AUSD Board Meeting - September 1, 2020

001oh this depend window me all right three minute warning so hmm so um okay one more minute [Music] okay so now seven o'clock [Music] everybody here yep okay so what i'll go ahead uh seven o'clock we'll call the open session open we're gonna do the flag salute hand over your heart 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 okay next we go to roll call uh board member yolanda just raise your hand okay uh let me get my people back up here i jumped uh board member grier here board member sheila nina here and board member arianis present and i am also present so that makes that and we'll go to c

002approval of the agenda 4.1 approval of the agenda we have a motion on the floor i move the motion to approve second okay motion by board member ariana seconded by board member greer any discussion i'm having problems this time so second regular board bending open agenda i'm gonna have to log out and lock back in so we're gonna do a hand vote for this part so everybody in favor all righty so it is 5-0 and we'll go ahead and move on to item 5.0 recognitions and awards 5.1 recognition of the canyon city foundation and dr dana mitchell your floor good evening tonight we welcome the candy the canyon city foundation board members in recognition of their generous support and partnership with azusa unified school district the canyon city foundation has been a long-standing supporter of

003the students and the families in the azusa unified school district and since 2005 the foundation has granted over 1.4 million dollars to local organizations in support of social welfare education and the arts and tonight we wish to recognize and wholeheartedly thank the canyon city foundation for their generous grant of thirty five thousand dollars to support and ensure that all of our students in azusa unified have access to the internet in order to participate in a distance learning environment and certainly um covert 19 uh happened and none of us anticipated um the ramifications of this pandemic and part of this um has been beginning our school year in a in a fully distanced learning environment until it is safe to return to our school buildings and part of this is making sure that all students are

004able to access the internet and so this generous generous grant is enabling us to help those families who need need the internet whether that's wired support through some of our service providers or some cases it is a hot spot for some families as well and so we want to ex just express our gratitude um for this generous generous donation um the gratitude that the foundation um that we have for the foundation and the support that um that they're providing our students and our families in um just a very very difficult time for for so many so tonight um we would like to welcome uh the canyon city foundation board members we have mark ramirez marilyn grinsdale mercedes castro james ramirez and dr barbara dickerson so i'd like to turn it back over to uh to

005our board president um i would like to thank all of you for what you've done it was such was such a generous donation and in these times i can't say more um any other board members like to speak uh yes um i like to thank the kind of issue for the internet hot like dana says that you know what we didn't expect to be in this day and time but we really i really appreciate that to help the students with their chromebooks and to continue their education you know rather rather it's at home or it's at their body at school and and this is going to make a big difference and thank you very very much yes i would like to take this opportunity to thank the canyon city foundation for their generous donation to

006the to the students because in reality it goes to the students and you know at this time right now where students are having to go to the library starbucks you know outside starbucks outside a library or you know any place where they can find wi-fi to be able to log into their into their classrooms um it's it's a very well appreciated donation for them so thank you thank you from the bottom of my heart our hearts thank you and i would just echo what was already said um um i think i think we as a district are very appreciative and especially our students who are actually benefited will be benefiting for the from this generous grant i did want to ask i is someone from the foundation going to speak i saw marx look at

007the camera second and okay okay thank you yeah i'll just just just add a man just such a thank you uh to this um because of this generous gift i mean there will be students there will be families who have access that wouldn't have otherwise had access um and so just just thank you so much for um just another opportunity another another way that that the kenyan city partners with the community and and also with the school district so thank you so much and camden city foundation would any of the members like to speak i thought i saw mr ramirez's hand can you hear me yes okay yes uh i'd like to uh you know thank you all for the recognition on on this um on the com on the award that we gave the

008the school and we're we at the foundation understand the importance of the kids and this pandemic has caught so many people off guard and so we're happy to be able to uh help as much as we could and look forward to these kids being able to do their work and continue the progress with the zoo unified so again on behalf of the foundation i thank you for the recognition and and i hope that this helps a long way thank you oh any other members would like to speak okay well thank you so very much like i said before and um i forgot to announce that this uh broadcast is also in spanish and if you would like there's an interpretation button down at the bottom and if you press on it it will interpret for

009spanish for you so and if anybody wants to translate that into spanish so why because i couldn't say it okay uh item 6.1 this is an opera um items from the floor public comments on agenda or non-agenda items item 6.1 this is an opportunity for the public to address the board on agenda or non-agenda items no action can be taken on non-agenda items individual speakers may be allowed up to three minutes to address the board on any agenda or non-agenda items to address the board please raise your hand while in the zoom attendance so if anybody out there would like to speak just raise your hand looks like we're there's nobody here who wants to speak that's perfectly fine we'll go ahead and we'll move on to the next one 7.1 comments and requests by

010the board uh board member yolanda something you know um thanking the kenyan city foundation you know it was kind of sad because today i read that these two little girls in salinas they actually were sitting outside of a taco bell doing their homework or in school and they came out and saw them and they were actually sitting outside because they were using their chromebooks using the internet and i'm so proud that our district and in our community are getting together our students are not doing that and um sorry that was emotional um i want to hope i i just want to hope that everyone had a great week their first week of school for students and staff and i'm sure it was hectic i know this is all new to all of us but i

011just want to thank them for working with them you know continue to burn education and work um being sure that we uh we're uh we the kids have the wrong chromebooks the right internet you know their teachers are are working very hard i know the quad employees are working very hard the uh um food service services working very hard and i and parents also so i just think you know i just hope everyone's okay and if not there is a number i'm sure you could call the district office said anyone since this car district office thank you hey uh thank you for yolanda board member greer good evening everyone first um i would like to to formally welcome uh latasha jamal uh to to the team grateful um to to have you here i know

012that you you've officially started last week um and so grateful grateful that you're on on board and um and and to our arturo i'll say congratulations that you have your dream team fully intact now um and so look forward to uh the work that gets done but but uh latasha welcome to um ausd um on the heels of that i will also say that today is september 1st and several months back we talked about um the need to have a five a five you know develop a five year plan and engage in the community and engaging parents and teachers and all kinds of different categories uh students categories of stakeholders and for obvious reasons we have postponed we have um kind of kind of pushed that deadline back which was originally scheduled for september 15th

013september is here and it would have been a wild number of months you know these past few months to try to hold those necessary meetings and have those conversations and get that input so again understand why we didn't but um especially now you know excited that we have the full dream team uh in intact um definitely looking forward to to to sharing out and having some conversations on some updates uh um around this item and when we can um you know we begin to have some meetings scheduled uh when we can have some timelines and and what that looks like and so i do know that uh uh mr well you you're been brought up to speed on some of this and i know that you're you're already aware and so i know that i

014and i know i'm not alone i'm definitely looking forward to um to us moving that forward um and then the only other thing i have is just a a welcome back to everyone um yes you know in one hand welcome back to school but on the other hand welcome to something very new and different um for for all of us um i'll just share just a couple anecdotes um i actually had uh that first week of school um two two phone calls that that really stuck out to me one was from a teacher um there were actually a i got a call from several teachers but but there was a teacher who called and i spoke with her and she was actually in tears and she talked about just some of the challenges and some

015of the difficulty she said her camera she couldn't get her camera to work and her camera turned off and she was trying to engage her students but the camera wasn't wasn't working um and and that was challenging and and even hearing her even though she was was upset and she was was distraught how she still did her absolute best to to make the most of it and to adapt and to pivot um and and i know that that there are so many of our you know staff whether it's teachers classified you know everything across managers everything across the board where they're needing to make some of those adaptations and so um we know and we recognize that that it's challenging i think that we see now on the third week that it's even getting smooth

016you know that much more smoother as we get more days kind of under our belt if you will and then um another another story that i had was um from a parent um i spoke to a parent and she actually called and she said do you hear that and i said um i just heard like some some you know almost sound like wailing in the background as you said that's my that's my five-year-old son um and he's crying because of because of the difficulty that he's having um being you know with distance learning and the challenges and he was upset and she was crying and she was upset and and and it was hard you know and i and i heard that so grateful that the already by the second week heard back from this

017parent and she said that so many things have improved that there were there were just adjustments that things were you know uh pivots and things were made and that her son is doing so much much better and i reminded her that um there are there are likely going to be other moments or other times and situations where things maybe don't go the way that we hope or the way that we plan but glad to see that we're you know things are moving in that direction and so all that to say um again yes welcome back to school um you know welcome to you know school and fall of 2020 for for so many you know across across our country um but for especially for those here in our community we know that it's hard um

018pl please continue to to reach out and communicate um to you know to staff i'm grateful for those who communicated to me i know other board members have been reached out to us as well um for for different areas and concerns and i just want to like we really are all in this together um as cliche as that sounds this is new for for um for all of us um but i'm grateful for the progress that has been been made and and i'm proud of our district despite all of its the the challenges and the obstacles that we face um that that we're we're facing ahead on um and continuing to you know do what we can to make sure that is as strong and robust of a year um as possible so just want

019to remind everybody to have grace for yourself patience for yourself also for your teachers for your students for uh other secretaries and staff across the board um and and we'll you know we'll get there thank you board member greater board member sheila thank you good evening and welcome back to the new school year um in our wonderful distance learning that was sarcasm if you didn't catch that um but no seriously i think um i've been appreciative of um the the um the transition that we've seen i i i really just i really just want to echo i think adrian summarized it very very well so i just i really agree with everything that he just said so i'll just i'll just leave it at that um i do have one request um i know that

020the the 10 day attendance is coming up soon so is that something that we're going to get an update about um once it's available because i really am in curious interested to understand what our enrollment looks like i saw an ali times article about how the enrollment in l unified has dropped tremendously especially at the kinder level so i'm very curious to see what that looks like for us i'm additionally very curious around looking at um how many students how many families are opting for the virtual academy versus distance learning so um i think you know i look for i mean that's my request so um i look forward to seeing that data and i hope i i am optimistic that we're going to be able to have some some students at least back in

