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Center Jt Unified School District Board Meeting 6/16/2021

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YouTube / Center Jt Unified School District
Date
2021-06-17
Location
Sacramento County, CA
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7,801 words · about 44 min
Collected
2026-06-06

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001and we don't vote on this right we just say what he did right okay so the superintendent received a mets as opposed to did not meet a satisfactory evaluation [Music] all right so here i am i believe the next thing we would like to do place down for the pledge salute i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america continuing for which it stands one nation america indivisible with the origin i just in recognition of this free speech board business agenda item welcoming all and noting that saying the pledge of allegiance is not a requirement to participate in the business of this board if you do not say the pledge for religious political social or personal reasons you are most welcome here as an equal participant in the business of this public

002school board um announcement of action taking the closed session and i apologize i did those backwards [Music] thank you dr lee hi mrs anderson hi this is paul hi and this is mr bruno hi this is bruce i'm the chair of outside sorry loosen my voice tonight okay um organizational reports do we have anyone here from kyogre or cfca so uh marie huggins is here with us tonight but uh miss vanessa would not be with us tonight okay take your wings for me huggins thank you marie huggins classified union president first i'd like to say kudos to the admin school board and employees for working together to navigate the obstacles of the pandemic and embrace the new opportunities to safely serve our families and community i would like to welcome all the new employees and

003congratulate those who have taken on new positions or promotions welcome to richard as our new director of maintenance and operations and kevin the maintenance and operations supervisor and thank you so much craig for your many years of service to the center family wishing you all the very best as you begin your next adventure we have been enriched by having the opportunity to work with you and have a great summer everyone thank you you do the same miss marie thank you okay uh i'm 10 facilities update and we have a mr visa here i'm just saying this is so a couple things on the um full day kindergarten um just a few things to finish the wrong iron fencing you may notice when you drive by oak hill um it is not quite complete we have

004a lot of trouble with the holes in the holes there's a lot of utilities under there so we had to come up with a new way to bolt the wrought iron fence to the retaining wall and we have to get that approved by um dsa so it took a little bit a little while but it should be done this week i'm happy to report that um and then they'll also be installing in two weeks they'll be installing the guardrails that are on the east side and the north side of the sidewalks that kind of have the drop off and a guard rail is different than a hand railing because the guardrail has some stuff in between so the little kindergartners can't fall between the top and bottom rail and fall out so they will be

005safe and then we are going to be um putting together a photo shoot for that project because basically because the architect and the contractors are so proud that they will use it for advertising purposes but we'll also be able to use it as promoting some of our 21st century classrooms and our productivity garden program so that'll happen i think on june 28th i believe for the rex fortune site uh there's a 17-week turnaround there's two phases that went into dsa so that we could get the civil engineering piece the grading piece back sooner than later because they're hoping to start the grading of the property in early september so that we can get ahead of the weather and when it does rain we'll have it all set so the water all doesn't puddle up and

006then get it as wet so we can jump in and start construction from spring of 2022. and then partner sullivan is our um obesity staff contractor doing the um the rex foreign elementary school and they are going to be bidding out their subs so they own all the stuff when you do at least lease that so they're digging out all of their subs their electrical economy everyone who's actually rebuilding the school on june 28th as well so we'll know who all the players will be together so we can start looking over the plans and let them kind of tear them apart and decide if the plumbing looks and all that stuff so we have very few change orders along the way and then like i told you last week the grades maximum price of the

007construction contract will come to you guys um the first quarter meeting of august and then after that board meeting clark and sullivan and uh similar folks are going to start great on the career technical ed program um we're getting a little bit closer to removing those working portables some of which are in the way and some of which are just going to create some space for future high school classrooms that will be built i'm still hoping that they're going before i end um and then we did work on we had a meeting with the low voltage folks for that program because we're getting so down into the detail right now we need to know where we need the hdmi outlets where we need the power for the tvs and all that stuff so we're just

008finalizing that last little piece of cameras and this and that for our july 2nd submittable to dsl so those plans are really good as well and then on the replacement of hvac that i talked to you about last time we did have a meeting with cpm and capital engineering and we started looking through our hvac units and figuring out which ones would be the lowest pain for you to replace to improve the indoor air quality for students and also save us money based on maintenance and or electrical usage so we're hoping to have that plan put together so that richard can take it and run and get a bunch of air conditioners in place next summer do you know how many not as many as i thought um it's about we're looking at um hvac

009right now at north country and the high school and they're the they're called mini splits it's kind of like the one you see in a hotel you have a piece of inside the classroom that shoots out the cold air and then you have a piece hanging out on the wall outside that's the condenser and those are about 3000 bucks installed on the side they're about 30 grand installed um yeah and the problem is those type of air conditioner units don't bring in enough outside air which is one of the reasons that we brought them up first um so we have to get a different kind of unit to put in those rails and that's why they're more expensive so we're taking out that that type of split unit and then we're putting in a regular

