Central Unified Board Of Trustees Meeting Feb 25th, 2025

001good evening welcome to the regular meeting of the Board of Trustees uh on February 25th 2025 the time is 6:05 p.m. here at the central Unified School District district office room 13 uh as we called the meeting to order we are missing trustee kfon currently do I have a motion to adopt the agenda so moved we have a motion by truste CIO second by trustee sers those in favor please say I I I those oppose nay those abstaining motion Carri 60 um we we move on to comments from the public on any close session items we'll pause for a a few seconds for a call or anyone wishing to comment on any of the close session items the phone number for those that may be viewing are is uh area code 559 3150 area code

002559 276 3150 and we are joined by clerk gon at 6:06 p.m. board president 30 seconds of passed and there's no callers at this time so that we will adjourn to a close session and return back at 700 p.m. thank you e e [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] w [Music] yes [Music] oh [Music] what [Music] oh oh [Music] oh [Music] hey oh oh oh [Music] hey oh [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] hey hey [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] w [Music] for [Music] a [Music] oh [Music] la [Music] [Applause] [Music] yes [Music] [Applause] [Music] w [Music] he [Music] n [Music] he [Music] oh [Music] hey [Music] hey [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh hey [Music] hey oh oh [Music] oh e [Music] w [Music] w e [Music] la [Music] n [Music] p p [Music] [Applause] n [Music] e

003oh [Music] yes [Music] h [Music] oh [Music] he [Music] he oh [Music] hey [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey [Music] hey oh oh oh oh [Music] wo [Music] w [Music] good evening welcome to the uh regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of central unified today is February 25th 2025 the time is 7:04 p.m. our report out from close session on item E2 we had a a motion by trusty kfon a second by trusty Kirk item pass 70 on item E3 we had a motion by trusty Coro second by trusty kuron motion pass 70 and with that I will ask vice president CIO to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance please stand thank you next we invite up for our community engagement information uh Senor Lao good evening if you wish to address the

004board please call 559 276 3150 or fill out a request form provided on the table near the end entrance and submitted to the clerk of the board prior to the meeting if you wish to speak on an item on the agenda please do so when that item is called if you wish to speak on an item not on the agenda you may speak during the public comment section of the agenda the district welcomes other language speakers to the board meetings anyone planning to attend and needing an interpreter for a language other than Spanish should call 559 274-4700 extension 10150 by noon on the Friday preceding the board meeting or at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting meeting so Arrangements can be made for an interpreter thank you next we invite extension thank you

005next we turn to our presentations with our first recognition of Developmental Disabilities awareness month with uh assistant superintendent Dr Lopez good evening board president Singh Board of Trustees and superintendent Davis each March the National Association of consoles uh of Developmental Disabilities and accd and its Partners work together to create a social media campaign that highlights the many ways in which people with dis with or without disabilities come together to form strong diverse communities we are waiting on the video right now the campaign seeks to raise awareness about the inclusion of people with developmental disabilities in all facets of community life as well as awareness of the barriers that people with disabilities still sometimes face and connecting to the communities in which they live I am excited today to Showcase a video from our T Turkey

006Trot this is just an example of one opportunity that we provide to the community but I also attached as well a list of all the events that you're welcome to attend to view our students participate in any of these events [Music] are [Music] thank you um next we turn to our next presentation with Joe Doan and and executive director Serena DOI for the foundation of Central Schools thank you board president good evening Board of Trustees and thank you for having me for those of you that um do not know me my name is Serena DOI and I'm the executive director for the foundation for Central Schools also president presid tonight is our um Foundation board president Mr Joe doyan who I'd like to acknowledge um in the room as well and we're absolutely um blown

007away and thankful for the incredible responses to this year's scholarship program I'd like to say thank you to the 178 amazing people who put their hearts into their application this year it's a huge record for us um so thank you each one of you made our decision both wonderful and challenging um we're thrilled to share that we'll be helping 26 bright Minds pursue their dreams this year a mix of graduating seniors Central employees and proud Central alumni when we think back to where we were just 5 years ago with only six scholarships it's amazing to see how far we've come growing to 20 six scholarships shows just how much our community continues to support and believe in education and we cannot wait to celebrate our scholarship recipients at our annual award ceremony on April 3rd

008it's going to be such a special evening and I hope you will all join us um I went ahead and placed a invitation on um on your areas um for those of you that will be attending for the first time so save the date April 3rd it will be at pardin this year year so we're looking forward to great food and um we'll also have a special um former scholar panel which will be very interactive we have ABC3 host Jessica Harrington joining us to facilitate a conversation to give our community me members and stakeholders a closer look as to um what these scholarships have done and the type of students that we are producing here in central unified um next I'd like to highlight a few of our clothing closets across the district um just

009a little history the foundation um started with the clothing closets um several years ago um over at H Kerney K through 8 school um principal had an idea and the foundation jumped on it and um we now have a growing amount of clothing closets in the district um and I i' like to highlight just a couple of um data and uh success stories um so how and Kerney this school year so far has provided over a 100 clothing items for their students and their neighboring schools like elen and pathway Central East which is very unique is a career clothing closet and they have provided support for over 70 students this year from senior photos to conferences formal and job interviews we've also provided support for FFA including um the retire the um mandatory outfits like

010jackets and slacks and dress shoes and at Steinbeck Elementary assisting over 35 students this closet these closets provide more than clothes they give our students conf confidence when our when our kids need to feel good and not worry and they can really focus on what matters which is learning in our classrooms so we are thankful for our Partnerships with the Assistance League of Fresno um for helping us get all of these closets off the ground what's really beautiful about our closets is that these are new close um they are brand new and these kids are the the first owners of them um so we're really glad to be able to offer that to them um next up will be the completion of the closet at pathway Community Day School which will also be shared with

011persing continuation so we're very excited about that the next highlight I'd like to um share with you is our te Community Food Pantry um we are in its second year of operation and it is thriving um over the last two months myself and Christina Rodriguez who is here with us um from student family services along with Dr Lopez we've um pivoted to offer amazing services to accommodate families and um changes so this month alone we've helped 80 households and families are receiving items like one to two cartons of eggs meat or frozen food item two loaves of bread various snacks 10 to 15 non-p perishable items including shelf stable milk and produce this month we featured bananas broccoli and our very own Central High School lemons and mandarins so we're very excited to offer local

012produce that's grown right here by our students um so with the pivot and changes we are now offering appointment-based shopping experiences which allows privacy and convenience for our families um and in the coming weeks we're going to be launching an online ordering platform similar to insta card or door Dash I think that's the easiest way to explain it and um families will be able to pick up food during our pickup hours um we are also working hand inand with our family Outreach liaison to provide that extra care when needed so um again I can't stress about the platform um providing convenience and privacy for our families so big thank you to student and Family Services team especially Our Family Outreach lons our next board meeting will be April 30th community members can find information about

013us on our website Central foundation.org we are under a bit of um an upgrade so some things may look a little confusing if you personally have any questions feel free to reach out to me and I do look forward to seeing you all on April 3rd to celebrate our scholarship recipients I'd like to just take a moment and um invite our board President Joe Doan to join me at the podium good evening Board of Trustees uh my name is Joe doyan I'm the board president for the foundation for Central uh schools once again um I've been on this board for quite a few many years and uh I'm guess the uh the 10e senior on this board of directors that the foundation has um I haven't had the opportunity to meet um all of you

014yet I do look forward to uh meeting with you and if you ever have any questions or like to talk about the history of the board or what the board is planning to do um I'd also like to thank this Board of Trustees for the best thing that's probably ever helped this Foundation was the hiring of Serena DOI in the last five years this Foundation has grown by Leaps and Bounds I'm going to say about probably over 3 and a half to 4% are four times full excuse me full that this Foundation has grown and we are being able to expand on the programs that we had the closing closet the food pantries and something would never have been imagined um probably about 5 years ago and it's because of Serena's hard work and dedication

015that we have these type of programs now here at Central unified not only for our students but for the families and communities of this District um it's something that's very uh Wily needed but this Foundation has been around for a long period of time like you have known but we really do encourage uh this Board of Trustees to visit our board meetings like the next one will be on the 30th it's open to the public but we'd like to have those conversations and we'd like to hear input from the Board of Trustees president nadep has been um excellent by his attendance and giving some information in different types of Direction when we're needed same thing with uh superintendent Cy she has been uh one of our largest rock stars for this Foundation um since she's

016been superintendent of the school district so but um on that note we look forward to uh all of you attending the scholarship dinner I will say for the first time in many many years or first time ever this last year in 24 I had a young man just rock my world when it came to his story and is he going to be coming he is so we will be having he'll be a part of that panel Emilio Martinez Emilio yeah that's gentleman he was amazing his story uh took me down to tears uh the day we Ed an interview there wasn't a dry eye in the room and uh it'll be very interesting to to see where these students are after the fact after they've received our scholarship and to see what type of progress

017they have made and where they are headed um in the future so we hope that you all able to attend that event come on April 3rd we've kind of upgraded it to pardin and it's probably going to be uh pretty full from what I understand um we've had a good turnout these last several years but anyway thank you very much um to this board I'd really like to thank you for what you guys have um put to and your dedication into this foundation and we continue to look to grow year on and year out um because of Serena so thank you very much have a nice evening and with that thank you and please let me know if you guys have any questions trusty Kant I'm sorry trusty C you um I have a couple

018of questions but I just want to Echo what president Doyle said and just to remind especially as a composition of our board changes and and new board members join us um the decision which was not uh I don't think it was unanimous or maybe at some point it no it was thank you um it was not unanimous by the board but I will say I supported funding that position and it's really been incredible uh not only to have to be so fortunate to have Serena be in that position but just the the value of that position and our contribution to the foundation and so you know as we continue and I know I say this every year because I want to make sure that our minutes ref reflect that and there's a clear uh institutional

019knowledge of why we made that decision because we knew in the potential uh and the need for our students to have the support the scholarships you heard from five from six to 26 now um and then the development of the pantry the the closets all these things are are things that our community needs um and it's incredible uh to have someone who will leave that charge and really listens to the needs of our community and Advocates uh our board president does serve on the foundation as well as our superintendent those are mandatory positions and so if any of you are ever interested I encourage you to attend uh their scheduled meetings so I have two questions um I'm glad to hear that we are thinking about other opportunities to ensure that our families feel safe

020when they're taking advantage of the pantry uh I hope that and if you can speak to it now but if you can moving forward for the online platform I anticipate that many of our families who are probably accessing the pantry may not have access to technology or may not be the most savvy so making sure that we have other ways of using our community Liaisons or that you and your staff or or that any of us can help support that to make sure that that doesn't create a gap or a barrier for our families I don't know if you guys have thought about that and you can speak to that okay yeah absolutely we're already one step ahead so um with um student and Family Services now being a full Department myself and Christina meet

021regularly and are probably two steps ahead of everything we can possibly think of and our family Outreach Liaisons are able to assist our families with those appointments and they're making them for them um and or they're scheduling their appointment with them and going hand inand um we are offering delivery for those that um need that extra comfort as well so we're already on that and then the school sites that don't have Liaisons we already have um that next liaison nearby who is assisting them so definitely we have those um uh services in place already okay so I assume Community Le aison is because we have vacancies not because okay because that was one of the decisions that the previous board made so the private appointments do we offer them like at various hours I think

022the last time you presented we had very limited hours and if I remember correctly very little of any availability like after 5 and I don't know what our family's availability is to be able to um attend or be there during business hours have we expanded that we have yes so as we moved into the appointment system um we have been seeing hours from on Wednesdays um since it's early dismissal over at Teague so it's a larger parking area as well so we have appointments starting as early as 1230 um which is normally going to be our employees and staff members um um we like to make sure they have convenience and can come over whether it's a lunchtime or their early dismissal and then we lead into um appointments for families and then um that's

023going until about 5:45 6:00 um and then those that are not showing up for their appointments Our Family Outreach liaison um Jessica Gonzalez has been on the Forefront of following up she's been really great about that piece for us um so there are some um services um taking place to help us um accommodate those hours whether it's a work schedule or Transportation um for the families that need it but yes the hours have been extended and with this New Order ahead platform they'll be able to order when the window op and that window will open perhaps 4 days at any time and then that pickup window will happen let's say Wednesday evening from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. and then if they cannot make it they can write us a memo and say I need other

024accommodations um and so that's the luxury of it is that we'll be able to get some feedback and of course there'll be some Growing Pains at the beginning but I think with all the support we'll be able to manage and adjust quickly thank you well thank you again for all the great work that you're doing and president Doyle thank you for coming back and continuing to serve uh as part of the foundation so thank you both thank you excellent work thank you thank you again for both of you for joining this [Applause] evening next we invite for our employee Association highlights our Central unified Teachers Association president Laura Bolton good evening everyone um okay so the first thing I want to um share with you um is something that many of you are probably aware

025of but it's important um to make sure that the community understands and that includes um uh all the the parents the students the teachers and all of the support staff on campuses that Ramadan is coming on Friday um we will have an entire month where some of our staff members and our students um will possibly be observing Ramadan and fasting during daylight hours um so that's really important to understand because that can affect um our students and the way that they interact with uh the learning environment um I sent out a an email um using um a a flyer and um like a video that was put together by one of our teachers at Garza um Ria as she's amazing um but it has some tips about um what our our teachers and our staff

