001please stand for the pledge i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you can we have mrs lee here yes how come we can't see her so there she is cool all right the board met in closed session with cautious labor negotiation negotiator david grimes and discussed the employee evaluation for the superintendent no action was taken uh do we have a motion to adopt the agenda almost as an adult just point of order i do know i believe one member might have something that you want to pull from the adoption agenda miss lee i know dr lee you and i spoke about item 13 on the consent calendar was that something
002you wanted for separate consideration yes okay so item 13 being pulled from the consent agenda do we have a an adoption to all right a motion to adopt the amended agenda [Music] thank you mrs code and a second label and general consent yes okay what's going to order because we have someone called uh telecommunications i think we are supposed to be able to dr lee okay um next are the organizational reports from cuta can have president vanessa mason it's so good to see new people hi hi is it on can you hear me good evening so glad to be here with you in person um i have just a few things to announce from cuta uh last week cuta did a poll of its 230 or so members if they about vaccines so as an
003anonymous poll the first question was have you been offered the opportunity to receive your copa vaccine and of the 115 respondents all had said yes have you received the first dose of the coven vaccine of the 115 respondents 109 said yes have you received the second dose of the cova vaccine of the 115 respondent 106 said yes so that's the 93 vaccination rate of the of the teachers who replied which was 50 of our members so i think that's a great um way to look forward to the end of this year and ongoing into next year that people are getting the vaccine and um and happy to do so and then the other item on the agenda that we are looking forward to is participating in the covid funding brainstorming group so whatever that means
004if there's money involved we're interested i love talking money buddy and we appreciate it if you if you vote yes on the pay raise all right any more questions whatever it doesn't really matter right it does it does so i'm marie huggins and i'm the chapter president for uh csea center and in the board packet today there are two tentative agreements between the district and csea that are ready for your approval due to the time frame for signing the agreements getting approvals from our cse field office spring break ordering a ballot from cse headquarters etc we were unable to hold the chapter meeting until 4 15 which was last thursday and that allowed us to bring these agreements to our membership for ratification we survey our members in um prior to submitting our initial proposals
005in the fall so we know what interests of you know what our members are interested in we have provided monthly negotiation updates to the members to keep them informed as to the progress of negotiating a wage increase and other agreements i realize the board is hesitant to approve of tentative agreements without ratification from the membership if these agreements move forward the classified membership will receive the retro pay for our wage increase in the may 31st payroll i am confident that the membership will ratify these agreements we begin our 10-day voting window on 4 at 9am and will end on monday 4 26 at 9 am i would request your consideration to approve these agreements pending our ratification then i would also like to address the request for the board to discuss removing the pledge of
006allegiance from the board meeting agenda i have been chairing union meetings for over 10 years and we begin each meeting with a call to order and pledge of allegiance even if some of our chapter members or executive board members choose not to salute the flag we respect that decision and continue to move forward with the meeting just because some people don't wish to pledge allegiance to our flag or the nation for which it stands does not mean that the allegiance should be discontinued these people who do not wish to pledge should be able to sit or stand quietly and those who wish to participate should be able to do so freely we can all find things that we don't agree on and that define us when we stand together to pledge allegiance we can stand
007united no matter what the color of our skin or our political preference thank you very much look i'm sorry were there any questions okay all right moving on to add in 10 30 updates mr decent the best part of the agenda that's part of the show best part of the show that's right what all good stuff is going on well here we go um the kindergarten project is going great it's kind of like when you worked on a thousand piece jigsaw puzzle okay and you're getting down to the last 10 or 12 and they start going in real quick lots of things are going on but like the ending touches and it's really it's really exciting to watch it happen the buildings got placed on their foundations a couple of weeks ago it was a
008fun activity to watch the retaining walls that are going to hold back the soil along where the street sidewalks are but those are completed the first layer of the stucco went on the buildings today and i was really happy to see that happen because before that you couldn't tell if the buildings were coming up being built up or being torn down so we do have stucco on the on the walls now we've got a couple more coats and that'll be complete this week actually and the completion date is may 31st so coming up um for the for the new school site the um the construction documents the um the cd portion of the plan which is the last portion um there's 75 complete we also have the drawings into the california department of education so
009that they can look at it and make sure that we're meeting all the needs of the of the kids through their requirements and then june 1st it goes into dsa um it's in dsa for about six to eight months and then we start working on construction for about a year and a half and then when it comes to the business item i'm going to share just a little bit about this lease back for members who haven't heard about that delivery method before you've got three items before you um tonight and i'll go over those real quick so you kind of know what that's all about and then for our cte program over at dumb center high school they're also getting ready to go into cde it's kind of a big deal because they look at
010you know how much space there is and if all the rules of cdd applies to us are are set up in the classroom the way that they need to be but it's going in for a submittal in june and then construction drawings are in progress right now they'll be finished in august and then august 2nd we go into dsa the department of state architect and construction will start on 12 30 so right at the beginning of the new year next year and that's all i've got for tonight uh this evening the lord just approved the resignation of mr beason not yet oh yes never mind i can send thank you miss carol all right uh moving right along so um item 11 reports presentations status update transition to plan to mike jordan so so as
011mr jordan is coming up we just this is an item that kind of morphed a little bit more at the end of last meeting uh i think trustee anderson had asked do we have an overview of what the elementary schedule looks like and then it kind of morphed into well let's get a report of how things are going so tonight with us we have mr jordan who's going to explain what the elementary schedule is like and then we have individuals from each grade span we have actually it's kind of great to see we have a elementary principal with us we have two elementary teachers with us tonight we're going to share we also have mr barassi from uh ryles and mr ferguson from center high school so each of them are going to take a
012small part to give the board a little update on how things are going and progressing and then at the end we'll have an opportunity of any questions or things that we might be able to to answer for you so and just real quickly before you start i wanted to make a note to those of you who might be listening in if you have public comment related to the reopening now would be the time to get that submitted so that carol can read those comments while we are discussing this item so just for clarity this is a report so any item that came in on reopening would need to be done during public comment so i'm sorry so just so they can't comment on a report so the report will come in they'll get the report
013if someone has public comment it's this is not an action item on the agenda this is just a report staff board can ask questions but if something comes up public comment obviously we could try to address it there it it's okay sounds good but please get your puppet called it said thank you before we start the actual presentation i want to just give a sincere honest huge thank you to all of our staff they've been working incredibly hard all year but particularly in the last month and a half to get things off the ground to start into this plan too certificated classified admin cabinet people have been working seven days a week and it's amazing what they've been able to accomplish so i think that goes without a huge round of applause um i also
014want to thank our parents absolutely they've been wonderful i think the appropriate wait time i also want to give a a huge thank you to our parents who've been very cooperative and very understanding as we moved into this uh plan too that has been fantastic to see at all our sites as well so a big thank you all right what you said all right so moving into plan two uh this is our our hybrid model um we're gonna start with the elementaries steve mr jackson do you mind just taping it for us i don't know there we go all right we're going to start with at the elementary level so just as a reminder our elementary schools are split into an am and a pm group uh these groupings are two and a half hours
015each of in-person time or if they're on a distance learning model we do have a health assistant at every site those health assistants are not only monitoring our isolation rooms if we need that but they can also provide quick coping testing that's a 15 minute test a nasal test um they've been doing that for the athletes for a couple of months now it seems like but they can also do that on site so if a teacher is having symptoms as an example we can give a quick test and if they test negative then they can continue teaching we know that it's not coke or lady if parents give the okay for their child to be tested and they have symptoms we can do that as well and keep them in school if it comes to
016death maybe so that's a huge uh bonus for us we are in stable groups and our stable group plan was approved by the sacramento county department of health so our stable group consists of one classroom of students so that's the classroom of students and their teacher and if there's an a that is attached to that classroom as well that group sticks together throughout the entire day including their recess time they don't mix with other groups and that's the stable cohort they're stable group excuse me that we utilize at the elementary level uh uh there are built-in breaks both for in-person students as well as our distance learning students it's not just a straight two and a half hour block there are some built-in break times all right and with that i would like to turn
017it over to mr steve jackson thank you mike before you wander off on the class sizes for gene general through the district i guess how many are there in the elementary classrooms so the elementary we're over 70 percent coming back which is which is nice uh now it depends class in the classroom who actually decided to come back but there there's a lot of elementary coming back and then it's a little bit less at the junior high level middle school levels gives me a little bit less at the high school level which is very consistent with what we're seeing in placer county and other areas have we found or have you been able to determine if we've lost a lot of students in the district or are they just staying home for the computer work
018what do you mean i could take that one so yeah so we know an accounting of who's in distance learning and who's also in person so yes there has been kids that have left um but but as far as a transition right now we haven't seen kids leaving either mode they either stayed in one mode or went to the other mode okay thank you i follow up to that i'd be curious to know how many of those students who have left the district are we getting cube requests for their files or are they just disappearing off the grid uh we need to check i don't have an answer for that we'd have to check out the schools um yeah all due respect to mr diesen this is the best part i am steve jackson i'm
019the very proud principal of dudley elementary school and before i get going i want to thank all of you dr lee i i know you're zooming in on us you at the beginning of this whole fiasco that's my you trusted the district admin you trusted the site admin you trusted the staff to sit down and organize and create strategies we had the distance learning strategy now we've got our plan to strategy you listen to our opinions and our our thoughts and everything and you trusted that and all of us appreciate that very much we worked really hard to create a situation that is safe that is effective for all of our stakeholders our families our students our staff so thank you for that at the very beginning yeah so a segue to your question mrs
020anderson on our campus at dudley we have 440 students who are on campus learning and our attendance on those students we're well over 97 98 our daily attendance for those guys which is which is fantastic and then we have 162 distance learners so about 73 percent of our students are on campus about 27 percent are distance learning so that's just kind of business much more than that it's a major classroom uh stable group morning or afternoon it has about 10 uh ish yeah it it fluctuates but i would say the high end is around 13 or 14. the low end is about six or seven and it just it you know our smaller our lower class grades have smaller class sizes to begin with fourth fifth and sixth they have a little bit larger class
021sizes so yeah uh the other thing that that i'm going to give a quick overview just of how everything's going at dudley and then i'm going to turn it over to leah and to sarah to kind of help you understand what's going on in a second great classroom and a sixth grade classroom so the am pm on campus distance learner that hybrid split that we've created has really been effective it allows us to keep the numbers small in each classroom but it allows us to provide families with flexibility like we have some families where the child spends one week in one parent's home and another week in the other parent's home and that child can be an on-campus learner one week and a distance learner the next week so we're able to work with families
022and say yeah let's do that or we have students who they're following our protocol they got the sniffles they've got a caught they stay home they do distance learning when they're at home and they don't miss out on their class so that's been really an effective model i want to talk about arrival recess and dismissal because those are areas where we get our students congregated arrival works because this the students aren't coming on campus at the same time there's about a 15-minute window when the when the kids are working their way onto campus and that is really nice it creates a smooth transition unusually out front the place the busiest gate where most of the kids are coming through i got masked hey tommy you forgot a mask or hey mom you forgot a mask
023here i got one for you making sure everybody's got their masks everybody's been amazing about wearing their masks nobody says hey i'm not going to work so that that's really been well done at recess we took our field and our playground we broke it into six areas we have a schedule each day classrooms know which part of the playground or the field they get to play in each classroom has an equipment bag each classroom has a different colored equipment bag so at any recess time there's green heavy equipment there's purple equipment there's yellow equipment so it doesn't get mixed around the kids know we've got the green equipment and they use it and stuff like that so that's worked very well and then at dismissal we've worked hard at we we kind of dismiss all
024at one time so our kids start on the playground they're spread out and then we have five different gates that they leave through and so piece by piece hey if you're a c-wing walker head on over miss bills is waiting for you over there and we work our way through the five different areas and once everybody's spread out to their five areas then we say goodbye and then and they make their way out the door so that allows us to keep the families keep the kids spread out the parents have been fantastic about waiting outside we clear our campus in nine or ten minutes everybody's off the campus which that's why it works that way so it's really been it's really been awesome the other thing i really want to touch on is technology so
025we've learned technology in the good old days was an important supplement it was like okay we get to use this now it's become a necessity we have to have it the bad news is every once in a while stuff goes wrong it just does you know and there's a lot of moving pieces i mean look at what eugene's got stuff everywhere and when it goes wrong it's like shucks as teachers in in education even since overhead projectors and loop-de-loop film projectors stuff goes wrong and you know that happens and so you deal with it uh but it feels more pressure because you know you've got those guys online and stuff but even the families online they're like we didn't we're we're fine and you get back going as quick as you can and stuff like
026that and of course you're waiting for nick or whoever to show up you're like but but overall you know i mean it's part of what we get to deal with so we have some takeaways some things that we're taking from our experience with the distance learning with a hybrid that are going to carry into next year which are really valuable first trusting that technology especially our teachers kindergarten first and second grade those kids are doing things that we never thought they'd have been able to get on the chromebooks and be as successful with and it's like second nature to them and we had that inane you know kind of trust about it but now we're seeing it it's like wow okay that's really going to be valuable the recess routine that i spoke about we're
027going to find a way to make that work next year because our recess although worked great having different ages out there at different times having separated areas has really been a benefit are the teachers that have spoken highly of that so that's great our dismissal routine is much more safe much more organized than it has been so everybody spoke highly of that and then the other bonus that's coming our way is um lunch and not having to use lunch numbers for the for the feeding program because especially with our little guys that slows them down here remember their five digits and get it punched in before they get their lunch but in this pro you know once we have the feeding program in place we won't need to do that so that's the overview that's