010air conditioning unit where you put the the furnace piece on the inside and then in an enclosed closet and then the air conditioner piece goes on the luckily copper prices are down right now um but yeah we're not we're not we're still in the in the planning stages but you know you can put couple cages around them um different things to help to protect it but nothing is 100 right so luckily with those units we i don't think we've lost a single one of those but i'll probably just jinx this but it's not those units that we were the easiest to get at but there is no perfect solution if people want to copper prices are up they will get them i don't know 50 years ago they were still about the walls and houses

011so it's definitely worth starting there and then moving forward from there so that's all i have if you have any questions you're gonna be a mess that's not a question i know statement thank you thank you so much yeah you can ask a question so some of the elementary schools have classrooms that are just atrocious i volunteer i volunteered regularly at oak hill and the first graders classrooms are awful have those been fixed as far as everyone yeah there was yeah when i was volunteering in the class in the first grade classrooms consistently um the teachers had reoccurring problems that lasted the entire year um my i'm curious where to have all of the ones that were broken being replaced or fixed a work order process for that yeah i know they told me that

012all year that year and we do we do uh prioritize and plug away and classrooms are a priority there are a lot of um there are a lot of cogs that move to determine how quickly we can replace something sometimes what happens is something is replaced and fixed and then something else goes wrong isn't it we didn't replace or fix the ones that were already in the classrooms that we're maintaining and before we put new ones in we we go through a process as far as how many how much we have to put into the unit um sometimes if a coil goes out which is the copper part that the prior goes to cool things down a lot of times if it's an older unit it's it's better to replace it than to spend the

013money to replace the coil i think the question you're asking is we're put we're putting in new ones and your question is did we fix the ones that were broken first so that what's he's referring to have not been replaced yet that that's a plan we're working on but would you say craig that we have a process to fix the ones that are currently i'm not aware of any aren't working now or ones that are more troubled yeah you have to visit the classroom again it's been a couple of years but i know that you had a recurring problem in a court in a core of uh rooms where one was receiving extra air and the students were freezing all day and you have some where they weren't getting any air at all so just

014you know before you open new facilities or your old facilities working appropriately would be a huge concern for a person like me or you know parents maybe i'm not asking the right person i don't know but correct the idea was ones that are most problematic are going to also get on that list before we replace there's a hierarchy of it so the process that we use we'll be looking at the ones that are chronically broken and things like that correct correct but we also replace units when they're chronically broken so that's actually that didn't occur that year that that this was a problem so i'm you know i'm just right financing my old um experiences at the schools and making sure that the students who are already attending those classes you know because this is

015such a a concern the hga system is for the students coming back that the ones that are currently in there and the teachers the teachers um need to be comfortable when they're teaching it's a huge concern can i can i just say so so the process that gets in place right now is that they have you know a duration and then they also have the maintenance schedule and like like mr leo was saying they're replaced on a recurring basis right but the ones that they're talking about replacing right now are part of those that are currently in use and are on the rotation to be replaced due to their chronic issues so and agent has been a huge issue for a number of us on the board and so we're really pushing hard to make

016sure that those those are taken care of with as much of the funding as we can spare and we do have maintenance money to do that so you know we have money that we can do it when we need to so sometimes there's a tricky one or a tricky two but on the 614 that we have um three times that year and it still wasn't fixed by the end of the year and those are frustrating ones for for us too you know and especially for my folks that are fixing them and replacing them because you could you um happen to take a look at eight oak hills first grade quad and see if they have been fixed or looked at your paperwork yeah no i can i can look at them at what we have

017in the work order system and i can also you know i find out what room it is moving on to uh item number 11 comments from the audience regarding items not on the agenda and i apologize in advance i'm probably going to murder your name that's okay i'm used to that marilyn truex that is correct you got it yes okay well i've introduced myself by marilyn truex i am a mother of two boys that attend oak hill currently um i've been a volunteer since 2015 and i love the school i have loved every experience that i've had there mine is the small hvac problem which was not attributed to anyone here um i am here today um first to thank you for having me in front of you i've been looking forward to this um

018for a few meetings now um i was the person that emailed in last week i was unaware that the meetings were open to the public and i just want to make you aware that it still shows on your agenda that the public isn't allowed in here so you may want to make an adjustment to that at least the one that i pulled off the web doesn't say that we're allowed to be here so that might part you know might have a little bit to do with the lack of participation i think we're still getting public comments via emails we're doing both but i think we put the address on but we can make a little note on there that public is welcome because they they certainly are yeah that probably in the past it was

