001for your life good evening and welcome to open session is now seven o'clock this is the June 20th 23 meeting of the Azusa Unified School District governing board we'll now proceed with item 4.1 our flag salute you please join me in saluting our flag place your right hand over your heart ready begin moving to item 5.0 report action taken during closed session in closed session the board approved by a majority four to zero vote uh immediate unpaid suspension and dismissal charges against the permanent certificated employee TX 6116493 the board has authorized and directed the superintendent or his designee to serve the charges upon the employee and to provide all appropriate legal notices and otherwise effectuate this process the employees shall be given a period of 30 days after service of the charges to request a
002hearing before the commission on professional competent in accordance with Education Code section 44934 if no hearing is requested the board shall proceed with the employee's dismissal since this matter involves sensitive employment matters and given the need to respect personal privacies the board will not comment further on this matter at this time the roll call vote was as follows the eyes arianis Beau Greer and Rodriguez Pena the nose zero abstentions zero moving to item 6.1 Mr Ortega thank you Dr Beau um tonight we wanted to recognize uh Daphne Pineda Mr Sanchez is definitely online you happen to know I do not see Daphne online thank you um so I'll move forward um we wanted to recognize Daphne for her service uh on the school board as a school board member representing Sierra High School but I
003also wanted to take a little bit of time to also share that she sits on the student advisory Council uh happened to be at Sierra High School during Awards night and she swept uh the night uh winning uh and being recognized uh for various scholarships and for uh various accomplishments at Sierra High School she also has a distinct honor of making all of our eyes watery at our last uh board meeting I'm just so proud of of Daphne of her service and what she has been able to bring to our district and so just want to wish her uh as she embarks on the new chapter of her life uh the best thank you um I have a certificate that we were going to present to her but we will be sure that she does
004receive it it's this is a unified school district certificate of recognition is probably to present Daphne Pineda for outstanding service as a school board member on the Azusa Unified School District Board of Education dated June 20th 2023 signed by superintendent Ortega and what president Dr Sabrina ball and I want to let uh Daphne know that she did a great job sitting here with us and we did appreciate her input she always had something to say which is good this is the reason why we do like well want students to be sitting on the board because if they you know they they're at the school site we're not there so they have firsthand input on a lot of situations that are going on so she did a really good job on that and I really appreciate
005her and and I wish her the best of luck in her uh future Journeys thank you good evening Daphne if uh oh I'm sorry oh I did it everything of course uh Daphne we wanted to uh tonight uh take a quick uh time out to thank you uh for your service as a student board member uh I have had uh the awesome opportunity to not only see you in this role uh but to see you in the role of a student advisory council member uh I have been able to see and hear and listen and appreciate uh your voice and the voice that you bring uh to Azusa Unified School District as a student of Sierra High School you're a champion for that high school um also shared that I was there the night of
006the award show where you took so many awards uh rightfully so for all your accomplishments and your scholarships and we were just super thankful for again the ability to partner with you over the course of this year and now as you begin your new chapter uh in life we just want to wish you uh the best thank you and and Daphne I'm here to present this certificate this is a unified school district certificate of recognition is policy proudly to present Daphne Pineda for outstanding service as a student board member on the Azusa Unified School District Board of Education June 20th 2023 signed by superintendent Ortega and what president Dr Sabrina bow and I also wanted to add that we do appreciate you sitting here and giving us your input because you always have something to
007say and I think that was great because that's the reason why you sat there right I mentioned that you um you students know what goes on in the school sites and we're not there but it's great that we hear input from you and we do appreciate all the luck and God bless you in your future endeavors so um Daphne as as you were walking up it was my turn to say something about you and I was actually going to speak to a the video the TV or with the zoom like Daphne if you're out there you know what I really want to tell you is that um I I Echo what has said about you uh this year actually this school year because our school year um does not align with just the year I
008Met You in I believe it was uh right before you came on um you had already been elected and um we went out for uh some training and it was a lot a lot of training but you were so excited you were so excited to represent you're a high school and that enthusiasm and that Charisma we saw throughout the whole year whether you were at home giving you know giving your update or you were here and keep up that leadership quality that you have because it's it's big it's big I can't wait to see what comes next for you good luck just want to thank you for your input uh my mind goes to at least at least a handful of just critical moments when there were things that were being discussed and apologies for
