001okay we'll call this uh unified school district uh regular board meeting on uh may 6 2021 at 5 30 p.m to order and with that uh kylie can we get a roll call sure um i'm present rick raleigh here wilson so here dennis bender here adeline blasting game present okay if uh does join me in the pledge please stand i [Music] with liberty and justice for all thank you okay moving on to number three we'll have a moment of silence at this time uh in remembrance of the apple valley unified school district family member no longer with us and that's richard weingarten so please join me in a moment in silence thank you thank you okay moving on to public comments um we'll start with um joel lewis you're up i can remind you i
002have a time limit of three minutes but take your take your time [Music] i thank you is this on okay thanks for the opportunity to address the board this evening um i just want to let you know that in the last several months the negotiating teams from both the district and the buddha have really yeah yeah all right no problem uh i wonder last several months that the negotiations from the district and buda have really worked well together and in formulating and put together a new contract that we have um especially negotiating several key items such as the monetary compensation and prep time for elementary school teachers we do have one item left to tackle and that is retirement retirement benefits our health care coverage for people that are getting ready to retire we are
003significantly grateful that the board in our school district have recognized that this is an important item and good for both the teachers in our school district uh we are grateful for the initial offer of retirement benefits being available at the age of 60. we feel strongly that this benefit should be able to be utilized at the age of 55 for several reasons although most teachers do not retire at the age of 55 it is important that the benefit becomes available at that age with the appropriate amount of years of service which is currently being negotiated 25 years we want our teachers to have that option so they feel they don't they do not have to hang on for health care benefits only or if a teacher is burned out or they're just ready to go
004and they're just coming to work every day just for health care and hanging on for five or six more years it's also we also have teachers that may have circumstances beyond their control such as health issues or have to take care of a significant other currently most districts in california do offer this option with yet less years of service and at the age of 55. this will also be an attractive feature in recruiting teachers into our district we want our district to be the district of choice when new teachers are looking for a job it will also make the current teachers feel valued and secure when it comes time to make the decision to retire or not we feel that we have presented some strong options that would be beneficial for our teachers and our
005district that would exercise the option of retirement benefits that begin at age 55. with one of those options being one year retirement benefits for every four years of service and capping it at seven years max that would give an individual the option of retiring at 55 if they needed to and give them enough time to plan accordingly as needed and it also wouldn't have it to where you do have to have that person on on the healthcare for up to 10 years but we feel strongly about the age of 55 and we feel strongly about what we've presented and hopefully uh this can be negotiated and i want to thank you in advance and look forward to getting this negotiated in a timely manner thank you very much thank you thank you joel for your
006comments we have uh two others um and i have a note here from kylie that wants to provide time so we have uh joshua or shelly which would rather go first yeah go ahead josh thank you dear board of trustees of apple valley school district i would like to first thank mr joshua holtz for reading this statement to you on behalf and ask that you please excuse my absence unfortunately due to the covet situation i'm unable to attend physically and truly wish i could be here myself but since a person in my capacity commutes to several different communities and school districts and their sites if we decided we shelter in place for not only our own safety but the safety of others we may encounter hopefully i will be able to attend one of these
007meetings in person in the very near future as more restricted and lifted however i will say i will hope to do so under better circumstance circumstances my name is grayling eshen and i serve as the assigned labor relations representative of the california school employees associate association of chapter 828 of apple valley which is also more commonly known as the labor rep and or the bargaining agent i provide resources and assistance to five different local chapters and i've worked with couple of dozen within both san bernardino and riverside counties today i would like to discuss the local here csa chapter 828 of apple valley i've been assigned to this local for almost two years and i can say with confidence that i enjoyed working with it and meeting some of the most caring and dedicated people
008i've ever met the reason why i'm sharing this statement today is because of a deep concern i have for the members i represent that serve this community we are currently bargaining the effects of the minimum wage increase per the law and unfortunately this should be called what it is which is a shameful discussion to having this in the first place the law concerning this has been in place for several years so it has not been a secret that recently became an issue the fact is everyone knew that it was coming and i'm not only shocked but also appalled that the district was not prepared for this what makes us worse is that this clearly shows the lack of respect and appreciation for the hard work and dedication that the classified employees have continuously shown for
009this district through the years of neglect and lack of planning the district simply views the issues as just addressing it with the smallest percentage of the membership as if other 90 of the people are nothing worth having consideration for minimum wage is designed for the purpose of assuring that the workers have a livable wage regardless of anyone's personal opinion of the law we can all agree that the prices of goods and services just do not increase the lowest income earners but for all of us the mutual agreed to provisions of the collective bargaining agreement set the expectations of the consistency be maintained with such changes like these occur i know this may be portrayed to you as a simple mystic problem that can easily be resolved by only addressing those straddling the poverty line with
010low wages but this is not true and is insulting to the people the district is purposely trying to exclude and here's why one most citrix to have the this issue because they do not pay that low of wage for those who default just under the requirement amount by law is minimal cost to readjust to become they were close to it for instance out of the five local local districts only two did not meet the requirements for a minimum wage as of january 1st of this year on this on their salary schedule out of the two one is here in alpha valley and the other is a small district that only fell behind less than one percent and did not hesitate to agree to adhere to the collective bargaining agreement requirements of the salary schedule consistency