026members people on campus can do um it really affects them by the afternoon when they're starting to get um tired energy levels dip um they may become um sleepy um thirsty their concentration might be um uh off they may become quiet and less interactive so um keeping in mind some things to make them comfortable um like alter alternatives to physical activity during PE that they can still be active but maybe not work as much energy up um giving them a different place to go um during uh lunchtime instead of the cafeteria where everyone around around them is eating um and allowing them to take breaks um so they can stay comfortable um there's more tips and things on there so you can look for my email um and I know that this has been shared

027out as well pretty widely so I want to thank Ria again she's awesome um I also want to give you a a brief um just update on um where we are with bargaining and I don't really want to talk about um money um salary increases are not really a major focus of the bargain this year um it's more about um additional supports on our side that we're trying to attain um so uh the district is asking for an additional hour of extended PD time on principal Wednesdays um but this is off after we've just added two additional PD Days full PD days to the calendar year just this year um the district is asking for an increase to the employee health insurance pre premiums from $221 18 per month month that we currently pay to

028$622 18 per month um this would take us from being one of the most affordable and attractive health plans in the area to one of the most expensive um the district is also wanting to rewrite the par article um the par article is actually something that we are in full support of we are in agreement um this is something that we are actively collaborating on and um we really really want um to make this um change worth the time and effort and and be very very good for our teachers uh and other staff members par is um it stands for peer assistance review and it's a support system for struggling Educators um and we really do see this as a good thing um and it needs to be recognize that we're on the same page

029with this um Cuda is um asking for support for our sped Department in the form of prep time to complete compliance tasks so we don't continue to fail audits additional speech and language pathologist support smaller grade spans in classrooms so meaning like instead of um tk3 maybe 1 to three um and also um no more Blended programs um for instance RSP together with SDC or SDC with fls for the same teacher the same educator um that is incredibly difficult and it wasn't happening prior to this year um Cuda is asking for more support for um El students our English Learners in particular our newcomers um we want to add three secondary and two Elementary newcomer instructional coaches um which we were trying to um add last year um we were actually down to just one

030last year but we're really seeing the need continuing so we're asking for additional ones we didn't get the one last year um and we really do think that it's necessary um and we're asking for push in Aid support in our secondary sites for students that show up to the country with with very low um English level um in high school um and then Cuda is asking for um expansion of specialized alternative Ed classrooms in elementary and secondary this would add two more classrooms to Elementary and possibly one or two to high school to support our students with some serious Behavior challenges that need a more supportive environment more structure so they can relearn behaviors and get back into the Gen Ed classroom and be successful um it it is important to understand oh one more

031uh cud is asking for social workers in our secondary schools to coordinate 504 plans and SST meetings for our struggling students who need support and accommodations to be academically successful um it's important to understand that the district does receive additional money to provide additional support for our um English Learners Foster students unhoused students and low SCS students these are known as the um um unduplicated students um these funds are meant to be spent on these kids and our feedback year after year in the lcap surveys and feedback sessions is that we need this support and yet it is extremely slow to be provided um so please keep in mind that um these are our tax dollars my tax dollars I live in the district I pay taxes um and they should be going to these

032services for these students thank you [Music] thank next thank you next we invite uh our California School Employees Association president Angie giri good evening board members uh superintendent KY um I don't have a lot I only have one item I want to follow up with um our job study uh we were St at a standstill because we wanted the new reports cuz it's been so long so we need an updated salary schedule uh so we're hoping to get back at the table in uh early March so we can be done by end of April uh we're very positive that we can get to the end of this it's been a long three years most of you know so we're hoping we can get done with it we're pretty close but we needed some other figures

033on both sides and we've Collective decided to get the new figures so we can move forward um that way we unlike Laura we haven't started the real negotiations yet so we're really behind so I just want to give you guys an update on that okay thank you thank you we now turn to our school reports with our first uh report coming from Principal Mills about San Elementary School good evening president Singh members of the board and superintendent Davis my name is Joel Mills and I'm honored to be the principal at San Elementary School we have had a wonderful year so far lots of great things have been happening um we're looking forward to continue our hard work through the last day of school um I'm really happy to be here tonight to share some highlights

034and talk about some of the great things that have been happening um at San this year so first off with our academic celebrations um our I ready scores we Rose from 26.4% Proficiency in the fall of this year to 44.5% Proficiency in the winter um which is also up over 4% 4.5% from the winner of last year our already math scores this year uh 14.5% % Proficiency in the fall and we have risen to 32.9% proficiency this winter so we've grown over 18% in both areas and we are up um about 5 a half% in math from the winter of last year our English language proficiency index our LP score um our English Learners increased significantly on the elpac summit of assessment showing growth from we were below 35% so we're in that bottom red

035corner on the graph um to 75% so we were up in that blue box and we did have the highest growth um in the district this year so we're really really um pleased with that um for opportunities um we've really been working on refining our PLC practices um focusing on our essential standards and raising that rigor of not only our teaching but our assignments and our assessments so that we really um are getting a true picture of our students progress towards Mastery of Standards um we've also aligned our SLT meetings our site leadership team meetings with um our the systems that we've put in place with our plc's so that we are we have increased our time for um not only celebrations from each grade level but also um some more data analysis um so

036that we can look at as a whole to make decisions um one of the things that we definitely wanted to focus on this year was increasing writing instruction and writing opportunities for all students the data from our sback last year showed that 60% of our students um are not writing with detail and or sufficient evidence so we went through um every student um esbach report to see you know where we were falling short and that was something that we noticed um that we needed across the board board so we've been working with the teachers on providing opportunities across all subject areas we've been working with the students on organization of their writing and then including those details and text evidence um I've personally um taught some model lessons in classrooms I took superintendent Davis's challenge

037um so I've actually taught in two fifth grade classrooms this week um the kids have been very responsive and it's just been a lot of um instruction on how they can take their thoughts from paper and organize it and then really go back and take a look to make sure they have those details so we've seen um a really good increase in students independent writing um and it's been across the board so we're looking forward to continuing to work on uh writing for engagement um our current student um attendance rate is 93.5% um and then our chronic absenteeism rate is 2 1.8% both of those are definitely areas of concern um because we all know that students can't learn if they're not in school um so we definitely have been working with our students and

038our parents um our family Outreach ladies on and our counselor have really been working hard to ensure that our students are in school um I know we've had some students who have had some social emotional issues um with wanting to get to school so we definitely have um made sure that they have a mentor on campus um and someone to talk to and just to have that support um throughout the day so what's been working for us again um our family Outreach lays on and our counsel have started to make phone calls um pretty quickly once a student gets to five absences or more or we see um a large amount of Charities um we have we get parents on the phone we have them come in for a meeting and our goal really is

039how can we support you um and how can we support the student to come to school and to be successful and feel safe at school something new that we started this year um was attendance Awards uh we had a lot of discussion amongst our staff about um attendance Awards and so we decided that we were going to um provide awards for students who are at 96% or higher or those students who have improved by 5% um we do want to recognize those students who are making an effort um to come to school and so that's something that um we've done as well and then we've tried to do some surprise attendance incentives um along the way just so that St just as a way to get students to come to school we've definitely increased our

040parent engagement um we have a new um PFC and they've already hosted four successful events um so we've definitely had um some very good things happening um on campus this next slide was important to me I know I had a lot of conversations with Mr Garrett last year when he was my supervisor um about listening to our community so our feedback from the 2324 school year indicated um that parents and Guardians wanted more field trips and experiences for students so that was one of our goals for this year was to increase those opportunities so this year by the end of the year each grade level we have had at least one field trip um and or on campus experience uh by the end of the school year so our TK Kinders have gone to the

041pumpkin patch first grade is going to scout Island um second grade is going to have um and on campus um zoomobile third grade's going to the zoo fourth grade um we already had glitter um the Gold Rush people come on campus um and then they're also going to head to the Fresno Flats Museum fifth grade we have the San Jose Tech Museum and then we have a Pioneer Day coming um on campus and then for sixth grade um of course Wonder Valley sixth grade camp we wanted to use some of our um prop 28 money for art so we're going to give them an art experience um by having a pottery day on campus um and then they'll have their Island Water Park um as well so with accountability and continued Improvement again we're still

042working towards increasing the rigor of our instruction our classwork and our assessments aligning those to the standards we are definitely wanting to include more writing and we have structured our data review um for tier one and tier to um so we can provide those instruction and interventions and we've been focusing on our iabs and F abs um so those have been the focus of our conversations during our PLC um meetings and then um we focused a lot on data review with our solution tree um person as well um for professional support um we are again we're working on aligning everything um the cultural inclusivity and our El instruction um we've been providing um our teachers with specific feedback from our drop-ins um we do have teaching fellows in all grades 1 and two and in

043the reading lab and then we also have an extra certificated substitute um to provide intervention um for ELA making it count for kids um we always follow our triple RS standards um so we started off the year with passport day um to go over those expectations and then we did have another passport day in January just to review those expectations and start that second half of the year off on a great step um this isn't in the slide but I added it today because we just found out yesterday or the day before um that we are a 2024 California PB silver implementation award so we received that in the banner so we're very excited about that um one of the things that we're going to gear up to get ready to do is we do

044have our esack buddy classrooms so each one of our primary classrooms pairs up with an intermediate classroom during esack testing and they make little banners and cards and leave little notes for them um just to to give them some encouragement you know you can do it um and it really has been a success and the little kids really like it a lot um and then our of course our intermediate students feel really special and and they appreciate it it's just kind of a way to um get that Community feeling in um with all the kids for our professional development and growth um obviously we've been working with solution tree for a couple years um I feel that it's really made a big difference in just the way that we have approached um especially our data

045analysis and how we can use that data to drive instruction um we have several teachers that are taking the letters training I'm taking it myself as well um alongside my teachers um and then we wanted to tap into um the wonderful people and the expertise that we have in the district um as well so we have had Aaron English come on campus um three times this year to do um some professional development with our teachers and staff on safe classroom spaces um as well as some academic and social strategies for cultural inclusion and how to get kids to share and make them comfortable in the classroom um she actually used to be my vice principal when I first started um so she's been a welcome face on campus and the teachers have really responded to

046her um and then again with our El professional development um we've had Cindy esone um come on campus um to provide some PD um and we have done some collaborative walkthroughs with her um myself and Charles my vice principal have bought classrooms with her and so we've kind of calibrated you know what do we see during that structured ELD time but what do we see just embedded throughout the day um where those supports are there for um our ELD students and we're lucky to have um Miss Marcy Brey housed on our campus and so she's been a a big help um with our newcomers as well any questions that I can answer for you okay thank you so much for the opportunity to present well let let me give you a little bit of Kudos

047just just just um uh really appreciate uh the the thoroughness just just the type of things um principal Mills you guys were doing at at at soy and uh I mean just a remarkable growth is absolutely stunning and um keep keep keep up the amazing work thank you that's Anri that's attributed to the teachers Absolut they have really really worked hard um and we appreciate all of their hard work thank you trust truste Kirk before we let you go um I was really impressed with the listening to our community part listening to what our families want for our kids and what you've done to provide these opportunities for every grade level is very impressive and so thank you for that thank you okay thank you so much have a good evening you you as well

048thank [Applause] you next we'd like to invite principal young to learn about Persian continuation and pathway Community Day School okay all right uh good evening board president sing Chan Board of Trustees and superintendent Davis my name is Jill young and I have the pleasure of being the principal of four different schools um on the same site for Central UniFi so the first school is Persian continuation high school it's our largest school um it has about a hundred students right now and it is for students that are 16 or over and our focus is credit retrieval the next school that we have is purging opportunity which is one class of 15 or less students that are under 16 and we really focus with them on earning their original credits CU they're ninth and 10th graders um

049and then we have pathway community Day School which is 712 and um then we have pathway Elementary which is k6 so oh I'm supposed to do this huh okay on it okay so celebrations um I know you guys have seen my presentation so I'm just going to point out something on each page I'm going to talk about something on each page um and then I welcome any questions for anything that I missed but for celebrations this data is from persing and honestly our graduation rate is one of our more important things that we really focus on all of the data feeds into what making them graduate but for us um it's been going up every year and that is super important because that's our goal is to get students who didn't think they could graduate

050to the graduation line and to prove to them that they can be students um and so we work really hard and we're working really hard this year to get to the next level um engagement I'm going to talk about attendance on this one uh honestly our attendance is never where I wish it would be um it makes sense because we get a lot of students who haven't been doing well they're so they're not coming to school they come to us we've got to change that but this year especially it's been low you know and it's down I mean when when I look at chronically absent is up 177% that keeps me up at night um and so what we've been doing we've been really talking to kids talking to parents trying to figure out you

051know like what's driving the change the top three things that I hear I'm not feeling well I hear that a lot um I just couldn't get up mental health I just couldn't get out of bed today and a lot of I miss the bus I don't have a ride um or they miss the bus and they come in late at some they will come in at some point um and so what we're doing about it number one we know when we have activities on campus it goes up we know we knows that we see it every day um but also we have a team that um is working on attendance we we generally work on 10 about the top 10 at a time not the most absent kids but 10 students that are showing up

052some that we're trying to work on getting them to show up more and since we've had project stealth they've already jumped on board they're already working on certain kids that aren't even in on our 10 list so we we what we do is divide them up and everybody takes a student and we work on them how do we get you here what do you need from us you know how do we help you be successful um and it's just something that we're working on um and so for a minute I wanted to since we have new board members I just wanted to take a minute to talk about pathway um there isn't a lot of data associated with pathway when you look at the dashboard they don't have color because the population is just too