009the times when we don't always always think to ask but but with what the student preferential vote is but there are a number of times where you said actually wait before you before you all vote I I have some input I there I have an opinion as well and uh just very very grateful for the opinions that you shared and the ways that you've LED and so um just bless you as you go and as you continue to lead um in your endeavors uh moving forward from here thank you Daphne I echo my colleague sentiments your Poise your confidence your presence your insistence on embodying and representing your student peers has been an invaluable learning experience and it's been such a pleasure to serve alongside you congratulations and best wishes on everything that's to come
010you have anything to say Daphne come up to the mic if you like I know you have one last word to say to us yeah I wanted to thank you guys for not making me feel uncomfortable speaking up because I do like speaking up and I did like representing Sierra and it was nice that I got to do it with this district with these kind of people you guys are very considerate of like getting my input even if it doesn't seem like you guys are doing it I really appreciate when you guys do want my input and thank you for the experience I like really enjoyed it and I hope I can take this experience with me in the future so that I can I don't know it was good advice everything that all of
011you have given me individually and I thank you all thank you Daphne moving on to item 6.2 Mr Fernandez good evening uh Dr Beau Board of Education members cabinet and attendees uh my name is Gabriel Fernandez proud principal at Azusa High School we have a room full of CIF competitors here tonight as well as some other students from Azusa High School that we want to recognize and thank you for your time in recognizing our students and our student athletes um first of all if I can have our our coach for cross country our coaches for cross country come up to the mic cross country one league and sent many Runners to CIF competition but I'm going to let our our coaches do the talking for themselves about their team good evening my name is Patricia
012Dorsey and I am the proud coach of cross-country team for 26 years and this team um won a league championship and got to participate in CIF this year mostly seniors but we also have a freshman on the varsity team really dedicated we were out there 6 a.m every day in the summer and on Saturdays during the season they just are a very special group to me because this was my last year of coaching um and I'm saying goodbye to some seniors here that are going to do great things appreciate it I'm a coach loera um I just want to say uh congratulations to our seniors that are graduating an amazing season uh these students are really uh really what we would want to see you know more of a high school just the work ethic
013they have both on and off the field you know with full work they were part of the reason why our cross country team had the highest Collective GPA on campus and that's something I'd like to continue I want to say a congratulations so honor working with you guys great he's being humble but coach larae is going to be taking one of our approaches taken over for Coach Dorsey next season continuing the Aztec spirit with cross country uh next I'd like to have a coach uh Falcon come up for track and field oh good evening Miss team board members of the cabinet parents in attendance student athletes it's been a pleasure to uh take our uh a lot of our athletes again this year to say I have prelims um the 15 years that I've been
014coaching I've had a good Mentor in coach Dorsey uh we actually brought me along uh groomed me to be uh to help become the the head coach for the boys Varsity squad um every year as far as I can remember we've always had somebody a number of our student athletes attend uh make it to a CIF prelims uh We've also had a few of them go on to a CIF finals uh my biggest pleasure was having one of our students actually break a School record that stood for 30 years um Angel Toscano she now holds the girls discus record at 108 feet and I think seven and a half inches the previous record was held by oh I can't remember the student's name but her record was a hundred feet and eight inches so when
015she broke that record I said okay my job is done but it continues um so I'd like to recognize a few of our uh athletes have made it um to uh prelims Alexa Sanchez please stand I know you're here somewhere yeah those were the only ones that were able to show up we have we had seven uh seven athletes uh make it to prelims this year and it's been a pleasure coaching them and we'll see what happens next year thank you our head coach for softball was unable to make it this evening but see our softball team made it to Second Round CIF competition and we wanted to give a huge shout out to our girls softball team who has enough extraordinary record for the last couple years um competing representing Azusa with pride so
016our hats off to our softball team for the lady Aztecs as well this evening we're gonna turn over you Dr Bill yes Mr Fernandez um will you help me gather all of our uh awardees and Broadway Ernest will be presenting certificates you want to start cross-country first yeah okay so all of our cross-country athletes as well as coaches thank you a Souza Unified School District certificate of recognition is proudly presented to a Souza High cross country team for excelling in Mountain View League Play and advancing to the California interest in interscholastic Federation playoffs CIF so June 20th 2023 um congratulations you guys how many of you guys are seniors wow amazing amazing let's give them another round of applause I I don't know how you guys like how many miles do you guys run Allah
017yeah yeah I I'm running a mile and I'm I'm dying I I you must be in a great hit headspace to to be able to do that and I commend you for that because not everyone can do that I can't um maybe I could but I I don't want to so we're gonna go ahead and take a picture um colleagues uh board members foreign I want to congratulate all the students um on this a great award and also I want to thank coach Darcy for her time and her service at Jesus Unified School District and you're passing the Baton to the perfect person Mr Louis right and congratulations to everyone in your future endeavors thank you and this certificate a Souza Unified School District certificate of recognition is proudly presented to a Souza eye track
