001well good evening everyone and welcome to this to the open session of the regularly scheduled board meeting for the azusa unified school district board of education on august 16th 2022 uh the time is now 7 p.m and we will begin with our flag salute and i do believe we have logan yeah i see logan from slauson middle school here logan how you doing this evening i'm doing good how are you doing well myself go ahead and take it away lead us all right please stand for the pledge of allegiance put your right hand over your heart 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 indivisible with liberty and justice for all you may now be seated thanks
002so much logan you uh enjoy this this last day or so that you have of your summer vacation and we'll see you on thursday okay thanks all right moving on to 4.2 roll call uh board member rodriguez pena president board member beau here board member cruz gonzalez board member arianis president and i board member greer am also here we'll move to 4.3 approval of the agenda is there a motion to approve tonight's agenda question second move by board member ariana second by board member rodriguez pena any discussion hearing none will move to uh actually is uh student preference yes and we'll go ahead and move to a vote and it passes five to zero next we move to 5.0 report of action of closed session matters and there is nothing to report um which brings
003us to 6.0 recognition and awards and specifically 6.1 recognition of eddie acosta owner of acosta growers and so i will turn it over to you mrs small thank you for president at this time i would like to invite the infamous mr robert zamore our grounds supervisor john there it is good evening everybody um first of all thank you for allowing me to be here cabinet school board thank you for allowing me to come here recognize the whole front of mine that i had the pleasure of meeting 27 years ago when i began my employment here but i wanted to share some things about him if i can asking eddie to come stand up with me sir so what i wanted to share about eddie is when i first met him i came here 27 years
004ago not knowing much about nurseries and plants and vegetation and trees and shrubs and through my years of working there we built a relationship during that relationship he's taught me so much and gave me so much knowledge of the experience eddie uh has been in the business i'm gonna say nearly 60 years i might be wrong a little bit 60 years he established a custer growers in 1981 correct 1981 and from there he's uh been generous to our school district and i thought it was great that the school district wanted to recognize them for that for this many years of contributions with that i want to say that eddie uh for those who don't know is still happily married how many years now over 60 years all right i don't know eddie has three children
005are legislative graduates one of them or may not know his son adrian acosta is a principal current principal murray middle school little things that i've known about idiom his kids were at school and they were unbanned tree and he donated a lot of time volunteer work and put a lot of hours in over there for those who don't know he went at one time and bought a 18 foot 16 foot box trailer purchase that and turn it over and donate it to the highest so the band of banter tree could have a total trailer to tell their equipment and their instruments so eddie thank you for that little gift you gave to the district many years ago [Music] early years he's been getting given so much i mean we've asked him for so much for
006those you don't know i've been here for many graduations many board meetings many events countless because every principle is very demanding at times and they want plants and so i turned daddy and he's always been able to donate without hesitation okay i just wanted to wanted to make this understood that i do appreciate your friendship we've had many talks when some days i have bad days i drive into the nursery just to chill when i happen to come across better than he helps me bring out some things that i need to get straightened out sometimes so he's my mom of wisdom so i'm glad that he's there for me he's a great neighbor for those you'll know that across the nursery sits right adjacent to our property as well as down at some of the
007elementary schools eddie i just wanted to want to let you know that i and myself appreciate you for everything you've taught me and shared with me all right your knowledge your generous heart the continued love that you give as a unified school district thank you for your great friend to me a great neighbor to azuza and for all the dedication you've given to our children you don't know how much it's meant to so many schools for the events the graduations the awards ceremonies probably all our high school graduations i have been there for 27 of them and you've been there 27 years with me i had to do a little research because i want to know how how long has it been donating i talked to my old supervisor he told me he's been doing
008it for since early 80s so that's italian most 40 years of donating his heart to us is unified and i wanted you to know that the school district wishes to recognize you tonight and i wanted to say um be happy high school district thank you thank you eddie so much um hello mr eddie acosta i you know my name is gabriella arreyanes and i'm board member that's going to present the award but i want to say a few things mr eddie acosta thank you for your contribution support and support to the asus unified school district of your donation of plants and flowers for over 40 years 40 years correct did i get that right okay to decorate the state for our asus unified school graduation i've been part of that graduation i'm a recipient of
009those flowers as a student as an employee and now as a school board member and it really means a lot to me as they decorate the stage for our susan graduations your support goes a long way in helping us achieve our goals as a district we appreciate you tremendously and know that your beautiful plants and flowers that you spend a lot of time and your whole life in are in thousands of pictures with graduating smiles and families and the love that you feel in those pictures that have created a memory that will last forever and know that you are in every one of those pictures your spirit isn't everyone up tonight we recognize you on this day on the 16th of august 2022 at our souza school board meeting not only as a legendary but
