001question order at 6 pm and we will start with a 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 those who like participate please stand absolute pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and Jesus announcement of action taken in closed session there was no action taken moving on to adoption of agenda do I have a motion
002on the side no motion okay take it and we have Motion in a second okay um advisory vote Mr Mason hi okay um should we just do a roll call vote since we're actually all right we could do a general consent since we're all here thank you that's what I meant thank you for knowing what I meant General consent hi okay agenda has been adopted uh organization reports for cuta we have Miss Heather Heather Woods perfect excuse me cuta has all good things to talk about today that we're first the Elementary staff asked if I was who volunteered at all of their fall festivals there's one more coming up and they said please tell the seniors you guys did a great job so if you guys can take that and they did I was there
003to witness it no I don't so thank you seniors who volunteered uh because community service is back we are obviously we've seen month after month but they are getting out there and doing things in the community so if anyone out there needs something that community service building they should ask the government teachers um in addition to fall festivals Red Ribbon Week is next week at most sites homecoming was last week for Center this week is very senior heavy we have lots of senior nights actually senior volleyball is about to start right now and then um even McClellan had a Visual and Performing Arts thing coming up so with that what I would like to ask the board recommend to the board it's a recommendation we would love it if not only do we get to
004know you from these meetings but if you would also get to know us we would love to see you at an event once a month if you could come out I told one of the things I told the cuta members today was please make sure to include the board to email Carol to email Scott and say here's our events coming up we don't want to overwhelm you so I'm not saying one at every site but we would love to see you at our events so please feel welcome at any time to come out and we will show you a good time thank you thank you Miss Woods thank you very much okay uh for CSEA Miss Naisha Harris and we have missed knee shares will not be with us but I believe Miss Amy rowensby
005is online I don't know if hi this is Amy runsby can you hear me perfect yes okay wonderful um thank you for having me I am the vice president of the csta union and um Naisha asks me to speak up on our behalf tonight so she sent me over just a brief blurb um to announce to the board um she asked me to um announce that um we had an article that was ratified and passed by the members of the csca union and we would appreciate it if the board would approve the article that was ratified and that is all y thank you okay moving along to reports presentations Williams uniform complaint quarterly uh reporting from Mr Mike Jordan Don't Blink good evening I'm pleased to report I have no report wonderful there are no
006complaints took me longer to walk up here thank you very much good to hear thank you okay and uh we have a bond program update with kusher okay well as he's walking up we just want to welcome kushu Guyer from CFW they have been great partners with us as we look at State financing and we're very glad to have him here he might have rushed his way in from the Bay Area so he might be a little little tired there but anyway welcome thank you for being here and we look forward to hearing what you have to say good evening ladies and gentlemen I'm Chris Cara with TFW very pleased to be uh here this evening to present you some information and an opportunity great consideration I've had the privilege of serving your district for
007almost 30 years now and my firm's been serving you for a little longer than that so we really appreciate the relationship over the years and it's nice to drive around your community and see everything that you've done for it uh with that I wanted to provide you just a little bit of background about your District's fund program as a recap and then uh discuss an opportunity that you might have oh perfect okay so uh this is a way of background the district has uh two general obligation bonds that were successfully passing your district one goes all the way back to 1991 and there's a small portion of those bonds that are still remaining to be uh sold almost six million dollars more recently in 2008 62 percent of the voters near District approved measure in
008authorizing 500 million dollars of bonds that can be sold over time as and when your assessed valuation supports that that Bond program was done in anticipation that there being development and growth in your district and to be able to provide housing for students over time as a housing was developed two they did issued about 55 million dollars a month and there's about almost a little over 440 million dollars that are remaining to be issued that could be issued over time and as I'll be describing a little bit later in the presentation today you do have an opportunity to issue some additional bonds if you have the need and desire to to do so as a background of your District's overall Bond program one of the items uh is anytime a district issues Bond it goes
009through a process where you get a credit rating assigned to you just like we all have personal credit ratings the district has occurred rating as well uh very pleased that the district's rated an A plus rating it's a very strong rating there are categories above an A plus District but those are usually reserved for the very high wealth postal communities of an A-Plus district is a is a very very good rating and it reflects what standard Imports the rating agency sees as the very strong diverse economy you participate in the Sacramento uh economy the greater Sacramento but also The Prudent financial management of your District over the years is reflected in that grade and that's something that was noted and the table below shows all the bonds that are currently outstanding and in total you
010have approximately 89 million dollars of bond issuances outstanding at this time the next page indicates your assessed valuation and what the assessed valuation is it's the value of all the property in your District not the market value but the assessed value for Prop 13 which typically is lower than the market value but it once again is reflective of the values of the property and it's the basis for which taxes are levied the levied on an alarm basis uh percentage against the assessed valuation you'll see that we've been tracking your assess valuation for a while over here uh you had strong growth in the early to mid 2000s you were not immune from the greater session if you have a chart on the right you'll see there's a couple of years of negative growth where values
011went down in your District since the Great Recession your assess valuation has come back strong you're now over three and a half billion dollars which is sizable uh amount for a district of your size but what's most important is that number at the bottom right that 21 assess valuation growth your assessed valuation grew dramatically in the last year a lot of that is attributable some of it is attributable to improved housing prices but a lot of it is attributable to the development that you're seeing in this area that's coming in obviously this is a desirable Community folks want to build homes here folks want to come and live here and buy homes here and that's reflected that's one of the highest growths we've seen of any District that we serve in the state so that's
012a a very positive number and why that presents an opportunity when we sold bonds we assume the assessed valuation is going to grow at four percent a year it actually grew at 20 which is what the the driving factor that would give you the capacity to issue additional bonds at this time should you so choose to so what the next slide looks like is if the district were to issue bonds you have the ability to issue bonds either under the 1991 authorization or the 2008 authorization what the district has done in the past is you've been trying to preserve the 1991 authorization bonds because they're more flexible the the older election allowed you more flexibility with what you can do with the money the 2008 election was not under prop 39 which allowed you to