018team for excelling in Montague and Mountain View League Play in advancing to the CIF Playoffs today June 20th 2023 we could have the track team come on board members and for our final recognition this recognition is proudly presented by a Souza Unified School District two the Azusa unified sorry start again okay Azusa Unified School District certificate of recognition is proudly presented to a Souza High softball team we're excelling in Mountain View League Play and advancing to the CIF Playoffs today June 20th 2023 let's give them a round of applause and no no softball okay um I I um I'll give this to you to say one of the Mrs Dorsey I I don't know if you remember me um I I was not your student but I I I know a lot of your students
019and those students are my nephews and nieces that absolutely loved having you as your coach and as a teacher so as you are now going to depart and not be a coach anymore um you know all all the lives you've touched um now they're grown and have their own kids and to this day they still remember the amazing person that you are so being you and don't forget to come and visit that's right and to all you athletes whether you're here you're at home just remember it's not easy being an athlete and having a GPA of what did you say at cumulative of a right that says a lot that's that means you didn't get home to like 6 6 37 you ate you did homework took a shower and did it all over again
020so give yourselves a round of applause and to the parents give yours uh guys give your parents a round of applause for all the rides okay and the food I just want to congratulate all of you students Azusa uh high school for putting Azusa on the map all you students did a great job and it's true you have to go home and do your homework keep up your studies keep up with certain GPA and still run fast and play bar whatever you do keep up the good work when you go on to college and keep us on the map thank you foreign yes and I similarly just want to say congratulations incredible love love to see this and once again another night where we're not even done um there's so much more to celebrate and
021so just so grateful for all of our students for those that are seniors and so therefore graduating as you go on to to what is next uh keep keep doing all of this um just in a kind of new places in a new settings and you have uh set a laid a foundation for those that are following after you um to to have as high school continue to to be strong and great so just thank you for for all that you've done and congratulations and congratulations to all of our scholar athletes you've shown that you are not only uh tough physically uh you have meant the mental perseverance and endurance to take it the extra mile and so on this night we congratulate and recognize you we also have the honor of recognizing one of
022our top students at Azusa High School tonight uh going to matter uh move on to 6.3 sorry we're on 6.3 uh we're here to recognize one of our top students at Azusa High School graduating senior Elias El hoyek if you can come up Elias is our one of our members of our IB Program diploma program students he also received a quest Bridge scholarship which means full ride to University of Penn with for their engineering program he is on a plane in August but going to Canada to relax for a little bit before college starts but I just want to say I didn't have much time to know you but knowing the hard work that you put into the IB Program knowing a little bit about his life story his family moved here from Lebanon so
023it's not an easy path to to make it and then achieve one of the hardest programs in terms of the IB program and just persist with the help of the IB team and all the teachers at Azusa High School his parents and his sister who's videoing him right now just the amount of love and support and both the right program in place to get a young man with a full ride to UPenn we do appreciate your hard work good job sir if I if I if I can add something to that uh just for for all of our knowledge uh according to the U.S news and World Report uh the university uh that Mr El hoyek is attending is ranked number seven in the nation on behalf of the entire School District board and cabinet
024Azusa Unified School District presents this certificate of recognition to Elias El hoyak for academic Excellence earning a quest Bridge scholarship and a full ride to University of Pennsylvania this 20th day of June 2023. congratulations [Applause] thank you foreign I just wanted to thank Mr Caldera for the opportunity he gave me whether it was the IB program or introducing me to the questbridge scholarship um I also want to thank my family and everyone who supported me along the way and for the people that are not here um special thanks to Ms O'Neill and Miss Hernandez in the College and Career Center without them I don't think this would have been possible just absolutely outstanding congratulations congratulations I there's no words mom to stay as a mom how proud I I see the excitement in your eyes
025and I just want to say you know what this recognition is not only for him but for mom and family because it takes a lot of support for an individual to be able to achieve this and you just put us on the map again and so I'm so grateful that um you'll be attending the College of your choice full ride I can't wait I can't wait to see what happens good luck [Music] congratulations Elias and that's such a great scholarship I am so proud of you as a board member I'm happy to be a board member sitting here today knowing that our student from Azusa Unified School District has received this fantastic scholarship and I want to thank your teacher Mr Bob Collier also who are leading the way and this is we have great
