001just running around doing activities. >> How many of the students had ever golfed before? >> Um, none of them. It was everybody's first time. >> Yeah. >> How many people have beat Mr. Leon Cornhole? >> Cornhole. >> Mr. was pretty good, but I mean I've beaten him a couple times. >> All right. >> So, when you said attendance was 10% 13%. So, it went up 10% two weeks ago and then 13% the week after. >> That's great. That's awesome. >> Way better than last year. Last year was >> I know. >> That's awesome. That's really cool. >> That is cool. >> Um to recap September, we had our various homecoming events. 911 ceremony thunderball and class of 2026 had fundraiser. Our homecoming princesses were our exchange students Sandra and Vina and then Jasmine Genos Grac
002Madison Walker and our queen was Kennedy Meadows. Friends of BBHS hosted the annual 911 ceremony and Thunderball. Both events were just a few weeks ago and our winners for Thunderball were the sophomore and senior teams. October is looking pretty quiet otherwise for student um otherwise for student activities. AVID is running a college and career career week right now with their college and career day was today. We had three guest speakers from our community community that participated in a panel. Following the assembly, students had the opportunity to connect with individuals from a variety of colleges and careers in our area. They had around 45 tables to look at. Students will be off for fall break for the next two weeks. On October 28th, our poetic society is hosting an open mic night. We wrap up the
003month off with our annual awards ceremony on October 31st. For sports, tennis, >> 31st. That's messed up. >> For fall sports, tennis is 3 to2. They've had a lot of cancellations due to weather, but they're looking forward for the rest of their season. Both cross country teams are going to state after winning week. For girls golf, it's going well. They are undefeated in their league and after fall break is their league finals. Our uh volleyball season has been going really well so far. are currently tied in third place, which shows the progress they've been making as a team. Their skills and overall style of play has grown a lot since the start of the season. The team has been working hard and an improvement is showing on the court. They're excited to keep pushing forward
004and finishing off strong. For football, JP football is for four to one. Varsity is 4 to2 and one and one in the Mississippi league. Parent Appreciation Night will be the last season uh will be the last regular season game on Friday, October 24th. The following Sunday, October 26th, they will participate in the Dub's annual Walk in a Mile in Her Shoes event, bringing awareness to talking to taking a stand against domestic. >> Joshua, like you forgot something, you wanted to say it. >> Well, I thought I messed up properly. Are you guys ready for break? >> Oh, yes. >> All right. If you guys want to head out, you can. Or >> go. >> Thanks, Joshua. Thanks. >> All right. Next item. Uh, presentation from All Children Thrive Team presentation. I would give an introduction,
005but I don't think they'd rather dance. >> We're excited to have >> We've got half the homecoming court. >> Okay. Well, hi everyone. Um, my name is Angelica Rodriguez. I'm the peer and family advocate at the Mind Dad Project. And first of all, I would like to thank all of you for allowing us to be here to present about our project. Um, okay. So, I'm going to talk to you guys a little bit about the moment that happened. Uh, we've been serving the valley since 2001. Uh, we are the first family resource center here. Uh, we've been serving uh, we are the first resource center that serves my mother um partners and now we are serving the whole family. Um >> I think could you take one step back? >> Yes. >> I'll just >>
006just so we can see the slides. >> Yeah. Sorry. Okay. So yeah, one of our uh missions is uh reducing um ACEs. Um and but the way we do that is we strengthen families and build um protective factors and prevent cycles of trauma. Uh we are um sorry um we are a trust a trusted family resource center here in the valley. Our goal is to connect to connect families to um healthcare, food, housing and as well as mental health um resources and mental support. Oh and parent support, sorry. Okay. So, now we're going to talk a little bit about um ACT. So, the all um we all join the all children's right um initiative to empower youth um to advocate, influence policy and ensure their voices are being heard. Um youth voice um okay, youth
007voice is a powerful tool for preventing ACES as well. Um Freddy will be talking a little bit more about that and what it means. But uh when people uh when young people feel a sense of leadership, belonging, um civ civic engagement, they thrive and that helps um building a strong community and um where like it's not only mainly about um tourism. Um our amazing director Megan Meadows applied for this um grant back in 2022. We were one of the 13 projects that were accepted like statewide. So that's a pretty big deal to us. Uh we open applications to Big Bear um high school students. Um 10 we received 10 applications and we ended up staying with seven students and now we have um six um high school um seniors um entering their third year in
008the project. And tonight they will be introducing themselves and the work that we've been doing so far. My name is And my name is Isaac Dhon. >> My name is Kennedy. And my name is M Walker. And we also have two other members, Ezekiel and Brenda, but they couldn't be here tonight. >> We're all seniors at high school. >> So, a little bit more about ACT. So, ACT is all children thrive. It is a community-ledd initiative in order to respond to ACEs. So ACEs is your um adverse childhood experiences and there are traumatic events that happen in your life up to the age of 18 which include part of being abuse, emotional and physical neglect. It also houses into housing challenges growing up. So there's 10 questionnaires. You guys all have a copy there. So
009if you would like you can kind of take that for yourself. What that means that uh research has shown that the more ACES score you have that you are more likely to have a higher risk factors for chronic health issues including with cardiac cancer or diabetes, mental health issues, substance usage and difficulty in the work or in school if you're slowing that process. And so again you guys have an information sheet and there's also a fact sheet that you guys also have if you want more information about it. Um but why does that matter for us? So we created a needs assessment in the community which you guys have a copy. We had 540 applicants actually respond to our needs assessment in the community and nearly half of them reported a scores in parental separation,
010domestic conflict and household instability. More than onethird of the people in our in our survey also uh said that ACES still affects them today and more than half still have some sort of trauma based on what happened then from the ages 0 to 18. And so what ACT does is in partnership with UCLA center for health and children, families and communities as well as public health advocates, they help train a lot of um community who are part of this project and coaching, advocacy, getting data, creating needs assessment and empowering our youth to be the voice in that aspect to bring awareness to a lot of people and then how do we create that change within our community. And so again, our act is ordered to provide a solution that will hopefully last a long time
011and not just advantage to similar problems and the youth will kind of present a little more on what they've been doing over the past two and a half years. >> All right, guys. Look at Megan real quick. >> Is anyone can ask questions now or should we save for the end? >> Sure. They have a lot of information to get through. We don't mind. >> Okay. Sure. Sure. Sure. >> All right. Next. Next slide. >> All right. So, what we've done so far, so so far we've been holding uh monthly meetings with both our local ACT act youth team and also meetings with state representatives from ACTs. And in these uh meetings, we learned how government works and how decisions are made, how policies are created and things like that. Uh we've also been meeting