010honor you for your thank you right moving on to item 7.0 which is items from a floor public comment a public comment so 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 of education on an 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 in zoom attendant do we have any blue cards and anyone here to speak uh lika is there anyone with their hand raised on zoom
011attendance we have no hands raised on zoom okay then we will move on to 8.0 and 8.1 specifically comments reports and requests by the board of education and we'll begin with board member audience i'm just i would i i'm just so excited for school to be like in session already and i know for a fact that my own children are really excited um to come this you know this year i have a senior coming in um at gladstone high school and he couldn't be more excited and i'm sure all the students that are going to be going through all the uh you know experiencing all the new things that will be taking place are you probably speaking to this as well right all the new things that are coming their way are really exciting for
012our students and um i have not heard from teachers but actually i did hear from one teacher just right now um saying that they're really excited as well and so i want to wish all our students and all our teachers administration and all our staff a great first day of school and this is going to be a memorable one this whole year and i can't wait for all the activities that will be coming um from both from all of the schools and hopefully we get all the invites in our in our calendar and that we can make um a lot of the events and um i i heard about the the registration um that it was a success uh my daughter was there and he was able to express um all the students that were
013there and um that they're really excited about going to isuzu hi the ninth grader so way to go so thank you so much have a good [Music] remember cruz gonzalez um just very briefly i just wanna echo my fellow board member um i uh gabriella i really um i'm excited for the school year to start um we'll see hopefully it'll be a we'll get we can get back to routines i'm not gonna say go back to normal right because i think all of us think that then the old old numerals didn't work for everybody but they're super excited about going back can't believe that summer is already over with school starts in two few days but i hope everyone had a chance to get some rest and take some time for themselves so we know
014that that personal time and that personal self-care is so important so that you guys everyone can what they're well our students like i know you all will thank you board member bo thank you and good evening everyone i just want to give a shout out and accommodation to a couple members of our leadership team superintendent ortega uh assistant superintendent camacho and director jenny lee for their tremendous effort in expanding equity and access at our long fellow preschool site as an incoming long fellow parent i'm excited to know that longfellow tk students will now have access to both before and after school program programming through think together i think that's a tremendous support for families and i think if we learned many things during the pandemic but certainly one thing was the impact of child care
015the availability of child care or the unavailability of child care and the impact on on families and the local economy and the economy at large so i want to give that shout out to our leadership team for getting that in place and i'm excited also to start school with two district elementary students in two days thank you rodriguez pena i want to welcome the students and the staff back on the first day of school and um i also want to thank the nutrition services for our delicious dinner especially the dessert the chocolate covered strawberries thumbs up and um i wanted to also announce um azula high school i went to azusa high school the students from mizzou's in grafton high school link crew 9th grade class 2026 orientation it was a full house and it
016was beautiful to see the blue and red pom-poms together rather students joined together and cheered and everyone every time someone would come in they had a line and everyone was cheering for the kids so the parents and the students and the staff in the gym they had a great pep rally and i want to thank laurie madden the career center tech technician from glaston high school i swear she was a cheerleader before right she was really all over it she was great she had so much energy in the room and i want to thank also mr fernandez for continuing to try to gather our students together and make on a positive note and that's what we're all about to get these students together but also to make them feel welcome i also want to announce
017nutrition services iron chef comes to ausd i was a judge in the taste contest the ladies and i was thanking the ladies and someone brought up to me that there's a gentleman in the crew right so i'm sorry i'm like okay ladies and gentlemen from auc cafeteria uh azusa high glaston high and slauson middle school those three cafeterias made osolei and they decorated the room really nice they all bought the ingredients and mr ortega myself and natasha we were the judges and we had to taste on the taste contest and the decor what the decor look like and i was happy that they made this delicious mexican dish again like i said and i want to thank stella and her staff because i know they did a great job and worked very hard they wanted
018when we got there they wanted to be sure that we were ready to eat had all our stuff from the table all the ingredients and i'll tell you you can also count on me if you need a judge i'm here and uh unfortunately there's only one winner so the winner i want to congratulate glaston high school cafeteria it was all delicious but we only can pick one so you know how hard that is and and these ladies were very happy and gentlemen we're very happy to win i also went to the 14th annual kathy's cool cuts for kids approximately 275 and they're not necessarily students their children from this community even little little kids were there and um they were served with haircuts manicures backpacks and school supplies and it was nice to see all