028kind of the high level and now i want to introduce miss leah dean who's a second grade teacher and then she'll be followed by ms sarah bills who's a sixth grader thank you sir good evening everyone and can i move a little closer thank you for having me um what he said basically i would echo his comments about recess time and dismissal and those have really just created a different feeling on campus when we're all out there together um but when i then i come back you know think about my classroom so i have 11 students in the morning um in person no distance learners and in the afternoon i have five in person and six distance learners my students are showing up and with these small groups i'm able to really interact and engage
029with them especially in the morning without distance owners um that's been pretty remarkable to connect with them haven't gotten to know them just through the screen for most of this year so it's been pretty amazing um in the afternoon i've got my distance letters and my in person and that's definitely more challenging you know um it's just me i don't have an easy afternoon so i'm kind of going back and forth but what i'm finding is that my distance owners are very resourceful and they've been doing this all year long so they understand that there's a tight issue and they have mostly they have their materials ready they kind of know what to do i think also that our my parents have been amazing um we our communication is really strong and our whole second
030great team um has worked really hard all year to make sure that our parents are not taking my surprise um at what's coming here's what's coming here's what we're doing this week these are expectations for the kids and we are sharing materials with them not every week because we don't want to give them a hardship but as often as we think necessary so i think the parents have been an amazing part of that and i would just say that all of all of the students from what ipa are really learning to rule with all of this and we have grown so much um they didn't learn what they would typically learn in the second grade year but they have learned an amazing amount about life and relationships and how things work in the world when
031the world isn't working the way it normally does so it's been it's been an amazing year and definitely the support that we get from mr jackson back there um really helps us to do our best and and the support that we you know get from the school so if you have questions i guess at the end or anything else we may as well ask for questions well she's up there [Music] thank you [Music] and i knew i'd be terrified so i typed something up um but before i read it um my name is miss bills and sarah hi you don't have to call me miss bill and i teach sixth grade at dudley and um speaking for the sixth grade team in terms of coping and safety our kids have been so mature um just
032really respectful of the rules they're staying apart um you know sometimes they accidentally will like try to link arms at recess and then like they break it up and they're totally cool with it and um yeah they've been amazing and i feel really lucky to to be in person with them so i feel safe and i think they feel safe and yeah i'm going to read this now because now i'm going to ramble i'm going to read this okay so each morning as my students trickle in i jokingly try to pop out and scare them which usually just ends up scaring me in fact it's now their mission to scare me on their way in they pass a desk with hand sanitizer and extra masks in case they forget theirs at home as we wait
033for others to arrive we chit-chat about what time we woke up what we had for breakfast and what funny or notable things occurred at our homes the day before um like my toddler bringing the hose in the house and spraying they liked that one um okay at the first spell all students are working hard in their cpm math toolkits a composition notebook that will hopefully travel with them here to rise we review and practice essential math skills and concepts after this we begin our whole class math lesson after a few problems together students break up into teams to work collaboratively on the rest of the lesson right before a recess time without me reminding them students excited excitedly asked which zone we have for recess that day as we rotate to a new zone every
034day with such a small group they happily and easily agree on which game we will all play together almost nobody ever sits out even the kid with flip flops puts in their best effort they are just so happy to be there and be together there's no arguing no trash talk no negativity and with sixth grade that definitely happens so our brief recess is filled with maths laughs and smiles when we return from recess we jump into ela we read this week's story and attack high-level vocabulary words strengthen our comprehension skills together and think deeply and critically about the themes and the stories we read and how we can connect them to our own lives after english language arts we spend the rest of our time it just got really quiet we spend the rest of
035our time together doing social emotional learning our favorite so far has been our community circles so far we have given each other meaningful compliments shared our favorite and sometimes most hilarious and embarrassing childhood memories share the things we are proud of share the things we wish it could change and so much more while the hybrid model has its quirks one thing i know for sure is that the kids wouldn't rather be anywhere else so that's what i put together because i don't really know what i was gonna talk about um and i realized after i typed this up i don't really talk about the distance order so and i don't know if i did that subconsciously or what but it has been the most challenging part to balance both in person and distance learners um
036not impossible just a new challenge and i think we're all becoming pros at it um slowly but surely yeah i think i just feel i feel bad that they're missing out on being with us and i worry that they're upset so um sometimes i find myself trying to be discreet if we're gonna do a community circle when they leave and it's like i feel bad if they know because i don't want them to feel like they're missing out and um i miss them and they're they're also my sweethearts just like my in-person kids so um let's play house yeah okay yeah and i have to say that every other friday we do like a we call it a wellness friday and i'm in charge of it at work and i'm going to steal all of
037your ideas that you just gave me the most embarrassing toddler bringing me hoes in the house everything you just said we're stealing it's like my agenda yet for fridays so now you can see why i enjoy going to work every day um so i just i'm going to wrap up this portion of it and turn it over to mr veracity in a second but i wanted to take this opportunity and this is a message every principal wants to be able to share about their staff but i have a microphone and a camera so i get to talk about it differently and i just i appreciate everybody at dudley that has worked so hard since march 13th of 2020 and no matter what was throwing at us we sat down we talked about it we rolled
038it around how can we be safe how can we take care of kids that's what we do at dudley and i'm indebted to the entire staff give us any problem give us a little bit of time we'll figure it out we'll work together and these guys are amazing so now i'm going to turn it over to mr brassy thank you steve thank you thank you mr jackson thank you hi everybody i'm chris barassi principal wilson corrales i planned a very uh short presentation because i knew that mr jackson was going so we'll be quick uh up here i have a couple visuals you're looking at our schedule at the middle school with our respondents of kids that wanted to return in a hybrid or stay on distance learning we had about 55 percent of kids
039coming back 45 percent of 300 kids still distance learning so we designed our schedule around that so we are able to serve our kids in the morning who are in person and then our kids who are staying home and doing distance learning they're virtual in the afternoon so we're kind of lucky in the sense that our teachers can focus solely on the kids in front of them in the morning then they can focus on the kids who are at home in the afternoon uh we were able to do that a huge thank you and props to allison kent and jennifer slay our academic coordinators who did a lot of shuffling and balancing classes to make that happen so we can fit kids and follow social distancing protocols in the morning and we're very thankful to
040them and then to brett holmsley my assistant principal who from it seems like since the beginning of the year has been planning out what classrooms are going to look like and then marking them up again based on those numbers that were always changing and gotten those ready for our kids to come in and again keeping those so we can keep our spacing all the social distancing um so this is our schedule that we follow we do have kids obviously five days a week again kids in the morning in person and then kids in the afternoon distance um go into the next slide uh one of the things that we heard from our teachers as we transitioned uh to a hybrid was they were not except they they were worried about the loss of their office
041hours that their kids every day had a time to go in and see them if they had questions or anything that they needed help with on their assignments uh fortunately with some funding and working with scott and lisa we were able to provide these hours ongoing we started right after spring break with these hours the kids are able to drop in for our distance learners in the morning they can drop in and see our academic coordinators or instructional specialists and then our teachers follow this schedule in the afternoon for any of our kids that have any questions they can see anybody uh over google meets they just click on any of these links and go on i'd like to put out an advertisement to all of our kids to please go to office hours or
042husky support hours uh we've had little attendance we want that attendance to kick up towards the end of the year um and then just just really i'd like to say a big thank you and our entire staff not just our office staff and our support staff but our teachers are really a huge thank you to our kids they just had two days before spring break to learn a completely different way to do school when it comes to following arrows in the hallways protocols in class safety coming to school getting your lunch it's all very different and they did it absolutely beautifully they're still following those protocols today and it's just really cool to see and they're the ones that really made everything so similar so a huge thank you to our families who reinforce these
043things at home and to our kids who are continuing to follow it every day that's the middle school any questions thank you so much all right mr ferguson high school um before i get started as steve said he had the mic in the camera so he got to steal the show a little bit i don't think mr diesel or mr jackson stole this show tonight i think that's definitely miss bill so thank you for being here your energy was definitely very refreshing so as it comes to the high school there's a lot that i can say and it's gonna i could talk for for a long time i know mr jackson took up seven minutes of our eight minute report so far so real quick when we closed last year the high school just responded
044very promptly very quickly we developed committees there were a lot of members who got on those committees and i can't tell you how many times and how many ways you can rediscuss how to just address the bathroom issues or when we reopen and the number of times we developed policies and rewrote them and how to throw them out because something changed the response by staff to continue to be flexible with we do we send out a policy one week in the following week guidance changes from cde and the response from teachers has just been phenomenal the flexibility um on our site i would like to also throw out a few congratulations just on great work done miss shiro who has put in a lot of work on our tech we have over 67 classrooms that
045i don't think any of them are the same in the way that they are set up but we definitely tried to take an approach that we put everything to the teachers availability so that they were able to develop a system that worked for them in the classroom we also had a lot of other staff step up that i'm not going to be able to name everybody but our committees and everybody working together one big shout out i want to get to is mr jabeli who is our athletic director and football coach he went above and beyond and even while we were in full closure he was doing everything he could to get activities for students get some physical activity get them on the campus in all ways that we can remain safe follow protocols so
046that the students were not just staying at home getting some interaction ms winbourne ms jones with their leadership and their mate crew students for welcoming the students back when we came back and also just any other staff on campus we've had a number of people step up cafeterias out on the campus trying to get out those lunches we have people working outside of their their job descriptions to do whatever they can to support the students and i think mr browsing said it really well too is we couldn't have done it without the students being flexible developing to a system that we are still trying to accommodate they're just already flowing they're doing a great job i think in all the days so far i had one student show up without a mask and just the
047response the ability to do as they're asked you know it's been phenomenal so real quick we did put together the document that i'm showing is only a few pages because it ended up being 14. and this is what we tried to share because there are so many policies and practices what we were working on is trying to make sure that we put together calendars we put together the structure of the classrooms how we ensured that we were having safe distance the entrances and exits to campus every policy that we could think of that was necessary for parents was put into this document but what we understood is 14 pages of a lot to go through you want to go to the next slide what we also did is we tried to break down all of
048these things so it was like reasonable chunks easy to digest our schedule is layers upon layers of art is it an a day or a b day and which group attends all of a sudden we're getting confused we also put together schedules so that if you are a blue track or a gold track student you know exactly what you're doing and you're not trying to cipher through all the other material we put together like one of the things that i i love right now so mr diesen was getting the the new way of sending out newsletters and everything to be hyper linked and the it's just like this great format all of this is being sent out we're putting together newsletters and information i'm sure the parents are probably getting tired of all the stuff
049we send out but it is such an easier thing than like 20 pages of text so it's much more visual easier to link so we send these out probably at least once or twice a week we usually get a lot of positive reception like this made it very easy questions are a little more directed like i don't understand this one can you help me you know understand it and then it just makes life so much more easy when we've got 10 000 new policies that are different from last year um sorry i keep looking at you again um a few other things just as far as like updates just as far as the high school because we have so many different things going on one of the things that was the challenges that like mr
050brassie also alluded to was the office hours we incorporated incorporated that into the class time but even then a lot of students might not feel comfortable asking a question of a teacher we have a number of staff who stepped up offered additional hours after camp after school whether it's for tutoring or it's even for clubs so staff are stepping up and putting in extra hours it's not in there but our credit recovery program but we implemented a few months ago it got thrown off because the start time would also be when school is still running the ability to adjust the the time being able to meet with students online we've been able to make all of that work and we put it back into place this week athletics as i mentioned we've actually been able
051to implement almost every sport which is tough because we usually have multi-sport athletes who from one season go to another season and play sports but they can't do them simultaneous so our coaches have been stepping up advertising getting students involved we may have small teams but they're doing a great job so it's been great to get out there football season has not been the same when it's like you know still bright out you're expecting friday night lights and the lights don't turn on until the game's over so the last thing too here is we we've been looking at our numbers when we developed our schedule we looked at doing our survey who was going to be back in person we looked at about 60 percent of students who are going to be on campus when
052we look when we had that model we looked at doing those two split schedules it's given us the opportunity though now that with a lot of students who are in higher need they're at risk students who need more services we are able to provide an environment where they can come in five days a week so that way they're not trying to find a schedule on monday wednesday friday the next week it's tuesday thursday so we've been able to provide the environment for students to come in five days a week and it has yet to get anywhere close to violating any six-foot policies or any violent uh students walking in the hallways wrong directions there's one staircase students have to go up and we've got to have any issues in those areas so we have a
053environment in our classrooms and students are able to we're able to add students to the classes for those who need to come in for a little extra help and it's been working really well so i do have a question mr ferguson um so we've heard that some of the classes the in-person attendance is pretty low there's a lot of conversation about you know possibly merging the two um and i know we just started this i mean it's been literally two two weeks and a day um so i'm a little concerned with changing things again but what what's what's really happening as far as class sizes and what's the take from the teachers on the end of things so i can give some of the feedback that i have received but i've had a lot of
054teachers that are very interested in trying to get more students in their class when we're looking at the numbers we're doing warm body counts because we're also looking at how many students are in the class because we also have a safety concern when students when the class sizes get too small if there's a one-on-one ratio we're concerned about that we don't want the teacher to be alone with a student in the class and we want to be cautious of that from what we've looked at in the warm body counts our average class sizes if we were to merge i don't think are getting above about 12. and that was if the two tracks of students who are currently coming in were to both come in on the same day otherwise our numbers as they stand
055i mean obviously i can cut that in half it's about six we have a number of classes at one i think the highest that i have seen and the counts was about 14 and that was one of the tracks but then it's coinciding track that would come in on the other days is maybe around six or seven and that would be we maybe need to make schedule changes for one or two two students school-wide to accommodate being able to merge those classes so do we foresee any more students sorry scott do we foresee any more students deciding to return to in person or is that um pretty much set they've made their decision and that's that are you hurting given the environment we we are open to students wanting to be able to change because