012with the city of Big Bear Lake. Uh we met with the city manager, Ericson. We're going to be meeting with him again uh later. Um, but we've had uh the opportunity to learn how our local government works, specifically some of the more nuances and um why it matters that you perspective is included at our community. Uh, we also took a trip up to Sacramento, which Aiden will be talking about later in the presentation. Um, but we had the opportunity to meet our state senator, Rosalissi Oa Boa, um, and have a conversation with her and um her goals and what she thinks is important and about our project. So um but in everything we've been doing, we've really been focusing on making sure that the youth voice is heard in the community. Um and we've learned
013that our voices really can have an impact and influence decisions. We also conducted a community needs assessment which you should all have a copy of. It's the piece with the spiral on it. Um, and I'd like to call attention to the number of responses that we had from high school and middle school students. Um, of the 540 responses, 230 were from students in um, the high school and the middle school. Um, and what we found is that youth in Big Bear are experiencing some real issues including stress about mental health, limited safe spaces and activities, um, and concerns about future opportunities in the city. U about one in three youth reported prolonged sadness or hopelessness lasting two weeks or more in the past year and over 75 experienced stress in the past month uh with
014a small but significant 13% experiencing near constant stress. And while 68% um know where to get help, one in five youth do not know where to turn for mental health support. One of the most impactful experiences this year was when six of us, all high school juniors from Big Bear and six adult leaders, traveled to Sacramento for nonprofit advocacy. We spent a week meeting with legislators and learning how youth advocacy influence policy on a big scale. We learned how other cities have created youth policy councils, which give young people a formal seat at the table with their city leaders. What stood out to us was seeing that in other cities, youth aren't just being heard. They're actually helping shape policies about parks, housing, mental health, and programs that directly affect you. This inspired us to
015think about bigger. If other communities can give youth a seat at the table, why not us? We believe bigger could benefit from the same kind of structure, a way for young people to regularly share ideas, highlight challenges, and be part of solutions alongside our city leaders. Our Sacramento trip made one thing clear. Youth voices matter. And when we are included, it creates a stronger, it creates stronger policies and a stronger future for our city. Um, so our policy focus and why our project matters. For Big Bear, our project matters because kids in rural areas have higher A scores than kids in urban areas, which means long-lasting side effects not only on our society, but also our economy. With $14 trillion estimated to be spent on ACE related health problems each year, we need to invest
016in our youth because other cities that invested in their youth early on show 7 to 13% annual return in education, improved health, and reduced justice system involvement. Our policy focus is making youth voices a part of decision-m, highlighting the real needs of local youth, advocating for city investment factors, and promoting equity. This project matters because it turns our voices into action and helps build a future for kids to grow up safe, supported, and ready to thrive. This year, through ACT, we learned that there's no specific city fund set aside for local youth. Without this, it is difficult to create stable year-round thriving communities. We also learned that Big Bear really struggles to attract and keep young talent. 50% of young people say they would stay in their hometown if there were opportunities, but 42% end
017up leaving due to lack of jobs. We also learned that um rural youth face far greater barriers. We lack access to after school programs, mental and mental health support. With federal cuts hitting these areas the hardest, rural areas like us need the support more than ever. Through our local news assessment that we did, we learned that while most students attend daily, absenteeism is directly tied to mental health, fatigue, and lack of motivation. We learned that 70% of BBHS and BBMS students struggle staying focused in class. And we learned that about one in five students stated they lack access to tutoring, safe study spaces, and needed academic support. We learned that only 47% of students feel comfortable asking their teachers for help. >> What percentage? Sorry. >> 47%. >> You really need to learn how to
018project. >> All right. Um, what's next for our ACT team? As you guys can see, aces make our work urgent. Adverse childhood experiences depend on their families, environment, and many other factors. The community needs assessment reports align with these findings, reinforcing concerns about mental health, absenteeism, and li limited emotional support in school. ACEs don't just affect childhood either. People with high A scores live on average 20 years less than those of men. ACEs carry into our work at the state level. We're proud to say that three of our Big Bear ACT team members are now part of an ACTwide statewide initiative. At that level, we're working to shape strategies around housing, mental health, and safe environments, all of which directly affect a scores. Just because we're working at the state level does not mean our
019mission in Big Bear here is done. We're still committed to the fight against adverse childhood experiences. We want to build a Big Bear where youth and families thrive as well as a tourism economy. Because ACEs are preventable and we believe that Big Bear can take real steps to prevent them. We're asking you, the Big Bear Valley Unified School Board, to support us. You can continue to welcome youth input at board meetings and help us advocate for resources dedicated to youth such as safe and inclusive spaces for youth beyond just sports. And you can support this the creation of a youth council so we can actively be a part of decision-m. Here's the bottom line. ACT has given us the tools and confidence to lead with Big Bear youth engaged and committed to the future by
020helping to prevent ACEs. We want to make sure every child, every family, and every youth has an opportunity to thrive right here in Big Bear. Thank you for your time and attention to our project. >> So, you guys are graduating in seven monthsish, >> maybe. Now it matters kids. >> But then what? You guys are gone. I mean maybe some of the state level work. Who's next? What are you going to do now? >> Yeah. Who's your bench? >> So this is a three-year project. Um it will end when these guys graduate. We actually were informed last week that we have the potential for another three-year project. We will know in December. If that happens, then we will start holding meetings back up at the high school again. Hopefully um we're looking for a teacher
021um champion up at the high school and we would take on additional youth at that point um to start the continuum of it. And then from there, what we're really hoping, we're looking into a couple of scholarship opportunities, um possibly like investing in the Halo so that there's a continuum of it, that initial investment of that $14,000 to get in and that it wouldn't just end with these guys. That's our hope. In the event that it does end with these guys, um we are actively looking to have a policy passed at the city level. We're working with the city of Bigger Lake so that they can sit down and do a policy act that would live legacy of of the work that they have. >> Have you guys presented this information to the high school
022students like you're doing now? >> Not yet with the high school students. >> Oh, please do. >> Thank you. >> It's important. >> So is this So this is the culmination of the three years. No, that was the needs assessment that we did in the second year. >> Okay. So, this isn't this isn't done every year. >> We have not. This is the first time the mom and dad project has ever done a needs assessment. >> Um, so that was written into the grant and then we leveraged our funding with department of behavioral health because they were interested in in knowing youth's perspective also. So, um, ACT wanted us to take from other surveys that have been done, which you guys know there's not a lot there's not a lot that's been done. >> So,