011we have an agreement in place with a district that ensures consistency and pay with an agreed to hierarchy structure the district has communicated several times that you as a governing body do not care about it and do not want to honor our agreement which has been in place for several years it has been very frustrating and exhausting receiving repetitive responses providing nothing as if you appointed a representative that does not have the ability to negotiate on their behalf of the district in good faith we will purposely include salary increase to help migrate the minimum wage issues that we are told there is nothing to do out it has been agreed to give something to another employee group being dishonest and bargaining is a violation of the government code and having people come to the bargaining
012table that does not have the ability to negotiate or to make necessary decisions to fulfill the obligation to the bargaining in good faith is not how this works there is a lot more than i could say but i know there is time or a limit i would like to respectfully of this time mr holtz's voice but i simply ask you to consider the following as public servants of this community does it make you proud that you're as a governing body of this district that minimum wage is ever an issue are you proud that your representative essentially state that you do not want to honor what we have agreed and on the collected bargaining agreement and truly open ambition that you were the district to volley the agreement are you proud that you that this is
013being done to your neighbors continuants and the people who have been worked the front line before during and will continue after cobin we took pride in being part of the solution and we were all in chartered waters with epidemic that literally stops the world as we knew it it was the classified employees that continued to serve the public risking not only their lives but the health of the lives of their loved ones through the possible transmission while the luxury of the working while others were working from home when this has continued the message from the district was that that it was all not all hands on deck issued but all classified on deck issue was left many feeling as if they were disposable or unappreciated i asked you not only to consider this question i
014have posed to you today but what is also said by the local csa leaders as well please consider walking in a mile in their issues and how you would feel about all this i ask you the district your representatives to not only bargain in good faith but to do so by being prepared where we are as csa did not represent everything i uh interrupt you there so you've gone about seven seven minutes on that do you have any more to go any other speakers so i just uh okay that they need to check in with you first why send them if they need to check in with you every day we meet if it is not you believe it should not be done in this way please appoint someone who is authorized to make the
015decisions on your behalf so we can stop the wasting of time and resources and move forward in the process it should not take weeks to get a response or account a proposal with a statement of we need further direction or we do not agree without a proposed remedy that progressively moves towards every reasonable solution we should not feel we are negotiating with ourselves i hope this message as well as others resonates with you and asside you in making the best decision and that serves the entire community not just one or someone i ask that you do not fall for one of the biggest mistruths about dishonest statements that are used with discussing caca negotiation the fact is teachers and classified are not the same and we do not involve ourselves and their negotiations and we
016would expect the same because of those differences but this idea that caca is asking for equality does not work with as often betrayed as if what if what we ask for is necessary means of dollars for dollars when using percentages who the earliest retirement incentive was primarily for and the discussion about minimum wage on reinforcing the fact that two are not the same because classified is considerably cheaper in comparison approximately two and a half times cheaper if you were comparable to cost of one percent for classified just like it is not the same for teachers in comparison with administration and using this type of rhetoric is not but divisive we had tremendous respect for our unions brothers and sisters and the teachers union but the illogical applies to oranges comparison oranges comparison needs to stop
017everyone everyone plays a vital role in the success of the district and proposedly trying to pit one employee group against another not only counterproductive but also serves as a distraction to what everyone should be concerning or concentrating on that is the students and our community i thank you mr thank you for your time and mr burholz for only reading the statement on my behalf but also serving as one of the many examples of the hard-working and caring classified employees of this district who has shown nothing but respect and dedication to the school district and community and please remember to like the human body you can have a physical or mental ailment and be considerable considered healthy however neglecting that alien can make the situation more complex and can cause other issues within the overall health
018of the body the support for this body we can call the district is the classified and the these employees are relying on the governing board the brain of the body to provide leadership by assuring that every part is cared for like the other and it's not if it is not the illness of the frustration and discontent will spread making it harder to treat the cure and please do what is necessary to heal the body before it gets worse thank you rayleen eason thank you josh for your comments okay we have no further uh we do i have a comment excuse me i i do have a comment oh we have some more uh requests to speak if we can get those okay go ahead okay the board would like to direct our chief negotiator to
019compile data for us to have from districts offering retirement benefits we want you to include all appropriate data points in order to inform us of the potential cost of implementing various retirement strategies thank you mr conrad yeah absolutely i i think that's totally appropriate um the negotiation teams as joel mentioned have been working really well together and um i'll even i think it'd be a good idea i know chris their chief negotiator was up here last time and he shared uh some comparables with other or some other county information and i think it'd be great maybe i reach out to him and see if we can set something up maybe the two teams um it would be very helpful in the negotiation table i think joel i see leslie out there if we could agree
020on i think the data the assumptions the costs all that and i'd happily bring that back to the board to get some specific direction thank you because we will need direct information um very clear information from the districts that the union is speaking about and other districts around so that will have information to make informed decisions okay thank you thank you thank you good comments okay before we move on to uh closed session um we have um some reports from uh the students from granite hills and apple valley high are they here that's after no no no no they have to do it make them wait so okay with that we will move on to closed session but before we do i want to read uh what we're going to go into closed session four
021uh item number one pupil personnel annual review they are 36 ar 35 2021 number two public employee discipline dismissal release reassignment transfer leave title certificate certified certificated sophisticated and classified employees number three public employee appointment resignation retirement reduction number four conference of litigation government code section five four nine five six point nine one eight one three nine five two cibds one nine zero seven one seven two c i v d s two zero one one one eight three c i v d s two o two two 2956 cibds 202 3366 government code section 54954 subsection c 54956.9 subsection d two e and one anticipated litigation three cases 2018 1907 2020 2105 2020 20 21 06 conference with labor negotiator dustin conrad employee organization apple valley unified school teachers association number six conference with labor negotiator
