001call the meeting to order it's on the screen um dennis here uh donna uh donna davis here maria yes rick rowe absent wilson here okay now maria would you lead us in the pledge of allegiance please ready begin i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands [Music] i'd like to just thank everybody for their patience there appears to have been a technical difficulty that may have included a lot of youtube but thank you public comments on the screen okay we do have a public comment that i believe follows within the closed session category the comment is from mr bill thomas president victor valley naacp carl willis a 21-year public safety transportation employee officer with the adusd and a member of the victor valley
002naacp has been trying to get his job classification and assignments reviewed and the changes repealed in fact he appeared before the board at your january 2020 meeting requesting your consideration on his reclassification being repealed the board ruled in his favor and he thought it was the end of the matter a month later in february 2020 district administration removed him of his truancy officer status this appeared to be retaliatory action due to him coming to the board mr willis is the only african-american male in the school district police unit and it certainly seems peculiar removing him from his law enforcement duties at this time he has had an impeccable career in the job receiving excellent employee evaluations good attendance no disciplinary action and completed work assignments as directed he is well respected among his peers and
003other district employees and parents at issue is mr willis was hired as a school police officer 21 years ago he has recently been involuntary transferred from his law enforcement duties and effective august 17 2020 assigned to the transportation department we have some serious concerns about the processes and fairness of the actions taken phil thomas president naacp victor valley branch 1082 thank you um another one closed session we go to closed session oh second all those in favor all right okay um just as soon as they left what's another one yeah i was just here's what i was saying you [Music] uh ready again one nation under god indivisible with the christians okay and will the clerk read out any close session report conference with labor negotiator on a motion by mr bender seconded by mr
004cell the board of trustees approved the following approve the apple valley unified teachers association avuta memorandum of agreement regarding advancing from emergency credential slash intern ba column dated august 20 2020. on a vote of four zero dennis bender yes donna davis yes maria ocara yes rick rawley absent and wilson so yes thank you i haven't finished uh conference with labor negotiator on a motion by mr cell seconded by mr bender the board of trustees approved the following approve a memorandum of understanding with the california school employees association csea chapter number 828 dated april 15 2020 regarding article 14 creation of administrative clerk 3 and modification of low voltage specialist job descriptions ratified on august 14 on a vote of 4-0 dennis bender yes donna davis yes maria oppara yes rick rawley absent wilson so yes
005come down okay thank you so much uh now are we on staff reports adoption you're on the adoption of the agenda okay on page three number four okay i moved have we adopted the agenda second all those in favor aye aye okay um comments let's see comments kyle do we have any uh public comments today we do this comment is from jay lovato vice president apple valley communications inc dearborn it has come to my attention that avusd has opted to remove the intercom systems from granite hills and apple valley high schools i can only imagine the rest of your sites are slated or have already opted for this option my concern is that taking this option will be eliminating a key feature that comes with an educational intercom system two-way communication into a classroom is
006a critical function of this system in the event of an emergency being able to communicate over a classroom speaker in the event of an emergency is an essential piece of providing a safe campus for your staff and students an intercom system allows school administrators and first responders the ability to listen into classrooms without having to send a runner or put a human being in danger i have attached a copy of nemasb40 for your review it not only states that two-way communication is critical but that all locations on campus where people assemble should have a message display capable of providing visual sexual emergency information and two locations with call buttons one standard call and the other located elsewhere in the classroom emergency call button that can be used to notify someone at it consistently during school
007hours attended location that the classroom is in need of assistance i also want to include that the intercom systems in these campuses are a failover communication systems for schools in the event there is a network or voice call manager failure the systems installed prior to the paging system being installed have the ability to make pages and contact every classroom individual from a dedicated console unless these paging systems have a dedicated hardwire console or microphone connected to it they will not be able to function at all in either of the two previously mentioned situations the paging system being installed may be able to support some of these features but the best of my research that is not how they are being implemented they are being used as a paging system only the telephone devices and classrooms
008may provide some of these abilities but that device is too easily disabled the one telephone in the classroom can easily be disconnected for the cabling infrastructure or the person in need of communicating can be blocked from using it i do provide this comment with concern and more than just a business interest i am a parent with four students attending awsd schools as well as the vice president of apple valley communications we employ over a dozen team members with many students in the district i strongly believe that an intercom system should be a part of every campus avusd should really consider what's at stake when they choose to install a system that does not take into consideration the emergency applications of a true intercom system the ability to communicate two ways the ability to listen in