023how how were the people solicited to partake in the questionnaire? >> So, we created a QR code, sent it to these guys, and made it into a competition with these guys. The most people that you get to take it, somebody want. >> So, who won? Oh my god. >> So what did you guys do to incentivize her to get Were you just like asking people begging people were you paying us? >> Yeah. People wanted to do it. >> So do you think that you got especially when I think of students? Do you think that you got a good representation of the composition of Big Bear when you did it? >> I would say the people that even I asked like just with me I felt that a wide amount of people were represented. >> That's
024really important. One of the things that I've learned as a teacher, I'm not being on the board for longer than Manny said a lot, is a lot of the people who report and do things are from a certain demographic and a certain socioeconomic level and they're like, well, I want to know what the people who normally don't get a chance to express their voice to you. So, good for you for reaching out to to include everyone. >> Um, so middle school and high school were the earliest ages. Do you have any information on the average age of the other people who did it? I don't know that there's age. >> No, there was an age and old. Yeah, >> it had to do because it was primarily around aces. They don't recommend doing ACES. You
025have to have a parent do ace under 12, right? >> So, or middle school, elementary was left off on purpose because that requires kind of parents information, >> right? Okay. Um, you had uh I'm curious, the A scores in rural areas are lower than urban areas. higher >> or pardon me in rural are higher >> higher. >> Do you know why that is? >> It's because we don't have as much access to mental health support. So like all the kids in urban areas have a lot of things that they can do where the kids in rural areas are kind of spending their time on other things. So they just don't have as much opportunity. >> Yeah, that's interesting. So, uh, Kennedy, you said something that I think is important, not just in sports, >> that
026>> there has to be a way to reach kids, not just through sports. >> Yes. >> Yeah. You guys know me, I'm big sports, but >> I feel like Big Bear kind of focuses on sports. Um, less with performance arts. Like the pack just got a new fee >> fee. So, I think that kind of makes us struggle a little bit, including everybody. >> Do you want to explain that for people who weren't at the city council meeting? >> Yeah. Um, you know, you guys do it. >> So, basically, the pack has always had a lower fee for the students at the high school and they have recently raised that. So, now the students that are trying back from the high school will no longer have that uh lower price which will mean that we
027most likely will not be able to use that facility. >> They just did that. >> This like just passed last month for nonprofits as well. >> Yeah. >> It was across the board that there was a rate increase for anybody using the pack. So on that note, can you explain to me, you met with Eric with the city and you were talking about the potential that there's some kind of a fund that that you are soliciting the idea that perhaps they would to have some kind of an act fund, so to speak. Was there anything solid about that or just talking about the idea any dollar amounts? >> We haven't yet for like uh discussed or asked with them. That meeting was just to uh get us our foot in the door and kind of
028build relationships with the city. So that meeting was really just covering we were asking them questions about what do they do for youth and what >> and what did they say they do for youth? >> They said that they have the performing arts center. >> So um they were really struggling to find answers for us whenever we ask any questions youth related. >> Isn't that cool when you have an important adult? They're scrambling a little bit to find answers and so then we're asked to present and now they're asking what our ask is of them. So we have not yet had that formulated conversation and for clarity we did not meet with Eric. We met with Sean Sullivan and Eric Stevens and it really was like Maddie said in looking for partnership. That's what we're
029looking for is partnership to have a conversation with people on what could be done. >> Well, I would ask Erica what are the programs that are offered in Ukipa where she lives because they have significantly more opportunities for her son >> that we don't have up here. Um, >> but also in fairness to the city, they told us no one's ever asked. So, we said, "We're coming for next." >> Yeah, that's what I was going to say. >> I find it hard to believe if you say, "Hey, we can't afford this." >> Yeah. >> But you never know. >> That's a good point because and you know, we always sit as a cabinet and we're always discussing things and we go over what do we need to do for district things like that and a
030constant question come up. Did anybody ask the kids? >> You know, did anybody ask the kids? In fact, uh, Mr. Williams and I are going to be at the school on Friday to talk to a certain set of students about a project or one of the programs there. Making sure we understand their input because we trying to do that. But the question always comes up, we ask our principles and everyone else, did you ask the students the staff meetings? Did we ask the students to get their input? So this is pretty inspiring on the fact that you guys are coming respectfully saying hey we have something to say. on his note of asking the students, these three old guys at in December went to a conference and uh we sat in on students being members
031of the governing board >> and we were we thought it's pretty good idea. What do you guys think? >> I think that's a great idea. >> Yeah, because you were the one willing to do it. Yeah. >> Yeah. We have this guest. That's one of the things that we're pushing for as like with our group is hoping that more youth info can be put into these meetings because they just simply don't know what the youth need. And so I don't think it's like they don't want to help, but they just aren't aware of. >> So Mr. Marquez meets with How often have you been? You >> know, we've we haven't been able to meet this quarter yet. Um but we're trying to get that going for next quarter. We were meeting we it was supposed
032to be a quarterly thing last year and then these guys wanted to meet every month. I think we met every single month with them because they had a lot of input that they wanted to do. They there was a lot and they had a lot of questions and it was it's fascinating what questions they have and what's important to them and what made me go back and reflect. And then the fairness in the room is it's just them and I meaning they can be as honest as they want to be. Never is a student named used when something is said in the room. So we can go back to the principles or whoever we need to speak with teachers, principal, whatever is to ask this is what students are looking for and their insight is
033inspiring what their insight is. >> So you had mentioned suggestions when you're speaking that and one was a council of some sort. Can you read your suggestions again? >> Um mine it was um continuing to welcome youth input at these board meetings. um where um dedicating resources to youth such as safe and inclusive spaces. That's where I um brought up not just sports. And then um you can also support the creation of a youth council so we can actively be a part of the decision making. >> This big never had a teen center, has it? >> Um not really. They had that big they tried at the community church and and they tried that one for a while. tried to get the teen center there. Um I don't know what what happened with that, why
034that really took off, but no, we have not had something that has stuck solid. No, >> my last comment, thank you very much for coming and in your commitment to student mental health. I once again supported no policy at the high school, Mr. Marquez. That was kind of a joke. >> Kind of. I would actually like to be in touch with the group before you guys graduate >> and see how we continue this work within with or without the grant. How do we do how to attend BBB? Meet with your advisors and see how we continue the work without the without the grant, the importance of the work and give me more of an idea of the framework and think how what your ideas would be of how we could continue. gonna give just her.
