001thank you start with the flag salute in recognition of free speech and the following board agenda item we welcome all and would like to note that saying the Pledge of Allegiance is not a requirement to participate in the business of this public board if you do not say the Pledge for religious political social or personal reasons you are most welcome here as an equal participant in the business of this board okay for those who wish to participate please stand salute but I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America okay um for announcement of action taking in closed session we actually have a vote to take um on item 2022 2301 do I have a motion move to approve the recommendation okay and do you have a second okay trustee Anderson seconds
002uh let's do a roll call vote um Mr Mason you don't get a vote on this one because it's a closed session uh so trustee Lee aye trustee Anderson aye trustee Kelly aye trustee Pope aye and chair of osai unanimously approved okay moving on to adoption of agenda do I have a motion on this I'm working to adopt the agenda second and seconded um so uh Mr Mason aye trustee Lee hi Justin trustee Kelly aye Trust Depot aye and chair of outside agenda's adopted us tonight okay moving on to organization reports uh we have Vanessa Mason president of couta hi good evening um so for my board report this evening I want to talk about all the great things that are going on in the district specifically at Oak Hill they have been raising money
003to support a project at the Shriners Children's Hospital to build a bridge that's connecting the Shriners Hospital to UC Davis Med Center so today all the money was collected and they don't have a total yet so that's very exciting wow amazing it's near and dear to my heart as my husband is also a Shriner um let's see many of our school campuses celebrated Redwood Red Ribbon Week a couple weeks ago and um Dudley had family science night for primary age students with Red Ribbon Week and they did a door door decorating contest and so all of the classrooms decorated their doors and then there were prizes awarded at McClellan which was very impressive and I did ask the McClellan reps to see if they could have a student rep come to the meetings um they
004had 42 students made the honor roll and so many families were there and I think many of the board members were there as well and they had an elective showcase so all of the electives that they have on campus had some sort of final projects presenting so it sounded really amazing um I think that's it for my board reports so we're all looking forward to Thanksgiving us UTA is very thankful to be part of this District the school board the executive teams that we have and then all of these wonderful things going on on our campuses any questions thank you very much thank you okay for CSEA uh Naisha Harris and I did speak with Miss Harris yesterday and she said she had nothing to report so okay thank you for the time moving along
005uh reports presentations the Panorama family survey results with Mike Jordan good evening we're actually going to switch two and one just flop them please sure so we'll do the iready report first so this is the fall 2022 i-Ready scores correct that is correct sure we're flexible all right so this assessment we just completed about about a month ago a month or so uh it was kindergarten through grade 12. in this just as a reminder for Center High School when you're looking at those scores it's not all students at Center High School we did take some of the students out of that such as our AP students so on and so forth because the purpose of i-Ready at the high school level is for to do interventions uh both in English and math so if a
006student was already in like an AP Calculus for example we knew there wasn't any uh necessarily uh and I already wasn't going to show that this is our completion rates you can see again exclude the high school because not all students at the high school are taking it we're in the 95 or 90 and above at least 92 percent so we had a very good uh completion rate uh going in at all grade levels and I'm going to just give you a kind of an overview of the district and then I'm going to have the principal of Oak Hill come up and show you what we've actually done with the scores at the site level so we have What's called the data culture meeting that's where all of our sites get together all of our
007admin academic accordion or so on and so forth and we look at first these are the district level scores and you have copies in your packet I'm just using one example from that you have a broken down as low as you want to go if you want uh even further the disaggregation let me know and I can go into the system and disaggregate even more so we look at the district level scores and this in this case we're looking in two ways one through the I ready system curriculum Associates and one through what we call forecast five which is just another way of breaking it down then we have the sites get their site specific information and that's where the action plans are built uh that's where the true work comes in that's where these
008scores then are used to inform instruction in what we do in the classroom again this is our math scores excuse me completion rates 90 and above is fantastic and again just a sampling of what it looks like at the district level and again you have that in your packet and again just a sampling of our math scores uh at the at the big District level View all right so what do we do each site looks at their site just as I said looked at their site level data and we want to use the majority of our our presentation tonight to show you specifically drilling down at one School site and in this case the principal of Oak Hill Elementary has graciously volunteered to come up and help us out we appreciate it so is this
009on Mike I've sat there enough where this is okay so I've learned my lessons um so good evening superintendent Lair board president and board members my name is Parveen Sainz and I serve as a principal at Oak Hill Elementary thank you for inviting me to share what happens once we get these fresh batches of data from iready so the cycle of inquiry this figure illustrates our approach in the nutshell in how we use data to ground our discussion in creating school-wide and grade level goals student groupings based on the identified areas of need and also a focus on their instructional practices the foundation of this work started with a book study focused on how to transform schools into professional learning communities the main gist of plc's it consists of having a process in which Educators
010work collaboratively in recurring cycles of inquiry um an action to achieve better results for students it's an ongoing continuous never-ending process which focuses on four essential questions it's basically what do we expect our students to learn how will we know that they've learned it how will we extend the learning for those who have learned it already and have mastered the skills and how will we respond for those students who haven't learned it this slide shows you the district-wide data protocol that we use during our PLC collaboration so this structured approach of a protocol has cleared norms and expectations for conversations so that we have a safe space for all participants this port this protocol supports Equity of voice allowing all members to describe the data make inferences and implications for future work I'm a huge
011fan of protocols and so if you go to the National schools reform faculty website there are multiple protocols to use for multiple courageous conversations that could be used with parents students staff so the next few slides will show you data from the iready diagnostic number one that's specific to Oak Hill this is the work that we focus on um which Mr Jordan just shared during our data collaboration culture collaboration meetings with our admin team Becky Lawson does an exceptional job of facilitating this data protocol with our teams at the district office admin level this work allows us as administrators to take the work back to our grade level leads whole staff School site Council elac so that we could create and refine School level goals with metrics that are aligned with the lcap for our
012sip says so I'm not going to go into details of the data in this presentation but would like to share some highlights which focus on our glows which are areas of strength along with our grows areas that we need to refine this slide show is a snapshot of diagnostic one this one focuses on English language arts the graph on the top left includes all students the graph on the bottom right includes data for our English language learners the percentage is in the red are students who are performing two or more grade levels below the percentages in yellow are students who are performing one grade level below and the green are students who are performing at or above grade level the next slide focuses on math in order for our teachers to make strategic instructional decisions
013additional information is needed Beyond this balcony view snapshot think of this as your initial call to Kaiser to tell the advice nurse that you're sick there's going to be additional questions the nurse asks in order to triage to make sure you are sent to the appropriate Department so the additional questions could be specifically like in for English language arts the i-Ready data provides information based on specific domains so for English language arts the data is broken into phonological awareness phonics high frequency words vocabulary comprehension literature and expository text in the areas of math the information is broken down into numbering operations algebra and algebraic thinking measurement and data and then geometry so this information allows us to see which area specifically are students doing well in which areas do we need to continue to refine
014and that's the work that guides our instructional practices if you take a look at this slide our team concluded that phonological awareness and high frequency words those two particular domains are our areas of strengths the glows while phonics and vocabulary are areas of growth the team concluded that phonics and vocabulary are the barriers for comprehension in literature and expository text and so right now we're talking the team identified here the areas that we want to specifically start focusing on next slide shows the same information but for math so our team concluded that we have a large percentage of students who are sitting at that one grade level below that yellow band area the important thing about all of this data is that the goal is for our teachers to be able to make strategic instructional
015decisions so that we could Implement tier one classroom strategies along with additional interventions as needed based on the needs of our students a part of the data protocol that we go through consists of reflecting on the implications of this data what are the implications if we don't address the observations that we're making what are the prereqs quail skills that our students need what additional information do we need to make better choices better instructional decisions so after diagnostic number one our team concluded that phonics and vocabulary are the Gateway skills necessary for comprehension areas we need to address for math the data suggested that student needs students needed time to develop their mathematical mindset and see math in the world around them therefore we provided tier one instructional strategies to be implemented in grades TK through
016six along with interventions but now what portion of the data protocol consists of creating goals which we've done as a site so as a whole school site along with grade level teams it's important to note that iready is one data point it's one piece to the puzzle when we're identifying the needs of the students that we serve there's multiple factors that need to be taken into consideration when making instructional instructional decisions and multiple data points multiple data points can consist of the oral reading fluencies that our teachers administer i-Ready is a computer oral reading fluencies are with that expert teacher a real human attendance data comes into play behavioral social emotional and then at the end of the day some kids are just not good test takers and so the expert teachers would be the