009as well as having two call buttons in every room is what the nema sb40 standard suggests please reach out to me with any questions or comments respectfully jay lovato vice president apple valley communications and there was an attachment that's a 30-page document i can provide to you as well um is that it that is it that's it um i want to make sure i understand what's happening we're doing away from the intercoms and just using cell phones right so that was a public comment and um that would not it would not be cell phones is what we've gone to um but i am more than willing to ask um staff to put together a presentation that that represents the concerns that have been outlined in this public comment yeah that's we don't need to react
010today but it's good that we receive the cop suggestion so yes i think we should uh look into this okay okay what's next here superintendents superintendents comments ready i'm gonna wait until the end of the board meeting because i'd like to talk about um some data having to do with coveted 19 in the waiver process so we'll go through the agenda first thank you okay we need to go to number four because we haven't got that agenda yet number four um they did adopt the agenda yeah did we you did okay we did and then we did public comments okay we've done public comments we've done trinity more comments word comments uh wilson do you have any comments today yeah i i think that superintendent is going to talk about we're going to talk about
011the opening schools but but i just want uh i didn't mention briefly that mr schoenberg's not here i've been talking to a friend that that's in the past my daughter that's working emergency hospital the second youngest and what i saw on the tv you know these every classroom after class and people go in there and it's classified to wipe with sanitizer or other stuff i think that's gonna be a lot of clumsy work we got to come up with something more innovative maybe see any way that can provide a quick sanitizing system and and i did mention to uh briefly to mr bender the many systems now using a called diluted you heard about hydrogen peroxide chamber maybe we can look at there's something that's quick and and it's not harmful to the students that
012that was something that i would suggest to our staff to look at into that okay that's why we could research we are currently utilizing some of those quick um sanitation products including um a device that sprays and needs to sit for about five minutes and then um it it it is what we were using in our preschools prior because you have to completely sanitize all of the um manipulatives and all of that so we have been using them and we do have several on order yeah yeah and the only point i'm making is that these products that for example i know for sure high improvements peroxide was used even during world war ii okay and i use it myself as a central engineer in treating order and a bunch of issues and it's not harmful
013to the kids especially the little one so just i just say we need to look into some innovative way to just makes things apart our jobs easier and we can certainly do a presentation regarding what we're doing um for those steps later as well right and maybe i don't know if there are any new innovative things that maybe we haven't heard about in apple valley you know just search and get the best we can get well remember we also need to follow the cdc guidelines because otherwise we won't get the funding we don't we can't just say spend our money we need to get funding from the state sure that's another issue well it's always that money thing and let's see rick's not here mr bender yes mr bender well we're in uncharted water here
014we're just going to do everything we can to stay ahead of at 19 do what we can to deal with it that's it thanks thanks stannis and maria uh well i i'm very interested in the apple valley communications concern that they brought up to attention um i'm more i'm also more interested in the fact that uh if we're doing that i need to know what the district is doing to replace it um so what is the replacement um and why did we choose the replacement option uh the other thing that comes that i've heard and i think i need to bring to our attention is i've heard quite a bit in the community that when they make contact with the district they don't get a response uh and i would like us to keep in
015mind that we are here to serve the community and so when anybody that is working for our district gets a concern or a question or an email whatever it is give it a response let the person know that you heard them and and you're either you're going to get back to them or you're going to transfer the information to the appropriate person person and not just let the person just hang we are in the business of service and we must remember that no matter where we are in our title um i'm i'm also interested in how we're going to open school um because um of of course quite a few of us don't have children in the school district but we chose to be uh trustees of of this school district and i want to
016be sure that people are aware of the fact that our job is to protect the children and the uh and the families that they go home to and to protect our staff um sometimes we think um we can do a better job of just saying go in and teach the kids i am of the opinion that unless we have a very clear things to put in place to protect our staff and to protect our children we should just take it a little slower and not be in a rush and that is all i have for now excellent comments um i think maria has exactly the same idea i have i want the absolute best procedures we can have for keeping our staff our students completely healthy uh the worst thing we could do is say