035[Music] >> I think it'd be great if there were scheduled regular meetings so that it becomes a real thing that does happen and that there's, you know, shared either by them or by you after meeting with them, you know, communication with the board and how we can help. >> Luckily, one of the parents here are pretty gifted at figuring out a way to pay for things sometimes. So, >> um, is trying to figure these things out. So that's why I want to take advantage of you guys while you guys are still here and what you what your experiences have been and even the challenges of it to know so we don't reinvent the wheel with the next [Music] >> one more Thanks for coming, guys. [Music] >> Thank you. >> I didn't know you were
036back there, Ryan. >> All right. Perfect. >> Next is the >> Yeah. >> kind of the other set of >> uh next is the hearing section. Sorry, I've got to read my script. So, uh we have three public comments. We will now open the public comment period of our meeting. The president invites anyone wishing to address the governing board on any item that is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the governing board to do so at this time. Uh we value your input and welcome your comments. Please keep the following guidelines in mind during this portion of the meeting. Each speaker will be allotted three minutes to speak. Please note that under the Brown Act, the board cannot take action on items not on the agenda unless specific conditions are met, such as urgent matters
037or the need for immediate action. Public comments are an opportunity to share your views with the board, not to engage in a debate or a question and answer session. Board members will not respond directly to individual comments during this period, but will carefully consider all input. To maintain a respectful environment, please refrain from using offensive or discriminatory language. Personal attacks against individuals, including board members, staff, or members of the public are prohibited. Finally, these procedures are not designed to restrict public criticism of policies. procedures, programs or services of the district. These acts uh or the acts or emissions of the governing board legal references at codes section uh 35145 and 72121. All right. Does anyone want to go first? >> I'll go first. >> All right. Bonnie, >> thank you. Good evening everyone. Thank you
038for allowing us to have our voices heard. And I am so excited. I wanted to follow that group because I worked in I worked in I'm here representing the breakthrough task force which is a coalition from prevention and I worked very heavily in drug and alcohol prevention for youth to to keep drugs and alcohol out of youth hands. I worked part of the time in Yucka Valley. Yaka Valley had a youth council who worked hand in hand with our city council and passed policies and we got policies passed because we had youth on board who gave you who had their voices and they were heard and policies were passed because they used all the right ways to do it. So they can be done. That's not what I'm here to talk about and I get
039excited. What I'm here to talk about is that we were here a few months ago in April and um had some issues with some of the books that were on in the library situation and we presented those to the board and the board has taken action. Thank you very much for doing that and I was told I think by Mr. Rollinsy that there's some changes going on in the library system and we totally appreciate that. We said at the time that we would You said the biggest problem that you were facing was cell phones and student access on their cell phones and we as a breakthrough chat through task force volunteered to do a handout. Wanted to tell you it's here already. We did a interview with Chrissy Talks and we took some of her
040information and we've adapted this. It's in its first form and so I have some here if anybody wants to look at them. If not, um, they'll be we'll be going over them and through them. It's English on this side and the blank side will be in Spanish. So, we will have it in two languages and it will be a handout that you can readily use. We'll be using them to to uh encourage more prevention of bad activities and ACEs possibly. So, it's all about preventing and doing the right thing for our kids. >> Thank you. I don't I don't understand what the print out is. >> Can we go and pass it out? You can go and pass it out to the board. Yes, please do. >> It's good. >> Directions or instructions on how
041to safeguard the children on >> for the parents. >> For parents, >> the kids will not take it home to their mom and dad has it. we're doing here. >> Thank you for taking >> some corrections that we've already started on this. >> All right. Thanks, Bonnie. Next up, Jason Ro. >> Yes. >> I went to school just going to say hello. My name is Jason Roard. My family moved up here in 1976 when I was in the second grade. Excuse me. I have a little scratch in my throat, but uh so I went to every school up here and graduated. I was the first graduating class out of the new high school that we still have, 86. uh raised four children, three sons, uh and a 17-year-old daughter that just graduated in 2025. So,
042I have no students in the school, but I do have more time. And so, I had uh just spoke to some friends and I've known Bonnie for over 40 years and said, "Look, I'd like to get more involved. I haven't been to a school board meeting in over 40 years." And unfortunately 40 years ago I was a senior in high school and I was in trouble and that's why I was at for myself. Little different environment this year. And that uh Steve's been around forever. I remember walking the fields with you and I was the high school's lawn mower man and Terry CL principal at that time. I can't even remember his name. So you've been doing this for a long time. 25 years probably. Oh, I'm not supposed to ask you questions. So, um
043I I reached out to some people said I'd like to get more involved in the community and uh I was asked to read this book. This is a book that is available in high school media center. I'm not sure if it's available in the middle school library. Um but I said sure. So, um before I comment on the book that's available in the media center, I did want I was handed a article written in the Grizzly um in between the last meeting and this meeting headline was books and morals on the minds of PB USP speakers. So I guess that's me although I'd like to clarify right from the beginning to me this isn't an issue of morals. I wouldn't impose my morals on other people that aren't interested in my morals. Uh When I
044read the book, I I looked on at it as, you know, I asked a few questions, you know, what's the policy? And they said, well, there is no policy. So, what's the standard of how these books get into the media center and how uh we have a standard or a well-defined policy that we can say, oh, I found this book in the media center and according to your standards, it should not be there. So, uh, I read the book, uh, Speak. Never heard of, uh, Lori Anderson, but I didn't find the book particularly offensive. It's about an eighth grade girl that goes to a summer party and gets raped by a senior high school boy and uh, calls 911 at the party, but then ends up sneaking out uh, running away. And she she can't
045share this. She doesn't she doesn't tell her friends. She becomes an outcast. And uh she did a good job. It does it does describe rape on page 134. And then further on in the book, there's a sexual assault. Like I said, I'm 57 year old man. I didn't find it very offensive, but I let my eighth grade daughter read it. I would certainly hope she wouldn't find this book without me knowing about it. And so um as I continue to get more involved, I'd like to start showing up more and just doing more things community active. I just feel it's Was that my timer? Was that >> I just feel like it should be something that's on the agenda? Something that I mean that's discussed. It's not about my morals versus your morals. It's about
046what's the standards of this school board and what's your position on it so that we can, you know, vote for people that have our morals. That's where we vote. You know, that's where it's an issue is in the voting, not so much here. So, that's what I want to say. >> All right, Robin. >> That is a a hard act to follow all those kids encouraging. So, um I've been here and I spoke before and I'm speaking on the same thing and I've been here in support of um Jason and what he said and I appreciate his effort and I agree with what he was saying. Uh I also want to say that I found uh his report on that book to be really comforting and encouraging that he didn't come forward before the board
047and give a scathing report on this like I had to unfortunately do it the last book that I uh brought before you guys. So um I'm glad to see that everything is in like a horrible situation that there's like there is both good and bad on the scale. Not really good. But, you know, there's a range of different levels of concern. And I just want to reiterate with him uh again that I would like this to be on the agenda because that way we can, you know, there can be some discourse. I realize that we're bound by certain rules that I respect. And so um like he was saying I believe that there should be distinct like regulations um surrounding the access to this type of material I guess standard to be set and so
048that we can discuss this and really put that into a framework so it's not so I I know you already have like a a quarantined area but really to specify that and set out um standards um um written out to be followed. So that's how I want to say thank you. Thank you for having me. Thank you. All right. The consent calendar. Um before there's a motion, we have to remove item J. Um Oh, no, not J. >> Yeah, J. >> This one says transportation agreement with red ones. I thought it was something else. >> No, J is >> J is >> Oh, I'm sorry. Order >> above. >> Okay, >> sorry. So, removing item J. Make it a motion to approve. >> So, second. >> All in favor? I >> And the item that
049was removed, there was uh an issue with it. So, um Jess is going to bring that back to the next meeting. Um, now it's your turn. Manny employee announcements. >> Yes, sir. Um, okay. So, we have two employee announcements. I do not believe we have those employees here, but we still want to acknowledge them. Um, in BBMS cafeteria, um, for Baker Middle School. Um, Amy, we have Amy Rose. Amy has been a valued member with child nutrition since 2004. So, to move up for her, we are delighted that she is continuing her career at BBUSD at Big Bear Middle School. And for Baldwin Lane Elementary School, we have a new TKA, Chelsea Wack. Uh Chelsea, a proud alumni of Big Bear High School. Chelsea is deeply rooted in the district with children attending our schools.