021schools at some point um in the near future but that could just be me thank you thank you board member sridlane uh board member arianis welcome back everybody this year to uh 20 2020 2021 we are all working out with my four kids i can only imagine uh with anyone having one child i mean i have four and it's crazy trying to work trying to get them online trying to get them to pay attention i have a first grader so um i'm really really excited for this school year uh it's definitely different than the distance learning that we had in the spring i i do notice a difference and i want to thank everyone from the district administration to classified to the teachers and even though we're all like slowly climbing up and trying to

022figure out the glitches even though we get keep getting kicked off the you know google classroom and jump right back in and everything um it's it's working um as best as it can and teachers are very responsive i i really and so is um the staff at the district where i know that a lot of uh families have called and have asked for chromebooks like last minute people that have moved into our district and staff has accommodated and scheduled them and delivered so thank you so much for for doing that i i want to take this time to congratulate assistant principal adrian acosta for attending the western justice center's abcs of conflict training and how important this is um to to our district for someone to get trained because then that way he'll train someone

023else and other students and just just to know that we are in the right uh in the right road to this um it just it makes my heart really happy because i think it's so important you know to to learn the emotional intelligence and to be able to resolve conflict you know such as um and imply implicit bias bullying inner group conflict and how we can use restorative justice practices in the classroom you know where teachers just individuals is so important when we learn and are able to teach others the tools that are necessary to resolve issues in a positive way we get positive results that are promising and uplifting so congratulations i hope we continue to um to be able to to send more people and they can come back and teach others here

024and that trickles down too because everything that we do as adults starting with the board trickles down to our students so i i truly appreciate that um and that's pretty much all that i have to say and welcome back everybody and we're ready to rock and roll thank you thank you board member arianes and i'd like to piggyback on what everybody else said welcome back this is a new new year new things to learn and as long as everybody keeps that we're all learning new things and have the patience that we hope other people give us when we're learning new things then this will this will be it'll work its way out but um i'd also like to think staff um there have been several times that i've had parents that have been just it

025with in not knowing what to do and i just bam bam gave him an email or processed their forwarded their email to staff and i'm getting back thank you so much it was immediately handled things are taken care of and they're very happy so um also the kenyan city foundation thank you so very much again because that was such a wonderful gift to us and ms jamal welcome to our the dream team welcome to the dream team all righty and that's about it um so we will move on actually uh president bible's vocal can yes i know already went but just there's no one more person i just got to say thank you to before before i move on and it's dr dana mitchell just thank thank you so much uh you know again going

026back to that first that first week there were so many just issues or scenarios or situations and there were times where you and i were texting and messaging back and forth pretty pretty late you know beyond you know working hours and you were still working hard um just you know just taking care of business so so thank you so much for that i'd like to say that's i agree um item 8.0 okay uh comments and reports by cabinet and superintendent so i'll hand this over to superintendent ortega thank you good evening everyone um i'd like to first and foremost also give my appreciation to the canyon city foundation for their uh generous donation we have seen uh the community really come together to support our students and our families in the district to have access

027to rigorous learning and experiences and so we are on behalf of them we are very very thankful for that today was the ninth day of school and i just cannot express how grateful and proud i am for the amazing team of classified certificated afe uh administrators uh in azusa uh i have had the pleasure of visiting sites last week and this week and i have just been uh so happy and so thrilled to be able to connect uh with the staff members that are there and present uh to be able to see myself work that is being done at our sites on behalf of our students and for our students and for our families and like it's been mentioned tonight rightfully so and as we would expect we have been challenged with many many unknowns

028and many concerns and this is because we are launching a new way of opening school new programs new systems new approaches new guidelines new laws new ways to connect and new ways to learn and through all and throughout all of these new things as i have visited sites as i have seen what is happening at the district office and throughout the district i am constantly reminded of the things that have not changed right our commitment to each other our commitment to our students our commitment to our families our pursuit of a better of that kind of that cycle of improvement our collaborative uh spirit to partner and to know that when we come together we get better results and all of this centered and focused around improved student success so thank you to the azusa

029team for all that you do for our students and thank you to the community for your continued support and partnership as we navigate this together thank you hey um dr dana mitchell well i'd like to also echo that appreciation um within the first few days of school it has definitely taken um a team approach a coordinated effort with with everybody rolling up their sleeves and this is uh classified staff this is teachers and counselors who have been working non-stop to launch distance learning you know hours in terms of balancing classes and making sure you know kids at the secondary are in the right classes and it just it just takes um an incredible amount of time anyway when we're opening up school but doing this in a pandemic um is is a is a completely

030different uh situation and i am i just i am so grateful to um to just our staff um at the sites and at the district office who have just heard the rally call um and who have just worked together um tirelessly because um because we're invested in the community and so i am appreciative i'm thankful um and um and it just it just gets better every day it's not perfect um and we still continue to to respond but it's really that responsiveness um that um that our azusa unified school district team is is really there for the families and i again i'm just i'm grateful i also want to just um give a a thank you and a shout out to dr jennifer edict bryant for um the collaborative work that she has done uh

031around the learning continuity um and attendance plan which you're going to hear a little bit about uh tonight um and i just wanted to um to also thank the the parents and the teachers that um and the stakeholders that were uh part of the pact plus and the dlac who really contributed to the development of the plan and i just really appreciate um this collaboration i actually started um in august way before uh before school started this process was going on and so i'm very thankful to um to those parents who um who were participating in this process before we even uh began school so thank you very much thank you dr mitchell and assistant superintendent raquel evening um board of education cabinet community i um i usually start off the uh year and my

032comments with the happy new year message um i think we're very fortunate in education to have two new years and uh with the new year comes new um opportunities for resolutions or changes and goals um and this year like has been stated already is a year like no other and it's presented quite a bit of challenges um but what challenges kind of brings teams together and i i truly appreciate the leadership of the board and certainly the leadership of our new superintendent um ortega i want to um talk a little bit about our teachers and aea and afe um because i i i it's being a teacher there's always a certain excitement and nervousness that comes with the start of the year um but one thing that makes this year exceptionally different is that no

033matter where you are in your journey on your professional path this year every teacher feels like a new teacher there is a sense of uncertainty and questioning and needing support very much like one felt in their first year and so i i applaud our teachers and i really want to lift them up for the work that they're doing to really meet the the needs of our students throughout the district i also want to thank our csca employees uh for their dedicated work to the asusa community and the district we have seen instances where employees have uh really gone the extra mile to meet the needs of of of our of our community whether it's answering phone calls uh matching students with chromebooks uh helping to work in the offices to make sure that the correct

034equipment and protective equipment is is appropriately um set up uh really going that extra mile and i want our csa employees to know that all that extra work has now gone unnoticed and is deeply deeply appreciated with regards to the 10-day results it will be in the board packet that will be arriving on thursday so look out for that information with the data regarding numbers with that thank you and to all have a great year thank you mr unkill uh and next up is assistant superintendent jamal good evening board i just wanted to thank um superintendent jortega and the board for this opportunity um i've only been here a week but i've just felt welcome um the collaboration i witnessed is a testament that we had uh that expressed my interest in this district um

035i want to thank the members of cabinet making me feel welcome the union leaders um as well as the community members the ones that i've met thus far but more importantly i want to thank the business team for um welcoming with an open arm and being willing to hear what i have to say and be willing to accept me into the family so i look forward to serving you all and collaborating more so thank you thank you miss mr mo all right now uh we will go to item 9.0 report action of closed session matters and there's nothing to report so next we'll move to 10.0 general functions 10.1 covid 19 update superintendent ortega thank you um per board request uh we have added a copic 19 update uh and we will continue to do

036that uh at future board meetings um until until further notice um and so i will uh i will start uh today um wanted to let everyone know that uh we have uh launched uh a coven 19 compliance team that that naming convention of that team comes right out of the guidelines from the los angeles county department of public health their reopening guidelines and so we stuck with that with that name we were able to collaborate with our uh our bargaining unit partners and decide on what the composition of this team would look like [Music] not only the composition but the recurrence of these meetings when these meetings would happen and kind of the the work and the objectives ahead so uh cabinet will be facilitating uh these meetings uh we will have uh six administrators

037six aea six afe csea and six parents uh on this team the team is is uh now uh operational so we have all of those folks signed up and ready to go we will be working through the la county department of public health guidelines for reopening schools that is a 19 page document filled with i'm going to say they're not really guidelines they're more about requirements about how we can safely reopen schools we are meeting every other friday from 8 to 9 30 in the morning and we launch this friday i'm also happy to announce that we reached out to laco and got a quick response so i do want to thank laco for that and they have agreed that they would assign some point uh persons to us where we can submit our plans

038on on a rotating basis uh as we finish or as we think we finish parts of this of this guideline they have agreed that they would take our plan look at those particular sections and give us feedback uh on if we're on the right track if if this is a go we didn't want to wait until the end to submit this big old plan and then come back with a whole mess of um feedback that that we weren't in compliance or that didn't make any sense so very grateful lako they didn't appoint just one person they appointed us three people and so we're very happy about that so our plan is to submit that as we move along just to get some some feedback from them because they have a direct pipeline uh with uh

039ladph and uh they have a person on staff that uh is constantly in communication with that um board member chris gonzalez did you have a question yeah i would just want to clarify but you answered it because i was like i was saying dph is gonna approve it's why we're going to laco but you just answered it thank you yeah okay cool um so so again we're excited about that we're excited to to get to uh to work on that and move closer and inch closer so that when we do get the green light and and nobody knows when that when that is going to be but when we do that azusa is prepared to be able to to move forward with that uh so that's that's my update on cobia 19. i'll turn it