056if there's room in the classroom we want them to transition in we have seen a number of students because of small class sizes question being there there may be one or two that i have been told about or a student for me that they were now staying at home because they're the only student in the class and it seems odd so there are some students i kind of have the opposite concern if we if we were to merge the two tracks together and then some other students decided to come back then are we getting into problems um with class sizes you've got a sense if you combine the kids at home on virtual and the kids in the classroom what your class size would be so we're running with three tracks so the third track
057which is distance only that direct actually grew from when we first developed our schedule we we saw that about being 40 our at home 100 of time is about 50 if we merge the other two tracks which we call our blue and gold tracks our class averages we might have a few classes that get to about the capacity of the classroom of about 16 to 18 but looking at all of our class sizes we're talking about with 60 some teachers and they have six classes there's over 300 actual classes i think there's about four or five that are near that limit otherwise the averages are around of combining those two tracks but none of them exceed them the only ones that would exceed the ideal for a classroom is going to be ones in pe
058or a classroom that's an elective with roon to accommodate a higher number otherwise there are some classrooms where there's classroom instruction that the set size because of the room would be 16 to 18 and there's two or three of those classes so so what about npe inputs training where do they have a place where they can socially distance so we've worked with the department chairs to ensure that every teacher not only do they have a location they go to for students to drop off their belongings since we can't use a locker room like i said there's a lot of things at the high school that we had to develop a whole schedule for every pe teacher to have their own rumor location where students went to drop off their belongings that was locked and secured
059because we couldn't use a locker room having four classes going to the locker room was an issue but those teachers besides that classroom that could be used we have other facilities from the ken thomas gym to the cafeteria to the weight room as well as the gym itself the gym could be able to house two classes of merged if we merge blue and gold so that gives us about five to six locations we don't have five or six classes at any time and these are and then one of the things that like i will hear over and over is so like one of the things i get i overthink things but i have to because that's what we want to try and make sure is i would rather overthink and plan to make sure that
060we can meet the need if it gets there how many weeks do we have left in school i know i should i should know that so after this week there would be five more we're in the second week of the road because we do a two week rotation where the tracks attend certain days then we switch we're halfway through that second this is what's given us an opportunity for two weeks to see the students attending certain days and then when we switch tracks when the other group is attending those same periods to be able to look at those numbers together so so my understanding is there are conversations and indications that when we come back in the fall it'll be a full return with modifications to the class sizes etc but nothing actually has come
061from the governor's office at this point correct correct i think the the latest will here and i was going to touch on it in my uh my report but the indication we're hearing right now is that the legislature's working on language that would encourage the full in person and limit some of the distance learning piece of it all however i i can't make the statement to be affirmative or negative i'm just it's all hearing it's kind of indication i i think from the sources i'm hearing there'll be a push for the in person there is some concerns i think at the legislature level about the distance some of the flexibility with the distant stuff again that's all speculation things i've heard and pieced through different uh sources through education nothing specific that could be announced
062as far as a decision because no decisions have been made not that i would feel comfortable making i would love to tell everyone exactly just as i would love back on march 13th to say it'd be two weeks and then i'd love to say it wouldn't be four weeks and then so but one thing we i i term this is covet has brought change and and it's so i call it build a change because as soon as we think we have something it changes so i don't know what that'll be my my thing is i know the board and i have received a lot of input on the combining of the tracks if the board wanted to make that determination i would suggest scheduling a special meeting um and doing that you if you wait
063till may 19th that leaves one week if you do it before i would suggest that you try to convene something sooner than later or if the board doesn't want to then we we stay as we are um but we can talk about that in future planning at the end end of the meeting scott maybe having a good time for a little update on the summer school issues that you were talking about that's summer school issues well summer school planning planning yeah so that's in the mix we will like miss coronado and i talk a little bit about the funding we do know um we have a lot of students that are um planning and have signed up to come back those numbers aren't finalized yet we also know we have a lot of staff that's
064going to participate it's about 100 on average about 150 per elementary site i think it's around 60 at rise and i cannot i have no idea up top my head what was my what center high's number was so they're at about 55 right now credit recovery but they're just starting to push this is typically at the high school time when they're starting to look at grades where they're at and then there'll be a push we average about 125 in a normal year for summer school so we'll be able to come back at next meeting and actually give you hard specifics on costs and stuff like that we just we can't i can't tell you what the personal cost will be yet because we're still getting applications for it our our efforts in this uh are
065to not just be an academic rigorous we want to get kids back and have fun at school school to me was always fun and i don't want to just you know start high school you got to get your credits but i think one of the things with the younger grades we're really looking at in middle school is how do we do some um exploratory hands-on to get people back to being in school so okay i thought we were going to offer some extra help for like the younger kids with reading and skills building they may have missed we are that's absolutely part of the summer learning program absolutely okay any other questions for mr ferguson have you heard uh much feedback from your teachers and staff members about their opinions on merging the tracks or
066keeping them separate only a few opinions but it has mostly been in favor of combining them because they want the students there it's tough for them when they've got 24 online and seven in class when they could have 14 in class and only you know a few at home um the classes that are that are one there's definitely a push to get it back there's very little opinion i've had against the only concerns that i have heard about coming back and merging the tracks is the number of students and again it's time to come back to the bathroom passes how do we do that how do we ensure that the bathrooms don't get over occupied what do we do at lunch and where do students sit inside the classroom there hasn't been a concern it's
067been more about the logistics on campus and if we did merge the tracks do you have any idea if that might affect the number of students that are choosing distance learning whether it would make more want to come back or if it would make more people want to be in distance i can only assume it's going to be a little bit of both which may even itself out but some students maybe if i only get to go one you know two or three days a week why not just stay home they may be encouraged that now that i go in five days i'd want to go in and there may be some families that i have class sizes of five to six that are now up to 12 they may choose to stay home it
068could there's going to be a little bit of both and i think it's going to balance itself out and then we have only a few weeks left of school is it just shaking things up too much to do that or would it be amount of time to be beneficial and i'm asking because you're the one that spends a lot more time with these students than i am so and the thing is it's actually if we were to go to that route it would be a very easy transition because we already have our tracks built in and those on track one and two we would look at those who've been attending we have classes that safetrac one has nine students on the roster but six have been attending then it would be an easy transition of
069calling the families of the other three and saying we're going to put you on track three unless you want to let us know otherwise and that way we can guarantee the class size and we don't change the schedule we don't change the times we don't change the classes we just ask both tracks of students to attend five days a week okay thank you i'm just of curious now under um report item number one uh because it's something that we're considering a vote on or i'm just a little bit confused about the process here um and two uh you know we've done so much shifting and this and that i'm just kind of curious about if that's even a board decision or if that's something that local school would decide so the first question that you
070asked relating to this this would be a discussion related but here if any decision uh coming out i think the board was just asking questions relating to what would it look like only because we've been hearing and i'm sure that your curious minds want to know to your second point uh the the direction could be given to the school site do what you see as fit or if we want to have a lot of dialogue about it and and do it we could certainly schedule a special meeting to actually have a formal vote the only the only worry i have dr lee is in the playbook we talk about two tracks in the playbook for high school and this would be a creating of one track which we board did originally back in july i
071believe approve that playbook so i would want to make sure that if you guys are good with us making that local decision knowing that it does go against uh the original playbook that we had had adopted um so that that's all i'm trying to keep this above board if if i don't want it to be like oh it became an item that was on a report and now we're making a decision the original board back when the playbook was established said scott we've approved it go for it but you know what that that's turned over a little bit so i'm being a little more cautious and want to honor each of your point of views and again if you guys are all five go for it let you guys make the local decision great if
072not i would highly encourage us to schedule a meeting uh to have public discussion around that topic does that answer your question yes it says it just concerns me it seems like we're doing a lot as a board that could be locally decided um you know by schools that know their community's best and their students and their needs best um and it's just deeply concerning to me there's five weeks left of school and we're talking about shifting a plan you know making an affordable decision um i don't know why that would be a local decision if we were if they were opting to make a shift in the right right thank you and mr ferguson and raise his hands because one of these if i can speak freely is one of the concerns i would
073have is i would just want to make sure this mr blair was saying keeping it above board that if we do make any change when we've been looking at the numbers what's approved and what the parents may be under the assumption of is we're on a two-track to lower the class sizes we would just want to be clear that even by merging the tracks we're still not going to be in violation of any of those class size we just want to make sure that it's not we're going to change and do what people aren't expecting or didn't agree to in the first place but that what we could be changing if we did merge still meets those same criteria just some of those definitions change because the big criteria i see is a lot of
074districts are considering um doing away with a six foot this plan would still allow for the six foot they've allowed cdc and they said you can go down to three feet that three foot rule really impacts the program because as you know we've had two cases now at center high not related to spread there but have been brought on by students we were really able to limit the number of students and staff that were pointing because we're adhering to the six foot rule or following the protocols if we go beyond that six feet we will be quarantining and being very disruptive to a lot more students and families so the one charge when mr ferguson i spoke kind of administratively about it was i don't want to go beyond that six feet because it will
075start impacting some of the problems we spoke about early on we would have a lot more students and a lot more classes being out because the high school level that is their group um and so one of the the parameters that we're working under is the safety guidelines we had planned for they would be the same we would just have the more students because they're actually attending school so potentially we could i mean the board's decisions in this are really just direction we're not taking any action because this is not an action item but potentially we could just give direction um and then the only thing that would be of a concern would be the playbook which needs to be revised and so bringing that forward for revision before or after the fact that i'm
076not speaking for the whole board i i i'm a little concerned with making a change but i'm also concerned with having one person in a classroom so um i think dr lee has a point that each school site knows what is going to work for them and um maybe we need to just you're going down that trail though because the reason it needs to be brought to the board is because every schedule at a school site changes the schedule everywhere else or affects the schedule everywhere else for busing for cafeterias for breaks i mean one site affects all the way through the district and that's why it's important to bring those things to the board and this is a little bit for us to be talking about potentially changing this plan you know after it
077was approved by the department of health um and that's kind of what we're offering under us operating under as well um even as the rules about three six weeks and so forth keep changing um this was the schedule uh that was presented to the department of health and that they approved our school safety plan so i think there would have to be some um discussions so i i really um as i think through this more as part of this report section of our meeting um i'm finding it um [Music] so the board received emails from teachers stating that they did want to change we had emails from teachers saying not to change but we also got several emails from students asking to say change we serve the students if somebody wants to go to school
078why do we not let them go to school so that's where i think with this this dialogue right here this is why i was talking about having a meeting to address it because it is not agendized to take action at this point it's just not so i i don't we could probably just end this debate get to future planning when we get to that part of the meeting see if the board has a will to schedule a meeting we can if you guys want to schedule a meeting we schedule a meeting and we address it above board and do it that way and at this point it seems like we're each of us arguing with ourselves as well like i could see you know dr dr lee saying that why would be making this decision
079when the school site knows but yet at the same time why would we want to change the schedule with five weeks left in school i mean and i'm i'm right alongside with her saying well if the school i mean if our voice doesn't need to be heard and the school knows that maybe that's the right way to go but again why are we changing the schedule five weeks before school's out we've already had the other possibilities on a place-by-case basis i mean yeah but i think we're we're it's kelly or dental right just someone just said the thing is we're going around around on this i i would say if this has enough debate just in a report we probably should have this agenda and and formally go forward i would like to talk about
080that so then we're going to do that we need to do it sooner rather than later because at five weeks left in school right right so so this would come out like our future planning superintendent larry i just have a quick question for you um does any change uh to our stable groups or our schedule or any of that have to be approved by the department of health is it part of our public safety plan would that have to be resubmitted that was my question yeah so i would before any adjustment we would certainly reach out we have great partners with both that that organization and before any change would happen if you guys were to say yeah go for it that would be absolutely the numbers in which those groups um would still be
081under the limits at which they approved but i would double check because again we've already checked with uh you know the bus routes all these different variables that's why i i think it would be good to go and have some sort of bigger conversation they just sit here tonight and go yeah let's do it um and i know that and i don't want to minimize because i know the staff has been working hard on developing the the uh caseloads and as we come back but i i think with the amount of uh topic of conversation around this it would be good to have a formalized conversation to address it and then either move forward or not very good so we will look into that question though dr lee before any other thing so thank you
082any other questions for mr pearson regarding um what his actual report was about i know this is all related to the return but still transition to plan transition thank you thank you thank you thank you okay moving right along um we are on item eleven funding planning and brainstorming update with links to coronado and it's funny that mr jackson said this was most important because i was going to say that i'm bringing new money to the table sorry i shouldn't have played here so i'm gonna tag team with mr lair i'm gonna go ahead and talk about the new funding the new sources the funding that are coming in and then he's going to talk about the plan um not the plan but some suggestions that we can spend the money on so so we