050She has dedicated many hours to volunteering at Bald Lane and we are thrilled to welcome her to uh as our permanent staff here. >> Good hires. >> Good hives. Yes, ma'am. >> All right. You get to continue. >> I get to continue. Okay. So, most recently, uh one of the most recent, last night, we had our family fun night. We had over 500 participants. Um it was full. We had it we had it at Big Bear Middle School last year, but it just uh logistically was challenging because of all the families that showed up. We had it last night at Big Bear High School and it was huge. It was so many uh there was vendors there. There was different community members. There was space painting with Rotary. That was a big hit uh for
051the kids, but there was a But what was really nice is also Rita provided food. Last year we did pizza. We're going to do the same, but Rita, of course, Rita steps it up all the time. and Rita Espo and her team uh put together a really nice great meal, you know, with a pasta with chicken and salad. Just wanted to give a shout out to her for what she did. But really a shout out to Leanne and her entire team of Shanda and Christy and everyone that really worked hard on this with in conjunction with partnership with BBMR Beer Health Resorts who donated uh $30,000 worth of items for students and jackets and socks and all these different items and they did a little different. they learned from last year. A couple different things
052they did differently, but a lot of volunteers last night from Big Bear Mountain Resorts as well. It was a really fun event. I was there for most of the night. It was it was really wellreceived. Parents were having a good time. They walked away like they went shopping somewhere. So, it was it was a lot of fun. Just hats off to them. Just huge great event. Thank you, Leanne, and all and your team for all your hard work. that college week um was I got to we got to go today was you know she mentioned our student representative mentions college week but I got to go out there today to be a part of and watch our college fair and the speakers and the through the assembly you know they had a previous a previous
053they were all previous students but you know Dr. Lancher was there and then uh George Alano was there and I really appreciated the fact that they took different walks of life of people you know depending on what they were doing and where they were at in their life and had great honest questions for them for the student and what how they answered the students was very honest. It was really a great forum that they did there within the vendors and everyone that was out there. The participation was huge and I want to once again a shout out to the AVID team and that would be between her and Bradford and Jeremy Little for putting this together. uh really fun to be a part of. The kids really enjoyed it. As I was trying to as
054I was walking out, one of my students that I've known for a long time, really bright kid. He tells me he's I'm talking to him on the way out and this was the best part moment of it. And he goes, "Yo, Mr. Marcus, I was really thinking I just, you know, when I leave, I just want to do online work. Just want to stay at home and work from work from home." But then he says all this stuff in his hands, all these pamphlets, and he says, "I'm inspired to do something different." That's the point. That's the whole point of these things. And it was so great to hear because he's probably one of the smartest kids we have. Um, and he's just amazing who needs to work to his potential. And it was exciting
055to see. I have yet to see that young man that excited about something. So that was exciting. If it if that's all we got out of today, and I'm sure we got a heck of a lot more than that out of what they accomplished today. Uh, that's a big deal just that. So it was it was pretty impressive. Um, ELAC meeting, we had we had our first, sorry, not ELA, DAC meeting. Um, last week we had our first one. We got to have one every quarter. Um, and Dr. You know, Dr. Crow is now in charge of our overall EL program and great showing. It was a great showing. We talked I got to go speak to the parents for a while. Of course, with the translator, my Spanish is terrible, but Dr. translated for
056me, got to speak with them. They had some good questions for me. It was open forum as far as any questions they had for me. Um, but they Dr. Pro went over a lot of information for them and then how it's going to look in the future. The parents were really receptive once again. We fed them that evening. um trying to provide these family engagement nights, not just the family fun night, but things like this where we're getting the families, they aren't getting their input, getting things that they want from their schools and what they want to see from their schools. So, that was exciting as well, but I can go on and on, but it was just wanted to make sure I mentioned those three items. >> A great turnout is how many parents?