019that the public obviously was welcome and was included and we never just there was no specific language because there was no alternative so yeah i i don't know when you guys opened up but i would have loved the opportunity to come and speak with you and also meet the principal for oakville last week i didn't even realize that they're here i realized now it's the nice principal so that's not a big deal but i just would have appreciated the opportunity to be here um in front of you um i'm here today um to speak about masks um our children in masks is my i i don't want to say complaint but it is my issue i did call oak hill today to try to find out if the policy was changing or what was going

020to occur with that in the future and i was was not able to get a hold of anyone um i did attend the board of supervisors meeting um yesterday and i received some information from the california department of health i'd like to share with you um i have a printout here of the cases the debts and the rates showing that our children do not belong in mass the orange county um school board did uh make the decision this week to unmask their children and i would love to employ you all to do the same for our children um they are suffering in these masks because you know we're in heat heatwave this week and um it's very discomforting for those kids to be in these masks washington post also released a set of the set

021of criteria that the orange county board used to open that that up for people to have that option um three of those things that i found were good to present to you were that k through 12 present the lowest risk of infection and dead social distancing and reduced class sizes were not necessary these were the board's findings um the second thing i thought was important where mask requirements make it difficult if not impossible to implement in the schools and they are not based on science they're harmful and not recommended for children in k through 12. they also cause bacterial infections pneumonia stop infections these are all things i have teenagers also in san juan unified school district and they the difference in their skin is is really bad i have to remind them every single

022day to wash their faces extra because they're coming home with acne and things that they did not have before and the last thing i thought it was important to present is that reopening of public education should be voluntary the guidelines set forth are not lost their guidelines the parents um not the government are in the best position to decide what's best for our kids that's all thank you and i i hope that you all would advocate for our kids and miss and um i have a printout it's a little bit fuzzy but it's the numbers from the health department that they put out just yesterday and just just to note that because this was not a jedis the board is not allowed to discuss it but thank you for the comments is there a way

023that i can reach out to you for some type of resolution to this in those i've emailed in the past and i haven't gotten a response so i'm trying to find you next week through your public comment section so online also is all of the boards emails so you can reach them through that to advocate to them uh i believe my direct email is on there too so if you want to communicate with me i can forward it to them but if you want to share information you can certainly go one-to-one with them and i will say so thank you for coming thank you there's also um if if you would be so inclined to do so there's an article from america's front line doctors that they put out regarding the k through 12 in

024masks and vaccines which will be coming up shortly i know i i think you all should read it dave they sent it to the administration and i think you also read it thank you very much when you email us please be aware that we all can't email you back because it would be a violation of brown act but the president can email you back thank you thank you very much okay um having no further public comments we'll move on to item number 12 boarding superintendent reports let's start with dr lee okay um all right welcome everybody um i would like to devote my board report this month um to recognizing that june is lesbian gay bisexual transgender and queer or lgbtq plus pride month i'm so happy to be here as we strive to become

025a more inclusive district not just in our legally mandated adopted policies but also in our daily interactions with students and communities in 1969 in new york at the stonewall inn lesbian gay bisexual transgender queer and questioning people rose up to resist the persecution terror and harassment that they were commonly subjected to in their daily lives and to demand full equality a struggle that continues today the first gay pride parade was held in new york june 28 1970 one year after the stonewall uprisings in manhattan progress around civic equity moved slowly and so it wasn't until 30 years later in when president clinton declared june as national pride month as president clinton noted then in his proclamation for gay and lesbian pride month we cannot achieve to true tolerance merely through legislation we must change hearts

026and minds as well our greatest hope for a just society is to teach our children to respect one another to apprecia differences and to recognize the fundamental values that we hold in common in 2011 president barack obama expanded pride month to lesbian gay bisexual and transgender pride month and just this year in 2021 president joe biden recognized june as lesbian gay bisexual transgender and queer pride month also in this year in 2021 nearby here in the city of lodi the first pride festival ever was held for that city its first ever so we as a nation have made great strides but we also have so much further to go to accelerate acceptance and to stamp out violence and discrimination against lgbtq plus people in our communities to support equal rights by promoting a culture where

027lgbtq plus people are embraced and respected this is why i recognize pride month and why myself and others continue to raise awareness and to stand in opposition to the spikes in violence against transgender people of color in particular and also why we reject the exclusion bullying and harassment that our young people who are gender diverse face in our schools and that also leave our lgbtq students at disproportionate risk for self-harm and suicide this is why i recognize pride month to celebrate the contributions achievements and sacrifices that lgbtq plus people have made to enrich all of our lives and to realize the american dream of freedom and equality i appreciate our educators that are embracing representation and inclusion in our history social science and health education frameworks i applaud our teachers that work with local organizations