083already received sir one money esther stands for the elementary and secondary school emergency relief fund and esther one was passed in march of 2020 as part of the coronavirus aid relief and economic recovery act it was called carers we 1.48 billion dollars was disbursed to california local education agencies so school districts um offices of education et cetera of that about 1 million dollars went to center in december of 2020 esser 2 was passed by president trump that was part of the coronavirus response and relief supplemental appropriation act crrsa the purpose of the money is to address the impact that covett has had and continues to have on our schools of that ladies six billion was disbursed to california school districts and this money has to be spent by september 30th you will receive 4.82 million
084dollars from the sr2 the next slide i'll get to all those um these two slides list all of the allowable expenditures for this money and they all relate to distance learning or in-person learning um keeping the school safe uh providing extra staff so that we can provide some intervention for students providing technology so they have the proper devices etc go ahead and go to the next slide [Music] we also are going to receive from the state in-person instruction funds in the amount of 1.39 million dollars this is for coming back to school and everything that that entails so making sure we clean and disinfect making sure everybody has ppe making sure that we test we upgrade facilities so they're safe so that's what that money is for and then the next source is our expanded
085learning opportunities this is to address the the needs of the students who have not been in school and who have missed out on some education so this the purpose of this is to provide some mental instruction and support that is in our summer school that is in extending the school day it um also means we can hire additional staff for interventions of this money there's 3.19 million total in the elo money it has to be expended by august 31st and this money has to be presented to the board in a plan by june 1st so the next board meeting you'll see what we propose the um the plan b for how we spend this money so the main pot of money i said there was 3.19 million dollars total and the main plot is 2.63
086million if you go to the next slide another uh thought of that money is for paraprofessionals we have to spend about three hundred dollars on paraprofessionals and the priorities should be on hiring new paraprofessionals if we can't get new paraprofessionals then we can expand the hours of the ones we do have but it's written in law that they want us to hire new ones and so that's so we can provide support to the students we also receive money for homeless students 272 thousand dollars i've searched mr laird's search we can't find out if there's any restrictions with that money or if we're just getting that money and it just goes into our general pot um so we'll still keep a lookout to see if there's any uh requirements for how that money spent as i
087said the plan has to feed to the board next month and then to the next slide and then sr3 this was passed just last month by a president of biden as part of the american rescue plan it needs to be expended by either september 30th 2023 according to the cde website i mean the california website or september 30th 2024 according to the colorado cde website so i'm not quite sure yet and we don't have the language on that so either 23 2023 or 2024 um is our deadline to spend this money and of this money 13.56 billion will be disbursed to california districts that is 126 percent increase over 2000 i mean esther ii and esther ii we were getting i should say 4.8 million dollars so for the so3 we may be getting about
08810 million dollars um so there are uh generous amounts of funds coming our way and then we really do need to focus on uh an organized focused way to meet the needs of our students with these plans and to keep our facilities in repair and keep our staff safe i replicated tutor and fellow today so mr laird is going to go ahead and talk about some possible ways that we can address the needs of our students so part of what we've done and is for the next site please is some of these we've been spending this money as is we've been planning along the way and so some of this you'll see what i'm going to go over we group them into categories as to what how we're spending the dollars and then listed there
089the what vanessa and i referenced her when she was speaking was one of the things i shared with her and haven't had a chance to talk with miss coronado yet is one of the things we're going to do is also pull staff and community to see what other things are out there because we have another big chunk of dollars and even the planning we're looking at right now gets it what we want to do but it's still not going to exhaust all of the dollars and so that is in the work so i want you to know that as we're moving forward with this so education services education tech we know that we're replacing chromebooks our summer learning program is in there we had hoped to bring back an actual budget for that but unfortunately
090with the numbers and the staffing we're trying to figure that out so we'll be able to come back with a more accurate uh representation and that will come out of our elo which which is uh due next month so we'll hopefully be able to have a much better predictor of how much money because we want to figure out when you budget you figure out what you're going to cost so we know what else we have to spend to benefit the students that we serve the credit recovery intersession we're paying for those we've allocated in this district we provide site money for local decisions when it relates within those parameters that lisa laid out you can't just spend it on whatever you want internet access we've been providing access points to some of our homeless students
091students who don't have access access isn't fast enough textbook replacement we send a lot of books home we recognize when we come back there are going to be books that need to be replaced or that just won't come back team assist is in progress this is something that we had great success with the dudley and north country of the year we're looking to bring them in over the summer it's a play based group from an outside group that would help us work with kids in that environment of summer school staffing we continue to fund our health assistance and we look to continue funding them into the future using these dollars as ms coronado pointed out one of the things that we need to look at is in our elo plan is how are we going
092to intervene with the students and their learning laws and so what we're looking at is providing intervention teachers to each elementary school site two at every site one and a half at deadly or at spinelli just because of the size of it but then also adding in eight instructional aids so two per site this would allow us not only to achieve smaller intervention groups be able to push into classrooms so teachers have the ability to work with groups based on some more ability within because if you've ever talked you always teach a spectrum if i can if i can close that spectrum a little bit lower and have a more tight educational focus it's always helpful for the kids riles and center high we're looking at adding opportunities there in a sense by overstaffing we
093can provide interventions uh intervention classes we can learn more targeted things so we would look at adding that also with high school that would allow for us to provide credit recovery during the school year by assigning a teacher to have a period of credit recovery a big component of this and i think a couple we pointed out is the engagement piece the the language is all clear on how do we re-engage how do we engage our community so one of the things we're working on would be developing a engagement coordinator position that would coordinate with some classified staff to get out into our communities and hear what can we do to help what how can we remove barriers what what is it that's keeping you from accessing your education and how do we reach that
094dual purpose in that i want to learn from our community more than we have we can always do better and reach out more and more and more this board right here has been very good about soliciting input and community feedback this organization this group i think would be able to bring even more deep dives hold some town halls let's go over and set up a thing at this school and just see what we can do to support our community and re-engage them in our educational system the another would be extra hours for individuals we have been have been using and will continue to use moving on to facilities maintenance and operations um we have in progress one of the things we're finding is there is a lot of new requirements with this the ppe keeping
095it safe the the the sanitations have all those different things plus we know as miss uh pope put on the back mr decent will be retiring and so that position we do need to split which i have shared with the board and i think is public that we will end up trying to divide that which will bring some information back next month uh we could use some of these funds to assist with that emino supervisor place this this corner i put out ppe we would continue to need to buy that i think the face mask thing is going to be around even if we're back in person i think face masks will probably be around next year additional cleaning supplies the coca testing that we are doing is very very expensive and so we would
096continue to use those dollars for that once we get things settled out we want a portion of part of our dollars to address our hvac needs we know we have aging hvacs we know we can improve our ventilation we have a list of those and i know mr diesen is already working with organizations that will help us with that uh process so we would assign some funds with that if i move to student social emotional services uh in the works already we have three additional mental health staff positions that are out there we are looking for social worker counselors psychologists we know that as our kids transition back we're going to have more needs more help we want to assign one social emotional worker to every school site family resource center extra hours they're going
097above and beyond we're making sure that they are compensated for any work they go above and beyond what they're doing professional development one of the things that is loud and clear is re-upping our trauma-informed practices training across the district we have done that we've got a lot of transition with our staff and i think that's something that we will will bring through for that as well and then the second step curriculum we have an outdated version of i think it's our elementary program and so we want to bring that up which is a social emotional learning program um so next steps if i go to the last slide our focus here now is trying to address these stephanies as early as possible with these dollars being infused into education everyone in every district is going
098to be looking at buying staff to make these programs better we're looking at trying to get out as early as we can to get the best we can whether it's certificated classified pbs credentials we want to make sure that we're trying to get ahead of the game we'll continue to work with our stakeholders to identify additional needs these are some things that have been going on we want to pull groups together to find out what what else can we do we're putting out with our lcap surveys with the elo survey we're going to take all that data that information and utilize that to help us drive where we want to go because this amount of money is significant and we want to make sure we use it the right way i certainly don't want to
099give any money back but i also don't want to just frivolously spend it we also are looking at and i think i might have skipped one um we're looking at irene which is a diagnostic assessment that will help us use pre and post tests so we'll have data on how our students are performing and then as a result of their interventions how have they done what has improved what do we need to work on um and then obviously one of the things that lisa will do behind the scenes magically is we want to maximize our dollars we want to use the grant money that expires first first the most restrictive first first and then how do we stretch it out i would like for these programs these additional resources not just to go one year
100and then gone so what we're timing is how do we keep these extra teachers these extra classified people around for a couple years i don't think it's going to be one year we've solved the problem it's done this is going to be a system-wide process that we need to make sure that we work through and then finally as we continue to move forward next month you will see our elo plan i want to make sure that you understand that we will continue to update you on this and especially as those new funds come in and as the budget numbers become more solid we will keep you informed and that is where we are and where we're going question yes maybe it's more of a statement i would like to see us look at possibly hiring
101some tutors that parent request their child can get extra support for reading and math skills because sometimes they feel like their child's failing but they can't they feel like they're they can't get any help anywhere um so i just wrote it down for our list and the one of the things we would look for is where does that fall in we try to use our own staff first but that is another idea you could go out to an agency to say hey we'll have a contract and have a process for or yeah or through our own staff to do the two either in small groups or individuals correct and it's similar mr barassi made the point of his teachers were saying we want to do stuff to help these there's we're paying them extra hours
102they're they're we're not going to let them just do it out of goodness their heart a lot of teachers do that anyway but we're trying to say if you're going to do it we'll compensate you for your time we're not going to have you just do it on your own so yes that would be a great idea would be that the parent knows it's available to them one of the previous boards that we had here the goal was that every child was reading at grade level by third grade and it's a noble goal but you have to make sure it's done and i think it would be something that we really needed to look at after these kids are set home for a year how much they lost how much they gained where are they
103at before we move on and one of the aspects of that and now is and then i'll drop this but we we the engagement position that i'm speaking of to me that's a perfect example of your students not coming to school how do we get you and re-engage in school but also my students struggling in school how can i help you is it putting you on mr bruno house right after school tutoring or is it we work to contract when they help you so those are all things on the board and i would encourage the board i would to anyone if you have ideas like that send them in to miss coronado or myself and we'll make sure they get kind of filtered i guess through it through our list to make sure they get
104on because together we're going to have the ideas to help our community parents have been real frustrated through this thing and i think part of it is because they just don't know where to turn or if their child's going to get the support that they need to catch up and if they felt like they had some response you know if they said my child needs help and we said well hey we got this free tutor that we can help bring your child up i think it would go a long way and i think having a team of people with their sole focus is to find those people because i agree nancy i think sometimes we say oh call us or email us or ever and sometimes that's not enough you know sometimes we need to
105make sure that we're more um assertive about landing and we're here to help you yeah we want to be your partner we have to show them that we're going to help not just talk so um there's a reason why the feds have set aside that money from almost students homelessness is rising in our community we're going to have great needs for mental health social social well-being of our homeless students skilled and familiar with the challenges that homeless students face as they attempt to get their education so i see that they're looking at getting three extra social workers or slash counselors they're different um we need to be clear on that uh i see also that we're looking at an engagement position that's great but we need targeted social workers who will work with the homeless
106student population and i hope that the program and the staff resources that did ryan miranda talk to you because uh he's championing the same exact thing so we we are on the same page ryan runs our family resource works with our homeless families and so you are 100 on there is a big need and we will be absolutely prioritizing we just want to make sure with those dollars and we if there's if there's rules to them we're following them but i i you sounding like mr miranda or mr miranda sounded like you so thank you yeah for for me um of i think my interpretation of what you were saying as far as finding out what what restrictions there are it's not can we spend it on something outside of homeless services but what services
107can we provide to our homeless our unhomed population and i know that that that's the intent of what you guys were saying so i just want to make sure that that's very clear that that money is definitely going to be used for the homeless populations thank you mrs kelly and dr lee and nobody knows this but i already emailed mr and mr miranda over the weekend and said please give me a list of all of your needs your pie in the sky needs and so that we could create a plan for his program and then i would go ahead and take it to cabinet and to everybody who needs to hear it to try to champion for him so it's already a discussion that we had privately um because i knew that there was going
108to be money available and i wanted to be an advocate for him and that number is 272 dollars no i don't know i don't know my head but dr lee's writing it continually is growing in our district and beyond yeah absolutely and and i would hope that some of the allowances could go towards things like transportation and food services to provide food and you know ways for the kids to get to school and technology so that if they want to attend remotely they can that kind of thing i i certainly don't your food service is actually uh spelled out and i know i know del ray has some questions or comments just one more thing for me my my main focus on all of these monies is that these are one-time monies we need to
109find out how we can make the most of the one-time funding for one-time purchasing so that you know we need a new roof we need new pods if we need to do and i hate to resort to the whole facility thing but for me that's like the crux of one-time funding it's making sure that our buildings are 100 up to code up to our code i mean and um hvac should be right at the top of that list so that's well hm doors and windows are really all that is spelled out in the funding so that's what we're looking at good and then kind of uh piggybacking off the homeless student conversation if we find that the resources um the 2017 2000 couldn't be used for a social worker if that's an area of our
110student population that's growing we might want to look to somehow fund that from other monies exactly that was my point too is just because it's 272 we're not going to cut it off and say that's all we can spend what what we would do is commit to that because it was designed for that but we would certainly go what mrs coronado doesn't know is i had the same conversation with mr miranda last week when i said to him i would love to see from you what you would do to serve not just our homeless but our foster youth students as well what can we do so thankfully we're asking the same exact question and so he is working on on that to try and help and brainstorm what we can do to support so uh