053small to have any meaningful data and generally they're not the same kids from year to year Persian there's a there's a quoti of kids that stay with us for a year and a half or two years but pathway doesn't have that so um one of the things I wanted to point out about pathway is that most of the time what we notice is there are holes in the academics um and you really have to start plugging those holes as part of helping them with behavior we've got to plug the holes that they have and we've got to keep them on grade level and so that is a big Focus pathway is a non they don't bring their phones to school it's amazing you guys they don't complain they're not not sitting there going oh I

054wish I had my phone they're busy they're doing schoolwork you know they're not worried about the drama of I'm going to get a message and what's it going to say um it's great and I have I've been there for 11 years I've watched it for 11 years it just it's fabulous they talk to each other they tell stories they play card games it's fabulous anyways I digress sorry um so accountability and continuous Improvement we are always trying to improve there's always more stuff we can do um so what I want to tell you guys about is our dual enrollment class um we tried it with Fresno City College uh in 2017 and it wasn't very successful the kids were going to City College um not too many of them actually finished the class at that

055time I was vice principal and I kind of felt like are we asking too much of struggling high school students to do college but then last year as I'm reading stuff I'm seeing continuation schools that are taking classes at Brown University and passing them okay what are they doing so I started researching I started talking to other principles that are in the area and realized we need to have that CL campus that class on campus so we started this spring semester we have 15 students they're taking counseling 53 being taught by a staff member and I have a teacher supporting that class as well and the kids are were so excited um they tell me they feel like adults when they're in that class and we're also learning that they really didn't know a lot

056about college and what their options were and so that helps us overall but it's I know this class is going to be successful cuz I'm watching it and I'm so excited by it uh making it count for kids did I skip something no I didn't this is the last one okay so big thing for us is I mean my personal quote to the kids I tell them all the time life is about experiences when the acadc team was competing when I I saw them the morning before they had to take tests and they were like what if we don't know I was like you guys this is an experience go have it meet kids you've never met before you know have a fun day super quiz super fun um they ended up doing really well

057okay it's about experiences this year for the first time we took using the art money the art Grant we took our art class to the Getty museum I don't know why I would was worried I was worried are they going to like a museum they loved it and now they're studying um artists and a lot of them have picked things that they saw at the Museum they were also terrified when La was on fire that the Getty museum was burning so you know we work really hard to get the whole child so I want to end with just a little SU uccess story I want to tell you about student a student a came to us at the beginning of last year and when they came um at orientation I remember I remember clearly talking

058to their parents and the parents said they're probably not going to come to school they haven't been going to school and it started out first couple days they had lots of friends I was really hopeful but then we started seeing them less and less well all of a sudden there was a six- week period where they didn't come at all they didn't want to come our mentors went out the district office went out um staff went to their house and we got the student to come back and at some point one of my teachers noticed this student loves plants and after working with the student for a while the teacher comes back and says I'm going to make them the greenhouse manager okay I think that's great let's do it he's like is it okay

059if I do that yeah yeah let's do that we start seeing this student more it wasn't perfect um but the student started going on field trips they started they be joined FFA they went to state conference with us for FFA and um they ended the year with a 73% attendance rate which was way better than what we they had been seen before this year I was a little worried because they were going to be a possible non-grad due to the number of credits they had but they at some point they said you know what I know I may not graduate this year but I'm going to be here I'm going to learn I'm going to get as many credits as I can and I'm going to have fun and they have and you know what

060they're no longer in the numerically impossible to graduate category they are so close to being on track and it's it's them it's they've done the work but these are the kinds of things that we get to do on a daily basis with really amazing kids and it's not one person it's not two it's the whole team including Mr Garrett okay who come together to make a great experience for kids who really need it and that's all I have to say questions for principal young is saw trusty Kirk and then trusty suu good evening principal young thank you so much for your presentation tonight pardon me I would like to you talked a little bit about dual enrollment so I like to take maybe a moment to help our community understand okay the difference between dual

061enrollment and high school enrichment so dual enrollment specifically assembly Bill 359 was aimed at students in the high school level who potentially would not think about going to college who were not on track to graduate to give them that exposure to college and let them know you're absolutely the material we want so I'm very um happy to hear that the counseling 53 class which I think is an excellent class to get you to understand what it means to go to college so I'll be happy to hear how the students for that and for our community the difference between that and high school enrichment when you have a student who's a 3.0 3.5 students who's taking the extra classes at a community college to um make sure that they have the best opportunity when they graduate

062that's a different type of of process and so our dual enrollment is really for our kids at persy to let you know you're absolutely College material and we're ready for you when you're ready for us so thank you for uh giving us a chance to talk about that thank you chusty suu yes uh I just had uh I was just curious on um like you said that you did some Student Activities that boosted attendance I was just wondering what those activities were and then you know like ways to maybe increase the number of activities depending on what they are we have so many activities going on Sports especially and even Sports practices today the girls had basketball practice no they had a game today yesterday was practice but the girls were all there to make

063sure that they were there for practice um field trips anything that's going on around campus we definitely have kids that don't always show up that show up for the things they want to be a part of um and so we're trying to figure out how to leverage out to make sure they're there every day so that they don't miss anything because my teachers are really teaching you know we need you to be there with us and we miss them when they're not there okay thank you truste Chavez so I see here that you had the project stealth listed yes ma'am so I didn't get the opportunity to ask you as a principal um why why was this chosen for the student and I heard you mention it in a positive way so just an opportunity

064to check in how's that going well so far it's going great they have hit the ground running um right now they have 24 students on their case load um and honestly the mentorship is needed because not all students want to we have ton we have lots of Mental Health Resources but not all students want to do that so having counselors having people that can work with them that can set goals with them that connect with them that is so important those are people that they can turn to when they're having a bad day um and just having more options is always better plus project stealth has the parent um part two and I know some of our parents are struggling to connect with their child they want that support too you know I have parents

065call me and ask you know what do I do we have some support there now so I'm I'm really excited to see how it goes same thank you for sharing that trusty Kon thank sorry thank you president Singh um thank you for the presentation uh principal young um I want to commend you for um acknowledging how you you have that um issue with the dual enrollment program but not just giving up saying it's not for our site uh researching what other districts are doing and how they're succeeding and identifying how how to make it work for your students so I commend you for that and also um for you and your team uh really caring for the whole child you know it's a really important site to care to understand have that kind of framework

066for um caring for students so I commend you for that um just wanted to clarify um I was going to ask about project stealth but trusty uh my colleague over there already uh got it so I want to ask about the attendance so are we it said down 4.8% is that down is in like our attendance is dropping or the attendance uh Mis attending is dropping no attendant our attendance rate is down 4.8% from last year our average I see okay all right no further questions then thank you just want to appreciate you principal young for I I mean sharing the the data sharing some individual stories and and just sharing all the things that you and your team are doing out there so really appreciate you joining us this evening thank you guys next

067we open it to superintendent board Communications okay okay I've got a couple for you um I also wanted to tag on to the uh Foundation presentation and thank our intervention Specialists and our child welfare attendance office who's doing a lot of um the examples of what was shared as well there's there's a lot of departments that are stepping in to make sure our families are getting need um their needs met um where they've identified that they can um benefit from that support um uh Laura shared earlier about Ramadan our sites are prepared um there's common adjustments that are made um spaces on campus that are available for students to go activities to do during the lunch hour for all the students that don't want to be sitting in a lunchroom with smells of food and

068um starting this year I want to commend our Child Nutrition team they also have sent out a QR code to families and are sending home food that can be available to students after hours when it's appropriate for them to Access Nutrition so um I think our our schools are ready for uh for that so thank you for mentioning that few other announcements for you as well uh registration starts next week for next school year so kindergarten and transitional kindergarten remember transitional kindergarten is open to our four-year-olds registration is available online so parents can who don't want to come to campus physically and and uh go through the documentation can go on to uh the parent link to um new child registration and go through the process you'll start to see a lot of advertising about

069it uh this week and um clear instructions also for col Elementary and wear families um that are going to be the first students in TK and K of that campus will will do their registration uh they'll also find out about the K Camp opportunity in the Summer where students who have never been in school can do some orientation work uh thank you for everyone who participated last week in the recruitment process or the um input process for our recruitment for assistant superintendent human resources and the director of sped positions they are advertised they are set to close March 6th we'll keep you posted on that uh the district website is being updated uh this summer there's been a team of staff that have been looking at um how the site is being used where families

070go to get information what information is mostly accessed and what are the bugs and problems for people to get information and so over the summer there'll be a a transition and some improvements to the site I want to make you aware of uh but right around the corner uh Jonathan and oay are working on getting uh by the end of this week H's website up and going uh so information can begin to be available for families there so that's really exciting I also want to mention another Communications um activity that you'll start to see on media so you're aware that it's coming uh commend our Communications team theyve started the first ever internship program for communications there are 12 talented students from Central High Central East Justin Garza and Persian continuation who are meeting weekly

071after school with our Communications team um they are involved in districtwide communication projects communication professionals are coming to meet with them to um to talk to them about areas of expertise that they're interested in whether it's public affairs media relations marketing journalism and the interns are getting ready right now to launch some new features on media that that I want you to watch for in the next month uh there's a brand new video series that they will be doing so once a month there'll be a recap from across central Unified Schools that is a student produced um a media and then in mid-march um there'll also be a publication that is shared out in multiple formats that uh where students are doing a print version across uh digital media where they a spotlight current student

072a current staff member and a current alumni that they reach out to I think you one of you at this Das is already going to get reached out to I believe truste uh sidu might have some people that are reaching him and then lastly we got word um always like to add a little bit of data if I can um parek is a an Analytics tool we're using to track information that we have in District on our student achievement data and we just got word that um when they were doing some dashboard released data um Statewide um that riverbluff Elementary is number one across the state for um the English language arts uh growth of the subgroup of African-American students out of 1,292 schools and they are ranked number I know and they are ranked

073number three in math growth for elementary schools across the entire State of California so our teachers and our school schools are doing great things I want you to know that that's all thank you trust uh thank you president Singh um I just want to again uh wish uh Ramadan Mubarak to our Muslim families and commend the district for um making our school sites accessible to our Muslim Students who are fasting uh during Ramadan um and then again for anyone who is looking to uh for information on that uh program that uh superintendent Davis mentioned about the um the Child Nutrition Services if a student wants a take- home meal there's a graphic we posted on all our social media for sun unified please go click the link there if you need those uh meal accommodations

074uh also uh shout out to our Central East basketball team that uh are uh undefeated in the playoffs right now I got to visit their uh game uh last week uh I think that's all I have so far for communications thank you thank you yeah please our students speaking of what you just posted our basketball team uh plays Friday night 8 o00 cend Arina yes thank you um next we turn to our consent agenda and before we pass our consent agenda oh yes we take comments from the public first any comments from the public on items not on the agenda uh thank you president Singh I have one comment from from Laura Bolton and Miss Bolton you'll have 3 minutes but the timer will be on the screen thank you um okay I just uh

075wanted to make a quick correction um uh I pride myself on my math skills and I made an error um so I shared with you that the change in premiums would be that um we would be paying $622 um with the proposed change in our our bargaining right now um that was inaccurate um the proposed change would increase our premiums from $221 18 to $810 78 um so that is definitely not an affordable health insurance premium um and so I would uh urge the district to reconsider that proposal thank you thank you we move to our uh other any other comment from the public or no president saying any that we have phoned in then then we move to uh back to our agenda to our consent agenda and before um I take a motion

076I just want to highlight uh we have a resolution to declare March 2025 as developmental disability awareness month we have a resolution to declare March 2025 as women's History Month as well as a resolution to declare March 2nd 2025 as read Across America week and do I have a motion on this on the consent agenda motion we have a motion by trusty sidu second we have a second by trusty sers those in favor please say I I those oppos nay those abstaining motion carries 70 thank you we move on to our action items uh our first action items are student discipline cases president sing and I would just request if we can vote on each one of them separately no problem so our uh first um item would be case number 24258 do I have

077uh a motion or or um amendment to this item I'll make a motion to approve the district's recommendations we have a motion uh to to approve case number 24258 by truste sers second we have a second by trusty Chavez those in favor please say I I I those opposing nay nay those abstaining motion carries 61 I'll move to approve the recommendation for case number 24-2-11 second we have a motion by truste CIO on case 24251 we have a second by truste kuron those in favor please say I I those oppose nay those abstaining motion carries 70 thank you we next move on to uh approved compreh prehensive school safety plants supervisor Smith all right good evening president Singh members of the board and superintendent Davis at the previous board meeting we brought forward the School

078site comprehensive safety plans and emergency procedures documents for information as part of our annual review tonight we are bringing them back for Action we are recommending approve of these documents to ensure compliance with the March 1st deadline I am happy to answer any questions trusty sers all right thank you um my the last meeting I asked for uh some supporting documentation is that the attachment that's in here now yes okay uh when I look that over uh it looks like that is all certificated staff is there anything for classified or msse employees it should be all the school staff if that is noticed then there's additional sign-ins we could ask for but the review should be for all School staff okay and then do we have any documentation or anything to provide a little bit

079more detail as to you know I look at that I see it as it's a roster this person was there on this day doesn't really get into what was taught who taught it what standards we're teaching to and does that individual have a firm understanding of what the responsibilities are yeah so the r typically and you you've seen the plan so the view typically is going over um what the steps we going to follow what teams if there is an emergency procedures and then keep in mind too this is a one-time review where they're doing it but it's not the last time they're talking about it that that is brought back in January there's additional conversations if there's ever any questions as far as hey that wasn't clear what more do we need to talk