040over to jorge thank you um the update i have on kobe is uh the district negotiations team has reached an agreement with uh the aea and afe bargaining units um you actually are going to be taking action on the aaa mou and we're currently working towards reaching an mou with our csca bargaining unit partners additionally the hr office continues to provide employees with related information with regarding leaves specifically new legislation that came from the federal government entitled h.r 6201 on the corona and the family's first coronavirus release act uh it's also noteworthy to mention that the district has launched a clova 19 screening tool for employees to complete prior to beginning their shift and that's something that we are continuing to to provide every morning and we've even received input and as changes happen we've

041modified that to reflect the changes and then there was alluded to earlier in the comments with regards to the work involved with staffing virtual academy and a lot of work has taken place there and work will continue to be dedicated to virtual academy and and i really want to applaud all the different stakeholders that participated in that process thank you okay um hello good evening my update um so i have a couple of updates um last spring we uh when we first went into school closure we had a process where we were distributing chromebooks and at the end of uh the school year um it was 5156 chromebooks that were distributed to uh students over the summer we continued to distribute chromebooks we had students who are participating in um summer program in think together

042and so we continued to do that and we would do it one or two times a week depending on the calls that came in as as we began to get closer to school just a few days really before school opened we saw quite a heavy volume uh in in calls and requests for for chromebooks so we changed the process uh we had had a process where we were taking appointments and uh we had walk ups and uh it was a it was a it was a great process but because of the demand um we really needed to change what we were doing so we actually shifted uh to a drive-through process and so um we uh we did that and we were able to uh distribute um another 1 353. so grand total of six

043thousand five hundred and nine chromebooks uh so far um we continue to um take uh if anybody needs a chromebook uh they're still calling the district office we are still taking calls for anyone who is having you know if they have any difficulty or they need some tech support um we are providing that support as well so um we're feeling we're feeling really great about that we feel that um our our students have those devices and um and we are we're in good shape the second um update that i want to provide is that uh you know that um right before school started we hosted a virtual um professional learning uh conference for uh teachers uh just providing different breakout sessions and support uh to help teachers begin to launch their distance learning plan since

044uh since that time in opening school we have our team of teachers on special assignment our tosa team we have seven tosas who have been providing a continuous stream of support through live sessions and they they have a network going where they take turns so um ptosis are providing support to teachers um with lesson planning and helping them connect to uh their digital resources but what they're also doing is they are holding live a google meet from uh like eight to about three three thirty every day where it is staffed by the teachers on special assignment so anytime we have a staff member that has that immediate question they can just pop in and out and get that immediate support um we've all had the opportunity to just to jump in um and and you

045know and listen to you know the questions and the support and um and i've seen the just the relief on on teachers faces when um if there's something that they're not quite sure about they have a question something they've you know run up against or they're not quite sure how to access something to be able to have somebody right there right then to help and support them our team has just done a phenomenal job and it's really been a brilliant idea of theirs um to be able to offer this kind of support and just continually how can we support you what do you need how we can can we connect you and um so just um big shout out to uh to the tosa team for thinking of this and really responding to that need

046to really help um our staff be able to get what they need at the moment all right and for the business team as of friday we officially um delivered our first round of pp e to the sites which included um face coverings um for both um students and staff um that would be cloth and disposable as well as hand sanitizer we are currently installing all of our signage for entryway and exit way as well as plexi shield and dividers and spaces where plexi shield would not suffice we're also working in collaboration with our team to develop our hybrid model that we will be presenting to our covet 19 team for feedback this friday and yes that's it [Music] okay um i'm sorry my allergies uh time for questions and i see the uh board member

047grier yeah a couple things first that's incredible uh what you shared uh dana about the tosa team that's that that's that's phenomenal i love love the sound of that and i can i can i can just imagine all the ways that that's useful and extremely helpful so i love that that uh that idea that innovative thinking um kind of in in line with that i i um can you speak to what what we're do doing uh in regards to teachers as as this is new you know i i think arthur you said that or jorge one of you said that this is like the first year for every teacher um and and with that in mind since since that is the case and there are new ways of doing things is there space for teachers

048to share with each other strategies that they're doing and and what isn't what is working and what is specific to on you know some of some of the online uh distance learning interactions um and and if so what is the frequency um that that that that happens yeah thank you for uh for that question so i uh also failed to mention um that the the tosas are also hosting uh they do grade level meetings right so anytime they're like for example uh preschool teachers right so they'll have a specific time in the afternoon and invite the teachers to come and they'll talk about um you know sharing best practices uh they'll talk about um let's say for example they just met to talk about the drdp which is the assessment and and really thinking about

049how we're going to um do that in a virtual environment um there's a lot of nuances that with that with our younger learners and so um our teacher on special assignment uh jenny lee our director of early childhood education uh brought teachers together to really have those conversations to talk about what will work in those situations and um and get their input on that so um i would say opportunities um probably i would say i would say about maybe twice a week or so just specific specific grade levels to come together to talk about strategies planning i talked to principals regularly and uh you know hearing okay now that we have you know our grade level teams together um how are we getting together and talking about how we plan um i've also today i

050talked to a principal about some um opportunities for um cross-planning with um with with schools that's one of the benefits i think that we have seen in terms of with this distance learning um we are able to instantly uh reach across the the district and be able to say hey we've got you know um a fifth grade class and we have other teachers for other fifth grade teachers that want to plan um and so we're seeing more collaboration more opportunities for that as well i don't know why we didn't think of that before we could have we could have done that right so this has been an opportunity for us to be able to really use um you know uh kind of this virtual space um and quickly too right we don't have to drive

051and we can get together and do that so um these are opportunities for us to continually do that it also we have on mondays this is our our time for not only staff minis but for those professional learning communities and so as we um as we begin to put our assessment plans in place and as we begin to um to think about how we're going to use what kinds of assessments that schools will use in terms of common formative as well as our district assessments this is an opportunity for us to really dig in deeply and collaborate across across the district to especially serve to serve those students who need the most support for example our language learners so i would say we have you know regular and frequent opportunities but i think even more

052so now um with plcs and thinking about how we can you know again bring grade levels and schools together so um they are the tosa team is working with uh grade level teams uh throughout the week in addition to um the the tosa live support and what they do is they rotate so they will have um they will have some of the ptosis in the life support while other ptosis are maybe working with a grade level or they're reaching out individually and supporting teachers as well um and we have teachers too that are also um you know maybe they are in a new grade level and so they need that immediate support in terms of how they connect to the technology um and and that as well i hope that answers it yeah that can

053i just build on that just a two quick points um i think that that spirit is alive and well and i think i think part of it is is again is is the situation uh that we're in and by what what i mean by spirit is the spirit of sharing and and supporting each other so just as a quick example we have a weekly general session uh that we do every two weeks where we invite the entire staff to get updates on what's happening uh at the district um and so at our last one like somebody asked a question like hey i'm having a trouble with this and then just teachers just started jumping in like how about this how about this how about this uh that's so that's one and then number two um

054dana uh puts out an email every friday and i have noticed that there she also highlights um strategies that teachers in our district are currently using and so maybe the teacher will create a video or share a document and that's that's being shared out to the entire organization just a couple more examples on that yeah thank you and and i love hearing that i i truly believe that moving forward as we're just learning you know new ways of doing things shared innovation is going to be key and so when when uh there are teachers at you know various school sites in various grades that are learning better and newer ways of doing things providing space and opportunities for that to be shared acros like we said across school sites and and you know cross subject

055content areas i i think that's just that's just going to be key to figure out some of these uh strategies because we know that this is new for everyone so i so i i i love hearing that the the last question i had was in regards to textbooks um can you just give an update on on where we are with that and the distribution of textbooks or online uh you know pivoting to online materials um what is that looking like now so um yeah so we spent the first uh several days uh getting all the student accounts and as you can imagine we have most of our curriculum is online most of our curriculum has uh different platforms depending on if it's elementary or if it's secondary and so we have spent a lot of

056time making sure that all of our students have their accounts which they do um one of the pieces is uh is that in order for us to do that the students all have to be in aries in those classes because they are connected to those rosters so it's a pretty fast uh and furious turnaround with that so uh the uh secondaries have all done their uh texture test textbook distributions uh the high schools in the middle schools have already completed that actually had a meeting today with all of the elementary principals to talk about our steps and how we're going to coordinate that so um we were able to meet with the principals the resource teachers and so they are uh working on their plans on how they're going to do that as well and

057then the other piece too with that is also um the piece with the virtual academy right so um so all of those nuances that come together so they are putting together their plans for me and we should have those uh in a couple of days to be able to figure out exactly when they're going to do it and how they're going to do it so we had a good meeting today to talk about that okay i have a question and mine is kind of frivolous but um if we can get an update on the cif and our sports curriculum of what yeah i mean this has been a blessing at least our football team gets to play on the new fields this year where they would have had to put off and not till next

058year but um yeah i just like basically to just have an update on what cif is doing as far as contact supports and things like that so parents ask us we have that information and next would be board member arianas hi yes i it's exciting thank you for sharing that 6 500 chromebooks have been distributed now with that being said how many hot spots have have we distributed are they separate are they in the chromebooks they are they're separate and so um i will i will get you a count um for your for your weekly uh packet um roughly it's a little over with the hot spots um about 200 i want to say we also have tablets that are out as well that are connected to wi-fi um we have another um another shipment