013pass a bond at 55 and has some more restrictions associated with it so while the district has the ability to issue bonds under either authorization um we've looked currently at issuing bonds under the 2008 election authorization so at this time you could issue approximately 12 million dollars a bounce it that number could be slightly higher or lower depending on what Market rates go the interest rate is estimated to be just under five percent uh the term of the bonds would be 25 years um is what would be proposed your repayment ratio which is the ratio of what you borrow compared to what you pay back would be approximately two to one and what it means that for every dollar you borrow over the life of the loan you'll be paying like two dollars which is
014a very low prudent amount the state of California has indicated that anytime you borrow a school district borrows money as long as you're paying back less than four to one that's an acceptable level you cannot do a loan that has a repayment of greater than four to one but clearly you're half of what the acceptable level of the state would be and a lower number is a good thing it's a better thing and the assessed valuation growth uh we would count on uh of four percent in the future uh eight percent next year and then stepping down to four percent into the future so you have the ability to issue once there's no compulsion to issue bonds but there's a couple of reasons why you may want to consider issuing bonds at this time when
015you issue bonds essentially you're paying interest to the investors who buy the bonds from you give you the money up front you may be aware that interest rates if you look at the chart at the bottom right interest rates have been heading up quite dramatically since we've sold our last bonds and since we did the refunding many years ago where I think we got the market at the lowest at that time um and it is what we don't know for sure there is an anticipation that interest rates may continue to increase or likely to continue to increase most economists believe that the FED intends to continue to raise interest rates and we're going to see higher interest rates going in the future a higher interest rate means for the fixed revenues you're getting from the
016taxes you're going to get less money towards projects and more money is going to go towards interest so there is some benefit to trying to lock in and interest rate a lower interest rate benefits the taxpayers in the form of being able to provide more towards projects and you're sending less checks of interest payments to the investors over time so we wanted to bring this opportunity to you to see a if you had the need for any additional dollars at this time to either complete projects that are underway or to be able to continue some of the work that you've been doing in other schools and B if it was the board's opinion that interest rates were likely to continue to increase in the future then you may want to take the opportunity to lock
017it in at this time so with that the options that are available to the district at this time are to be able to either take no action at this time the authorization never expires so at no point will you need to um there's no need to sell it's not a user to lose it if you don't sell the bonds at this time you could sell the bond somewhere in the future you come back a year two years five years later whenever you want to authorization never expires or you could choose to issue bonski at this time based on the parameters we've talked about please understand that those are base those are estimates as of today the actual Interstate may be higher or lower by the time we sell bonds it's usually about a 60-day process
018to sell bonds uh and and some of the uh other parameters may change but these are the estimates based on where we think we are today as the board has done in the past if the district does elect the second option which is to direct the financing team to proceed with the issues we would come back to you in the future with a resolution as an action item I know today is not an action item it's just an informational item and at that point the board would have the ability to weigh in and make a decision as to whether they wish to sell the bonds or not uh assuming you take that step we'll go back to the rating agencies there's going to be some challenges but I fully anticipate we're going to be able
019to keep our a plus rating the reading agencies are very concerned about the headwinds we may be facing if we go into a recessionary climate and how that might affect School District finances but I think your district has weathered that storm before and so just as we've done in the staff in the past your staff will make a presentation to the reading analysts present that information and I fully well anticipate that we will maintain our A-Plus rating despite uh we would then uh once the district once the district is done with the uh uh adoption and the rating the next major step is to actually go into the market and sell the bond and selling the bonds is a negotiation between the district and the underwriter the underwriter the folks that buy the bonds from
020you and uh it's a process that takes about two days there's a all in the afternoon before you sell the bonds and then you go into the market the next day or the underwriter attempts to sell the bonds to investors and you lock in an interest rate on that basis this is one of the last few businesses that works on the spoken word so if we were to go out and sell 12 million dollars for the bond scan based on uh superintendent alerts verbal award and based on uh the support from us and his staff the bond transaction is then complete everything eventually gets documented in a written format but most this is most of the business Works cylinders on the spoken word which is one of the things I enjoy but and finally if
021this transaction were to occur were to be completed and priced you would then be able to receive the monies at this point if we were to get direction from your staff to come back to you with documents at a future meeting we would hope to be able to complete this transaction by the end of December by the end of this calendar year and why that might be of interest if the board decides that they want to proceed with this is there's about 20 billion dollars of school districts and Community College Bonds in the November 2022 ballot those bonds are likely to come to Market early next year and early spring January February is when they'll probably come March is when they'll come to Market and selling bonds is always about demand and Supply you want
022to go into the market when there's not a lot of supply and so if possible we'd like to try and avoid getting into the January February March time frame and we'd like to go in later this year and get ahead of all the other Bond sales that might be coming just a quick question once we sell the bonds and have the money in the bank is there any time penalties or anything or anything that many in the bank great question you have to have a reasonable expectation that you would spend the monies within three years if you do not spend the money within three years thereafter if the bond of fund of the county is earning more than what you're paying investors you need to start remitting that difference so that wouldn't be the case
023right now because the bonds are probably at five percent and I think the county is maybe paying you one percent but let's say the bonds were at five percent and the county was County Pool was paying you six percent at one percent differential above and beyond what you were paying the bondholders would have to be remitted to the IRS every year so there's not an absolute that it must be spent but you should not issue bonds if you don't have a reasonable expectation that you will be able to spend a majority of those Monies and the verbiage on that was bricks and mortar for building schools does that include the pre-planning processes yes it'll include South costs it'll include the actual construction modernization project so it doesn't have to be building new facilities necessarily it