022dustin conrad employee organization california school employees association number seven conference with labor negotiator trene nelson employee organization unrepresentative and finally number eight superintendent evaluation with that i'll ask for a motion to uh go in a closed session here i'll suck on that motion by bender second by opara is there uh everybody uh any opposition to that motion hearing none that'll be the order so at uh 5 51 we'll go in the closed session it's like production in here i know it's kind of weird watching yourself on the big screen now i think so i'm classy well i see you're on the top okay are we good you're good okay we'll call the meeting back to order at 6 25 and with that we'll move on to item two which is reports from student representatives and
023first up is granite hills and it's aaron is back good evening board members superintendent nelson and attendees even though the school year school year will soon be coming to an end the past month has been full of in-person events and planning we recently began state testing for juniors and ap testing for all of our students in both the online and in-person format ap testing is taken on different formats this year though and will continue into early june in spite of this we are confident that our students will achieve amazing things on these tests and will be pleased with the results [Music] you're welcome not only have we been busy testing but we've been very busy having and planning many events we recently hosted the first successful mr cougar competition in five years mr cougar is
024a competition for our senior boys that consists of talents like formal wear and showing off their talents our 2021 mr cougar is kumar chahan we could not ask for a better mr cougar and he holds the title proudly we also recently distributed seniors caps downs and graduation apparel like cords and sables the day we distributed these items was also signing dates so our wonderful counselors and teachers celebrated any seniors who committed to continuing continuing their education after high school on this same day we received celebratory yard signs that were paid for by the district on behalf of everyone at granite thank you for purchasing these signs for our seniors in order to celebrate our seniors even more in the coming weeks we are planning a senior sunset senior dinner and senior awards night each of
025these events will bring our seniors together and provide them with some closure for this year until our graduation ceremony which will be socially distanced at our football stadium we once again want to thank the board for all of the work they put into making sure that was possible as this year is ending though we do have to look to the future so we recently held elections for asb officers the elections went well and i'm so excited to introduce you to the new gc president at the next meeting as for our sports teams both boys and girls soccer won first place titles and desert skyley they will be competing for individual titles today and will begin cis next week both boys and girls oh wait i'm sorry both girls and boys tennis won first place i
026apologize boys and girls soccer also held titles this was the third consecutive win for the girls and their 15th consecutive win overall our boys team have none won nine overall both of our baseball teams and our sophomore softball teams are currently trying to make playoffs and have a great chance at succeed track and me track and field have their first meet today so we're wishing them much luck even though we don't we know they don't need it our basketball team is currently two and two and about to begin their second round of dsl play even though there aren't as many players on any of our teams this year the ones who are competing are working even harder to make up for it overall it's been a great month of planning playing and succeeding thank you
027all for your time this evening and always remember maroon and gray lead the way very good thank you aaron good as always good to see you back uh next up apple valley high is it that get it right brazil basil [Applause] who is also one of their valedictorians is that correct yes valedictorian yeah one of them yes how many were there do you know how many there were like 13 oh just kidding uh i am so sorry my speech is not load it is not loading well we'll see how good you are if you just want to win whatever is comfortable speak to this um is it because you're not online does it say i think it's floating right now okay sorry you're fine thank you you sing for us because we know you do
028that well let's go um erin do you want to come with it now give her a little support erin good evening esteemed board members i'm very happy to be back reporting to you all our first month back in person in person learning has been chock full of exciting events skillsusa and slc awards took place and many of our students received gold silver and bronze our national honor society chapter hosted an extremely high i'm sorry don't worry it's okay [Laughter] our national honor society chapter hosted an extremely successful hygiene product drive this past week they are donating the hygiene products to the victor valley domestic abuse center hosa collected chargers to donate to patients at the saint mary medical center our sports continue to work hard to finish out their season strong our principal miss howell
029continues to host trivia nights to keep even those who chose to stay in distance learning engaged asb hosted a senior sunrise on campus that gave seniors a taste of a normal senior year yesterday was our tap and gown pickup for the graduating seniors and we were also given um yard signs to give the seniors a taste or i'm so sorry it has been a busy day we also had our asb interviews today as well as last week and next week we are hosting asb interviews um our winners our winners of our virtual talent show receive their prizes and they're very excited to they're very oh my gosh i am so sorry they are very excited to continue to show their talents next week on may 13th we are having our senior sunrise where a movie
030will be shown on our soccer field next week our sun stations choir will also be having their first in-person recital of the year and the week after we will be having our senior recital we are having our senior awards on may 19th our senior dinner on may 16 and our graduation may 25th overall i am very excited for what we have in store for this lap for this last semester and for my last month of high school thank you for hearing me out today and always remember that sun devil pride is contagious thank you we did a good job like always apple valley high and in granite i always look forward to it so thank you [Music] okay moving right along number three do we have a report from california school employees association ces do
031you want to excuse the students if they would like to do oh the high school student if they if they need to go for well they know they can leave they're not going to hold you hostage here they will wait to be excused we know this okay you can't you're excused thank you yes we want we want to thank the students and good luck okay you're up hello and good evening and thank you for giving me an opportunity to speak to you this evening i'm hoping to give you a little bit of insight to our perspective on the mandated minimum wage increase in good faith we negotiated our agreement we negotiated and agreed to our contract we do not take this process lightly it is time consuming and requires great deal of effort and dedication