019the children with a big smile they come in with their hair all along and they go like oh you're the same kid that just walked in you know it's really cute and i want to thank um mayor gonzalez for continuing this event this beautiful event that's been not in existence for two years so they were ready to go at first not too many kids showed it maybe because of the heat i'm not sure and he told us that okay we have all these hairdressers here and there's not too many kids here you guys are gonna might have to get a haircut right we're like oh man but at 11 45 it started at 12 all these people started coming seriously and they just kept coming you know over and over and it was really nice
020it's always a beautiful event memorial park i went to the river cutting ceremony for the youth and family center on tuesdays they'll have a workshop for youth from three to four on wednesdays they'll have oral health screening from one to five on thursdays you'll have youth sports 1035 and coming in september and october they will have the azusa renaissance art and music classes um bootcamp job bootcamp for youth and it's a really great pace i think i think azusa was really in need of a teen center a children's center where they can go and play and have a great time in a safe environment thank you and i also just want to echo the sentiment that was carried throughout each one of my colleagues comments and just welcome everyone back to uh the school year
021again hope that that uh summer was was restful and that you're you're returning prepared and uh ready ready to start the year strong and definitely looking forward to uh just the the many exciting things the new memories the the friendship the learning that's gonna take place uh this year so welcome welcome to everyone moving on to 9.0 and 9.1 specifically comments reports uh by superintendent cabinet and student board members um we'll go ahead and begin with our student board member good evening to begin azusa high school welcomed over 400 freshmen greeted by our lean crew leaders who were present for beginning of the year ling crew event last friday we would like to publicly thank ezra campbell's ball lori madden alfred zamora oscar fabian and i would personally like to thank mr fernandez for all
022their hard work azusa high school welcomed back teachers yesterday and the aztec staff spent time analyzing ell accusement data and discussing student engagement community building and school identity we would like to thank nutrition services for providing a delicious breakfast for aztec team this morning the aztec volleyball team is in competition this week away against averno and rosemead and hosting a tournament on thursday and saturday at home we hope you can come out and support our lady aspects this season aztec football begins their season this saturday against mountain view at citrus college at 7 p.m please come out and support aztec football on saturday night at super stadium it is a white out night so please wear white thank you thank you and then i do see carolina you're on with us this evening yes good
023evening everybody so gladstone high school staff and students continue to be excited for the first the start of the new school year this thursday and are planning to find are planning and setting up their classrooms to be ready for day one of school registration last week went smoothly and the counselors are working hard and making sure that all glaston high school students are placing their proper classes the school offices made a pancake breakfast for our teachers on monday august 15th and in addition to that chick-fil-a donated breakfast sandwiches for the breakfast a few ap results notable in the following pathway order is ap spanish lang and culture which is taught by ms mota english lit and composition which is taught by ms parmar and ap art 2d 3d which is top finders for domo and
024some sports reminder is that for our first varsity volleyball game is friday august 19th at home versus baldwin park at 5 p.m and our first football game is also friday august 19th at citrus versus sierra vista at seven o'clock p.m thank you thank you carolina and daphne can you share with us some updates from sierra high school hey everybody this past week has been a busy month for sierra the painters have been putting their final touches to sierra and the adult ed campuses it's looking great last week we had several parents attend the parent orientation meeting with the principal mr stout and counselor and mrs wyatt we had several questions from parents who have children attending sierra and they're excited for their student to attend on the first day of school students will participate in
025an orientation students will rotate through three activities social emotional learning to behavior to behavior and expectations meeting and have an opportunity to create their individual learning plan for the year finally on friday august 26th we will host our first coffee with the principal thank you so much and then we'll turn to superintendent and cabinet good evening i'd like to start off by saying happy new school year to everyone us in education are fortunate to have two new years to celebrate so happy new school year to you all i'm happy to report that the new orientation that took place last thursday went very well uh we've heard from new teachers at the event and some after the event expressing how extremely helpful and informative the event was so thank you to all those who participated i
026also want to thank all of our employees um that have worked tirelessly to prepare for the upcoming school year your efforts your hard work and your dedication to the district is appreciated and very noted and finally i wish everyone a very successful productive 2022-2023 school year thank you good evening everyone i would like to start off with first thanking stella and her nutrition services staff um it was great to be at the iron shelf competition but i think what i took away more is the energy in a room and how everyone just seemed excited about cooking from scratch and preparing meals so we're just excited of things to come from nutrition services i also want to thank our grounds and maintenance and operations team for helping with all the moves for school reorganization but lastly