017ones who know that and so when we're looking at these goals and creating a very specific plans for students that information is critical we're working with real humans not robots and real humans are complex so I'm hoping that your takeaway from this presentation is that the work that's being led by Mike Jordan and Becky Lawson at the district level during our data culture of plc's is helping build leadership capacity to help Define and narrow our focus at the site level it's important to note that investing in our teachers is it is an investment in our children the professional learning opportunities being provided are helping our teachers to refine their craft it's critical for instruction to be purposeful and intentional based on the needs of the students the other important component to all of this work
018is our district-wide multi-tiered systems of support the mtss framework for in that work that framework helps us helps us develop Implement and evaluate a multi-tiered approach for students who are not meeting the grade level expectations and that whole thing could be a presentation on its own um the iready data points are a piece of the puzzle and information we use to help Drive our instructions so that we could be intentional and strategic in changing the predictable outcomes for our children and so and if you want to see the data protocol in place we'll be running our plc's in January you're more than welcome to come join us thank you thank you very much [Music] [Applause] so we wanted to do is is give you an idea when we you see the i-Ready that we're doing
019that the window is open every School site is going through this this protocol and this is a protocol we we got from the Sacramento County Office of Education who's been working with us we're spending countless hours at the district level and at the site level to look at the data analyze the data and come up with that now what part which is what are we going to do as a result of this data those countless hours it's hard to give Justice in an eight-minute presentation of all the work and what happens and so on but I would encourage you as Parveen said please come out to a school site and see them go through the process and see what the results are it's one thing to really look at just the data points but to
020see what comes of that i-Ready data it's impressive it teaches the administrators of the school so I put my hats off to them they're they're doing tremendous work I I have a comment um I did tour Oak Hill and spoke in depth with Miss Oliver who broke down this inner this information when we toured the intervention classrooms so they took this data and went down to individual students and they could take that student and know exactly what they need help then and so they take the intervention class and work on that I mean she explained it in detail it was just amazing and same thing with um Dudley we did the same thing with Mr Lamont she had this awesome spreadsheet and she could point at students in classrooms and this is where they need
021you know work on this certain individual needs needs help in this area it's quite aggressive quite impressive to the student no yes thank you yeah they're working tremendously hard yeah they are and sometimes you know we get these test scores and it feels like nothing's happening it is truly movement and instruction and movement in what we're doing with students once we get these and we go through that whole process and I agree if you can go to the school sites and talk to the administrators go see for yourself it's it's amazing these were the actual slides off of the data culture meeting when they come together so and thank you yeah thank you and I have a question about um how often do the plc's meet it's great to hear that they're happening how often
022do these groups get together so the idea is every Monday when we have the early out day to meet now sometimes things come up you can't do a PLC every Monday but they are meeting all the time I love PLC work so this is yeah totally my gig we do we just had a attendance PLC this morning and so it the goal is the fresher the data is that's when you want to meet as close as possible to it so that you could go through this process come up with plans and have some actions along with goals so that you can start monitoring progress and implementing awesome awesome thank you Miss Denise could you please share your slides with the board oh absolutely I would appreciate that not a problem thank you ma'am any other
023questions you guys I have a question for Mr Jordan um you did mention that um these results don't include uh students in the AP and honors courses and I'm just curious um what percentage of our students are enrolled in there and what are the demographics in that student population I can bring you those results back most of those are Juniors and seniors many of them are seniors and that's why we don't have them test because the intervention it's I mean they're seniors they're graduating yes these kids thank you that's awesome the demographics of the AV and how many students awesome so I think this is great um to hear about because um it concerns me greatly that when we look at the ELA scores for example 80 percent of the students are checking in at
024below grade level in our district and then I was looking at their low-income students and it was some concerns there with the disparity between disparities between non-low-income and low-income students and again with English language Learners and not English language Learners there's a lot of questions that I have about English and math I mean with 62 percent of our black students being you know more than two grade levels behind same with our American Indian students I just hope to see more about the plcs and what is being done even in the plans to Target those those groups and support the students who are clearly struggling at large numbers in our district and happen for some time so our last data culture meeting we were looking through data our emphasis was on our English language learner population
025that's what we're really focusing on what are we going to do really narrowing it down great that's wonderful and I can I can go on AP Central is the name of the website I can find out the exact demographics I just don't have them memorized for AP yes thank you I know right you know as I as I'm looking at the data not just in the i-Ready but some of the other data like in the spsas and such it does concern me when I see something like you know 11 of the population is a cheaper achieving at or above level um that's a that's a startling number but it's very important to remember that this is post covered times and there are a lot of things happening that are affecting that and I love that
026Parveen I'm sorry Ms sane said you know the i-Ready is one data point it's it's not everything it's just one point I personally know I have a son-in-law who cannot test for the life of him and so I know that that is also a real thing so I just I don't know anybody out there in the community is listening and worried about those numbers just keep in mind that they're like having said there's a lot of things going into those numbers and they're doing everything and anything they can to address themselves and it's just not a concern no no no and it's just not a concern within Center this is Nationwide yeah all this it's just not a center issue so yeah just to make that clear we have an opportunity all the comments that
027we're hearing and I I have to Echo and thank Miss Haynes for her her description because it's happening at all of our school sites it's not just her or Oak Hill that's doing it and and Mr Jordan and Miss Lawson's leadership around this has been fantastic it is it's hard work it's a lot of work but we're seeing some results and we're not settling until we can keep pushing forward so we appreciate the board support on that too and not just oh we're good we're not good we we owe it to our community to keep pushing and pushing and pushing that's what we're doing the work is never finished because we're we're not no District's going to be at 100 and it's going to keep pushing to try and get me going yeah well and
028it's going to change every year the bush is there we're constantly going through this process trying to figure out how can we get that what can we do what can we do thank you any other questions before we move on to the other topic okay so the Panorama family survey results are you're gonna charge me rent if I'm up here much longer so we have a couple of different surveys that went out we're going to go through a very similar process uh with our school sites with this data as well because it is broken down uh to the the School site level as well we've just been working on pan on uh that's what this is on i-Ready and those other things we just haven't had a chance to get to there yet uh so
029I can come back at a later time and show you the break down there but I wanted to give you some of the uh the survey information that we have so far so this just came out last week we we're with a consulting firm uh called The Sound sounding board it's a marketing Communications and we're really analyzing what are we doing Communications wise within the district and how can we improve so this is the data we got back uh so far and you I don't know that you have the full report of this yet because literally it just came out in the last couple weeks uh you want to be at least in the blue red or that yellow or whatever color is that gold okay uh and and so you can see on the
030first one overall satisfaction with communication from school district so this was a survey that went out to parents um you want to be at least in those top three average very good or excellent blue is the excellent category uh overall rating for my perception to the school district based on the communication I received and again positive results that doesn't discount there are some where that is in Blue uh you know we want to reach out to those families and find out what can we do to make things better um before you move on I see the legend up top for uh everything except the light blue what does that represent but still if you have no opinion I kind of think that is you know obviously immigration wasn't great what can we do okay thank
031you how many um respondents did we have to the survey 78 the next one I'm going to show had 50. it'll say on this line did that uh I'm able to understand the communication I received from a child's school again we're looking for those three blue red or gold perceive communication around child school to be accurate so for at least from these 78 now that's 78 out of 4 000 2017 that responded we're getting some ideas of what we can do and I'm not going to read through each of these but I will share you electronically but I do want to get to um people said how is the best way to communicate and I think that's the biggest piece and that's this slide right here this is their preference how do you how does
032a district communicate you can see the number one is email people want email that's what they're going to listen to that excuse me that's what they're going to read automated text messages is next they're saying that's our best forms of communication and then I'll go down to District website you only have about 21 one out of five a little over one out of five are going to be looking at that website for information and then you can see it goes down school calendar uh digital and other and there's actually Board of Education news uh district meetings social media so on and so forth but by far families at least on this survey of these 78 said email and uh text is where they're going to get their information so we're working with this consultants and
033help us with a a strategy a plan uh communication wise and these at least right now are two things obviously we were going to want to focus in on it's interesting that 33 percent uh or I guess the third way of communication is through printed notices right that's kind of the old in my household those printed notices never made it into my hands they were shut shut in the bottom of a backpack and never saw the light of days so that's just surprising to know I think that's the advantage of the emails yeah and I really thought social media would be higher to be honest and it wasn't nope because it's that was an active you have to actively go and search for it whereas email you're looking at English we okay to move on
034then this is from our Panorama family survey this came out uh we got our results back just again about a month ago four weeks ago there were 259 respondents and I'm just giving you the breakdown of who responded so you have an idea of the demographic white uh wise who responded so you say it was 89 of the respondents were female 84 percent of those were categorizing themselves as mothers and this is they they checked off which of these categories they were 51 white 13 Hispanic uh 14 said two or more ethnicities or races eight percent Asian five percent African-American and all other respondent groups were below the five percent uh threshold uh 89 of those were English language uh English only excuse me primary language four percent Russian three percent Spanish four percent other
