001session back to order at 601 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 the sport Mr President please stand absolute pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands on Nations under God foreign thank you okay announcement of action taken in closed session um we actually heard a something that we need to vote on so regarding um student expulsion
002re-admission um expulsion students motion 21 22.5 do I have a motion to approve stock recommendation move to approve the recommendation okay do I have a second second all right so we will do a roll call vote um I'm going to excuse you from this one since it's a closed session vote uh trustee Kelly aye trustee Lee aye and chair votes I so we have approved staff recommendation okay uh adoption of agenda do I have a motion so boot okay second second all right uh we'll call vote um we have a student representative who also gets an advisory vote his name is Riley Mason um would you like to place an advisory vote on the adoption of the agenda sure yes hi okay Justin Kelly trustee Lee aye okay and Sheriff outside president Bruno May interrupt
003for one moment we might want to make the record state that we have two absent members and possibly any reasons why they may be absent thank you I appreciate the the reminder um trustee Pope is uh out today for uh personal reasons and trustee Anderson is out sick today so thank you I forgotten that okay um so moving on to item nine student board representative reports as I mentioned we have a student board member finally uh Mr Riley Mason would you do you have a report that you'd like to give so we just finished up spirit week and a rally last week the rally was super good everyone was super spirited as well as uh the spirit days I saw almost everyone 100 participation I'd say it was more around 75 though we have an
004election coming up for 9th and 11th graders as well as 12th graders um for school board or School Representatives and then uh we have back to school night coming up we also have play auditions coming up tomorrow actually as well as Club Rush tomorrow during lunch we have about 20 clubs and then our first home football game is this Friday against Rio Linda at home okay thank you very much organization reports we have for cuta Miss Vanessa Mason hi welcome oh maybe not hello oh there we go okay hi welcome back everybody um we're all glad to be back on campuses they all seven campuses today at our rep council meeting we're reporting a much calmer start to the school year so we're just completed the ninth day of school and it's been going great
005so far and an example of being back to normal are these beautiful seniors here in the audience who are here to earn community service hours and potentially vote in this upcoming November election um cuta is also super to use his word super excited to negotiate with the district in early September for salary increases for all of our organizational groups question okay thank you thank you very much okay and representing CSEA Naisha Harris and Miss Harris did let me know she would not be joining us tonight okay moving right along reports presentations the Williams uniform complaint quarterly reporting with Mike Jordan I love this report hang on what the mic wasn't on I'm happy to report I have nothing to report thank you very much unfortunately I didn't have time to start my stopwatch so okay
006and then uh CJ USD District safety update with Mr Chris barossi oh he left it on welcome everybody uh Chris barassi uh principal on special assignment this year I'm here just to give a brief overview of some of the safety updates that are going on in the district uh so if you want to advance that Eugene uh just again we're going to go over just a brief overview and hit some main points of things that were going on previously in the district and then things that we're ramping up this year one is our comprehensive plan so our safety plans primary objectives though of those are to make sure that we are ready for any crisis that comes up and then we're practicing on how we reintegrate into the campus when those crises are done those
007plans consist of Crisis management crisis Readiness and also in there is a site action plan where each School site sets goals on how to make their campus safer there's a copy of each one of these in the front office that can be accessed there through each office's front office staff each School site Council approves these plans goes over them and then they are submitted you know through the district I believe in February to come to you guys and then quarterly site district and safety teams so our district safety team which I am happy to be leading I was I had the opportunity to lead it five six years ago when I was the assistant principal at Wilson cereals I'm happy to return in that role this year so I lead the district team along with
008Mr Putnam and each site has their own safety team that goes what they need to do at each site so next slide these are the drills that are required of each site as you see each site must pull their alarm monthly and evacuate students earthquake drills are three times yearly Intruder hostage barricade are also three times bomb threats are twice and then we do a district-wide disaster drill each year each drill is documented and sent off to Mr Putnam and Rosie field at the maintenance transportation office and then if you look on the next slide uh some of those trainings that are going on as I just stated we do a yearly um active shooter training that I'll talk about in just a moment uh these are some of the trainings that we do not