024could be the rehab existing facilities and within some parameters you could also use the money for technology okay and then back to the second page it says all of those items say refunding what does the term refunding mean in that context when this board has always looked out and of the best interest of the taxpayers and whenever there has been an opportunity to refinance we use the term refunding in our industry just to confuse everyone but you can see a refinancing so anytime you have issued bonds and Market rates go up and down so anytime there's a dip in the market rates we've provided the opportunity to this board and in in many cases the board has agreed to take advantage so for example if we sell these funds at five percent now hypothetically and
025three years down the line interest rates of three percent will come back to you and say just like you refinance a home loan to reduce your payments we would do the same and those savings get passed directly onto the taxpayer I just wanted to make sure thank you a couple of questions it's quite good so um to continue on that discussion one of the benefits of being able to reduce the interest rate and save the taxpayers money is that gives us a little bit more allowance on what we can sell for future Bond sales is that that is true as well yes ma'am right because there's a cap what is it like eighty dollars per 100 000.60 okay annually right so if a home was worth three hundred thousand dollars they're going to pay 180
026bucks a year okay I'm just a correction if the home is worth three hundred thousand dollars they may actually be being a lot less because it's not market value right right it's just it's the Prop 13 assessed value yes they could be paying 40 bucks on a home with the market value of 300 and and just for those of us who are Bond challenged could you just go back to um on page four you were talking about the two to one ratio of what is paid back so that is paid back not by across the district but it's paid back by the community right through the taxes okay yeah just just want to make sure that everyone understands that we're not borrowing money and we're going to put ourselves into debt it's part of what
027the community has already authorized this is what the voters voted yeah okay and then um I think you already answered my next question when you were answering hers the money when we receive them do they have to go into a no interest account or they could be invested in the county pool typically in the county pool okay so just I assume that's where your general fund monies are so it would be along with other District funds and uh we would typically we would monitor in the old days when the County pools were earning five and six percent we would monitor it every year to make sure we were not earning Arbitrage the difference between what we're paying on the bonds and what we're earning okay uh but so if we earned some interest uh I
028don't know what your county pool is paying you right now but I'm assuming it's somewhere around one percent yeah so there's money sitting over there it is in the county pool we can't draw down money and then invest it and make you know eight percent it is at the County Treasury rate but we could but we yeah but you couldn't invest it and try to make more money off that one no but you could use it for other projects or would it be general fund money the other piece to put in the board's mind is remember with the current uh Rex Fortune Elementary that we're building it is a phased approach so we still have a phase two and that's what really sparked us on this is trying to access some of these dollars so
029we can try to finish the school um and then get get some reimbursement back from the state on these dollars because there is the ratio for the state to give us money back so timing is one thing that we want to really look and pursue because a it would be nice to get get that school finished and ready as we make our first second I guess you'd say put rent into Rosa and when we get money back from the state for their matched dollars that money then can be used for other improve facilities type project if timing was right which we'll we'll never get this right unless someone has a crystal ball it'd be nice by the time you get that money back you're actually going to start work on your next school yeah but
030unfortunately I think we are seeing the the housing market change quite a bit so it's that big Crystal Ball but yes we would get the money back and then put it in our accounts that we could then use as we move forward with the next facility but it's restricted the same as the original I believe we can even use it for any modernization any sort of improvements on those those projects each time we had the timing right last time yeah we did we did thanks to Kushner so at this point all we're looking unless there's an objection to staff pursuing we're going to push forward obviously any any vote you will get an opportunity to vote this is not saying this is not a vote but we we wanted to at least put this as
031information unless there's uh objection we would want to go ahead and pursue and then we would come back with whatever the final plan would be so again I'm not looking for a vote at this point um just the idea that staff will go ahead and start the process to see what we're going to do we work with projects to see uh what we would utilize it but that phase two is a would be a big a big win What's the total amount available to us well 12 million I believe it would be 12 million dollars we don't know if we would want that's why we want to sit down and plan I don't necessarily know if we would want to go for all 12 or if we want to look at eight but that's what
032we would want to continue to pursue but again if if the board's like um plan yeah I would see no reason why we wouldn't pursue this ASAP and I would like to have a resolution by next month but particularly if you want to get it done before yes let us let us pursue it and then with that guidance and I will we'll look at November and then um but I do want to have more communication than Lisa's behind me too obviously We're looping that into to make sure that we know what we're doing with we're not just going to do it just because we can and I know that's not what you're saying but I want to make sure that no we need to get Rex Fortune up and running so okay and just noting
033that kushra had indicated he wants to he was hoping we would be able to do the sale prior to the end of this fiscal year or this calendar year so that means a vote November sale in December or a sale in late November so yeah that's not a lot of time I agree sorry to pressure on it plenty of things no pressure I'd rather act quickly and make it happen than think about it and yeah be in a different spot so that's great and I want to vote on it I'm sorry I want to be able to vote on it no not yet for all your time and help you you've always been a godsend to us in regards to the finances and selling the bond so thank you very much yes okay public comments
034will be up in a little bit it's not time for public comments just yet okay um curriculum I'm sorry committee updates curriculum instructions special education update with Mr Mike Jordan again because we like him all right good evening uh since last report a couple of things have happened uh one during our last Gator culture meeting all the site administrators academic coordinators and so forth came together and they went through their analysis of our most recent I ready score reports so they talk about the glows The Groves and their action plans moving forward with the special emphasis on our English language learning population so the next step is they're taking that back to their school sites and they're getting those action plans up and going and working at the school site so they did a great
035job with their presentations I want to thank Becky Lawson for leading that for us and uh we're moving along with the i-Ready assessment data second thing uh the ctig grant was successfully submitted the white Grant we qualified for 260 000 this past year we've actually that's what we received we'll get it we qualify for about 359 000 for this coming year so that'll be fantastic and in the meantime during this last month we met with the MCA program we're putting together the new information Communications technology uh pathway which is going to be fantastic and is going to be housed in these buildings right behind us which are coming up incredibly fast all of a sudden they're doing a great job over there what was the name of that Grant again could you tell us queer