035or or chose multiple um I have a question about that uh Mr Jordan because our district our demographics for our student population look very different than the faults who responded true and so I'm curious about how can we reach the people who are reflective of our district and and how can we reach also more ell uh parents because that's an area that we need to work on and improve and if we're not hearing from those populations about what they need and we're just running with what the 51 percent of white uh respondents and 89 percent of English only respondents say then are we really doing the best service right and that's where this communication consultant comes in the first slides that we looked at how can we better communicate with everybody how can we get
036the message out there how can we get their their message back or their information back and that I I kind of speak for you but I think that's the key to this marketing uh person this marketing consultant is very good you're going to help us build a plan to do that because we need to hear more voices and that's I think that's what you're getting at is we're hearing voices we want to hear more so we can get to the process where we're analyzing our plcs to drive down to figure out how do we reach how do we engage how do we bring more folks in uh than we are because when we do that we're going to be there was the Panorama an electronic survey is it electronic or how was that yes okay
037so maybe can it be administered in other modalities um perhaps when we have you know some of the parents on campus a paper survey where they're right there or even a laptop that they could log into with Assistance or something of that nature would that even be feasible yeah so we've brainstormed some different ways to do it such as we had the food food pickup today maybe we can catch people there what are some different ways to do it okay uh and also translations that's the only piece and and we're we're happy we're getting some responses but we know it's not reflective of of the demographic and so we we're happy we're getting some but it's like how do we get more and also uh in the first um communication survey we found some of
038our families who are non-english speaking preferred friend they didn't want the electronics so that's we I just we just learned that last week so that's something we're thinking how can we get that out when we do d-lac meeting whatever we need to do to connect and so what is the next steps so the protocol you saw with the I ready is going to be similar with this data how can we improve at the school site level because we have this broken down School site the School site because it may be different from Whole kill to Center High I'm just picking two schools picking out random it's going to be different so that's what we're going to do is going through it okay now how can we better improve at the site level and one more
039thing and I'm going to probably reiterate what the story just said but this process that he explained for iready the data protocol is the PLC culture we created at a district level which we meet twice a month uh last Thursday Mr barassi who's who replaced Mr uh Jackson we're going through engagement and we're looking specifically at attendance through everyday Labs next month he'll come back and talk about what we've done but the schools actually left with goals that they were focusing on around engagement as a result of attendance so this protocol is this shell and then we're kind of I mean this sounds weird but we're dumping the data in there and then creating plans or strategic Avenues to try and get at it instead of just going oh we think this or we feel
040this we actually have a lot of data probably too much in some cases to sort through to create that plan to help and when you put it all together it's going to take some time but we'll get there and it I think we're going to do incredible things for for our community sorry yeah the objective is to try and keep getting better and everything okay you're always looking at me what is it about ask too many questions I don't know okay thank you thank you thank you very much thank you so [Applause] moving on we have committee updates facilities update with Richard Putnam good evening everybody oh okay good evening board um not a whole lot to uh bring you up on other than the fact that both Rex fortune and our CTE projects are
041still ahead of schedule uh the CTE project will be dried in roof Wise by the end of this week so we have the underlayment so that pretty much creates a waterproof roof before we even get our final roofing material put on so that will help to keep the process going even as we go into the wet winter months and that's where we are right now any questions thank you okay do we have comments from the audience regarding items not on the agenda nothing oh okay I have I have C Connor on line and uh see Connor could you please unmute your mic good evening um superintendent and board members and I would like to say um good luck to the seniors uh who are in the AP classes my call is in regards to um
042number one I would like for bullying to be on the school agenda if you could put that on the board agenda and I think we need to do some in-depth research in regards to this issue given what just happened at the University of Virginia uh also I wanted to talk about school spirit um from my experience with the Center District I'm finding I'm not finding very much of that and I think that um it's very important and it also shows uh it can go a long way in terms of the uh social and emotional well-being of the students faculty and staff I think from my own experience schools that have high school spirit overall the students do well and I have I was interested in some of the comments that were made in the at
043the previous presentation and from my experience I think that one of the ways perhaps you would consider some of the teachers of recruiting good teachers is to go into some of the universities that are in your areas and perhaps recruit for employment there especially people who are science Majors who are math Majors because I think it makes a tremendous amount of difference if you're going to teach someone algebra which is the foundation of all higher mathematics if you yourself or um experience with algebra and not just a multi-uh credential person and it comes across much better in the classroom and I think you're able to connect with students better when they can see because they can see the difference when you know what you're doing and if you're just repeating the answers from the answer
044book so um because I know I have friends that have gotten jobs because of the school districts that have done that and also I think that yes children do have learning styles with instructors with good classroom management skills will be able to reach children that has been proven with Joe Clark and Jaime Escalante I mean it was just unprecedented that the Latino students in East LA had to take their sat tests their SAT test again because they scored so high and they were from a low income district and so we still have biases with us excuse me and you know your time is running out so if you could wrap it up I'd appreciate it okay and and in the future I would like to be able to see the clock so I would know
045that but all that I'm trying to say is that perhaps the district can go and recruit people for certain disciplines from the universities that are in the system here and let's put bullying on the agenda for the next meeting thank you very much okay thank you very much and I address that just really quick and say that we have done that many many times do we address the public comments we cannot so um we should look at how to make the Baltimore visible well so thank you very much any other public comments on items not on the agenda okay um consent agenda do I have a motion on this a motion to approve the consent agendas okay second okay so Mr Ryan aye trustee Lee hi trustee Anderson aye trustee Kelly aye trustee Pope aye
046and chair votes hi could I just think a little comment okay correct your consent agenda um I'd like to thank the school sites site councils and the parent groups for submitting your school plan for student achievement I find them fascinating especially with the i-Ready information that we had and then with our lcap that coincides with everything I just wanted to say thank you and I read every one of them and um that's it thank you one one more uh just just acknowledging that the board's action there just also named the next principle for Rex Fortune Elementary and he is in the room so uh we congratulate Mr Farrell in the back he'll be moving from North Country transferring [Music] and just so others in the room where Miss Siever who's the vice principal moving to
047interim uh principal there and then there she is laughs [Music] and so I just want to acknowledge that board action it's a big deal when we open a new school and so it's a lot of responsibility and I appreciate and I know Mr fro appreciates the trust that the board's putting in him to do an outstanding job so uh just want to make that acknowledgment no pressure yeah yeah there's no pressure okay moving on to business item a board policy bylaw enormous review um I will make a motion to bring this to the floor for discussion I'll second okay um just to give a little bit of background here bylaw a board policy 1313 and bylaw 9005 address the Civility and governance standards by which we conduct ourselves and I feel like we've been kind
048of moving away from these so since I believe that we should be following our policies and bylaws the question I want to pose to the rest of the board is do we need to change these do we want to to remove these these policies or do we want to start following is that a question yes I would say start following continue to follow I I would think start following it and especially keeping the district focused on learning and achievement for all students at the Forefront which is number one and every item uh in byline 9005 and I think when we move away from that Things become problematic when we're not focusing on learning and achievement for all students okay does does anyone want to propose any changes to this okay then um I guess this
049item is closed unless there's any further motions on this okay business Item B reconsideration of rescinding board member residency verification portion of bylaw 9220 governing board elections uh do I have a motion on this item no motion to bring it to me I'm sorry before we move on I apologize were there any public comments on business item a before we move on okay moving on to business Item B we have a motion to do what bring it to the floor for discussion okay and do I have a second okay um so this was brought up at our last meeting um a request to rescind the board residency verification portion of board bylaw 9220 um do we have any public comments on this issue okay um before we begin the discussion I've asked to have Scott
050Holbrook the district the district's lawyer here because at the last meeting there were claims that this policy and the way we implemented it were illegal so I wanted to clarify that Scott are you with us good evening yes I am can you hear me see me so before we go into a discussion can you address the legality and our authority to enact such a bylaw sure the board has General Authority uh under Education Code 35160 to act in any manner that is not inconsistent with or preempted by any law and the legislature in adopting Education Code 35160.1 has mandated that that authority authority be liberally construed um so the board does have broad Authority um to enact policies to govern and guide uh its procedures uh and its members so long as they're not inconsistent
051with or preempted by law okay and would you say that this policy is inconsistent with or preempted by any laws no I'm not aware of any law that would prohibit the board uh from adopting or revising its uh board by law to reflect a verification requirement of member trustees it appears to be applied to all trustees uh equally there is a process to comply with uh with the policy revision that allows for reasonable notice um there are exceptions in applying with to the policy uh it respects the confidentiality of the information sought and provided um in my opinion it it's not preempted by any law or inconsistent with any law it's entirely within the board's discretion to adopt a revision to that policy so long as it's that action was compliant with the brown act