009not everyone is done every year a couple of the main ones all sites in the first two days with staff this year went through their code red lockdown training to make sure they had those procedures and policies in place with their staff and then some of the other trainings including what I'll talk about just a moment are catapult emergency management system training has also taken places on campus uh some of the trainings that we've gone through in the past as well as we're moving forward with uh yearly like I said we do a district uh disaster drill training those have been focused on anything from flood leaks to or gas leaks and natural disasters with things that have been going on through the nation we decided to focus primarily this year and probably in in
010the out years on active shooter drills and training with our with our staff and students some things that we've done in the past all of our district admin and representatives from each safety team in 2018 in April that year went through a community-based threat assessment training I believe it was right here for a couple days in Center High School library actually I went through that in May of 2017 actually at Wilson C Riles some of the administrators are still here we had Cal Fire and Placer County come to us and say that because of our where our campus was if there was an incident there could be up to eight different agencies that responded so we worked for that year in conjunction with Mr deason who was here to they organized an active shooter drill
011they went through and allowed us as staff to participate as well as to observe how they would respond to an incident we do have law enforcement support we have a contract with Twin Rivers Police Department we do have a school res office resource officer who is assigned to the district they are present during the school day and they do also do student Outreach you'll see them on each campus and at the elementary campuses you'll often see them with stickers even the middle school kids love those so they're doing Outreach they are housed here at Center high school but available for every at any time to any site they have 24 7 coverage around the district and they hook into our security cameras which I'll talk about in just a second and then they do have
012a 24 7 Dispatch Center that is available for calls after hours uh and then as I mentioned earlier uh catapult is our emergency management system all of our staff was recently trained on at the beginning of the year retrained that allows us to report incidents that happen from drills all the way to actual incidents that happen uh in real time so it's we have also direct communication not only with others in the district we get notifications but also with police and fire and then emergency procedures come directly to our staff members phones so if it's a code red drill where we need to lock down those directions come directly um immediately through through the app on people's phones there's also a catapult allows us to people to report bullying or any incidents through the websites
013those are available on desktops mobile phones you go to any school's website you can easily find that and able to report an incident and then District communication that was enhanced a few years ago each site has five Motorola radios that are available to communicate with anybody at the district office Transportation communicate with other sites that used to be done through a handy dandy cell phone that wasn't always working so that was an upgrade to be able to communicate directly if there was an incident with other sites as well as a district and transportation uh some security measures we do have surveillance cameras uh that are fairly new to us some of those are still being installed installed but you see the breakdown of how many cameras are active at each site so there's 154 total
014in the district including some around the uh the annex where we are now um and then also when it comes to safety directives for campuses all staff has been trained to make sure that their doors are locked and secured during the school day I don't think I took eight minutes but are there any questions thank you so much thank you okay moving on to item 13. do we have any comments from the audience regarding items not on the agenda oh you're right I apologize thank you item 12. I completely skipped out of that curriculum instruction and special education update with Mike Jordan sorry about that [Laughter] before starting with the health department from our Department there are some filter cases on campus but very many you have thirteen thousand and eight coveted home test kids
015cut that came in today for students staff and state has promised us they'll give us more than buying buying Apartments to a clinic that's coming in real charged our family moving on to cni we are off to a quick start we're in week three I want to thank all the staff classified certificated everybody uh just working really hard to just a very good track running on an i-Ready window our Equity design team we've been meeting with West Ed and getting our Equity design team back up and 14 and they will also have sight teams off of those four teams from there so we're getting that work back up and go and then this is related to the Williams complaint but I don't want to do it at the same time part of the uh what
016they're doing out the state level are called Williams audience so we had three schools this year uh Oak Hill Dudley and lucky enough to get a Williams audit and we'll curriculum and facility so we've done two of those deadly and Oak Hill and do a partying Brett and Becky Lawson uh those went off fantastic I went in looked into made sure we had critical materials for everybody are doing facilities and thanks to Richard and his team the custodians those are going well also those should be completed within the next month all right there's a lot of put a nice nut on the startup did you could you guys hear that I I could hear it just fine I didn't realize story in my life right there same way at home it's okay Dad we didn't