080about that is ongoing conversation that can be happening cuz understandably some of these things we don't experience all the time we want to make sure that we know what we're going to do okay yeah that that's kind of my concern that if we're leaving it up to each individual School site to develop whatever criteria is necessary to be taught um there's consistencies from one School site to another and where you have a very good experience and knowledge of something somebody may not yeah um so some this kind of builds into some of my concerns I've expressed this before that I think these plans are very generic um and there's a lot of room for or opportunity for improvement um for example you know we have two campuses that have Aquatics and looking through their site

081plans I don't see anything listed as to what to do in the event of an emergency related to that just something suggesting to grow I think it'd be a good opportunity for the board subcommittee to kind of delve into that and make some recommendations um there's always room to do better um some of the other things that looking over the current uh plans here though it appears that at least one of the campuses plan is missing the signatures on it okay um I would assume that's a uh clerical oversite but as I look a little bit more in depth into it I've noticed that some of the you know as you go through each category we list specific employees and what their responsibilities and roles are going to be in the event of these specific

082types of emergencies um notice that some of the people who are listed are no longer at that campus or even employed with the district those are just the ones that I know so uh that's causing me a little bit of concern that this essentially you guys can correct me if I'm wrong this is now a legal document right that once we sign everyone signed it adopts it that's part of the process that we're going through now is kind of approving it for this year yes okay so these are my concerns then that with each plan we haven't really demonstrated that what lessons have been taught what uh standards we're teaching to I've see some people listed in these roles that are no longer with the campus or the district and some of them missing signatures

083it appears that they're incomplete so I don't feel comfortable approving this tonight can I answer some of that so I know Cassie has been emailing with principles lately to make sure all of that is submitted by March 1st so that information that you're missing we are after as well because we need to meet the March 1st deadline however we are noting your concern okay and there is some practice that we're looking into implementing to ensure we refine some of the processes so if this is due March 1st why is it being brought to us in the 11th Hour again so it's not 11th Hour they were presented last year um this is typically and I'll just I know I've been here since last year I know this has typically been the time that these have

084been brought to board um because it does take time at the school site to be able to share the plan meet with the school site Council review it update it bring it to us get it finalize for you to be able to review and this has kind of been the timeline that we have followed um I just want to add a little bit to because I know there was concerns about a specific plan I would love to know that information um after because that is something that I help the sites look through to make sure that information is updated and the signatures are all received so that is concerning to me as well um and it's very important that those are reviewed and updated annually okay um that's all of my comments at the moment

085trusty K so I have um some follow-up questions so I'm a little confused as to trusty sellers what you're referring to as far as like the um curriculum or lessons being taught what are you referring to well when we have individuals listed as a search and rescue team or a fire suppression HazMat team what lessons are they being taught what is the expectations how is that being reviewed yeah and is every site doing that consistently and it's not just those two there I mean there's others that what do these we're asking our staff to to perform some sort of responsibility but I don't know if there's really clear definition of what that is and without that how can I say I've appropriately trained you you know if uh for example if fire suppression is I

086expect you to use a fire extinguisher to put out the trash can that's on fire you know that's fine but I would expect to see some sort of across theboard standard that this is what we expect across the district you have demonstrated Proficiency in utilizing a fire extinguisher and you clearly understand what your role and responsibility is going to be so I know for some of these because if you look at and it's been a while since I've read every word of these plans um they are standard because I believe this is a template consistent with the requirements yes and it's linked into recommendations through California through Emergency Management yes uh right and they're a ton of different legislative bills and then there were updates uh in the last two years and I think even

087last year's there's been updates every year yes and that's what kind of plays into these plans becoming very long is that as we live we know there's new things that we're updating and being prepared for all to say that in addition to what the plans say um my understanding and I do know personally because we all get an email with the mandatory trainings that we're all supposed to be completing on this board that all of our staff also have to complete and I don't know about the fire suppression because I don't remember I don't think that's one that is included for us as a board okay so that's why I'm saying like I know that there's going to be so to answer your question in addition to these plans there are specific trainings whether we're

088confirming if someone fully understands how to use a fire extinguisher because I don't um but it's not my job to is a different story but I these plans are comprehensive and compliance with our legal requirements there's also training modules that are provided and I'm pretty certain that we also provide any employee that says I need more training I need more information they can access additional modules and I'm just looking at like the the child abuse reporting procedures that's a mandatory one to two hour training that all of us on this board are supposed to complete and have access and have received notifications about um some of the other things about like uh U discrimination and harassment so I think I just want to make sure that you know and perhaps they confirm that there are

089additional trainings in addition to anything that's being done in in person um and if employees and anyone who is watching or hears our meeting if you feel like you need more training please make sure that you talk to your supervisor because we have various platforms and our staff will be prepared to make sure that you understand what your responsibilities are uh in these roles and so my only other recommendation would be in consistent with what truste sellers is that we we take a closer look for some of the identification of those employees and if that's changed that we're more uh attune and Vigilant about replacing those names so that it is um accurate and current absolutely trusty sellers I just want to add on that the reason I'm bringing this up is because I've been

090approached by employees that have expressed they have not received adequate training and when asked there's nothing or it's hey I I don't really know so I would suggest for any employee that is claiming that the best approach is once you've contacted your supervisor follow up with an email and now you have a record and now when there are any issues there's documentation you're asking for training and we're not giving it to you but I I know I see a lot of heads nodding I think we have additional trainings we can provide so if employees you're listening you want additional trainings please make sure you contact your supervisor and if they're saying no make sure that then they're contacting the district office so that we provide them the training they need yes absolutely thanks thank you

091I'll move to approve the uh comprehensive school safety PL as presented we have a we have a motion by uh truste CIO second by truste uh Kirk those in favor please say I I those oppos n those obain item carry 61 thank you thank you we move to item number three approved student and Family Services site coordinator job description assistant superintendent Dr Lopez hello again so today uh I am reviewing the job description and we are recommending um that you approve the job description but I know that there was an ask for information in some of our prior meetings so I wanted you to to be aware a little bit of the historical background so I'm not going to go into detail um because I know you've had this information however um we did have

092a planning grant for 2 years in our system and through that planning Grant we were able to secure a team of individuals that made some decisions on behalf of our district to create a plan plan is supposed to be in compliance with the California Community Schools framework as well as the needs that were assessed uh at school sites that were to be the six Community Schools in year one there was a price group uh that was suggested from frone County Superintendent of of schools to ensure that we complied with the application process there was collaboration with area supervisors and Educational Services Department during year two the direct our director Erin English was hired and she continued that work that that started in year one along with area administrators uh atossa was hired later in that

093year towards the second semester uh to help with uh the input sessions at te uh Elementary School uh and there was input provided from a team that was created Corine compos was also part of the second semester hire uh to ensure that we were in compliance with the application and that we were able to obtain the grant the application was submitted by semester 2 2324 Academic Year we were able to be granted that uh 8,312 500 and Dr Lopez myself presented this to the board in June 11th uh the receipt of the Grant and the fact that we would be receiving the Gan letter soon um upon that letter we awaited for the funds to be uh provided to our district but during that process we hired a supervisor of community schools and we were

094able to start some of the foundational work and laying the groundwork for uh the community schools to get started and and spending those funds um in accordance to uh the proposal submitted to the state as well as the needs assessments that were done in those listening sessions at the school sites so having said that uh we did start a guiding Coalition during that time um and and this was formed which included the assistant superintendent of Educational Services the area administrators director of Dei consultant um that was part I believe it was Kine campus now Cuda president Laura Bolton teacher on special assignment through the planning Grant and the principles who open the listening sessions at each of the school sites Family Outreach leasons and faculty were also part of this collaboration each school had multiple

095listening sessions and we paid for extra funding to ensure that our teachers attended so they were paid extra paid contracts if they wanted to attend during those hours we wanted teacher input we wanted to ensure we heard not just our families our classified staff but to ensure that our teachers had input during this process there was a survey that was created uh we started with te elementary school because they were the site that had already initiated the work with the TOA they provided us a survey that they had created in collaboration with the teachers uh and the team that survey was distrib to a total uh to the teachers within those School sites a total of 63 teachers submitted responses uh from that survey uh expressing the needs at the site but also identifying um

096the great work that is happening already and the assets that each School possesses through this grant we were able to as you can see that's those are the the school sites that participated in the percentage of staff for each of the school sites that participated they selected their School site again this is is the staff and teacher input sessions um out of the 63 95% of the responses were teachers so from the 67 responses 94% of the responses coming from certificated teachers and only 6% from classified staff every question included a mandatory narrative so they can't just click a response you have to explain to us in narrative format what you want or what you see as a need at the school site or a gap uh but you also have to express the areas

097of strength in a narrative format there was thematic thematic coding done to identify the gaps and the needs uh including Staffing so if they mention Staffing it was uh identified with thematic coding to ensure that this information that was provided to me matched I myself went through every single response that was submitted through that survey and I identified whether they identified an administrator that they wanted an additional administrator a community school person if they wanted uh even an some people mention known time assistance as a need um some of them did mention intervention teachers So I myself highlighted just to count the number of people that were mentioned in that survey in this survey uh non-teaching positions meaning classified staff know time assistants uh an intervention uh specialist uh were mentioned 95% of the times

098so that is the need that was identified by just the survey itself from the input sessions we receive something similar they identifi classified positions or individuals that can provide services to meet they call them at of school factors um I think we're all passionate about understanding The Gap right that persistent Gap in academics that persist and that is not solely rigor in the classroom which is a big factor C culturally relevant information is very important which is why it's part of one of the pillars but also access to out of school factors and what those are is food food insecurity housing we know all the health right so that was identified and clear in the surveys and in the input sessions um the Grant had to meet uh the framework guidelines which was also attached

099to this presentation in blue um on top of that we had to take all of that information into account identify the position that would best meet those gaps that were identified and that is how the position of a coordinator came to be we need somebody that works with the community we need somebody that understands how to pull in resources from the community to meet the out of school factors because 95% of the responses were around Health Food parent classes you name it so it was a variety of needs that we needed somebody that could advocate for those needs to bring back to the sites in addition it was identified that these needs don't stop during the summer these needs don't stop during winter time the needs do not stop during Springtime and they don't stop

100at 3:45 so we have to take into account what is the position in our district that can meet those various needs no matter the time because we know those are happening as we sleep at night for some of our families we also have to take into account sustainability and the need for the position funding is braided there is no way we can uh meet the needs of a school and call it a community school and keep it that way with a position we know that so it's the community organizations that are linked to the school that are hopefully going to remain linked to that school uh after the position uh goes away with the grand funding however we wanted to sustain that position if we're investing in training a person like how can we keep

101that individual continuing to provide services and we thought hm well there's a pillar ELO right expanded learning opportunities is a current pillar of the community school framework so as you can see in that uh the specific job description that has been attached we included language on expanded learning opportunities to ensure that when the funding goes away then expanded learning opportunities can kick in and that matches the prior supervisors that we had through Campus Connect to provide services as a Lead Teacher in our system so now that person that has been trained that knows how to make connections with a community can remain and continue providing services to our families through the expanded learning program uh the cor uh the coordinator in this scenario is a 12-month position so we have to look at all of

102those things what current position is able to meet those uh kinds of um time frames uh it's a flexible position that can go outside of the regular academic day and also we are looking for an individual that understands how to bring in Services into our school that has uh experience working with community- based organizations so that is how the position came to be have having said that I know that it was requested to kind of see this information regarded to funding um the reason why you see a difference and the coordinator pay is because we have to evaluate the fiveyear cost because you don't know who you're going to be hiring you may be hiring somebody with experience so that is how we allocate this for the teacher position and I know Amir is on

103Zoom maybe he can kick in and help me out with this one I had to collaborate with his Department because what how what they do is they look at the majority of our current teacher population and we have to take the average between that which is 83% at the higher end of the pay right now 83% of our staff is at that pay so we have to consider if one of them gets higher what would the pay be so we do an average of that is and that's what you see um when I get into the teacher um pay if we were to fund a teaching position which is one of the asks that was mentioned to bring back information that is the cost um um and that is not providing any funding to the

104school sites um and we would still be in the negative so we would have to figure out then how do we cover that cost the classified uh position that is being suggested um would provide us with some funding but I want us to remember what I said about braided funding the reason why we are including expanded learning opportunities program is because some of the the committee work I don't want us to forget that there's a committee at every school and every committee will have teachers will have classified staff we'll have Administration we'll have a team of people parents and Community Based we are asking for a community- based organization to sit in that committee so they can give input as to what programs they want to see at the school site to to better serve

105the needs that were identified now whatever they decide we're not going to limit it to that amount we have expanded learning opportunities so if they decide an school program on literacy then our ELO program will kick in to sub to provide services to that school to meet that Gap if they feel it's a summer literacy program then we can make that happen and now this person that is in that position can manage that program and hire for teaching fellows par professionals whatever is needed to make the program happen we don't want limits so that's what we're trying to do with the job description and that's why you see a lot of Elo mentioned in the job description having said that the dot desri uh description attached aligns with the California Community Schools partnership program Grant

106proposal uh that was uh provided uh and accepted by the state I would like to um ask that uh we evaluate that position and that I highly suggest that we we recommend for us to adopt it I do however want to introduce you to someone her name is Christina Rodriguez and she's our supervisor of community schools and expanded learning programs and she's been doing a lot of work and I wanted her to speak a little bit about the work she's doing uh so if she can if you can come up and she will be joined by nor seos come on nor and she is our current parent and family engagement coordinator which was one of the initial coordinators we hired as a district and she can tell you a little bit about her work and