052meaning that it was properly agendized and noticed at a public meeting and action was taken by a majority of the board at that public meeting which is my understanding as to how the action occurred so in your opinion we did nothing illegal correct okay thank you very much just wanted to address that off right off the bat any other discussion on the side I have a comment about what was just stated the problem was never with the process the problem is the bylaw itself and the league at the potential legality of it and whether we have the authority to modify elections codes and um I'm sorry election code and education code and in that I did follow up with elections codes uh uh from Placer County as well as Sacramento County and they advised uh
053a that they hadn't heard of any boards having such policies and that they don't have authority over that and that if there was a question about the residency of Annie duly elected ORD member or appointed board member there is a process a legal process that should be engaged in and um and that is the remedy not to create a local board policy to police one another and check and verify if a board member actually resides in an area or not but if there was an authentic concern about it to engage in that legal process so I think we're setting uh precedent that's wrong and immoral and that's why I continue to stand in opposition to this board member residency verification policy I don't think that it is helping to keep the district focused on the
054learning and achievement of all students which is our primary charge and um it's very problematic we're setting precedence I believe in all the wrong ways and all the wrong directions could you please explain what you feel is immoral about it it's immoral to add additional qualifications upon a candidate who's been duly elected and has been sworn in and taken an oath of office that recognizes that they understand the um responsibilities and duties of that office so I find it very disrespectful to a governing board member to have them do additional qualification after they've already been elected and they've sworn and affirmed that they meet the qualifications and requirements there's no need to do extra verification and if someone's concerned there's a remedy it's to seek legal judgment do you acknowledge that it's a requirement to
055be a resident on an ongoing basis during the term that's already a qualification set by Education Code I'm sorry what was that do you acknowledge that the education code establishes that you must continue to be a resident to serve on the board yes and every dually elected board member knows that they don't need to have a very paternalistic action from their fellow board members to check in and see if they're still in compliance with it and if there's a genuine concern there are legal Avenues to pursue that someone could take up and challenge a board member's residency we've seen board members recalled we've seen board members removed when there were genuine concerns about those issues in the state of California nobody yet on our board has been able to Pardon Me has been able to
056point out to me what other District in the state of California has such a policy it hasn't been produced yet because it doesn't exist in California so this is something we're trying to import as a local board from some other state an idea and I think it's a toxic idea and I think the the impact of it won't be positive um it's not from another state it's from my head frankly exactly and I I happen to think that it was it's a flaw the other districts don't have it um it's not about the current board it's about the system of the board as a whole it is theoretically possible that a board member could move out of District and then not tell anyone and continue to serve on the board which would be a violation
057of Edco so in order to help reassure the public that that's not happening we're not creating a qualification to serve we are simply saying that we are going to verify with the superintendent that we continue to be residents and then he's going to report that out to the public um we are not removing anybody if they don't reside within the district or if they don't comply with this we're just like we have a board bylaw that says that our meetings will end at nine o'clock or we have board bylaws that say that we are going to uh be civil to each other not interrupt treat active dignity we have the authority is this is not modifying election code or uh Ed code we are just simply saying that we are going to uh show the
058superintendent evidence that we continue to be residents it is within our authority to set such a policy it's not illegal it's not immoral in my opinion I don't understand what is the the flaw in doing this since the I mean theoretically like I said if actually let's back up shortly after I was appointed we had two board members move out of the district boundaries okay they both did what they were supposed to and resigned before moving but if they hadn't we would have no way of knowing the public would have no way of knowing and so this is just simply a way to reassure the public that we are continuing to comply with the requirements of our office and to that president Bruno I say the public has a nasty to do that you admitted
059that this came from your head and it's your idea no no and and only one public comment and I'm being interrupted and only one public comment supported it when it was enacted I haven't heard a call from the public at all I've only seen this coming from president Bruno and the board majority members and I believe that it's not a right direction to turn our district in to be paternalistic for its board members I don't think that's appropriate I truly don't believe that this policy is helping to keep the district focused on learning and achievement for all students and that's why while you have the authority to do something it doesn't mean that you should do something or that it's the right thing to do and for me this is the wrong thing to do
060it's not going to increase student achievement it doesn't assure anyone of anything except for a few folks who want to be overly paternalistic and police one another as board members and I'm against that if there's a concern you follow the legal process and you take the steps that are established and known in the state of California to challenge that someone's showing you something and showing you a paper proves nothing it proves that they had a paper that was dated at that date and they could still not reside in the district so these comments that this is going to help us to ensure things for the public and so forth I'm just not buying it at all and I'm not buying the motive that's being stated based on what I've seen and what I've experienced okay
061trustee Kelly and then trustee Anderson after first of all I want to insist that you stop referring to a board majority which does not exist and it is insulting an unnecessary number one number two this didn't come from the board this came from concerns that were expressed through multiple board members from the community and we as a board made the decision that we would re-verify our eligibility our legal right to serve in this capacity and that and we took all of the precautions that we felt we could in order to maintain confidentiality of that information the fact that no other District does this is simply irrelevant and we did reach out to the county registrar's our office that was one of the first things that the superintendent did and they simply said oh we don't
062verify residency period they didn't say anything about judgments or anything else neither did our attorney who I hope is still on the line neither did any of the other districts that we've spoken with and so the fact that you've come up with this information is great we will pursue that but but none of this is illegal unethical or immoral it is our way of reassuring the community that we indeed are eligible to serve on the board trustee Anderson first off I would like to say that he's speaking to your microphone please speak to your microphone first I would like to say I've had many constituents many residents that have asked me if you do live in the district and to be honest with you uh please don't interrupt but who's you who's it please don't
063interrupt let her finish then you'll get your turn and it's your turn again is the microphone on better okay yes I've had many constituents ask me if you actually live in the district um and I had to tell them I don't know because she won't tell anybody where she lives the problem is with that is you're required not just the one time when you sign with the voter registrar's office but for the entire length of the term to live within the boundaries of the district I don't understand why showing two people at the head of the district is going to jeopardize anything for you if you're trying to keep your address quiet I don't know what the problem is behind that frankly it's been the way you have reacted to it that has got everybody's
064suspicions up that's what's causing all the the questioning that's going on is why are you so afraid to give anybody your address um the if you look at the Attorney General's website and you do a search on their rulings for residency you will find that this has happened many times in California and they have been removed from office so the the correct way is not a recall it's to ask the attorney general for a right to sue and then it goes on to the DA's office and then you're they can make you force you into paying back all that money because that money is public funds and if it was collected when you lived outside the district it gets paid back every vote that you are a part of is now in suspicion and it's
065it has to be redone so there are valid reasons behind people wanting to know if you are actually a legitimate board member it's not just because we want to pick on Tavia we spent two years now I'm being addressed directly and it's not appropriate I'm sorry for an extended time I'm just trying to explain that nobody's trying to pick on you this is all come about because of your actions all right so I have uh some follow-up comments and then you will have a turn as well well I would like a turn at this point because I waited and listened patiently and I waited while you spoke well she spoke and she spoke so now I'm going to speak again I will finish that with just saying we are obligated to do the to pursue
066this for our constituents and for the people in our district it's an obligation at this point so to address a few aspects of this first of all when I said this came from my head there had been discussion about things and this was the solution that I came up with and then we revised it and made changes and came up with a policy together um as far as this being us being the only District in California that has such a policy that may be true I frankly am baffled that districts that have um trusty areas don't do anything to make sure that the trustee still resides not only within their District but within their trusty area I actually find that incredibly surprising uh so the districts I've reached out to do not seem to do
067such a thing but I again I see that as them dropping the ball frankly um as far as uh this being immoral unethical as far as you questioning the motives of it I have been consistent from the beginning with what my motives were um if you go back to any of the board meetings where we have discussed this and if you if people would like to check the agenda packet um I have some comments on this and it has YouTube links to each of the board meetings as well as the time code where it was discussed at the last meeting it was stated that um there are videos yes and I have provided links to them uh students cite your sources um I have been consistent from the beginning about why I wanted this policy
068it's not about the board as it sits now I'm not questioning any current board members residency I frankly believe that we all reside within District boundaries this is for the theoretical case that may come up one day and that we should put a plan in place now before it becomes an issue I don't lock my door at night because I think someone's going to break in that night I lock my door every night to build the Habit so that if one night someone does happen to try to come in it's already locked so trustee Lee yes I want to comment on a few things because many things were directed towards me um comments were made that there's not a board majority um and I just encourage you to look at the voting record of this
