001okay good evening and welcome to this regularly scheduled board meeting of the Azusa Unified School District Board of Education on October 11 2022 the time is now 701 pm and we are will open our Open session meeting and we will begin with our flag salute led by Timothy who is here with us this evening there you go all right take it away please rise for the flag of the loop face your right hand over the floor over the flag ready begin I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God individual with liberty and justice for all thank you Timothy can I just say something I I want to give a shout out to Mr Timothy Hernandez uh from Magnolia I
002I believe he is the first student to come in person to do our flags am I correct since covid let's go but yeah yeah so Mr Timothy Hernandez you just set the bar high for everybody else so thank you for being the first one and making history and being our first student to come out and do our flag salute with us got a leader in your hands Miss Hernandez Miss Hernandez thank you so much again all right and then after that we will move to 4.2 which is roll call Board member Rodriguez Pena president board member Beau here board member Cruz Gonzalez here board member adianas present and I board member Greer I'm also here which brings us to 4.3 approval of the agenda is there a motion on the floor motion to approve second
003moved by board member adiana second by board member Rodriguez Pena any discussion and we will vote we could do a hand vote board member Rodriguez Pena yes board member Beau yes board member Cruz Gonzalez yes board member adianas yes and I am also a yes and so the motion passes five to zero moving on to 5.0 report Action of closed session matters and we start with item 5.1 approval of final settlement for office of administrative hearing case number 2022050818 student number 22-23-01-08 is there a motion make a motion to approve 5.1 second moved by Boardman Rodriguez Pena seconded by board member adiannis uh there will be no discussion and so we will move to about we'll do a handbook board member Rodriguez painter yes or remember Bo yes board member Cruz Gonzalez yes board member
004adianas yes and I am also a yes and so the motion passes five to zero bring us to 5.2 approval of final settlement for office of administrative hearing case number 2022050854 student number 22-2301-09 is there a motion motion to approve second moved by board member adiannis second by board member Rodriguez Pena as there's no discussion we will move to a vote all right and we'll do a hand vote Yes board member yes board member Cruz Gonzalez yeah remember adianas yes and I am a board member Graham also a yes therefore the motion passes five to zero bringing us to 5.3 approval of final settlement for office of administrative hearing case number 202207-0017 student number 22-23.01-11 is there a motion motion to approve second moved by board member adianis second by board member Rodriguez Pena and
005we will move to a online vote um seconded by board member Rodriguez and the motion passes five to zero moving to 5.4 approval of supplemental settlement and release agreement number 2021120492 student number 21-22-01-15 is very emotion on the floor make a motion to approve 5.4 second move by board member Rodriguez Pena seconded by board member arianis as there's no discussion we'll move to a vote and the motion passes five to zero this brings us to six point zero and specifically 6.1 public comment on agenda and non-agenda items this is an opportunity for the public to address the board of education on agenda or non-agenda items individual speakers may be allowed up to three minutes to address the board of education on any agenda or non-agenda item when the public wishes to address the board on
006an agenda item they may fill out a blue card stand at the podium or raise their hand while in Zoom attendance the board will take blue card requests first followed in order by speakers at the podium and then those on Zoom attendance do we have any blue cards this evening we have one okay we'll start with Elizabeth Caro [Music] and you sorry about that um good evening honorable board president Adrian Greer council members and members of the Azusa Community 25 years ago in a small neighborhood in Southern California a well-meaning member of the community and local church wanted to do some good he had read about a shooting close by and how the mothers in that neighborhood wanted to take the neighborhood back from the gangs our community members contacted the moms and said how
007can I help the answer our kids need a safe place um to go after school 25 years later that will meeting member of the community Randy Barth is the founder and CEO of think together one of the largest non-profit organizations dedicated to after school programs Early Learning and school Improvement our mission is to partner with schools to change the odds for kids hi my name is Elizabeth Caro and I'm the quality assurance coach in the San Gabriel Valley region of thing together we are proud to partner with the Souza unified to support your students not only to provide them a safe place but to offer a wraparound support of the school day to contribute to their Journey towards college and fulfilling a career this October we will once again shine a light on after-school programs