027and more importantly well not lastly but more important i want to thank our custodial team we really took a deep dive in assessing how we can do a better job of our summer cleaning and actually um do power washing dusting and moving things around to actually clean up behind cabinets and this year they actually put their heart into it and i want to just thank anthony under his leadership and brian um allen as well as robert zamora and then my last comment is i want to um thank everyone in advance for coming tomorrow to our all-staff um luncheon that would take place from 11 to 1 at the district office so if you have time come by get some food we'll have raffles drinks and games thanks good evening i too am excited to welcome
028everybody back to a new school year i also want to thank staff and site administrators for their participation in our professional development day yesterday where they had an opportunity to focus on the english learners at their school sites they got to examine the different typologies of english learners that they have at their schools and look at their data also hoping and wishing for everybody to have a wonderful new school year good evening everyone i too had the pleasure of being at the iron chef competition and i'm on board member rodriguez pena's team if you ever need a judge especially around food sign me up one thing that we have failed to mention is that the winning team their posole that specific recipe is going to be featured in a future student menu and so congratulations
029to that team i also want to be thankful to the ed services team uh who put up a powerful day uh together uh for monday for our professional learning uh for our sites and our teachers um norma and i were able to visit almost every single site and uh every single site that we went to except foothill because we got there at lunch time every single site had their sleeves rolled up we're deep into the protocols and the uh the data and it was just great to to feel that energy and and be back in that regard um this thursday marks the beginning of the 22-23 school year and just want to be thankful there are so many moving parts to make a first day as special as possible and just want to be thankful
030for all of the different pieces of our organization that come together to make that day special and memorable for our students and our families thank you thank you then we'll we will move on to 10.0 general functions and we will begin with 10.1 approval of 2022 2023 board meeting calendar mr ortega uh thank you board president um we come back uh to you uh with uh the board calendar with a request to possibly move the october 4th board meeting to october 11th that week it is um golden days week and uh so on that particular day is the return of taste of the town and so we are looking to number one make this movement and then also looking for direction from the board if if this is something that we want to see in
031future uh years then we can put an articular file so that when we're calendaring the board meetings for the following year um we can already do that in that in advance of that i happened to be at the city council meeting yesterday to go share some highlights of our district um and just some important messages of some big things that are coming up and uh opportunities for the community to be involved um and they too were were doing a similar thing uh requesting uh staff to to move uh or to cancel a closed session to to be able to be part of that remember i guess i i really appreciate um you know us being able to be flexible to partake in the community events and vice versa and that shows you know unity and
032so i i would like to see um for our you know our board meetings in the future to not be that first week of october so that we we don't have to go through this each time so that that so you're making a motion i'm motioning that from now on that we do not have that first week of october uh that we do not have a meeting that first week second and uh any any discussion that we're able to go ahead and have it another day yeah and and so i would just do we have a sense of if do we need to are we taking action on what we do you know from here on out or is that more giving you direction i think the action is to accept the new or calendar
033that is correct um and so but but i would i would agree with that completely to say that not only with this event but also with national night out which i know that we also made made that adjustment as we look at some of those you know various community events yeah let's definitely set that up on a tickler somehow and use a new template to allow for there to be participation in those those things so um board member adianas would you are you willing to adjust your your uh motion to just to accept this year's calendar with moving the uh meeting from the fourth to october 11th uh yes so i will adjust my emotion to move to accept this year's calendar but to move october 4th meeting to october 11th and that is moving
034forward moving forward and then um okay all right then we are we had some discussion but is there anything else that anyone else has student preference yes okay let's go and vote and that motion passes five to zero moving on then to 10.2 presentation of school reorganization uh mr ronchio i believe that mr ortega is going to be starting us off yeah give me one second okay uh we are here tonight uh to provide uh an update on uh school reorganization um to uh to the board of education uh tonight uh we have five pieces uh i'll be speaking um then latasha will give an update for business services uh norma from educational services uh principal of azusa high school gabriel fernandez uh we'll give an update on the high school and then jorge will
035take us home in terms of human resources i want to start off by just uh stating that as a district we do have uh all department meetings uh regularly scheduled meetings uh to discuss plan ideate brainstorm problem solve think ahead anything and everything school reorganization those are planned on a regular schedule and again involves all of our departments in addition to the meeting we do have a shared truly shared google sheet we call it the punch list where we try to capture everything that needs to be done and we work off of that sheet to keep ourselves accountable to the things that we are doing this is a great space because many things related to school reorganization do not live in isolation in one on one person's desk or in one department they are [Music]