069board and to look at the discussions of this board and you will see there's definitely at this time a board majority and a board minority dynamic second I heard trustee Bruno mentioned just now that we came up with the policy together we would be all of us on the board I never saw nor heard of this policy until 72 hours before it was introduced in agendaites and published to the public so I wasn't involved in crafting this policy together the board majority was involved in that and there may be some possible Brown act violations there that we should investigate once again I really am just going to stick with I will not comply with this policy as a Civic servant I'm a former civic education teacher I taught my students when when you feel something
070is incorrect or inappropriate you should not comply with it and you should speak against it so that's why I continue to speak against this action the way it was done and again to point the board members back to the remedy if there's a genuine concern your duty to the public is to seek legal judgment trustee Anderson addressed me several times with some personal attacks I'm not going to address those because frankly it's irrelevant this isn't about me this isn't about her it's about what's best for our community and whether our actions are in alignment with our board governance standards and whether we're keeping the district focused on learning and achievement for all students this action doesn't advance that at all and that's why I will continue to oppose it and I absolutely will not comply
071with it and I've requested it be rescinded for all of those reasons okay trustee Kelly yeah um so the fact that we can take some sort of legal action does it mean that we will the intention of this board policy is to reassure the community if a board member does not comply then the community can take that however they so choose um my comment about not referring to us as a board majority is the fact that the way that we vote is not as a unit but as individuals that's why the whole point of having a School Board of five or seven members or nine members whatever it is is to have varied opinions we should never be a 5-0 vote 100 of the time that that's not the goal that's not how it should
072be and there have been many many cases where that has not been a four one it's not been a you know us against them situation um it's just it's just not I don't know I don't know it's just not polite to say oh the board majority you know like as if everybody else is against me it's us it's me against them that that is not the situation it's all five of us contributing our own opinions and our own uh votes and and I just I'm offended by it um particularly since I often very often agree with what trustee Lee has to say and her issues that she brings up very frequently agree with them and vote for them so um I'm offended by it and then as for Nancy's comments directed toward you she was
073trying to reassure you that we are not picking on you that this was something that we as a board felt we could do to reassure the community and the all of the revisions that were made to this board policy and the presentation of the initial draft all of that was done in public at a public meeting and so or at a meeting held in public excuse me our meeting in public and so no there were no Brown act violations I have a response so I'm going to speak uh Mr Mason's gonna speak and then you can be after with him um so regarding the baseless accusation of brown act violations prior to um disappearing on the agenda only one other trustee besides me had any uh advance notice of it because I discussed it with
074another trustee I said hey what do you think about this idea I have so okay um yes and two people are allowed to discuss things when I say that we crafted it together that's what we did in the meeting in February 2022 meeting for example um we had a vote about whether or not this should trigger automatic censure if someone doesn't comply and if you remember the outcome of that vote was three to two against an automatic censure and you were in the board majority for that vote but I will have to disagree with trustee Kelly I think there is a board majority uh Dynamic going on at the moment in the the majority of the board while we may agree or disagree work together cooperatively and that's the board majority Dynamic I see um
075as far as how we vote if you look back at our December 2021 meeting where trustee Lee was absent we had a vote go two and two we didn't agree we frequently don't see eye to eye but then we move on and we decide to work together on the next issue um so as far as an intention not to comply if students disagree with the dress code and they want to wear a t-shirt to school that has an obscenity on it they will get a warning probably be asked to put something on over it something like that they do not have the authority to Simply say I disagree with the dress code so I'm going to wear a shirt with an obscenity on it and if they continue to do so they are in violation
076of the school rules disagreeing with a rule does not give you grounds to Simply ignore it and I think to do so sets a bad example for the students Mr Mason um as the student representative um I think as a board it shouldn't be a board majority it should be the board working together so we can go forward with students education more I had an idea if the address was put into a third party person so that way your address stays confidential but the address is still verified so that way if the concern was the safety of your spouse or kids that you would still be safe and that would be a secret third person party just verifying um uh can you clarify what you mean by a third party uh as a lawyer or
077not as well a lawyer looks at the um the address and verifies that the board rep does live in the district so that way it's not board members looking at each other's address to clarify the policy is the superintendent and one other District employee not the board members and the information is not maintained yes they don't report the answers they just say yes show me that they recite the video but that would be another possibility as well that we could have an outside third party do it so trustee Lee you had some additional comments yes I do I find it most interesting how trustee Kelly explains to me the intentions of trustee Anderson as though she's in her mind and it understands what she's thinking she said it out loud she was reassuring and and
078also um I'm just gonna hearken to representative John Lewis about our duty to cause good trouble and to disrupt wrongdoing at all times it was suggested by trustee Bruno that if there's a rule and you don't agree with it you should comply with it anyways if we had done that we'd still be living in segregated societies because in the Civil Rights era folks would have followed the rule that was there even though they knew it was wrong but it's the rule so we should follow it and be a good example I don't agree with that philosophy and I don't promote that kind of thing thinking with my students or with my community members are constituents social change happens and social transformation happens from people resisting and refusing to comply with things that they find immoral
079or unethical some of our board members don't find this immoral are unethical so they'll comply with it I on the other hand I find it immoral unethical and I think it's setting a wrong precedent for school board governance in the state of California and I want no part of that so I will continue to not comply and if you are a student who sees a rule or a law that is unjust and that doesn't sit right with you morally I say you have a duty to not comply with it and to make noise about it um can you call the question okay one mom uh can you explain what is unjust about a policy where we show that we are in compliance with the rules and is applied equally and fairly to everyone it's wrong
080in principle it sets a wrong precedent it doesn't align with our board policy to focus on in the learning and achievement for all of our students it has nothing to do with that and so therefore um I I find it to be immoral and inappropriate and I heard a call for the question and I'd like to call for the question in the vote as well okay um there isn't an action item on the table at this point so did someone want to make an action I just called for the vote I'd like to call for a vote what what's the vote you're calling for about the reconsideration of rescinding the board member residency verification I'm asking us to do a roll call vote on this topic so we'll need to to recall uh to remove
081that portion of the Court policy okay so she's she's making the motion do I have a second on this motion I'll second it okay trustee Lee oh I'm sorry Mr Mason we're voting to present so the the motion is to rescind the the board member residency verification portion of board by law 9220 meaning if I say I I'm wanting to rescind it yes uh nay okay trustee Lee I trustee Anderson no trustee Kelly no trustee Pope no and chair votes no motion failed okay um the time for public comments had passed on never happened no I did ask for Paul comments at the beginning yes before we spoke with uh Scott okay um yeah yes I did okay moving on to item C resolution of the Board of Trustees of Center Joint Unified School District
082authoring the issuance and sale of its General obligation bonds election of 2008 series 2022 C in an aggregate principle amount not to exceed 14 million dollars and approving certain other matters relating to said bonds wow that's a mouthful move to approve okay and do I have a second on this motion I'll second okay uh superintendo would you like to give us an overview yeah I can yes so so as we spoke last meeting uh kushu Guyer who was our consultant CFW talked about the opportunity for us to capitalize on some uh accessible bond funds that we could use to finish uh the phase two of Rex Fortune Elementary and so uh with that this will give us the authorization to go into the market and end up um looking at issuing wands to bring back
083to that purpose okay are there any public comments on this item okay um any discussion okay let's take a vote Mr Mason hi trustee Lee aye trustee Anderson aye aye trustee Kelly aye trustee Pope aye and Cheryl tie fruit okay item D second reading policies regulations and Exhibits well hello hello yes you have overlooked uh my hand that is raised for public comments on which issue well you went to see but I want to go back to be under the Ada because I was not in attendance of your meeting last month but more importantly I think there is a brown act violation because your your page that shows the link does not have the information that's what's on your agenda with it and that should be there simultaneously and that is stated in the brown
084act I am very familiar with that because I've sued on it um I'm sorry which I can repeat it I can repeat it again for you I want to comment on B reconsideration for rescinding board member residency on your page for the district you have a separate page for an agenda which was not explained to me by Carol hunt and you have a page where you have uh where the link is going to be for Zoom where the link for Zoom is you do not have a link for the agenda of your meeting that should also be there at under the brown act that would be a violation for me as a person who is legally disabled I should not have to go to multiple pages to look for your agenda and I did not
085see what your agenda was until the meeting began and because I did not know what your agenda was I could not speak when you asked me to number one I should have been asked after the discussion because you talked about the item and number two because I was not present so I did not know what the item was actually about and furthermore since I have stayed with you since the beginning of the meeting it shows that I am trying to Advocate on my right to speak at a public meeting under the brown act okay uh to be clear the board agenda was posted in advance of the meeting as excuse me sir excuse me please don't interrupt no no because I am legally thank you as I said the board she gave to others please
086don't interrupt me point of comfort sir okay could you please give my speaker the same respect that yeah minutes previously I let this woman speak excuse me please let me finish you didn't want to rescind the civility board policy so please follow it you're being uncivil to this public commentary as I was saying our board agenda was posted in advance of the meeting as is our legal obligation um we do public comments at the beginning of an agenda item before the board discussion however that being said we also have a district history of being somewhat flexible with these things especially when someone has technological difficulties so I don't believe it to be a brown act violation but as a courtesy and because I like to hear from the public I would like to permit this