017open a school and not do it right and have lots of sick people that's the worst thing we can do so we just have to be 100 aware of what the circumstances are today and what's down the road and we have to be a mile down the road before we get to make a decision that's so serious it it you know when i when i was teaching we had clues and stuff like that this seems to be very deadly for older people and i see more grandparents taking and raising children than i ever did when i was teaching and so we have to be not careful we have to be super careful but we don't want to deny students the education that they deserve so it's it's it's a pickle okay did i miss anybody
018no pat has the school startup okay thank you okay some a request was made for a presentation regarding school startup let me get back over the microphone since we're not in our normal public session so what what is before you is just some initial presentation initial data on school startup i'll tell you from the outset that we don't have the exact same kind of obviously the same startup but also we don't have this exact same kind of data to query because we're using a school information system to do something it was not designed to do which is 100 virtual online remote instruction so i'll walk through what we do have with you first just a reminder that's schools we did open 100 virtual although there are very few things that do still happen on campus
019for example adaptive pes some students need certain kinds of therapy or one-to-one interaction with the therapist and that has still that is still happening in some cases at the school site with the appropriate person with appropriate physical distancing safety protocols and with the approval of our risk manager in addition some assessments have to be done in person psycho-educational assessments cannot be stopped we are continuing those and the english language initial assessments the elpac assessments are being done actually here on this property by appointment and again with very safe protocols in place so remember we're moving in phases and i really appreciate the comments you mentioned earlier because that is obviously our concern too and there'll be more about that but we're far on the far left of this diagram at the moment and it's our
020goal to move ourselves more in person and to the right as the situation allows with proper safety and protocol but given the stage we are what does it look like remember the law says daily live interaction or instruction a combination of synchronous and asynchronous learning and we are we are ready to um hear feedback we've been asking parents all in every venue we've had about how that's going for them and of course teachers as well got some good feedback from them and a weekly log of engagement's the other state mandate they want to know each week kind of how much time students are getting live how much time is independent for them they have not yet given us the document they wish us to use to quantify that but we will be watching for that
021as it's coming out we think in the next week or so we of course have documentation and scheduling for that but we don't know what the state expectation is just yet so it is so much different than the spring i know probably uh if you're hearing from parents you're they're hearing that they're telling you that this spring we remember we were given a mandate for a hold harmless in their grading we already knew those students that went home so the teachers had relationships with them whereas now these are new classes with a mandate to do new instruction rigorous demands for connectivity and content and time and so um we're hearing about that so we've built initial schedules with school leaders and teachers and came up with the time schedules that we have and by grade
022segment we have um you know the state minimum of a minimum day for some grade levels is um 240 minutes and so families are experiencing at least that much time of work some of it live some of it not live or asynchronous and so um the district advisory committee we got a chance to poll them on just how they were feeling and they had to do with um did they feel as though the balance between live and independent work was about right too much too much live work or not enough live with too much live time or not enough the great majority said it was just right we had a small group though so we do need more input but it was a great initial piece of feedback when you said small group how much
023was it we had 60 people but only about 20 of them were parents and that's about the con the regular makeup of our district advisory committee for the lcap so a small group of 60 total participants and about 20 parents some of the staff are parents as well true true i want to point out that when i was looking through it i do know some of the staff did respond um because they are parents they did as i looked at the list of teachers and administrators that were there many of them have students in our system but they weren't there as paramounts next the next slide i want you to take a look at something we're very proud of in our system we in the instructional technology department and in the conjunction with um the
024listed group of uh certificated staff members and classified staff members in a coordinated effort have put together an incredible amount of professional learning you can imagine that teachers needed time to get used to this new method of teaching and these new tools and so a quick look at an overview of what's happened in this last couple of weeks we've had one-on-one coaching for um almost 15 000 minutes of coaching they keep a log so 14 700 minutes of one-on-one coaching for teachers as they needed it 5.1 000 um have participate are minutes of training provided to teachers um with the so a total of over 21 000 minutes of help 40 different zoom sessions offering topics ranging from how to use zoom how to use other tools like ed puzzle or pair deck or some
025of the other things we put in place and my favorite one bottom middle the number of smiles created and crises averted is infinite it's been so awesome i have a chance to drop in on these sessions from time to time and it's just wonderful to see teachers getting what they need and questions answered and their their proficiency is is ramping up quickly we're noticing that right away they're really getting good at this um live video connections we get some data here from from our uh various uh platforms so we use a couple of different platforms for this we've had over 14 000 live sessions since august 5th think about that on a given day right now we're hitting right over 1500 sessions 640 teachers hosting 600 and our 1500 sessions because of course teachers have