032in our contract we have agreed to class to a classification hierarchy found in appendices enf the hierarchy defines the salary range placement and separation of classifications on the salary schedule appendix b defines the salary schedule and the pay differential between ranges and steps i am confident you are aware the mandated minimum wage increased to 14 an hour it is no secret this was going to happen this legislation uh was signed into law and has been in place for four years and should have been planned for unfortunately unlike other school districts in our area we have pay ranges and positions that fall below the fourteen dollar per hour threshold when the minimum wage of fourteen dollars per hour is applied to range 11 step 1 of the salary schedule it causes the other ranges and steps
033to be a non-compliance of our agreement the expectation is our agreement will be followed csea understands compliance may be difficult we come to the negotiating team table well prepared for each solution opportunity we roll up our sleeves and we're ready to find a reasonable and rational solution in this case we are not convinced this subject is being greeted with the same diligence initially we presented a written pro a proposal to spread the burden out over more than one budget year our phased implementation proposal meets the legal requirements for minimum wage while maintaining compliance with our contract we are not willing to ignore disregard or otherwise delete a portion of our agreement because it's uncomfortable again i stress auburn agreement was negotiated in good faith and subsequently agreed to by both parties each time a proposal
034is presented by csea the response is we will have to seek direction this severely hinders the process there is a considerable amount of time between meetings where direction is provided i'm asking you to please provide direction and latitude to your appointed lead negotiator thank you for your time and have a peaceful evening thank you for your comments uh avuda is anybody here this is from alabama unified school or unified teachers association thank you um good morning uh good morning good evening ladies and gentlemen i am i want to start the day all over again apparently um i'm here to speak on behalf of the buddha's executive board first we would like to address the fact that the elementary school sorry i didn't print my speech out so i have to read it we're here to
035let's see avuda would like to address the fact that our elementary schools have received a daily planning period and is thanks to the hard work of ours and the district's negotiation teams with the school board's support we would also like to thank the board for the bonuses and the one on the unscheduled one percent raise we're looking forward to the continuing work towards a retirement package as joel lewis spoke to earlier avoda members are looking forward to our summer break and a normal return with full in-person learning with students for the 21-22 school year thank you thank you know okay i'm gonna move on to um i'm gonna read out a closed session here and then we'll be moving forward here so with that the first item uh that we're going to read out is
036public's employee appointment resignation retirement reduction and that was is to appoint brian goodro as interim principal apple valley high range 16 and on a motion uh by wilson so and the second by dennis bender the motion was approved 5-0 in closed session the board of trustees took action in support of the following recommendation before conference of litigation government code section 549 54.5 subsection c in subsection d and e on motion by wilson so in a second by dennis fender the we approve the contract with stros freidberg llc dated march 17 2021 regarding cyber security ratified may 6 2021. the motion passed 5-0 in closed session the board of trustees took action to support the following recommendation from the superintendent conference with labor negotiator on a motion by cara and a second by blasting game the
037board of trustees approved the following approved to accept the current pars supplemental retirement program for the certified and classified management employees who have submitted their resignations and parse paperwork motion was passed 5-0 in closed session the board of trustees took action in support of the following recommendations from the superintendent b5 conference with labor negotiator on a motion by so in a second by blasting game the board approved the alpha valley unified teachers association memorandum of understanding regarding elementary preparation period mandatory staff meetings and compensation dated april 20th 2021. the motion passed 5-0 in closed session the board of trustees took action supported the following recommendation from the superintendent d2 public employee discipline released reassignment transfer leave certified and classified employees on a motion by so in a second by blessing game board approved the last
038chance agreement between apple valley unified school district and employee number 8548 the motion passed 5-0 and finally in closed session the board of trustees took action in the support of the following recommendation from the superintendent v3 public employee appointment resignation retirement reduction on a motion by blasting in a second by opara the board of trustees approved the following the point steve in cala niche i'm sorry if i got that name spelled that says a dean of students academy seven column one on the management salary schedule 90 duty days to be effective seven one of 20 21. motion pass five zero congratulations isn't he still in here yeah he isn't he's not yet okay okay with that uh that was what we approved uh in closed session so i'm gonna move on to item number five
039adopt agenda the board may approve the agenda as is or add or pull items from consent agenda is there any opposition to the motion no hearing on the map motion passes five zero okay moving right along we have no present recognition presentations discussion information presentation local control lcap update uh by patrick saucer yeah i i appreciate that i would respectfully um just ask the board if they would like to hear first from the students and families here is that something we is that is everybody thinking that it's item two in the same area the sandia let's do that move on to the sandia academy mascot and uh i'll just need the board streaming um mr buchanan didn't be able to hit that there it is samantha haskell you're up thank you she's from the sandia
040student leaders give me just a minute to get reset up here okay lost the last stream i'd like to see this screen okay we'll turn you to the screen and then um mr mckinnon i still have um the wrong screen up i can't see the code got it thank you [Music] it's happening okay don't cross the streams this is what i this is the advice i've been told [Laughter] you know okay while we're waiting this for queue up i'll just say that um this presentation uh you're gonna hear everything you need to from our uh young lady samantha haskell but they're super excited about this presentation and been working really long and hard on a careful process to reconsider the mascot at sandia school so so am i able to present okay okay take it
041away samantha okay good evening school board members mrs nelson district administrators and families my name is samantha haskell and it's my privilege to present to you tonight next slide the first sandia mascot was the sidewinder from 1988 until approximately 2000 then we became the hedgehogs when we first became the hedgehog sandia was a k5 campus but in 2015 we added middle school students the staff has been working hard to create school pride in all students from pre-school to eighth grade however middle school students still struggle to have sandia pride no matter what we did to mature the hedgehog to align our vision we want a mascot for all ages our current pbis hedgehog slogan is this is how we roll be safe be respectful be responsible changing the mascot lets the middle school students be