087person to speak Roberto could you explain to the public so they know that we're not in violation of the brown act we're exactly the agenda is and where the zoom link is okay um I I don't have it in front of me at the moment can you please explain yeah so if if you go on to the on the very front page it says board live stream you click on that it gives you all the information for the live stream to the left of that it says board meetings that takes you to all the agendas that were properly posted actually this time more than 72 hours in advance of the meeting and additionally there's the board packet available as well but also on the home page of the district website you'll scroll down and says
088cjusd live stream and above that there's a link to the board agenda and there's the board packet with all the backup multiple areas where you can get so as I said we've met our legal obligations but we also do have a district culture of being somewhat flexible and so I would like to hear from the public so even though we've already voted on that I would like to hear the public comment on this issue we'll need to unmute so can you please unmute her so she can speak now can I also have the clock please so that I can see my time um is that good well it's I'm not able to see you you don't you don't have the apparatus where you have the time for the viewer to see how long it is
089that they've been speaking we have the the clock here we don't have anything online would it be possible to zoom in on the clock more so she could see it better because looking at the TV I can't read the clock from here okay well that's something we need to take up at another time I appreciate the opportunity to comment on this issue and it's very disheartening because one of the things is you're setting an example for your students that are there with you tonight um all right I can see the clock now hello yes okay um as I've already said it's very disheartening on the subject that you're discussing tonight and your students are there with you so as I have listened um me as a person of color it is reminiscent of Jim Crow
090era tactics and as a parent who has been very involved in many things and these parents whoever they are if they are so concerned about the address of a particular trustee I would like to encourage these parents to run for the board of trustee I have always been in the mindset that you should have a child in the district to even be on the board that's just my personal uh philosophy a lot of times that's not even the case and so to see this issue um being persistent in your board I haven't idea of how the issues I have run into with some of the teachers in your school and even in dealing with the principles in in the district and they are in my experience 1950s era before Brown versus Board of Topeka so
091now I am seeing there is perhaps a very serious issue in the district and it is a race issue in your district and here we are in the 21st century dealing with this issue I appreciate the fact and that you have this item on the agenda but for the amount of time that you have spent on this issue you have taken away from other items on the agenda and you have taken away from your students and there are so many other things that can be done if it is on behalf of all students and I am not getting that from this board you either have it or you don't or you're going to be left behind and once again I said there are some issues and how this is posted I will forward you that
092in a letter but there are some possible Brown violations I will look through my book tonight and quote where I think there are violations on how the link to the your link was even changed today because your website said it was the link for the October meeting so had I not even called Miss hunt um I wouldn't have been aware this was the same length I will follow up with a letter thank you all right thank you very much okay returning to business item D second reading policies regulations and Exhibits do I have a motion on this move to approve as a complete package okay do I have a second second okay um just to acknowledge I know last meeting there were some uh edits so we did make those edits and those are reflected
093in there so just wanted to make sure the board did that all right thank you very much um do we have any public comment on this issue okay any discussion on this okay then uh let's do a vote Mr Mason aye trustee Lee hi trustee Anderson aye trustee Kelly aye trustee Pope aye and chair of osai approved okay future safety item e future safety board update um do I have an emotion on the side a motion to bring it to the floor for discussion okay and do I have a second on this item okay um superintendent Larry I I would I think this item came back the board had been talking about what content that the board would like to to hear back from our uh law enforcement support we work with Twin Rivers we
094have a SRO contract with them and and also um Security in the evenings and stuff like that from the facilities uh so what we were asking was what what particularly would the board want from that I know I went back in previous agendas I know it was referenced that when we contracted with Sac sheriffs a department that they would present I did find one presentation uh where they came and updated the board on the SRO and Sr duties um and then I know we had a previous SRO who every once in a while would come to the meetings he was the center High SRO would come to the meetings and talk about things going on um so one of the things I know we shared back in I believe was September or August Mr brassy
095talked about some of the security safety measures we have in place so what we're looking for would be guidance from the board as to with a report what would you what would you like from us our safety plans come out in March I believe it's March and um that that talks a lot about it but if there's something more we're happy I'm happy to have Twin Rivers bring their lieutenant or someone in talk about SRO program what it looks like they can talk about different calls they go on they don't do Twin Rivers does not cover the neighborhoods uh SAC Sheriff did Cover the neighborhoods so they would be referencing any calls and stuff like that that they had but we're just looking for guidance I guess in the side of it I wonder if
096the board agrees um have the safe school officer talk about how they enhance or how they work with our safety team so what I what I could do is put together a report where we review uh briefly the different measures so we we are you can always do more but we do have a lot of different things that we do Implement and we're constantly looking at that the piece we did not bring into the last presentation was the the SRO piece I would probably bring uh the the lieutenant or our Sergeant who's over been familiar with the district for a while have him or her speak with the board see if there's any questions um happy to arrange that I mean I'm just looking for the guidance of what what you all wanted because we
097did go over pretty extensively drills and all of that so before we get to the uh discussion are there any public comments on this issue no let's hope this working person might be online I want to speak up um okay uh any just any further discussion on this uh I I would like to hear about um um you know sorry my mind just went blank um you know like uh what's happening as far as drugs what's changed what what things are being seen what's prevalent and you're speaking more to what's out there in the at large now at large not necessarily at our with our students but just to be aware of you know what's out there and what's on you know what's on the streets so to speak arrange them I have some concerns
098just because of what's going on in the news about you know wanting to address School physical safety I think it might be good to update us periodically not necessarily on a monthly basis but just you know um frankly I'm feeling a little torn on one hand it's nice to be transparent and discuss what we're doing to keep Kids Safe on the other hand the more you reveal the more the easier it is for someone to find the holes in it so and maybe a first start would be have a overview with the sros in conjunction with our planning and then see if that leads to further further conversation because I know comments last meeting we talked about different fencing and stuff like that and myself and I talked with maintenance about making sure some of
099the fencing is we have a one fence that gets cut quite frequently but we also have a uh check it almost daily and then I'd like to have them cover the gangs in the area what's going on with that and the homeless situation um so they don't but it's different because they're not Sac sheriffs so they don't they aren't Community patroller I mean they work the SRO works for us they don't go on outside calls I'm not saying they don't know it but I I don't know if they're the actual Authority that would would be able to give us yeah I hear you okay but certainly we do have calls when um encampments or or homeless or are camping near our schools will they'll work and they'll also then contact Sac sheriff and work with
100us but if we get them an overview and then it might dive in and maybe they have Specialists that could come out and share some things maybe they could just tell us what's going on with the plan there because I'm I'm not sure where it stands right now and that might be a different conversation with a different agency just because originally Sac Sheriff you know they had a broader scope Twin River is focused on school policing school we could invite them too [Music] any further discussion okay and we don't need to take an action you're just no I just I just look for directions so I'll work with them to see and I'll get it either December or January meeting just to have them come and give an overview I just want to don't want
101to commit to something when I don't know their schedule okay okay sounds good okay there we are item F schedule annual organizational meeting of the board uh do I have a motion on this island a motion to bring it to the floor for discussion okay do I have a second second okay um superintendent letter you want to give a brief overview yeah so all this is is as the boards where in December the board will need to select their officers resident clerk board representative and so this action actually just uh places it so it becomes placed on the agenda so there would be the organizational meeting for that time so all your action tonight is doing is saying yes we want it on the December 14th meeting and that falls within the window that's allowed
102okay any public comments on this item I'm not surprised um I'm not sure and the new second second Friday in uh December is when new individuals would take office so I think it's the first Friday that the results um yeah yeah so we're well after that so yeah can I can I ask a popcorn question if the meeting is December 14th and my term ends December 15th then next month is my last meeting is that correct the second year term ends the second right second Friday so basically the new individual second Friday of okay so and this is okay wonderful thank you okay I don't want to be here I just want to make sure okay um any further discussion on this issue do I have a motion move to approve can you be more
103specific I'm sorry I moved to approve item F uh to schedule the annual organizational meeting of the board at the December regular board meeting thank you uh drive a second foreign G jusd annual and five-year developer fee report for fiscal year 2122 and resolution number six 2022-23 adopting the findings contained in the 2021-22 developer fee reports okay let's bring it to the floor all right move to bring it to the floor for discussion and do I have a second a second okay sorry can you second I know he can make you know what I'll I'll second just just to be just to be safe okay we should look that up so I'll be Miss uh Coronado who was unable to join us tonight but this is just an annual um certification we have to do
104a section 66001 and 66006 if Government code required that we report any developer fees that we receive so this report that Miss Coronado prepared is an overview of the developer fees and planned expenditures of those impacts that are created by neighborhoods so an annual report that comes forward if you notice I think it's about 8 million that we've accumulated over the last year pretty positive but obviously when a residential neighborhood comes in it has an impact that makes us need to build schools so therefore those monies go towards the creation and building of a new school or the upkeep of current schools other than that we'd ask that you approve but Lisa would be very happy with it okay move to the public comments any board discussion do I have motion move to approve do