008with their lights on after school celebration on October 19th we'll be inviting business Community district and school leaders to join us to our open house styled event to see firsthand the power of our after school programs this year we're especially highlighting our incredible staff who work with students every day helping with homework guiding them through enrichment and being there as a mentor most of our staff are from the communities they serve and are proud to give back some even graduated from the schools in which they now work in today's work environment where many people opt to work from home via a computer screen these individuals show up each day and being present for our youngest community members is truly extraordinary these after-school professionals deserve our support both in spirit and as we appeal to California
009lawmakers to ensure support for the work they do and the families they serve we hope to see you at our lights on after school event at 4 30 on October 19th at Paramount Elementary thank you for your time and service to our community thank you Miss Carter and next we have is lights out just at Paramount or at each individual site great question lights on is happening at every single site in Azusa I'm specifically in Paramount that's just the one we're highlighting where all of you are invited but if you can't make it to others um every site is having it on a different day that week great question okay and now we will move to our second presenter there are there any other blue cards if you said just the one we'll move to
010the second commenter which is Melissa Fajardo hi can you hear me yes we can hi um good evening board members I hope you and your families are having a great day um my name is Melissa and I am a parent at Lee um first I just wanted to thank our nutritional Services um I understand that there was some changes um due for the breakfast in the morning and our school um the line at Lee was very busy it was very long in the mornings for kids to get to breakfast a lot of our kids were um we show up early and wouldn't get their breakfast till sometimes when the bell would ring because the line was just that long um I did call Nutritional services and they were able to help us with that um
011we are now we see our students are now receiving their breakfast accordingly and quickly so I just want to thank them for that because it literally took um I called maybe on a Tuesday and by Thursday um the line was moving a lot quicker so I really appreciate that um I would also like to invite um all of you and our superintendent um to join us um for a family event that we will be having at Lee we are having a family pumpkin carving contest and a classroom decorating door and again I would just like to invite all of you and our superintendent um to be able to participate as our judges um so you guys can help us judge and decide the winners for those two events and I will be reaching out um
012via email with all the information and yeah I just hope we can have some or all of you to participate and join us in our event so um have a great evening and thank you thank you Miss Fajardo this brings us to seven point oh are there any any other uh any other people with hands raised Lika online we have no other hands raised thank you so this brings us to 7.0 and specifically 7.1 comments reports and requests by the Board of Education and we will begin with board member Rodriguez Pena good evening everyone I just want to report I went to the annual CSE uh chapter 299 celebration here on here at those of the Unified School District campus we head in and out we have it every year so I'm always here of
013this in and out here I'm here I also wanted to report the Azusa unified um School District annual user social this year the theme was committed to education employees that were honored were 10 15 20 25 30 35 and 40 years of service that is Unified teachers administrators Adult School staff and classified employees there was a total of 137 honorees I want to congratulate you all especially Irene waranda Teresa esqueda Belen tapata for 40 years of service and just saying I left my district in 40 years of service in the Garvey District I didn't even get a bubble gum wrapper so I was so happy that they had beautiful Awards they had beautiful desserts on Hudson from Garvey is listening anyways also I want to thank the chat the chef and nutrition services their Department
014the the desserts were delicious and also the display was really beautiful um I went to the Azusa Gladstone football game great game I love the way they had Azusa Gladstone marching Alliance fans performing together they had their uniforms on and you see the red and the blue sashes as they combined together marching it was very touching um The Golden Days the Golden Days the um this is the leaders to learning Educational Foundation dinner dance uh on behalf of the the foundation committee I want to thank everyone that attended and showed their support for the education and Foundation all funds went towards uh students staff and programs here at Azusa Unified School District I want to thank director Mary Turner and the advanced Orchestra for the Entertainment also the new Azusa Unified School District nutrition Service