026multiple sessions per day in the high school setting they might have three different sessions for their because they're teaching in a blocked schedule with uh 500 000 participants in those sessions for a total number of session minutes of over 9 million minutes since august 5th it's just an amazing amount that we put onto this system and the system's holding up very well student engagement um we don't have attendance records like we normally would we can't just query attendance here's why we the state has not demanded that we mark attendance in the same way they've asked to pay attention to like i said a weekly engagement log what does engagement mean well engagement could be that you signed into a session right you showed up on the video or it could be that you've completed assignments
027assignment completion is in sb98 is counting for engagement which makes good sense doesn't it to say that you engage with the work means you've completed the work so teachers mark either e for engaged or n for not engaged but they have time to go back and make a change to that designation based on work completion so i can tell you my estimate based on looking at the schools today and trying to figure out the closest number i could um is we're right about 95 engagement which is far higher than we thought we might be at this earlier stage of the game now we are still adjusting because we are still seeing there are some students who have either moved and we're just now realizing okay we haven't logged in we haven't been able to find
028them and we're going of course sometimes we have to go uh contact by contact and then to the home or some have left the system mr i i know that you saw on tv the students have one-to-one engagement content but the in terms of our students seeing their teacher and on this distance learning our aid are they able to see fellow students through the context i'm glad you asked that and that's actually in the law as well it does say interaction with teacher and with peers so yes um many of these platforms allow for a couple of different ways to do that could be whole class right but you can kind of see the class and brady bunch style tiles but then they do have the ability to break those into smaller groups and put
029them into you know a small group over here in a group uh dealing with a question and then a small group and that allows of course a greater ratio of interaction the other thing they can use is some really neat tools like flipgrid where they can kind of see a video of a student responding to something and they can record a quick video back and say hey i like the way you answered that question here's what i think about that and then they share that video back and forth now it's not exactly live but it's almost live right it's happening in real time and so there's lots of ways for them to do that because we know that's critically important right yeah yeah like that kind of thing now what happens if we can't find
030them right of course this is our tiers of engagement the re-engagement strategies connecting with them all critically important then if we can't find them like i said calling those contacts making that connection finding out there's a barrier do they need a device do they need uh some other kind of connection uh equipment or do they not have a is a problem where they don't have a place to do this so we've got to work with them the family centers have been engaged in that work and of course like i said go into the homes if need be last thing i wanted to make sure you knew is that school nutrition goes on mr schulenberg and his nutrition services department they've been the steady service provider for our families from march 16th onward right and so
031they've continued now they're serving a once per week a week's worth of meals for the family ten meals five breakfasts five lunch they get them on wednesday between nine and one yeah they do and they get a box and bags of food on wednesday that are either frozen or shelf stable and they take them home that's cool it is cool it saves families five trips to the store to the not to the store to the school and so they take those things home talk about meals if i may i attended a a session with the sanders committee they were talking about federal government requiring that maybe school districts can look into that that even for family for kids in the family that don't require me that they want to provide universal sometimes a meal to
032the kids have we we do that in the summer they do the summer feeding program during the school year we are now providing for students but what's great is that at this point it's for all students in the system with regardless of the which school the board took action to make that happen and so this is this is without payment every student the system who wants a meal they come and get a week's worth of meals at one of our right now it's ten sites we'll add two more as soon as their construction projects allow that to occur but um the other thing they do is it's of course per each for each student in the family so they're coming you're going to ask about the boxes yeah they're they're boxed up and they take
033those things home and they put them you know in stores in there yes there's there's actually the system allows for them to go to any school site give their name and as soon as they have picked up their meal for from that school site it goes through our entire system so they cannot go and we know this because mr schulenburg sent his son to test it out and he was denied at the second school yes that's right so the good news is the numbers are up we served 2500 families yesterday uh wednesday so that this is just the second week of doing this we think participation will continue to climb so really good news so that's a here's the thing about startup right now it doesn't feel the same as you know like the energy