017care what you said anymore do I need to go again or man okay thank you thank you okay and Facilities update with Richard Putnam turn the volume down we'll see if he remembers [Music] good evening everybody uh we had a busy summer so it's going to be kind of the bullet point rundown on my happy two pages of info for you this time so number one is Rex Fortune which we have some photos of the artist drawings uh at different points in the room here uh the site is moving along very well we actually have all pads have been poured all buildings are in various stages of framing we have some buildings that already have almost completed with their drywall color code is going on the building so as you go by the new site
018you'll actually see colors popping out there by the end of or middle of October they are anticipating having the first layer of asphalt down so when the rains do come we will not be delayed with weather conditions we'll be a working in a dry environment and all buildings will be completely weather type by that time so that will move that project along uh moving along the lighting upgrade for the Center High School library has been completed so that has a new LED lighting system that is uh pretty state of the art and the fact that you could be in a back corner and it picks up your voice or any noise and it will keep the lights on for you so you will not have to worry about just motion keeping lights on it now
019has an auditory component to it that helps keep the lights on so that's a plus for items happening at the high school over at Riles Middle School we completed the lighting upgrades in both the MP and the gym at North Country we did a lot of site work out there we had some trip hazards with concrete lifting up a lot of that was due to Roots removed panels cut out routes redid the concrete we also had to raise the Birch pod and do some repairs we found some rotted supports on that so we're able to get that lifted make the repairs set it back down pour concrete around there and then also continuing on with North Country um we have temporary chain link that is up along Brown otter and then next week on the
02023rd I'm meeting with fencing contractors so we can get proposals for doing the first stages of the fencing down the brown outer side after we get that then we will move for the ornamental iron fencing that will be happening in the front of the school that'll take a little bit longer of a process because we do have to go through DSA and get the approvals on that uh the roof replacement that we were going to do for rooms uh 210 211 and 212 we had a delay that will be happening in October during the October break uh concrete work we also did some concrete work over at Spinelli uh we had a large panel of concrete that was causing issues entering in or exiting the building the doors were dragging after we ripped out the
021concrete we found about a five inch root that had traveled about 75 feet that was lifting that whole concrete panel up so we removed that route put in some proper base report and now they can actually get in and out of their office without any problems um here at Center High School in the annex we've also painted up the curbs um Fresh coat of paint for the fire lane Bus drop off student drop off those items over at Dudley the grounds crew went in and cleaned up a lot of the overgrowth that we have between the A and B wings and the B and C wings so now when you're on Aztec and you're looking into the campus you can actually look into the campus and you're not inhibited from seeing things because all the
022overgrowth is gone it's a continuous process of what we're still doing because we're working with the site for what they want to do now that we've opened these areas up for them um we've had some uh Mainline irrigation failures here at Center High School and also over at Riles so the fields got a little dried out because of the time that it took to get all this fixed everything is back up and running now and so we've got irrigation going back on these fields also at Center High School a week before school was to open we had a domestic water line that ruptured right by the gym so the crew got on that and got everything taken care of and Report had everything in place two days prior to school starting um and then right
023behind this building is our newest project that we have going the CTE project so a lot of the trees are gone uh the all the old Portables are gone and they've actually started digging out and forming up for the foundation slabs on that uh that should be the slabs should be getting poured end of this month beginning of next month uh depending on how fast all the rebar and everything arrives on the site um as you can tell the dice keeps changing a little bit we keep adding more you no longer have the holes up in the ceiling so as we're going through everything's still being done um and then also probably the best thing has happened we finally are fully staffed in the Maintenance and Facilities department so that will help us actually be
024able to get to a lot of work orders and take care of items for the sites in a much more timely manner and that concludes my report wonderful thank you so much I was noticing the the changes to this room it's nice to see it coming along okay now getting to item 13 comments from the audience regarding items not on the agenda do we have any comments from the audience okay we are moving along quickly tonight uh consent agenda do I have a motion regarding the consent agenda move to approve the consent okay and do I have a second a second okay um advisory vote Mr Mason hi okay trustee Kelly aye trustee Lee aye and chair votesai consent agenda is adopted approved okay business item going on to business items public hearing for consideration
025and Adoption of resolutions regarding the adoption of a developer fee study and the increase of the statutory School fee level one school fees so item a under this resolution number 12223 the adoption of a fee justification study point of correction here what we would do is if we please open a public hearing we would give the opportunity for the public to comment on that so if you just open a separate hearing right now just walk in public hearing see if there's any public comment on that then we'd close it down then then if we could the board could move on to items a and then B which are related okay sorry thank you Still Still learn ing okay uh so opening a public hearing at 6 26 pm and and if I can just so