059that is coming in um really any minute it's uh it's in transit and and the idea with this is that um the hot spots are um we're using those for families who are not able to have a permanent connection and we're also using those until we have families um that we are providing that permanent connection so they'll use a hotspot in the meantime until they're actually connected to either spectrum or frontier we also have some other um other service providers depending on where families live that that need that okay and the alignment of curriculum across schools is that happening because i hear you saying you know the toasters and um i've heard from from teachers that toasters are doing a great you know but within that school um what about across the schools is that

060happening how does that what does that look like yeah so we have um we have our uh our our district board approved curriculum that we use for all grade levels so for example uh we use uh wonders and maravias for elementary everyday mathematics 4 for elementary math we have collections would be for our secondary ela cpm and secondary mathematics and so we do have our curriculum that is across the district we have um curriculum maps um that really help uh teachers in terms of the um i want to say the pacing in terms of you know how the the scope and sequence of the curriculum um the ways in which that uh that teachers use the strategies and different things that does that does vary um you know depending on the teacher but we do

061use the same curriculum uh in all of our schools i guess my question was are our teachers talking to each other from other schools um about the curriculum yeah tools like different things that they're doing and stuff to be able to to yeah so um and also and part of that right is when the ptosis will hold a um like a grade level planning they'll say okay from uh you know from two to three today we're gonna you know fourth grade teachers can come for language arts or mathematics and so depending on uh you know which toast is facilitating that um and they will go through and talk about um you know uh launching their calendars for example in connected for wonders or for uh uh they'll talk about um assessments that are coming up

062in the curriculum so yeah they do a lot of a lot of planning a lot of support that is coordinated uh across the across the district so and they've been they've been doing that work um for quite some time and so um you know over the last several years since we've been every time we've adopted a curriculum we've had lots of opportunities for that collaborative planning um and the same thing that we continue to do uh for example last year we um we adopted secondary history social science this year um it was our was our launch with um with science uh for um tk12 so lots of opportunities again for teachers to be able to collaborate professional learning will continue we do a lot of that when we have a new curriculum when we launch

063a new curriculum we have lots of opportunities for teachers to be able to work together in across sites uh and depending on whether it's secondary elementary so and really and again led by the tosas as well and we do um we do have our publisher partners come in um we we did that uh last spring when we were launching um we also had our science uh publishers um during our virtual uh support for success conference and we had uh we had sessions all day long for people to choose and to come in and um and just really kind of you know get their feet wet and explore the curriculum and you know look at how it's uh what the components are and the technology um and so we just will continue to offer that support

064um and again facilitated and led by the ptosis but you are doing a phenomenal job thank you board member cruz gonzalez thank you um yeah i have a couple questions um the first one being around just information that's going to be reported out um you know that it's going to be aggregated and that we get like at a district level so that we can understand what distance learning is happening a couple examples would be around like what is our attendance like um you know at both at site and district levels and looking at student groups and their attendance their attendance levels i mean attendance rates as well another example would be around how much synchronous instruction students are actually getting i i appreciate that we're going to be adopting an mou that has um that

065has like the at least that like the sort of the floor of the the number of instructional minutes but but really i'm having a clear understanding of how much how much face time students are getting with with teachers whether it's whole group or small group instruction um so um things like that i mean those are just examples that i'm putting out there so what i think what i'm requesting is um getting a clear understanding of what the district is proposing in terms of what kind of data to collect um and aggregate that can then be reported to the board um at the board level so that we can understand how distance learning is going um so that's request number one um well i'll just pause there and see i mean have you if you have

066any um thoughts responses to that or if that's something i should just look forward to yeah um and i and i one of the ways to be able to really take a look in terms of um that synchronous is to take a look at some of the schedules so um we've already been collecting uh some samples of those um and in conversations that i've had um with teachers um they're you know um they they're trying different things right so i'll get a schedule and and then i'll have conversation with uh with with teachers around okay i'm trying something else and um experimenting with breakout groups and whatnot so actually um i have a sample for you just a little sample that i've um i'm putting in your pack for this week to just get an

067indication of kind of what it looks like um but definitely we will be collecting um uh the schedules because we do want to be able to see in terms of you know the synchronous and asynchronous and we do have to make sure that we are um you know we are meeting um sb98 with that as well so we will take a look at that as well and make sure that you get that information um and then also with the attendance piece and the aggregate of the different subgroups so i just want to be clear i mean i appreciate having artifacts right that shows us different schedules i mean that i would say uh probably creativity in terms of sort of figuring out and how to the best way to deliver instruction but i also am

068really requesting aggregate information that's collected that we that we just report on a regular basis so that we can track as we go along right i mean i think you see some examples of there's places where they're like districts are reporting on a weekly basis what their enrollment it looks like um and my preference is to be able to make sure we look at it by subgroups so that we're all student groups by work so that we're really digging deep into you know who really is coming and who's not so there's that piece um and then my second request is around um um the the group that you're convening um i just want to get a sense in terms of timeline um um and i appreciate that you're going to be you're going to have

069feedback from laco as you're developing this but um i just want to get a sense in terms of timeline what you're thinking in terms of being able to develop um develop recommendations um and whether this is going to be like a final at the end recommendations or recommendations as we go along um because i mean as we see the state is already changing right first there was this potential elementary waiver that could happen once once certain criteria is met now there's a new there's a new executive order out or waiver making it clear that you can have small groups of students come into schools like glendale's doing right where it's not with it's not for instruction but they have small groups coming um and with an adult and they're doing their learning at the school

070campuses supervised you know especially for families where they cannot they don't have that kind of ability to do that at home let's say because two parents are working right so those are the kinds of things that i'm hoping that we can explore and discuss and maybe see if their feasibility went as things roll out right so that one just came out right and so let's i haven't heard a conversation around are we are we thinking about trying to bring some students back on campus especially some of those student groups that that dana talked about or you know i know i heard another example another district where they're really focusing on the kids that just disappeared last spring right and those are the ones that they're inviting back to come to school in classroom supervised within

071with with with some kind of adult where they're actually logging in with their teacher so those are the kinds of so that's that i mean that's what i'm asking in terms of like the group that you're convening really like where where do you think some of these pieces fit in there and then what is the overall timeline yeah this is part of the the the new and the and the unknown uh because things do change uh rapidly uh so for instance um like the glendale model right that was around quote unquote child care and then you just had last week i believe the green light on asus and 21st century uh grants and so we are uh having those conversations with our asus partners uh thing together uh and how how do we how do

072we how do we move on that and so it's gonna be it's going to be uh we're gonna have to be extremely flexible uh to pivot one way or or the other um we we do have um the urgency uh to get through uh these 19 pages of guidelines um our understanding talking to laco last week is that those guidelines are going to be updated here soon and so you know how do we stay on top of on top of those things so i don't have a timeline per se i do know that we want to move we want to move quick we want to make sure that that we're getting through these 19 pages and that we have an understanding of how to to move uh to move forward but to your point at

073the same time as new things come our way and new opportunities uh make theirs make themselves available we don't want to say well we're on pause for that because we're working on this we it's kind of like simultaneous like a parallel uh road to those things so again just as one example already having conversations with our asus partners uh about uh in-person uh support for for students and yeah yeah uh board member okay there you go i just saw that board member pena yes um i have a question regarding the compliance team uh the compliance team you mentioned parents and staff uh is it similar to the imaginary team that you had uh first question but the second question is are they different people are they the same so um every every bargaining uh partner

074uh selected there are six people and then reported those so for instance a face said these are our people csca said these are people aea said these are our people uh for administration actually half of the team um all of our bargaining partners and and and us uh agreed that half of that admin team that it should be one elementary one minute one middle school and one high school principal so we agreed on that we didn't we didn't name who we just agreed that three of those should be those and so then we we decided on who the other three members would be for that so we we honored the agreement and then for the parents um i took care of that portion so i sent uh a communication to uh d-lock superintendent parent superintendent

075and parent roundtable and there's one oh and pac plus so send out an email saying hey we're looking for six parents uh this is the commitment the commitment is every other friday for an hour and a half and uh put that communication in english and spanish and said that the first six parents that are willing to do it and can do it uh would join on the team so to your question no it is not identical to the reimagination team um this is different now are there people on this team that were also on that team yes but it's not it's not a carbon copy of it okay and my second question was regarding um probably this is for dana um on the um classified employees are they um instructional aides if they're working with

076students and i also probably know in the offices things are different even i'm sure taking attendance and things are they being trained also on the news yes so we um we have another uh we've got a professional learning day that's coming up and so uh the the directors and i have been talking about uh the professional learning that we're going to provide we have been getting some suggestions from uh just hearing the kinds of needs that are out there in terms of i'll give you an example like um how you know in terms of google meets for example um an instructional aide might work with uh you know with a group of of students and so how that would work would be the teacher would um create the actual google link uh that they would

077do and then they would have the instructional aid uh support the students with you know whatever they were doing for um you know for that instructional piece um so that would be one thing uh we'll be providing that as well so we're gonna work with the directors the ptosis uh hr team to uh to really support our classified staff as well um with the instructional support and any other support that they need um that they need as well so so the teacher is actually um working with their instruction and showing them how to use google me and yeah yes and then within the district office it's it's administration or yeah even in the school sites because i'm sure the school sites also you know that like i said that there's the clerical staff working yeah

078and we've um we have we've been checking out um technology our chromebooks to um to classified and to certificate as well if they need a device um we've had lots of our classified staff check out devices as well um and again if you know um if they need support usually the it's the instructional aides will um they are under the direction of that classroom teacher um but if we have uh any support staff uh you know in the offices at the schools or district office um you know we are here to support them as well with with what they need okay thank you very much okay uh board member ariana's do you have another question yes i actually had a similar question to to my colleague about instructional and them understanding um you know how