026staff we have great students and this is an example of what's going on today thank you everyone we're now moving to item 6.4 all right good evening uh board president Beau Board of Education cabinet and attendees I'm just so excited to be here tonight because we have an Azusa first so I'd like to introduce uh first Lisa Aguilera our American Sign Language teacher here at Azusa High School come up and join me before we present our special guest she's going to present to you one of our extraordinary Azusa High School students um I was lucky enough to um land in Azusa and then have this opportunity to help navigate the Seal of by Literacy for American Sign Language and so today Lisa Aguilera gets to present to one of her students the first seal of
027bi literacy in American Sign Language like if you work before we call her up so for everyone as I know that we have deaf students in and we have deaf so um forgive me if my communication is um first of all I'd like to say that Ariana is the first student to receive the school she worked very tough um we have to remember that she started in my class as a freshman she spent the first semester in person second semester she did it online her second year of being in uh the third year so she learned this language third language so this is true all of us that if we challenge our students and expect by results from them we can back um Ariana three weeks four get spent one year not in my class
028with so with safe Practice coming started before school during lunch time and when she was able to ask very now I know um after she finished her interview admitted and when the interviewer asked me I knew um they wanted to know how long had been a student and if she had some basic knowledge language and I don't know I started out with cheers it was state so again lots of another thing foreign ified School District uh certificate of recognition is proudly presented to Ariana Hernandez Enriquez for earning the state seal of by literacy in American Sign Language dated for today and signed by our superintendent and our board president and we just want to say I mean once again congratulations this is awesome you earned this um and we're just so so grateful for uh
029just thinking this incredible achievement and thank you for being a first uh here within our district [Applause] just one more thing to um to talk about um Ariana [Music] for the State of California only one thousand people have taken this test he's one of the ones hats so less than a thousand that's one of them thank you [Music] the dedication that um you have demonstrated Atiana is to show that when you want something really bad enough you're going to do whatever it takes to get it so that just that's one of the characteristics right you were there in the morning you were there in the afternoon during lunch you wanted this so bad got it and we can't feel nothing but being proud of you and especially putting us on the map again for being
030the first student here in our district to earn that deal so whenever you're down just remember you accomplish something not anybody in this district has done so congratulations Ariana I want to congratulate you also I think it's really great and so that means you speak three languages right so you're bilingual and that's going to make you a lot of money so hopefully I see you standing by the president because you know there's always someone there doing sign languages hopefully it's going to be someone from Azusa High School so we'll say I know her congratulations me I'm proud of you [Music] I echo my colleague sentiments and and maybe we could not just the president but maybe even the Super Bowl oh yeah congratulations to all of our athletes scholar athletes Scholars language Learners um as
031we wind down the end of the 2023 school year there's so much to celebrate so many next Generation so many firsts um for your family and for our district and so we are just so very proud of each and every one of you are we ready to move to item 7.1 um Now we move to public comment on agenda or non-agenda items um hope are there any blue cards in in the room I'm seeing no one in person Mr Sanchez is there anyone uh on Zoom for public comment there are no hands raised thank you moving to item 8.1 board member Rodriguez Pena good evening everyone I just want to announce that I did go to the end of the year Hospitality luncheon it was really nice the food was delicious they had Raffles games
032and I want to thank the hospitality committee every year they put this end of the year uh luncheon on and it's was really great bye people and also on the AMA the the Azusa management association end of the year celebration it was great to spend time with administrators away from the working environment and I loved how they had that preview questions they're really they were really interesting but I did win a Starbucks card I came in late but I still won so thank you uh Amy and have a great summer Mr Greer I have no comments this evening bye mija we will continue with item 9.1 comments by student board members superintendent and cabinet Miss Ortega thank you Dr bo uh Mr Sanchez do we happen to have uh either Carolina Dominguez or Natalie De
033La Cruz online neither has joined the zoom I'm sorry one more time neither has joined okay thank you um wanted to uh get into the chorus uh congratulations to the sports teams and to the students uh tonight that were being recognized um once again just a testament to um everything that the staff uh invests into our students uh and it's not just the teachers uh it's teachers of course in the classroom it's classified staff uh supporting uh the students and administrators and just extremely proud of our of our students and recognitions tonight um also want to say that um we are now at the final stretches of a school reorganization phase two um I want to again just show a lot of gratitude to the staff that has put in a lot of time to