026the Public's aware what what this is is that I don't know Eugene if that's me or okay um so what this is an item that they would take a public comment relating to the statutory rate at which we can accept developer fee developer fees uh has been increased so there's a process that the board has to go through and approve to actually make that correction so what the uh statutory fees goes up to for each of the per square foot of houses uh being built it allows us to charge those developer fees to help us mitigate some of the costs of having all those new homes going there by paying for schools and different things along the way so what this is doing is just giving the public the opportunity to make any sort of
027comment related to those fees uh being increased the items A and B which we'll get to in a second uh actually are the fee justification where they're saying that yes we are justified in requesting that level one fee increase to the 479. okay and just procedurally do we do public comments on the whole batch all at once actually you just do public comment related to our uh desire to do that increase and then if there is none you could close the hearing then we move on to business side of May okay so do we have any public comments on this issue okay so having none we will close the public hearing at 6 27 pm and move on to item a resolution number one 2022-23 the adoption of a fee justification study move to approve
028item a okay and do I have a second second okay and just make this is a routine item that happens uh as things come up within uh they allow foreign government code so just so the Public's aware it's allowing us to when a home is built there are certain fees that go to a school district that allow the school district to improve current facilities or construct new facilities so this amount increases kind of like inflation or whatever they allow for schools to charge more so developer building a house has different agencies they have to pay so this developer fee that you guys are considering right now allows us um to acknowledge that we are justified in accepting that new rate verify so the the first item is we're we're verifying that the study is acceptable
029accepted and then the second item will be that we are increasing the fees in accordance with the correct study okay so so the motion that's on the table now is to adopt the fee justification set Act okay so uh advisory vote Mr Mason oh um are there any public comments on this item before we take a vote okay hi okay trustee aye Chelsea Lee hi okay and the chair votes I so the fee justification study has been adopted moving on to Item B uh move to approve and this is the increase in school facilities fees and Adoption of ceqa notice of exemption if you have a motion to approve and do I have a second second okay and are there any public comments on this okay advisory vote hi hi and chair vocy so the
030increase has been adopted so the born communities where so now we move into a I believe it's a 60-day window that we post if there's any other comments that might say that we are not justified so after that 60 days of no uh comment is received we will then start charging that new rate so that'll be helpful since there's a lot of new homes being built what happens if comment is received then do we have to come back and we would have to work through what that comment is and see if it's a valid concern but the justification fee I think gave us said we would be justified in going up to almost six dollars so but that's above and we're only going 479. it's it's legally that's all you can do okay uh business
031item C nominations for csba directors at large Asian Pacific Islander and Hispanic move to table okay you have a second on that does that mean we can't discuss it yeah I'm sorry traditionally we've just said we don't know anybody to nominate and so we've we've just passed it by but we don't you don't have to second my table request that's fine okay do I have a second do I have a second the motion the table has died on the floor got it okay do I have another motion on the side I I've just had some questions about this um so we could move to bring it to the floor for discussion yes okay and do I have a second on that motion second okay motion to bring it to the floor for discussion um so
032you got questions yeah I'm just curious about what this is and as I read over the information it looks like they're using race based um designators to decide their directors at large and I'm just curious about that it seems very racist to me and I don't understand what the csba is doing by making someone's race a quality of whether they can serve on their directors at large or not for the organization other than I I know uh and perhaps not to put you on spot Miss Kelly I know you do a lot more with csba but I know they just had different you're right race related spots uh for the director at large seats so some of the seats are for different yeah I it's probably these seats have existed for quite some time and
033they're the intent was to have representation for those um you know for those people uh uh various cultures and so the it was a requirement to have um people in these in these classifications rather than saying they you know like they're to just to make sure that we had a variety of representation I am not 100 sure of that assessment but that would be my guess because I had a similar experience with another organization I was in and I would say maybe this is something we should bring forward to csba to as a new resolution as far as like this is outdated yeah frankly I I'm guessing and this is strictly guessing and no knowledge to back this up um that it was instituted to try to make sure that different uh groups are represented
