001um everybody's here and now instead of items oh wait um 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 save a pledge for religious political social or personal reasons you are most welcome here as an equal participant in the business of this board salute but i pledge allegiance to the light of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all announcement of action taken in closed session regarding item one public affiliate display dismissal release no action was taken regarding item two student expense expulsions readmissions we have two modes to
002do so regarding uh student expulsion [Music] so let's do a roll call vote trustee anderson all aye dusty pope aye trustee kelly aye trustee lee hi and sure go outside so that is manageably approved and then for students 2122 [Music] three do i have a motion uh to accept just proceeding okay and do i have a second second okay motion of the seconds let's do a little call move trustee anderson adoption of agenda okay thank you so from the consent much okay any other requested changes to the agenda okay so do i have a second on the approved method okay in regards i don't want to pull them there's no reason to hold but i do want to speak briefly on item under consent agenda 9 and number 10. the center high school media communication
003academy here here to santa cruz and also the fbla field trip to ontario bob it's been two years since this has happened and i want to say thank you all involved for getting these kids back on track with these field trips and to visit your colleges is quite important so thank you all as well and also i'd like to make comment on the dudley elementary project i'm excited for that and hopefully that ground will be improved and then lastly but not least i would like to thank mr richard putnam for including on this agenda for approval that h.r davidson um as i call it my back floor in disney but as we know it at the district it's a property restaurant so thank you very much okay so we have motion and second to approve
004as amended uh thank you yeah approve the agenda thank you for clarification um can we just do a general consent all favor okay gender approved uh organization reports first we have vanessa mason the president of cuta hi flip flip it one there we go last month i neglected to mention that this is retirement season so cuta would like to recognize last month's retiree announcement jeff wise who has been in the district 30 plus years and this month's cta retiree tony hill has also been in the district for 30 plus years and so we look forward to celebrating them with this uta gift at the end of the year as well as hopefully a little party to celebrate all of these great teachers and all their accomplishments will be the first time that retirees will be
005able to have had some sort of celebration in the last two years so i'm sure that we pick one hopefully and um let's see what else is we are too also excited to see those uh field trips on the agendas and we've been having um populations coming to the campuses like mad science who've been doing field trips on campus and so it's exciting to see basically they're from room to room to room to do a field trip in a box kind of thing but we're excited to see that we're able to go off campus now okay any questions thank you thank you very much okay next we have maisha harris president of csea and i actually will be stepping in for miss harris tonight i was able to meet with her yesterday and she sent
006her regrets she was unable to attend tonight and wanted to pass along she had no comments from the board but she'll see you next month okay including my mom especially uh committee updates curriculum instruction and special education update from mike jordan good evening good evening [Music] uh just a couple of things going on in the curriculum instruction special end and health services world we are coming up on our next third round of our i ready testing uh we've completed two been working with scoe uh and analyzing the data and all the sites have been doing that as well uh we are also starting to look at independent study options for next school year based on the trailer bill for the governor's budget they're they're looking at some possible changes to independent study so we want
007to gear up make sure we're ready for those and then uh we are also currently enrolling students in preschool through grade 12 for summer school so parents out there if you have don't have that link contact your school office it was in the uh the update that mr jackson sent out from the district as well as your school sites have sent that out so we're hoping for a robust summer school program and all school sites this year same as last year and finally and this is uh if you approve number six on the consent agenda we're teaming up with kobe clinic uh for free covet testing uh our numbers are down that's fantastic but just in case there's another rise another surge um golden clinic will come in to not only test our students in
008the school who who give consent but they're going to set up some community-based ones where we're going to set it up at the annex they'll come through anyone from the community it's free to everyone so that would be fantastic so please approve number six thank you very much okay next we have a facilities update from richard putnam good evening everybody we have officially broken ground over at uh the new uh rex fortune school site uh benzene is up they've started their initial work uh we are anticipating april the seventh or the ceremonial groundbreaking and then also in in tying in with that on april 5th i'll be sending out invites for those that have been part of the facilities community in the past we're going to start doing that on the first tuesday of each
009month that way it gives you guys or anybody who's part of that able to have updates on facilities items and the community more than one day in advance of a board meeting so it i think will help to streamline things for us um we as you see we've got a little bit more um progress down here on the dyess and that is a work in progress um we are starting to paint the buildings around here i don't know if you've noticed some of the buildings have been painted more will be painted by next month and that is pretty much it for right now i just want to say i'm very excited about the groundbreaking but unfortunately i will not be able to attend the groundbreaking ceremony please don't take that as a lack of interest
010and just have other schedules no it's perfect we know everybody's got stuff so it is all good and we will go from there thank you for your time okay um moving along uh item 11 comments from the audience regarding items not on the agenda anyone may address the board regarding any item that is within the board's subject matter jurisdiction however the board may not discuss or take action on any item which is not on this agenda except it's authorized by government code section 54954.2 a speaker shall be wanted to three minutes board policy 9320 all public comments and items listed on this agenda will be heard at the time the board is discussing that item um i also want to take this time to make a little announcement regarding this as we're developing our new
011boardroom we are going to be bringing in a plot so speakers will see how much time they have remaining this is not meant to pressure anyone because frankly we haven't had issues with this but just so people understand you know you you have time and frankly i think it might actually help people know they have more time than they realize i was trying to design it on my phone last meeting and that did not go well fine i'm really looking forward to this okay so do we have any public comments all right hi i mostly just want to give my thanks for the services that the district has been providing for me do you identify yourself sorry okay thank you um i just wanted to give thanks to the district and our school my son
012attends specifically the my son in recent months has been experiencing some issues with um other students at the school who have been rude to him bullying things of that nature and so one of the options that was presented to us was independent studies something i wasn't aware of previously or didn't have a good understanding of my son's been doing that for a few weeks now and it has been such such a game changer we felt very supported we got set up very quickly with the program the resources that the teachers that are helping him out with learning that program and being diligent about his work it's just been been a dream so i'm really thankful for that and thank you for all your efforts to make sure the students are safe and that they feel
013welcome at your school so i know that it's a lot to ask with so many students and what i've heard a labor shortage for teachers it's a lot of work so i appreciate all your efforts thank you very much [Music] okay any other public comments online thank you i keep seeing a raised hand for it says see connor okay it looks like she is muted miss connor can you unmute your mic i'm participating because i'm concerned that i did not get a response from the president of the board of trustees mr bruno or the superintendent i have requested that diversity be put on the agenda and i did not understand why that did not happen staff and mr bruno you and i know i've communicated via email with i think this is the same person