111when dr lee and you guys asked about the 272 i'm not concerned about just spending the 272 i think we will be beyond that which i think is good we need to serve our students that are most impact that's what this was designed for one more thing any any future conversations on brainstorming and funding certainly i think that some of the board members would like to be involved in those discussions if possible if there's any further yeah committee meetings also to kind of take it back up you were saying that if we have any suggestions to contact you i want to remind anyone that's listening at home if you have ideas let us know we welcome them so please thank you any other questions do we have any public comment but i guess that doesn't
112fall under this report that's i appreciate all your time thank you mrs cordova and don't email on the weekends you should go running or something okay item 12 is comments from the audience regarding it it's 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 as authorized by government code section 54954.2 a speaker shall be limited to three minutes per board policy all public comments on items listed on this agenda will be heard at the same time the board is discussing this item mrs hunt do we have any public comment yes of course several glad to hear okay the first one is from lori says good
113evening as board members i feel you should know my daughter's impression of being back in person she has been looking forward to this and was so excited however her words to me are the only difference is that her body is now in class and not at home the focus is more on the virtual kids and not the few kids in the in-person class instead of getting more one-on-one attention and having the virtual kids do asynchronous work she's getting set in the corner she sent me a video where she was the only one in a class the teacher was not engaged at all with her but totally teaching to the computer it would make sense that if you had a class with only one kid in it you would change some things up have one of
114the teachers of the subject teach the virtual kids and the other one teach the kids that are there in person combine the classes so there is more than one kid in the classroom utilize your teachers in a more protective way help your kids feel more engaged think outside the box the next one is from anthony please share the plan for return to full-time status i know antelope high and dry creek district is under placer county but there are other schools in sacramento county that have a full-time in-person option at this time with one month left of school we should know with certainty our plans for august by now and this should be decided tonight we frankly should already have the full-time option since other larger districts have been able to make it work what is
115the hold up if there is not a full-time return in the fall for center district you will lose many students the communication from the district as to the next step has not been acceptable the next one is from sophia the in-person return to ryles is going great the change in my son is night and day his mental health and overall well-being has greatly improved please return to full-time as soon as possible as three hours is not full-time and hard to navigate as a working parent the maintenance of covid has not been an issue all teachers have been able to be vaccinated california is reopening amusement parks sports arenas etc education needs to be priority prioritized thank you next okay this one sent three in a row so i will read them together this is from
116reese pine good afternoon or evening i am a sophomore at center high school i would like the gold and blue group to be dropped here is why i suggest or want this reason number one the days coming from a student i hope you take this seriously it's really frustrating waking up and going to school on campus and then the next day wake up at the same time and then be expected to be wide awake like we would be at school if you don't know this already most students do school in their bed and doze off reason number two the amount of people going to school and online i am a student who does both online and on campus meaning i am a hybrid student i've noticed some classes don't have a lot of students and
117most of the time students either switch back to online almost half of my school is online because majority of them are scared to catch the virus themselves and spread it that is why i recommend dropping this ridiculous schedule reason number three parents pick up and drop off sometimes students parents don't have time to pick them up on certain days and buses aren't an option either sometimes and with copic 19 still going on i wouldn't recommend a student getting a ride with a friend even though the friend or the friend's guardian isn't carrying it nor is the student all three can still get the virus and it really isn't three feet or six feet apart reason number four vaccines and shots are out even though it is required for 16 and over students that are 16
118and over are able to get it the vaccine may not repel the coronavirus but it does lower the chances of getting the virus her second one says i am a sophomore from center high school and i would like the system to be dropped and combined here's my personal thoughts i honestly think it's ridiculous i dislike the fact that i'm so productive one day and then another day i'm less productive do you know that students don't actually pay attention online unless they are wide awake and ready most students doze off and the third one again says i am a sophomore at center high school i want tracks to combine this is my third message about this topic please take it seriously i want tracks to be combined i feel like this will help my grades and
119encourage me to be productive every day and i want to say the same for other students but sadly cannot next is from danielle stout good evening board members i am a teacher at center high school and i would like to express support for considering an end to the rotating on-campus groups at the high school i can't speak for the freshman and sophomore class sizes but the in-person numbers for the junior and senior classes appear to be low enough to combine blue group and gold group into one on-campus group my personal experience so far has been that the students who are in the groups designated to attend are primarily not coming and joining online in lou on average i have 20 kids scheduled to be in person over three class periods and on average nine are
120present in some classes since spring break i and other teachers immediately around me have had classes on some days with only one student in person we are not supposed to be alone with a student in our classrooms students in my classes have expressed confusion as to which days they are supposed to be on campus in the two weeks since this started students in my classes have switched to at home telling me they thought more people would be there and thought and they don't have to get up as early trying to manage who's supposed to be where as it changes on a daily basis is becoming a nightmare obviously there are health guidelines that need to be followed but if the numbers support it i respectfully request that this body consider allowing the high school to
121dissolve the on-campus rotation groups into one in-person group thank you for your time next this firm angelina hughes it says i find it improper for any school board member to promote any political campaign organizations during a school board meeting although the intentions may be considered harmless this practice can lead to the display of political slash campaign displays that may be offensive to stakeholders and voters regardless of their first amendment rights an elected trustee is bound by the policies of the school board during public meetings i would like to suggest that this topic be discussed with the school attorney to verify if it is acceptable practice furthermore i feel that the individual promotion of political campaign organizations during a school board meeting hinders the display of unity within the board from watching the last few meetings
122unity and diversity may be something that needs to be developed amongst the trustees the ultimate goal of our elected trustees is to work together as a governance team with the superintendent to make decisions that will best serve all the students in the community i sincerely hope that our trustees can put aside their personal differences respect the school board policies each other and district staff and come together to focus on our students and schools in these ever-changing unpredictable times all right this one is from lauren cook we would like to request that school resume five days considering the most benefit to students and learning thank you and from vanessa we should combine the blue and gold tracks at chs i have a freshman and a junior who would like to attend school every day on the
123days they are in person their class size varies from my student plus one other to my student plus 10 others elk grove usd after only four days back on campus natomas usd san juan usd have combined their high school tracks due to the low numbers on campus participation and that is all i have at this time great thank you all right moving on to the board and superintendent reports we'll start with mr bruno tonight okay first of all i want to say that i've received a number of emails recently from staff members from community members and a surprising number from students and i just want to say i'm thrilled about it even though sometimes criticism can be a little tough to hear i'm i'm loving the engagement and i want to encourage it to continue
124um second thing i want to say kind of this has already been uh stated earlier but i put it in my head before the meeting i really appreciate everything that stops has been doing but the flexibility of the parents and students has been absolutely amazing the students having to switch from in person to a totally new learning method that you've never done before and now they're switching to a hybrid method i know it can't be easy i i never had to go through anything like that when i was in school and i i'm really impressed at how adaptable everyone has been and i really appreciate everything that everybody's been doing staff community students everybody it's been really impressive and the other thing i want to mention that delray was spilling the beans about first of
125all mr diesen it's bittersweet news that you know i've enjoyed working with you but at the same time i'm really happy for you and similarly also in the list of retirements was truly nick nichols who i worked with quite extensively at center high school and i really appreciate everything that she did for me and my family and again it's bittersweet because it's a loss for us but wonderful for her and that goes for everybody but those are people that i've had firsthand experience with so that's all great thank you and this is pope yeah in regards to what mr bruno said about public comments we do appreciate them but i also wanted to say that even if a vote didn't go your way it doesn't mean we didn't hear you it just means the board
126decided a different direction so we do appreciate them please continue um and we'll do the best we can i did tour every school at the opening of each at each site like the administrator said tonight was a hundred percent true the positivity at each site was amazing the organization was amazing everything went successfully yes there were hiccups there always is but they took these hiccups and they worked at them and resolved them in a great deal of time also um if you took a look at the sites and the facilities of each school mr diesel i commend you and your team everything was spotless it was beautiful and i thank you for that because as a board member walking to a site you look at its glory and i thank you um and i would
127like to take just one second this opportunity to remember a center high school teacher mr runner bishop mr show as an amazing human being teacher and mentor who always motivated students to give their best i give my condolences to his family and his center high school and that's my work you want me to talk now thank you mrs pope um dr lee would you like to go next yes greetings um it's hard to believe that we are in the month of april and for those of you serving on extending ramadan also tomorrow is birthday [Music] you're sorely mistaken to maintain compliance with the brown act and just some general decorum issues um that need to be addressed i remain hopeful that they can get back on track and truly commit to staying compliant with the
128brownies and more generally with respectful communications between and among members of this board and i know we can do it if we set our minds to it on a different side i want to thank superintendent blair for his commitment to a more data-informed approach throughout the district and for providing this board with disaggregated student data as a basic and consistent practice um i hope our board can model what we expect our school sites to do focus on disaggregated data and acting on disaggregated data a focus on educational data that's disaggregated is super important the student data will tell you something if you're interested to look at it to disaggregate it to examine the similarities differences that become more visible when we nearly start to look at data and this is a crucial foundational practice for
129those of us who are committed to diversity equity and inclusion most recently i've been taking a look at trends in the student enrollment um and options for learning in our district during this transitional time and some folks have asked me why i focus so much on business learning and the quality of it during this time it's because in our community those families who are most strongly impacted by the corona virus have opted for distance learning through the end of the school year of our high um students and nearly 50 percent of our middle school students have opted to remain in distance learning through the end of the school year in our district trends across the board approximately 56 of our asian and 57 percent of our filipino students overall have opted for distance learning why
130is that what is the data telling us about and about 52 of our english language learners have opted for business and learning at our high school around 53 percent of our female students evolved for business learning along with nearly half of our english language honors students also at our high school 70 percent of asian students have opted for distance learning along and 56 of our hispanic students at center high school these numbers are what i'm keeping in mind to ensure that students who are disadvantaged are not further disadvantaged and then they have access to high quality distance learning they deserve until june 15th when the world will be magic into cultural goodness because california's governor declared themselves thank you to all of the teachers your staff that are doing all they can to ensure that
131all of our students can be successful this year i really appreciate it my office hours are first monday i hope to see you next monday may 3rd on zoom as i was elected to do people mind i'll go next and let me take the last slot before mr lair um so for me um i wanted to just report out that i also attended the first day of school with mrs pope i went to north country and i went to wild and just noting that at north country we were like wait school started we didn't even see the students coming on campus there were so few at that point um so and they came trickling in from all different directions over a period of like 15 minutes and and it caught us off guard because we
132were like it's so peaceful it worked so perfectly and uh it was very surprising and again yes all the signage all of the one-way aisles all of the thought that went into all of that infrastructure was fantastic thank you mr jason i also attended my third master's in governance training we talked about the lovely world of school finance it was very riveting it was so fun not no um it was great but uh one of the things i got out of that is that it would be very useful for us to have a board workshop on budgets and just get a better grasp of what we should be looking at and the questions that we should be asking and just understanding it better from a from not from a you know masters and accounting perspective
133but from uh what what do i need to do as a good uh you know keeper of the books of an oversight person what should i be doing so i'm hoping that we can schedule that we've had a lot of board workshops and extra meetings and it looks like we're looking at an extra meeting so this is not anything we need to do right away but definitely something down down the road we might want to look at um i also was hugely relieved with the recent verdict and i know that's very political and and all of that but i don't care i just want to say thank god because if that wouldn't have happened i think there would have been a civil war in our country so thank god thank god that god we've actually
134turned a corner for even for just a moment and and made the right decision um mr diesen i know i've given you a lot of crap about leaving you can't go congratulations thanks and and out of the whole funding thing what i heard out of all of that was that it's going to take two people to replace him okay a couple more things uh we have some people to welcome to the district rhonda james who is a custodian erica madrid a bilingual assistant spanish um bilingual assistant sorry the glasses are all steamed up niges mcgee instructional specialist amina tongal office assistant we have retirements with sofia kennedy from uh who is an executive assistant deborah sabella i don't know but apparently you did was that no no it was a teacher sorry and mr deason
135[Music] all right then we want to congratulate susan erickson on her retirement patricia's four on her retirement shirley mcnichols on her retirement and welcome tammy cabrera who is a new hire at oak hill elementary and that is my report and mrs anderson you are next sorry i just thought i'd change it up i always seem to get the last word and so i thought i'd you know are you officially retiring as a win june 30th june 3 seriously we can't let that happen sorry it's cancelled due to cove but there will be no more retirements if we can get that i just want to say that i know that going back to school has been tough with a lot of teachers and staff and you've worked really really hard but i know it's worked perfectly
136because i had a conversation with my seven-year-old grandson who's informed me that he's never leaving first grade because mrs hobbs is so beautiful and he will tell you he has a crush on mrs hoggs so he's staying forever in first grade he doesn't care defends his place that's his home so it must be going okay they're doing something right over there that's my report mr liam thank you amazing so i do i have a couple items tonight one i want to just point out to our community and i want to thank mr grimes for for making this happen uh as we have returned uh we have had cases of of copen in our schools we have not had cases of covets spreading from contacts in school they've all thankfully this moment been outside the school