034prepare us for the opening next year uh when we will be a reorganized District um so many moving parts and I just want to be thankful uh to to put us in a situation um to be able to move in this direction uh with as little hiccups as possible and so just want to say thank you uh for that and then uh for uh for those of us that are able to disconnect uh this summer I hope everyone has a a good uh summer break uh this summer thank you I too would like to congratulate all of our uh students that were recognized this evening on all they've accomplished um and also highlight um our summer programming that we have going on in the district um we have our CL Summer Bridge which is a
035professional learning opportunity for our teachers but also benefit to the students as well um they will be um having a gallery walk highlighting the work that they did the last two weeks this Friday at Valleydale school we are also hosting summer programming for our elementary students our middle school students and high school students across the district as well as our gate students and our think together program is running concurrently as well we have just over 500 students participating in these programs this I've been leaving I want to um use my time to um thank Brian Allen and his team Robert zamore Anthony Macias we have a lot going on right now as superintendo Ortega just alluded to um we have the move going on we're almost 95 done with moving all of our large items
036um from our campuses like for example Gladstone to Azusa and all of our um schools that will be closing this year um we also embarked on the deep cleaning where we're cleaning all of our campuses from top to bottom so we're excited about what that's going to look like as well as our playground installation and I just want to use opportunity to also thank more education for approving all of this work and entrusting us to get this done and then lastly I would like to thank the city of Azusa as we have been informed that they are ready to start the path of travel or the sidewalk or crosswalk for the past or travel so I just want to thank them for their efforts and their collaboration and good evening as well I want to
037report that the human resources department has been busy filling our uh openings in the certificated and classified ranks um there as Miss LaTasha was just pointing out there's been a lot uh we've been um I'm doing as a district and the HR offices making sure that we have our key um Personnel in the areas where we need to be um the beginning of the school year and I also want to just take this opportunity to thank the board for their work and also wish everyone a happy summer break thank you so much moving to item 10.1 approval of the consent agenda is there a motion motion to approve second moved and seconded any discussion seeing none will call for the vote and the motion passes 4-0 moving to item 12.1 presentation of 2023 California school
038dashboard local indicators Ms Garcia Medina good evening president Dr Beau board members cabinet and I am very pleased to be here this evening to share with you our California dashboard local indicators for 2023. the State of California requires that we present these local indicators to the board of education at the same meeting where our app is being adopted in the fall we will upload these local indicators to the California dashboard and in December at the beginning of December it will be made public to the community with California dashboard is part of our state's accountability system and it allows our district to measure progress on eight State priorities using multiple measures our state has uh next slide please thank you our state has identified eight priorities for educating students uh which we use to develop our
039district goals you see those eight priority areas indicated here in the pie chart and they also guide our spending uh for our district um these accountability measures they also have accountability measures that measure progress in each of these eight priority areas here you see that we have two types uh that we have two types of indicators we have state indicators and we have local indicators the state indicators pull data directly from the state an example of that would be our s a smarter balanced assessment or S back results and it gives performance levels for our school sites in previous years we had performance levels for our state indicators that were uh displayed by a gate a color gate that was broken up into five levels where red was the lowest indicator and blue was the
040highest performance indicator these were determined using two years worth of data this was paused as a result of assembly Bill 130 and we switched this year for the California dashboard of 2022 using uh the image at the bottom of the slides that shows the similar to cell phone bars to rate our performance level for the state indicator since we are expected to have results for Smarter Balance assessments this year where we'll be returning to the colored gauges because we'll have two years worth of data or our local indicators they're developed by the district using a self-reflection tools that are provided by the Department of Education and these local indicators don't apply to individual schools but they apply to our district um this data that we see in our local indicators you will also see in
041our lcap plan um you'll see it in the plan summary as well as in the section for educating uh engaging educational Partners uh our goals and actions and our improved and in serves to improve I'm sorry increased and improved Services section within the lcap um the next slide shows us the state priorities aligned with the state and local indicators you can see them alongside each other there are two areas that overlap that is school climate and course active both of these areas have both state indicators as well as local indicators for example um data that's pulled from the state or School climate includes our suspension rate for the district and local youth proof survey data is a local indicator for school claim okay in the area of course access or College and Career indicator is
