we're actually going to be able to pull it off so it's a good thing so to see uh see us all there um with that we don't great for good weather yeah well it's always windy so um we have no public hearings at this time and no special meetings so we'll move on to item i discussion session is recommended
062the board of trustees discuss and take action on the following items prove the uh sophisticated problem with saying that in classified personnel actions as listed so would you have a motion motion vendor second lasting game is there any opposition to the motion uh so that'll be the order 500. approve requested leave is noted we have a motion maria second second bye you have a second wilson wilson is there any opposition to the motion that'll be the order i will approve of vuda article 19 compensation as follows we have a motion you have any opposition to the motion during them that'll be the order approve the extended learning opportunities elo grant plan hi mo wait a minute before you make a mess we have to have a presentation on yeah you have a presentation we do
063thank you yeah i like that let me just catch you that's me thank you i'm just going to put up a couple of slides real quick to go through that yeah elo the extended expanded learning opportunity grant proposal so we can give you full information as you read through in the document there's some plan components that are required they're listed here you saw them um i just wanted to make sure you understood the process by which we went about gathering information and putting this plan together and so quickly the funding amounts for this plan are in two basic categories there's the 8.4 million dollar general allocation that's an estimate and then there is a 940 000 paraprofessional set-aside that is an additional component for either extra duty more time positions for paraprofessionals for a total
064again estimate of over nine million dollars the requirements are that they are spent between now and the end of august of next year 2022 and we have to report the actuals by december 1st of 22. and we must coordinate those with some of the federal coven relief funds the esser funds the most recent round of funding we must offer supplemental instruction and support to students foster youth homeless students low-income english learners and others that we designate as in need of service so our outreach to parents for this will come in three main phases it's already begun for the summer program that will begin here on june 7th um then of course there'll be a whole host of school site offerings that you'll see in a moment and then of course the summer of 22 will
065be the kind of third phase of the plan our plan development actually began in earnest with our lcap district advisory committee we were able to get the information from the state just in time for our last district advisory committee meeting we put a thought exchange into the field and got excellent feedback from parents and and committee members uh we did uh talk to an employee association about this and got some input on the learning components and their preferences there and had a chance to have an outreach with our district english language advisory committee who asked outstanding questions about these funds this is the general wordle of the comments we got back from parents and and staff members about what to do if we were to put together learning and supplemental they wanted to make sure
066that it was enriching and yet fun i was so glad to see that because this wasn't totally in keeping with the way our district advisory committee also was building our lcap meaning they were attentive to what some of these very same comments we heard tonight from the podium and that is the need for social emotional support for these students but also to do that in a manner in which help them re-establish uh a sense of just love of learning and so with that in mind our plan has 10 main elements like i mentioned expansive summer programs our summer offerings this year we have almost 900 students registered for five summer school offerings at the k-8 level and both comprehensive high schools will be having uh in large summer programs when compared to years prior with
067all kinds of creative activities included these feel like camp we're talking about a week that's themed kind of a beach theme rainbows science fun um we expect lots of messes to clean up but we've heard how awesome the maintenance and operations department is so they can handle it and we're just so excited to bring back those elements to summer and learning and so that's just wonderful starting the fall we'll be able to supplement our reading intervention plan this plan does allow for supplements during the school day so we'll be doing that at the k8 level in addition at the high school we will be adding some extra certificated staff so that the two new high school principals in the room are excited to know that they'll have some flexibility to make sure and offer those
068ninth grade students who need more intervention and feedback the opportunity to do that um and then extensive before and after school programs for credit recovery for the kinds of things that we know that teachers have passionate about but haven't been able to do because they haven't had the ability to have the students stay with them have the materials and have the time and so we're excited to have the kinds of things we had a teacher the other day say i want to teach a class about world war ii and and really offer that kind of excitement and enrichment and we'll be able to do those kinds of things um we will be bringing field trips back lots of schools have have told us they haven't been able to fundraise but now they don't have to
069worry about that part as soon as things open back up we'll be able to send students and have experiences out in the larger world we will continue to work on outdoor wireless access points for students to use common areas to get internet connection if they need it and we're actually working on an lte network across apple valley so that we will have an apple valley system for our students and staff to access wireless wireless network all our own in the last couple of things we'll be also augmenting our professional development to make sure that social emotional learning and this those skills are presented in a coordinated and careful manner to all to really continue the work we've been doing but with a focus that comes from the one that demonstrated need and the demands of