028and national organizations like the gay lesbian and straight education network to raise awareness at our local school sites creating safe spaces for all students faculty and staff in our schools by establishing safe zones gay straight alliances and student clubs for lgbtq plus youth so that they too have a place to belong free from exclusion and discrimination i truly appreciate the way our family resource center works to create welcoming and inviting resources to validate and embrace the diverse family types that are in our community your work means so much to so many marginalized and pushed out students and families be emboldened and stay the course because the work you do may be more life affirming and indeed life saving than you could ever possibly know thank you for making classrooms safer for lgbtq plus students and

029students with lgbtq plus parents and family members and for making our classrooms and communities safe and inclusive for all of us here in the center family systems of oppression really do negatively impact all of our lives in profound and pervasive ways when one group is not free none are truly free thank you for not stopping until there is acceptance equality liberty and justice for every single person until all really does mean all and in that spirit happy pride month to everyone and i look forward to catching up with you all at my next office hours meeting july 5th from 4 to 5 on zoom drop in any time the link's on our board page and stay safe and be well and hope to talk to you all soon thank you dr lee this is anderson

030i would like to just say a great big huge thank you to craig for being with the district what 26 you have been a dedicated hard-working employee that everyone could go to and everyone knew to get the job done i don't know how to tell you or the words to say what an outstanding employee you've been and we're going to miss you everybody's gonna miss you it's fun to pick on you i wish you weren't going i really do um but i understand you want some time and you know life's without getting some fun time too so i hope you enjoy your years away and do some things that you've been wanting to do for a long time you deserve them you filled in a position that we needed desperately at the time and you

031took over and took over several positions at the time and handled it beautifully and have done so ever since so thank you for that thank you for your dedication to your job and we're going to miss you enjoy your retirement [Music] um because i did not do this in may i would like to congratulate the seniors of mccullen high school center high school the adult ed and also the students of riley's middle school that were promoted to the ninth grade this year each site did something different mcclellan had their graduation on their school grounds fortunately the weather was gorgeous and as always that event is very emotional center high school could accommodate all 280-ish something students um in their facility where they're a student on degree on the football field and parents were in the

032stands um so that was very nice and then mclaughlin or excuse me uh ryles had two promotions one at nine and one at 12 to accommodate everybody there um so congratulations to all a job well done briefly i would like to make a comment about our facilities and grounds i'm happy that our community members are utilizing our facility grounds for their mental health and physical health it's it's nice to see people out and about but please be cognizant of your actions pick up your trash just please don't drop it on the ground also pick up your dog mess um because that's also a hindrance to our groundskeepers and also please keep your dogs on leashes we do have summer school right now and we do have staff on presents that work uh as a full-time

033employees and this is a health hazard for our um students and employees and also our groundskeepers work at each site about coverage once a week so trash and dog feces can accumulate and it's a lot of work for them please continue your mental health and physical health at our sites because they are beautiful workshop it was a newborn workshop and i was so excited to see um all of us experiencing this event it brought us together and i'm really excited that we can all be together soon i'm in person and we can work well as a team um lastly i would on that lastly but i'd also like to say um and i'm gonna read this because i actually wrote a blurb i would like you to join me in thanking those unsung heroes who

034linger behind the scenes these are the parents who staff our booths at back to school night who organize events or perhaps comb your your hair your child's hair right before school photos these groups are the backbone of support for our schools they are our ptas our ptos and our boosters please join me in thanking all of those who work for these organizations that parents staff and administration get involved be a member of your local parent organization they work so hard so please thanks i'm excited to work with you on the facilities committee um it's it's one of the things that i really enjoy so i'm looking forward to working with you and then congratulations to kevin who is going to be our supervisor for maintenance and operations operations lastly everybody have a great summer rejuvenate

035get those wiggles out have fun with your families i'll see you in august that's my parking board thank you mr bru um i actually have some thought very similar to what this book said um i got to attend the graduation ceremonies the first time as a board member and i felt it was really moving you know especially considering what all those students went through with distance learning and i was really impressed by all of them i was very moved by attending those graduations and it got me thinking it's not just the graduating uh students and the eighth graders being promoted for this it's all of the students at all great levels it's the teachers the principals all the staff everyone who worked hard and i just want to say how much i appreciate everything that

036everyone was doing you know custodians having to keep everything clean the creighton facilities team just doing all kinds of things that i just um i just want to take a moment to say how much i appreciate this district um i feel like you know i came into the board in september and i feel like i've been very welcomed at all levels um i feel like this district really works together quite well i think we have a great relationship between the board the administration the unions and really focus on putting the students first and it's really good to see craig i want to take a moment here i haven't known you as long as they have but you will be missed but at the same time i'm really happy for you so it's bittersweet richard welcome