105I have a second second okay Mr Mason aye trustee Lee aye trustee Anderson aye trustee Kelly aye trustee Pope aye and chair votes hi approved okay moving on to student board representative reports Mr Mason um so we had uh Dia de los Muertos celebration on the first of this month uh hosted by our Hispanic youth leadership Club in which multiple board members came and then at lunch on the 9th uh of this month we had our best buddies uh thankful tree where students write down all that they're thankful for football made it to the second round of playoffs and lost a tough game against Sonora unfortunately so our playoff hopes are done for football uh yesterday Avid had their College and Career Fair at both lunches where students made posters displaying information on different colleges
106they had researched and uh different community colleges came and as well as the army recruiters and the police as well came our Powder Puff game is tomorrow at six uh we'll have a taco truck we'll have churros uh corn and different clubs selling small little snacks like candy or popcorn um everyone is super excited about their uh week off next week for Thanksgiving in the upcoming months we have our winter sports going underway with uh girls and boys basketball wrestling and boys and girls soccer as well um we have our best buddies game against Antelope coming up um the date is still being determined but it got finalized okay on the sixth um and then on the seventh we have our annual Ginger buddies contest where teachers and students team up to complete to compete
107and make a gingerbread houses against other teacher and students teams fun uh any questions Powder Puff is tomorrow I've said yeah and you said taco truck s we're over here making plans I'm not reading email I swear but they're in the calendar um so moving on to board superintendent reports trustee Lee yes um just want to take a moment to recognize that in the state of California November is recognized as Native American heritage month as well as sick awareness and appreciation month and if our schools are doing any activities around those I'd love to hear about them or to see what's being done to celebrate those Multicultural recognitions of Heritage also you notice I have my little button here that says I voted on November 8th um it's something that's so important and I hope
108all of our students will register to vote when they become of age as well as vote it really does make a difference your one vote makes a difference I'll give you an example when I ran for this board in 2020 it was a matter of I think less than 10 votes that made the difference between me sitting here now and unseating an incumbent that was running against me at the time time or not being here so it really does make a difference every single vote counts and I encourage you and all community members to vote we have in this election cycle three of our seats up we won't know until the votes certify in December I was I'm checking all the time to see how that's going uh looks like Sacramento County has about 145
109000 votes left to process and count so that's still very much changing each time they update in Placer County I'm not too sure what's going on there a couple days after election it said they had a hundred percent of precincts but the numbers keep changing so I'm just keep an eye on that and encourage folks to keep an eye on it too it might be a glitch in their system so I have a lot to share about the conversations I've had with community members following our October meeting and there's been a number of the of conversations and concerns presented to me one one was regarding a public commenter that we've heard from multiple times now I'm not sure but I think they're running for a seat on this board and folks have been asking me
110questions about his persistent comments about police officers in our schools and having police officers in our schools and are we going to do that and I haven't seen it on our agendas and I hope not to because frankly as an individual board member I don't support police officers in K-12 schools and I don't think that's a necessary thing that would be helpful for Learning and achievement for our students I really think that's the last thing that that we as a district need to do is put armed officers or police officers on our campuses for security reasons I find that much better budget allotments will be made for social workers substance abuse counselors you know counselors in general academic counselors there's so many more ways to spend our money than that so and to help our
111students to thrive I also think that we've heard a number of times from public commenters and myself about our the need for our district to address problems of monocultural Education as well as racism and homophobia that's in the district and so I'd like to see us start really addressing that as a board racism and homophobia has no place anywhere we have some policies on it but I think we need to enact some action around it and some training around it so that we can really shift the culture of our district this is something that would help in terms of our student achievement welcomingness belongingness in our district and to our Student Government students who were present and that witnessed some of the board Dynamics at our October Open Session I want to clarify my perspective
112on on a number of things and actually some of the things happened today too if you notice when I deliver my board reports I I don't interrupt my colleagues I don't usually speak about them until today and I don't I also don't make part of my board report responses to our rebuttals to their reports yet they consistently do not grant me the same respect there are no interns here there are no subordinates here we are all equal board members in this governance body if you go back to the recordings and view review the meetings for yourself and see that what I'm saying is true and even today it happened multiple times and if you ever find yourself in a similar situation as you serve in student government or public service I encourage you to continue
113to aim high but to also do what's necessary to be heard when it's necessary and as you conduct your governance meetings and if you do them according to the Roberts Rule of Order which we purportedly operate under as a board when a member during Open Session a governing board member raises a point that's a signal to the chairperson or the president and a professional and collegial chairperson or president stops and listens to the point being raised by the member instead of what you saw multiple times in the October meeting where the president or chairperson cut me off as a board member I began immediately speaking over me and saying no no no or wait just a minute and so forth not only does that behavior you witnessed throw Robert's Rules of Order into the trash
114bin it is also totally out of line with basic Civic and civil decorum and our board policies which we took a look at today so I apologize that you saw that as an example and I hope that our Student Government bodies don't emulate that I encourage you to look to other local governance bodies to see effective and functional communication practices and finally I just want to note at the end of our meetings sometimes the students are encouraged to come up to the die are to you know engage with the board members if you notice I leave immediately after meeting and that's for medical reasons so I don't want anyone to feel like wow you know maybe Dr Lee doesn't want to talk to me or be with us it's literally doctor's orders for me so
115if you want to connect with me I welcome you to give me a call attend my open Office hours meetings I still hold them on Zoom people do drop into them I have them on first Mondays of every month from four to five and the link is on our website our Board website so I encourage you to stay connected with me and to follow up and I do listen and I bring these concerns and I'll keep bringing these concerns until we make changes that are needed trustee Anderson I think we need to come back can you speak in your microphone please I think we need to go back and go over what word reports are for um and how much time we're allotted for them I would just like to um ask Mr Lair if
116we can't have the monitors mounted so that people can see because over half the audience out there can't see what's on this monitor the room is under construction and so they will be we're just waiting on parts to be honest we'll have I think four monitors will be up around the room it's it's it's six so it's a temporary issue so we can't just stick something up there and well you gotta talk to Eugene back there not me okay okay other than that students you've been so respectful tonight thank you for coming and thank you for sitting there quietly with all this nonsense that's going on I think you've gotten a pretty good just of what it's all about um I I still don't understand what some of the issues are so don't feel bad
117if you don't if you do so um anyway I want to wish everybody a Happy Thanksgiving to spend some time with your families let them know you love them because it really makes a difference sometimes I know almost every time we have a holiday break over Christmas or Thanksgiving some unfortunate family loses somebody and that's not a good thing so please be careful while you're out there have fun with your friends but be careful that you make it home I would also like to know if we're going to have any Christmas programs at the elementary schools and the high school actually they put on some nice ones too so that we can attend those so if you hear of some let me know and with that I'll turn it over trustee Kelly hi um so
118just a few things um we attended now I don't remember was the scoey dinner within the last month it was it was a month before okay let me not report on that then Henry um what did we do this past month we went to the play right we went to the play that was fantastic that was absolutely great um and I'm just excited that we have so many things going on that the board can go and attend and participate in that are much more joyful than these meetings so um we love what we do I love doing this sadly I will not be doing this after tonight for at least the next two years but you will still see me because I am still going to be involved in the district and I'm looking forward
119to continuing with the design the equity design team which is a huge Endeavor that we have undertaken as a response to or in addition to some of the other Equity items that we have brought forward with the policy and such the equity design team is going to be implementing broad broad policies and culture shift to ensure that we have diversity and equity in every decision that we make in every school campus and that those are first and foremost in our culture and our schools so I'm excited to be continuing with that my day job does touch on Equity every single day I work for the Department of Public Health and our office specifically is responsible for implementing a lot of infrastructure meaning putting people in place who are specifically dedicated to ensuring equity in health
120care public health issues and so very familiar with a lot of the social determinants of Health which are the same determinants that affect education and and just really looking to dig deep into what the issues are with our district specifically because every district is different and making sure that those that those data points are what we are using to make decisions on our actions that will remedy the the disparities that exist so looking forward to that very deep and heavy work and thank you so much for allowing me to represent this District over the past two years and then prior to that for another eight years and this isn't the last you'll see of me thank you trustee Pope thank you president Bruno thank you [Music] [Applause] yes we will miss you Miss Kelly um
121you've had a good run and we'll see you in two years two years two years you'll be back well I'm glad you're gonna run I had the great privilege of touring each School site within the last two years this month Mr Lair and I um did tour Spinelli Oak Hill as well as McClellan um I was introduced to a lot of new people because we do have a lot of new staff and I saw some familiar faces which was warm and touching to my heart it amazes me how things have changed and how we've progressed throughout the years and I want to commend the school sites for keeping up with the changes within society and with the rules and regulations set forth as a board member it's very important to know what our school district