036multi-department and so having the space on a regular basis and having a shared punch list has served us well and we are continuing to do that throughout this school year as well school reorganization not that we have to but we can kind of parcel it out into three kind of pieces or buckets or stages if you will the first is uh the bucket was is around the decisions that were made around school reorganization the next one is the implementation and how those things happen and then the third one is uh what happens with the surplus property based on the decisions uh that we made uh regarding school reorganization let's talk a little bit about uh those buckets this is a friendly reminder uh and just to another opportunity to just communicate um based on uh
037a process that we went through with a school reorganization team that included many stakeholders uh and recommendations that came to the board of education and then a process at the board level as well uh here in this first box you will notice the sites that are going to remain open once school reorganization the whole entire school reorganization process uh is finalized and so those are the schools that will remain open um in the middle in that box you will see the schools that will be closed now again this is at the end of school reorganization that's not currently uh right now but once school reorganization is done those are the schools that will close that are listed there in the center and then part of our school reorganization decisions there was the decision that is
038a high school would remain named azusa high school that they would remain the aztecs that they would continue to have the school colors that they currently have but that the mascot that is currently in use had to change so moving on to implementation uh this school year 2223 ellington and powell the students that would have gone to ellington and pal who would have been in tk and k are now attending uh other schools in our district if we were to do this just based on new boundaries it it shakes down to ellington um um now goes to valley dale powell now goes to lee but what's up but something that we are extremely proud of in azusa is that we do offer our parents and the data supports that they take us up on this
039offer our parents the opportunity to attend any school that they want to attend to uh as long as there is space there and so when we break down all of our schools the data supports uh that are that our parents do move around uh within our district our ninth graders um will not be showing up to glaston high school on thursday uh they'll now be showing up to azusa high school so that's this school year uh by default that means that ellenton and powell yes foreign can i answer questions right now so my question was the tk and the k students from ellington and powell are they being blessed at this time thank you uh that is a great question i'm going to give you a quick answer and then we're going to preview that
040a little bit later but the answer is yes that's correct and the high school too uh-huh uh so by default that means that ellington and powell will be uh from first grade on and then by default that means glasgow high school will only be a 10th 11th and 12th grade school uh this year in 2324 all of our remaining open elementaries will convert to tk5 gladstone middle school will open as a sixth seventh and eighth grade school and azusa high school will be our one comprehensive high school uh in azusa that will serve 9 10 11 12 uh as the slide prior to this noted sierra high school will continue to be open as well in terms of the azusa high school mascot the board of education took action at our last board meeting on
041a consultant agreement with professor wong from apu her and i have been an email conversation and so i'm excited to have an initial meeting with her to plan out the mascot process that's going to involve a committee and ultimately they will be responsible for rendering a decision uh on that particular piece and so we look forward to moving rather quickly and getting that going for uh for azusa high school can you just clarify that's a decision or a recommendation to the board like who who ultimately makes that decision um per uh our understanding uh from the board level uh this committee will be making the decision and if that is incorrect then we can definitely pivot but my understanding from the board of education is that the committee facilitated by uh by my someone who
042had some expertise in this field i would be making the decision okay at our last board meeting we also the board approved a resolution that gave um direction to staff to begin the process of a 7 11 committee that was approved uh last at our last board meeting um we will now begin the process uh finalizing uh the application uh for the 7-eleven uh committee uh setting up dates initial dates for that committee and we are committed because the 711 and the surplus property goes beyond homeowners or residents of azusa that have children in our school district we are committed to communicate in a broader range including mailers but we are also looking at including uh communication at uh public service areas like the library senior center and those kinds of places uh yesterday i
043made a initial announcement at city hall as well the city council meeting as well and so we really want to make sure that we have a broad communication plan so that if you are not connected to a zoox unified school district you still have that information of what's to come and how to connect and how to apply if that's of interest to you and if it's not interest of you to become uh to be on the committee at least you know where to connect to see the meetings uh and to to attend if that is an interest of of of yours in addition to that the board of education uh gave direction uh that uh in order to hire a development consultant um that the board had interest that that would go through an rfq