042pulled by the state so we have that state indicator data and we also have what we call access to a broad course of study which is a local indicator this next slide is our dashboard landing page and it shows what um the California dashboard looks like for 2022 um there's three key messages that we want to take away from the dashboard um quality education is not measured or defined by just one metric here you see all both the state and the local indicators and we must seek equity for all our students so you'll be able to see subgroup data with each of these indicators and also the local indicators and state indicators support decision making for our district next I will be sharing with you the process for local indicators um here it's broken up
043into four steps in the first step we are determining what tools we will be using to gather data on this indicator we're also ensuring that we're including feedback from all educational Partners so making sure that we're involving staff and we're involving the parent voice in this process and then we're looking at the data and analyzing data in step two uh it's how we will use this indicator result so we can identify areas of strength and areas of Need for our district and of course we use those needs and areas of strength to inform our lcat the next step is to report on these local indicators to our school board and also in step four to upload this information publicly on the California dashboard website which happens in December it's important to note that in step
044two um it's how we're using the data so it's part of our continuous cycle of improvement as we're looking at our lcap and making adjustments for the following year the next slides will show you a specific local indicator results for 2023. our first area is priority one which is uh basic Services uh all of these areas that we assess are using our William settlement reports and we're measuring progress towards meeting 100 in each of these three areas um qualified teachers is the first area we have a hundred percent there textbooks for all students as well providing them access to standards aligned textbooks both at home and at school that's also at 100 and maintaining facilities in good repair and there we're at a 79 percent the next priority area is implementation of state standards and
045here we're using a self-reflection tool that's using a five-point scale that you'll see on the left hand side um the first the number one represents exploration and research and five represents full and sustainability of the standard um you'll notice that um the on the right hand side it gives you the average of each of the topics within implementation of State Standards um here this is these are average scores so for example um support for teachers and administrators as three sub categories within that section we take the average of the three categories to get that level of progress for that second our next area is parent and family engagement and in here we're using also a self-assessment tool to gauge how we're encouraging parent participation and how we're partnering with our parents in decision making uh
046we're focusing on the three areas of building relationships between school and families building Partnerships for student outcomes and seeking input for decision making our district has to write narrative that also are publicized in the California dashboard and it summarizes our progress towards these areas and you'll also find these in your report that is the local indicators report for 2023 some highlights for parent engagement include opportunities for parents to participate in programs like project to inspire families in schools pack Plus these opportunities help us build leadership for our parents and also give them input when making decisions our next priority area is school climate and this measures students sense of connectedness and safety this data is taken from our district annual youth group survey and it includes the percent positives for 2022 and 2023 we do
047see a decline in the percent positive for both of these areas um that for example in the area of school safety the decline could be attributed to the continued impact of the covid-19 pandemic as well as the increased violence that we've seen in our community as a district in response to this specific need we've taken steps to increase safety at our school sites including a campus safety positions at our high schools and shifting at our staffing at our middle schools from noon supervisors to campus security positions installation of perimeter fencing as well as safety cameras to try to see some positive sense of safety perception for our students to support a sense of school connectedness we've partnered with Western Justice on um focusing on restorative practices and peer mediation using Community circles within many of
048our school sites as well as through the lcap you'll notice that there are actions and services that support Mental Health Services as well as PBIS positive behavior and intervention supports for our full site we've partnered also with California Ed partners for the on track board which has identified Target students and has developed internal goals for these students and then I think later today you have an abort agenda item will you'll see a contract with second call and this is going to provide some push and support for our secondary students so we're hoping that all of these efforts will result result in growth in positive perception for a student connectedness uh priority area number seven is access to a broad course of study um and here we are reporting on progress on the data we're interpreting
049the data and using this data uh every year we examine Elementary class schedules for all our sites as well as secondary Master schedules to assess the programs that we're offering across the district we in particular look at our English language Learners to make sure that they have access to these courses as well as our special education students and we are at a hundred percent for access to a broad course of are our local indicators includes my presentation but I'd be happy to answer any questions or take any comments that you uh yes I have a question regarding the school climate I know we talked about the pandemic but how how long are we gonna using the pandemic I think and we said the same thing last year and I noticed the numbers have not changed