036technical yeah education yeah thank you and then finally this is just an appreciation uh on a recent trip to Leatherby's your fellow board member Mr Mason right here went out of his way to make sure my brother and I had an excellent trip oh a high five to him I ordered like Cookie Monster crunch or some ridiculous thing and he didn't even make fun of me yes I do have a question when do you think we'll get the information from the panoramic survey the we have data information in we can share that with you that would be yeah just it just closed I think Friday I think we just saw an email today so awesome good timing literally this morning awesome we're on the same pathway could we like December you want me to share
037it with you electronically or come back and share it or what would you like both okay both all of the above sure better see yeah yeah you may as well if you have been available do that I mean that's good information to share with your public right yeah thank you and Mr Jordan is it on the radar to share the i-Ready results with us as a board I can certainly do that as well if you want me to do it electronically in person yeah much appreciated all right I I definitely favor it being in person partially so that it gets out to the public as well okay but we can do that next month that'd be wonderful appreciate it thank you okay next we have facilities update we have Mr Richard Putnam I have one
038question for you Richard can you spend 12 million dollars good evening everybody uh been a busy time it's been two months since my last report because I wasn't here for the last one Rex Fortune is moving along quite well we've actually done the first layer of asphalt for all of our Paving areas it's a critical step because that will help keep us moving forward depending on what kind of winter we do have this year if we have a wet winner we will not be slowed down because of that because we will have asphalt and we are starting the flat work which is all the concrete work going around the inner part of the campus as well so we are moving that along to where it doesn't matter what weather is going to do we'll still
039go on and we'll still have the school ready to go for the next school year uh as Mr Jordan uh gave a little insight the the new CT buildings are uh popping up out of the ground and moving along we are anticipating those to be dried in uh by December the 15th is what the contractor is shooting for so that's exciting that that will keep moving on and we will have that ready for next school year also we have gotten the first phase of our fencing project done over at North Country so the fence down Brown otter is the field is completely fenced in now all the way up to the school site the only way you can come on campus would be having to come into the front of the campus now but that
040will be a phase two uh and we redid the the roof on uh rooms 210 211 and 212 over the fall break so we've taken care of uh some roof issues there for Center High School and then we are working with CFW um to help with updating everything for modernization at North Country there's potential that we will be getting back into the mix with the state of California for money originally planned out there's still some loose ends to tidy up we're moving forward with that so we can continue improving our sites and then also we are doing some landscape Renovations at sites North Country was the first we are going with a lot more drip going to bring in mulch and then also native plants so we can start to kind of drought proof our
041school sites so even if we have continued dry spells the schools will still look fresh and vibrant and bright and then that way we're also not using as much water but we're able to keep what plants going for us and that is what we have for this month any questions thank you thank you thank you Richard okay moving on to comments from the audience regarding items not on the agenda we have uh Howard ball good evening good evening so I could stay under the is it two or three minutes three three three can I address the items and then you can respond to them accordingly pull the mic down pull the mic down towards you um we are very limited in what we can respond because we can't really get into much back and forth
042because it's not agendized topics so okay so but you can you can address us and then be heard okay so um one was um well first of all on the bond oversight this uh report from CDF um they're bullet number three on page five says uh provides documents to L.A County Board of Supervisors so this is noticed that or not I did I didn't hear anybody address that so oops I don't it's it is a typo it's Sacramento County Board of survivors okay did I just wanted to verify that um the second item I wanted to bring up real quick was the police services uh presentation that I brought up a previous board meeting whereas in the first uh at when we first had the police services contract enacted they used to give a monthly
043report and I think that represents very well for the community to to see and hear that as well as any parents or students anybody in the community that's watching uh via online so you brought up that you would be having a discussion around that or but I don't remember us saying that we would get off a discussion on that I do remember you bringing that up um I know you had mentioned also that in the past that the officer came on and spoke which I don't remember that you might remember that if the officers came and spoke at board meetings yeah you did but I don't recall it I know you did that was back in the days of Nate and yeah I know we're not supposed to have a lot of back and forth
044but I believe the direction at that point was to go back to superintendent for discussion with the leadership team is that not correct well after that was brought up we Mr barassi shared a safety and security update went through all that now uh we contracted we don't contract with Sac County anymore I might have been during set counties reports that they came through we could certainly if the board wants to have that officer it was a uh yeah one one that I attended okay and I know I don't remember uh but we can certainly facilitate it that's not it not an issue if that's the board's desire we did do though in August I think it was August we did have the report from staff on all the different security measures that we did was
045that August um but at the time we could we could have our officer come or ask some of the the heads come from the Department so let's discuss that during Advanced planning okay okay and then one other thing I had and I know Mr Putnam was speaking about Center High I don't recall uh it's hard for me to hear uh but I I noticed all the other schools are fairly well hardened in terms of security of the of the campuses one thing I notice is here at Center High I see people walking their dogs kids riding skateboards Etc and it's open during the evening I realize that there's the barricades for the vehicles but was there any plans to harden up the campus in its entirety to preempt anybody entering are you talking about the
046annex I'm talking about anything on the ground center lane is open to the public Street I can't oh yeah all you have to do is just the wall a fence or something between one of the buildings somewhere along this reception to the county wall and you would facilitate ability to we have people from entering into the school grounds on foot point of order Mr President is the timer on for this speaker it seems to be Beyond three minutes so the suggestion as far as catastrophic events go that's one of the things that I know schools and school districts uh are supposed to look at very seriously is the hardening of the facilities and it's pretty open here so I just wanted to bring that up thank you very much Mr Mason as a student as
047Senator High during the daytime keep speaking to them during the daytime all the gates are closed so no one can get on uh campus and you need a pass to get off campus and there's no re-entering once you leaves so I think I feel pretty safe and I think the majority of students feel pretty safe about people coming onto campus so I don't know if you're talking about just Center Court Lane or the campus itself but on campus during school hours it's really really difficult to get onto campus but I just wanted to say that it's a very careful balance between public use of the facilities and locking them up because they are bought and paid for with tax dollars and we have a lot of groups can we need to use those builds or