042able to feel pride in our school it's hard to be excited about the hedgehog especially if you are going up the falcons or the bears we want the community to see us presented by a strong mascot that makes a statement about our students loyal committed and family pack focused representing leadership characteristics in preparation of this request these are the steps we have taken to rebrand our mascot in october the staff agreed to survey the stup the school to see if there was support for a change in january the students voted for a change of mascot and submitted their mascot suggestions in february students and staff voted to request a change to become the wolves in march students submitted artwork designing our new logo here are a couple of quotes from students on why they believe
043the wolf is a great mascot choice personally i believe the wolf is a great mascot because wolves are complex highly intelligent animals who are caring playful and above all devoted to family next slide next one we worked with local artist grace bateman who took components of several student designs to create our proposed logo if you approve our change sandia our sandia family can be represented by a wolf pack our elementary students would be the pups our middle schoolers would be our strength and the staff would be the school would be the wolf elders thank you so much for this opportunity and your time and consideration the sandia staff and students hope hope you will grant our request to change to the wolves thank you so much well done [Applause] good job thank you samantha good
044job thank you for the little mascot here appreciate it excellent well done and i'll we'll pause for just a moment if there's those of you here for that presentation you're welcome to stay for the next one but we're also uh we'll give you a moment if you want to go out and study good job samantha thank you that's awesome too yeah that's not for mister nevermind so great to have students presenting in front of us again it's so good to see that's right i'm going to step us through just an update for our lcap which will actually be coming back to you shortly but i wanted to give you a note on the progress we've made so far um we are in this moment of we are always in the process of either developing or
045implementing our el cap where we are right now is in the space that's i've left between april and june and we don't actually have anything we have to do in may but may is a good time to check back in with you we have done all those steps um the fall was tough because we didn't get it we didn't have a lot of data this fall because of the kind of the way school year ended but we did meet with our district advisory committee throughout the spring and in june we will be bringing a plan to you first for a hearing and then approval and so the way we engaged our stakeholders this year we actually met with them four times all virtually and we did lots of surveying to gather ideas input and information
046and all those meetings across january february were presenting data and information and then march and april had to do with draft plans and bringing proposals back to them for consensus the surveys just a look over time at the number of participants in the various surveys parent surveys were about the same as a little bit down from years past which was good students a little bit lower as well um but classified and certificated engagement was way up and that was a a testament an appreciation to the csea and avuta leadership they did a wonderful job of getting that word out which means that the lcap reflects more accurately their desires and the kind of data that we did have to share because of course we had no test data from the california exams last year we
047didn't take them but we do have graduation rate um we had data around college and career readiness suspension rate from the year before we did look carefully at subgroups and really dove into that work in in that in those meetings and of course we looked at the survey results on a variety of topics and took a careful look at coaching impact our instructional coaching efforts and then we asked them this question the this was in the third meeting after presenting quite a bit of information we asked given the data they'd seen what what did they want to see in a plan and we got 60 of the participants to give us 79 different thoughts with almost 2 000 interactions with those thoughts meaning they ranked them you know with a kind of one to five
048right giving information about that and just to take a look at the ideas that came out this wordle represents the themes that were most frequently mentioned and you can see that this isn't this a reflection of this year right this what did they think needed to be in the plan and paying attention to emotional health uh a need for counselors and counseling addressing the trauma and making sure that we were paying attention to the needs of the children as they returned to school full-time i got to tell you um another way to look at this is this slide here and what this is is the parents the various constituent groups across the bottom parents site administrators teachers and other community members who are in the in their meeting and on the right-hand side that axis
049is the topics that were of most importance to them and mental health and mental health supports was number one and so when i go through the changes to the various goals you're going to see action items focused on mental health because it's in in response to this desire of our community to attend to those needs and so on down the list and so um drafting the plan of course you have to pay attention to the students the unduplicated count of students who generate these supplemental and concentration grant funds for us that is about just you know over 70 percent of our students who qualify as uh economically disadvantaged english learners or foster youth only counting in one area or one time we have to balance the ideas and themes from the stakeholders we want to
050keep items from the previous plan that made good sense to keep and then we have broad goals five broad goals and then action items within those goals so goal one the changes here are in blue we've always had this goal about making sure we had a focus on essentially professional learning professional development for teachers and all actually all instructional staff including para educators so to continue to focus on that with those changes right we want to consider the students in greatest need want to be inclusive of educational technology was the number one request for educational training from teachers was ed tech training and of course as i mentioned the delivery of social emotional learning and attending to those needs and so what changes for us in gold runs really some we're adding some stipended support
051positions um or rebranding our edtech effort run actually by mr buchanan's department where they work alongside bethany thompson as the teacher on assignment as the coordinator of educational technology and each site will have a digital learning specialist to support teachers in that effort to be a stipend to position and then we're also asking the instructional coaches to shift their work slightly to include a focus on educational technology as requested for goal two um this one for us has been about making sure that our curriculum provided access to a high quality um 21st century experience but we wanted to add that sentence there in blue that this is what we proposed to the district advisory committee to make sure that we had research-based programs that had an impact on the students in our unduplicated account so