079they were going to be performing their job uh some of them as of now do not know um and have not received information so um it i i don't know what's happening so i just wanted to just bring that up and um if that and i know it's you know it's the ninth day and everything's still trying to um get into place and stuff but i think it would be great there's i i know there's some students that do need that one-on-one aid or that do need extra help so it'd be great if we can get those um aides to be able to connect with their teachers and be able to assist these students um moving forward okay any more questions comments okay so giving time for lag um next we'll move on to 10.2

080public hearing on the learning content continuity and attendance plan at this time i would like to bring up dr jennifer edick bryant who has a presentation and will uh give you information regarding our learning continuity and attendance plan hi good evening everybody i don't know if you can hear me and i don't know why i don't have an option to turn my camera on so i would love to see you and so maybe we can get that going and then i think kathy will probably have my presentation slides prepared and and visual shortly as well okay sounds good thank you there we go i'm not sure if people can see me but looks like my camera's on yes i can see you yeah that's it technical difficulties yeah that's okay lots of patience mm-hmm there

081we go okay thank you kathy appreciate that so good evening president bibles fogel board members mr ortega cabinet members this evening i'm pleased to present to you our learning continuity and attendance plan uh for public hearing um state senate bill 98 often referred to as sb 98 was passed along with the state budget for 2021 at the end of june beginning of july and part of that bill required districts to develop write and present a learning continuity and attendance plan to our community this document's purpose is to inform our community about our plans for the 2021 school year to describe the process by which we developed those plans um and and california department of ed came out with a template that we were to use in the first of august and it uh also indicated

082the california department of ed when i say it the department indicated that this is really a living document which means that it is expected that it will it will adjust and change as our needs and our circumstances change with with the covet 19 distance learning and all of the things that are happening uh during this school year so the plan has 13 sections and prior to you opening the public hearing this evening i would like to provide you with an overview of the plan uh in this presentation the full written plan was also shared with you and the public in the board agenda item and that is also available for review next sli oh right there perfect so the plan begins with a general information section that describes the impact of covid19 on our community

083how the ausd community came together we managed the closures of our schools and came together to develop the plan for fall learning the second section focuses on stakeholder engagement and as you recall this is a core component of our closures last spring the reopening schools imagination team convened and they developed the work that they did really contributed to the development of our learning continuity plan we gathered uh stakeholder input through meetings through surveys through general outreach which included your public board meetings the district was also able to engage stakeholders in the decision making on on the plan itself we had meetings with pac plus with dlac with the superintendent and parent roundtable sharing a draft of the plan with them and allowing them to to provide some feedback and we we made the plan available

084to the community as well anybody that wanted to see the plan and make comments on it on the draft of the plan the third section really touches upon our our in in person uh instruction and and it indicates that when safe to do so and in accordance with state and local mandates ausd will return to in-person learning it will talk about the the transition into classrooms with as little disruption as possible the continuing of the same curriculum and and pacing of courses it also this section also really shares about how we will be adding to our cleaning and social distancing guidelines and some of the procedures that we'll take to continue to keep people safe when we do allow and are able to have our students return tracking and monitoring of students in the area

085of academic achievement social and emotional learning will take place as we do this transition and they are designed again to to be as smooth as possible given uh the transition that will eventually occur and absolutely as we go through we will we'll be prioritizing our students who who have the highest needs in particular looking at our our emergent bilingual students our english learners and that term emergent bilinguals is something that we've been using more around our district office and so you'll hear that this evening but also our students who are in foster care are students from low-income families our students with disabilities our students who are experiencing homelessness will be looking at their experience and their transitions as well as we come back to in person schools next slide the next six sections of the

086learning continuity plan fall under the heading of distance learning and so the the fourth section continuity of instruction is where we share about the implementation of our our block schedule distance learning 2.0 plan that we're currently um going living in there there's a description of the plan with within this section there's also a link to our reopening schools imagination team plan and document as well as the schedules that are posted on our website so that people who are reading the plan can see what a typical day would look like for an elementary student or a secondary student as well as see all of the work that the reopening school's imagination team did in developing plans for opening this fall this section also notes some of the alternate options for our students and families including our

087azusa virtual academy long-term independent study and home school options in the device access and connectivity section the plan describes not only our spring distribution but the ongoing chromebook distribution and hot spot distribution that dr mitchell was sharing with you earlier and how that continues to take place this fall chromebooks and hot spots are checked out through systematic record keeping on spreadsheets and also put into our student information system and so not only does this allow us to track and monitor our distribution of chromebooks and hot spots but also to monitor student access to um to the learning because we have a record of who has has those devices in the pupil participation in progress section section 6 we share a little bit about how our distance learning block schedule plan does have both synchronous that

088live face-to-face interaction with teachers and students and students and their peers as well as the asynchronous instructional time the district also uh currently exceeds the the number of daily minimum minutes that are required by the state and so we are meeting those requirements and exceeding those requirements and also in this section it addresses this idea that we now have grades and attendance and that will also help us support and monitor our students and their engagement in distance learning next slide the seventh section shares our plans to provide professional development for teachers and again you heard some of the things already from dr mitchell in her update we are we are reflecting on the opportunities that took place in the spring and also really planning for for this school year team tosa as you as you

089know began supporting teachers with technology training online curriculum info implementation and they have really provided that pivotal role this fall as well for example you know their daily live support sessions that have been held every day since students returned for to support our staff our superintendent continues to hold ongoing general information sessions for all staff and as dr mitchell mentioned our our support for success virtual professional learning conference on august 17th was a very successful opportunity for us to to begin the professional learning um for this year we'll we will have ongoing opportunities taking place on our our pupil free days as well as after school topics are going to include things such as emotional social and emotional learning development of formative assessments in a virtual setting technology use implicit bias and and our outside

090partners will continue to support us um as they did even on august 17th to to provide training and workshops to to meet the needs of our staff the eighth section describes um how we have had to adjust any roles and responsibilities of staff due to covid19 and we are partnering with our bargaining units to really make these changes role shifts have been done within the general scope of employees job descriptions um and hr has been really processing those family first corona virus relief act applications in in addressing the the jobs of our our staff in our district section nine uh touches upon how are we are supporting students with unique needs and and again unique needs includes students who are low-income students in foster care emergent bilingual students and again that term to describe our

091english learners further we also are addressing um the needs of our students with disabilities and our students experiencing homelessness our distance learning block schedule 2.0 plan offers increased instructional support during the day for example at the elementary level we have a dedicated time before in the mornings in the afternoons for our emerging bilingual students and then to provide our students with disabilities services um secondary students have class periods where they have built into their schedules and then we also have the family and student connection time four days a week where where this can be a time where students can can have their needs addressed uh with their specific teachers and we continue to focus professional learning and have opportunities for staff to learn how to address the students with unique needs for example we offered

092several uh sessions on august 17th in in working with students with disabilities as well as our emergent bilingual students the next section describes how the district will address pupil learning loss due to covet 19 and we'll be using multiple measures to determine learning loss we have district assessments we have purchased a reading inventory for all students grades k through 12 and this measures students reading levels and it's important because reading is such a critical skill when it comes to all content areas and so this will really enable all teachers to kind of get a feel for where their students are we have our common formative assessments and we have language acquisition assessments that will help us look at the reading writing speaking and listening progress of our students absent of s back and lpac right

093now we've created these within within our district and so these assessments coupled with site-specific measures are will really help us to identify students who may need more added intervention within and outside of class we have our professional learning communities who continue to use this data to drive their instruction and intervention and the measures and growth for students on all of these assessments will really also help us evaluate the effectiveness in addressing pupil learning loss because these are ongoing measures these aren't just one time a year we'll also look at the mental health and social and emotional well-being of our students and the 11th section touches upon this and we'll be monitoring that through social emotional questionnaires for our students we have teacher observations and we're also scheduled our our listening circles with students in grades

0945 through 12 where we can gather qualitative data about their experiences which will include the social and emotional well-being as well as academic areas um in section 12 the topic is school nutrition and azusa continues to to do the drive-through and system to distribute meals right now nutrition services has developed several options that may be used and as we transition to perhaps a hybrid or make a full return to school so we're continuing to provide meals to to our families next slide so within the learning continuity plan our actions and expenditure estimates and and these descriptions and the amounts that have been developed are based upon um some of the things that we talked about during our reopening schools imagination team and that plan as well as some of the ongoing expenditures we expect for

095the year the planned budgets are a combination of lcap supplemental and concentration funds and our federal learning loss mitigation funds that are one-time funds that we're receiving uh from the federal government to address cova 19. so in determining plan budgets uh we we are and the distribution of the funds and to address our learning continuity plan and and to prioritize our high needs students the districts sought to use a similar funding proportions to those in our lcap funding distributions in the lcap provided a base from which the district worked to develop the proposed expenditures for all funds directed towards implementing this learning continuity plan by using the lcap as a model the district maintained that important focus on our low-income students our emergent bilingual students and our students in foster care as well as addressing

096needs of students with disabilities experience and students experiencing homelessness the budget expenditures are our estimates based on current plans and it can be adjusted to meet the needs and the circumstances that face our students as our data may indicate the data will drive these decisions as as we're implementing this learning continuity plan and we can identify even now several programs and services and things that are new to azusa uh and using some of these funding for example purchasing of online instructional resources such as apex courses for the virtual academy and and as i mentioned the reading inventory for all students and some intervention materials and added materials that will help with online and distance learning for students with disabilities and obviously we've been on purchasing and making sure that we have enough devices and hot

097spots to to ensure all students have access to to our distance learning so those are some of the expenditures and and uh i'm sure you'll hear more as we have our covet 19 updates at each meeting so as we see the needs uh then we will create the systems and programs that are going to address those needs for our our students and families using that lcap model has helped us to develop these these expenditure budgets so before we transition to any questions or comments i i would like to note also that we continued to receive feedback and input on this document late friday we received feedback from the la county office of education we asked them to pre-review our plan the draft of our plan and so we'll be incorporating some of their uh recommendations