048need to use the facilities for children yeah can we agendize this discussion using our Advanced planning apology so yeah we if we if we're going to discuss this further we really should agenda yes all I wanted to say okay sorry any other public comments on um items not on the agenda okay moving on to the consent to the consent agenda do I have a motion on this yeah second okay advisory vote Mr Mason aye okay and uh General consent vote hi hi hi approved okay moving on to business item a iming of proposed Elementary School to be built on property west of Wilson Riles Middle School do I have a motion on this agenda item on motion uh what's the motion um thank you the motion is to bring it to the floor for discussion
049okay and uh trustee Anderson you seconded okay um so you want to just give a general overview yeah last August I brought this topic up to the board as a discussion item and at that time I gave an overview of the history of the property in relevance to the district today I am proposing to name this new school West of Riles Gould Ranch Elementary in honor of the hundred years of service to the board in maintaining the history of the region and the district so before we go on to the discussion are there any public comments on this item okay so moving into this the discussion I'd like to start by saying I in the previous discussion I made my opinion known that I tend to favor not naming things after people because if things
050come out later that changes the view of them it can be problematic as an example Bill Cosby was viewed very highly for a rather long period of time and nowadays he's viewed less highly at the same time a member of the public my wife asked me to express an opinion she had for a name she suggested that we might want to consider naming it Trish Bruno Elementary School I stand by my opinion of the it's better not to name things after people but I did promise her that I would bring that forward Trish Bruno Elementary School I I promised I'd bring it forward and now I have we did your diligence recognition so um I I understand what you're saying about you know things can take an ugly turn in the future and at that
051point we could choose to rename the school um and I also do want to make clear one other point though I also fully acknowledge the difficulty in coming up with a school name that's not named after a person and how difficult it can be to come up with a good name and I have been working very hard on this and I don't have anything that I like to bring forward well it's not actually sorry for apparently they housed The Bell the center school bell and it was used as an alarm that we were being attacked or would be attacked on their property uh spent how many years as school board members over 100 100 years um you know between different members of the family they contributed greatly to the school district and I understand your
052point about maybe something might come up in the future about that person but come on we're talking 100 Years of History you know and if something was going to come up I think it would have come up by now um I just I think we should honor people who have done that much for the district if you're gonna start doing that you're going to cut out all of your people who may be benefactors for the district who have Estates that might want to give away I mean I think we need to to look at the positives of it as well and start thinking about honoring the people who have contributed to our history so there's a lot of them that's a very interesting point of view that I haven't considered so thank you but to
053reiterate it's not necessarily naming it after a person or a family it's in retrospect to honoring the history of our region which in turn goes with the district our very first board clerk again not by a name that I'm speaking of by J.G Gould in 1958 is one of the first Clerks of the board the very first Clerk of the board um and the school that is going to be built was purchased by the Gould family my question is who did the gold family acquire the land from I don't know prior to what who did who did the gold family acquire the land from and why are we not honoring those individuals as well I don't know that part their history went up to 1958. I could not find it prior to that a tribe
054probably native peoples I don't know I couldn't answer that question but as was mentioned it's not just the land it is also their contributions to the district and then the history of uh I have to say that I you know I I thought that was an interesting point of view questions I'll find out who owned the land prior I can do some research for an action item so yeah let's put it on for reaction oh tonight okay that doesn't necessarily mean we have to do an action item tonight I mean it would be it would be nice to resolve it but at the same time if there's board interest in finding out the answer to Dr Lee's question we could table it to the next meeting I'd like to call for a vote and then
055maybe pursue it again later if it doesn't it doesn't go through is that a formal call for a vote so that would be a motion to approve is that what you're so to clarify you're moving that we call for a vote to name the elementary school Gould Ranch Elementary School thank you okay okay and do I have a second on that motion I'll second okay um Mr Mason do you have an advisory vote hi okay um let's let's do roll call vote uh Trust Depot aye trustee Anderson aye trustee Lee no trustee Kelly aye and um sorry the chair will vote I approved thank you okay moving on to business Item B uh first reading policies regulations and Exhibits do I have a motion on this item a motion to bring it to the floor
056for approval okay so for approval or for the first approval of the first reading approval of the first reading great as a as a batch as a batch wonderful okay and second okay and we have a second um Mr Miller would you like to give us a brief overview here sure this is uh we get quarterly batches from csba that provides us with with policy language we've staff has reviewed it most of these uh as you saw in your packet are our new laws uh and language is just minorly adjusted in ones that aren't new laws and so just to stay in compliance with with a lot of the rules that are out there we would recommend that you approve the first reading for these okay wow are there any public comments on this huh
057okay any discussion I have a comment on board policy 6173 this policy consistently uses the term homeless children I find that to be a very derogative and pejorative way of referring to children that are experiencing homelessness and I encourage us to use people first language in our policy and to change every instance of homeless children to Children experiencing homeless homelessness are people without housing I would Echo that opinion thank you I did not notice that but now that you've went out I can't unsee it um I think this is essentially Antiquated terminology and I think you raise a very good point there okay any other discussion so do we make a motion to update that language for the first reading yes so let's amend the motion um friendly Amendment to the motion to approve to
058approve it with the language updated I want motion to approve as uh amended okay and do I have a second on this okay and uh so you know I'm sorry point of point of order I'm not sure that a motion is required on that because it is the first reading we're we're providing feedback um and so I don't think we have to motion to bring it back for the second reading I think what we're doing is here it's a batch that you're making corrections to so either way is is appropriate but I think if you formalize it by saying we want to change the language it's not going to hurt anything so um what we can do is make a suggestions then we bring them back next time the the the the edits the corrections
059would be included in that batch that you finally approved either way is appropriate I do also want to make clear the reason we're doing it as a first reading second reading is because as you can see if you look through even just the agenda there are a lot of these and we want to make sure that the public has time to review them and provide feedback if you so desire okay so we don't actually need to approve anything at this time but as far as this we're taking uh edits and so we have those edits so we can make those you would approve the first reading with those edits okay any other discussion on this did we ask for the comment yes we did okay all right shall we do the vote advisory vote Mr