015Catering the food everyone's bragging about it how delicious it was and also the Isuzu um rotary interacts students they were very helpful and they showed people to their tables and everything and it was a great turnout uh the Golden Days parade Azusa and Glaston High marching lines then walking together side by side with their banners side by side wasn't that beautiful Natalie yeah and um and Azusa wants several Awards I want to congratulate all the winners the musical unit first place Azusa Gladstone marching Alliance probably their uniforms um especially in the specialty unit youth first place Gladstone High School football and cheer Drew Dance and Cheer first place Azusa High School cheer novelty first place Azusa Unified School District did our bus went okay good and the float the Murray School came runner-up and those
016kids are so happy and they did such a great job if you haven't seen their float you need to see that and thank you that's all I have to report thank you board member both no comments this evening board member Cruz Gonzalez uh just briefly it was really great to see um all the district participating in many of the golden days events so it was really nice to have a full week of event I'm feeling back like we're getting a little bit back to normal about just day-to-day life so that was nice um and I do have one um request and that is to know whether or not we're going to bring back the elementary track competition that we normally we've done in the past right edit yeah it's it's new parks and rec I
017said well I know that just the the school side is complete though right it's always the first step so just curious if we're going to bring that back um this year remember audience well good evening everyone um I'm excited to be here I'm a little tired I'm not gonna lie from all of the events that we all went to last week I think every day since since last Saturday someone had something to do I went to I tried going to all of them and if I wasn't there I'm sorry I just tried um but I I do have to let you know every time that Golden Days week comes um it's so exciting it's so exciting to see everyone um and the community come out um there was a taste of the town where as
018I was coming in there was a couple with their baby that um was like what are you guys doing here and I said well it's Taste of the town we get to taste like all the you know uh foods from the restaurants or what they're serving um and their their Beverages and so they said well it's sixty dollars and I I said oh it's worth it it's worth it come in so they came in with me um didn't know them and so I started speaking with them and told them about the school district they're like oh we just moved in and and so I got to to speak with them um about our district and how great it is and all the programs that we have and so anyhow at the end of the night
019they saw me and they said they were gonna come back next year and get a babysitter so yes yes so it's just a great event all around if you guys um have not been I recommend next year uh for Golden Days for you guys to join us it's the whole Community coming out and it was great to see all of a Souza unified um staff um teachers uh all employees and parents and and so forth so um thank you to a Souza uh bitty um Chamber of Commerce for putting this together um it's always a great great week and um parade we we're back after three years I I was so excited I was like I couldn't sleep I couldn't wait to get up to be in the parade and it reminded me when I
020was that little girl in five I was five years old at Gladstone's uh Gladstone uh Park was it my I live around there before um that I was a little girl in the parade right and so I saw the little cheerleaders and I saw uh Murray and to Echo uh a board member Yolanda Pena's uh um it was it's just all great I would love to see all our schools participate that that would be a dream but until then um I just want to express my gratitude to asusa Chambers the city and the school district for for that um I do want to congratulate our Asus asusa Mariachi that was in channel 52 this week and they aired five times so I got phone calls from people hey um your District's on the news hey
021your District's in the news and it was so cool because a lot of people that didn't know that live in the community that we have mariachi now know right more and more people that we're reaching out to so thank you for coming out here and for our um cabinet who put this together and and um the teachers and everybody else that accommodated that um I would like to go ahead and thank the educa Souza Education Foundation for again going back um real quick I just remembered um they have every year they have a fundraiser um during Susa Golden Days and it was such a successful night and such a fun event so I invite you guys next year for the Azusa Education Foundation um fundraiser during golden days I had a touch on that I