052um let me skip to the significant changes um we did consolidate all of the college readiness action items into one area you're also going to see things like we're adding our name to a list for a grant called gear up where uh kind of makes a tight link for students to san bernardino our cal state university san bernardino starting with our seventh graders next year if we are granted the funds we did add um using the expanded learning opportunity grant we're going to be adding our instruction along with music in the before or after school setting and then we wanted to make sure to bridge the access gap that is always present when we try to deliver either instruction virtually or even for homework and so we continued to do that with things like access
053points but actually reaching out to develop a wireless network an lte network that would be for our students and staff across apple valley goal three is really about student support it's where you'll see the most of the items we mentioned in that world that really show up in item three the significant changes here aren't to the language of the broad goal but to the specific items so we will be having targeted reading programs at all sites we many have them already not all sites are able to fund them however with their categorical dollars so we're going to make sure they're able to do that we're going to add two full-time therapists or clinical counselors actually the job description at the comprehensive high schools this is in order to bridge the need from an immediate um
054kind of critical care need until we can get them into a long-term situation with a counselor perhaps through the self or through their insurance apple valley high school has been kind of piloting that this year and found a real need for that and i know that all the high school administrators support this this need we'll be hiring social emotional learning focused staff members to make sure and lead that effort um so that we have a focus on that and so we'll be posting those positions as certificated positions additional classified staff behavior intervention technicians it was approved last year we now will use funding in this focus goal to bring those on board get them trained so every staff every site will have a behavior intervention technician at least one uh classified staff member to work
055under the bcbas to work on student intervention and for behavior and then we did the group did elect to maintain class size reduction um goal four has been completely changed to being a basic services goal to be a family focused goal another real need of the group and so really what we're going to do there is we'll be adding a family center coordinator we move some of the goals into one area what we have for the fifth family center coordinator is someone who will be staffed here because the kitchen here actually in this building has been sort of taken over and remodeled the child welfare attendance office has won a grant that has allowed us to have this remodeled to be a food pantry for the community it's just awesome we'll um figure out a
056way to walk you through there uh maybe before the next board meeting while it's still light it's it's quite a quite a work in progress they've done a wonderful job and finally goal five is focused on our english learners not much changed there other than we are proposing another stipend to position at each school site english language development specialist who will be charged with being a champion for the english learners at that site in addition to the certificate or the classified staff who already work in that capacity to make sure teachers know who the english learners are and what the needs are of those students and to help with the testing requirements so what we did is we proposed the plan and we asked the group to vote you see the rubric up there we
057asked them to give us either five four three two or one as described a five being what we were hoping for and of course if there was any one we would we would come back and we would discuss so we put it to a vote and i took a screenshot of the consensus kind of small there but we had um all five fours and a few threes and only one two so we had consensus just just about the best consensus we probably had for an lcap it was a great group when i put a thought exchange up about what they thought about the plan we saw things like thank you for hearing us it was a good process so that was the lcap quite quickly just a couple of slides to give you a preview
058of the expanded learning opportunity grant i do have a thought exchange running currently on that so you can join that um there and anyone here will post this for the world and we're getting uh so far we've got a 114 participants and as you can see lots of ratings and interactions with those thoughts this is a expanded learning for the summer to come the next school year and the summer after and so this is what we're hearing and is that's no surprise is it do fun things this summer and so you should see the kinds of offerings that are happening this year for summer school it is not your typical summer school offerings there's all kinds of camp-like fun activities being offered to students to bring them back to school and kind of enjoy school
059again in a positive way the plan has these seven requirements i won't read them to you i'll be bringing a plan to you in this exact template on the next meeting because it's due to the county by june 1st however we have great flexibility in the in moving things if we need to adjust for our um art students reminder is for this summer and next and all of next school year there is a specific set aside in the elo for paraprofessionals so it's a 10 of the grant and so we will be making sure to um put those funds as intended and starting right away in summer we'll be adding uh pair educators into the summer school offering so we can get that ratio of students to adults down so a quick glance at the
060elo and a long glance at the lcap thank you for indulging me that's all i have thank you mr moorpat that's it okay well this was just uh an update um no action needed so we'll move on to public comments we have a couple of uh requests to speak cards so first up is rochelle areas you're up you good evening my name is rochelle aries i am the mother of two students in apple valley unified school district i'm here today to ask that you consider making masks optional for the upcoming school year i know this school year has or was full of a lot of unknowns and i'm glad that we were able to get back to in-person school even if it was only hybrid but with the upcoming school year being full time and
061our county very close to reaching the minimal yellow tier i believe it is time to remove the mask kids need to be able to see their peers and teachers excuse me they need to be able to breathe properly while learning and playing by using masks we are training our kids to detach from normal relational and social skill building the negative impacts of not seeing your teacher smile when you solve the hardest math problem is devastating to our kids children are not carriers of this virus and wearing the mask for a six and a half hour full day of school is harming to them in more ways than one i read this quote from a school psychologist the other day and i want to leave you with it quote the psychological damage of teaching school kids
062that other people and kids are dangerous to them unless they are masked and distanced from them is a ticking mental health time bomb the loss of a year of normal social socialization and future impact will be enormous end quote this really hit hard for me and i hope it opens your eyes to the fact that we need to make mass optional for our kids i also hope that this opens up a discussion on this issue between you all and that we can see it on the agenda at an upcoming meeting these students are counting on you thank you for your time [Applause] thank you rochelle for the good comments there appreciate it we have another request to speak and that is jessica cooley sorry i guess i should have chosen to sit closer so when