014so we can work with uh miss connor to see what she needs to elaborate to get that uh the request that we did get we i think you did respond however it was after the agenda made so anything we would would have gone on for our april meeting anyway so if we can well can i can i just talk to you there because i still have time under the brown act um when you responded when i made that request there was still time to [Music] amend the agenda under the brown act you had more than 72 hours to respond and i think that this is a very important issue and i am very concerned that it is not on the agenda so when i made the request i will just iterate reiterate one more time
015i was aware because i'm very familiar with brown back to california public record act and so on and so forth but when i made that request there was proper time to notice and to make an amendment to the agenda and that did not happen and i think that this is a very important issue and also i would like for the principal of dudley elementary school to be present when this is on the agenda because there are some issues that will be directed towards him and it's only fair that he will be able to respond with these questions that i have for him okay because of our limitations as far as dialogue on issues not on the agenda i will reach out to you this evening and we can discuss this further okay all right i
016hope to sit on the agenda next month thank you very much and good night to all of you thank you okay any other public comments yeah okay so consent agenda uh with item 12 removed for separate consideration do i have a motion regarding the consent agenda the the modified consensus number 12 volt okay and do i have a second second okay so it's removed and seconded do we have unanimous consent yes okay unanimously approved so and that includes item six okay uh so moving on to item 12 for the consent agenda um the contract amendment number seven facility needs and implementation planning services for modernization projects agreement capital management capital program management okay and do i have a second one okay do we want to discuss this yeah i actually thought i'm sorry do we
017do public comments at the beginning oh i mean if anybody has all the comments certainly on it's a amendment to a facilities contract but once we we've pulled it to a thing we have to ask are there any comments on this item okay go ahead okay um yeah i was just hoping mr putnam could come up and just give us a brief um summary of what this contract is why it's being extended um and just just so that it's it's a lot of money and so just just kind of so let me start and then i'll turn it over to mr putnam so cpm is the uh agency consulting group that we use with facility needs and finance needs of support the the work we do on the facility side this contract was put in
018place originally probably six eight years ago each time we have a contract amendment we look at the total cost of the projects that are that are coming and then also the duration of their original agreement so this agreement is going up just under 900 000 it means that we will not exceed that amount but what it's for is the facilitation work they'll do on the rex fortune elementary school we have a multi-million dollar at least a million dollar air conditioning project that we're working on uh we also have modernization that will this will be included in that also our cte facilities and again there's one other that i'm missing that they're helping on and i i think oh the bandwidth there's some technology stuff that they're helping with so uh let me say that and
019i'll turn to richard to see if there's anything that i've forgotten thank you sir and thank you uh yes superintendent blair pretty much nailed all the items that cpm is helping us with originally their contract basically had like run up against the point before we started having all these new projects going on for the district and so they are an integral part of helping us move these projects along in a timely efficient manner and also trying to save us the most money possible by helping us not fall into pitfalls or make mistakes because they're really good about catching their project management fund right so they're helping to manage all of the facility projects that we have going on which is great and they also didn't they originally do the assessment the site assessment for us
020and then we're still working off of that process basically we're taking that fight assessment in phases adding money to it but then in addition to that we have so many new projects that it jumped up quite a bit this time that is correct correct thank you okay any further discussion on this issue okay let's do a roll call vote kesley anderson honey trustee both hi leslie kelly hi trustee lee aye and sheriff outside unanimously approved okay moving on to business items business item a center high school performing arts center control booth dedication to running bishop do i have a motion on this item oh motion i'll second it okay uh you're motioning to bring it to the floor yeah okay can i start it okay so uh superintendent you want to give us a background
021on this i wouldn't then i'll actually ask uh principal ferguson to come on up but come on up mr uh ferguson but as many of you know mr vernon bicho was a long time employee of the district unfortunately passed away recently but he was instrumental in actually many things around uh our mca academy actually started as a band teacher if you can believe that i was laughing like you went from band to this and uh probably single-handedly helped develop and build the structures within the the control booth and so i think that's where this recognition is coming from so i'll turn it to mr ferguson so i wanted to read a letter that we put together the center high school theater and control booth would not be the same without the hard work and dedication
022of vernon bishop who sadly passed away in 2021 mr bishop was a teacher in the center joint unified school district for 30 years and helped found and developed the media communications academy also known as mca he was also actively engaged in performing arts both at center high school and in the community as a musician himself mr bisho was extremely involved with siva student educational video awards ncme and northern california media educators in the sacramento education cable consortium helping create sacramento's student media day since inception in 2017 nearly a thousand students have gained valuable knowledge and skills from sacramento area media professionals in fact i got to attend one of those and it was just a phenomenal event on the campus he was also a staunch supporter of the arts and stroke to create a state-of-the-art
023theater and broadcasting studio for students and community performances one of my first experiences when i went into the studio i was quite tempted with all the buttons and he said go ahead you can't do anything wrong it's still quite intimidating but he knew all the buttons he knew what everything did center high school staff and administration would like to receive permission from the center joint unified school district board of trustees to dedicate the control booth inside of the performing arts center in the memory of vernon bishop we would like to place a dedication plaque on the wall near the booth's entrance and assign above the booth windows on the inside of the theater so it would be visible from the stage in the seats that states bishop's booth i have provided a replica a mock-up
024of what the plaque would look like and what it would say and just as bernie bishop welcomed all of all to his world of music video and broadcasting we hope that the bishops booth will continue to welcome all those that enter the theater and control you thank you um is there a way we could display this so that people watching at home can see [Music] that is intended to be a separate yes we want to have a picture above it so that the plaque is one thing and then the picture can be explained the students will recognize i wish we could have done this when he was still living so he would know that he was being recognized he gave so much to this district um before we get into more discussion procedurally do we
025have any public comments on this issue okay very well sorry that's all i guess he did do so much for this district for years and i think all the graduations and i mean he grumbled about it that was part of his personality it was more fun than it was anything else you're going to cry again good he enjoyed it and he loved the kids and it's really too bad that he didn't one of the few teachers but i do know i unfortunately don't know a lot of the teachers in west bengal jamie was teachers but he was definitely one that was very influential in jamie's education she didn't she wasn't part of the academy but she did take a lot of the ncaa classes she was a broadcaster on morning news she posted the video
026awards one year she participated in the video award so very involved in all of bishop's programs and so um i mean he so one last comment is with approval on the clock as it says at the spring plays in october on the 24th he would like to do a brief ceremony before the play which would be the official dedication of the booth on that night if it's so free um i just want to comment the sunday the in general um i tend to be against naming things after people because you know as history goes on you might learn things or history might not be the person the same as you do that in the moment however this is a clocking you know if the unforeseeable happen which i i let's just say get along the