107what she does in our community good evening press the button it's my first experience so please bear with me me good evening president seeing Board of Trustees and superintendent Katy Davis I am Christina Rodriguez and I am the supervisor of community schools and also our expanded learning programs for our district I'm here tonight to introduce myself and also to share the progress so far relating to Community Schools in our district I will also be expressing the need to move forward with the hiring of our student and Family Services site coordinators it's important to note that funding for this grant was recently received by Fresno County superintend of schools at the end of January although we only recently received the funds there have been preparations that needed to be done to ensure implementation much of the

108work thus far has been District level implementation of the grant this year we have offered a variety of community school events offering food distribution clothing and other needs for our community one example of this was our lights on event that we did in collaboration with our expanded learning program which I also oversee we had over 1,200 attendees at this event and we had 19 community- based organizations this is the first time that we've ever had community- based organizations at this event um some of those organizations were organizations like pg& which was there to provide resources um to support with bills energy management and much more another organization was the Fresno interdenominational Refugee Ministries which they work really closely with our Refugee Community to provide um access I mean sorry to provide um support in areas

109like Wellness Community Building literacy and learning we also hosted a food distribution at this event and we gave over 2300 fresh produce items and we give back as well so we collected um over a thousand brand new socks for ry's closet which is one of our community- based organizations that provides clothing to all of our students um in uh centry infi another event was our recent outc cap meetings uh I collaborated with Dr Lopez and also with our state and federal department we did a Grocery Giveaway in collaboration with the Teague pantry and also with feeding Fresno uh we also had a couple different community- based organizations there as well to provide support and information for our families one of those uh organizations was the highway City Community Development and they were there promoting Community

110input for the Safe Streets project another one was uh cro La Familia which provides services um for immigration victim services health and wellness and others as you heard earlier I also collaborate with our director of the foundation for Central Unified Schools Serena DOI and I am really excited to just continue to expand on that collaboration that we have I've met with School site administrators to provide professional development around Community Schools and I also created some guiding documents for them I myself have attended uh professional development sessions hosted by the Central Valley Regional technical assistance and coaching department and this has really helped with the preparation and resource collection for the professional development that I will be providing um for the coordinators once they are hired I've also done a few Community uh School site visits

111where I engaged in learning walks at three different school districts during these learning walks I really was looking at their uh structure and procedures for their site committees I was looking at the role of the coordinators how they really integrate with the school the most recent learning walk that I did was with uh Karine compos and also with Dr Lopez and we were looking at the best practices for the districtwide advisory committee the idea is that we gather the best practices to create the best model for our district I work closely with our uh Family Outreach Leons I meet with them monthly and I provide uh professional development during these meetings I also implemented where I actually schedule community- based organizations to come in to every meeting provide information to our Liaisons so that not

112only are are they getting the information that they need to provide to our families but they also have a direct contact person they have someone that they know that they can go to when they need their services and this has created Partnerships at all sites and not just our community school sites I also provide them with support and guidance around parent engagement event creation and data collection as this is part of our community schools data goal I also have um supported in the start of the early matters Fresno Network Improvement community um this is in collaboration with Fresno County Superintendent of Schools te TOA and also their school team this is a cohort of 21 students at Teague that receive targeted supports and monitoring from our our nick uh the Nick ensures that we create

113a support system for the family as a whole which targets out of school factors that are barriers to achieving um grade level early literacy and addresses chronic absenteeism once this is fully implemented and D data is gathered this framework will will really help guide the work at the additional Community Schools I have also overseen the work by artosa at Teague in collaboration with site leadership I helped coordinate a middle school Leadership Academy in collaboration with Fresno County Superintendent of Schools and other surrounding districts that was designed to address leadership skills and reading Improvement for our UND uh unduplicated student population starting in July uh when I was hired in July 2024 I have collaborated with Auda and Dr Lopez around language that aligns to the work to be done by the California Community Schools partnership

114um program committees and also our district around the running of the grant that has taken that um where we've met and we've just really have come with some come up with some good agreements in that collaboration lastly uh one of the implementations that I'm most proud of is our inter session camps uh so we started with winter and we're not stopping there we're continuing with spring and hopefully Into Summer uh but myself along with April Lee our elop manager and guidance from Dr Lopez we have implemented and provided these to our students in these camps students get to engage in various real world experiences and enrichment activities they get to choose between either an on-site camp or an offsite camp this model has really allowed us to build Partnerships with local community- based organizations and

115genders and also aligns with the expanded learning pillar of Community Schools as you can see many of these supports I've mentioned have been at little to no cost to the district we have partnered with community- based organizations to bring those services to our families the site coordinators will be able to do the same thing for our sites and provide that level of support year round whether it's during the regular school day or outside of the regular school day during in session periods or out of session periods inter sessions what we call them I also know that there is an area of discussion I I also know that an area of discussion has been around sustainability um and sustainability really is in the relationships that we build with those cbos that we continue to grow and

116Foster those relationships to support the needs of our community in years to come I will now introduce nor seos our parent engagement coordinator which is a comparable role to the position that we are seeking approval from tonight she will explain the scope of her work thank you oops good evening president sing uh Board of Trustees and uh superintendent Davis um my name is noros for the ones of you that don't know me yet um and I have have the privilege of serving as a PR involment coordinator for our district and I've been the first one in Fresno County Superintendent schools and that happened to be me in central un High School District uh so um um I have um I do this with a lot of passion and for the word that I've been committed

117since 2008 my mission has been to ensure that every family regardless of language background or circumstances has access to the resources and support they need I work hard for us uh to support I work hard for uh to Foster strong Partnerships with Community Based organizations to connect families with essential services and subsidized resources I collaborate with the school sites and our fam relations to provide access to whatever resources is needed at the heart of my work is a commitment to meeting families where they are and what they need they need us the most whether that means early mornings evenings or weekends that CH the challenges of our families face do not puse when the school day ends and neither does our dedication to supporting them through collaboration and Outreach we're making a meaningful impact in

118the lives of our students and their families here just a few initiatives that are transforming our committee and this is the last one the latest from this uh school year not this school year this year from January till now uh noiz this was based on the Family's needs you know what is going with immigration right now so listening to their knce uh we decided to partner with Central La Familia the Mexican consulate and other agencies to be able to empower the families with legal legal knowledge and resources to navigate immigration concerns um run these closets uh streamline system insuring students have access to clean appropriate clothing when they need uh the most food distribution in collaboration with the spensa the campes inex we provided food security currently assisting 35 families that they feared going to

119get food because of their immigration stat so actually the family reations are been helping me to deliver that food we also organize that Food Distributing through our own food pantry like you he from Serena the family reg have been helping to make the appointments and distribute the food to those families uh El cop and Community Schools expanding access through Transportation uh uh food distribution and a food truck offering vegetarian options to promote inclusivity uh neighborhood Industries partnership providing emergencies assistance including $500 vouchers for families that are displaced due to fires and $100 vouchers for families in need uh direct assistant to UNH house students and families which have resulted in personal invitations to graduations ceremonies and family achievement celebrations life changing Su sucess stories students overcoming homelessness leaving gangs and graduating to become lawyers doctors

120and scientists I also been helping families as students to go to the IB League schools to graduate um and are been very successful the role of the student family and services site coordinator uh to continue making an meaningful impact we must increase the Staffing and resources to expand engagement and Outreach ex strem Partnerships with community and organizations to enhance Support Services invest in professional development to meet involving the the involving involving needs of families Implement thata dri strategies to assess needs and track progress effectively uh to ensure the long-term sustainability of these efforts we miss trining our collaboration with Community Based organizations and cultivate strong lasting Partnerships with our community families need hard-driven individuals who don't mind helping past working hours uh early mornings evenings weekends and during school breaks their struggles don't stop there

121and neither should our community uh and my position as a management classified it gives me the flexibility in the sense that I am able to Pro provide for their needs regardless of the time of the year or that time of the day that is needed together we're not just providing support we're Empowering Families and transforming lives thank you for your leadership ambition and dedication to the families of central unified I look forward to continue this important work alongside you thank you thank you thank thank you Nora so we are recommending at this point for us to approve the job description I'm happy to answer any questions we'll take comments from the public before we have our have our conversation do you have any comments yeah thank you president Singh our comment is from Laura Bolton

122and Miss Bolton you'll have three minutes working oh there we go okay um okay um so I I do want to respond a little bit to what was in the presentation um The Guiding Coalition that's described on the slide um mentions a bunch of people including myself um I can say for certain that I have never sat down as a team with the group of people listed there and discussed this position or anything else having to do with Community Schools that's not to say that I have not been consulted with that I have not talked that I've not had small group meetings but the guiding Coalition this team does not exist it has not met at least not with me so this is disingenuous um I understand the the need for a 12-month position we

123have 12-month classified people there it already exists that position we need um to understand that classified management employees are not protected by a collective bargaining agreement they are at will employees they will be yes people they will not be uh feel comfortable Standing Up For What the community wants if it isn't what the do wants the site coordinator should feel comfortable speaking up and advocating for students families and staff and I know that they would feel this way because our existing MSC classified management Personnel don't feel comfortable speaking up they come to Cuda they come to CCA they ask us to speak up for them because they are afraid to speak up that's the person that we want to put in this position they will not be able to be independent thinkers and advocate for

124the community the way they should now we can have classified Personnel that's what I thought the job was when I was shown the the graph with all of the information in the budget it said classified it never said classified management the dollar amount that was listed there looked like a high classified salary I expected that I thought it was the year five high-end salary I asked no questions because it made sense and I gave my thumbs up and to think that that or to to imply that our classified folks couldn't do this job without having management as a title is disrespectful Betty who is one of the people on The Guiding Coalition is amazing we need more betties she's classified she is not classified management we can find more betties we can thank you uh

125president Singh we have no other comments uh cards at this time do we do we have any on the phone board president there are no callers at this time so now open up to conversation I heard uh I saw trusty Chavez's hand okay so I've studied this quite closely for a little while and I I feel like the presentation tonight was exactly the same presentation that we had a few weeks ago concerning um primarily because I did ask some very pointed questions about the budget thank you superintendent Davis for getting me those answers but where I get concerned okay so let me just first of all congratulate the district for getting a grant like this I know it's a huge accomplishment I want to congratulate the people who have brought it this far so at

126at no means am I trying to be disrespectful to the work that's been done cuz I am coming in at the 11th hour so obviously I'm coming in with a different perspective but when I look at a budget and I see a line item for 68,000 per year for things like a $90,000 consultant in one year that's concerning to me and and then we have 390,000 for personnel the the mismatch I just can't justify it I asked questions about why are we using 83,000 per site for training I mean some of these numbers were just so large I still don't feel satisfied with those answers and so when we're talking about sustainability and I'm seeing diagrams of us being in a deficit that we can't afford certain positions and we can't do certain things I

127still am not clear why the budget is the way that it is and so to hear that we don't have funding to do certain things is concerning to me I do really appreciate the fact that I I do think we could have very skilled people in a classified position I read the gr Grant closely nowhere did I see classified manager I did see classified coordinator that's the line item so I and I've been told and I keep I feel like a circular argument I keep getting directed back like oh we have a classified manager is the only job title that's comparable in in central I keep getting told that and even giving links to our HR that's our own internal interpretation that's not coming from the funer so that was my question at the previous

128board meeting is this coming from the funer that we have to do that and I was told yes this is what we have in the grant no it says six classified coordinators we're interpreting that to say classified management I can tell you for as a person I've been a classified manager I did it I I built a program at Madera County Office of Ed it's a hard job and you work a lot of hours and it's exactly like what they said you are an atwi employee and you could be fired at the drop of a hat and it's a tough job so I want to be really careful about how we handle this position because this position is vital for those schools and for that community and the idea that we would hire somebody number

129one that we would be underpaying them potentially number two that there could be potential for high turnover in that role concerns me and number three if we're looking at sustainability at the end of this five years we need to really look at long-term how are we going to support this so one of the things that I keep thinking about is I've heard suggestions of Master's lover social workers I've heard it multiple times in bargaining we're talking about lcap teachers are requesting social workers we're talking about blending and braiding of funding this is kind of the opportunity if you have funds available to start to seed something and then potentially keep it sustainable by blending and braiding funding and looking at elcap five five years from now building up to plans I think there's just some

130bigger questions about what are we thinking about strategically I understand the immediacy that we need to get started but I want to be thoughtful about how we move forward because these staff roles are so critical I really just feel like there just needs to be a closer look that's all trusty sidu oh sorry did you want to um share some information um thank you for your uh concerns I understand where you're coming from um the line items that you're mentioning where and I think you've already examined the grant came from the grant but know that in April we have to submit a report so that is when we can suggest changes and that is something that I've already talked to my supervisor uh and to ensure that it aligns we're even reducing her cost and

131that is why she's able to do a lot of this expanded learning work because uh we are reducing her cost to put it back at the site so we are trying to make some changes I I did contact CDE uh just to verify uh they are allowing 10% change within lines it's not the five that was mentioned so I verified that uh so know that that that's a response for that sorry trusty CIO and then trusty uhu thank you president sing I'm really frustrated with us as a board uh because this is now the second time maybe even the fourth thank you the fourth time we have this item um we're here to talk about these job descriptions and for our existing board members not our new ones because you're just joining us this is