037i'm sure you're gonna be we'll be responding to you in no time uh and i also want to take a moment to thank eugene for all the hard work that he does keeping us up and running superintendent blair is absolutely wonderful every time i have something but most of all i want to thank carol means to keep everyone else doing what they need to do and i want you to know how appreciated you are thank you thank you very much so carol very nice scott i'm going to let you collab okay all right so um um so i finished masters in governance courses uh make five uh wasn't able to report on it last time we didn't have board reports so that was fun and interesting um looking forward to implementing a lot of the

038things that i learned i think these guys probably uh want me to take it down a few notches because i'm like hey we should do this we should do that so there's a little bit of enthusiasm i'll try and temper it a little bit but i think it'll be really good for the board to just start you know refreshing some of the things that they've done over the years and just you know start to start them up again um so i'm looking forward to that and then i also attended the graduations all of the graduations which was fabulous i i didn't cry too terribly much but as always mcquellen enjoy that gets you it would probably really get you when they start handing off the roses out it's it's moving absolutely and then um what

039else did we do this month that was it right i mean just uh the the session on [Music] a lot of planning in place and then lastly um i i don't know most everybody out there probably in internet land probably doesn't know this but i worked for maintenance operations for many years not here but in another district and was the best job of my life other than what i have now and i have to say that craig decent is the the best of the best when it comes to doing facilities management we i'm sorry i know you're going to be great but man every time we turn around he's getting a free bus he's getting good grants he's getting free labor to install brand new you know minor duty efficiency stuff he's doing plans he's

040doing a thousand things at one time and never once seems to blood pressure never goes up i don't know i don't know i don't talk to his doctor but he just just does it and it's great that the bird maintenance plan the everything whenever i ask for anything he's got it right there the tip of his fingers uh the consultancy work that we did with the district-wide sweep where we know every piece of equipment on this district that needs to be replaced is just phenomenal i mean i could go on for days the work that he's done whoever gets to follow behind you is uh lucky lucky in the sense that everything is in such great order and unfortunate in the sense that they have big shoes to fill so um sadly i will not

041be able to uh i'm leaving town this evening uh so i'm saying goodbye to you now i will miss you tremendously and she's crying again you just have always been great and i just got one problem i don't want to make because you know i i appreciate my time here but without the people around you it's impossible to do so you know whether it's you know finding someone to install free lighting or you need to have a bus guide that will help you fill out the application you got to have great grounds guys and yeah great maintenance guys great warehouse guys um and great vendors that they'll bend over backwards for you so you know it's it's it's amazing the support over the years that i've gotten from many different people and you know my

042wife says you make your own life but um i don't think left over being great anytime so yeah thank you you may get more than one call for desperate people all right that's my report it's weird and i'm going to have a great summer sorry everybody and i did promise craig that we wouldn't talk about this he made me swearing i i know kelly emailed me but but on that same i just have to say it's prejudice said that you surround yourself with great people and that's one of the challenges i'll have is i've been surrounded by him very helpful to me uh i cannot tell i won't tell the board all the times i've gone into his office and oh my gosh how are we gonna make this one together we plan through it

043and we could write a book um but we won't write a book um because no one would believe our book but anyway and craig and i've worked i've known correctly for years probably the 36 years you've been with the district i've known him and every time when we worked as vice principal he was my vice principal at dudley uh we used to solve great papers with students with discipline uh when he was part-time and then to now it sorry richard probably gonna get richard to run out of here tonight we should have talked about him after you guys approved him because he may exit but i just thank craig for everything he's done not just professionally but personally uh craig's the guy that also if you mention something he'll just show up so one day

044i was going to prune some trees at my house next thing that he's showing up with his chainsaw one time i'm in tahoe he's in tahoe shows up with his kayaks so be careful what you ask for with craig because he will be there and usually with a nice cup of coffee um but anyway thank you craig for everything you've done for me and for the district and the students and it it's been a great uh run but i'm really happy for you you'll enjoy it i did forget also to mention our new people and i wanted to make sure i congratulated our promotions ron baioni christina de grange uh kevin coons and then new hires angelina cole morgan mcneese selena adams jennifer perry king harry kane jessica stiles suzanne mclaughlin brian gibbons and mikel

045jeffrey welcome you're gonna love it here i keep going well i wasn't done oh i'm sorry that's okay i also wanted to to just acknowledge y'all right you know one thing you just said and it really resonated with me is we've spent a lot of time thanking our staff our students but we have left out our parents and i think to me that is a backbone of what we do our community around us is support so thank you for bringing that up that just really resonated with me that there and and the comment about combing the kid's hair is absolutely correct 100 i get it other parents other parents take care of those that can't maybe cannot be there and so i think that we cannot be overlooking that so thank you for bringing that