098that they made and furthermore last thursday night at our community at our community engagement initiative professional leading and learning network californians together facilitated by ms cruz gonzalez presented some of their suggestions and ideas on how we can incorporate and address the needs of our emergent bilingual students and so they had some some very useful tools that we're going to use to to see where we can add to and augment the the plan draft as it is now and and while there will be um these adjustments made the core content of our learning continuity plan will remain as shared here with you and and again i remind you that the california department of education really expects that these plans will shift and adapt as different circumstances arise and the unknowns that will inevitably hit us through

099the 2021 school year so at this point i will open things up to any questions or comments from the board prior to your public hearing uh i see you yolanda do you have a question uh so my my question is regarding the um so this is only for the uh 2021 school year and then it goes back to the regular alcap or um yeah first question yeah i'm sorry and then so if um if they are no longer in distant learning it will still continue even if it's in new year yeah the plan is for the 2021 school year but its particular focus was to um really focus on and highlight some of the things that we're doing because of covid19 um but even after we go back we're still going to have impacts and

100and effects from the school closures and so it will be a plan for our entire year and to answer your question about the lcap yes the the l cap for this year originally was set to be um presented to you in december and this plan um is replacing it while it's not an el cap uh it it is replacing it for this year and so throughout this year we will be working with our pack plus with our stakeholders and bringing to you information as we develop our next three-year lcap which will um will be developed and you'll approve in june thank you uh board member greer well i have a quick process question i think normally what we do with public hearings is after the staff presentation then we normally open the public hearing allow

101public comment close the public hearing and then have staff and then have the board discussion that's no that's the normal process so i'm okay doing it this way i'm just i'm just wanting to point out that's not normally how we do it okay that would anybody open the public hearing if they want motion do i have a motion to open the hearing you only need a motion to close you you actually oh okay and then we need a motion to close the public hearing okay i'm opening the meeting the public hearing on the continuity uh the public hearing on the learning continuity and attendance plan and i see adrian has a comment or board member grier i i do but i can wait until the public comment uh public hearing is closed all right um

102does anybody in the public would anybody like to make a comment at this point you can raise your hand nope are you seeing that i make a motion to close the public hearing thank you sheed uh second okay uh motion by board member sheila nin seconded by board member and discussion of any kind nope all right let's go ahead and vote oh no no i we don't need to vote oh i know you mean on the public hearing yeah yeah we're just closing the public hearing okay and then um board member greer thank you uh yeah jennifer can you can you speak to [Music] i see the list here i'm pulling it up i see the list and it talks about the priorities um prioritizing low-cut low-income students emerging bilingual students and foster youth um

103this is also the same you said for uh you know if and when we're returning in person is that also a part of this but okay um i'm so i'm curious to know can you clarify the percentage of our district that that then qualifies uh for you know within those categories because i would i would imagine that that's a pretty um significant amount and so how do you how do you prioritize you know whatever that number 80 percent or whatever that number is for yes 85 about 85 percent of our our students fall into the low income uh subgroup about 25 26 are emergent bilingual or english learners and that's overlapping i'm sorry and that would be overlapping right okay yeah these are what we call unduplicated pupils so they're only counted once when it

104comes to the total but i'm just giving you yeah we may have some emergent bilingual students who also uh are you know low-income families and so they're only counted once for accounting purposes but our percentages are this so yes it is overlapping and then our our foster youth i believe is is less than one percent two percent maybe and that you know that fluctuates and more than any of the others that's the number that tends to change even throughout the school year so yeah okay so the only thing i maybe would add then is um i i think from some of the feedback that i'm i'm getting and things that we're seeing you know that i would love to see part of that prioritization list is also younger you know younger students um because some

105of the you know some of the tk some of the kindergarten some of those younger students are having a much more difficult time engaging online than you know an 8th grader or or a 12th grader so um it would be great for that to also be you know part of that equation and that was some of the feedback that we did here that will be added it's just highlighting a little more our earliest learners yeah love it okay and i see that we did not uh finish the vote so yolanda i see has not voted is there a technical difficulty there's no there's nothing on my screen that has it okay i'll i'll say yes all right okay everybody else all right all right board membership yes all right cool all right it passes 5-0

106okay any other questions or comments yeah i do but i think gabriella was about to ask questions when i when i talked about the public hearing so no okay okay oh no you're good all right so you have i do have a couple questions um eric jennifer so on the um on the presentation i noticed you didn't include the people and family engagement and outreach section um on your in the number of sections you reported and the powerpoint but it's did i skip that it's not in the powerpoint but it isn't i mean you have stuff written in the report oh my goodness can you just talk a little bit about that are you talking about this this the section in the powerpoint well i don't i mean you i think you reference the different

107sections of the template and you went from you went from pupil learning loss to our mental health to school nutrition and in between that i see people and family engagement and outreach yes thank you thank you yes and that that was my error i apologize so let me i will share a little bit with you about that section um this section will talk about um how we will be doing a tiered re-engagement a tiered re-engagement system where using our attendance records we have a process by which we'll be reaching out to students who are not engaging in the distance learning and put them through different tiers and pretty rapid succession uh the sb 98 states that students that miss three days or sixty percent of instruction that triggers this tiered re-engagement system and that's set

108up at our schools with the school site re-engagement team that begins the process and then as the student is worked through and and if gay engagement doesn't uh take place through the first few stages or tiers that moves then to a district level and so that is that is one of the ways that we are able to um to address that engagement and and make sure that we are are outreaching uh to our parents about uh about the requirements of being part of school and it's distance distance learning so and while the the prompt here does not really um address the the stakeholder engagement it really focuses in on the tiered re-engagement also just to know um as this is planning to as as we did in the spring continue to do a lot of

109parent outreach at our site levels as well as at a district level where we are beginning to plan for an azusa parent learning network where we'll have opportunities to to work with our parents and offer them opportunities to learn and how to support their students thank you appreciate that thank you i just want to give feedback on that because i do think that's a really important piece and i hope that um i hope that i would see it in the final lcp that i would see it reflected that we're doing that i mean i appreciate that the state is really giving us direction to focus on the re-engagement plan in this session right but i think that it's important for us to articulate um how the piece you know how we're planning how we really

110treat our parents as partners in terms of learning and feeling really about you know and and identify how we're going to be supporting those the parents yeah so you know to hear that we're going to have a learning network for parents i think that's something to articulate so along those lines this is just my overarching feedback um i think that i feel the document is i i really like the way it lays out sort of the at the high level but my concern is around um the way the budgeting is it's just we see these very large numbers with lots of different things and i heard you tonight reference specific things that we're investing in already and as a board member i think it's very important i'm going to be approving this is essentially a

111budget document for us because it's outlining how we're spending a significant portion of our supplemental concentration dollars in the federal funding it's really important as a board member to understand i mean if we've already made decisions about some of these investments i i would like to see that reflected um if you if it's not appropriate to be in that in this plan then it needs to be someplace i think arthur you guys have a you know i really appreciated with our lcap that we got a line by line spreadsheet that showed this section we're going to be spending this money because i really can't tell and i even since i see descriptions that are similar in different areas it makes me i don't understand whether there's replication in terms of the dollars that are shown

112in these budgets or whether those are all different expenditures so i think i mean and and i also just want to say i understand that obviously we're going to have to be flexible right and so whatever we whatever we approve this month does not mean it's going to be set in stone but i think that if we do have clear expenditures that we've already committed to or already have taken or are planning to then let's articulate that so that we as a board understand right so so i'm you know i'll leave it to you to figure out how the best way to to to show that so that it's part of what we approve on september 30th um because even i'm like you know i hear you talking about apex classes or this kind of

113uh or a reading assessment um piece that we're going to be adopting right like i think that's important for our community to be articulate or to be public somehow so transparency people know um the one piece that i don't see in here that i that i'm just gonna that i'm just gonna put out there in terms of a board member is that i really there's been a lot of research a lot of um a lot a lot of information coming out around the importance on of one-on-one tutoring especially when addressing learning laws and there's examples of districts across the state who are investing dollars in in making in in giving opportunities for families to take advantage of one-on-one tutoring right and obviously that's an investment right because we would be hiring tutors to work with

114students and i know we've gotten feedback from different parents around their individual students struggling whether or not they fit in one of the groups that we're focusing on um and so i would like us to i would like to understand in terms of those you know what kind of opportunities are we planning to give families in terms of one-on-one tutoring and are we going to carve out a budget for that that that's going to be available for families to use are we going to have a system in terms of identifying which students we think we need one-on-one tutoring um i mean i appreciate that we're putting a lot of effort into our initial instruction right and first first best instruction is always the best right but but i think we know that under these circumstances

115um that other that other individual attention is going to be so important so that's just the one piece that i didn't see in here that i'm just putting forward to think about let's let's find a way to make sure that this is in the plan okay so those are those are my pieces of feedback otherwise i think it's it's a great start um and i know this is a public hearing um but hopefully we'll see some um some additions by the time we adopt it at the next board meeting yes thank you remember ariana's hi yes i had a question on fap and um i i would like to to know how many students are reclassified each year you know so we'll start with last year and the year before on just to get some

116data to be able to because we are starting this new um this new learning continuity and attendance plan that is a little bit different just so i just want to be able to track that data moving forward and if that could be and it doesn't have to be on this friday packet it could be the next friday packet is fine i know you just have to do some digging um for a couple years so thank you okay is there any more discussion all right we will move to item 10.3 certification of signatures resolution number 20 and motion 2 move certification of signatures resolution number 20. okay motion by board member arianes seconded by board member kenya who's it you yeah all right okay um do we have any discussion okay um so we'll go ahead