027record i do not see this happening and we needed to rescind this for some reason a plaque's not as big a thing as a building or a school but um i also want to say that although that's my general stance i do feel differently on this issue because my daughter was an mca she worked with mr bishop um i think she's gonna probably she sees this she worked at nothing she worked on news with him and i i think it's so wonderful too so he made a big difference in mike's life as well yeah that's at least three of us where our game is impacted by him so yeah he's he he left okay business id or bylaw 9310 or policies do i have a motion on on this item to bring you to the
028table for submission um handbook workshop that was brought up or requested that we possibly talk about this to have our handbook mirror our board policy um so at this point to be honest i don't remember exactly who requested it but what i would suggest is we finish the handbook we want to make sure that they do absolutely because remember that the sample handbook we had the outline that was in there was different than this because of the sample so i think someone had made a comment about doing that so we can happily table it and then make sure they align in a future time when we get that finished up but that's all i remember okay do we have any public comments on this issue when we actually do that segment of the handbook we
029can look back at this policy and then if we need to adjust either one we can do that okay uh do we need a motion tabling or just a recommendation um it just falls yeah i think it's just being tabled because no one's emotionally okay oh we are moving quickly um imc board policy zero four one five uh equity uh do i have the motion regarding this i don't need to bring it to the floor for discussion okay and we have seven oh second okay uh at that same meeting we discussed that we do not have a policy that it provided a vision for equity for the district and so it was asked that we brought forward an example so this is a sample um or for policy board bylaw for an equity statement so
030this is just for your either approval crafting if you want to change it bring it back whatever but this was just a sample of language that as a starting point unless you guys are good with it okay and we have any public comments on this issue please hello i can wait okay this time yes well this gets to my point about the diversity issue because i think that there are from what i have experienced there are truly some things that are not understood in regards to diversity or perhaps people don't want to learn new things i have come upon some very disconcerting issues with a few of the teachers at dudley elementary school including the principal i'm not ready yet to mention the names of the teachers but when i say that this concerning i'm
031being very nice with my language i think that it's very important given that this is a very diverse state and that california is named after a black woman there is not enough about diversity at dougly elementary school for right now i can only talk about dougly but i think this is a broader discussion that needs to be had throughout the district and i would like for diversity to be on the agenda and for the teachers of all of your school levels come to the meeting or share an opinion thank you hi i'm learning i'm learning um james anderson aaron um as for on the topic of equity i've been looking for this on the agendas to pop up at some point i think the diversity should be the main focus i think that there needs
032to be more celebration of diversity i think equity on the other hand is dangerous because it focuses on the differences of people and how that has hurt other people i know that it's important to know our history but i from what i've learned about equity and the movement to incorporate equity to education it demonizes and criminalizes the actions of our ancestors without understanding the context of their actions specifically i guess bluntly i feel like it targets white people it makes white people to be bad guys and i've seen it happen at different schools where i've had family of i've seen it happen in different states where this has been incorporated more fully and i'm just afraid i'm afraid that equity be taught to children without proper context it will make them hate other people instead
033of celebrating those differences thank you any other public comment thank you okay more discussion uh okay um i appreciate your comments in regards to not providing context however equity is definitely something that everyone needs to better understand particularly so we don't think that we are demonizing people that that is absolutely not the case um understanding the history and feeling blame for that history are two separate things not making the same mistakes that were made in history and and acknowledging that this is the history and that we understand your pain is completely different from demonizing the people whose ancestors may have been the cause of the pain that does not make me the cause of the pain it makes me the cause of anything that i do personally um equity is something that we can't just
034take a sample of policy and go okay sure check that off my list that's not going to happen i mean maybe it'll happen if the votes for one but it's not going to happen on my uh in my world so no this needs to be a much larger discussion we need to have possibly a subcommittee that includes some staff and some board i think and define make some definitions make definitions exactly and and having a policy doesn't necessarily mean we have curriculum those are two different things curriculum may come at a later date uh but definitely having a policy that talks about that we want to make sure that everyone is provided the tools that they need to succeed is uh is definitely written in written policy but that's not my understanding of equity because
035there's an opportunity i'm sorry public on it has been closed but you yeah we moved on support discussion um i just i just want to clarify that this item is a board policy um regarding making sure people are treated fairly it's not about uh curriculum or what's being taught it's about looking for and eradicating bias making sure that all communities are treated fairly and with equity making sure that we monitor the impact of our board policies to make sure that we don't have negative unintentional impacts from them and continually striving to do better so um mr president i um i actually have several suggestions for this boilerplate policy to make it relevant to our local contacts and i uh i printed them out for the fellow board members um you're seeing an art and in
036yellow what's being recommended to add in and then strike out so it's being recommended to strikeout recommended by you okay um there are a significant number of changes here yeah to the point that i would say that this is not something that would be easy for us to to discuss and include the public on um in this meeting so could i recommend that we schedule a board workshop prior to our next board meeting is that something that we can do an extra hour to focus the idea of having a sub-committee with certain okay within the district i would really prefer to have a committee on the whole not a subcommittee because this is a policy that has wide-reaching effects well yeah i think it's just a surveillancer at that point the purpose of a subcommittee
037would be to work on the language of this and then bring it back to the committee as a whole you're saying that we should do this as a whole equity committee that's separate from this policy right and so those are two different peak topics in conversation do we have an equity committee district-wide and we need a subcommittee for the board and staff to address our what our policies and i think we should have students what other suggestions with timing so people don't feel like you have a time constraint we could try to tag it on we have about probably an hour or so left with our handbook that we're working on we could tie it into that saturday finish the handbook and then have that conversation uh if that works i mean because i think
038if you limit the conversation to you know five to six if this you know a little longer possibly um it might be because it's it's a big topic and i mean certainly you could take a smaller group to come back with that shell but but talking through what it means making sure you all understand all of it is important not to have any assumptions i think this is a big issue though that the public should have knowledge and a chance to comment yeah absolutely so we can also traditionally we can work on the language at a workshop for this and bring it back to a board meeting for the the actual approval and have a solid way another revised if we have a sub committee that maybe comes together and gathers various examples and recommendations
039and then the workshop to go through that the workshop would be public but we would have some prepared documents and then we would bring it back to the board meeting for a vote a couple things regarding this if we were going to do it as a workshop we have to look at how what the scheduling would be and i'm not sure if we can necessarily get the scheduling done before the next board meeting um i would make myself available for a subcommittee order for sure but that was one of my questions later but one of the things i would say is you could start first you could send in the subcommittee but everyone was going to pull groups but you possibly you might want to come if we do it with that handbook finish that