057>> Great. Okay, great job. I believe she finally said there was about 50 families there, which is really great. >> How did the logistics go at the high school? The setting was much better. Um, it was less crowded. We still were able to serve over 600 uh people who showed up and it did not feel like there were 600. There was enough space to spread out >> and you know after the first event we needed to improve our systems. We didn't realize we would have that many people turning out. >> Um, >> was every jacket given out? >> Uh, any jackets left over are now being distributed to sites. >> Cool. >> So, nothing will be left over. I do want to um include Care for Big Bear. >> Yes, Care for Big Bear. >>
058It was so it's BBMR and Care for Big Bear that made the donation of the jackets, be socks, gloves. >> I like the cafeteria was full. >> The cafeteria was full. People eating the whole time. There were lots of kids. We had a lot because we um changed the way parents got in were queued to get jackets. There were far more kids and families participating in the activities. So that was an improvement and we just saw a lot more engagement that way because the point of them showing up was having activities that parents and kids could engage with um in together. >> And we do want to thank Big Bear High School for making that trying to get an event at Big Bear High School is really challenging. We always joke about the fact that
059that place is like big something's happening there every single minute all all day long all the time. So for them to find a day in there we really appreciate everyone working with us with Victor High School as well for this event to happen. All right, governing board member reports. Mr. Z. >> Oh, I got to go to the airport last week with the uh Bay, pardon me, San Bernardino Valley College class uh up at the high school. They went and visited Bob, is it Bobin? >> Bob. >> Yeah. His hanger where he's building airplanes. And they got to rivet and he explained the plane. >> Nice. super cool to see the kids at the airport, not just studying in the class about uh drag, lift, all that stuff. Uh and you know, in the classrooms,
060they have the uh the flight simulators as well, but then to be at the airport and actually see a plane being built and someone who's building it explaining things. It was really great. Everyone was super engaged and uh got to do riveting and uh it was a real fun day. >> Yeah. And we're really excited that Camel set up and got that program going for Yes, she deserves a lot of kudos because she had to take the CTE curriculum. >> Yes, she did. >> And the college curriculum and kind of make it work. So, yeah, it's neat to see kids getting college classes. And the neat thing, too, was it wasn't just about flying. I mean, you're talking about all the different jobs, aircraft control, building planes, aircraft mechanics, which is actually one of the
061classes, you know, down at Victorville where they're actually hands-on doing those kind of things. So, um, and kudos too to the pilots association who reached out and paid for two of the students voluntarily to go to ground school because they were so interested in aviation last year that they actually studied with CAM over the summer. So, they paid for two of the students to go go to ground school over there at the airport. So, it's great that not only they have that exposure, they're getting college credit by taking the class at the high school along with high school credit as well, but then some of them are being so interested that Now they're voluntarily take ground school. So really cool. Very cool. Nice. >> Um I I don't know if everyone knows and for those
062out there watching uh Manny has been working with uh Craftton Hills College to um switch our affiliation from San Bernardino Valley College to Craftton Hills College. Um which I think is good news. I've got a kid going down there uh now and driving down a couple days a week and um it's a beautiful campus and my other kids, you know, one that she was heading off to Fullerton right before she left took a chemistry class there. It's the safer place to go for our kids than going into uh Sanino. Um although Sanino Valley College, it's a nice big campus. Um, but uh I I think it's exciting what they have to offer and it's going to be really nice. And when I actually get an email from Brian, it'll be great to see. He showed
063me that he sent it, but it didn't come. >> Okay, good. He showed him. Thank you. Thank you, sir. I I so I watched him send it. >> But I think that's an exciting partnership as well. >> Yeah. And and it's cool because the president of the college has an affection for Big Bear is up here mountain biking and uh snow skiing or boarding during the winter and has a real interest in our community. So >> he has a vested interest. I know Brian's been meeting with them and talking to them and making sure working out the details and even already it's gone smoother just getting the response in there and how they're responding to us has been >> the course offerings are the same more or less. >> Course offerings are the same. Yes.
064where they're able to transfer every Okay, there's one class as you just mentioned. The only thing crafts is was the aviation class. >> Oh, interesting. >> So, we have to keep the aviation class. So, we're going to keep the class, but it still stays here. That's all. It's the only one. >> And there's going to be different CTE opportunities maybe in the future with they have uh medical fields that they they have courses in. I'm excited that we could offer something like that because it offers a greater um opportunity for our kids to get into careers that that are higher earning than some others. That's great news and thanks for pursuing that Manny and Brian. >> All right. Is that different than item 17B? >> Hold on. >> 17B the agreement. That was the pre
065pregame show, right? >> Yes. >> All right. Uh item 15, proposition 28, arts and music schools report. >> So this is just literally just an expenditure report just showing what we spent the 2425 fiscal year. This is a requirement of that uh funding that we report this out every year and approved by governing board. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I oppose. >> Administrative reports 2627 BBUSD calendar approval. >> All right, let's stop. >> So, getting rid of one week in Christmas break >> and not impacting fall break at all. you know, it's a it's a negotiated item with the union where we go back and forth with both unions. It is as per California law. We have to it is a negotiated item. Um that we double check that over and over that
066it is something we must negotiate with them when we come to these terms. And I'll tell you there if there's anything that none of us enjoy doing every year is calendar negotiations. uh anybody that's been in teaching or been in these meetings, it's always a challenge. Every it's always a 50-50 split of where we want to be trying to get something passed and trying to get something through. And this is where the negotiating ending up trying to give a little bit somewhere. Um and this is where we're at now. We look at this once again and we we try something then we go back to the to the table. We're actually already going to have start planning for talks and try to do the talks earlier for the 2728 school year. It's never perfect and
067every like I said everybody has an opinion on this and and I understand almost every argument can be made as far as do we keep the October take October down to one week and it gets into a very hard hard area sometimes. Yeah, we all may have opinions about it but ultimately we got to get something passed because it has to be passed through the not just a negotiating item with the two negotiating teams but also all of their memberships have to vote on it. So it has to pass those those items and then come to the board and then it's a lot of work just to get to that point. Mr. Robertson, is it perfect? No. I I'll be the first one to tell you. It's because of the fact that you we're never
068going to make everybody happy on these things. Everybody always has an opinion as far as what's going to work better or what. And we're really trying to focus it more on keep trying to keep the focus on what is going to be best for students. And I know the argument can be made that do we need the October break because of August and things like that because it's hot in August and chip off the beginning of August to get us out of the heat a little bit. Um there's a lot of arguments be made right now. We took the one week off of though it was agreed upon. That's why we came up with taking 3 weeks and 3 weeks is a long time to be out of school. That's why we went we were
069able to bargain out of that one to end the year a little bit sooner as far as getting and then getting the kids that's prime learning time end of year after testing. tends to dwindle on the sites a little bit. Kids kind of check out right after testing. So that's why we want to take it off the end of the year and try to get some prime learning time in the middle of that's where we bargain out of that with the with the two negotiating units. Yes, we will have another conversation once we start again and have other conversations as far as what and obviously the board input where where the board would like to see us go as well in the future um when we go back to the table which is probably soon.