050much and that's the same thing with the um sense of connectedness we spoke about that and um I'm just hoping that with with the safety I know you mentioned a lot of things I know we are doing we're trying that these numbers will change but on on the con being connected what are we doing about that or how yeah I'm just very concerned because um I mean even the school safety like you know like what exactly are they not feeling safe uh you know what exactly is who can pinpoint it because I don't feel safe okay I don't feel safe why you know the students the the yard I don't know I just think we need to like pinpoint it um maybe it'll help us fix it you know because we can't fix a problem
051we don't know nothing about and even feeling connected why are they not feeling connected the numbers are very um didn't change much it's a little tense but why are they not are they teachers not reaching out to them are they not being able to stick to their counselors so they say this climate is very important because that's actually what keeps our students in our school and also myself as a parent if my child was not feeling safer not doing connected I personally would not want my child to attend that District that's my personal point of view yeah and I I think you bring bring up some very valid points um these are definitely areas of need for the district and we're that's why we're highlighting these areas that um are areas of need and that
052we need to continue to work towards and provide um interventions and supports for our students so they feel first safe and then they feel connected to their school sites so for example through the work with Western Justice if we're focused on um implementing Community circles at all our school sites that will give opportunities for students to actually voice um situations where they may not feel safe um or issues that they're having so then the classroom can have a discussion and try to work towards um making a better environment for students but we have we do have we Western justice has been with us this school year so I'm really I am really surprised that the numbers have not changed much because they have I know they've had Community circles with students I know parents and
053staff so if they're still feeling the same way yeah and it's a process we do need to give our staff and our and our our school sites time to implement these strategies right and to um really Elevate the good practices and make sure that they're happening across all our classrooms and and campuses so you know the other piece too is the increased violence that we experience in the community that may be affecting um you know some of these um responses that we're getting from students again it's data it's a data point um and it's a data point that's very important then we we understand the importance of continuing to support in these specific areas so that there's not really an easy answer to this but I know we are aware of the need and that
054we're going to continue to support our school sites both staff and students okay thank you thank you so much Mr Medina thank you moving to item 12.2 this is an action item is there a motion motion to approve ment any discussion being none I'll call for the vote [Music] um and the motion passes 4-0 moving to item 12.3 may have a motion motion to approve second any discussion being nine I'll call for the vote and the motion passes for zero next we have our update on the Surplus property Mr Ortega thank you Dr Beau I just want to uh update the Board of Education that tomorrow uh we'll have our next uh Surplus property committee meeting uh here in the boardroom at 5 PM it is an open meeting uh the bulk of Tomorrow is
055to uh once again revisit the Board of Education report that will be delivered uh to the Board of Education here in the fall and so the group has committed to provide input and hopefully get to a final uh version of that report tomorrow we will also be um asking the committee if um if everything goes well if our next meeting which is scheduled for July 26th that we vote that that's going to work and that's the medium where we can have the public hearing uh as part of this process we do have to have a public hearing uh if the committee uh agrees and we work it out that way we already have a draft of a mailer that's going to go out to every single resident in the Azusa Unified School District boundary so
056it's not the city of Azusa per se because you know that we service other parts as well and so we are looking we are looking to mail and advertise this public hearing uh on July 26 so that folks who are not connected to our social media and or do not have students who currently attend a zuzina fight School District uh know that we are holding a public hearing on that particular day Mr Ortega now moving to item 3.2 revised board meeting calendar this is an info action item Mr Ortega uh thank you Dr Beau uh we are bringing uh this item uh forward uh for board uh consideration uh currently on our board meeting calendar we have a study session scheduled for November 28th uh Tuesday November 28th that is the week of the csba
057conference and uh we have three board members attending that conference and more specifically attending the pre-conference uh this time around it is uh up north and so our three board members will be traveling on the 28th which means that we will not have a quorum uh to hold that meeting um so we are looking to the Board of Education we are recommending that that study session be moved uh to Tuesday December 5th uh but looking for the board uh Direction uh on that particular board meeting thank you Mr Chicken so uh just recap your uh proposal is to reschedule the November 28th study session to Tuesday November 5th so I'm sorry Tuesday December 5th that is correct is there a motion make a motion whoa I'll make a motion um you move it to December