034however you do bring up a fair point about this is perhaps not the best way to go about it for us here we don't control what csba does ah and um well but we are affiliated so the group of us does not decide entirely we can have some input into it but we don't dictate what they do yeah we can have input but you know it's and we actually have a delegate that has some possible more clout yeah I mean hopefully I could I could figure out how to submit a new resolution or bring it forward to them and these come up periodically and I know this the board historically has not taken action on them um but simply because we don't know anyone to vote correct it's like who would we nominate we could
035nominate you well that would be using a lot that I fit one of those categories that I identify with them so what we can do is um maybe Miss Kelly between you and I we can figure out what csb agency can get some context around it but this point if no one's comfortable I would not bring it I would not I would let it fall and if we table it we could still bring it back but I think then we would be outside of the window of nomination so that is possible but these these do come come through at least annually yeah so we could table it or it could just die on the floor if we have correct for the motion yeah no further motion okay um is there any public comment on this
036item I skipped that step okay um so are there any further motions on this item any further motions on this item then this item has died on the floor okay moving on to the 45-day budget update for fiscal year 2022-23 hello hello this is on oh I think YouTube okay sorry so going back over the budget process we as a district had to adopt a budget in June and then the state budget comes out in July so it was our best guess based on the governor's May revise May revision of his budget that we base the numbers on and then they go in haggle out the numbers and then come back with the budget and I have to put a disclaimer on there when they come back with the budget they give us the big
037amounts and people provide estimates of what they think that will uh will give to the districts and so even though this 45 day update is required and that means it's 45 days after the budget adoption I still don't have strong numbers in here because I have estimates of what we think we're going to get and a calculator was provided in here that um actually turned out to be off by a million dollars is we'll get to when I get to that calculator so we really are just still looking at a glimpse these aren't really solid numbers and the solid numbers will come at first to interim when I report that in December so that was my little disclaimer next one so luckily they did have some relief for our Ada or decline in average daily
038attendance there's three ways we can now calculate our Ada it can be the current year whichever is higher or the prior year or it's a rolling average of three years and for 20 for last year twenty one twenty two the calculation is to take our enrollment for 2122 but use our attendance rate factor for 1920 pre-covered so that's how we come up with our 2021 Ada number and then the two years before that all average out into this rolling number so we take the highest of that calculation or prior year or current year and so it works out best for us to take that rolling average number and in doing so in doing so it increased star 88 by 320 students and we receive on an average of about ten thousand dollars per student so
039that's a significant increase and then on the out years because we have that rolling average now too that it still increases our our um our attendance but because it's rolling average and it's starting to capture our low Ada you'll see the number decline as time goes on [Music] so how it affects our unrestricted Revenue when I brought the budget to you in June I thought that we would receive 46.5 million dollars in state funding and unrestricted funding and that number's increased by a little under 10 million dollars and that was from that rolling 88 average and also they increased our lcff base Grant by 6.28 percent and then included in that also is an art music instructional materials block grant which is 877 thousand dollars it's called the art music instructional materials block grant but
040it actually can be spent on anything it's discretionary and it's unrestricted so that's on that side of the of the pot um and then oops actually that was 2.46 million dollars then we received for transportation 877 000 so all of those um things add up to just under 10 million dollar increase in our total unrestricted Revenue in the out years we don't have the one-time money anymore in there the discretionary funds but the Ada relief is still in there and that ongoing Cola is still in there this is where the numbers off now because school Services of California did their best guess of a calculator and it's the back of your board packets but when the official calculator came out just this past Thursday night it was off this year by only a hundred thousand
041dollars so we will receive one hundred thousand dollars more than School Services projected but in the next year and the year after that we'll receive one million dollars less than School Services calculator projected versus the thick Mac calculator which is the official one we're supposed to use um this is based on Ada from last year so we'll have to see how the numbers shake out as far as our enrollment our attendance rate and then again at first interim we'll have more solid numbers for you this is not something you vote on this is just an informational presentation the next one so because we're taking in more Revenue then we're going to spend more funds I had projected that we would spend 36.5 million dollars in unrestricted expenditures and that is increased to 2.3 million dollars