063i was my name is jessica cooley i'm a high school english teacher at apple valley high school i'm also the high school segment director and when when i volunteered to speak for a buddha for christie i misunderstood her instructions and so i wrote a kind of happy and happy we're back kind of speech and it's good enough i thought i'd share it anyway so that's what i'm sharing now um this is from my perspective as a high school high school teacher and um in march 2020 on friday the 13th no less we took extra breath as we left our classrooms it felt like it feels like we've been holding our breath ever since waiting to exile in relief as we're able to take steps closer to normal there have been bumps in the road this
064last year due to the covet pandemic two steps forward one step back many of our professional conversations have broken down into tears more tears than collectively we ever shed as first year teachers when the elementary school started working towards return the in-person return i know the high school middle school grades were watching enviously and with hope that we might get to do that too two steps forward one step back with the holiday spikes it felt like the ability to return was slipping through our fingers and many of us began to consider what the end of the school year would look like if the second wave continued to grow much like the first one did over summer then suddenly in february we were able to take a collective breath and exhale superintendent nelson i want to
065thank you for your leadership in getting avuda i'm sorry apple valley unified school district employees vaccinated and back on site watching other districts it is clear that you were committed to get our students back in the classroom once the vaccinations were complete the entire vibe within the district changed there are no more tears everyone i've spoken to is excited every day it feels like the first day of school again you get to see people everyone's eyes light up you can't see their smiles but you can see them through their eyes there are stories about students the teachers are excited about their work their lessons they're talking about them collaborating it is so good to see everyone again thank you [Applause] thank you jessica okay moving right along um do you have any uh comments you'd
066like to make yeah thanks jessica um there's still cheers um i'm crying right now but thank you um and i i want to talk for a few minutes um while there is uh public here because if we go into second close the comments afterwards we should do it yeah so um first of all i'd like to thank miss okara and um jason for working really hard to be able to bring her into this meeting um she is in texas with her grand for the birth of her grandson that was born on 4 29 so um she's there being grandma but took the time out to be at our meeting in this fashion as mr schlosser indicated we have the food pantry that was put together through no kid hungary california a grant that was supplied
067and tomorrow may 7th is the annual school lunch hero day and now more than ever i i can't express um what heroes they are they have been non-stop um through the pandemic feeding our community not just our students but our community um and so i wanted to let you guys know that tomorrow um there's a huge campaign by no kid hungry california um they sent every food service director in the state of california uh a little thing for their desk that indicates that they are meal heroes 2021. ms stark knows that it's here tonight she knows that we were going to talk about it i told her she could watch it streaming they will do a campaign showing all of our nutrition service workers with a hashtag that follows so that it gets tagged with
068the entire state of california celebrating these people we have been out on campuses all month doing longevity awards because may is staff appreciation month and um we have indicated that most staff should all staff should be getting a seven year award this year because of the one dog year they just finished or about to finish um it's been rewarding to be out there to see them in person and as we're out there we get to see students as well um i was overjoyed yesterday as i was driving past apple valley high school although there was traffic um there were students picking up caps and gowns and i know it was happening on the other side of town um ap testing has students competing to get college credit during an exam that takes place once a
069year and you heard our students talk about it when they were doing their reports granite hills high school has earned a 2021 california exemplary arts education for their great academy this has happened in a very short time it's a short list from the state and they are overwhelmed as is our county um this will was sent out as a press release and we're just so proud of the the group there that had the vision to put it in place and then went after the different credentials they needed in order to make it happen i see miss stewart in the audience and she was one of the ones that championed this and likewise on the same day we were notified about students that were being highlighted for valedictorian and dominic cumo while we were in the
070meeting i got a text message from our town manager doug robertson who was telling me that the nbc um news had covered dominic cumo he has um lou gehrig's disease was i think the youngest person ever identified with it and has just done major accomplishments so he's one of the 13 um at apple valley high school that has earned that accolade and then i just want to point out that it's hard when we do a readout from closed session and their staff is in the audience finding out that there is a change of leadership um but i do appreciate um that mr goodroi will be moving to apple valley high school ms howell is in the audience we appreciate her dedication to the school for the last five years um and we celebrate um your
071next steps um mr kalanich moving to dean so there's going to be lots of moves over the course of the next several weeks we've got three board meetings left and i'm hopeful that we can get all of those dominoes in place and then finally miss arias with the comments about the masks i appreciate the comments we will continue to advocate for the most normal setting we can have as you know the the laws come from a different location we follow what we are dictated by the state of california and by the county of san bernardino and so we are following those every single day to see if there's going to be a change and we will continue to be to update you and i would love to have your information to be able to provide
072to the supervisors down in san bernardino county and i can get you in touch with them as well because they actually have a little bit more pull on pushing on the the regulations okay thank you okay thank you thank you um board member comments uh adeline um first of all i'd like to say thank you to all the teachers and staff this is your week and um i have been privileged to attend um the longevity presentations with cabinet and i just my hats are off to every one of you especially in these times to put forth the efforts that you have to make sure our children get the best every education that they can possibly have i'd also like to thank the young ladies on their reports this evening i had the privilege of attending
073av's um recital their last recital and i just want to commend the instructors that put that together because if you haven't seen it you need to watch the next one or the next two or three that are coming because that it is just outstanding how they are able to put that recital together through their homes you know it is virtual so um my comments to the instructors that have have to put in a lot of effort and the students who put in even more effort to get such a perfect perfect program together so good thank you wilson well i i have a couple of quick comments and i was i superintendent shared with us about the interview by nbc and and i did share with her i was touched by this student because many many