022want to invite everybody um and you guys as well October 14th this Friday at 7 pm is the Azusa High School homecoming so if you guys are alumni or students parents please come out um October 21st which is next Friday at 7 pm it is the last homecoming game or Gladstone High School and I say that with sentiment because it's it's uh literally going to be the last one and so I know that there's a lot of activities that um alumni are putting together and so I invite you guys if you guys are watching you guys uh if you guys can meet at uh I believe it's five o'clock at um Citrus College uh they're looking to to do an alumni picture on the field um and to have alumni on the field uh for
023when the game starts so five o'clock to to get everything going um because you still need to purchase tickets and so forth and even for a Souza Hive you guys can be there early too the lines get pretty long so I just want to extend that invite to all of you guys to come out to both of our homecomings um but for Gladstone uh alumni this is your last chance to come out for our last homecoming of the century so that's all I have to say thank you thank you and I have no comments this evening this brings us to 8.0 comments and reports by student board members superintendent and cabinet and we will begin with our student board member so here is this is a high school's board report so the Aztecs are getting
024ready for the homecoming dance on October 15th it is from 7 pm to 10 p.m the theme is Viva Las Vegas the homecoming rally is on October 14th in the gym and the Aztecs are looking forward to meeting the homecoming court and showing their spirit this Friday azusa's lady Aztecs competed in the tournament over the weekend in Carpenteria they are currently second place in the league with two more league matches to go this week against Workman and Nogales the Aztec football remains unbeaten after last Thursday night win at Gladstone they have their homecoming game coming up on October 14th against Jordy at Citrus stadium with a 7 PM start time Azusa wants to give a special shout out to the defense for holding opponents to only 22 points over the first seven games way to
025go azusa's cross-country team competes in the second league cross-country meet on Thursday we are eager to see cross country continue leading the pack and Lead Me Azusa High School world events Club has welcomed mayor Gonzalez to learn more about the city project they also welcome a representative from the neighborhood homework King goat in Azusa as well student leadership and engagement is alive and well at Azusa High School the Azusa and Gladstone combined band had their first performance in their first field competition at Ayala High School on Saturday this was after Marching In The Golden Days parade we are proud of the aspect glad musicians and Mr McKenna and Mr Amal for the work with the band leading the way during this time of transition Mr Fernandez would like to give a shout out to Mr
026Ortega who visited our EOD and ethnic studies students last Friday at Azusa High School and the library he told us he stole the students his story and the students appreciated his time immensely thank you and then I believe we have uh online uh Carolina um good afternoon everybody Mr padomo would like to thank Mr Fernandez varsity volleyball coach Tim bazaroya and this is the high Spectators for keeping it very classy at the Azusa Gladstone volleyball game last Tuesday October 4th although the lady glads prevailed everyone acted with dignity and respect glassland High School is hosting a financial aid tonight at tonight and Thursday night in Spanish from five o'clock P.M to 7 00 p.m in the library Gladstone High School is also hosting a financial aid next Tuesday 10 18 and Thursday 10 20 night
027in English from 5 o'clock P.M to 7 00 p.m in the library Gladstone High School's Juniors will be taking the PSAT tomorrow morning from 8 o'clock AM to 1 o'clock P.M and on Friday October 14th Apu will be in our library for an on-the-spot admission day event Gladstone High School has 133 seniors that have the needed GPA to be accepted on Friday there will be in there will be an all invited to attend this event will take place from 8 30 a.m to 12 o'clock P.M Glaston High School's homecoming is Friday October 22nd followed by the homecoming dance on Saturday October 20 22nd from seven o'clock P.M to 11 o'clock P.M the following athletic competitions will take place on Thursday October 13th boys virtually football versus working at the La Puente district field at seven
028o'clock P.M boys and girls cross country versus Nogales 3 30 o'clock P.M and girls varsity tennis versus workmen at glassland high school 3 30 p.m and girls JB and varsity volleyball at Sierra Vista 4 30 to 4 30 p.m good luck Gladiators the amazing girls varsity volleyball played a continuation game last night from Thursday September 29th against Nogales the teams are tied at two sets and two sets apiece and the fifth set was five to four in favor of Nogales the lady glass defeated nogal is 15 to 13 in a very exciting game great job lady glads thank you thank you and then I believe we have Daphne online as well yes and good evening board members our co-ed football team won their first game against Coronado High and tied their second game against Chaparral