040up and then the board as a whole talks through it you might be able to then craft stuff if we had the time to go up the sleeves sit around table and talk about it um i don't know if the subcommittee would just delay the process more i'm i'm happy with either way but i i think part of this is that kind of productive work through it talk about it get an understanding i think it would help but is a byproduct of team building i think understanding where everyone's coming from the community everything so and certainly any of these would be open to public did you get a copy of the okay i just want to make sure um because i think that this is a as everyone has said it's a really important topic
041um it's not something that we can afford not to have a policy on or take a position on um so i'm just hopeful that we'll be able to schedule something so we can all come together and define a policy that's relevant to our local community not just going along with trends that are out there and some of the dangerous things that some of our public um has pointed out um really damaging things taking place under the name of equity so one of the things i can throw out is we do have i could uh april i think 26 was the date that was floating around that can i get anyone to i've heard from i've heard from a couple of you and to be honest i think so one one i think there was 1626
042that april 26th and i can get monica to come in the morning and then we can drop her off and then we could do this as a second item that's tuesday i'm sorry i'm sorry yeah 23rd 23rd my map is off a little bit okay um i think i would be available okay so do we want to do a subcommittee first to work on language or should we just do it all together as part of the handbook workshop i mean i think what i hear people say is that they're concerned the subcommittee is going to delay the process so we have this recommendation if anyone else wants to gather more recommendations maybe send them around what i could do too if dr lee if you'd like my sharing electronically i could share that around or
043we could share it through mr bruno and then people could go through their time make their notes and then each person could have an opportunity to kind of talk through it um i still again subcommittee we could go out and find a bunch of policies but to your point dr lee making it relevant to our community and what we want instead of taking again this was just the csba template to kick us off but if we can get that i'll request it electronically from you i can ship it out to you guys and then we could we could agenda i would really like to encourage some of our executive staff to also participate in that conversation and provide input whether it be you know in the form of paperwork in advance or comments during the
044actual workshop whatever whatever they're able to contribute i think that would be really beneficial for us as a whole absolutely so um however we are looking at doing this potentially after the next meeting is everyone okay with that and i would suggest instead of trying to rush it to get something forward next time i would rather take time to do it right then okay and i'm not saying no one you guys didn't want to do that but i just i think that's important just because on a saturday we may all have to go back and digest it again and then come back again um uh 4 23 apparently about 26. [Music] no i i feel that um having another workshop would be redundant since the board has displayed that they do not have to follow
045their policies and procedures the workshop is to set on norms and protocol and if we don't follow our own procedures then if i feel it's redundant um i probably would not be attending the workshop that's been point policies and procedures so having a workshop to determine our norms and should our protocols maybe how should we separate this from them so just looking for a direction here i would just ask that we move forward on our own consciousness and our own willingness to work as a team and to come together on an agreement as far as policies and what this does um so what i'm hearing is could we use the 23rd because i saw some nods the 23rd to dive into this and then we'll figure out the handbook stuff at a later time is
046that okay okay so i'm gonna we'll slate the 23rd and then i'll send it out just again just to confirm but then we'll okay okay so we are tabling this for a workshop discussion okay can i 9 and same kind of thing does that still work for you guys can i ask that stakeholders other than the school board are invited to the meeting because if you are expecting the staff to implement these policies and procedures yeah so many of our saturday workshops are open too but i don't know that in general every csca member and every cta member and non-members for that matter are aware that these meetings are taking place okay just hearing the conversation between just the five of you i think this is not going to be a one three-hour session that
047we're done i think this is going to be something that we've talked through bring it back bring it back so i think there'll be opportunity as it gets refined so and certainly we're we're communicating you know every time so we can and we can talk with that all of our meetings whether the regular meetings or our workshops are open to the public and all staff i i want to make that abundantly clear but if we haven't been clear about that maybe on this one we need to reach out a little bit more so okay moving on to item [Music] e we know i'm sorry item d uh sport bylaw 9220 governing board elections uh superintendent do you want to give us uh yeah if you just go ahead and bring us before and then you're
048absolutely right thank you uh do you have a motion regarding this item move to right and at the last meeting this uh item was discussed there was language that was talked about we tried to capture that and then the board had requested to bring it back to further the conversation so that's where we are so in your packet as backup there is uh warning and then behind that is the actual current policy and i think the consideration to do with the residency verification paragraph um so that's that's the item as we put together okay and we have a public public discussion on this item [Music] i would just like to say that i would like to see included in this that at the end of the month when they're supposed to prove residency if it's
049not been done they should be censored by the board because there's no consequences to it and censorship is something that should be taken very seriously i've never seen anybody censored by the board than the whole time that i've been here but at least then it would give them something on their record that they did not go by the board rules and it would be something that other board members could point to during election time or whatever that this person did not go by the rules there was some questions to whether or not the presidency was established it would make it a public item i think before we would add that to this policy we would have to have a separate policy on censorship i believe that our legal counsel has advised that we don't have
050any sort of ability for punitive measures um i did was i was kind of hoping that we could put something in that just says you know we refer to the governing authority but we already did that and got don't got nowhere with it so um yeah i i i understand what you're saying nancy i do have a couple of other changes minor changes to this one is just a little bit of a clarification where it says um board member addresses should not be made public um it also needs to say that the documentation and address will not be kept on file um and what was it you were saying also the document and the the types of thoughts the type of document would be noted but not the documents themselves nor the um nor the
051address and then so that it's not anywhere where it could be discovered found shared etc etc and then um and then at the end where it says uh reasonable accommodation i that seemed a little ambiguous so i wanted to specifically say reasonable accommodation for verifying their residency that the attorney said we couldn't do that i think that yeah you would that a board does not have a right to unseat another member based on this so what you would have to do is you would have you could still sensitive yeah so the report would be aware that something like that that would logically be what this body could do to one of them [Music] have some sort of flexibility in what the action to be taken i mean we could say something like this and including
052censorship you would still have that option because you could vote no on censorship or something just a point of clarification it's sensual not sensory sure it's a small bit different so just want to clarify that um so go ahead yeah maybe what we could do is add something that said um if if residency could not be verified actions would be taken up to an including censorship or something but we don't have flexibility on censorship in our in so that means we need to invent a policy we do not have one is that yeah but it doesn't it by the fact that it's in the brown act that it's we don't need a policy only you you would you would want to try to not try to create but i i would want to get it
053policies it's more local the process there's a process within the handbook but it doesn't outline the process for it so my suggestion would be that if that's what you want to go with that as a consequence then i would work with legal to get something that's legally defensible for lack of work i mean i wouldn't want us just to try to create it off off the cuff certainly and if we are making policies you know about sense censorship um i'd like to really see issues that should be addressed through that like making homophobic and racist comments being included in there because those are things that are really offensive um that that would involve censorship yeah if anybody ever did that it would be it must certainly way um i think we would have a broad