137that's been brought in but i want to uh congratulate and thank mr grimes for his contact tracing work and the administrators for for working quickly and maintaining the the distances and the protocols that we've established in our csp to limit the um the the the need to quarantine and bring people out i think it would be short-sighted if we think we weren't going to have any cases but what i'm thankful for right now is the ability that we've not had them spread but as people make informed decisions about their choices to be back in person or remain in distance i just want to point out we do have a cova dashboard on our website we've tried and i appreciate dr lee you point out a couple of different helps that i can do to make
138it a little more accessible so if you go to our main main website there's a couple different routes to get into it to see that we have committed we are updating that daily that means cases that are happening we get those in and when people come off quarantine we also do that as it relates but i think that's an important decision as people do consider returning to school that it is there um and we are also following we have our notices we send out the first notice we sent out um unfortunately we panic some people but as people start realizing that's the process in the protocol that we have to go through so we continue to communicate and probably over communicate as it relates to the safety of our students in that manner and staff
139the transition has gone well i think uh you know the night before i did not sleep well it reminded me of the first day of school where you got butterflies but i have to commend as you have all done our administrators our staff our classified folks our teachers everyone around campus because is it perfect as you pointed out in this build no there are hiccups there's hiccups to a regular school year without a pandemic so i i think that we have done a remarkable job and it was funny was mr jackson was saying it to the other day he's like we planned we thought there's so many different scenarios that sure when the new scenario came up that we hadn't thought about we were ready and prepared to deal with that essay there so i
140appreciate the work that everyone put in not just physically but mentally to establish what we needed to do to keep our students and staff safe a couple things i am excited purple cord there is a version of that coming up next week top 10 dinner there's a version of that coming up these are the traditions that we've held in this district and it's nice to see those i know there's some graduation stuff going on it may look different but we're looking to get some form of graduation for our seniors one of the things too that i wanted to to talk a little bit further about as i shared with the board is we are looking next year and adjusting our start times for schools as as you guys remember in 2223 uh middle and high
141schools are required to start either after 8 a.m for middle school or after 8 30 for high school and we've figured with all the different changes if we went back to our old schedule next year and then we'd have to change again we thought it would be wise if we could so we're working through the details we'll come back with to the board and share that information with you guys and then once we firm that up we will get that out to the community but we thought it might be a little less disruptive in the grand scheme when we get back which leads into i know people have been asking me hey you know super dental air tell me what what's next year going to look like i'm hearing indications that there will be in-person
142learning i've heard what i said earlier i don't have definitive answers and one thing that we struggle with is telling our community one thing and then the next day changing it as soon as we have definitive answers we will get that up to you but one thing i can say is on the tracking that we're doing there will be an in-person option we also are working behind the scenes because the rules that we operate under right now in our distance learning may not be permissible next year so we are already in conversations to give people families a virtual option that may be more robust than our traditional independent study i think that is something that we're going to need to deal with going forward um so we're already in communication talking mr jordan uh how
143we can make that a reality for for some of our our our families that make that choice the other one which i've already addressed is our elo plan i am looking for expanded learning opportunities we are looking and targeting how we can assist our students that have been most uh impacted by uh this year-long coven pandemic so we'll you'll see that next month the other thing in this pope i might start crying if i start talking about it but i will say there's a beautiful tribute that they did at the siva awards for mr michelle and i do know that liz from secc they're planning another one um that have already informed me they will make sure that we get notified of but vernon was a was a a great individual and um you said
144it perfectly my condolences to his family and i know not just his you pointed that out not just his physical family but his center high soul families i know that impacted a lot of people so um and then two more quick things one is well i continue to highlight the idea that we're all working hard i want to take a moment during the midst of all this pandemic we're going back to school do we come back all these things the regular business of the district is still going on i mean we're still processing pos we're still doing reports and i want to call out two people we right now if you can believe it this week we went under a four year federal program honor review every district is selected every four years to go
145through this program review it is a insane crazy lot amount of work and i need to to acknowledge tammy gibelli and lisa coronado for their efforts in this and lisa was not just you know i'm going to do the fpm thing somehow we signed up to have our fiscal auditors in this week and if you've ever been to a fiscal auto drain week by itself it's nuts because it's this and that so i know her and her department have worked really hard so these two individuals i've already said you guys you've got to take some time off you got to do something because they are burning the midnight oil because they care about the district they want it perfect but i think that the main thing is i just want to thank them for what
146they've done and committed to the district because it's a special person to be a part of center unified and do this and i really appreciate what both of them do because the fpm is coming back great the audit i know will come back great no pressure lisa um but it's the hard work and dedication that our folks have to make this place great so i i want to call them out in particular and then finally and i almost forgot this but i didn't uh and lord i apologize for not telling you this but today is a very special day and today is administrative professional services day and so i would be totally remiss without acknowledging this hunt for keeping me 100 percent in line all the time even when i'm grumpy believe it or not
147i need to be grumpy but i told my wife last night i'm like carol tolerates me more than you do you know but she is a great asset to the district she's a great asset to the board and and even better asset to me so i thank you for everything you do for me and the district so and with that i'm done thank you mr mayor thank you mrs carol okay now we can move on to the business at hand which believe it or not hasn't started yet um the consent agenda go ahead one more thing now that it's approved it's not no it's not i was kidding i was talking about the time okay yes let's pull item 13 first for consideration we have a motion to approve higher motion there we go and
148do we have any discussion on this item yes well not that no no no no no no no we're talking about the approved uh curriculum associations for i ready math and reading any discussion on this item no let's take yes yes um because like you have experience as a consultant with associates um and inclusion in their products teacher training and materials and so i will be obtaining from them on this contract well we're having discussion on this at this point right we've got a motion and a second so dr lee could you expand on those concerns yes i'm happy to explain offline uh about the concerns um the detailed concerns for diversity uh you know um diagnostic uh so that's uh that's where i'll leave that down yeah and so what i would elaborate is
149the um there are two options when we're moving forward with casp this year there i ready isn't a local one you can use we're only looking at the diagnostic portion and just some some concerns i think that were brought to my attention had to do maybe not with the diagnostic but outside of the diagnostic and so really what they're doing is a diagnostic it assesses our students at certain places and then allows us to identify um standards where there may be successes or maybe challenges and then move forward so we would do it two or three times a year but the supporting materials that then would go in we have our own ela curriculum our own math curriculum we use those materials to address anything we will not be using their supporting materials this contract
150is diagnostic program only so the concerns with diversity were in the curriculum materials that that is the feedback that i had received yes okay beautiful are we any other discussion okay roll call vote dr lee mrs anderson aye mr bruno uh just to confirm this is on item 13. this is all right and then do we have a motion for the entire consent agenda all motion thank you mr group at a second and thank you mrs pope and do we have any discussion on the consent agenda we'll follow dr lee aye aye mrs sanderson aye this is hope mr bruno hi and the chairman okay now mr visa now you can have your phone number i am truly gonna miss you i think of you as a personal friend i can joke with you as
151i did before we started the board member or board meeting because i know the relationship we have you are an asset to this district and as ms kelly pointed out it's going to take two people to replace you thank you for all your help with the district and your service you will truly be missed but enjoy yourself [Music] on to item 15 business items number 8 board bylaw 9270 conflict of interest the addition of to this policy is based on the recommendation from the federal program monitoring to meet federal requirements so normally we have a first reading and a second reading this happens to be a very minor addition that just basically says that we would be adding a committee if there is a concern about a conflict of interest and i'm sure mr lear
152has more information on that do we have a motion do we need to yeah do we have a motion to bring this to the floor or to approve either way sorry i should have we need to either bring it to the floor or bring it for approval actually we have to bring it to the floor first and i should have done that before i did my little explanation of what we were doing and i apologize for that um it wasn't really a comment it was more just explaining what the item is but yes we have to bring it to the floor first i'll motion to bring it to the floor thank you mr bruno a second second thank you dr lee okay discussion yeah so typically how we do these is give staff an opportunity
153to share the item and then see if there's any discussion in any public comments so you're up you can do it i talk a lot tonight well do you want me just to explain what's going on with this okay thank you so in our board policy that we adopt from csba there's information about conflict of interest but there's a requirement in the federal law that not only do you explain what conflict of interest is but you need to set a policy regarding what happens if somebody violates conflict of interest and in the csba policy they don't include that part and so i um found a statement from a different board and and passed it by our fpm reviewer and they thought that the statement was appropriate to include in our board meeting and so fpm
154is going on this week and so luckily we're able to slip it in and we can not get an audit finding if we go ahead and approve this policy um do you have any questions about the actual content of it and we'll go ahead and charge csba for a copy of our policy charges for their templates we'll charge them back yeah we should get a little credit okay any discussion questions nope and we have a motion to approve and there's no public comment oh public comment sorry do we have a motion token thank you mr britney second mrs anderson we'll call them dr lee hi mrs anderson aye mrs hope aye mr bruno all right and the chairman's eye five zero i have b pledge of allegiance it was requested that the board discuss removing
155the pledge of allegiance from future board meeting agendas do we have a motion to bring this to the floor for discussion yes thank you dr lee do we have a second to for discussion only i will second thank you mr bruno and maybe dr lee would like to tell us why she thought this was necessary maybe she has a reason for it do we have any comments from the board first oh yeah i would like to know why it's on the agenda um inward policy it states patriotic patriotic exercise and it's ar 6115 commissions and observations and it does state that each school should conduct patriotic exercises daily these patriotic exercises shall be consistent on reciting the pledge of allegiance allegiance and may also include instructions that promotes the understanding of the concept of the
156pledge allegiance republic and indivisible and understanding of the importance of the pledge is an expression of patriotism the love of the country and the pride of the united states it also goes on to state that elementary schools will exercise then conduct the beginning of each school day secondary schools will exercise and shall conduct their own homework period and it also states that individuals may choose not to participate in the flex loop for personal reasons so i believe that we should keep the pledge and if any individual chooses not to for their own political reasons then they should um i found a little blurb on the internet the pledge of allegiance was created to foster american sense of patriotism and convection in connection with the country it was intended to recite as a daily reminder of
157citizens even if you are not in school or work in government you can recite the pledge on your own as a reminder of your allegiance to the program similar to congress sessions many levels of government meetings says the pledge prior to the start of the meeting from school board meetings to meetings at different state levels the pledge can be heard at all levels of government act during their workday while not necessarily required it is always not nice to remember what our nation represents board members are paid representatives whose position is paid by the government the flight salute most definitely should be on the agenda at our school board meetings those who respect and honor the tradition of the flag so they still not have their rights should not sorry have their rights to pledge taken
158away because of one who does not feel [Music] personally this used to be and i think is sitting here right now you know what there is that better yes this used to be known as a military town dudley was built for base housing was built for yes they closed the base but the area has thousands of retired military in it because they came to cullen and state which means we have a whole lot of retired military grandparents still in the area and families still in the area through all my years of campaigning i have been asked hundreds of times if we say the pledge of allegiance in the classroom and not a single person told me they didn't want to say the pledge of allegiance not one time it was always you better be saying
159the pledge of allegiance was the attitude they love their flag they love their country and they want their children to be taught the same character and moral values that they were taught when they were in school i am here to represent the people that elected me and i feel that that's what the people that elected me would want so that's the way i would vote on this issue um taking it in a slightly different direction i do think if we keep it on the agenda it might be useful to make a change in how we do it rather than picking somebody in the moment to eat it it might be good to either pre-arrange with them or just have the president or someone need it i did do that this time okay yeah but um
160i get stage fright sometimes so when i was put on this vlog recently i just think that that might be something to improve upon moving forward that's a great idea absolutely a rearrangement arranged prior to our personally involuntary so for me i understand that there are religious and personal beliefs against um pledging allegiance to anything other than their their god or whatever their beliefs are and i and i do understand that and so feel that absolutely anyone who chooses not to participate in the pledge of allegiance that is entirely and respectably their right i no judgment whatsoever on that my husband is a retired marine and he fought to protect what that flag represents and a lot of people he knew died his brother came back very scarred in mentally and emotionally um it's just
161it's something that i personally feel like that flag represents who we are as a people and i have the right to pledge my allegiance to it so i also would vote that way any other comments yes i do have a statement that i'd like to share in regards my foundation as an educator is as a national board certified english teacher and national board certified social studies teacher and i worked primarily in the urban schools k through 12. i'm strongly committed to building civic competency and civic awareness and i've started civic selective programs in multiple schools and districts where i've served i also speak now as someone who has groups in civic service that includes family members that have engaged in military service my own leadership in local homeland international chapters uh volunteer international teaching for
162our country and service and leadership and multiple non-profits i requested this agenda item a discussion about including patriotic exercises as board agenda highlights of business because frankly when i first joined this board some comments that were made during our closed sessions by some of our senior women about patriotic exercises being a part of our agenda i found them to be deeply troublesome and problematic to me as a person who stands at all times for freedom diversity and inclusion and so as a sociologist and historian i like to know more about how things got to be the way they [Music] i discovered that our board made the black salute or pledging allegiance part of the board agenda template and political situations do always matter when we're speaking about education december 1987 was a very interesting time
1631987 was toward the end of ronald reagan's terms as president of the united states and for those that may not be so familiar with american politics president ronald reagan was one of the most solid bastions of conservative ideologies that our nation has ever known so naturally president reagan's base was activated as we prepare as a nation for an uncertain future without the kipper at the helm and in the late 80s there was this increase of almost for netted effort around conservative revivalism and this push to express american pride and american patriotism and far right-wing ideologies in all aspects of life during the late 80s nationally we saw many public serving boards including sports and right here in our little town of the center joint unified school district there was a flurry of inclusion of patriotic