060Mason hi trustee Pope aye trustee Anderson aye trustee Lee hi trustee Kelly aye and sure what's hi okay okay moving along student board representative reports Mr Mason um so I'm going to brag a little bit to all the seniors here homecoming week was last week I'm glad it's over having been here late um but in terms of competition between classes area decorations the Juniors won and the seniors got second place uh the spirit stick out the rally Juniors also won but in the class skit the seniors won and then at halftime of the homecoming game there was fireworks set off um I don't know if you guys saw them yeah I was working at snack bar so I thought it was something other than fireworks but when I looked over it I was very pleased
061um volleyball senior recognition night is going on right now as Miss Wood said and then tomorrow we have a football game against Marysville which is also senior recognition night not just for football but for also cheer it's also our pink out game JV starts at 5 15 and varsity at 7 15. we also had a financial aid night last night and then we have one tomorrow night at six because new wording with the law says every senior who graduates has to apply to financial aid or get a waiver um on October 27th through the 29th we have our fall drama production the plot like gravy thickens um I'm in a drama class and I heard it's very very good I'm sorry when was that uh the 27th through the 29th of this month October um
062and then senior portrait uh deadline for the yearbook is the 16th of November so we're looking on to next month now and then the Powder Puff game uh is going to be November 17 which is a Thursday and then that's it all right thank you very much um let's start on this end trustee Kelly okay um can I ask a question as part of my board report um it's unconventional but unconventional I'm very interested in what um Riley was talking about as far as every senior having to apply for financial aid and so I was hoping that maybe someone could expand on that yeah so uh current requirement is all students in the state apply for FAFSA so I have a student going through it right now you have to put in the information then
063it shows you what you're eligible for and do we know what the impetus for that was was that just to make sure that we're not missing people who are eligible I don't know Mr Jordan do you know the reason why just you got to do it everybody but now it's lost okay thank you yeah great that's awesome thank you um okay so homecoming we went to homecoming as as a group of course we did not discuss any board items because we didn't want to break any brown Act laws but uh had a great time I really loved the non-gender Royal Court so kudos for that that's probably been around for a while but I just wasn't aware of it and I just loved it um sorry about the one point loss that was painful sorry
064and then this past weekend I participated in the kickoff meeting for the equity design team which is part which is the district's team that is building on equity and it was a great group of people a great group of professionals that are really enthusiastic and anxious and nervous and happy to be there and participate but so there's just a lot of a lot of emotion and a lot of things going on with that I'm really looking forward to continuing on that even after I'm off the board and so that's kind of the direction of what I don't personally do at my office but our office focuses a lot on equity and reducing disparities in public health and so reducing disparities in public education is definitely a passion of mine and I'm excited to continue that
065and um as thank you for the invitation to attend more items more events and I think that we as a board have have talked about that and are planning on doing so so we'll we'll see you there that's it trustee yes um so hi everyone as our community continues to navigate this pandemic I continue to focus continue to focus on well-being and seeking signs in the environment about cultural inclusion this month the month of October contains two Heritage months that are widely recognized throughout California Filipino American heritage month and LGBT history month thank you superintendent Lair for the district communication about Filipino American History Month that is posted on our District school websites I want to express appreciations to North Country Elementary for highlighting its Multicultural Library their cultural bulletin boards and activities and I
066also note that the video production Club at North Country is up to some pretty amazing things some of the most awesome interviews movie trailers and all check it out it's on their website really good stuff however I'm requesting more information about the ways that Dudley Elementary Oak Hill Elementary Spinelli Riles Center High School and McClellan High School are addressing cultural inclusion my constituents have actually requested this information from the board multiple times and on their behalf I'm again asking that we focus on cultural inclusion as an example it appears from Communications that some of our elementary schools the students the most that students are learning about culture is recognizing Easter as a holiday but they don't seem to be also learning about any of the other wide variety of faith based cultural Traditions that exist
067in our community in our middle and high school Communications the only mention of culture I could find was a single Multicultural night that's held for a couple of hours every year in March at one of our high schools I just have to say that cultural inclusion matters and our communication and practices and if I've missed or overlooked something please let me know and I appreciate any and all updates on cultural inclusion activities at those sites that I mentioned and I'll be looking forward to some Multicultural event invitations from you I'm thankful that our district is committed to doing more to make the transformative strides that we need to make to transcend a monocultural approach to education educational practices and school districts are directly related to educational policies and when an educational policy has malicious intent
068or is Guided by the principles of exclusion elected officials have a moral and ethical obligation to stand in opposition to it and this is why I continue to stand in opposition to our board policy 920 9220 update to include annual verification of residency status for board members which we adopted in November 2021 this policy did not follow our own policy and adoption procedures and it was purportedly created in response to a single public commenter's belief that the people pushing all of this Equity stuff don't even live here I asked my board majority colleagues to point to what section of the elections or Education Code gave us authority to make such a bylaw in fact in my research over these past few months I've discovered that Education Code 35107a States any person regardless of sex who
069is 18 years of age or older a citizen of the state a resident of the school district a registered voter and who is not disqualified by the Constitution or laws of the state from holding a civil office is eligible to be elected or appointed a member of a governing board or School District without further qualifications earlier this year in February I called on the board majority to rescind board policy 9220 update to include annual verification of residency stating all of the reasons above and they declined and in May of this year our board developed and adopted a censure policy not in response to the racist and homophobic comments that some of our colleagues had made during open sessions but because of some of our board majority members stated during discussions we needed to have something
070in place to punish the people who do not comply with the new residency verification policy and to give it some teeth from start to finish the intent and impact of board policy 9220 annual residency verification remains wrong-headed and focused on malicious exclusion I'd like to report to my colleagues that I've continued to research board policy 9220 update to include annual verification of residency status and I have been in contact with Sacramento and Placer County elections officials and California Department of Education regulations officials none of whom have yet informed me that there are any requirements in the election or education codes for dually elected in sworn school board members in the state of California to submit to annual residency verifications with any local education agencies the consistent bottom line in the responses I have encountered and