054broad description of all areas that would be included inside yourself that would only be found would we be would it be acceptable to consider this policy adjustment without making good censorship at that point you could make that decision just as if just the same as if i could make the decision not to vote for censorship someone could bring it forward for censorship i mean it goes both ways and then it's not an automatic but it also resolves the issue of you know the chicken before the egg thing that we have going on here because we don't have a policy on censorship and we need to get this policy finalized so do we want to postpone it and work on a censorship policy which is going to be another big big big discussion or do we
055want to just cross that bridge when we get to it i mean i don't know i don't know what the answer to that is i'm just throwing it out there so my feeling is uh personally that if you put in there that not complying with it results in censorship that in my eyes takes away from the impact of it um whereas if someone didn't comply and then we as a board move to censure to me that's more impactful because it's not an automatic response it's a deliberate in this circumstance we feel that this is a significant issue um i thought we did have censorship in our bylaws i will have to look into that so um that would be a separate issue for another topic yeah that we used to use all the time um
056it may have been used but not officially a part of the written rules so um just that that's my take on it i feel that having it the automated response takes away from me that's my personal which were to clarify that the reasonable accommodation was for verification of residency and what was the first one um and to clarify that the documents and address would not be kept on file that's my motion okay um so regarding this to make sure that we are getting the language 100 accurate and everyone's all on the same page would you be comfortable with um making the changes and doing the second reading that's not that's not me i would like to add to that then kelly's verbiage on censorship where you send yourself where you said possibility of yes is
057that we didn't get the wording precisely so yeah we don't want to haphazardly do it again yeah we're taking those so we'll we'll i would i would rather make sure that you're all understanding what you're so we can do both i guess okay okay so what i'm hearing is that we will make amendments to this and bring them back next meeting okay so just for for mine and carol's clarity we'll make those adjustments bring it back as an item in or because they're very different but very similar okay so moving on to item e second interim report for fiscal year 2021-22 hello hello all right first i wanted to take an opportunity to thank you for allowing me to restructure my office so that it could work most efficiently the coordinator of categorical programs said
058not i'm not saying this both but she said it's a brilliant idea because it's a bridge between me and working on the financial records and her who works on the programs and making sure they're implemented and writing the plans for them so the fiscal analyst is the go between between us and so i just want to thank you for that christina degrange has been fantastic she helped with some of the calculations on this report and it's really made my office run better i've also talked to the two employees who came on board and who have fewer days in their calendar and i did their evaluations this week and brought up do they think they have enough time to do their job and they do feel that they have enough time to do their job so
059everything's been great and i want to thank you for letting us make those changes thank you so how does this work oh there we go all right so he's put where we're at in the budget cycle because it just goes round and round and round and we are at the second interim financial report and it's our last look at this year's reports we're getting feedback um this year's reports this year's budget what we've spent what we've taken in um and then we're not really going to look at it again we're going to start moving to the the budget for next year will be our next report and then we look at the actuals what we spent later on in september so this is just our last look at this fiscal year before you move forward
060i always want to show what our district enrollment is like and because it continues to decline unfortunately on the official census date in october we were down 52 students from the prior year i've projected that enrollment will stop declining because of the new housing that's coming in so we really need to see those students of course we're not funded based on enrollment right now where we're funded based on the average daily attendance of the students it continues to be based on our 19 20 figures so whether students attend this year or not does not affect our funding i know that sometimes parents wanted to say because i brought it before that you know they just want to want them in school because of kova they don't want to miss or you know with the mask
061issue but really whether students attend this year or not does not affect our funding it just affects their learning and that's our concern um so next year would would be a cliff this is what we're calling it in california and it's not just for our districts it's for all districts our enrollment is declining so our average daily attendance is declining statewide next year if the current formula stays in place we would be funded on next year's enrollment or this year's moment sorry attendance or this year's attendance and this year's attendance is uh quite low and so it's about 3 900 um students and then instead of the 4 000 that we're being funded on so it drops what would be 238 ada next year and that is an equivalent to almost or over two million
062dollars and so we don't want to see that happen luckily the governor in his budget proposal in january gave some different formulas that we might use to base our funding on and it'd still be negotiated his plan was to allow districts to use the ada for the current year which would be actually next year we're talking or the prior year which would be this year or an average of the three prior years so this year last year the year before but the concern and it wouldn't be one year would be out of there because we didn't take attendance for uh coping the concern is that the covenant years will be part of that three-year rolling average and so it's still not it's still going to harm us and so where people are negotiating trying to
063figure out a different way to take that covenant here out of there i know that we had a letter by capital advisors today that they were sending to the state the governor i'm not sure who and they asked us to sign it where they're looking at a different formula to help us so we're just on the edge of our seats waiting to see how we'll be funded next year but i'm quite hopeful that you know that there's a problem that something will be resolved and we won't see that two million dollar hit i wanted to put this in there because this was and there were two errors in the narrative that i gave you and one was that i put for the the planning pull up i put what the governor proposed in his budget
064and that's not what i based this report on so the planning cola that i based this report on that's cost of living increase is 2.48 for this year and 3.11 for next year the proposed cola what the governor wants to pass in july is to increase it to 5.33 um for next year and 3.61 for the year after that i did not use those figures in this planning because um it's not decided yet i like to just use actually what we know oh the second error in the narrative thank you trustee kelly is there's a number on page 13 that says 817 thousand million so that million actually should not be deleted [Music] okay so then when we look at total unrestricted revenue this is unrestricted again so these aren't those title one programs or
065uh you know el programs this is general fund money we look at the revenue that we're taking in versus the expenditures this year we are having a surplus of about 250 000 i want to remind you that i base the budgets on the highest that we've spent in the past three years and so money always falls out so at the end of the year when we do unwanted actuals you'll see that that number's probably higher there are other things like supplies i mean budgets for school sites and they don't spend all their budgets might let them carry over each year so that kind of money will fall out too in 2223 it shows that we're just spending by over 800 000 there are two figures in there that i want to pull out one is
066that i have us contributing to fund 13 our nutrition services program we started feeding our students for free right when kobet hit so we haven't got a good judge of how much money that we will receive in revenue for fund 13 yet and so um based on what we seem to have gotten this year compared to the salaries that we have to pay out it looks like that will have to contribute to that fund about 230 000 next year and then also i have in there 200 000 going to fund 20 the other post-employment benefits so that's 430 that doesn't have to be in there or might not be in there of that 800 000 if we needed to cut some some dollars out of there and then again a reminder that i choose the