034and the busyness of school we're missing that terribly and yet people are working maybe harder than they've ever worked all of us are to make this happen but it's all happening right here so i need to know what is how is your distant learning working for the special needs students how's that working for them good question because they have instructional assistants they have those independent uh assistants that they have to have and um some of them have one-on-one assistance um how is all of that working for them yeah well obviously we we can't we don't aren't able to recreate all of that completely so not able to visit every classroom yet to make that determination here's what i can tell you the instructional assistants are able to join and like i mentioned those breakout rooms
035they can go into a breakout room with an individual student or a small group of students to provide that in more individualized instruction some of the services are provided in person like i mentioned some of the services are provided in a pull out still like speech and language so we are able to provide some of those services that way but i'll tell you and this is why in our phases that's a student group that is of concern to bring back as soon as we are able to do so and that that is um that it's not quite the same meeting the needs of a student with disabilities in some cases via video conference so um those teachers met with the department lead the student services director on monday they've been able to give him feedback
036of what tools they need we have added tools to our system to assist them some digital tools that they think would help them meet the needs of their students and so we are adjusting every week as we hear from them about what will best what they can utilize to serve those students well i asked that question because i work with the university students as you know and some of the um instructions i've given my university interns that are learning to be teachers is to consider themselves five-day employees but actually four days to instruct the students and use the fifth day to share with the parents what they are doing because you need to make those parents feel feel welcomed into the program some of the parents signed an iep that says this is what you're
037going to provide to my students but now the rules have changed and they are going to be changed temporarily so i've asked my interns to teach their courses monday to thursday and on friday to have a session for the parents and that friday is basically to go over what the next week will look like if the materials that need to be used during the instruction the the teacher is now available on campus to give them those materials so the parents roll up in their cars and they pick up the the materials or the teacher can say make sure you have these colors ready if you're teaching kindergarten i have materials that have these colors or these shapes and i love that already in your house so if you're going to teach circles make sure you
038have the cover of a pot or something so that you have the actual hands-on material at home in order for your child to actively participate and not being taught in in abstract because what a virtual instruction almost seems like an abstract instruction which is hard for a student who has a special needs they want to be able to actually feel and touch and all of that and i found that my students that i worked with last uh for spring and now working with them in this fall that they're beginning to see the importance of it that you need to be able to engage the parents so that they're not totally lost on what you're trying to teach their children so i'm hoping that as a district that we begin to look at all of those
039creative ways to engage the families that we serve okay thank you um i'm going back to the school nutrition as it stands um do families come and get a box or do we deliver a box it says here get five ten meals buy breakfast five lunches do they get a box of food yeah they come in they come in and then if they need help we help them to the vehicle but yes they come to the school site and they pick it up from one of our school kitchens where they're provided that food and and in a situation where we may have a family that is not able to come and do that when they've made contact we have arranged to have the meal brought to them the meals that's great we are utilizing some
040of our transportation we we had a situation in the spring that we took care of it and um not unlike another situation where we had a family that was separated by district because of a placement we have fixed that situation so they're not having to deal with two different locations oh this is hectic well i have one more question i'm so glad to hear about the the food because a lot of us never saw uh kids that didn't get food at home until we became teachers and then we thought oh my gosh and so the fact that we're carrying this piece on i hadn't thought about it until i got here today oh really i think about it every day i have a question on the distance learning on the slide that you showed on
041distance learning regarding the district advisory committee my question is how many members of your advisory committee are actually parents that are not teachers or administrators yeah how many do you have because you say you have a membership of 60 and so out of those 60 how many are just parents that are not affiliated to a district other than being parents of our children right we um actually this each school site brings at least two parents they don't always attend every meeting some have many more and of course they represent often at their school sites they are represented they're representing far more parents so um we invite a great number this that's how many happen to come that is not the entire committee that's who happened to log into the session on monday but the district