044process so that is exactly what we did we were able to hold a um an interview of all of the firms that submitted a bid and so myself vice president board member beau and board member uh rodriguez pena along with uh our attorneys were able to uh interview uh the firms that submitted a proposal um and so we are looking forward to bringing that development consulting contract for consideration from the board of education at our meeting at board meeting next month with that we will turn it over to latasha to talk about business services thank you i will address facility modernization and enhancements so as agreed upon we successfully have completed all the moves that as a result of school reorganization all displaced teachers received boxes that were received um that received boxes and pre-printed
045labels the labels included their name i'm gonna include the site that they're currently at and the site they're going to go to as well as the room numbers all boxes have been i'm sorry all classrooms have been cleaned and ready to receive both the faculty and our lovely student all instructional related materials have been delivered and this includes the curriculum has been moved to a new location as a part of our commitment to our families we will offer transportation to those that were impacted by the school reorganization decision at this time of the posting of this agenda we had 23 requests for transportation from gladstone high school to azusa high school we received three requests from ellington elementary to valleydale elementary and two requests from power elementary ali as of this morning we have now
046received 31 a total of 31 requests from glaston to azusa and a total of four from ellington to valley the request from powell the lee still remains at 2. any family that is still currently interested in transportation can submit the request via our link that's on our front page of our district website now we will talk about some upgrades and enhancements to azusa high school particularly the gym and the classroom conversion so here's our lovely display of our new gym floor we upgraded and replaced the gem 4 that was originally installed in the 1960s um we have installed new wood panels new trellises hope i said that correctly and the paint the complete what is considered as phase one of the gym floor here is the image of our classroom conversion so we have converted
047the former mr lewis little theater is now being converted back to two instructional classrooms and this slide is showing the outcome doesn't it look gorgeous um so it's now two classrooms one with carpet one with vinyl four and this will be utilized um for the current upcoming school year is this his own little theater yes it looks big yes ma'am right compared to all the seats in there yes ma'am yeah yes and i do want to note that everything that was in the little theater has been removed and stored so that we when we have our new home for our theater it'll be ready to be installed and what's on the horizon we continue to complete the remaining classroom modernizations um at lee dalton and paramount lee's plans are still being are still in the
048design phase dalton plan are still awaiting dsa approval and as of last week we were informed that bsa has officially approved the paramount plans we have issued district-wide rfp for asphalt painting fencing and roofing and we are currently working to finalize the design for our elementary playground equipment as well as our district-wide surveillance and with that i will turn it over to miss norman camacho thank you um after summer school concluded um our director of educational services adriana garcia medina along with mr fernandez and our library techs from azusa high school and gladstone high school worked on organizing and transferring the ninth grade textbooks and with uh instructional materials from gladstone high school over to azusa high school the team also inventoried and identified items that would need replacement uh replacing to ensure that all
049students all ninth grade students had the books and instructional materials that they needed to begin school year digital subscriptions were updated to reflect a numbers needed at the sites that would be receiving students in tk kinder and ninth grade our director of ed services again worked with principals and resource teachers at ellington and powell to ensure the transfer of instructional materials and textbooks for our transitional kinder program and kindergarten program to the receiving site we are happy to share that thing together has launched a free before school care at all of our elementary sites for the 22-23 school year in addition to the after school program that has been long running in the district additionally the ed services team are excited to be able to highlight some of our programs at next month's study session
050miss norma can you just because uh we're doing this in public can you share um the before school care hours i think that's important yes so our before school care begins at 6 30 a.m so parents can sign students up and bring them to school as early as 6 30 a.m they will have some time for some a little bit of activity and then breakfast and they'll have care and it's all free so amazing that our community has this wonderful opportunity and just to to drive it home that's every single elementary school that is correct evening board of education [Music] next flight please so we've been uh quite busy over at azusa high school working with gladstone high school to execute this plan it's a lot of moving parts and a lot of people doing
051this to get it done i do want to give a huge shout out to mot for like this brian and latasha like the crew they just get it done with us and we're we're making magic happen bosses so thank you uh so we did complete the transfer of our staff uh certificated over to azusa high school you go into the band room at azusa high school during the summer you see aztecs and gladiators playing together and you can't even tell the difference i saw an image on the computer of what their band uniform will look like so they've taken a theme of unity up a notch so you just put something into the universe and see what our teams can do and there's something beautiful coming to this community with with the aztecs and the