074years ago i watched the movie by gary cooper and teresa wright on the famous yankee with the famous this terrible disease but i think we should be sending a congratulatory note to the parents so the outstanding job they did and i think that that i watched on tv recently is that that there are a lot of negative comments about education overall in the united states and it is tragic if indeed we are falling behind you know there's concerns about reform behind even on reading and on math particularly math to china and russia and some of the other countries countries and so we whatever success we have and i was going to say we need to con i'm sure the county superintendent has worked closely with us i have been serving on the county association for
07526 years now on many committees so we need to kind of spread that positive thing note to all students in california we want everyone to be successful and and then the comment from my parents about mass and in fact i've been watching a lot of uh show i mean a comedy tv news from different doctors you know like this morning i watch my own a doctor from my school stanford university medical school about hey he doesn't say we don't really if if the kids are vaccinated if the teachers are fascinated maybe their mass is not necessary because it creates not a negative impact on students you saw on tv that news that that high school girl because the mask didn't allow her to breathe properly she felt she had to dash the last 10 yards
076to to to just to achieve the number one position he probably saw it on tv these are the concerns that we have that we as the board members our parents and grandparents were concerned how how does the mass impact little kids so it is a valid concern i just want to point that out thank you that's all i have thank you dennis yeah i'm going to extradite this i'll make this short i enjoy the input from the association leaders but i especially enjoy the input from the young lady there let's get our kids out of halloween every day get rid of these masks and that's what we want to do i agree with that seven grandkids that i don't do in 30 days it's not working good thanks dennis uh maria are you can you
077hear us yes yes i can yes i can hear you okay um i like to take the opportunity to to state how appreciative i am of the teachers since this is the teacher appreciation week once you're a teacher you're always a teacher so i have been a teacher most of my life and i do truly appreciate the work they are doing and how resilient they have been through this whole year of pandemic i also like to appreciate the classified staff for rolling up their sleeves when they were needed and they gave us very best for the graduation graduating class of i must say i am truly proud of all of you for holding down the court and doing the best you can and congratulations to granite hills high school for the award of excellence at
078a time like this you still stuck it out and gave us excellent work to be recognized uh outside of above school district uh to the valedictorian i have to say you overcame obstacles my background is in special education so i am truly truly proud that you did not let any disability stop you from reaching the top of the of the pole i miss how i have to say i wish you nothing but the best you have given us your best and all we can ask for is the best for you thank you so much for your years year of service with us uh sandia school you are the school of choice for me my five children went through my actually my three children went through sandia school um from 1988 and then they went on
079to upper valley junior high then apo valley high school so i'm truly proud of the work you have done to create a mascot that envelops every part of school thank you so much miss nelson for keeping us up to date on what is happening in the district and i wish you all the very best thank you thank you maria just real briefly here as we move into you know full-time in the next year it's going to take the parents that come here and speak and throughout the county throughout the state for that matter to really make a change in on some of these school districts um going to take political pressure to keep the schools open and to get rid of the masks if that's the direction that the parents want to go so i
080commend you know rochelle for coming here speaking about this it's not an easy thing to do to get up in front and talk we know that and uh it's it's it's heartwarming to see that there are parents out there and that i think this entire board agrees with you on that and uh because we all have either children or grandkids in the school district and it is psychologically not healthy for the kids with that said too i'd like to thank the school uh teachers association because you we've all heard and read where other districts the teachers are pushing back very hard to just go back to full time in apple valley we had none of that and we had uh cooperation which made it a lot easier for trene and her staff to get things
081open so um with that um i just everybody have a great rest of their evening and we'll move on so we have no special meetings at this time so we'll move on to approval of uh consent agenda one through eighteen actually we're on um we're on discussion action session there each have to be motioned individually and then um because there's individuals yeah yeah okay i'm sorry i jumped yeah that's okay you turn the page too fast that's right you're kicking me under the table you're saying move the darn meeting off [Laughter] it is recommended that the board of trustees is supposed to take action on the following items approve the certificate and classified personal actions that's listed so moves second second okay we have a motion by so second by blasting is there any any
082opposition to the motion hearing then motion passes 5-0 number two approve the recommendation of the administrative hearing chairperson on the following discipline matters effective immediately annual review are 36 2021 to be readmitted to the alpha valley unified school district will be approved okay bender we have second maria okay okay is there any opposition to the motion hearing then that'll be so order 5-0 hi okay number three approve the request of leaves as noted adopt a resolution did we mr ollie did we we have to do a vote separately on each of the ars did we only did one hour correct no i did uh it did all the i read it out 35 and 36. okay okay i apologize that's okay i'm just okay so we are at uh number three approve the requested leaves
083as noted we have a question i move you give the request okay number four adopt resolutions 2021 authorizing issuances of 2021 2022 tax and revenue anticipation notes for the alpha valley unified school district and requesting the board of supervisors of san bernardino county to issue said notes so move second okay now on to consent number j letter j it is recommended that the board of trustees consider approving consent items one through 18. we have a motion i move that we accept all the consensus motion blasting game second for para is there any opposition to the motion hearing none that'll be the order five oh okay no no items pulled and do we have any more public comments kindly we do not no okay any other comments from the superintendent no but we do have a
084second close up i know mm-hmm getting there yeah anymore continuation um we have a motion to go back into close segments second speak over there okay we're back from uh closed session back in open session we just have one more item is there any future items that somebody would like to bring forward for a future agenda item nope all right okay our next board meeting will be thursday may 20th at 5 30 in the multi-purpose room and with that we have a motion to adjourn let's get out of here any opposition to this motion who was who's second who seconded emotions okay here we go thank you okay well we're adjourned at 7 52. thank you do we have anything to sign the twenty yes you