164exercises templates and orders of physics and this actually includes patriotic exercises specifically the pledge of allegiance in our board by islands and meeting agendas and orders of business has been unchallenged since it was adopted december 2nd 1987. it has been unchallenged for 34 years [Music] and to explain why moving forward i will remain seated during this unnecessary board agenda i do this as a direct and indirect confirmation to every member of this community and to every single person that [Applause] governing member of this board i will be seated in solidarity as a reminder that we are a public school board that serves as a diverse couple this is not a private board that certain private ideologies [Laughter] by making additional patriotic exercises agenda items in the lord's border business i am truly thankful that this
165is the united states of america and not a fascist country i am thankful that this is a usa and not a communist or a socialist nation where something like mandated patriotic exercises might be okay to require public board members something important to know is that since this inception the flag salute or pledged by the legion has one of the most controversial patriotic exercises this nation has known by placing the pledge of allegiance or any other patriotic exercise award agenda we send a direct and indirect [Laughter] to wrap things up including the pledge of allegiance and our board of judges is not only unnecessary to an unrelated to board business it also functions to highlight and exclude those individuals who do not participate in the pledge under the agenda for religious political social or personal reasons
166for perpetuating and further thank you by performing additional patriotic or other exercises swearing and confirming to protect the constitution is the only patriotic exercise that is relevant to this board and so so that's the statement that i would like to make on record and i would like those who may have been timid or concerned to know that they don't have to say if you don't say the pledge of allegiance for religious political or social or personal reasons you're welcome here on this board and here in this history this board and this industry belongs to you the public all the public and i sit with you in solidarity because in this nation we still have the freedom of choice and the freedom of speech thanks to the sacrifices of the men that came before us and
167i will be submitting my statement i do have a point of correction in 1910 it's stated here on the center joint unified school district website is when they started saying apply to allegiance yeah i would also like to point out that it wasn't in 1986 they may have written that particular policy in 1986 but the base commander commissioned spinelli elementary you can't tell me that the base commander was involved with spinelli and they didn't say the flag salute that just wouldn't happen spinelli deadly and all the rest of them it's they were so involved and so connected with the mcclellan air force base that they had to have been involved with in the order of business and what i discovered was that it was adopted as an appointment order of business and on december 2nd
168in 1987. i think we can all agree that um everyone has the right to either do the pledge or not do the pledge uh i definitely feel a little bit offended that people would think that we're telling them uh you either do the pledge of allegiance or you're not part of absolutely this district um i also feel as though i don't know it's never true i i fully understand that people do not want to say the pledge and why and i respect that so as what i will do as as for president for the future is i will make it very very clear that you may participate if you choose i will say that every single time but absolutely i 100 agree with you that everybody in this district is welcome here all beliefs all
169races all ethnicities all everybody you're all welcome and part of this community and we are an inclusive district period we are an inclusive district we have been and we always will be and this board is all in favor of being inclusive and addressing any disproportionate outcomes racism we need to get down to business and just stop talking about it and get down to business and do the work that we know needs to be done because there is some work to be done and we are grateful that people are pointing that that you dr lee have pointed that out that that is something that needs to be addressed i i can't say i'm grateful to myself but i also have pointed out that we need to address these things um diversity is not just the topic
170of the day it is topic of our future and we need to get it taken care of so the flag salute i understand some people don't want to say it they feel that they shouldn't have to and they don't have to and there is absolutely zero judgment from me or anyone else on whether you do or do not say the pledge okay i just want to offer my view on this first of all dr lee thank you for sharing your perspective on this i agree that you know to be a member of the board you have to swear to uphold the constitution and that is the only swearing that you're required to do and i if we are somehow sending the message that it is required that's completely unintentional other board members have mentioned family
171members in the military i have a son who's an active duty marine serving right now but honestly when i say the pledge of allegiance for me it's not about him it's not about the military in any way shape or form as you said we have you know we're here to serve the public and for me personally and this is only speaking for my personal viewpoint on this when i'm saying the pleasure to believe this to the flag that's the reminder to myself that i am here to serve the public i am here to act in their best interest so for me i like it as a reminder um but you know if other people don't want to say you any other board members any future board members anybody that's in the room that's fine if
172patriotism is forced it's not through patriotism so we absolutely should not require but i think having it on the agenda to offer it for those who choose to participate i personally don't have a problem okay mr bruno just so you understand the only reason i connected it to the military is because it is such a big issue with the military and you know it's the connection it it means different things to different people and i don't view them okay i have several this one does not have a name this is in regards to the request that the board discussed removing the pledge of allegiance from future board meeting agendas i am against removing the pledge of allegiance this is america you have the right to refuse to not say the pledge you do not have
173the right to take rights away from individuals that choose to say the pledge removing such a foundation of positive words spoken together in the country has got us this far with all the blessings god has given this country why would that even be a suggestion we all know the united states has much work to do on righting the wrongs of injustices upon individual groups of people what problems would this removal solve what offense has this pledge caused i re remember reciting this in elementary school it was almost like an introduction to speech not knowing what the words meant but feeling proud and confident to speak on it it provided unity and hope and positivity now in adulthood we need positivity hope and unity more than ever so does that mean we don't want the flag
174displayed as well what next sounds like you need to move to another country the next one is from angela it says i would not like the pledge of allegiance removed from the board meetings if a person does not want the pledge then they have the choice of not pledging but for those of us who want to pledge we will not have the option to pledge at the meeting if the pledge is taken away because of the few that don't want the pledge then you are infringing on the rights of those who want to pledge next is from angelina hughes good evening c-u-g-a-c-j usd trustees and superintendent i'm surprised to see that there is consideration to eliminate reciting the pledge of allegiance at the beginning of every meeting on this week's school board agenda never in
175the past 13 years of attending school board meetings has this issue ever been brought up as elected officials of our district and as americans i strongly urge you to keep the pledge of allegiance on the agenda for school board meetings reciting the pledge is not a compulsion but a mark of patriotism to the country it is an action that symbolizes one's feeling that as an american one is proud to be part of this country it is a proclamation stating that we all as americans are unified standing together as one nation and working together for the benefit and rectification of the injustices of the country as a whole reciting the pledge of allegiance also shows our shows respect to our flag and military heroes who have served and are currently serving to protect our country and
176our freedom the freedom that gives people the right to protest against reciting the pledge it reminds us that we must all work towards the vision of the country that the pledge of allegiance aspires to indivisible with liberty and justice for all it is unfortunate that there is so much debate and division over the pledge of allegiance for getting the larger objective of standing together in unity as a nation the controversies will go on and each american has the freedom to choose to recite the pledge or not however one should not believe they have the right to take away the rights of others to recite the pledge of allegiance at board meetings because of their own political issues many government meetings begin with reciting the pledge i find it disturbing that this is even on the
177agenda when there are other important issues regarding our students and schools that our school board should be focusing on next is from brina joe i have two issues with the pledge of allegiance one it references god when we are supposed to be supporting a separation of church and state second you have the option to not say it but it's opt out not opt in it does not inspire pride when it's a mandatory part of a meetings or school next oh there is my name listed and it says dr lee i just lost respect for you you just spent your time putting down others ideas while saying that you are there to support all all means all and this one is says concerned community member i was a student at center high school chs in the
178year mentioned 1987 and have lived in the district since the 1970s i have voted in every election since the late 1980s including board elections i have always stood for the pledge of allegiance and always will if one does not wish to stand it is his or her right however i am disappointed and even offended that this is even up for discussion when there are so many more educational issues that need attention you dr lee will be standing in solidarity alone and that is all i have [Music] she said you said something no okay do we have a motion to approve yes there is no motion on the table to just to we just did put on if there was an opportunity that someone to make a motion that could be entertained if there is no
179motion correct if we don't yeah we have a motion to approve i would like to make a motion that we keep the pledge of allegiance as part of the agenda that way regardless of the history of how it got there we're saying as of this date we're putting it on the agenda i'm sorry so he's moving to keep it on the i'm saying i'm making a motion to keep it on the agenda so that way regardless of how it got here in the beginning regardless of what the motivations were at that time we're making the active choice to have a part of the agenda as of today he was pointing out that it's it was a business item but it was not left it was not uh outlined exactly what the motion would be which
180is left open to our ability to to bring emotion forward or not or not are there any other motions that you want so can you do you can change it that way there is no emotion yeah mr mr bruno just made the motion that he would affirm the uh keeping of the flag salute on the agenda going forward so that's that's the only well we already have a motion and a second okay seconded it but also at this point we have to leave it open for any other motions that might want to be brought forward a hearing none do we have any discussion on this motion i just want to say that my goal with this motion is to erase any negative history that may be associated with it and start fresh i regret that
181[Music] with all members of our community and those who elected me uh to do exactly what i'm hired to do thank you i respect that that's your choice as to why any other discussion let's call for the vote all right mr greenham aye mrs pope aye this is anderson aye dr lee no name the chair votes i 4-1 so the pledge of allegiance will remain on the agenda item 15 c resolution or statement regarding condemning the rise in anti-asian and pacific islander racial violence was requested that the board consider and discuss developing a resolution or statement to condemn you condemn the rise in anti-asian and pacific islander violence the board can provide direction to staff to develop a resolution or statement regarding the topic so it's my understanding that we do not necessarily need to
182make a motion we can make a motion we can divide wait and make a resolution or we could just provide directions so we really have policies that deal with this yeah do we have a motion to bring this to the floor for discussion i'm going to bring it to the floor for discussion thank you dr lee in a second i'll second it yeah i'll second it for discussion absolutely and then mrs anderson if you had some comments yeah we've already got policies to deal with this for if we start tearing apart and dealing with one by one we're just going to have resolutions and policies all over the place for every individual and it's just going to take up more and more space and time um it's coming from the grandmother of a child that's
183half agent so nobody can claim i'm discriminating there we have policies that deal with hate crimes and hate language and all of those issues i don't think we need to single out any one group i think it applies to all of the groups and i think we need to keep it that way instead of putting one group over the next group otherwise we're gonna end up with a whole line of people out the door saying my group's more important than your group if we just address them all at once i understand that mrs anderson i'm going to surprise you here by taking an opposing view on that and i feel like these are unusual circumstances that we are experiencing right now they're not the usual anti-you know hate policies that we have it's not part
184of that i mean i understand that we have a blanket policy that that condemns all all racism and acts like this but we are in a very unusual circumstance right now where this particular demographic is is they're being murdered attacked robbed i mean it is just it's outrageous what's happening to them and although i understand not wanting to like open the door to every you know tom dick and harry that wants to put in for their group i get that but i really feel like these are extenuating circumstances and it cannot hurt for us as a board to say that we can do this or that of course we can human we would like you know something to go out to the to the community from the school district saying that you know we continue
185this behavior and pointing them to our board policy pointing them to our disciplinary policy and just saying this will not be tolerated absolutely we can do it but i also condemn them for you know beating up the kid that's gay and for i understand that for all the other assaults that take place this is this is like unprecedented unprecedented levels of hatred directed i think it's a silence people because of something that that the president you know has decided to drill into people's heads that you know it's the china virus everybody with who's asian is you know is somehow our enemy and so there's people out there just doing crazy things to americans who happen to be of asian descent you know i'm norwegian [Music] you know the all the nordic crusades i mean it's
186it's outrageous what's happening right now and i don't think there's a problem with pointing out that we condemn it and and pointing people to that to that fault to those policies that we have but i mean i i i i find whichever way the board decides but that's my personal view on this particular one yeah i'm sorry and i did share um that across our district 56 percent of our asian students and 57 other centers where filipino students have offered for distance learning i encourage us to think about why is that what is telling us um at our high school we have 70 percent of our aj students opting for business learning along with 63 of our filipino students for business and learning uh there is a goal um anti-asian and pacific islander uh violence
187and um racism happening here in our country um since 2020 when the covenant again if and those are the ones that were reported of asian americans and pacific islanders being verbally and physically attacked and shunned during this to pretend that this is just like everything else is misguided and i think that you know making a statement to condemn the right asian pacific violence and to state what we as a district are doing to make sure that our asian americans and pacific oceans our students feel comfortable and feel welcomed uh is super important at this time it's something that is and i think the condemnation of that is something that is very appropriate and saying what we're doing to make sure our students feel comfortable to be in person learning is critical how many of those
188kids a line of correction for um the minutes please carol those the data that dr lee just um stated regarding our school district that was her assumption of why they didn't attend in person class it's not the assumption of the board or the district [Music] there's something going on there and uh there's something happening and if you take that back in the context of the political and social situation that we're experiencing here in our nation there might be some connections there that's all i was really pointing out so i don't believe that the direction to the minutes is necessary i would like those corrections to the minutes because i still think she's assuming and making the assumption to the public so one more thing on those statistics is that we do have about 50 of
189our students who are remote learning overall so for for there to be 50 of the asian that's right in keeping with the overall percentage however opting for distance learning at this time [Laughter] typically do have higher statistics that are [Music] to assume personality traits based off ethnicity i mean there could be a number of different reasons i understand what you're saying dr lee that that definitely could be one of the contributing factors that they do not feel safe in general coming out into public or coming back to school and so i i mean i would i would just think that as our safe school survey showed that we do a safe school survey every year what does it show that's good that's a good question i i don't have evidence of that i don't have
190evidence of that from the safe school survey but i i still just don't think it would hurt to point to our policies and and just remind people that that sort of behavior is not tolerated but that's my opinion um board policy number four zero four one zero one zero four one one does talk about non-discrimination and it includes in that piece that there is the uniform complaint procedure the uniform complete procedure is in with our ed tub that is given to parents at the beginning of each year describing how to handle this situation if need be let's give as a every year parent's kids don't see those resolutions and policies they go nowhere nobody else sees them parents don't see them so it doesn't mean anything my view on this is simply condemning the violence