067highest so if we had legal fees that were fifty thousand sixty thousand seventy thousand for the last three years i'll take a budget of seventy thousand and carry that forward just to cover what we might need it also does not factor in salary savings from attrition so i have that all of our staff will all move over on the salary schedule but we know some are going to retire we heard a couple today and they'll be replaced by um employees who are not as high on a salary schedule and so that'll be a savings too so that's not factor in here so really when i look at this i i look and i think that okay it's kind of a wash we're spending what we're getting and that's a good thing because you want to
068spend with the lower ada that's even with the lower ada so um you want to spend this year's money on this your kids so it shows that we're doing that now when we put in the higher cola we put in those ada calculations we're going to have a surplus that we'll have to decide how to spend maybe okay the reserve uh for economic uncertainties this is sorry this is the look at the indian fund balance and it's less the unspendable and less the reserve economic uncertainties so it's just that we have about 10 million dollars that is one-time money like a savings account that we can spend as you desire um of course to meet the needs of our students and then next year it goes down because we're spending by 800 000 and so
069of course this an income balance is going to be reduced etc i flipped this out of order on you because this was more logical to come next the cap on local reserves hits next year so there's these tests there's test one test two's test three i don't really know how they figured out what it all means but what i do know is that we can't carry over more than 10 of our reserves so when we look at that the amount would be that's held in reserve will be about 5.11 million over 10 so 5.11 million has to be committed by the board otherwise we have penalties i'm not quite sure what that means but we have penalties um so in may then we'll bring to you some some um ideas of what we can commit
070it for i'm going to be working with mr lair i'll work with you know bargaining groups i asked him to let her talk to you to see what priorities are and then we would pass a resolution to commit the funds and then we're allowed to keep those buttons so the reserve cap is currently in play it will be for the next year's budget for next year's budget so this year we're going to only hold ten percent for next year when i'm doing that when you approve the budget in june we have to show that we've committed what's above that ten percent so we have to do that to spend next year so we have to do that before the budget in june which is correct thank you sorry so and then if you do vote
071to commit those funds you can vote to uncommit them to and you can spend them on something else if something else comes up so your hands are ready and another resolution so any questions about that all right looking at other funds but beyond our fund one general fund we have our special reserve and fund 17 of 2.45 million dollars and that's kind of set aside for any construction costs that we need building the rex fortune in the cte schools i mean buildings etc and we also have our other post-employment benefits we call open in fund 20 we have 1.44 million dollars we were saving that because i was worried about an ada cliff falling off of that we were have new school costs and i should mention that those new school costs are included in
072the multi-year projection so it looks like we may not need those funds and we can commit them i mean move them over to the trust if um since we don't need them in the trust currently there's 544 thousand dollars and our net op liability that was asked last meeting and so i added that in here about 8.4 million dollars that means if everybody retired and everybody got there five years this is how much it would cost us we are we use a pay-as-you-go model so we just pay for our retirees every year every month and so it doesn't affect us but it's still something the state wants us to do is to build up a trust with that money where the interest will pay for those retirees we also have fund 11 that is not
073on here but i want to mention and that's our adult ed fund and the adult ed program was closed in december and so the funds that are in there have to be returned to the state or the local cohort and so i'm working on doing that and then as soon as that's done i will bring a resolution to close that one down i'm also going so you don't keep that and so um but it is meant to be it is going to be spent on adult ed though in other programs so that's where it should go and then when i close fund 11 i'll also uh have a resolution to close five to nine which is the charter school the relief funds i just keep adding this in here just so you know how it's
074looking without spending all of it is assigned the salaries are assigned some of those positions are open positions and so we might find we have money left over that we need to spend at the end of our three-year period but as of right now there's nothing unaccounted for star signs looking ahead so i'm eager to see the may revision and when they come up with that ada calculation and then of course anything else i also like that they're talking about special ed and how it's impacting the district and knowing that we need some relief because we contribute so much of our general funds to that program and then looking ahead also at new construction so as i said we assigned teachers and administration and custodial staff and all of that is included in the multi-year
075projection so i just need to see how that plays out and how the numbers look any questions on that so far so trustee kelly asked about a budget workshop just to kind of get to know it um what all these reports mean in here in this packet and i know that that's hard you're having trouble coming up with dates and things so i thought that after each report i'll just take a few of the reports in here and mention them and so i wanted to start with focus areas if i was a board what would i look at you know what should you be looking at when you look at all these reports so the first thing you should look at is average daily attendance is it increasing or decreasing because that's how we get
076our funding um and then i put on there which forms you would want to look at the average daily attendance numbers are in the multi-year projection combined and criterias and standards report numbers one through three so you can reference back to those to see where you're going to find those numbers i already talked about that so let me talk about it again budget and comparison variances you want to ask yourself has any area changed by more than 10 since the last report if we were going to spend i'll do legal fees again 50 000 on legal fees and they increased by 100 percent now we're spending 100 000 on legal fees you want to ask what happened what why are we spending so much on like what's going on and so in my narrative it
077breaks out each section each category like supplies and salaries and you want to look to see if there's anything more than 10 and then in the actual reports it goes line by line for every type of revenue every type of expenditure and so you also want to look at those to see if it makes sense that we are spending more revenues and expenditures is something you want to look at you want to know is ongoing debt to the spending projected is it a lot of money are we going you know why are we overstaffed are we not um are we giving too much too big of a budget to sites you should be asking those types of questions cash flow that is a separate report so you want to ask can the district meet its
078monthly financial obligations is there any month in the cash flow that we won't be able to payroll or do ap runs luckily that's never been a problem when i've been in the office but that was a huge problem before that during our decline or recession i know uh they were you picked what bills to pay because there wasn't enough money to pay them all so that's something that i'll look for and then you want to look for the ending fund balance how much unrestricted one-time funds are available and if there's a lot you should be talking amongst yourself to say what are our priorities what should we be spending this money on so as a board those are the main areas that i think that you should review and that i would review any questions
079about this that's very helpful yeah very incredibly helpful thank you i know uh i know that uh trustee kelly wanted to go over some other forms do you want to do that now or do you want to do that next time we could do that now um [Laughter] and while wellness kelly's thinking giving is at any time you need board members if you want to come in i know lisa said hey this is a brilliant way to just start giving snippets i think it's great because it's chunks because this this is not something that you just pick up one day of 300 pages ago oh i get it so this is a great great tool but if anyone wants to come in and sit down and really hammer through it i i know your door