046up because i i agree with you without that community of support we would not be the district that we are um very very important and then i just wonder summer school is going very very well appreciate all the staff and folks that are participating in that the students i've been able to get into many of the rooms it is so awesome to see the kids students interacting laughing joking enjoying each other and we missed that over the last 16 months and then um finally i just want to wish everyone a wonderful wonderful summer and take the time that you have i know july for a lot of us is going to be a nice relaxing month because last year we did not get that and so i encourage everyone to take advantage of that and

047even though sitting in the room to take advantage of that so anyway thank you okay uh moving on to item number 13 consent agenda we have a motion to approve to move thank you mr sanderson thank you dr lee all right um any conversation discussion on the consent agenda hearing none just acknowledge i just want to welcome uh richard gore just acted to welcome richard putnam as our next facilities director and uh comes to us from the city where he worked in the facilities department for many years also has his contracting license i think richard will be a great addition to us uh a local individual as well uh grew up in lincoln actually honor came through and then has family out in rio linda area um so it's kind of funny how someone from

048the outside coming in but realistically is very familiar with our area and i want to just acknowledge one thing and i probably shouldn't you know hr isn't here right now so i can say it but one of the things that i personally liked about what richard did when he interviewed was i think it was sunday went around and looked and poked around all of our facilities before his interview and it was interesting that he could tell us oh i see the project going on oak hill oh i see you just pulled a portable out so i knew at that point i'm like that's someone who wants to be with us and wants to be part of our family so i wholeheartedly welcome richard to this role and i know the district will support him any

049way shape and form to make him successful because your success is our success so officially welcome looking forward to working with you sorry if they scared you about the shoes [Music] we look forward to working with you as well okay moving on to item number 14 business items a comprehensive survey this is a discussion item so um for discussion no she was going to discuss this so i brought this forward simply because i want to get a a really good picture of what we are surveying people for um i know the past year there's been a lot of surveys and you know jesse pope was concerned about is over surveying the foods i'm also concerned about identifying any gaps that we might have in our surveying and just making sure that we have a really

050good solid plan so that we are getting good response and and not overwhelming people but yet getting the information that we need so um that said if if we can find out from mr mirror what we do already do as far as regular surveys and then recent surveys so so this year has been obviously these last 16 months we have surveyed our folks extensively and and with that i would say you know we surveyed recently for our lcap we do that every spring where we get that out this year we also had the learning elop plan we had to survey families on obviously over the course of the last 16 week we surveyed them i won't even i probably can't remember all the different surveys we did but then we also will do our california

051health and kids survey type we do not do the california healthy kids survey anymore we use panorama which supported approve which which addresses engagement connection with school things of that nature safety um and then in addition i know we've done things over cte what what individuals want there is a multitude of survey i would suggest is if there's something we want to get at we look at what tools we currently have and then think about that because i'll be really honest towards the end when we were surveying we did not get a lot of feedback because i think people like joseph another survey coming out so we need to be very cognizant of what we survey and when we survey and what we're looking for um moving ahead so when you say that over the

052past 16 weeks you've had so many surveys that you couldn't name them all what 16 months i'm sorry you know return to school what barriers things like that all stuff that was related to reopening returning things like that so when was the last time we did a barriers or church school type survey like not just saying names you want to change it but like the actual survey uh barriers would have been probably back in jordan trying to think was going to start yet remember we did the learning a lot survey where we set out asking what what should we do do you mind coming out of my store because i don't know if we can hear from that far back without the microphone sorry sorry on may 10th we did a learning law survey where

053we sent out to all the families what should we work on moving forward looking into next year based on the pandemic and not making it school we got about 79 responses that's it yes out of 42.45 42 and change i think oh yeah 4200 students but less with some family um and and so if we're looking at barriers to return uh that would have been one what folks wanted but we didn't you know we got we didn't get a lot of response to that plus we re-put out bell cap and that kind of overlap because we're looking for what can help improve the environment um l-cap is annually elp was a one-time one time and i have a feeling that lisa with the esser i'm sure we're gonna have to reach out and create a

054plan with that too so i'm sure we'll be surveying on on that as well i guess what i would ask is what what are we if we're trying to find information i'd want to know what it is and then we can utilize the tools we have to develop that if it's a barriers what's restricting or how do you feel we did survey the students at the end of the year with our what would be equivalent to the california healthy kids survey we'll be able to bring that data forward we use that our panorama for that um so again we're open we just want to know what what what we would want um and where we want to go with it because i want to make sure it's it's something that we would actually utilize uh