052gladiators playing this uh fall they're doing a combined field show they'll be playing um the both bands will be playing together at halftime for the final two uh vladstone versus azusa games this year there are two football games due to the way our league did our competition schedule for this season um beyond the band camp and what they're doing this fall we also had late july our azusa and gladstone asbs combined and got some a workshop provided by kata she came out to the site they were the first kids on that new floor they did some bonding learned how to be good student leaders i think that energy carried over to the link crew and i'll talk more about that in a little bit but a phenomenal organization cata to really lead our kids and
053how to build campus culture and that's something i learned from another district when i was learning about how do we do reorganization how do we bring two sites together my advice from charter oak was focused on culture focus on rallies and i've been trying to rip off of that the way i see we can with our people so that was some good advice from somebody i talked to um we started small with our unity hype we wanted to bigger but we did get a group of kids our board member uh staff from azusa and gladstone showed up we sweated for a little bit luckily it wasn't too hot that morning we didn't get bit up by mosquitoes or anything but we're gonna do it again um we heard from one of our employees kevin nunes
054who would like to do a staff hike unity hike uh he's looking forward to plan that and that's in the working stages to keep the nature trail thing going for us and making it big for our teams of employees at azusa and gladstone um like i said august 10th and 11th we brought azusa and gladstone 11th and 12th graders together to be link crew mentor so that was the team that was given a shout out earlier they trained 50-something kids and then we got him on a bus and we did friday and i think you just got to see on instagram if you follow the school on instagram that it was loud in that gym and and i just was talking to employees at azusa high school who were like we haven't seen this before
055and i said yeah you haven't seen it before but we're going to do something special this year and talking to parents they as tech parents and like yeah this is good for kids so they're feeling something special for this year and that's a different feeling from what we were feeling last winter when things were and people were worried but i feel like momentum is on our side and people are starting to take ownership i was telling the superintendent that at the football game on october 28th that there is going to be a combined senior night again things coming into the future to again uh rip off the theme of unity i think we're we're our people are taking ownership over that theme and we're going to see different things with that this year and i
056just don't know what's in store because every day is a new idea and just working with people to see their specialness come out with these kids and then tomorrow we are doing a combined azusa gladstone faculty meeting we're doing some team building at eight o'clock we're working with our partners with a western justice center to do a first round of community circles um we're doing a do a math game even to see who's better at math but we'll see how that goes and then throughout the year we're going to have a couple more combined azusa and gladstone faculty meetings to start paving the way for for next year we have good stuff in store for this year and mr fernandez just just to be clear and for the record uh if we're doing this you
057said that the unity hike is coming back there will be i see this happening over and over and over and just with better planning more people yeah and it's it's a mile there and a mile back is that correct be sure we're going a mile i'll i'll count the steps better next time boss just just just want to be clear so i can get my other tiny shoes on sorry thank you i do want to take the time to uh commend mr fernandez i think one of the the things that's really starting to bubble up uh is that this is not one person saying this is what we're gonna do uh ideas are coming from staff ideas are coming from parents ideas are coming from students and and then just running running with that and
058and making it happen and and giving the space for those decisions and those ideas to take uh growth and so just want to say thank you to mr fernandez again to for cultivating that type of environment where where we can all take ownership of this new high school so uh thank you for that i just want to also just share that my daughter's in length crew and being part of this decision making and building the unity between those high schools it really is impacting um our children and um i'm so grateful to you and the whole team that is putting all this together as a parent and as a community member and my daughter's really and her friends everyone's so excited just to see that excitement gets me excited for them so i can't wait
059to see um also not part of this but just i think it's important to note that early data in terms of the 9th grade class at azusa high school is showing really positive signs in terms of registration picking up books data confirmations that early data is starting to look uh really good and so as we get better we'll make sure to show share with the board of education those particular numbers and uh so following the board of education's decision um we with regards to um school closures uh we started working with the aea negotiation team to agree on an mou that addressed the impacts and effects of school reorganization on aea unit members working condition the mou addressed uh aea unit members transfers extra hours and of course moving logistics as uh miss uh natasha
060um discussed earlier after the mou was settled we designated may 11 2022 as selection day which was the day that unit members impacted by the reorganization selected um from vacancies from the openings across the district for the uh 22-23 school year um that we're about to start once those selections were made site administrators along with their office staff were asked to submit workflows uh for transfers and extra hours and we learned from the previous time that we had school closures and we were very methodical and thoughtful in how we uh we went about this um it was a point that was reviewed in the regular meetings where we reviewed our punch list that mr ortega was speaking about earlier this information was also used by our mot department to coordinate moving logistics and looking ahead