132not a new conversation this is a grant that was presented to us two or two years ago 3 years ago we have teachers I know that at some point we approved U Miss Judy Martinez is has some role I don't know what role and I don't remember and I can't pull it off the top of my she's a tosa so it's frustrating that we keep coming back and some of the comments that are being said that when we're talking about classified management that we're saying that our classified who are bargaining unit members or less than that is not what is being said the reason for the classified management is because the overtime rules that uh fall under flsa and are uh part of the collective bargaining agreement don't apply to management because yes we work

133people to their bone that's exactly what we're saying that's exactly what we heard from both of our other management employees that are that are speaking up and sharing and if we have employees who are concerned with whether they can speak up whether they are being listened to whether the recommendations that is not in my personal opinion unions will disagree that's not not a reason to have these employees be part of a union that's a bigger institutional issue with our management and that's something that we as a board should have bigger conversations about and that our management needs to be aware of Beware aware of and so it's just really frustrating that we're trying to move forward this grant was written it was written the way that it was and that there's um in my perspective

134in my view a misrepresentation as to the reason for these management classified employees is so that there is this flexibility and so that we can save money in the overtime that's ultimately what it is and if we want to we don't want that then now we're dictating what those positions should be and what this grant should be and quite frankly if that's what we're going to be doing as a board why do why are we hiring employees to write these grants and how are we going to hold them responsible when they're not completing when they're not doing their job because we're now dictating what those positions should be and we're going to have a huge financial implication which impacts us when we are in negotiations we're currently in negotiations with Cuda we heard from CCA

135what we know consistently which is not unique to our district is that every year we're being asked to increase salaries that means more money and the M super majority of our budget I think the last time was 86% 87% goes to salaries our hands are tied and quite frankly we don't even know what our federal government is going to be doing and how many of these grants we're still going to be able to sustain moving forward which is very concerning so I really hope that you all have made a decision and that we can move forward and again I'm talking to my colleagues that we can make a decision today on on these positions because I don't want to waste another meeting and quite frankly have our Administration waste more time and our Administration our

136staff members from upper management to down the the chain to present the same information again there's clearly we're either not articulating articulating our questions correctly or there's nothing more for them to provide other than if you don't want this position to be a management coordinator then you're going to be dictating and we're going to risk losing the grant money and however much uh a larger Financial impact that's going to have on our budget so with that I know that there's still other comments otherwise I'm ready to make a motion to approve this and if we can't get this done then I think we need to rethink this whole Community Schools Al together because it's going to really prevent us uh as a district to be able to do anything if we're constantly going to be

137questioning everything and have these meeting have four meetings on the same subject and not move anywhere that's all thank you trusty s yeah uh just a couple quick questions um um part of our public comments um um they said um Miss Laura Bolton said that there was no input from The Guiding co uh guiding Coalition so I just want to ask you was there input from The Guiding Coalition what do you define as The Guiding Coalition and then was there a meeting with everybody sitting down so this feedback was provided by Corine as well as written information that was taken from notes from those sessions and we did have people present and sign in to those sessions so I can tell you that we have teacher representation uh but I know that Tammy is uh

138Dr bite is ready to also explain what she was here during that process as well yes so the very first year when the um the initial planning Grant was being put together so that's I think we're year three now so that's that's quite a while ago there was a group of staff that came together um a director that used to be here with us that's now at County um Jason Horseman was the one that started from Ed services with this um we had I mean a number of people present there were uh staff from Teague present classified in teachers um the principal was present um from te Elementary uh we worked with the um Aaron Price which was a a grant writer um who worked with that team to put together the planning Grant so

139that was year one so we put that together submitted we were approved then what happened year two was that Karine Campos came on board um we needed someone um to help us put that Grant together that's when she started with Aaron English um with the listening sessions which is what Dr Lopez just referred to those were out at the school sites that we were going to apply on behalf of um for the implementation Grant so planning took place year one once we received that that's how we launched te Elementary the community school there then implementation and and now we are in year three does that answer your question um um I'll come back if I need uh further clarification um just to uh and then how much uh my second question is how much time

140do we have to spend this grant every year we receive the yearly budget that you see in the spreadsheet a million 700 but it's it's split into the sites according to what was allocated to each of the school sites I'm receive 300,000 year one but then as a year progress is they only get 225 so it just depends but every year we're allocated the allotment for the year are we losing money if we delay anything how does that work if you I can't answer that question because in April I have to submit the report at the end of the day they would determine that I think based on compliance to the grant like I know we are explaining our circumstances and I know we're not alone like we've been in communication with other districts too

141um so it just I don't know I need to submit a report in April and see where that goes uh so uh my other question is if we don't spend let's say hypothetically we're not spending anything this year does it get added on to next year or is it just like yearby year basis so the funds do remain for next year that I'm aware of but again I would have to wait until April submit the information I know that we're in constant communication with Fresno County arac which is our team um and they are suggesting that we can make an an amendment possibly but that would to go to state board so you there's processes that we got to follow and I would have to check on that okay yeah thank you I think superintendent

142Davis wanted to add to that I think I can add a few points of observation through this whole process and you've heard it mentioned numerous times there's a lot of people involved there's not one group as is defined in the grant there's a guiding Coalition when we all think of a guiding Coalition we think of a group that's meeting regularly and consistently and that's what we expect moving forward throughout the course of this as was mentioned there's been small groups there's been input sessions there's not been one large she listed it but I think it is it it's very clear to note as was described by both of them there's been multiple people inside and out of it so I think small clusters working towards um the project with changes in staff along the way

143you have a list of who they are moving forward the Coalition for each of those campuses and is intended to be a very specific group of people that will Shepherd the interests of each of those schools it's a fiveyear grant we are heading into the spring of the first year of that Grant typically with grants we have one possibly um 18 months to expend all funds at the end of that five years so we're we're finishing a first year it will allow us to carry over but it doesn't allow us just to pick when our start date is there is an end date to the grant funds now regarding if I can answer the braid it conversation so we're able what I mean with sustainability through braided funding is um the position that can help

144us continue leading ELO program so we can't pay for a social worker we can't so just to answer that um but a position that can be uh in a place of a lead in the future we can and that is similar to this rule trusty Kon uh thank you president Singh superintendent Davis answered my first question which was about the uh why why we're uh you know implementing this now and not at a later time uh my so my next question uh Dr Lopez would be um did the district get input from the uh steering Coalition um on the job description for for this so we ask for feedback as to what the need is and that is uh the survey that was created intended to answer some of those questions like what is the

145need at the site the needs at the sites and the Gap analysis that identify the position that's what I understood from meeting with Corine reading the paperwork reading the sign and sheets you name it it was around what is the need and what are the gaps what are we currently doing that strong and that is how the positions came about so they started saying we have a need for these resources and so thank you for uh you know seeking that input but it sounds like the answer is no no input on this job description we did not say what position would you like hired no okay and then uh when did um The Guiding Coalition as a group meet do we know when that happened so I as mentioned it was separate individuals and I

146think giv feedback or groups of people so I under my meetings with Corine she mentioned um teachers that met right then those teachers were given extra paid contracts to attend the listening sessions at the school sites because that is when the the meetings were taking place for feedback I understand Dr Lopez but I'm not asking about the listening sessions just whether this guiding Coalition met as a group at one point it sounds like they haven't so we heard earlier from superintendent Davis that the what's the name the whatever Coalition The Guiding Coalition is not one group of people it's not a task force that consists of 15 people and they meet on a regular basis they are literally talking about a guiding coalition to consist of all these different folks that are providing feedback so

147your question is no because there is no such group that is defined and is meeting on a regular basis like perhaps you're thinking and I think were the questions earlier as well in that case uh why don't we have a specific task force of people in our district that care about Community Schools and can help us guide this program I am so glad you're answer asking that question so that is the goal so the goal is that we have a committee at each one of the school sites with these individuals to make decisions on the funding and a district committee so we've attended a few districts as our supervisor of Community Schools mentioned just to grab at ideas I've been meeting with Laura uh and uh one session with Osa atig uh Judy uh to

148get feedback as to what the committee should be comprised in I think we landed on a pretty good number of individuals that should be in those committees uh and that is what we're leaning towards okay and why why should these positions not be part of a bargaining unit um for the sustainability of the program I I'm not sure why we couldn't amend that to include that I am going to leave that to you as a board to make that decision however the coordinator roles that we have in our district uh are the ones that I'm presenting to you okay thank you um so then um if the job description if the job description is approved as written um how do we ensure these coordinators you know speaking to the concerns we heard from public comment

149how do we ensure that these coordinators are able to speak their mind and as okay for programming without fear of retaliation so just so you know a little bit about my leadership I am not one I'm not speaking on you just just in in a general you know sense so I think uh Tristy Kant specific to that I think um if we if if we believe that that is a a larger institutional issue and not specific to our spe specific item in terms of the job description at hand I think that warrants a larger conversation for for for us as a board um I I don't want to cut off your train of thought if there's an additional question but I did want to I I kind of wanted to just share a little bit

150where I see this conversation going I want to kind of tie it in terms of what is specifically uh the the the decision that we have to make this we are to that's being presented to us this evening okay uh my final concern then is just that we're spending majority of this SCP money on new staff and I worry about the long-term viability of community schools in Cent UniFi because I want this to be a success and I'm worried that since previously stated correct me from wrong in a previous meeting we are not applying for a second round of grant funding so I'm worried about how we're going to continue to pay these people um that we're hiring uh 5 years from now I'm worried about that so the decision was as a team and

151please know that we want to see something that is being effective replicated so the intention is not not to apply for any future of grant funding as we haven't started the work in these Community Schools I don't know if a coordinator will be effective if I can't see it in action and see how it works so in order for me to write another grand and do another proposal I don't want to say another six coordinators when perhaps that's not the route we want to take so what I want to do is I want to evaluate a program I want to implement it effectively which takes 3 to 5 years and for us to be able to gather data along the way uh any other opportunities that come up you saw me present the lcsp other

152Grant thank you Cassie Smith for submitting that Grant we received 2 million out of that we are not stopping to reach out for Grants because our community deserves those grants right our kids deserve that money now having said that um the work that is being done as mentioned in the past the relationships and the collaboration with our cbos that is what's bringing in the supports to the school not a person so like mentioned some of our fols have already been introduced to cbos they're already calling and getting services for our families in need at their sites because of this collaboration between our supervisor and our fols and not seos we are connecting uh our cbos to our sites so the job of that coordinator is to go broader because now they have individual plans at

153each one of those schools and they have different needs so that specific coordinator will be able to match the needs in the needs assessment that was done to whatever cbos are in the community that need to come and support the school thank you um and thank you for your presentation and and you know all the others that presented on this program I'm really glad we're developing this program and you're all doing a great job uh I am just concerned about whether we are collaborating um with our implementation with our bargaining units because that too is a pillar of Community Schools is the shared decision making and I want to make sure that they're being included uh when it comes to implementing Community Schools that is the plan thank you so so yeah thank you trusty

154Kon so I'm um I'm trying to synthesize obviously like various information thank you thank you for the presentation thank you even for the public comments I think we have uh a grant before us we have a reporting date that's that's that's soon soon approaching at this point we have not filled certain sorts of of positions I hear loud and clear and it's it's it's concerning to me in terms of we have different understanding of shared decisionmaking and I think that has to create some for S alignment I've heard from super uh intendent Davis i' I've I've heard now from assistant superintendent Lopez that that is the intention for for us going forward I I I I believe you two so I'm we as a board are going to probably hold hold that and that we're

155saying it to the to the public I think my my sort of concern again is that we have to have some sort of implementation Dr Lopez shared opportunities for us to revisit uh to reclassify to to make certain changes um and I think that will be continues to be sort of part of the conversation I just I I think at some point we have to launch because like we have to give a report by April 1st and I think um as we approach the dates I think I think I'm getting more and more concerned that the state may have a different opinion if if um we we can't even get off the ground to trusty kon's question which I I think is really important in terms of um what will be the sustainability all I

156know is what's been said publicly at least Governor Nome has absolutely made this a public promise at least during his tenure we will have to see um sort of beyond that um but that those are sort of the things that that I I'm I'm sort of hearing and so um yes I think uh we have talked in small groups I think we have to have come to Greater alignment I think we have had a a commitment to make sure we're doing that and and making sure that an understanding of a coalition is a shared understanding of a coalition but but I I think for right now I'm I'm like I I kind of want to move forward with the recommendation to at least get us off the ground just ch Chone uh thank you presid

157sing uh if we're going to move forward on this um then my uh recommendation would be that we approve this with the um direction that a formal guiding Coalition task force be created um that includes you know our community schools team you know our our family Leons and the uh um the Cuda bargaining unit if I can explain a little bit the framework calls out for for a committee a district committee so that is what we are we would like to follow the framework for Community Schools with a committee and they are included they they would be included in and this committee would involve shared decision- making on implementation that that is yeah it's part of the P it's part of the key foundational items of Community Schools yeah all right um well if we're

158doing that then um I think I I can approve this item okay try Chavez I I think that for me just number one state like I don't like to be pushed into things I coming in late so I've got to just kind of join in I understand that but we should never be in a position where we're three three years down the line and we're at this position this is this isn't good this is something I'm going to look at long term so I can't fix it tonight but I never want to be in this position again but I will say if you have the opportunity to do some revision on the budget and possibly move some things around in April is there the possibility for us to keep this a classifi position without it