0582nd fifth I second that motion is there any discussion just just a quick reminder since it since it's here that I will not be in attendance at this upcoming board meeting um I had indicated that there were a few dates that I was going to miss and so I will miss the next uh looking at this I will miss the next one but I should be good for the remaining uh updates listed when you talk about the next one are you talking about December 5th are you talking about August thank you for for asking for clarification the very next board meeting that we have on August 8th which is the first meeting on this calendar thank you any further discussion okay moved and seconded I'll call for the vote and the motion passes four zero
059now moving to item 14.1 approval of the 2324 adopted budget may I have a motion make a motion to approve 14.1 any discussion being none I will call for the vote and the motion passes or zero fourteen point two may have a motion question to approve thank you any discussion seeing nine I'll call for the vote the motion passes four zero 14.3 may have a motion make a motion to approve move by board member Rodriguez Pena seconded by board member Greer any discussion being none call for the vote and the motion passes four zero next up item 14.4 may I have a motion make a motion to approve 14.4 second moved and seconded in a discussion seeing none I'll call for the vote motion passes or zero moving to item 15.1 this is an info
060item Mr runkio the next couple items starting with 15.1 um are the are required by government code 3547 that allows for the public to be one made aware of and speak to the negotiations that will take place between the district and the collective bargaining groups Before You Are The Sunshine proposals from aea to the district and then beginning on 15.3 are the proposals for the sunshine proposal for the district to negotiate with aea does that conclude 15 the presentation for 15.1 yes thank you moving to item 15.2 this is an action item may have a motion to open the public hearing for the aea sunshine proposal for the 2324 fiscal negotiation year make a motion to approve 15.2 moved and seconded is there any discussion uh call for the vote the motion passes 4-0 this
061now opens our public hearing at 809 PM hope do you have anyone in the boardroom who would just make public comment on this item no one in person and Mr Sanchez anyone online for the public hearing 15.2 we do not have hands raised thank you so much it is now 8 10 I'm calling the public hearing for 15.2 to a close moving to item 15.3 info item Mr rankio similar to 15.1 15.3 is the district's Sunshine proposal to begin the negotiation process with aea for the 23-24 school year and that concludes my presentation thank you so much and now we move to 15.4 public hearing of the Azusa Unified School District sunshine sunshine proposal for the 23-24 fiscal year negotiations may have a motion to open the public hearing motion to open the public hearing
062thank you moved and seconded any discussion being none I'll call for the vote and the motion passes 4-0 the public hearing is now open at 8 11 pm hope is anyone in the boardroom Mr Sanchez is anyone on Zoom which is to make public comment during the public hearing we do not have any hands raised thank you so much I now call the public hearing to a close at 8 11 pm now moving to 15.5 this is an action item may have a motion motion to approve 15.5 second moved and seconded in any discussion seeing Nano call for the vote and the item passes 4-0 this now brings us to 15.6 consideration and approval of the amended employment contract or the assistant superintendent of Business Services this is an action item and we are required
063by Edco to read the following the amendment to the assistant superintendent of Business Services contract extends the term of the contract by one year from June 30 2025 to June 30 2026. there are no other changes to the assistant superintendent's contract including her salary and fringe benefits may I have a motion to approve second moved and seconded any discussion being none I'll call for the vote the motion passes or zero moving to item 15.7 consideration and approval of amended Employment contract for assistant superintendent of educational services this is an action item the amendments to the assistant superintendent of Educational Services contract extends the term of the contract by one year from June 20 June 30 2025 to June 30 2026. there are no other changes to the assistant superintendent's contract including her salary and fringe
064benefits may I have a motion motion to approve 15 points seven second moved and seconded any discussion seeing 90 call for the vote and the motion passes four zero moving to item 15.8 consideration and approval of amended Employment contract for assistant superintendent of Human Resources this is an action item the amendment to the assistant superintendent of Human Resources contract extends the term of the contract by one year from June 30 2025 to June 30 2026. there are no other changes to the assistant superintendent's contract including his salary and fringe benefits may have a motion make a motion to approve 15.8 second moved and seconded any discussion seeing none I'll call for a vote and the item passes for zero like a direct reflected item passes 4-0 moving to item 15.9 consideration and approval of amended
065employment contract for the superintendent this also is an action item the amendment to the superintendent's contract extends the term of the contract by one year from June 30 2025 to June 30 2026. there are no other changes to the superintendent's contract including his salary and fringe benefits may have a motion motion to approve 15.9 second moved and seconded any discussion being none I'll call for the vote and the motion passes for zero this now brings us to item 16.1 a journeyman may have a motion make a motion to approve 16.1 [Music] moved and seconded is there any discussion but the uh board president but I'll I'll keep them to myself all I gotta say to her is she broke two records today that's what I'm saying I won lunch is what I did not if
066I still have more to say but item is moved and seconded no further discussion I'll call for the vote foreign this meeting is adjourned at 8 16 p.m have a wonderful summer thank you