029High Sierra held a successful report card night with students parents and teachers to review student progress the leadership class continues to plan many engaging and fun lunchtime activities our annual senior senior Sunrise will take place later this month today on October 11th the School site Council met at 10 30 a.m and coffee with the principal met at 5 30 PM in the multi-purpose room our parent mental health classes presented by Lake Coe continue to place on Fridays at 9 00 a.m in the multi-purpose room this past week they discussed depression and this Friday's topic will be Suicide Prevention thank you thank you and then we'll look to cabinet good evening I too would like to celebrate the return of golden days um there was a wonderful week of events and it was so great to
030see so many of our students Community participate in the various events from our orchestras and mariachis and choirs and elementary schools participating in the parade as well as our high school so that was a fun busy week for us I also want to highlight the recognition of our Mariachi the Azusa on Telemundo the students woke up bright and early on Monday morning to to be part of that filming um it was a great acknowledgment for our mariachi band and exciting so if you haven't caught that make sure you watch it I also want to acknowledge um I was able to to participate in the recognition of some of our students at Foothill Middle School who were reclassified they received their certificates and that's a huge accomplishment for those students they met all of the criteria
031so it was wonderful to be able to be there with them and celebrate them good evening um I just want to report that a couple of Fridays ago we launched our very first aspiring leaders Academy we have 20 very energetic uh and committed individuals that represent both classified and certificated staff uh day one we spent a lot of time learning and speaking about leadership and then sometime around the superintendency uh it was a it was a really powerful day and I'm just thankful to the folks that signed up for that um and then I'll just join on the parade for Golden Days uh just very thankful to all those staff and all the students that commit to the events and the parades it's just a really awesome thing to see the contributions uh that add
032value to these events and the parade and so just very thankful for that and then just one last thing to piggyback on the Mariachi videos also thanks to the staff and the parents who went the night before to really help set up and decorate for that very early uh newscast so uh so thank you for that and good evening Board of Education staff and Community um on Friday September 23rd I attended the Los Angeles County Teacher of the Year celebration with our teacher of the year Kathy the hagian um and cabinet uh and our administrators the Lego teacher of the year event represents the conclusion of the 2022 teacher of the year process we will start the 2023 teacher of the year process this upcoming February but first this upcoming week uh the HR office
033will be launching the classified of the year uh uh process which will culminate with our which will culminate at our first January Board of Education meeting um this upcoming January this will launch our of the Year event that we do such a good job of doing in this is a unified or the 2022-2023 school year and I also want to join the parade of just recognizing our uh City for their golden Day event uh week it was so much fun to participate um I really really enjoyed my time thank you good evening everyone I'm happy to announce that we kicked off our asphalt project with our first site being completed this weekend at Dalton Elementary so if you drive by you'll see their new blacktop all lined in their parking spaces and I want to
034conclude with um just just sharing how I enjoy um golden days this is my first day because I started in covet so this was new and I didn't know what I'll expect I'm tired but but I had a good time and it was just nice to see the community and just to see our efforts and the community that we serve and it was nice to see all their smiling faces so thank you thank you well with that we will move on to Ida area eight excuse me 9.0 which is consent calendar and specifically 9.1 which is approval of the consent to calendar and so all items listed on the consent calendar are considered by the Board of Education to be routine and will be enacted in one motion there will be no discussion of these
035items unless requested by a board member if a board member requests discussion then that item will be removed from the consent calendar and considered separately with that said is there a motion to approve 9.1 motion to approve 9.1 second move by board member Ariana second by board member Rodriguez Pena with no discussion we'll move to a vote and the motion passes five to zero which brings us to 11.0 business and finance and specifically 11.1 ratification approval of worksite agreement between Azusa Unified School District and Chef Ann foundation and the California for and the foundation for California community colleges is there a motion on the floor motion to approve 11.1 second student preferential vote Yes any discussion then we'll move and the motion passes five to zero bringing us to 11.2 approval of contract between Azusa