071received is that this board does not have the authority or jurisdiction to invent bylaws or requirements for service that are not rooted in the state of California election codes or education codes so consequently I encourage the board majority superintendent members of the public and District Council should any of you ever truly have a genuine and sincere concern about any board member's residency to seek court judgment and to use the known and established legal Avenues to challenge the eligibility of a candidate to serve in the meantime I continue to reject what I perceive as an immoral and illegal establishment of board policy 9220 update to include annual residency verification and I absolutely will not comply with it I respectfully request that the written communication of these concerns that I will provide to our board secretary be
072included in our November regular board meeting agenda packet along with an agenda's item for the board majority to once again consider rescinding board policy 9220 update to include annual verification of residency status our board has bigger fish to fry than trying to police one another in ways that we should not be student achievement and cultural and cultural inclusion being two of the major issues that fall under our purview and that remain areas in desperate need of improvement to my board majority colleagues let's focus more on our students and what we are legally positioned to do setting a vision to increase student achievement and cultural inclusion at all of our schools please multiple community members and constituents have come to us and asked us to act on cultural inclusion so please let's focus more on that
073and less on trying to police each other let's trailblaze not on new bylaws and requirements on our board members that are unheard of in the state of California but instead on student achievement and cultural inclusion which more than one member of the public has actually requested that we do finally once again I'm inviting all to drop into my open Office hours on zoom on first Mondays of the month from four to five the link is on our Board website drop in any time between four and five on November 6th just before election day please get out and vote and in the meantime be safe and be well um I would like to report that I attended the Fall Festival at Oak Hill and it was wonderful our seniors were there and did a great job
074movie night at Oak Hill I was asked to help out because our seniors all went to homecoming and they weren't there to help which was understandable but it was very well attended as well and the kids had a wonderful time and it's so nice to see Oak Hill or any of the school sites having things that are family oriented and just pure fun for the kids because we don't have enough of that that doesn't cost a normal egg to go to you know you take a family to the movies and it's probably 70 bucks by now I mean it's ridiculous the expense so I I really enjoy watching that happen and the kids are all being able to just run around and play while they're watching the movie and you know it's just fun good
075clean fun for him um in response to some of the comments that were just made I just want to say that it is something that other school districts do people have been removed from office for not living in the district and I'll leave it at that I'm not going to argue about this take legal action no yeah that's that's the appropriate response let's permit it for all not in California please don't yes um I'm gonna just leave it at that and thank all of you seniors for coming I know it's something that's now required that you have to do but it's something that I think you can learn from and even though we do have these little Tit for Tat things that brachi out once in a while it's a good board it's a good
076school district and maybe someday you'll take an interest in politics and you'll you'll want to do something for your community that way so thank you trustee Pope thank you um just a point of clarification there is no board majority we have a majority of the board by vote so that means far people vote for an item bads board majority or a majority of the board we don't have a board majority Percy sba.org what is the eligibility to serve on a school board school boards are nonpartisan candidates for boards are not required to belong to a political party in California you may be elected or appointed to a governing board by of a school district if you are 18 years of older a citizen of the United States a resident of the school district and a
077registered voter other than that I did want to say that I attended the decoration night um decoration morning of Center High School and congratulations to the Juniors everybody's decorations were amazing congratulations to the seniors who did win on their skit presentation between the varsity and junior varsity game and I'm not going to mention the game outcome but they all did great they did great um and um Mr Ferguson and the Center High School administration did an amazing job getting the halftime show together I read on social media that the principal needs a raise so everybody thought it was a great show so I appreciate that it was quite the surprise other than that have a great rest of your week thank you um I was able to attend a uh a dinner for various boards
078in Sacramento area at Sacramento County Office of Education recently and listened to former Sacramento Police Chief Daniel Hahn speak about equity and um can I just say that man can really put together a moving speech he included personal history Regional history the The History of the United States and how all these things intersect and it really drove home how recent some of these things are and it was just incredibly powerful and moving and I still reeling from that um also as was mentioned a few of us attended the uh homecoming game it was a good time incredibly well played game the halftime show was a fun surprise I was mildly disappointed that it wasn't a live cougar but this was probably the smarter bet um that was his guess uh generally speaking the reaction has
079been very positive there were some community members that would have liked a heads up um because of pets and things so that might be something to consider moving forward but um generally speaking the reaction at the stadium was very positive the reaction I've seen online has been positive and my personal reaction was rather positive it was it was a fun time um the the one downside to to homecoming is those bleachers have not gotten any more comfortable over the years um yeah no matter what sport you're going to watch the the seating is not the most comfortable but it was good company and good a good time um other than that I really don't have much at this time so I will hand it off to superintendo may make a clarification on my board report
080please sure um I reference csba.org CS or yes csba that's California School Board Association is what that stood for can I just add one more thing as well this is regarding the csba dinner that we went to and chief Pond I just wanted to note that what really impacted me about that was how one body such as ours or a city council can affect such a and can have such a great effect on a community virtually throttling its economic prosperity and just keeping in mind that you know you're making decisions that seem like good ideas but they could end up being extremely damaging to certain communities and that that really hit home Oak Hill I'm in Oak Park and some of the other communities that were thriving and no longer are so definitely could have
081been intentional and that makes me very sad superintendent Larry thank you trustee Bruno so I just wanted to on behalf of all the employees appreciate the board's approval of the salary compensation packages that you all approved so thank you for uh that approval everyone appreciates it the works for the district additionally uh homecoming I thought was great I was disappointed I could not make the hallways this year at a prior prior commitment I think was the first time I missed it in many years I did attend the game though and we'll leave it at that but I thought the event was very nice a lot of folks came out and it was it was a great great feeling so I appreciate the work that went into that Center High School additionally uh was which has