080is always open so i'm sorry i think the big thing i wanted to know is that 5.11 million like how much are we going to have to figure out how to spend that's big and then um that fun page on on page nine i think you covered most of that um what was that ass let's see um just explaining what the fund summaries chart on page nine what it means so it's on it's in the narrative on page number yeah in the narrative so basically it says the illustrate glow is a summary of each fund's balance and corresponding change so you have your 20 20 21 22 beginning balance estimated net change 21 22 any amount so these are estimated ending balances correct right so that is taking expenditures in revenue and um and and
081projecting the house and then projecting at the end of the year what they need for the balance should be so in that regard then i'm wondering why um we have quite a bit left over and many of these obviously building funds we know why that's there it's right because we're getting money we've got money to build a building so um but like um the 1.647 in the opdb how would we go about getting that transferred to the trust do we have to do a resolution um i mean i wouldn't want to do the whole thing clearly right but that's a lot to have sitting there not drawing interest when we can join right right so um so you've already directed me to do that so i would just i do two hundred thousand a year
082i'm just doing that because i just wasn't sure you know i'm more conservative money but i feel comfortable that i can move that over to the trust now okay um you had asked about the child development plan that's her catalyst after school programs so it's a wash the money comes in from the state and we pay a contract to the people that run catalyst sometimes we get a little bit too much money and that goes in a special reserve that can only be used for program needs okay so that 66 grand will carry over yes to next year right in the child development but rightly but okay um maybe it's an effort so the maintenance of effort there are two actually there's one that is for special education students and there's one for title one
083basically federal programs and they so they're they both want to make sure that you are not using that money to supplant the regular funding for a student that is supposed to supplement the funding for a student so i have to do special ed to make sure that we're keeping the same level of spending um for special ed students and and they're not getting less of a service because maybe it's encroaching on our charter fund so we want to cut some money we have to keep it the same or greater each year um so that was a problem last year because it actually goes by a percentage of how much you spend and we got all that coven money and so that came into the calculation and reduced the percent that we're spending on special ed
084students so i had to move some money to uh paid out a special ed instead of out of coping when it was appropriate to do so so that that maintenance of effort can stay up and then we also do it for title one programs to make sure that our students who are um have lower socioeconomic group that we're not taking title one um general fund money i guess away from them and then just using title one money to support them it should be a combination of both so that's what's called the maintenance of that yeah so basically you have five dollars that you're contributing to the lemonade stand somebody comes in and donates twenty twenty dollars to the lemonade stand now you have twenty five dollars right you don't have twenty you can't take that
085five away because now you have twenty coming from another source you can't supplant it i just thought that was something that people might be interested in understanding because that's end of the world and in respect for nancy saying next month we'll uncover some of these things thank you i will add i know what your questions are so i will add them to the next report i just so appreciate all the work you do on this it's a lot i mean it's very complicated and i rarely know exactly what i'm looking for when i look at it so i just kind of go through and go i wonder what that means let me try i'll be doing each section okay thank you very much luke to approve oh we need public comments oh you never got
086emotional it was a very worth it all right sure it's fine it's kelly and delray okay and do i have a second i'll send it okay so do we have any public comment on this okay any more discussion okay we'll call vote hi hi hi hi i'm chairman i mean that's the approved okay moving on to board superintendent reports um okay just a little something um we spoke earlier when vanessa was speaking and i did with the consent agenda in regards to the activities coming back into our school district which is all all just wonderful but i want to remember or remind people to support your ptas ptos and your boosters because their intricate portion or part of the school that brings well-needed funds to the school and to the classroom um and that's all
087i have to say okay um i am happy to report that they have reinstated the dates for the next super report on the governance with with an equity lens so uh dr lee and scott and i will be attending um and those will start in august so we have um it says it's going from august through october there are four sessions we're not going every day yeah four sessions starting in august so uh really looking forward to those finally happening they've postponed it twice so it was it three times i don't know whatever it was it was not good so hopefully we can get that moving and other than that okay okay um hi everyone um just want to say happy purim and happy st patrick's day to all who are in observance of those
088holidays um as many of us recognize acknowledge and celebrate women's history month together during march i want to extend my thanks to some of our teachers who are already doing the work of culturally responsive and culturally relevant teaching and for recognizing that educational teachers and leaders do not need a board resolution to engage our students in meaningful ways that elevate the heritage months that have been established and recognized by our federal and state leadership to center the voices of our traditionally marginalized community members recognizing the heritage months is a baseline way to demonstrate respect for and inclusion of the diverse cultural backgrounds and cultural knowledge in our communities indeed the research confirms that when instruction and in particular when social emotional learning instruction and supports are provided to students in an a cultural way it
089actually does more harm than good for our most vulnerable students so if you're a certificated staff member that's attempting to engage the learners in our district in social emotional learning curriculum using a cultural culturally agnostic or culturally blind pedagogical method methods and finding yourself baffled about why you aren't seeing results and in fact why your students may seem to be worse off in the face of your efforts i encourage you to look to the authentic inclusion of your students home cultures and lived experiences for some much needed clarity because in short in every day every way all day culture matters and so i'm really excited that we're going to be going to this equity and governance participation starting in august i think it was the third time it's been rescheduled so let's cross our fingers
090that california school boards association is going to have it together and that we're actually going to be able to participate this time and with that my next open office hours are monday april 4th from 4 to 5 p.m you can access the zoom link on the board website they will continue to be virtual it's convenient for community members to be able to access those so any and all members are welcome to drop in four to five first mondays on zoom and i look forward to connecting with you all be safe and be well and we'll talk soon okay uh i'm going to keep mine brief i just want to share without going into detail that i and my family have been feeling some health issues recently as happens and i want to remind everyone students
091staff parents community members everyone in this room please take care of yourselves make sure that you know you take your health seriously uh if you need to take time off from work to attend your health it's better than pushing the issue and uh i need to remind myself of that sometimes as well so thank you superintendent thank you trustee bruno i just wanted to thank miss coronado again for her work on that she makes these big reports seem so easy and they're not caroline just leaned over and said wow look at all those numbers so it's easy for me to say hey we need to do this and that but i always appreciate lisa how she makes sure we get it all done and get it done right so thank you for that uh just
092a reminder april 7th i think i mentioned to you we'll be doing the the groundbreaking we'll get invitations out to that um so looking forward if you can join us i know it'll be during the the workday so i know it's hard to separate sometimes away so hopefully you guys can try to get away if you can um and then as mr jordan said gearing up for summer school we're looking to to have a great experience for our students again over summer just to echo the the i hope these august dates for the equity network stick um i think we've all expressed our frustration and so i i hope uh august will be the magical number uh or magical time to make that happen and then had a great opportunity to tour a bunch of