117and vote and it passes five 5-0 and then we will move on to um item 10.4 and what i'm going to say right now before we go into 10.4 and 10.5 is that there was a request that everybody would like to have a space between times that we get information between information and acting and so what we did this time is we're going to have the information set section right here and then maybe in our next meeting we can just put it on the consent calendar but that'll give everybody two weeks or two weeks time to go ahead and ask any questions and if there was any concerns then they can go ahead and pull it from the kids and calendar and we can continue to discuss does that sound like a reasonable plan yes

118okay i'm not i'm not sure i understand what you're saying jerry okay um basically some members wanted more time between just instead of just getting the resolution in front of you and voting on it that day they wanted more time in between a space where they could check things out and research and so instead of having two um info and action items weeks apart or you know like two weeks apart um instead of that we'll just do the info on this meeting in the next meeting if it's okay with you that's why i'm throwing it out there we put it in the consent calendar and if there's any discussion we can pull it out of consent well isn't that isn't that the purpose of us getting our our board agenda on thursday for to read

119it and to look into it and not i thought that was the purpose of us getting it on thursday so we can do our research and read on it and ask questions and then come to the board and be ready to um vote on it the same day but that's my impression yeah no i understand your point um but basically you know they're just some like i didn't know the balance energy solutions we're going to have a presentation i've read up on it but what if i learned something so anyway um that's what was requested and i was just curious if everybody would be fine just having the info and then putting in the consent calendar and that way we don't double dip it well i think at this point i think i mean that's

120what we're i mean that's what we should do i i kind of agree with yolanda i'm not sure like for example i'm a little surprised to see number 10.5 as an info item because i requested an action item and you and arturo replied that it was going to be an action item so i'm a little surprised that this is an echo item well it was requested that it uh become an info item because there was more research and more information that people wanted i think you should agree upon that prior instead of right like right now i think i think that's been discussed prior so that we should have spoken about it so it is i mean so it is what it is but to your point jerry i mean okay fine i think i'm

121i'm okay with both of those coming on consent next time because we're getting into today but i would appreciate next time that if i ask something if i ask for an action item to be put on to be put on his action we can always as a board defer action if we don't want to but now we cannot take action because it's not listed as an action item right okay that sounds fine it's only because we're used to a certain process and then it just changes in the middle like right this minute that that's why i questioned it no i understand and i that's why i asked that's it to you all to discuss so again just for the clarity as we're moving forward um i'm not sure that i'm i'm i i'm hearing that

122obviously this is where we're at right now and this is the way it was done this time around but moving forward as resolutions come up um are we saying that they come info first and then action at a subsequent meeting uh because there are things there are things like for instance uh resolution for uh classified you know employee week uh you know there's there's and so i'm just trying to get clarity on you know moving forward what what are we reverting are we starting something like a new a new system a new process or are we reverting back well i'm not sure i got clarity on that uh as we're building board agendas and as as resolutions keep coming to our uh to our plate you know i think it works i mean both ways

123if if something's going to be an info item first and then later it's going to be you know if it's going to be separated i think that just the communication amongst the you know on the thursday packet um to let us know um because sometimes you might need to do more research on your part as a cabinet so i'm okay with doing info and then having two weeks to digest and for you to do the research and we have more questions and if you were to give us more information and then for us to go ahead and take action after that um but if if if we can do a hybrid i mean that that would be great too um so that way you know in case and leave that you know at the discretion

124of the president and the superintendent because you might as a superintendent you know or your cabinet might need some to do more research to be able to uh to give to the board so i i would just like just the communication i guess in the thursday packet um you know by the way this this is going to be an info item today and it's going to be an uh action item within two weeks that's it but i'm okay with that so i'll i'll just speak for myself um in my perspective i i don't see why um i don't necessarily see why something would need to be an info item and then two weeks later be an action item to yolanda's point you know if if we're getting those resolutions on a thursday and we have

125more than a few days to to review that um or or or answer any questions that to me seems uh sufficient there's certainly i mean almost inevitably will be times where there is more time needed or maybe we want to diffraction and we've done that in the past and i think that that it's already built into the system for us to be able to do that if we need it um so um yeah i i don't to your question arturo i don't i don't see why we would need to go about some new process i think the the traditional process that we have in place is most efficient it makes sense okay fantastic thank you can i can i just summarize that sure so again moving forward um we're gonna we're going to bring resolutions

126uh for action items and to the points that have been made by the board uh this evening there are mechanisms in places where those could be tabled um i mean there's mechanisms in place that if somebody needs more information that that that can happen and so we're gonna we're gonna bring resolutions now moving forward uh for action items is that correct yes that's what it says yes okay thank you okay now we'll move on to item 10.4 resolution 2021 08 k12 balance energy solutions and apparently there is someone to speak on that resolution [Applause] yes i'd like to introduce and welcome mr robert cruz who is the public affairs manager for socalgas and also a former board member at charter oak unified school district thank you for being here tonight sir hey good evening board

127and uh super superintendent ortega i appreciate the opportunity uh to speak on it on this issue and thank you for putting on the agenda um so now california basically as you know because of the pandemic is in a world of financial hurt k-12 districts have been impacted uh and we we're bringing this resolution forward because the state has been pushing for electrification there's a big movement up north to go all electric and if your own home is any indication especially when you run your ac all day because of the heat wave and we have blackouts you see the cost of of electricity and so this balanced energy resolution um i've brought it this is the fifth district that i've i've brought it to so i have four other districts that have adopted it uh they

128did adopt it as a as an action or on consent calendar so i i like the fact that you're gonna you know you're gonna hear me out you're gonna look at the resolution the language if there's questions you know you can pose them to uh to arturo ortega and he can ask me so i can provide additional information but my point is that as a former school board member and even even working with my you know city councils the one thing that we bristled at was when sacramento dropped unfunded mandates on us they would say do this but no dollars were attached to it uh this is similar this movement by the legislature that they have moved in in that direction l.a county tried to pass an ordinance last year l.a county where they they

129basically said no new restaurants can come in using natural gas so there's a big movement from the restaurant association restaurant owners business owners say we know you can't tell us what to do let us make our own choice if we decide to go win solar hydrogen electric a hybrid of all those a combination give us that choice as a local elected board or city council to make that determination um we think the bounce energy approach provides all those options to you in terms of doing your part to basically decrease the carbon footprint and we've seen the impact with the wildfires in california with the weather when it i just mentioned that when it gets hot our prices go up but if we have options and as a district when you're really struggling in some cases

130to manage your budgets and sacramento says you're getting less money because you know we're being hit business the revenues aren't coming in from business so i'm presenting this k-12 balance energy resolution for your consideration i hope that you can support it again it's based on cost to the district because if you're told you have to go all electric and you have to change out your equipment and your schools everything has to go electric now your your electric bills go up so that those dollars are being spent when you could basically decide we're going to use uh you know natural gas to do this we're going to use maybe solar energy to do this but you the choices are made at your local level um and then again cost of choice really are the two big

131big issues the other thing i wanted to mention uh before i open up the questions if you have any is that the city of azusa passed a balanced energy resolution as as a city the city council did last year uh and now this year i'm coming to to the local uh school districts that are they're under they're in my district to ask for your support on this so with that if there's any questions i'd be glad to answer them any questions oh board member ariana's you you mentioned something that um you said in legislation they're passing that all districts have to go through do electric is this something new that has been brought up to legislation well there was a bill a year and a half a year and a half ago a b 32

132it did not pass because they made amendments to the bill but we hear that that that legislation is being reworked and will be coming back the feeling is it will impact not only school districts but business the business community if sacramento can mandate that you have to go all electric that's the threats kind of nothing has come out aboard marianas nothing concrete yet but we hear from our staff in sacramento that this this there's a lot of conversation around this we just want to be prepared for our our cities and our school districts to say let us make that choice at the local level thank you okay any other questions okay so now we'll move on to item um much appreciated and item 2.5 resolution 2021-9 schools and local communities fundings act and chilean i've

133been pounding for this for a long time so i totally agree with you on that so if anybody else would like to speak up on the the basis for the proposition 13 and all that other things right do you want me to speak to this because yes please because yes i made a request to put this on the agenda to consider supporting prop 15 um which which is the it's it would um it's the schools and communities first act and it would um raise additional local property tax revenues by creating what this what's called a split roll and so commercial properties would be taxed at their at their fair at their fair share i think over since prop 13 was passed in the late 70s and the share of property taxes that's generated by the

134state that comes from residential so so when when prop 13 was passed when you look at the share of property tax revenues um two-thirds came from commercial one-third came from residential now um 40 years later it's flipped so two-thirds of all property taxes generated come from residential houses and one-third come from commercial and a lot of that has to do with the fact that um when when when a corporation or owns property right it doesn't change hands like it does with houses and so those properties do not get reassessed so this this will just allow the state to assess commercial property um at current rates and make it a fair system there is a big carve out for for small businesses so they define small businesses as three million or under so a lot of

135our small business businesses not all obviously but a lot of small businesses will be protected um and so i'm just putting this forth because it will generate a significant amount of revenue for school district for schools and i think we are always talking about how we need more money for our schools and how we don't have enough um and so this is one step towards we trying to reach full and fair funding so i just wanted so obviously it's information we can't vote around tonight but i hope that when it comes back to us next meeting that that everyone that will be willing to support this resolution if i can just add a little bit to that i want to i do want to show appreciation to uh afe aea and csea that signed on