082come up already but we did have our first kick off our Equity design team met last week I think it's a good start and we're continuing I think we're trying to Skid our next session for November so we're moving forward our trainers are are incredible really two fantastic individuals I got to spend two days actually with them I took them around the district the first day and just shared with them the neighborhoods everything just kind of took so that was very positive and then concluded that night with Chief Hans uh or ex-chief Hans police presentation at the discoe dinner which I thought was very intriguing and enlightening um so I actually signed up for his uh sco he's doing another training where he gives his full extended version of that so I'm going to listen
083in on that as well as a webinar uh and then additionally um Miss Kelly and aisle will be finishing with our last csba Equity session uh this Saturday so that was the fourth session in that and what we found with this is it's a good way to network with other individuals I I think I might have misunderstood a little I was hoping to be more prescribing and telling us but it's really building a collective Network and that's been very positive I think we've met a lot of different folks from all over the state uh and hearing about the work that they're doing so that was that was nice and then also just uh to follow up I appreciate I know today's staff students parents and I think yesterday the board spoke with our marketing and
084PR individual and I appreciate the time you all gave she didn't tell me much but said that she got great feedback and she said she was going to go home to try and sort through it all to come up with some good strategies so I just want to thank all those that were able to participate and I know schedules are busy for everyone so to carve out the time to do that I really appreciate that and she was very thrilled to talk with everyone including I think she got all all five board members so thank you for your time doing that and other than that um I think that's all I had written thank you all right moving on to Advanced planning future meeting date we have a meeting November 16th right here at 6
085p.m that's my anniversary sorry I'll survive would anyone like to suggest any topics for that meeting I'd like to agendize a reconsideration of rescinding board policy 9220 update to include residency verification um regarding them sorry can we can we back up did did Riley provide his report yes yes he went first oh my God I'm so sorry sorry I did listen I know I did I um sorry so regarding rescinding that board policy um I feel there was some misinformation given tonight um regarding that uh it was not brought about because of any opinions expressed by anyone I was the one that brought it forward and it was because um people were questioning whether or not we all lived in the district it had nothing to do with opinions being expressed but strictly about residency
086what gives us the authority going to order Mr President no actually you're discussing the item and I just requested it for it to be agendized so that we can discuss it if you'll bear with me I'll get to my point but I'm trying to correct misinformation that was given at this meeting about why it was brought but it wasn't misinformation so if you're going to state that I gave it misinformation then I get to counter that it was not I have the recordings of the meeting okay so he's the president said that it was typically what my purpose was I don't know why you would believe that you knew my purpose better than I did I never stated that so I stated that only a single public comment was given that and you stated that
087wasn't in regards to a public comment it was in regards to a comment that was made to me not a public comment at the meeting it but an opinion expressed to me well all I can go by was what was stated let's not have a conversation please Mr Bruno continue and um you also said that one of the requirements to uh be eligible eligible for the office is to live within the district we are not taking any steps to screen people out and say you can't serve on this board what we are doing is saying yes I qualify to uh serve on this board and we are reassuring the public we are not we are simply what gives us the authority is that we are able to hold ourselves to a standard regarding the censure
088policy you're the one that brought up that we didn't have one so then I'm most I moved that we create one to and not in relation to the other board policy but just in case something comes up where someone needs to be centered it's good to have rules in place so my point being that there was no interest of the board to rescind it previously it was not brought about illegally I don't think that we need to add this to a future agenda I don't and I again ask that we reconsider that is what I'm asking to be agenda as the reconsideration based on the information that I received from the sacramental and County Placer uh County Sacramento and Placer County elections officials as well as California Board of Education regulations officials they have stated
089to me that there is no requirement for annually or presidency verification and that if anyone has a genuine concern about that they should pursue court judgment that is the option that is what has been stated to me by those officials who know the election code and who know the Education Code better than we do so my suggestion again is that we agenda is reconsideration of this based on the information that I presented from these officials who know the law okay I mean there there's no harm in putting it on the agenda I'm trying to avoid us having expensive legal costs as a district because I will not comply with that it's immoral and it's illegal and it's unethical it is so we will be able to meet a requirement any other items that someone would
090like to add to the agenda uh yes the we want to make the note that the Panorama data data and I ready data needs to be added and then there was another one I don't really yes uh the the topic of um to present at the meeting upcoming so for my clarification just so I'm aware so we had the consideration of the policy I have that for next month uh Panorama I was going to put on for December and then I was going to do the I ready in November does that or do you want them all on the the whatever whatever that's can we do I ready and panorama on December because I think November is going to be full is that anyone object to that I'd really like to hear about the diagnostic
091test information sooner than the end of the year so we can do November okay any other topics to add to Future agendas sorry I think I was thinking so the fourth item that was brought up was safety did one safe school officer did you want me to pursue having one of the officers or uh come speak is that um just for my clarity I need to let's let's uh at least figure out if they're available to okay and um but I can shoot for November to have at least someone a representative I'm assuming Richard I can connect with one of the officers to to be there either our own officer or sometimes the chief or um the sergeant might come who's over our area so I'll pursue that I mean I'm not getting I'm not
092seeing any nods or I guess what my thought was I guess my thought was we should bring it to the board for discussion on what we want the school officer to look into and what we want him or she he or she to present to us as opposed to just coming wooly nilly I can bring that another feedback on what gives the community an opportunity to comment that's true that's true and then we can give a specific specific date of when we want the officer to present okay there's a policy in here that on Advanced planning I know but it's something I want to go over with privately and rather than bring it up in public okay so address that part all right um so if we're done with Advanced planning do I have a
093motion to adjourn so moved second we're not anxious okay are you guys anxious to leave uh General consent yep yes all right yes you mean the terms thank you