093classrooms at spinelli dudley in north country and it's just it's so joyous i don't know any other word to see the staff teaching the the the students learning and the smiles on everyone's faces and hearing them being around and i know that's not easy i know people have worked really hard to get where we are but it's starting to feel like kind of getting back to what we were it's definitely different but we're getting back um and it's just fun i had an opportunity to visit mrs mason today and a young man had come in and was doing some work in there so it was fun just seeing the teaching process and he was so excited just trying to understand where the kids are where they're going and i just think we're doing some great
094things for our students and i thank everyone for their contributions in that so other than that um that's all i can thank you thank you very much okay advanced planning future meeting dates we have a regular meeting wednesday and we're looking at a before workshop on the 23rd yep okay suggested agenda items do you know how they want to add diversity in the curriculum for our next meeting with discussion of that item okay uh been requested a few times now by multiple people okay um actually i was going to bring up the same issue um i'm questioning where would be the appropriate time whether the next meeting would be good or if we should schedule it for during the summer time just to make sure we understand where we are and set i think it's
095important that it be done during school so that we can get the input of the community yes while schools stay separate consider that yeah thank you did that work for you mr jordan yeah okay are you asking me to present um you're gonna have some part of the discussion so one of the things is is there more specific that look at how diversity played on the curriculum inside the curriculum all um just from what miss connor has mentioned she has some things that she wants to share with us and that wants us to discuss and look at so i think maybe there's two topics as well one is diversity in the curriculum and one is just diversity in general so i don't know um i don't know if we want to limit it to diversity
096and curriculum or have two separate items but i don't want to make i want to make sure that whatever miss connors and anyone else wants to discuss relating to diversity is not kibosh by our i know our focusing so that she wanted to discuss some diversity curriculum issues i am planning to reach out to her and touch base and see if there were other diversity issues to discuss i think diversity as a subject is very broad and we do need to dive in more specific so that we can have a more productive discussion we might have to have multiple agenda items on it only because if we're going to present something i i mean the topic is large so we would just for my own sanity mr jordan we would want to know where where
097we want to start so if we want to hear an item on i'm trying to figure out how to not narrow it but have it open but still i just don't know like based on this conversation right now what we would bring forward to other than open conversation around that because diversity in the curriculum is different than diversity curriculum right diversity curriculum is actually a purchase program diversity in the curriculum would be our current curriculum i also think it's outside of the curriculum too i know from mrs connor's uh emails over with i think you and i might make with board is some of the things is not necessarily mr jordan was it not just you know the diversity that's represented in the standards that then our textbooks reflect but i think it's additional to
098that so i there's a couple different tracks and we're happy to bring forward whatever i just don't know what i just want to make it better i'm not sure that we would be asking you to bring in anything necessarily um i think it's more just an open discussion for the community at this point why don't we talk to ms connor to see what her thoughts are and then see if you can get a a topic of sorts and then bring it to mr weiner and see if we can narrow down some specifics okay um from my personal point of view i i would like to hear more about how our curriculum currently does approach diversity so that we know where we're coming from um so the topic of diversity in the curriculum yes not the
099diversity of the curriculum so would that be a starting point because i i think again it's gonna this is gonna be more than one talk it's gonna be more than a ten minute conversation yes um so what we could start with is how in but we can we can at least figure out diversity as it relates to the curriculum that we have but but remember we serve pre-12 so we can find snippets within that to share with the standard i'm just trying to inhale these are we are waiting are we looking for examples within the curriculum within the frameworks within the standards and when we say diversity are we looking for examples of like uh racial diversity are we looking for examples of female writers in literature are we looking for another maybe that'd be
100our first step i i think then at least we start with something and then i would suspect it's going to spark more from each of you and then we can keep following up with that i i think the equity conversation that we're going to have will also play into that significantly so i think that this is something that will um it's going to be broader than just one meeting and then it will it will keep circling back on many topics you know mentioning that we have multiple curriculums as we go through the different grades i do think that we are likely to need multiple meetings and discuss this you know let's just come in as a regular or as ongoing okay so i think if we get back to it yes so let me let
101me clarify specifically what it was that she wanted to address so that doesn't get overlooked um from my point of view um diversity would include racial diversity it would include you know gender diversity lgbtq contributions you know disability awareness all of that kind of just you know how are we as a district making sure that we are giving children a full broad education you know when i was going to high school frankly i learned more about uh contributions of the african-american community to american history from rock music than i did from the curriculum and i took an art history class that spent more than half the class on european art um i think we may have mentioned at some point um asian art and did about a week on african art and then it switched
102over to more modern stuff for the remainder of the year so back then i don't think they were doing a very good job of including diversity because they focused primarily on european history there and not other so so again just to clarify you're talking about diversity of the curriculum not the topic of diversity in the curriculum so i think we need to make sure we talk about people right when we do have this discussion does that make sense did you i didn't answer i i need to clear clear my head a little bit and think about the the differentiation between diversity and the curriculum so one is you're presenting a diversity um like artists and history and things like that and the other is you're specifically talking about diversity which would be a social subject
103[Music] so i think if we can get an idea of what the request was that would be a good starting point okay and then we'll see what comes out of that and i would suspect that it will it will go off from there on different avenues that you guys would want to hear or have conversations and it will directly tie into the equity piece i know for that okay wow we could also define curriculum because i think when i think in curriculum i'm thinking of state adopted curriculum materials that we're buying but i think we're talking about a whole broader thing here like celebrations at schools i think i thought i heard that the speaker talking about uh you know black history month women's history month those kind of things those aren't necessarily standards or
104purchase curriculum it's part of the state adopted standards but i think that's what we're talking about am i am i incorrect on that what i've heard miss connor say um was i i heard a focus on elementary level specifically so if we're looking to narrow it a little bit um and then two um you know just really looking at not what the state says but what happens in the classroom space that's the concern uh that i heard her raising and that i've heard from other community members as well you know there's something that the state says and there's frameworks and standards then there's the actual curriculum the real curriculum that's lived and experienced through the students when they're in that classroom with the certificated staff and then are we looking at like we talked about
105ap and are we looking at uh for example in our construction program are we looking at traditionally that hasn't been a female uh latent are we looking at numbers for that we're looking right as you can see our planners and with the specifics we will provide to you after he has the questions so we're going to have to do this in bite size chunks over a period of time because this is a much bigger topic than i anticipated i'm being seriously you email the board on your ideas of what to talk about next month on diversity okay and then maybe if we could have a discussion item continuously for ongoing because that's you and you may want to send that through scott to avoid any issues with that well that was the problem with her
106first email is it was really hard to try to figure out what it was exactly she wanted on the agenda we're going to find out i will clarify okay perfect that's a journey items before we do that [Laughter] yes