070Sorry. >> Can you be more specific as to the pros and cons of this calendar and the changes >> from both sides? So what what was the advocate why were they why was who advocated for making that change of taking a week of the winter and ending the year? Was that the district's >> district advocated for taking the winter because >> so you don't have that dead time after testing in the end trying to get the end of the year trying to get that time back at the end of the year. Shorten the year a little bit. So for a few reasons one prime learning time is the end. LA that it's in the winter. I mean, it's not at the end of the year is in is right there at that time when we're
071getting back. Um 3 weeks is a long time to get out of school and truth be told 3 weeks is, you know, that last week after Christmas. And I understand the arguments against it. Some people use it for vacation, all these other things. 70% of our population in Beir Valley as far as our kids are low socioeconomic. I think it's like 69. >> They're not going anywhere. You know, a lot of these families aren't going anywhere and they need their kids back in school. Even when I did talk to my parent groups, the parent groups I did talk to, which was my my council as far as the superintendent council, I did talk to the DAC parents about it. Overall, I didn't have any most, you know, 95% of the parents at least that we
072did talk to were pretty supportive of that because once you go through all the reasonings on why they were pretty supportive and one of them was it's like people need to get back to work. Most most people are back to work after the holidays after the you know dictates and time and then after the first of the year they're back to work. >> So what's the argument against? >> What was the push back? >> Culture and big bear honest culture and big bear. It has an impact as far as this is some of it is big bear culture. This is what we've done for a very long time. There's also the risk of if it snows a lot if it's why we had it in the past. We all know that we haven't seen snow
073that >> Yeah. We had a record year 2 years ago. >> No, no, no. I'm saying during that time. >> It tends to come in January and February for us. >> Not we'd love it to come in that time because that's when you get more tourists, you make more money for the community, but that's not where we've been lately, but that's also the snow and the buses getting around and those things. Those are the arguments against it. Um, we're going to really look at it now as far as the that that third week, what it looks like now. And if it doesn't work when we do it because the calendar, if we if the board approves it, if the calendar goes through for 2627, we monitor it and that's why we negotiate it again. For
074some reason, something doesn't work, we negotiate it again. >> Did we have parents on the committee this year? >> No, parents not part of negotiation. >> Okay. Um, did uh so everyone voted for this? Oh, that's a strong statement. I hope everyone voted. >> They voted. It's always hard to get everybody one. It's always get to everybody to vote. Actually, >> everyone got to speak their mind. >> They had an opportunity. They had an opportunity to make comments. They had an opportunity to vote yes or no on it. It did pass. >> I will tell you by a narrow margin. >> Who I don't want to know who, but how many voting members were they who did they represent? >> I say it was it was probably more more of the certificated staff or or
075the classified staff. And when I went out to >> Were for it or against it? >> It's a 50. It was so It was It was tight. You know, it's just It was tight as far as where we were at in the voting. It passed. It was tight. >> Right. So, were there three classified representatives? Three. >> Uh there was actually when we do the when we were on the negotiating. >> Yeah. >> On the negotiating team, there's actually probably more classified in the room, wouldn't you say? Right. >> Or it goes to vote to the employees. But it goes to vote to the place. We kind of hash it out between the team between between our team here and district office. Then the two negotiate units. >> Um we just kind of hash it
076out in here for hours and until we come up with something we can all live with. >> So was it on the table to reduce or eliminate fall rate? that's always on the table up for discussion to have that discussion and it was just we kind of came to an impass at that point and until we get until until and I made this clear to all of the unit members uh when I went because I spoke to everyone when I when we had that 15 back I spoke to classified staff I spoke to certificated staff or certificate staff elementary and because of the way they were split up elementary and secondary two separate I went out and told them everything this is what we got and then because there might be other changes for next
077year. But I've also went to each classified staff. I had a meeting at every site to discuss this exact thing because I explained to them not enough of you fill out the survey. I need to look at you and know if you support this or not. So they seem so we still seem supportive when we have the conversations lots of questions still came up still supportive of it. I and I talked to each classified. Then I had to go to I talked to M department because they couldn't be there. Then I went to transportation department because they couldn't be there at those meetings. We wanted to make sure we talk to everybody when we make these kind of decisions that are overall impacting. And here's why too. Every single one of these people have families
078as well. Families that they're not just they're not just employees. They're also their kids are in this district. So how does it impact you? I want to know everything. Overall, it was still a supportive environment. >> So ideally, you mentioned the fall break. So ideally, what would you take? What the entire fall break or one week of the fall break if it were to happen? It would be tough to take the entire fall break. That would be tough to negotiate to get that passed. >> What's the goal of that? >> It's it's weird to have it. It's uncommon. >> The some of it comes down to the some of the argument on the on the union side of it and the union side is it is it does give that break after every quarter it
079gives a break. Everybody after out of a quarter and I've been a teacher for a long time too and every quarter you do feel like you need a breather for me. You need a step back. I can see advocating for a week. Um that's just a personal opinion of mine. Okay. I would also I could also argue that why it should why it shouldn't be there, but you know, we've got to be respectful everyone's opinions on the other side of the table. >> So, why shouldn't it be there? So, where would those two weeks go? Like, and why is it advantageous to get rid of it? I'm not for it or against it. >> And like I said, this could go back and forth. I could argue both sides of this. >> Yeah. I'm just
080curious why a couple things we could look at that could argue of where it should go. Let's say we I say we take Mr. Roberts and we took both weeks of it. Should it be at the beginning of the year when it's hot, when we're really having issues with the classroom, so we have two less weeks of strong heat. We all know August is the hottest month. Do we take it off there or do we take one week there and then one week at the beginning at the end of the year so we get out on late before Memorial Day? Get out of the Memorial Day weekend. It gets us out gives us a longer summer as far as the um being able to get more maintenance done and get more maintenance operation projects done.