042included in that is that whole art Music Learning Materials Grant and then also we added some of the things that you committed last June so you had committed two million dollars for maintenance needs and so I went ahead and moved that into the budget also we're in negotiations with our Union unions and so I moved what the district's initial proposal is into the budget so that's already part of it and then in the out years our expenditures went uh increased 1.8 million dollars and three million dollars again the the negotiated salary increases goes over several years forever the next one so our ending fund balance we will be deficit spending 1.9 million dollars this year and that is because of the one-time funds that we're using like the two million dollars that were committed and
043the next year that goes up but instead of 2.6 million it's 1.6 million um and then the year after that it's actually going to be 3.8 million if I take the new calculator that's more accurate for the official line yeah and a reminder that we have to keep our reserves under 10 percent and so I put the additional funds into the budget and we're so we're under 10 reserves right now um as the year goes on we'll see as I close the books and things shake out we'll see where we're at and then we might have to commit some more funds but right now at this point we don't have to I'd said in June when I presented the budget we might have to commit more this time and we don't so I just wanted
044to follow up on that is that it so that's just a quick overview of how things have changed with our revenue and expenditures so can I just clarify um what you're saying is that we're still doing a three-year average but for the 2021 or 2122 fiscal year it's a 10 it's enrollment and then you said with a with a calculator for attendance can you explain that a little bit so you multiply that by our attendance rate in 1920 before covid Oh so we take our attendance from before times our enrollment so it's about got it 95 96 before and then we dropped to 86 to 88. so we're letting us take the 95 nice and that will continue into the next two years I believe so I haven't I've tried to see in writing does
045this go on indefinitely now is this just the permanent new calculator and I have not found at least until we get past the whole 21 22 fiscal year being part of the formula I would think that they're going to keep it that was a really great solution they came up with I think I don't think so too it helped us for sure it's permanent until it's changed it's permanent until it's changed well I mean it's only three years we have to worry about right right so and hopefully we'll get the new school and enrollment will go up and we'll be great and then I had another question about about the 2 million that we did set aside for maintenance which really isn't a question for you but more a question for Mr Putnam is that
046are we like slated to get some air conditioning and stuff taken care of with that I think we still have to map out the plan I heard that there was quite a delay I already have money set aside from covid funds for two million dollars in HVAC so it's that plus that cost was higher so we think we'll have to use some of this plus we're looking at extra things like the extra fencing around North Country so we're doing bigger projects with that which we'll we'll come back and give an overview we have I don't think he's had to have had to have to tap had to tap into it yet because remember we still get restricted routine maintenance fund three percent of our total expenditures which is 1.875 million dollars I was just asking
047because I've heard that there's quite a delay in HVAC projects because of all of the work being done so I'm kind of curious are we actually able to move forward on that stuff so right thank you so much because it was a business item we would have to take a motion to bring that to the floor in a second just for the record so unfortunately this is a discussion item but we do need a motion so no problem we've we've been off for summer break it's okay so important lesson for all the students in here the adults in your left we're all winging it too we're just figuring things out as we go but just for our record if we could have a first and second for a motion okay we'll get it can I
048get a motion yes I moved to bring the uh item we just discussed to the floor for discussion and do I have a second retroactively second and important other stuff we skipped are there any public comments on it okay yeah take a month off and it all falls apart okay moving on to the board superintendent reports trustee Kelly actually uh just get me I'm sorry I'm having difficulty remembering what I wanted to talk about so okay trustee Lee all right hello everyone and welcome to the 2223 school year it's hard to believe that we've made it here August is not any heritage month so I won't be giving out any uh Heritage one celebration notes but I'm just hoping as we start the new school year you know with our focus on social emotional learning
049and the well-being of our students and families that we continue that that it's not just you know something that we kind of did during the pandemic times and that we kind of drop I'm really thankful for the work that Mr Jackson has done in the safe Center and hoping to see that continue especially after he steps down from that position which I understand is going to be happening or has happened so yes I'm I'm looking to see how that continues because I think it's an important resource for our community members and family and just want to note too in terms of my office hours September 5th is a Labor Day holiday so I won't have them that first Monday but I'll be back at office hours on zoom on October 3rd from four to five