159becoming a manager with the possibility of moving some of the money from the $68,000 line item in the $5,000 object code the 5,000 object code so what I'm saying to you is if we did have to pay some overtime because obviously I'm to acknowledge trusty cio's concerns about overtime um if we did need to go that route we could have some of that funding available if we were able to loosen some of that to put it into Personnel is what I'm saying I would have to evaluate that because I don't know the cost of that uh because currently just in our fols the extra pay we pay right now is high and that would come out of that that budget the community school budget but we that is something we would have to analyze it's

160just an idea because I'm trying to I'm trying to come up I don't want to be just a person who's a no a no person I want to come up with options because I think the grant was well written I don't think that's the problem the question always comes down to me for the manager I do think that it is concerning for our staff to be work to the Bone I don't like that terminology I'm going always be concerned about that we have to take care of our people to take care of our students so that's just my position then I would say the conversation we should be having is how do we pay them more so that we don't have the restrictions that come with limiting the work hours and then quite frankly the

161limitations from the colle the bargaining agreement that's really what it is cuz that's what's going to control and I haven't read it in the last 6 months I don't remember if there's a limitation on the amount of hours so optional so we can't say if we have a food distribution that's happening during their non-working times that they have to show up so that's the so there are additional limitations I get it I by all means I'm just I'm being very practical and at some point it's like the item before us is either to approve this or not approve it and if we want to continue the discussion we need to ask for another item to come back to actually have all these questions and provide feedback to say we don't like the grant you wrote

162We want it to look differently and provide that direction so I move to approve the student and Family Services site coordinator job description as presented we have a motion by trusty CUO a second by truste Kirk those in favor please say I I I those oppose nay nay and thoseo uh those abstaining motion carries 61 thank thank you we move on to item number four approved 2025 ballot for csba delegate assembly superintendent Davis thank you this item returns from the last meeting there are four open slots you'll see four identified individuals we do recommend that you uh take a vote uh so that it can be submitted to csba any questions or comments from the public on this item if if not just general uh discussion for the board and just to obviously highlight we

163have uh trustee uh kuron on on the delegate as a delegate as well trusty Kirk this is my first time with this procedure can we move to approve the four candidates that are on the ballot then I move to approve before ballot candidates on the ballot second we have a motion by by trusty Kirk a second by trusty CIO those in favor please say I I those oppose nay those abstaining motion carry 70 we move to item number five approve the sale and disposal of surplus obsolete District property uh assistant superintendent dipul good evening can you hear me yes please see the updated list of the items that are Surplus obsolete uh Administration is recommending the board to approve the sales and disposal of seos and opposite District items and if I can add this

164does require unanimous vote of those uh present which are all of you questions or comments from the public then uh anything from calling trusty Kon uh thank you president sing um ass assistant superintendent ibal uh I think I mentioned this during our last meeting um several of the Chromebooks on this item were listed as uh we purchased them in May of 2023 um is that correct I think there was an amendment we we double checked the date was 2016 or 2018 we updated the list so there's one that was presented in the last board meeting and then we updated the new list so you have to updated list uh okay but in that case thank you I move to approve appr the sale and disposal of the Surplus obsolete District property second we have a

165motion by trusty CIO second by trusty kfon those in favor please say I I I those oppos nay those abstaining motion carries unanimously 70 we move on to our information items for this evening number item number one receive information regarding resolution 2425 d38 authorizing the execution delivery and sale of 2025 certificates of participation assistant superintendent kbal okay hello again we have Mr Mark Farrell from Dale Scott and Company he will help us the district to get a $50 million loan to complete the construction of visual and outperformance building at Justin Gara high school so Mr Mark frell he'll do a quick presentation quick statement yeah uh good evening president sing trustees superent Davis uh not a formal presentation uh but just kind of a little quick summary um so uh as assistant superintendent kbal said

166this is a $50 million cop to complete the vapa building at Garza uh the financing term currently anticipated to be about 30 years maybe a little B slightly less than 30 years interest rates are around 4 and a half% um in the current market uh we'll structure the payments uh the district does have some existing cop uh payments so we're going to structure the payments around uh that financing those existing financings as best possible uh so um currently the payments are around 3.7 3.8 million uh in the short run uh over the next 7 to n years the payments will go up to about6 million in total and then drop back down to that 3.7 3.8 million level um I know you have a large uh stack of documents in the board agenda I'm happy

167to answer any questions you have uh as you've reviewed it does trusty sers just a real quick clarification you said payments are annually about 3.7 and they will increase to about 6 million sure so the the current payments for the existing District's financings are about 3.7 okay um kind of the uh in the first seven or so years will be interest only for this financing adding about another 2.3 million so bringing the total up to about 6 million and then they will drop back down and then once the uh the payments on the old cops will drop after around 2034 um and then at that point we'll be back down to that 3.7 33.8 million level you said about 2034 uh yes 2030 fiscal year 2035 34 35 thank you you're welcome other questions or

168comments from the board thank you Mr Ferell for joining us this evening can this return under consent or do we need action action has to be action so return it under action at the next meeting thank you thank you we move on to item number two receive information regarding the 2024 2025 second interim budget report assistant superintendent ball okay this is a placeholder for the second interim report which will be presented on March 11 board meeting so this is just a placeholder thank you we'll have it return inter action then uh next uh item number three receive information regarding safe learning for all assistant superintendent Dr Lopez hello again so um on January 28th 2025 the board requested information on what training is being provided to staff administrative regulations uh and what central unified is

169doing to protect students um and inform family members on potential immigration rates happening in our community so this item is brought to you tonight for review as well as a board policy uh was attached for your review gamut has been used to verify whether there's any updates to the board policy and as of now there isn't any um I do want to go over a quick a couple of slides just showcasing what we've done as a district and I want to start with the impact so I first want to congratulate our staff uh for doing an incredible job at the school sites and welcoming our students and making sure that they feel safe uh I also want to um congratulate our team and our the board for making uh immigration understanding the impact of immigration

170and uh the issues happening in our community and how they impact the community and for bringing forward the resolution at the opening of the year uh of this year having said that uh our attendance is actually up so we see an increase of attendance from prior Year from the last year uh our I as I dug into immigration our students that are here um on um not not on immigration status but it's the migrant program that we look at uh considered migrant theirs is higher their attendance is higher than the general population right now and has increased from last year as well by a little over uh 1% at this time of the year as well when I look at the English language learner population that has also increased from last year at this same

171time and is also higher than the general population so I'm very proud to say that right now so I think that is a commitment to what we've done for our community and our families feel safe and they know that this is a safest place for our kids having said that on the on December 17th I attended a meeting uh at Fresno State we were trying to get ahead of whatever was to come to learn about board policies or administrative regulations that needed to be um updated we right away uh went into gamut started looking at all the policies that protect our immigrant community and we updated an AR so there was one uh AR that had an update and was taken to cabinet for approval and it was approved that helped us develop a a

172plan as well as a one-page guidance for the whole District to follow around what to do if immigration enforcement were to show up at a school and request um information from from our students so um that information was presented uh in January 6 to our um District personnel and that was adopted by our district our cabinet meeting it was presented uh to our administrators on January 13th and it was sent out be uh via u high five to our whole team district and administrations at school sites this was also provided to all our after school program leads uh trainings were done for that I'm not going to list everything there CU I think you have access to that uh but I just want to make you aware that every single lead position was uh presented

173with this onepage document and the guidance specifically calls out if somebody shows up requesting access to records you are to contact our department and this is exactly what I told our families we will show up to verify that that is accurate and that that the right laws are being followed um Maisy young is our director over student services and I am overseeing student and family services and we have been collaborating through this whole process to ensure that if any calls come in we are the ones being contacted and we are the ones uh going to the site to make sure our rights are protected the student rights are protected um we also did uh know your rights uh meetings uh we did a total of two but those were also translated uh we collaborated with

174our uh technology it department and they did an exceptional job at ensuring that we could translate on the spot and record the voice over the video that was done in English I had to do it in English so it could be recorded in the different languages those videos were uploaded onto our website so if anyone felt like they couldn't attend they are able to view those videos now with all that information I was able to collaborate with uh the Mexican consulate that was there to answer questions and Central La Familia so they can provide more of the legal guidance outside of the district and I could provide guidance as to what we're doing as a district some calls came in uh and questions from Zoom uh asking about what we're doing even in the parking

175lot so these were questions that we would have not known had we not opened that platform uh and we were able to respond to that like we follow the same rules as if they were checking into our office if they're there they don't have a warrant a peanut they have to leave our parking lot that is still our property so we were able to answer some of those questions we also developed an ongoing document that all our fols have access to so if any questions come to any of the schools they're entering into that document and I am overseeing it live uh with Nora seos and she collaborates with C La Familia if it's a legal question outside of our scope and I along with Maisy young collaborate on responding to uh answers pertaining to

176our district and the questions come in every week but we get them their answer right away and our sites are able to communicate with those families and give them their response um immigration resources website is up and running we hope you are able to take a look and see what we have there uh it's updated as we go um and um I'm happy to answer any questions you may have we are asking for the board um item that was requested the board policy to return for Action in our next meeting trusty Kon thank you presid Singh uh Dr Lopez I first want to commend you for all the work you've been doing the especially these past two months um with regards to meeting with the community and organizations about um protecting our um immigrant uh

177student and family populations uh and making sure that they know their rights and I think the work you're doing is showing it in the uh increase in attendance for those students so I want to make sure that you know that uh as a board we're thankful for the work you're doing and we hope it continues um thank you I do also as always I'm wondering how we can do more as a district um because I know there's a real fear in our immigrant Community you know about immigration officials you know doing untargeted sweeps just going after everyone and I worry about you know the direction this country is facing you know and how schools could uh be targeted um so I wonder what is our communication policy um if immigration law enforcement were to um

178come to a site with or without a warrant communication is sent through an eir as well as through our um catapult system um we have in place a we there there is a system we have in place for what needs to be communicated especially if it's impacting our schools and our community can you tell me more about this catapult program so catapult is the system that we use to let our community knows when they're if there is a warrant being served in the community that's causing harm to our school or that uh may cause an unsafe environment to our school so that would be the form there's a okay so there's a wide variety of you know instances that could be considered know safety threat to students or and we're inform them um do so

179do we have a policy or written procedure um for impl you know immigration law enforcement as one of these uh safety concerns to families so it follows the same policy around reporting of uh anyone coming to request information so we would disclose that to the parent that is the first step we have to make sure the parent is aware that somebody's trying to request information from their student um now in regards to reporting if it happens within our School site we have a procedure in place for in reporting of any unlawful or uh activity that needs to be sent to our district personel as well as so do we have a written policy um that would um communicate to districtwide families if law immigration law enforcement was at a school site do we have that

180written policy we have a policy around communication to our our families if there is a concern at our school sites and we use eir for within our district and we use a catapult to our families thank you Dr Lopez in that case um at our next board meeting I'll probably include um language on this item to include that as one of the uh instance where we would implement this catapult program um because I think that would help keep families safe and together um if we had this kind of rapid response communication thank you I think uh superintendent Davis wanted to provide a little bit more uh clarification I I want to clarify catapult is our internal system that we use for our employees when there's an emergency on a campus or throughout the district that

181gives an alert it has the potential to do other things down the road but right now it's a system that we get an alert immediately can call and and around a campus you would know on that campus so it is it is alerting but it's an internal right now what um if I can connect yeah I'm so sorry parent square is when we have a an enforcement a lock down you've these come through if there's an there is then a notification it goes through a Communications office and goes out to that campus for that I think that was the intent of bringing the board policy here is if there's um direction or specific reporting requirements maybe that are I I'd heard there's some that are different at the community college level than they are at

182our district there's legislation coming down the way around this this would be the spot that we put it which is why it's in front of you thank you superintendent Davis um so with that understanding then if if there was a lockdown we we have that rapid outward external communication to families through parents sare right yes and I apologize so when it comes to us then we work with the site to create the parents course so I apologize yeah well I I'll be I'll be in communication with our superintendent but um I am looking to bring some language uh forward on having this kind of external communication um for immigration law enforcement U potentially through parents square or others we'll we'll find Hammer up the details at our next meeting truste Cel so what I would

183like to propose if there's consensus from the board and consistent with what um trusty kfon is saying is at the at the community college level um in higher education because it also includes um private institutions and I think and specific requirements for CSUS and uc's if there is an immigration agent on campus for any reason the district is requireed ired to confirm what the law requires is that we send notice to the community which typically includes the students and the staff to say immigration is on campus they arrived at this time and now they've left at this time and to include um who is the person who is responsible for interacting with um the immigration enforcement there's a lot of additional procedures that go into that but that's kind of the the summary of it

184there is proposed legislation which um I do believe will get passed and does have I believe the last time I checked an urgency clause which would require similar language and so um I will endeavor timely uh to propose some language amendments to our board policy that would include something along those lines that would say um components of verifying that it is in fact immigration law enforcement um and that then we're communicating that information to our community um uh because I think one of the critical components of this is there's a lot of misinformation uh that's occurring and we as educational institutions are really looked at to say we rely on you we expect you to provide accurate information and we want to make sure that our students continue to feel safe on campus and it's

185not a matter of rumors um or they hearing they're seeing vehicles uh I I receive emails and text messages all the time and so it's important for us to be able to then dispel that and say no you can count on us providing you this information um and I think it would be really helpful so I will be providing some of that language and I will make sure to send that to superintendent Davis to share with all of you and you can provide your feedback but that's what I would Envision to use whatever existing system we already have and just to provide that basic information and then of course our current policy already requires that the superintendent uh or design report to us immediately if there's any requests for information or access by law enforcement