055moving forward because if we're surveying the survey i think people aren't going to feel as engaged we wouldn't be able to do something with it so on the healthy kids survey that covers like culture and site safety like substance stuff that i'm aware of trying to think of the question the healthy kids one does how these kids so they did kids that was specific and that was related because we had a two we had a 2b grant and so with that tobacco's prevention so that was one that we would hit that module we don't have that anymore because it was not worthless i don't think they're honest on that anyway so if we're looking for engagement uh all those pieces our panorama survey is the one we we can get data the problem we have

056too is when we put out and no problem sorry because we both did this but with google forms we get raw data panorama which you guys approve we we can we can slice it dice it anyway i know dr lee you and i spoke a little bit about the other day there if i was to encourage anything i would go that route the other piece and i'm going to give dr lee credit for this i'm not going to jump in but she had the idea what what if we had our panorama uh consultant come in give the board a little overview of what it can do and then there are and dr lady you pretty familiar with it was they do a 360 survey you can get the student voice the staff voice community voice

057around social emotional learning around uh safety connectedness and then we can take from that bank of questions and assign that work that that survey then once it's responded to i'm not kidding i can slice it and dice it any way you want so we can identify subgroups classifications that is our plan that we would like to utilize that more more thoroughly that's why i also am concerned about doing a different one if since we did purchase this i would like to go with that wrap um i just didn't know from this conversation what what we were trying to get at just so i could see if it actually did accomplish that or not this conversation in general is what i wanted to i mean i just want to know what we're surveying what tools we're

058using when we're doing those surveys and and then find out if there's anything more as a board but i like i like dr lee's idea of having a consultant come in and you know go over what the program does do or even if not the consultant even if you know mr jordan wants to come in and provide us a brief report of you know what kind of things are possible or whoever it would be and we'll be running like our lcap steps all going to be through that because the way we receive the data we have to manually adjust it through you know there are some tools it drops into spreadsheets but this creates some really cool uh informative glances to look at the data versus you know near mr jordan trying to make fancy

059excel spreadsheets and not that we can't but it's like it's extremely efficient so if the board wants to continue kind of i can reach out something that really needs to be brought to the board of an open session couldn't be a conversation with you mr dory mr lair and then you can figure out what you're looking for and then bring it to the board and say this is what i'm looking for this is what i want but to sit there and hash and talk about this takes a lot of time and we have to call that verbal day i've only cursorly looked at um panorama and um that like like um mr lair was mentioning um when i saw the different you know things that it the different question banks um the 360 survey is

060something that looks really promising and something that would be informative for me as a board member and i think for for just the community in general because it's going to take the student the teacher and staff and faculty and community around whatever topics that we're interested in like their perceptions of the implementation of mtss or equity and inclusion or sel i mean you can include elements from each part um and so that's why i was kind of mentioning that maybe we should get a rep in to speak with us um to really talk about the 360 survey and how that could be rolled out in like best practice around it because i know for one thing timing of that survey is something that's important you don't want to do it at the beginning of a

061year when students haven't even had time to be in a climate you know uh yet um so i i'd really like to get their guidance um on that because they are the ones who made these surveys which are nationally normed and they work with districts and schools around it all the time it looks like i mean from the cursor look i've done to it um and i'm just curious about you know how can that 360 survey uh you know be designed so that we're getting data points from all our different constituents on these different topics mtss equity inclusion sel uh specifically were ones that stood out for me and that's a thank you dr lake point the other piece that's valuable is that right it's nationally norm so those questions are given across the united

062states we can then compare our district you can even look at comparable districts and they'll so you can start norming where you fall within that um so and i just looked at mike we could definitely get if that's the will to board or or we can meet with a smaller group i mean kelly i'm happy to meet with you in the rep and you know whatever whatever you guys want to do i think it would be good information i think doing something right now timing would be uh we wouldn't get the results that we want i i think if we could figure out a time that we better once certainly once school gets started if we're going with the sel piece or any of the connectedness because right now i can tell you kids aren't

063connected because they don't feel um they've really been a part of it yeah and i think parents are burned out people are just fizzled they just want to breathe yeah that's why i think that getting someone in to speak with us like in our august or september meeting would be really informative for everyone to know what we're up to why we're doing it and what is it i mean i think it's something that if you want stakeholders to be involved you should really inform them about it that's part of the informing piece of that a lot of those survey questions too are asked in such a way that they get the answer they want they're not asked in a way that people can respond with their and that's what's nice about this using this company

064because they're it's research-based they put it to the test they really do uh go through so to me if that works for you i'm happy to reach out to the rep see if they can come and do a you know 10 minute overview see if you have any questions at least then you guys would be informed then we could come back and say okay now we've looked at what this can do hey scott's team what can we do with it and then get that data i mean perfect if that works for people does that work yeah mr so we'll we'll just for for my clarity we'll look at uh september class through august or september meeting to bring in right thank you all right item b uh declaration of need for fully qualified educators department