050and you can find the link on my um on the board member website so thanks everyone be safe be well we're sure to have a most interesting school year um I don't have a whole lot to say I just want to say thank you to all the staff members for starting the school year off right I from what I hear things are going fairly smoothly so far and I love seeing all the faces in the room tonight and I want to commend those of you who are here I know when my kids were doing this we went to the last possible board meeting they could go to so it's great that you guys are knocking this out early um and thank you for everyone for all the work you're doing and welcome to Riley all
051right so I just wanted to say um thank you to Ryan for the Fantastic event that he and his team put together the community event I am so sad I missed it but uh wow I heard it was a great turnout even in spite of the massively hot weather so congratulations on that um the event that I did get to go to was the classified new employee orientation so I was very happy to say hello to all those folks and I apologize I was not able to meet the new certificated the next day but welcome to them as well um we have the equity I don't know what's it called equity thing coming up maybe the equity thing no don't tell me they're canceling again are you kidding me Equity Network coming up and the
052first meeting is supposed to be in two weeks so we'll see if that actually happens they've delayed this three times now but we're hoping that we will have it uh welcome back to the new school year fantastic job I mean we didn't get any red alarms going so that's a good thing that's a good thing and that's my report and just to Circle back thank you for bringing up those uh events I really wanted to attend those but unfortunately I'd been exposed to covid and so I decided to play it safe so yes I I heard wonderful things about uh about that backpack event will still okay and superintendent Larry uh yeah and I think Kelly you might have read my notes there but I did want us to say that it was nice to
053to meet all of our new uh employees both classified certificated uh and actually been able to get in some classrooms of those new folks so it's great to see them in action so we welcome them to our district um also I want to thank all of our staff new and continuing for the the smooth start I know from our perspective sometimes it seems easy and it's like oh it was great but I know it was a lot of hard hard work you know Blood Sweat and Tears um so I thank them all for for their part in making that smooth for for our families and our students it's it it's it's good times and if you sorry I'll go off my little script but if you go out and see the students faces you know
054we did a good job you know when you see the little kids skipping down the hallways and and the big kids being polite and saying hey thank you very much you know and asking questions so anyway kudos to everyone for their their role in making that happen and then to Mr Jordan's point the Williams visit that's also been the beginning of the year but it's also taxing because we didn't know what to expect because we hadn't been on the list so thank you to those administrators and staff in the district who've gone through curriculum and Facilities ones and thank you to Mr Jordan and uh Mr uh Richard Putnam for for his efforts because we were we were a little nervous but we we came with a good good clean bill of health and then
055also we're working on our expanded learning opportunities grant for our students and we're partnering with catalysts and some conversations so I think Mr barassi for his work with that um we're seeing if we get something going so we can extend uh learning opportunities for kids students before school and possibly after or since some of our schools start earlier it might be just after uh but it would extend to a nine hour day so that will be a really great opportunity we look forward to coming back and sharing more information with the board and then the other two two important things I think was the work Mr Jordan alluded to with with West Ed are Equity design team is kicking off we're starting to invite folks we've got a couple preliminary meetings with West Ed it's
056going to be it's going to be some hard heavy work and a long-term commitment so we're excited to get going with that and then finally I just wanted to say Ryan out of the Family Resource Center their staff did an outstanding job with that event I I selfishly or I don't know selfish is the right word but we're sitting there going I just hope someone shows up um and when when they did they came in in droves and it was hot and they gave out over a thousand backpacks a lot of food a lot of supplies it was really really good and I told Ryan it really set a positive tone I think for where we went and where we want to go as a district as the students came back into school and you
057could just see the pride as the students were walking back in about 110 degrees because it was on the asphalt there with their backpacks on their new cool backpack so I think a big kudos to them and rumor is they're already starting to plan because I said hey you set the bar this is your first time what are you gonna do next year so I think we we estimated probably 2 000 people came to that it was one of the other than graduation for Center High School it was one of the biggest events I've seen uh that we've brought our families in so that's a that's a great thing and other than that looking forward to a great year I agree with you Dr Lee I think it's going to be an interesting year but
058it's going to be a good one because uh it's got some good Positive Vibes out there so anyway thank you Advanced planning future meeting dates we have a regular meeting Wednesday September 21st here um do I have any suggested agenda items okay as always if something comes up just email us okay uh continuation of cold session we have nothing so we don't need to do that so do I have a motion for a job move to adjourn second okay quick roll call vote Mr Mason aye trustee Kelly aye trustee Lee aye and share votes I am meeting adjourned at 6 52. and I just have to say this has got to be the earliest we've gotten done in a year so congratulations