042advisory committee starts out with two parents from every school plus parents from all student subgroups so we end up with parent representatives invited and encouraged to attend upwards of 40. okay because i'm trying to be sure that when you are doing talking about advisory committee this these people are not just advising because they're employees of the district so they're looking at things that will benefit them i'm interested in advisory committee of parents who are actually looking at things that will benefit kids and you know their children not what will benefit them as a district employee so that's why i am i'm paying attention so could you get us the actual numbers in the next board meeting i can tell you the numbers they change every day because parents you know can and can't come but
043um i can provide to you the most recent invite list it changes as parents come into the district make contact with the principal principals at the beginning of the year are inviting parents to be part of their just their school advisory committees and they send representatives to the district advisory committee but i'll tell you that by statute for the el cap we meet with that group and then we hold the parents back and we say for you now you have a special mandated time to ask your questions free of anyone in the room and they ask the best questions and then last night we also met with our dlac which is our district english language advisory committee and they um also are all parents and they had wonderful questions so um so yes that that
044is our that's enshrined in the lcap law and we follow that to the letter okay and and when we come back the next meeting uh hopefully matt will be here because he had to take our family uh to give us information regarding um the the um budget committee yes right and so he's going to give us that information when we come back the next time um that's about it focus on and then we are going to look at the ethnic studies issue that we discussed in the last board meeting so that we'll be able to begin to have the conversation once you guys have the um have the information that we need in order to when you have the actual books you're going to have the actual books and materials two different weekends yeah so
045that we can begin to establish an ethnic studies group yeah two different things so we are um engaging right now in the diversify our um i just lost it our narrative thank you diverse fire narrative we do have um students and have a meeting scheduled with the principals and cabinet and the students first then we will um bridge that out to staff in the different departments that this would impact because that group is looking at at least one book that can be integrated based on author um to diversify what books students have to read the second level of that is the ethnic studies work that is happening at the state in the cde that is in process right now and as soon as um i believe that the deadline i had it last time i
046believe it was march 13th or something like that yeah i'm following your level yeah yeah so we will we will continue to watch that um information as it modifies and changes so that we can be prepared to then put something together um once it is adopted by the cde with the recommendation thank you okay all right okay next um it's on page four i'm gonna i'm gonna move that will approve the recommendation of the administrative hearing chairperson effective immediately on an overview that's only separate do we have a i second that all those in favor all right motion passes wilson did you vote no oh i i'm fine i just talked about well there we go and then it's recommended that the board of trustees consider approving a number of agenda items as a consent
047list consent items are routine in nature and can be enacted in one motion without further discussion item one two six seconds all those in favor all right motion passes okay let's see and then staff reports any questions about staff reports any questions no questions and then kylie do you have any other public comments no more comments anybody well i moved out with john um can i give a superintendent comment regarding the waiver please yes yes thank you i just want to brief you on the latest information regarding um the waiver process as many of you are aware the there was a waiver granted recently to lucerne valley unified school district um and for a good reason based on the data for their district on the 18th of this month we were provided the latest data
048from the california or the san bernardino county department of public health the previous data we received was received on august 3rd so we are two weeks at a time right now receiving this this information we must as a district be below a 200 community case in a two-week time period as of the 18th we are below 200. we are right at 192. so that what that says to me is is that in this first phase we now have a number that puts us below the threshold to apply for a waiver right below the threshold however it is the first set of data we um i worked with barb alejandre from san bernardino county superintendent of schools yesterday and one of the things that she and i talked about was the frequency of the data and
049so we anticipate that we'll have another set next week with another 14 day window of information at that point if our numbers continue to go down we will then start engaging in the discussions that must occur prior to any change to how we are currently doing instruction in order to have a waiver we must bring stakeholders together and collaborate regarding this so it's labor it's community and it's um the department of public health they have to they have to look at our numbers okay the next thing that we have to be ready for is regardless of whether it's a hybrid model that we would come back to this waiver is only applicable to our tk through sixth grade students it does not apply to any seventh through twelfth grade okay there's there's the the the
050issue at hand right now that if if you apply for a waiver you must be below the 200 threshold and you must maintain that data it needs to remain low if it changes then they may not approve our waiver so we will be ready to go but we have a lot of work still to do in order to apply for a waiver we have to work with our labor units we have to work with our families because any return to normal means that students have to wear masks if they're third grade or above they have to social distance it doesn't say the six feet with the children it just says social distance and we have to um be prepared to test um staff at a there's a portion of our our staff that we have