065of education and the community commissioner on teacher credentialing regulations for the issuance of emergency teaching credentials require that individual districts submit a declaration of need for fully qualified educators each year for any anticipated certificated positions that may need to be filled with an individual holding an emergency credential to the floor do we have any discussion just to share this is a routine uh annual document that we bring uh at this time we're not anticipating the emergency permits being needed but this document does allow us if it arises we do have some vacancies that have occurred in some hard to fill spots so this would give us flexibility after we've looked at fully credentialed interns and you go down the line so this is just the opportunity for us if we so chose down the road

066to be able to try and fill them soon okay there's discussion questions roll call vote miss uh dr lee sorry hi uh this is anderson hi this is coach hi mr bruno hi the chair of outside item 14c is local control and accountability plan lcap and annual update we have a motion and a second no just we we appreciated the uh the opportunity to share last time we don't have presentations because nothing had really changed significantly the one i just wanted to share is and i did share with the board individually that we will be looking at bringing in also each of our elementary school music and physical education teacher that will allow for students to participate in those activities uh throughout the school day it won't be daily but it will create schedules for

067that to happen the other fun thing that i like is we will also be able to hopefully with a music teacher offer some sort of banner choir before after school and based off the conversation we had about start times and things like that if we could do something before school that would give more kids an opportunity to participate and also help mom or dad or grandma grandparent and getting their kid to school a little bit earlier since our start times had adjusted i have about 100 comments questions that are none of them relevant to the approval of this lcap and i will bring them up a little bit further with mr near i did want to make a note of one i don't know just this one thing kind of stood out to me i

068thought it was kind of interesting um on a get the right page here aside oh my gosh i'm sorry where's the 8-bit thing okay well i'll just go by memory so basically what i noted was that on the ag a2g registration we have disaggregated data but on the energy completion we have um whatever it's called you're always in the discipline i don't need a data sorry sometimes in my words um but i also noted that in the disaggregated data that the races or the groups that are not achieving at the same percentage of the student population are white hispanic and filipino which i thought was kind of interesting and that blacks were exceeding their percentile and um some of the asian groups were way exceeding their percentiles and um you know even the smaller groups

069like the native americans and uh pacific islanders were also achieving above so i thought that was kind of interesting it's different than what you normally expect to see um and so i really appreciated getting the disaggregated data and i would hope i hope that we can get seeing more and more of that in the future so you will it's really useful so we want all the kids to get their agency it's nice to see where there might be gaps absolutely that's all we have a motion to approve in a second with any other discussion or questions we'll call vote dr lee aye ms motion the only discussion i'll do is this is the only time i'm happy to present the budget to you and give my presentation that is my presentation so i i think

070miss coronado did an outstanding job at the public hearing so i thank her for that and we don't have anything else unless there's questions um any questions comments lisa you always do a fantastic job i know in the beginning you know you were brand new to everything but you have risen to the occasion and have done a great job all the way through so thank you for that i know you put in long hard hours advanced planning future meeting dates the regular next regular meeting will be wednesday august 18th and appear in this room and we need suggested agenda items i do i would like to discuss and possibly have an action item on the mass issue the wearing of mass within the district um i heard miss truex and i think we should give

071some discussion to them yeah i agree um i was actually going to suggest the same thing you should be talking about i agree that's good so the idea of discussion on mask wearing update on what the current guidance is is that what you really mean yeah and if we could make it an action item but with no specific action identified then that leaves it open like we did before for the board to make a potential mission finally that would be great anything else i would like to have a discussion and also an open-ended action uh just regarding uh our meeting format no suggestion so okay any present in person just kind of thinking about we've got kids returning to school august 3rd the heat's going to be over 100 or who knows how many days

072and we're going to expect the more asks there's it's a more complicated issue than just yes or no tonight so and it's not something that we could discuss right i would love to because can i just see it can i go back when you say meeting format i'll just organize it as meeting format with discussion and then possible action we may end up having a special meeting to talk about that because i can see kids having health issues like heat stroke and stuff trying to wear masks in the heat do we want to have a special meeting in advance of school starting uh not july no i'm not i'm not here school starts august 3rd i'm not available in july but we could do the first week of august but our normal meeting is the

073third week so we could do our first week of august we need to let's see what you know happens between now and then they may do away with bestsell as we start getting closer to the new school year we'll worry about it see where we stand and i have a i just want to make sure that it's noted for future meeting to have a consultant or representative from panorama to come in and speak with us i'm just putting that in there too great thank you any other agenda items for future readings oh sorry i just want to clarify specifically regarding a 360 survey not just a general survey but a 360 survey it's a very specific format and the board will not continue closed session uh we have a motion motion to adjourn yeah at

074uh second is seven number one good night everybody

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