070our families and again we'll finish with the summer of 2022 informed by what we learned this summer and we'll buy the kinds of things we need for all those programs to occur so that's a real quick outline of the plan these are the general categories we have great flexibility to move these dollars as the need arises but as you saw we must report the actual expenditures to the state and so i wanted to go through that quickly for you and then answer any questions you might have well i just have a comment yes maria go ahead you know i will ask a question anyway um i'm just glad that uh this uh elo addresses mental health uh we have kept our kids indoors for a full year so it's very important that we take the
071time to reach out to them and know exactly how they're feeling let's let's deep dig deep into their feelings i think what schools have done systematically is to go straight into testing testing testing the children need to get back and get used to school again before we start testing again so i'm glad that this elo is um it is is capturing the essence of why we go to why do we go to school clearly is this so that we can pass a test or is this so that we can understand how what life lies ahead so thank you so much for bringing this up to us and we'll be paying attention to how that fund is spent thank you thank you any other questions of uh staff okay pat thank you thank you thank you
072yeah okay with that uh do we have a motion to approve the elo grants what'd you say we have a motion by blasting game second by maria yeah yes okay is there any opposition to the motion no that'll be the order moving on to jay consent we have 20 items one through 20. um if there's no items be pulled we have a motion to approve i have a motion to approve second emotion by maria second by blasting game is there any opposition to the motion hearing none that would be the order we have no staff reports that need any action taken kylie we have any more public comments do we not go do we not have anything on the police department reports it's a staff report miss okara okay so we don't have anything there
073it's just no action on it it's just a review okay uh any more comments from uh trenay yeah everyone comments yeah i just um want to follow up on the graduation we do have um the class of 2020 graduation occurring before the class of 2021 graduation um we will host an unusual event our kids that wanted to walk across the stage from both granite hills high school and apple valley high school will do that in a united fashion we are going to celebrate them as they want to be celebrated which is across the stage in person we are excited to offer that to them on monday may 24th it's been nothing but a feat of a lot of people agreeing to do what i thought was right for these kids and i stand back and
074let them make it happen so i just appreciate the entire staff on both campuses the cabinet zoe our pio and so many people behind the scenes that are going to make this happen and people stepping up to show up another night to support the right thing for these kids and then we move on to tuesday morning with high desert premier academy high desert premier academy will graduate both the class of 2020 and 2021 because of the size and they have the highest number of graduates this year and we're excited to celebrate that on tuesday evening we will graduate apple valley high school the 2021 graduation and then um granite will complete our tour of the stadium on wednesday the 26th this is a different event this year we are following all the guidelines we had
075to move the stage to the end zone kind of the end zone and use both sides of the stadium in order to accommodate assigned seating and spacing so that our families could each student could have four tickets that presents a problem because in the past people have bartered and exchanged tickets but because they're assigned they won't necessarily it wouldn't be appropriate for them to go sit with another family to to deal with it so um we're hopeful that this gets us closer to a normal event a year from now but for now we're we're excited about this um or i apologize miss calvin i cannot either it's been a pandemic it's that's what i'm going to blame it on um miss calvin indicated that it was classified employee week as you all know we took
076resolutions to the board a couple months ago to to deal with both certificated and classified appreciation um it was great to um identify some classified managers tonight and their work um but we did an ice cream social in a different fashion as a drive-through yesterday with ice cream sandwiches and we had fun with it and we appreciate that staff drove through and grabbed an ice cream sandwich and other than that i just appreciate everybody and the school year that we've had and um we're gonna keep going and be stronger for what we've gone through thank you thank you trini uh any other comments from board members adeline wilson i don't have any dennis no maria yes i do for those graduating students there is a great graduation higher learning option that is out there from
077victor valley college i'm hoping that they will all tap into that to um see if they could go to college for free at victor valley college if the other options are not available to them okay thank you maria i have nothing further we have no further uh close to go back into closed session uh so we'll go on the closing items any future agenda items that any board members want to bring forward no okay uh with that i'll call for the german at seven oh wait a minute the next meeting uh will be thursday june 3rd at 1 pm in the multi-purpose room there you go 7 40. we opposed to the adjourning video thank you thank you for showing up tonight you