191which i think we all do um to me that that does not just simply say we condemn this violence um that that's kind of in my view patting ourselves on the back yeah um and not taking a a step to actually accomplish anything and my concern about doing that is we condemn this and then if something else comes up and we don't condemn that then it becomes condominium however if we take the step to actually do something such as if if it becomes send out something reminding uh parents hey this is we're seeing a rise in uh anti-asian violence we want to remind you of what steps are available if you are a victim of this that that's actually accomplishing something yeah but i think some simple condemnation in and of itself is hotline yeah
192and that's exactly what um mr lear and i had talked about steve exactly that is that it would be silly to say yeah we condemn it and but if we could back it up with some sort of action that helps you know promote that view or to help other people then that makes more sense which is why i was saying you know the gave direction to send something out and it whether it just being the weekly report saying hey you know please please remember that we have policies in place that condone this behavior our hearts go out to maybe the victims of the latest shooting um here are the policies here's the process and i do understand that now that it goes out every year so i'm you know i'm i'm either way on this
193one if someone wants to i wow because i mean there's nothing negative about condemning the violence okay so do we have any motion for action on this item [Music] uh our members of our community to our policies and processes for reporting and addressing this i'll find a clarification a statement of via the superintendent did you want a statement via board president what was your thought on that mr dr lee i think it says here it could be the staff developing a resolution or statement um and possibly the uh from what uh bruno mentioned um that also possibly involved you know so if i'm hearing correctly you're motioning to have either or president or superintendent later said a statement of reiterating the policies procedures and maybe also referencing the head code that's given at the beginning
194of the year is that correct right can i make a friendly amendment that we asked with julia to just send it out in one of his usual communications i would and if you guys are okay i'm happy but i would i would rather buy you as the president just for input and then just as another set of eyes and then i'll second the motion can we quantify the motion please so the motion is that the superintendent in in by means of a regular communication would send out uh information condemning the recent rise in asian pacific asian and whatever that aaibo acronym is um uh violence and directing them to our policies and processes for um if anyone should feel victimized by that hate as well price as well as that code yes that's policies and
195codes and processes and just when you're referencing head code you're the annual notifications okay that goes out over here okay and we can remind them and fpm actually asks us to remind people about the policies all the time so too okay so we have a motion and a second ending for the discussion dr lee hi mr bruno hi this is colt hi this is anderson hi and the chair both side thank you okay we're moving along checking along here so item 15d safe firearm storage awareness the board will discuss the request for moms demand action regarding a possible resolution and or notification to families regarding responsible storing the firearms in homes and this is essentially the same process that we did for item c this is open for discussion if we bring it to the
196florida for discussion and it's open for anyone to make a if they don't choose where did this come from scott so we we had an application before we discussed this can we have a motion to bring it to the floor i'm not going to bring you to the floor thank you mrs pope the second all second mr bruno go ahead sorry yeah so an advocacy group had approached us uh over the last three or four months as it relates to securing firearms uh to basically lay out the statistics of unsecured firearms have been one of the leading causes for teen suicides and then or methods and then also for you know kids playing with guns so they reached out and asked they provided a resolution one of the things i might suggest is to take
197a a page out of trustee bruno's would be a resolution is one thing but perhaps we can make sure that something of this nature gets included in our annual notifications i also think it'd be pertinent in our safety plan um that that would also be things that we are doing it's a tough one because we don't really we're asking parents to do this at home and i don't want to put on the kids to bring that message home so we can certainly make people aware and educate uh but again i default back to if we do a resolution i'd rather see some form of action and and then at least it's out there but what we're not doing is hitting in the debate of firearms that what this request is talking about is that if
198you have them can remember to please properly secure them and keep them out of the hands of are these moms in our district or is this just some organization somewhere i'm assuming it's a it's a statewide or probably national like i know it's statewide i mean they included some pretty uh compelling statistics that could be included in any sort of communication that went out and something important to know our superintendent uh state superintendent of education uh the honorable tony thurman did also send out communication to all superintendents um [Laughter] to send out a notification letter just you know informing families about you know the importance of securing our firearms well and and one thing that you said mr lure about that you know it's kind of awkward to send this information home with children to
199relate to their parents however we educate the kids all the time on things that affect and are are referred to their parents whether it be you know drugs or cigarette smoking or fire safety or any any of the number of the things that we teach the children it's really directed towards their entire family and they are always tasked with bringing it home and sharing that information with their families so i see no problem with uh not necessarily tasking them with that but but that they'll naturally learn from from what we ever whatever we send them or tell them and they'll also teach and i don't think that's a bad thing you know with the rise in suicide with high school-aged kids junior high kids even i could almost see a mail out to the teenage
200parents you know or parents of teenagers is what i mean saying be careful when we realized that there have been teenagers that have done this recently and we want you to be careful that your originators don't fall victim to something like that well and just another reminder that it's not just teenagers that the demographic that has the largest rising number of or percentage of uh suicides is nine-year-olds yeah that's true nine-year-olds have the highest growth in suicides it's scary huh it's insane i'd like to make a more increased the board meeting past nine o'clock i extend the meeting past 9 pm thank you [Music] uh do we need a vote or discussion you need to go with dr lee can i have my question answered do you know what it cost us i think we
201need to vote on this yeah oh okay all right then mrs sanderson hi this is we will extend the meeting past 9 p.m we're nearly finished so miss anderson answer your question we don't typically do electronic mailing so it's typically pretty cheap um we you know to do a regular mailing it's not that that's going to paper but i think we get more response from people through electronic but i would also i think sometimes when people get a piece of paper it does have a little more impact i know when i see something from my kids school in paper i actually open and read it or email i may not read as well so we can go either but you actually know what can come through okay do we have any further discussion and if
202not do we have a motion that anyone would like to put forward uh before we do a motion we should check for public comments public comments no public comments thank you for keeping reminding me that does anyone have a motion to bring forward i would like to offer an amendment to that and also um possibly you know i would also like to amend the uh student handbook in high school to include a notification about safety so that going forward it's continually being put out there and i would also like to offer a couple of amendments one would be that it would be in the same school plans and um two that we um look for opportunities for uh assembly trainings assemblies that are around uh gun safety um maybe we should because this is happening
203we're getting so many amendments and stuff maybe we should include this with the special meeting so we have time to think about it and just that's what we wanted it yeah i mean and with that it i'm going to be honest i'm some of the assemblies and stuff might be challenging if you drive i mean i would withdraw my friendly uh vote my friendly amendment um partially i do want to see that we put it in the safe school plans yes so i have safe school plans send out a notice safe school plans high school manual a handbook thank you and also um code regulations annual notifications yep okay okay so doctor lee about this initially your uh your motion so are you okay with all the amendments uh yes [Music] hi mrs cole hi
204mr bruno hi and the chair both side all right that was item 15 d item 15 e facilities and operations approved the construction services agreement with clark sullivan construction for lease lease back pre-construction and construction services for the rex fortune elementary school construction project would you like an explanation or would you like to just approve it we prove it's fine we're ready okay if you guys are good with it basically there's three parts it's the lease it's the construction improvements and then it's the lease back so we lease it to the contractor the contractor makes improvements and then they sublease it back to us so those are the three parts of what you would be approving tonight and then within the construction portion that the contractor does there's two parts it's a pre-construction agreement which
205is actually part of what you're approving is sixty-four thousand dollars for the contractor to work with the architect and the other consultants that we work with to create a better document a better architect plan which will have less change orders and then later we'll bring this construction services agreement back to you after we've determined the total price of the of the building the school that's the greatest maximum price the gmp will bring the gmp back to you and then you we will amend this what you're approving tonight to include the construction portion of the project craig you're going to leave without the school you can be built how can you do this stuff it's hard go ahead emotion i'm telling rex public comments no we're emotional oh i apologize and vote uh dr lee just
206to bring it to close discussion motion yeah we need to vote to bring it to the floor dr lee hi hi mrs anderson you don't need to vote to bring in support oh okay that was deceived by that you don't know okay so do we have discussions sorry i thought we had to have a vote why yes you have it's my question general consent okay we have no discussion we need to vote do we have any public comments none okay address that so uh please need a motion to approve what should you agree and a second all right general dude all right uh nope we have to do a role called vote dr lee hi mrs pope hi all right dance planning uh future meeting dates board workshop saturday may 15th right at 9 00
207a.m in the conference room five at 8408 watt avenue and look california 95843 and or virtual that is open to the public it is a workshop on um basically board or teamwork setting protocols and setting our processes and procedures and how we communicate um then on wednesday may 19th we have our regular meeting at 6 pm riles middle school here in this room 503 and we're adding a meeting and the suggested agenda items we will come to but first we need to decide if we're going to have a special no before we get to that big wrong topic i do have a clarification can you please refresh my memory if we actually voted on the name rex fortune elementary school for sierra vista oh we did yesterday that was a few years ago yes we
208definitely did just wanted to come for i i very clearly recall that we've already and we've already changed it with the cds so the question was is there interest in convening a special meeting to address the one topic of combining the blue and gold tracks at center high school i would suggest if we do it sooner than later we would need 24 hours notice to agendas to properly agendas for the special meeting and it would only be i mean i just feel like if we're going to have a meeting to discuss it we need to do it now right away because otherwise it's pointless there's only five weeks left of school either do it now or don't do it i i would like to know um superintendent you had indicated earlier that they were going
209to check with the department of health uh to see if um these changes would require a new consideration and approval of our um safety plan because if it does that takes time and by the time that all happens this school year has ended and what is the point of us having a special meaning to discuss something if the timeline for um getting enough approved is the deciding factor it goes beyond sure so two points on that one is i would i would recommend we i would plan to call sac county tomorrow to see what that step would be and i want to go back and double check but i know originally they had to approve it because we were in the purple tier i believe in the red tier but i don't want to to
210say either way we could check that in the morning if for some reason we checked with sac county and they're like no it's going to take three weeks to approve it then i would come back to you guys to say no go shudder you know shut the topic down so we could tentatively schedule a date for yes and i would advise that stay like monday night this coming week yes tentatively yeah um and isn't there something going on next wednesday so wednesday night is and i might make these up purple record and then one is top 10 is on wednesday and friday is purple corn so you could um yeah so i mean any day's open for especially you can do any day of the week you can do a different time of the day
211you don't have to do six o'clock you know i mean we just need to properly agenda let me ask the board this does the lord want to actually have a special meeting or should we do this doctor lee suggested and have the school just decide the factor since it could be a local school decision third option and just say leave it as it is right the the uh option two i would i am hesitant because of even the csp that dr lee pointed out i do want to make sure you know we would do that anyway but i think based on the the comment that we've all received i think it is an item of public interest and i think it based on you guys you really are interested in hearing what the public has
212to say about this so let's let's take their input and then you guys can wrestle with it how about friday if you're going to call them tomorrow and you can get a solution by our answer by tomorrow afternoon or week friday all right as long as i can yeah because i can post we can post it tomorrow yeah we can do friday and then if we move if not do it on monday or we could cancel it if it's a to dr lee's point if it's a three week process last time it was a week um so but again that was purple tear related and then plus it's already been approved so we just need to we just need to hear from them which mr grimes and i are making eye contact right now that
213yeah the only caveat i have with that is sometimes it takes them up to two mr graham's i don't think dr lake can hear you i think you're here okay sometimes it takes more than 24 hours for them to get back to me even with contact tracing because they're so swamped with things going on so if scott reaches out to them tomorrow morning um right we we have contacts for the regular process so we'll even if we have to email dr casiria we'll do that i mean that's a big point she's really good to understand yeah she just i know how busy and swamped they are so sometimes there's no delay but if scott can get through them friday would work if it you can get the information by them okay so tentatively we will
214have a meeting this friday evening if all goes well and we're able to get the green light from public health or at least find out that the process is short enough that it would make sense and if that doesn't work then if we can't get a response by then we'll have a back update of monday whatever that date is april something thank you 26 26 sorry i'm visualizing in my head so just for my clarity what we're doing is trying to schedule one for this friday friday and do we have a time so i have to work so i mean i can i can do six yeah six for sure i i could do a little earlier than six if things grow earlier so i said earlier than six can be tricky okay six it
215is it doesn't have to be a long day and then we would do the same on monday it'd be six o'clock if not but i'll find out okay sounds good so we're on the show right and so i guess i just need some verification from superintendent larry that we're getting from um correct if the response is you're good go for it then we would have special meeting if they're like no we want to reevaluate it it could take up to a week then i would give that information to you to uh president kelly and then we could reach out to you i mean once a week then we could still have the meeting and hear the discussion but if it's two three weeks that there's no it's just sorry i if there's no point in
216that district of this or here i haven't got that far i will let you know that we would not be exceeding any of the requirements in there so i can't see it taking a long time for them to scrutinize the plan but i think that's a good backup plan if that was to be the case you could you also still have the option we could all do it virtual um we could zoom in i mean i mean we can decide that later right well just before we yeah we need to decide now so it's either going to be posted as here or it would be a virtual um [Music] you're see the computers are getting tired now too he's trying to troubleshoot it as we speak okay so um we'll come back to your comment
217if you get your sound working let's move on to suggested agenda items did we lose you since we passed oh no five we just left in the meeting and you got a loser out there yep so i think so friday at six if not we push it out to another date correct okay thank you all right um suggested agenda items does anyone have anything they want to propose for future agenda items can i just say that in my training they said that boards that focus on curriculum have much more successful school districts with what much more successful school districts if we're focusing on academics and curriculum okay all right all right no items okay continuation of closed item closed session is not necessary do we have a vote an emotion i'll second and i believe
218we could just leave it at that right we don't need it because we just lost dr lee so generally yes okay okay