036Unified School District and Gold Coast Fence Incorporated is there a motion make a motion to approve 11.2 again any discussion student preferential vote yeah right then we'll move to a vote and the motion passes five to zero bringing us to 12.0 curriculum and instruction starting with 12.1 ratification approval of work plan agreement between Azusa Unified School District and haluna health is there a motion motion to approve 12.1 second move by board member arianis seconded by board member Rodriguez Pena any discussion student preferential vote Yes and let's go and move to a vote and the motion passes five to zero next we come to 12.2 first quarter Williams uniform complaint report anything to share out there are zero complaints in score then we will move to 12.3 public hearing for sufficiency of instructional materials and we're
037looking for they're a motion to open uh the public hearing motion to open the public hearing second move by board member adianas seconded by board member Rodriguez Pena and we'll student preferential vote Yes and then we will go ahead and vote to open the public hearing [Music] and the motion passes for yes the one no oh I accidentally sorry I was so excited to put yes so so we'll correct that to the show five five yes five yes thank you all right for the open public hearing is there anyone that wishes to speak at this public Hearing in person do we have anyone online who would like to raise their hand to speak on this we have no hands raised okay then we will go ahead and close the public hearing at 7 36. P.M
038and we will then move to 12.4 approval of resolution 22 2309 sufficiency of instructional materials is there a motion on the floor make a motion to approve 12.4 second move by board member Rodriguez Pena seconded by board member arianis any discussion then we will move to a student preferential vote Yes and we'll move to a vote and the motion passes five to zero bringing us to 13.0 human resources and specifically 13.1 acceptance of Azusa Unified School District Sunshine proposal for the 22-23 fiscal year negotiations with Azusa Federation of adult educators Board of Education this is an information item it represents the beginning of the negotiations process with our Adult Education Association it is required by government code that we one provide notification to the community and provide a hearing for the community to speak into
039those articles that will be negotiated with our labor partner so you'll see the different components of these of this process in this uh in this item thank you and with that we moved to 13.2 public hearing of the azus Unified School District Sunshine proposal for the 22-23 fiscal year negotiations with Azusa Federation of adult Educators is there a motion to open this public hearing I should open 13.2 second move by board member adianis second by board member rodrig Espana any discussion student preferential vote Yes then we will move to a vote to open the public hearing and the motion passes five to zero and so with the public hearing open is there anyone here present that would like to speak on this item do we have anyone online with their hand raised that would like
040to speak on this item we have no hands raised then we will go ahead and close this public hearing at 7 38 pm bringing us to 13.3 approval of the azus Unified School District Sunshine proposal for the 22-23 fiscal year negotiations with Azusa Federation of adult educators is there a motion on the floor option to approved 13.3 second moved by board member adianis seconded by board member Rodriguez Pena any discussion student preference yes and then we'll move to a vote and the motion passes five to zero bringing us to 13.4 acceptance of Azusa Federation of adult Educators Sunshine proposal for the 22-23 fiscal year negotiations with Azusa Unified School District and Mr rokio I imagine that what you commented earlier applies to this item as well yes that's correct board president okay so that brings
041us then to 13.5 public hearing of the Azusa excuse me Azusa Federation of adult Educators Sunshine proposal for the 22-23 fiscal year negotiations with Azusa Unified School District is there a motion to open the public hearing motion to open the public hearing 13.5 second moved by board member adianis seconded by board member Rodriguez Pena any discussion student preference yes then we will move to a vote to open the public hearing and the motion passes five to zero so now with the public hearing open is there anyone here in person who would like to speak on this item do we have anyone online who with their hand raise who wish to speak on this item we have no hands raised with no hands raise we will close this public hearing at 7 40 pm which brings
042us to 14.0 and specifically 14.1 adjournment is there a motion to adjourn tonight's meeting make motion to adjourn 14.1 second moved by board member Rodriguez Pena seconded by board member arianis any discussion student preference yes then we will move to a vote and that motion passes five to zero and with that said we are adjourned at 7 40 pm thank you everyone have a good night