061we will continue to work with our labor partners uh to address the impacts and effects of school reorganization throughout this school year and we have already started the work related to staffing for the 2023-2024 [Music] school year this is much earlier than we've ever done this in the past however with school closures uh we are taking a very proactive approach to staffing uh by starting this process in just a couple weeks i mean this is this is work that we're already engaging in uh so throughout this process we are committed to working with our labor partners and site leaders to encourage multiple voices from throughout the organization to speak into the plan thank you can i just ask the question regarding the um the memorand memorandum of understanding do you have also one with csea
062we do not we did not enter into an mou for with csca for this upcoming year uh because the uh the reorganization uh was uh was going to affect aea members this year and next year uh so and we saw that with the teachers from the school sites that are not going to be receiving students so so we needed to have a um a mou with our aea negotiations team for for the 2022 2023 school year for our csca um uh negotiation partners uh the the unit members for csa were going to stay in their positions uh for the 2022 school year 2023 school year and really their the impacts and the facts are going to really be for the 2023 2024 school year so we'll be negotiating an mou with csca this year understood
063thank you yes thank you great question okay with that uh we would like to say uh thank you and open it up if there are any further questions i i guess i just have one question um in terms of planning for the middle school right i can i can tell we've put a lot of effort into the high school um and we've got the ability to have gabriel be there for really a year now and so just really curious about in terms of what's the plan for how we build out the middle school that's going to appear next year uh yeah one thousand percent uh correct uh there has been the focus on the tkk uh and the ninth graders uh but beginning with our last school actually was that this morning that was this
064morning uh um at our uh school reorganization this morning uh we started to say obviously they're still we we have to start school uh but we are already shifting and we have been doing some things for the middle school but now really starting to shift uh to the glasgow middle school uh because that will be brand new opening up in 2324 and so there's a couple of things that we've already started to discuss from you know simple logistical things like getting a cds code to big things like joining a middle school sports league uh and so uh that that conversation has already started and so we're looking to kind of do uh the same things um having a head start you know with the beginning of the school year board member rodrigo spain so um
065when will you speak the selection of the principal at the middle school uh right now we have um we are aiming uh to have decisions made by october um and then my other question is in terms so i trickling back to um a study session that we had in the in the spring right and where we were going to be talking about programs right programmatically what our schools look like um i just want to get a sense of when that discussion a more serious in-depth discussion but not just sort of like a general overview of opportunities but really around like you know around decision making about those programs when that will happen um i think as a board member i hope that we'd start that conversation in april it didn't really happen so i want
066to know when that when we when we think that will happen uh right now we are slated to do that at our first study session which is next month okay any other questions no thank you moving on then to uh 11.0 consent calendar and specifically 11.1 which is approval of the consent calendar which includes all items listed under the consent calendar is there a motion uh to approve 11. i make a motion to approve 11.1 through 11.16 seconds any well there will be no discussion so we'll go ahead and take student preference yeah and that motion passes five to zero moving on to 13.0 curriculum and instruction and 13.1 approval of service agreement between azusa unified school district and royal management group llc is there a motion on the floor motion to approve 13.1 second
067any discussion and that was moved by board member audience second by board member rodriguez pena and we'll go ahead student preference yes and we'll go ahead and move to a vote and that item pass is five to zero moving on to 13.2 approval of memorandum of understanding between azusa unified school district and san gabriel valley habitat for humanity is there a motion on the floor motion to approve 13.2 second move by board member arianis seconded by board member rodriguez pena is there any discussion yes i have a question regarding um it talks about the the high wage and high demand and career do you have any idea what careers they will be discussing with students and this internship yes internships so in this internship opportunity they will have you know variety of um positions that
068they can intern from um you know from the construction aspect to planning and so there's a variety of opportunities that the students will have with uh this internship opportunity okay thank you any additional questions student preference yes go ahead and vote that motion passes five to zero moving on to 13.3 approval of service services agreement between azusa unified school district and ncs pearson incorporated is there a motion on the floor make a motion to approve 13.3 second any discussion student preference yes and we will go ahead and vote and that motion passes five to zero bringing us to 14.0 adjournment and specifically 14.1 in german is there a motion to adjourn make a motion to approve 14.1 second move by board member rodriguez spanish second by board member adianas any discussion actually uh wow student
069preference what would you prefer no yes all right then we'll go ahead and vote and the motion passes five to zero which means that we are officially adjourned at 804 pm again have a great evening and we wish everyone a great first day back at school on thursday