122and our school sites are doing so I recommend each board member to call the superintendent and set up a date to tumor the schools because you don't know what's going on unless you're there and you see and you talk to the administrators it's very important at least if you cannot tour the schools call the superintendent and ask questions don't assume what's not or is going on and if Mr Laird does not know trust me he visits the school sites multiple times a month he will find the answer for you I attended the MccLellan High School try to be award ceremony and student award showcase on November 9th as Miss Mason touched on they presented 52 Awards last week for the trimester 1B they recognized 11 students for excellent attendance and 41 honor roll student recipients
123six of which were 4.0 15 of which 15 students six students 15 students of which are 3.5 to 3.99 and 18 of which are 3.0 to 3.49 two our great start which are students that are new to this District that would have received honor roll if they would have been enrolled during the grading period so I would like to say to McClellan congratulations to those students also during the ceremony student projects of their Art Theater digital photography and Musical music culture classes were set up around the cafeteria for viewing Mr French and I did stop and speak to a few students and they were just proud to show their accomplishments so again McClellan students congratulations and a job well done I attended my first safety meeting on October 31st and then the facility meeting which
124is on November 1st and great information from both both meetings and Happy Thanksgiving enjoy your break thank you [Applause] um I'm going to apologize in advance if I go a little over on time I ran it past the board president who said it was okay I want to start off by apologizing to everyone for raising my voice earlier um we are all human emotions get to us sometimes I did not act in a way that I want to behave and I apologize to everyone um second thing I wanted to mention is I recently received an email from a junior at Center Michael yeagerov I hope I pronounced the name correctly who uh brought to my attention that Cesar Chavez Day was not on the calendar and he made a case for why it should be
125on the district's calendar not at not necessarily as a holiday but to be recognized the same as St Patrick's Day uh frankly it was a very well written email and uh he made good points and when I spoke to superintendent Larry it turns out the issue was a simple oversight when the calendar was set up so that will be taken care of but I want to encourage all of you if there is a change you want to see made speak up use your voice we are here to listen we are here to support you and you can make change this was a small change but if there's something significant that you want changed bring it to our attention advocate for it change can happen I also wanted to mention uh trustee Kelly did about the
126play that Mr Mason spoke about last month went to that had a really good time Mr Huey said at the beginning of the play that most of the cast it was their first time performing and I would say from watching the play I would not have guessed that it was really well done it was a lot of fun a lot of good humor in it it was it was a great time um in the spirit of of Thanksgiving um I want to take a moment to say thanks to a few people I'm nearing the end of my uh first term as a board member here and uh don't know yet what will happen with the election so this could be my last meeting as well as Kelly's um so I want to start by thanking
127Donald Wilson Jeremy Hunt Delray Pope Nancy Anderson for giving me this opportunity I appreciate you all um I was gonna go through and list District staff who I really appreciate what they contribute but frankly I would be here all night each and every one of you well first of all um part of the reason I decided to get involved with the school board is I work for a school district and I don't necessarily always feel appreciated there I want to let the staff of this District know I appreciate you all superintendent is the staff member I interact with most of all and I think we have a good working relationship and there are people at the school sites that I don't interact with but I also understand the importance of their roles whether it's a
128janitor a teacher a new Duty aide um principal vice principal whoever you are all playing a very important role and especially for the staff members that show up to these meetings on a consistent basis the union Representatives I really appreciate everything you guys do I want to give a special thought out shout out to the the technical crew that keeps these meetings running Eugene I don't know how you managed to pull this off during the pandemic when we were all remote I really appreciate it um [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign this has been a an interesting experience it's been a at times a challenging experience but it has been a very rewarding experience especially things like graduation that seeing everyone walk across the stage I I'm so proud of everything I'm so proud of what everyone
129accomplishes but anyway um the other thing I want to say is I want to thank my fellow candidates for office I think the campaign was not only a Fair campaign I think everyone was polite friendly and even Cooperative um one of my signs got taken down and thrown in the bushes and someone else's Banner got taken down well I went to go replace the sign and I re-hung the banner to the best of my ability and then the board the candidate whose Banner it was fixed the banner because I didn't do a very good job and found my son that had been thrown in the bushes and put that up for me we're competing against each other but also three of the candidates are going to have to serve together and I think that this
130this race has been put us all on a a good foot forward and um I really am optimistic about um what this board can accomplish so if this is my last meeting thank you all if this is not my last meeting I'll be here to be difficult again next month so thank you superintendent layer uh thank you president Bruno so I just want to acknowledge and thank start by thanking Kelly Kelly for her service on the board and I do know we've had multiple conversations she's not going anywhere she's got a lot of ideas of things to help out in the community and be a part of the district so we appreciate for her well it may not be at the board table right now it'll be continued in the community and that's we appreciate
131that thank you for the service you've given um also as each person has touched on the the school events and the tours that I've been on are incredible the the Dia de los muertas activity when I spoke with the two teachers and the the club advisors that put it on it was remarkable the students pulled it off and the teachers gave them uh full credit uh very very cool experience I'm going to call an awards um you know Miss Miss Pope gave the statistics of it but the statistics I saw were multiple parents so proud of their kids their students crying running up to take pictures and that's what it's all about so to see that and just the pride of a a parent a caregiver for the the their loved one was really impressive
132um also just a couple of things to the the this SFS this the FRC I'm sure called that I can't mess up the name all the time uh did a great job today with our our food drive handing food out for for those that wanted it but also I want to acknowledge and thank the Lions Club because they had over 50 turkeys that they also handed out at the food drive today um so I think the wartinas and their crew for all their assistance it was really cool uh Jerry and Mickey both had a truck bed full of turkeys which is pretty cool to see and with the shortage that I've learned what there is you need to get one while you can um also the couple other exciting things the board did approve tonight
133some contracts to begin our elop our Extended Learning opportunity plan thank Mr barassi for his work on getting these contracts together we're starting at our schools to get this going small but it'll be a great opportunity for the families that I've spoken to to have their students be able to spend time before and after school for longer period free of charge so we're looking to roll that out and then another thing that that I think is very positive for the district that helps our students participate in in different events and even stay well is a campus Clinic which Mr Jordan had shared they were doing covet Clinic they were helping us with that have expanded in the campus Clinic the board approved the agreement with them two months ago and starting on December 10th we
134have an opportunity for our students to get sports physicals so you don't have to try and schedule an appointment at Kaiser or wherever it may be which is very difficult but also just Wellness if someone wants to schedule a wellness time and a lot of people are covet is is out there but there are a lot of other illnesses that are out there too and if we can provide that and I believe Mr Jordan is at Center High School with it it will be free and so um anyway I just think that's a great service that we'll be giving so we've already started getting word out and then we'll have an opportunity for folks to to register and take advantage of that um and then finally with that I just uh the the last thing
135is I hope everyone has a great week off next week enjoys Thanksgiving enjoys our loved ones and it's a chance to relax not think about school anyway thank you nice no homework okay uh Advanced planning future meeting date Wednesday December 14th at 6 pm um any suggested agenda items I'd like to elevate the requests from the public commenter today who requested that we have a discussion and information provided around how the district is addressing bullying I think that's important for us as a board to know and be aware of and to have a talk about Mr barassi is going to be here next month right is that something he could touch base on I'll work with staff to see but we are doing an attendance engagement update but then we can also bring that and
136then Mr Miranda might be able to do that because I know you also approved some work around bullying tonight or some training from students so all we'll work with staff to see if we can at least start the conversation because it's a big conversation but if we can we can get address it and then we might lose Mr Jordan in on some of that too so um your job's never done is it yeah well I'm talking to Mr Jordan while I'm still here I can make a recommendation for board agenda item right absolutely so um I would love to see maybe not right away but at some point an update from the equity design team about the work that's gone into you know the groundwork and level setting and what the next steps are and
137such have you that would be great for that team to present it themselves and would be very excited to hear what they're doing so and thank you I neglected in my report that we actually have our next meeting not this coming week the next week the 29th how many people are on the team changing the subject okay sorry sorry it's off topic Harold do you have a way of contacting that woman gets held in about the brown ashes maybe we could contact her and get more specifics or inform her I think she shared that she's going to shoot us an email with the information so we'll be able to communicate with her she she shared that she was going to look in her book and then get with us so we certainly would reach out
138absolutely and that the timer was a note I put down we that's absolutely correct a lot of districts I've seen you can put it up virtually so I'll work with Eugene to see if we can figure that out so appreciated that in perfect um just to address something really quickly trustee Kelly said hey even though it's my last meeting can I add something to the members of the public is there something you'd like to see on the agenda reach out to us you can speak at a board meeting you can email the board itself um I personally love to hear from the public and so I encourage you guys to do this we've actually had times where someone reached out and we've added agenda items the only thing I would like to say is we
139prepare the agenda well in advance so please try to give us at least two weeks before the board meeting I'd that would be uh very much appreciated could I make a note uh on that um you also have Center High School students you have Riley yes here at your disposal so if you have any questions you could ask Riley and then he could also you know contact the board if you wish not to do so okay all right um continuation closed session we don't need and so adjourman do I have a motion on this oh second that you know what yeah let's let's let uh trustee Kelly make that motion and uh seconded uh all in favor aye aye anyone opposed meeting adjourned wow hey Kelly