081concepts. Kids actually that go to summer school get still get a break. The summer school kids only get a little bit of a break, very tiny by the time they're done at the high school. So that give them more of a break. There's a few arguments that can be made here on where if let's say if October break went away and some of it has to be respectful to what is respectful to the community to the to this you know a lot of parents in talking to the parents they really do have an appreciation for the >> for at least a week and I talked to the parents a lot of said at least a week would still be good um because that's what is when they because notoriously with with us a lot of
082families and I know I felt the same and you guys have had kids here too people like the October Great once again because it becomes when you can finally do something with your families. Things aren't crowded. It's not summer and still my sweater. >> It's 70%. >> That's the opposite argument. Like I said, we can go back and forth all day on this as far as what's the pros and cons of these and no matter what, we end up in these calendar negotiations and they always pass it. It's very I don't think I've ever seen it that something passed by a wide margin. >> Yeah. But from a a parents perspective with students, our schedule screws things up for opportunities outside of the district. So for instance, um at the end of the 23 24
083school year, uh Jory and Jesse took chemistry at um Craftton. our school went so late they had to miss the last week of school at the high school because they had to start their class in person. So, our schedule going so late screwed that up. But then you have kids whether in strings or uh the same two kids took a Korean class uh at UCLA but online, they couldn't finish the third class because school started August 1st. Whereas if it would have pushed out two more weeks, then kids could finish. >> And we had we had this I had a parent make the same argument about the beginning of August. There's still a lot of my kid wanted to go to some kind of special it was more with her culture. I think it was
084a special camp and she couldn't send her send the child to that camp because it was so early because it's in August. We couldn't send them. I know there's a parent here that sends her kid into the special camp that's to them and she misses the first few days of school because of it. Like I said, it's it's it's an argument that can go on and on as far as the two different issues and how we yeah how do we balance this? >> Okay. Couple questions. >> Yes, sir. >> How does the voting actually work with? Do we have to have a quorum of the employees voting or >> survey? No, it just goes out to survey. We take the majority. Whatever the majority is% of the of our employees could decide. >> Yes. So,
085normally we get at least a third. >> Sounds like a national election. >> Yes. We we get >> I think I believe >> it was like 25% >> I think we had we did have over a third of the staff vote. >> It's like 27% of register. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, and then it's just a majority of >> the majority that we just go up the flat majority. >> Um I hear a lot of the arguments and some of them seem to be fairly specific, right? I want to go to a summer school or I want I want a college class starts early. months later, whatever. The heat affects everybody. >> Yes, it does. This is This is just me. I'm only one board member, but starting August 1st is difficult. Okay. If we
086can do something to push that back, okay, even if we have to go a little further into June, okay, I think it would be better for the kids. It' be better for the staff, too. And we are one of the only schools that I believe because I know most of well they have an issue about there but most of the desert schools I know they go I know Rand the desert schools they are starting either the sec the first or second week of August a lot of them start the second week is very >> I'm only one board member but I think that would be the most beneficial for our students >> and that's when you're talking about who's impacted the most everyone's impacted by the heat. That's a fair argument. I'll make a motion
087>> to approve. >> All in favor? I >> I oppose. >> I appreciate the input from >> Thanks for coming. Thanks. >> All right. Item B, first reading and adoption of governing board policy updates. >> So move. >> I'll second it, but I want a comment. >> One of them is the Brown Act. Why do we adopt a policy that basically restates the brown paper law? >> Okay, there's a we're required to do this. >> This is a new policy to us. >> These are recommendations from CSBA. >> CSBA. >> Yeah. >> So, not necessarily requirement, but it's just it creates the the issue. I'm I'm going to vote for it, but it's just I read it and it bugged me. >> There's so many redundancies in this stuff. Well, and and then you run
088the risk of our policy gets out of date with the Brown Act and then we have to make sure that we update it so that we're not in compet. >> Then why are we even doing that? >> That's I guess >> why don't we just pull that >> why why do it? >> Because recommended by the California School Board Association who are the people who are have talk to attorneys to cover our you know us. >> Yeah. >> That's what the policies are for is to establish rule. Second we go to someone makes a brown knife violation and we don't have a policy that we're following that was recommended to us. >> I rest my case, >> you lose. >> Anyway, >> that's a brown knife. You have to follow the violence. You have to
089you follow up. >> You know why you didn't follow it? >> Because you didn't have a policy. >> H You know why you didn't follow it? Cuz you didn't have a policy. >> You're all session. >> What? >> I don't have to follow the law unless we have a policy. Hm. Wait a minute. Okay. I mean, I understand CSBA recommends we do it, but this is how if we need to be very careful with things like this that we make sure we update them because if we're following the wrong policy, then we're still in trouble. Even if we adopt, whatever. I seconded it. I'm ready to vote. >> All in favor? Hi, >> I'm a nay. >> He's so viable right now. >> Item 17, universal prek. >> Get a motion. >> So move. >>
090Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> All right. Next that I apparently jumped the gun on uh adoption of the college and career access pathways to enroll in partnership agreement with Craft Hills. >> I think you should make the motion. >> I make the motion. >> I'll second that. >> All in favor? >> Thanks for doing that, Brian. >> Thank you. It's exciting. >> Yeah. 18 uh certificate public hearing public comment uh for variable term waiver for the 2526 school year. No public comment on that variable term waiver for the 2526 school year. Can I get a motion to approve? >> Second. >> All in favor. >> EVA sunshined articles. There should be a public comment first and then >> this is an information item. >> Yeah. So for both the classified and the
091certificated we put it we put the sunshine articles on a board agenda for information and then next board meeting we'll have a public comment public hearing and public comment and a vote to officially >> think that's fair. >> All right then we'll go to item 19 classified. It's the same thing. Sunshine articles for CSA and um Bear Valley school uh unified school district sunshine articles. So the management section. Do we have suggestions from the board or superintendent for future board meeting? >> We've had people come to our board meetings a lot about books and libraries. >> Yeah, they do. That's okay. >> Um and we taken some action. Um would it be appropriate to put on something on the agenda, have the staff make a presentation as to what what they've done and why they've
092done it. Um I it would be as if you know if we're putting policy in place, we're putting if we're putting even in general even we're putting guidelines in place and I know that's something we're looking at Brian and Brian's looking at with the some of the library clerks as far as a guideline is what we're looking at that we present because we don't necessarily have to have an adopted policy in place in something like this. However, we can discuss the guidelines and there are things that are looked at. There is, you know, a rationale of how they choose books. Um, as far as what we write out and present that before the board if we'd like to do something like that, I think that's and we we can discuss the guidelines. It's a matter
093of the personal opinions of the board. I think is some of what was been requested too. I don't know if that's something the board >> if they could present the the guidelines >> who >> the the people that are >> the library clerks >> we could have them here if we wanted them here for discussion um it would really we could have them here if that's something the board want I don't think that's a problem and then it would just give it just making sure whatever direct that's on it gives Brian and Leanne and I enough time to come up with what our guidelines are that we have an opportunity to discuss that with the with the uh library clerk send them and obviously the principles too they need an input on this. Um, and
094what we're putting in our libraries, I think if that's something the board would like us to do, do not have a problem. I don't I Brian, are you okay with that? Um, and >> say there's any rush to do this. >> No, I mean, but but at some point, >> yeah, >> I will discuss, you know, with with board members and with with Mr. Roberts, president with the clerk and see when it was be appropriate time to put that on the >> No, because it is coming up. >> Absolutely. If that's something we feel like what's coming up. >> No, as far as the topic. >> Oh, it's coming up. I think they said something was coming as far as guidelines and what's that look like? Sure. >> Every meeting we've had. >> Okay. Move
095forward. Okay. Thank you. >> Anything else? We're going to adjourn the open session at 658.