051to test on a regular basis so the testing had not been available i now understand that there is a new vendor so we will continue to gather more information there is another meeting with the superintendents next tuesday i believe to help us navigate this next phase the difference between apple valley is on the list of of all of the school districts in the county um we are the district that falls below the threshold there's a bunch above us um like our neighboring districts victor both victors hesperia would not have the ability currently to apply for a waiver um lucerne had has two cases um they're they're sitting when you look at their community cases they're sitting at two um for the last 14 days that's um way below the 200 mark so you just have
052to we have to understand the data and how we can do this now if at some point our county comes off of the monitor list there is no waiver involved at that point what happens then is you have to maintain less than 100 cases to come off of the monitor list once that happens it has to have three consecutive days after the three consecutive days of that same data then your community colleges and universities can open for a kindergarten transitional kindergarten through 12th grade system like ours unified district you'd have to have 14 consecutive days in order to approach reopening um so there's there's a lot of expectations that go into this before we even make a move and i and i reminded principals this morning and i'm going to say this live because of
053our teachers and our classified staff they've been at this for just over two weeks today right just over that and if we change this up today because we just fell below that number they're going to be starting from scratch again so we have some work to do and we will monitor the data i will continue to bring it forward to the board meetings um the even the special board meeting so that you know where we're sitting and if we continue to trend down then we will be having a serious conversation about applying for the waiver okay what is your situation with the icu the last conversation i had with st mary's was um several days ago they are still full with all 40. um but that's not all coveted cases but they um they saw
054a big spike of coveted um patients that were positive and pending and over the course of that last week at the end of the week those had declined so they were seeing a number go down but i know one of our neighboring superintendents had talked to another one of the hospitals up here not st mary's and they were at surge capacity at this point so there still is that community issue and how we are going to get the testing available okay and the other part i want to just be clear about is regardless of what whether it's a waiver or whether we come off the monitoring everybody in our system parents this community has to be prepared for starts and stops every time we have a positive case everybody that was in close contact which
055typically is that classroom goes home for 14 days so we would revert back to distance learning at that point um but the starts and stops will happen quite a bit based on the current information we're receiving from other places you know other states that have have done this yeah since you mentioned about testing yeah i i know this news the lava test is faster but i think that it doesn't really solve the concern and problem until the vaccine comes out if we really do we need to come maybe begin to think about if vaccine is available we need to help you honestly how it's going to be implemented to our kids in a community yeah there are there are many factors that um play into this and it's not just we don't want to apply
056we just haven't been on the list that can but just this week tuesday we were given the information that we fall below the threshold but don't necessarily meet the other conditions with the consultation when we're looking at this um starting to try and start and you know whatever the government is saying what the county is saying um have you um thought about those people who will not want to wear a mask but fall in this in this window and you know we can't deny them education because they refuse to wear a mask and that includes an employees who will say i'm not wearing a mask because they have reasons that they give you or those who refuse to be tested um because they don't want that kind of intrusion so we have to keep all
057of those things in in mind you know i might what i've always said to people who've come to me about not wearing a mask that is violating their constitutional right is i say okay those people that are sitting in the in the morgue what kind of constitutional right do they have so we need to think about those that we need to be we need to protect ourselves so we can live tomorrow to challenge the constitutional rights if you do not live you can't so hopefully we will have people who are willing to fall into this category of willing to wear a mask willing to socially distant and willing to be tested if they don't fall in that mass in that in that category what plans do we have as a district um to accommodate those
058people at this time there is no plans because we have not been given the regulations of what those look like we have been told um and it is in writing that there are caveats to people wearing masks but there is no legal definition yet provided to us on what we can and cannot do that we have been just just like all of the things that go with covid they're writing it as they make the decision so the the the guidance comes quite a distance after um we're told something so um as soon as we have clarification we certainly um will share that but you know this is this changes every day that the data we were provided one of the sheets is brand new this time we've been receiving data every two weeks every week
059depends on on when they produce it we have a new data sheet this time instead of two pages it's three pages and it's actually the one that tells us whether we fall below the level to go on to a waiver okay okay thank you second i'll second it okay hi all those in favor all right thank you for being here do we have anything to sign you