136to this resolution as well so they have been named uh in the resolution in support of of the schools and local communities funding act and i'd like to throw in the um when i first ran for school board i was contacted by the people who are backing started this whole thing and i thought it was such a great idea and i did not know that was what was going on as far as that and the flipping the upside down and now multi-million dollar uh companies like disney are not paying the same fair share of property tax as we are as homeowners and our children are being denied that income for their schools so that's why i'm on board um anybody else i just want to thank shilonin for bringing this forward because it is a

137good proposition and it will help our students thank you okay anybody else alrighty um so we'll go ahead and we'll move down to the consent calendar we've got way too much cuteness going on right there 11.1 all matters listed under the consent calendar are considered by the board to be routine and format following the last consent calendar agenda item there will be no discussion of these items prior to the time of to the time the board staff or public requests specific items to be discussed if discussion is requested by a board member that item will be removed from the consent calendar and will be considered separate the superintendent and staff recommend approval of all consent calendar agenda items do i have a motion on the floor make a motion to approve 11.2 through 11.8 accent

138calendar thank you do i have a second i would second and open for discussion to to pull out two items okay 11.4 and 11.7 four and eleven point seven okay so we would be voting on all but eleven point four or eleven point seven eleven point one eleven point two eleven point three eleven point five and eleven point six and eleven point eight um so we had the motion it's been seconded let's vote okay and it passes 5-0 now we'll move on to item 12.0 items pulled from the consent calendar and item 11.4 will become 12.1 and item 11.7 will become 12.2 um gabriella our board member arianis uh yes for 11.4 i had a question and mr howard taurus the medical billing um i just want how often do we use him um you

139know what aaron cramer can answer that one um this is he this this position is providing um medical authorization for our speech therapists to bill medi-cal for district reimbursement um so we do receive that medi-cal billing so in terms of the frequency um i'm not quite sure but aaron cramer um is that a question that you are there can you answer that one i'm not sure if i'm here am i here you're here okay good um so we do participate in medi-cal billing which means that our providers such as our psychologists our mental health therapists and our speech and language therapists bill medical for services that they provide to students that are medically based there is a requirement for speech and language therapists in order for them to bill they need a doctor or a

140medical professional to sign off on their billing meaning that their services are medically related dr taras works for many districts and selfas in southern california um signing off on the medically related billing for all of our speech therapists and so that's why it's actually a 15-minute charge for his hourly rate um he signs off yearly for a two-year contract it might be twice a year excuse me i think he he reviews twice a year okay and so we're just we're just renewing his contract for for him for this next for the 2020 2021 school year exactly that is correct okay that's it thank you can we also actually can we can also another point of clarification because it looks like there's a discrepancy between the actual agreement and the language unless i'm mistaken um so

141it's 25 cents an hour not to exceed 70 a year on the contract but it appears that on the uh i believe that 2.5 is um fifth like a quarter of an hour at 280. i think you're right it's reversed you know what um mr girl i'm so sorry i did not catch that when we reviewed it you are 100 right it is 2 280 for a quarter hour but then it says not to exceed 70 per year which that's still accurate that is correct that is accurate okay okay and then we move to go ahead and vote don't we no let me go through them both right can aaron just clarify because what i mean she's what does it make sense how do you how does he charge that per hour but he only

142spent only 20 dollars for the entire school year so because there's a clerical error i do think we're going to need to come back with this and i do apologize for the clerical error but to clarify the content of the question his hourly rate to my understanding is 280 dollars per hour and he works and now i'm doing my math he works a quarter of an hour so 15 minutes so he he only charges us 70 per year even though his hourly rate is higher because i'm looking at the actual contract it 1.25 at 280 hours equals 70 dollars per year that's that's the clearance so he only works 15 minutes for us for the whole year correct 15 minutes for the whole year it is a paperwork he does so we probably spent more

143time talking about it than he does you know what we are fiscally responsible that is an important thing to okay so the way that i just figured it out the 280 dollars that he charges for per hour quarterly would be one-fourth of that so then it would equal 70 dollars and that's how you guys but the way that it's reflected on the it doesn't necessarily there was there was a clerical error so i will have to bring this back and i do apologize for that okay well we've already had a motion in a second so we're going to have to have it amended to being pulled off of the agenda so yeah and i will bring it back next time you're cabling it substitute motion move that we table this second point four okay so

144we're going to table 12.1 11 also known as 11.4 and we vote on tabling that okay everyone now we're moving on to item 12.2 formerly 11.7 approved contract with integrity pest control management inc rfp 2021 100 100 and ms ariana's yes my question for this is excuse me what is the cost monthly because it doesn't clarify that on on the contract and so i think it's really important that it clarifies that because it just has an amount and it it doesn't have is it monthly is it yearly is it quarterly is the calendar and so um first of all what is the cost and can we please put in there that you know what's the cycle monthly yearly currently is um 2030 per month and that covers the district-wide offices as well as child nutrition

145our nutrition services sorry i'm sorry can you repeat that sure two thousand thirty dollars so 2030 is the monthly amount monthly i i think it's really important um we don't have the the like i said that reflected on on the contract so i think it's important that it's reflected on the contract so that way um there's point of clarity okay okay would you like to just go ahead and pull it and have it rewritten and bring it back uh yes madam president i would like to go ahead and pull the table and bring it back can we have um i would like to go ahead and motion to pull and bring back to our next meeting to for the monthly cost to be reflected on the contract second okay uh motion by board memorial seconded

146by board member yolanda all in favor or not okay and it passes 5-0 and at this point we'll go down to 13.0 human resources 13.1 consider approval of consultant gun psychological services incorporated um i would assume that that is from mr ronquillo do we have it uh there's yeah do i have a motion on the floor for this a motion to approve okay do we have a second second okay motion by board member ariana seconded by board member sheila neen um any discussion yeah uh just one one quick question can can you elaborate on briefly what this is and then also the contract says that the way that this will be reported uh back to the board or the is through ieps but that's not that doesn't that doesn't really get clarity on the like

147the effectiveness of the consultant um so can you speak to that as well how do we know that the consultant is that the district is getting its money's worth like to bring back uh aaron cramer to talk about this one okay so um this consultant agreement is in response to a parent request for an individual education evaluation the selfa the special education local plant agency so east san gabriel valley selfa has a list of approved consultants that are considered qualified to conduct independent education evaluations so in this particular case a parent utilize their procedural rights and safeguards to ask for a psychological um because they had questions with our internal evaluation and so this is for one student and this is an approved um psychologist or company to conduct that assessment so you're saying the

148family picked this this this assessment the person correct yes yes that is correct so we give them a list of um of assessors that are approved now they families can still bring someone else that's not on that list um for us to consider however this one does happen this particular company does happen to be on that list and we've used them before okay thank you okay any more questions all right we'll go ahead and vote then okay it passes 5-0 and now we'll move on to item 13.2 approve the memorandum of understanding between the azusa unified school district and the azusa educators association cta and nea motion on the floor motion to move 13.2 okay motion by board member ariana's do i have a second second seconded by board member grier um any discussion yeah

149i have something so i one i want to say i appreciate that we've been able to collaborately collaboratively develop this mou i think you see some examples around the state where that's not happening and some places are start happens are about to start school and don't have something so i appreciate that this was done i mean we saw i think the teachers voted on it at least a week and a half for two weeks before school started so i appreciate that um i just want to ask a question in terms of at the very end of the mou it talks about synchronous instruction and it lays out minimal minimal daily minute or minute minimum minutes per block can you clarify how that fits into our instructional approach and and whether we expect to see that's

150what that's what we're going to see in classrooms or or how that how that is going to translate into into how much synchronous instruction students are going to get dr mitchell do you want to respond to this question oh yeah i think it's either this is directed to our dana sorry i'll start um so these would be they are um minimum it would be the floor of synchronous instruction and so sp 98 delineates that students will receive synchronous instruction live interactions with their teachers and or peers and so this can be done in a variety of ways and so these are again these are minimum floor expectations and really it really depends in terms of what kinds of you know instructional activities we're doing best case is obviously uh we have whole group instruction but

151especially with distance learning it really should be additional instruction uh synchronous instruction with uh small groups right so that is one of the um the best evidence-based practices in distance learning so we would expect to see a combination of whole and small group as well okay thank you any more discussion okay let's vote ass is 5-0 and now we'll move on to item 14.0 business and finance 14.1 approve agreement with aries software do i have a motion on the floor so i'm so moved hmm okay so it was uh moved by board member shiloh nin and seconded by board member greer okay do we have any discussion all right let's go ahead and vote on this okay it's past five zero and next is fourteen point two ratify and approve slash approve child care alliance

152of los angeles grant i have a motion on the floor make a motion to approve 14.2 motion by board member yolanda a second seconded by board member arianas any discussion yes i have an explanation on that please sure i'd be happy to so um the child care alliance has awarded our district with a fourteen thousand dollar grant that will provide our preschool teachers with professional learning instructional coaching and um other resources needed to improve our preschool programs and improve our rating so preschool programs receive a rating on what's called the quality rating and improvement system and so this is an opportunity for us to continue continue to improve our practice um and again professional learning um uh we can purchase additional resources um uh along with that as well and so um we're excited and

153it's uh fourteen thousand dollars all right thank you uh board member arianas do you have a question yes i just wanna um just congratulate our district in receiving this crap for fourteen thousand dollars is fourteen thousand dollars and i'm i'm really excited you know that that we're getting this grant it's an opportunity um our district applied and we received it so yay congratulations guys okay um and any other comments okay let's go ahead and vote passes 5-0 and does anybody have anything else before i close the meeting comments well i would like to thank you everybody and miss jamal appreciate you all right everybody drive carefully have a good night what time are we closing this meeting oh i'm sorry closing the meeting at 9 20. great thank you good night you