186agency seeking to enforce immigration laws so I would just ask we already get the eirs just to make sure that we're getting those via text because I read my text messages much faster than an email um as you all can imagine I get thousands of femails so that would just be really helpful thanks well say trusted cre I I concur so we'll provide some uh a few changes and we'll have this return under action at the next meeting thank you next item number four receive information regarding lcap midar update from director griggsby and a reminder this is uh information only good evening a very tall person stood here it's my pleasure tonight to bring you the lcap mid report the report itself is attached to the board agenda and we also have a summary um

187slide deck for you real quick to go through do I have a clicker I don't have a clicker all right there we go so good evening president Singh superintendent Davis board members it's my pleasure to bring this report to you uh the background of this oh I have to click the thing here we go background is Senate Bill 114 in 2023 after return to school um CD had acknowledged that there were some communication gaps uh we approve lcap in June of each school year and then we weren't hearing again from districts or the community wasn't hearing again from districts until later in the spring when we Revisited and did our analysis and evaluation so the Senate enacted a bill 114 to require districts to do what they call a midyear monitoring update report so we're

188just reporting all midyear data that we have um where we are in implementation of actions and expenditures through first interim so that's what you'll be seeing in front of you um the implementation status and expenditure status that you'll see will be categorized into basically three buckets um not started or implemented yet partially implemented or ongoing and fully implemented an example of the ongoing and fully implemented would be like um appropriately credential teachers obviously we're going to have that continuing on throughout all of our lcap plans so you'll see that so we're just looking now at the various stages of each of those actions in the existing plan that we're currently implementing where we're at in that implementation and expenditure so we've summarized some core metrics here for you just on our performance um how we're

189measuring how we're doing obviously the mid year report that you have attached is 68 pages so um we've looked at what we call the core metrics which are basically uh reading math English language arts writing all of those things so we've got some core metrics here for you and a little cheat sheet off to the side for the abbreviation so you could see it all in one slide and we've broken it down by our demographic group groups that are um required reporting um for the this this um measure goes from last year's California dashboard to uh the one just populated in in December this year based on the 2024 um smarter balanced assessment here you'll see the same or similar metrics um reporting for math again for all students and then broken down by our

190significant subgroups the newest of those you will see is the eltel group the long-term English um language Learners that are now being reported out on their own so not just English Learners as a subgroup but long-term English Learners which is 5 years or more in program college career indicator is something we look at closely um getting ahead of myself here we are currently in um dist differentiated assistance based on the 2023 dashboard for um students experiencing homelessness and students with disabilities in this area so we track this very carefully um English learner progress indicator or LP as we call it is also here um we are not in differentiated decisions for that but we do keep a close watch on that because we feel that's a really high indicator of how kids will reclassify and

191become true bilinguals as they go through our schools um let's see and then here you see reclassification rate and um CTE completion rate that's completion of a pathway by um students from enrollment till when they finish if you see the asteris that just means the subgroup is too small for us to report to protect their privacy going into goal two we're talking about ensuring Equitable and engaging um opportunities for all of our kids again you see chronic absenteeism and graduation rate in are some of our core metrics in this schal uh lower is better on chronic absenteeism so when you're seeing those numbers go down that's a good thing and graduation rate is as you can see inching up and um all of our subgroups are broken down we're looking at English learner group Foster

192youth um lwi income and students with disabilities currently identified as the groups that we're reporting on and then further metrics here are the high the credential teachers as measured by the uh Tamo report we Dro down slightly in this area um so that just is a reflection of the teacher shortage we experience Statewide um but at 84.7% we're still well ahead of the state average for highly credential teachers our attendance rate as Dr Lopez mentioned earlier is is at or above where we were at this point last year based on our internal skill Zilla data keeping and then moving into goal three we'll Foster safe and inclusive schools I think this goal is is more important today than it ever has been it's always been important but I think it's has relevance really to right

193now we measure um our our most of this metric is measured by not only our facilities and our technology um indicators but we also look at climate uh as measured by our Panorama survey you can see local survey spring 2024 compared to the survey that was administered in Fall 2024 we do not have staff or teacher data at this point because we only administer that once a year to staff uh and teachers uh students and family members take it spring and fall so we can compare those um as you can see positive climate has improved in both both of those areas and they'll start taking that Panorama survey everybody will take it one more time starting in March so I'll have more data for you coming soon and here's the school safety numbers again um

194perception of school safety is increased for students and family members and uh teachers and staff um was not administered in the fall but I can tell you spring to spring it has increased if you looked at Spring 2023 to Spring 2024 it's gone up not a lot but slightly and then again suspension rate remember lower is better and so we want to see those numbers going down and we've seen some really good gains there and expulsion rate has maintained at 0.1% goals 4 through eight are what we call our Equity multiplier schools so just a reminder that um that's new to the district and new to the state actually for everybody and these are School sites meeting non-stability um uh criteria and socioeconomic Ally disadvantaged pupil thresholds in the prior year so these schools were

195identified in Spring of last year and we wrote um we had to write we were required to write goals in our lcap and add those to it and then those goals are mirrored in their school plans as well and so I I visit with those principles regularly and we're getting ready to get back again because we will be doing some Community engagement um and and getting input from all of their community and educational partners because they'll write again moving forward we haven't been um notified of this year's Equity multiplier schools qualifying they said late February and here we are and so I'll let you know when I know but we anticipate it sometime within the next couple of weeks we'll know what schools will continue on it's a year-to-year funding there's no expiration date so

196they have uh all the time they need to spend it on the kids that are qualified for it and those schools are listed right there class uh online homeschool pathway both of the pathways and ping high school as we move through the spring it is elcap season so we'll continue with our engagement with our in educational Partners through the end of March um we'll come together and draft our update for the school year which will include an analysis of EXA existing action and goals we're in this will be preparing for next year's plan so we're looking at implementation and updating year two of a three-year plan so this year is the the first year of this particular local control accountability plan it'll come to you for public it'll go out to the sorry it'll go

197out to the community in May we'll meet with our district English language advisory committee our parent advisory committee our migrant parent advisory committee all of those folks will give comments to the superintendent which Mrs Davis will respond to we'll post all of that toward the end of May along with the plan being available in draft form uh for public comment for the May 19 through the 30th is what we're anticipating and then you'll get to see it um officially on your board agenda after we've gathered all that in in input from and comment after the fact on the draft and that'll come to you twice in June both for information public hearing and adoption then we give it to Fresno County and they give us their feedback on it and ultimately we re uh receive

198a letter from the superintendent of schools at Fresno County approving our plan so bright spots uh suspension rates have declined you can see the subgroups there that we're um focusing on and and all of them experienced an improvement in not being suspended it's a double negative but you get the point uh unduplicated students increase performance slightly on math um from year to year and attendance rates continue to rise and our local student survey data is showing that their uh student perception of positive School climate is increased by 3 and half % and school safety is increased by 1 and a half% we still have challenges we know that um our dashboard and English language arts is maintained in an orange indicator um but we did notice that unduplicated students have experienced um achievement gaps still

199so even though well all kids have kind of maintained we still notice that there are gaps for our underrepresented kiddos um the math dashboard showed slight Improvement moving into the yellow indicator but again we noticed that subgroups uh of students are not uh performing as well as all students when compared to the the whole and um we see those gaps and we know that we still have work to do there and then our English learner progress indicator that I mentioned earlier um again maintained and and actually decreased slightly even though we statistically stayed in the maintain category uh it regressed a little bit so we want to make sure that that does not continue and and better that it it it actually moves forward so um that'll be things that we're taking into consideration as

200we go through spring and do our analysis of the existing actions in our plan that's all I have for you right now but if you have any questions I'm happy to answer them thank you Dr griggsby um trusty Cel thank you so a couple of questions you went through um where we go from here but can you specifically articulate how we use the challenges we've identified to ensure that that is if at all leading the discussion with our communities and our various groups to say how can we do better and how can we improve because ultimately what's frustrating with the elap is this is a template that we have to comply and we have to identify and the resp the the goal setting and our our measuring points are always is very vague and there's

201a lot of subjectiveness to them um which is frustrating maybe just for me but I I just want to better understand how we're using this information to do better and then one of the the second question I have is are we going to be offering um the additional meetings for the lcap also via Zoom or holding different sessions for our our families who aren't comfortable uh or feel safe being on our campuses yeah I'm glad you asked we we are currently in the midst of those elcap Town Halls um we have offered um remote Zoom participation for all of our meetings to and we continue to do so our it team I have to give a shout out they've done a very professional job of offering the webinar features and we have had um remote

202participants in every single session that we've held so far um and what we did in this year's engagement with our our community is we have the community- based organizations that we discussed earlier are also at the Town Hall meetings after they have that initial interaction with the families we've invited them to come to the tables and be part of the discussion process so they can see our families and our families can see them um and we I took them through in the in the slide deck that I do with the community I take them through all of those differentiated assistant points that I just kind of glossed over here for y'all because you're familiar with them and I show them exactly where um those actions exist District wide and and then they're sitting with their

203principles and I gave them some reflective questioning so their principles are then saying okay this is what it looks like at Biola this is what it looks like at Rio Vista and they're actually answering those questions with their uh parents sitting and family sitting there at the table in real time and then we have a five question uh analytical from parca data analytical survey to give them uh just specifically about those areas where we know we need Improvement math Ela um sense of inclusion safety engagement those types of things so those questions I worked very closely with the um data analytical experts at parseek to make sure we crafted those questions so it would elicit number one it would be easy for the parents in the community to understand it wouldn't be in what I

204call education ease and so they would know what we were really asking them to tell us and giving them that opportunity for all that discussion in advance I think really has helped our participation we've really seen the participation in those surveys go up and then we push them out again the next day in case you missed us or you thought of something that you forgotten and we push it out in parent Square the next day as well thank you and I do just want to also take the opportunity to to commend our staff across from our our district office to our teachers in the classroom um decreasing the suspension rate is really significant uh I've been on this board for six years and granted the composition at this table this long table including superintendent was

205very different and the struggle that I had in having people understand the importance of making sure our students are in the classroom and we're doing more restorative justice was huge um and difficult because they disagreed with me but here we are and we're seeing that it you know there's still a lot more progress to make as far as our Ela and some of our other um areas but thank you for listening and for staying faithful to to the process and and really focusing on what our students need and how we can support them thanks of course thank you we T next turn to item number five receive information regarding just Swanson Colorado Elementary Athletics uniform and Equipment quotes director hi tower all right good evening thank you board presiden s Board of Trustees tonight I

206bring you an item to purchase uniforms and equipment for for CER Elementary for the upcoming season next year we're excited for uh that new elementary school starting uh the athletic program uh They will receive new uniforms and equipment for fall winter and spring programs the cost of those uniforms and equipment is uh 84,4 1736 the uniforms and equipment will be purchased through BSN Sports using the Omnia contract uh Administration is recommending this item be placed on the March 11th board agenda for or action after any questions you may have okay can you just briefly mention they don't have colors in a mascot yet so this is the get it started right yes this is the get it started get it approved and then as soon as the mascot and colors um are approved then we'll

207go through purchasing thank you trusty kuron sellers in the Korea uh thank you uh trusty um president Singh uh so uh director hiow what is our process for picking the colors and mascot for these athletic teams uh yeah so the uh principal along with uh students will get together and be a part of that process once our department gets it uh then we will give the um the vendor those colors on the mascot and they'll begin producing uniforms okay all right thank you trusty sellers thanks uh in regards to uniforms on average how many uh positions are on each team's roster uh for Elementary football it varies between 15 to 30 kids it depends on the the you know the size of the school and how many kids participate in each sport I would say

208basketball volleyball typically 15 to 20 kids per team track and field you know I would say uh most likely over in between 50 to 60 to 100 Kids participating in Cross Country in track and field so it kind of varies depending on the sport okay so uh are we ordering a variety of each sizes and enough I'm I'm asking just as a parent who's got a smaller petite daughter who was given a extra large Jersey and said this is what we got yeah we we base it off of what our other elementary schools do but the cool thing about being SN they produce their own uniform so we can get a uniform within 4 weeks okay thanks trusty Creo thank you so I think this is the first time that I've ever seen a contract

209for uniforms since I've been on the board so I'm wondering once we do purchase obviously this is a new school we'll purchase all these uniforms do we have a timeline or some process to then replace you uniforms uh or how does that work to make sure that we maintain it we probably I probably haven't seen one because the cost is much smaller in buying 10 or 15 uniforms than having to supply a whole elementary school but I'm curious what processes we have in place if you know them um to then make sure that we have the necessary sizes and and for all of our students yes so there's a check-in process after the uh each season and then those uniforms are evaluated by our team and then if we need to replace uniforms because of

210Damages we will do we will do so okay awesome thank you no other questions we'll have this return under consent y thank you thank you uh director hiow next we move to Advanced planning I think uh I'll probably just have one request um potentially some point in um March and April uh since we were talking about uh just one call call Elementary if we could just get an update uh potentially from director Rodriguez just in terms of how the facilities are looking and um make sure we're on track for uh a complete School opening in the fall president sing how do you pronounce the name again just want just one sing CRA thank you any additional information and closing comments and with that our next meeting of the board will be held uh here Tuesday

211March 11th 2025 at 6 p.m. for close session 700 p.m. for public uh here at the central UniFi district office room 13 thank you and good night and we'll be reconvening and we journey back to close thank you e e e