001I will now call to order the February 21st 2024 chica Unified School District Board of Education regular meeting uh we will be going into Clos session at this time there is no public comment and so I will recess to close session and we will reconvene at 6 pm see sorry I'm trying to log in but now we have an extra set of security measures to have to click through so I'm getting there all righty yeah okay um welcome we will uh reconvene now to open session of the regular Board of Education meeting for chica Unified School District here at marold elementary on February 21st 2024 uh with that um I will report what action has been taken in closed session and then after that we will move to the flag salute excuse me during Clos
002session the board unanimously approved an applicant to move forward through the recruitment process for the substitute cafeteria satellite manager position the board also voted unanimously to ratify a settlement agreement to resolve a special education dispute against the district pursuant to the agreement the district authorized educational assessments and services for an eligible special education student and agreed to reimburse a portion of the parents attorney's fees under the express terms of the agreement the board's ratification of agreement does not constitute an admission of liability by the district Additionally the board voted 50 unanimously to approve a final sett settlement with employee 10768 and finally I wanted to make note that on close session item six uh conference with real property negotiators uh the acurate APN which was not originally published but uh is now in the updated
003uh agenda packet it was d180 d228 with that may we please off stand for the flag salute salute pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all moving on to excuse me item four student reports we will turn it over to superintendent Staley for introductions thank you well tonight we get to hear from Pleasant Valley high school but first assistant principal Dianna Holland is going to tell us about it is right now across the street at our Viking showcase which is our eighth grade gr parent night so he is greeting parents over there so I will introduce three of our band leaders tonight Jack English Chase Clark and Bella Austin to come
004and give you a presentation hello I am Jack English and I am a junior drum major and saxophone section leader in the PB band I am a junior this year and um this is current status of what PV band is doing so PV band is a year round educational and competitive class um to start with our marching program is a fall semester activity where we um we go to multiple competitions a year such as Napa Band review and also in Roseville at Oakmont High School at home we do uh we play at games we March around the school on game days support the school at rallies we'll March our football team in at games as well so in December we'll go around neighborhoods where we play holiday music in our Christmas ambushes we'll occasionally Carol
005at these but for the most part we are playing Christmas music that is either we either buy it or sometimes arranged by our drum majors and winter percussion is an extracurricular class that we can take which is a alternative for marching band during the spring semester it's a competitive experience it's all outside of class um extremely dedicated students who join um it's three to four competitions a year usually from mid-march to early April this year we will per be performing at 3 starting I believe in 3 weeks and will perform over the course of the next five weeks we'll perform at three um competitions this is our coaching staff um for Color Guard we have Sarah Axton and trendy Forester who are both Sarah Axton competed at a high level when she was in high
006school also trendy Forester currently performs with the Santa Clara Vanguard which is a very um high level um core um Zach Mossman is our percussion Tekken coach he also marches with Santa clar Vanguard and Andy Shoemaker is our head visual coach who um out of high school marched with the highest scoring core for the last 20 years the Blue Devils hi I'm Isabella Austin I am the other Junior drum major and I am a junior this year as well so after after marching season we go on the concert season which is where we will be indoors and S sitting down um and playing our instruments um to eventually perform at a festival and also for our spring concerts we have um three classes um and those classes will be our um more beginning level concert
007band which tends to be freshmen and people starting new instruments and that's open to anybody and then we have our audition only class um The Wind Ensemble um which tends to be um sophomores Junior seniors or anybody who passes the the audition and then we have our jazz band which is a harder class but there is no audition so the concert band and wind on Ensemble um it's going to be focused on more classical styles of music and um eventually um we we go to Festival like I said at the end of the year and every four years we go to the um an Anaheim Festival um and um which takes place um the award ceremony takes place in the Disneyland Park um and then we have the Jazz Band which um is definitely the
008most active group um that we have here um we tend to do more um more performance um more more concerts and we will occasionally go outside of just um concerts um at PV but we will perform for other other things as well we have opened for uh Chico States top jazz band The Jazz Express and we have also played um for um the sea biliteracy and also for um graduating teachers at Chico State in past years and sometimes we also get donations as a thank you um for doing that and then there is also honor bands which could be um jazz or um classical and that is um that is not necessarily School related but it is um something that our students are able to do and audition for and um if they get accepted
009they get to um experience very um they get to have very um amazing experiences with very well-educated musicians such as Frank de Kelly or Julie jaru and um we've had multiple students in past years and even this year get accepted and in um honor bands and we are very proud of them and it is just something amazing that we get to support and then we also have our Jazz combo which is a smaller group of students and it is an entirely student run Ensemble and they um perform form um to open for our larger jazz band and they also play for um other gigs as well um as they our student run and have more freedom over where they would like to perform um also we have a music boosters organization which heads our Band
010program uh entirely parents of Music students and recently we finished our third music Gala uh which was planned all by them and run by students and parents you may have also noticed all of these pictures have a Tyler Smith Watermark who is a very amazing parent who decided to donate his love of Photography and take pictures at almost every one of our events and donate all of his profits in the photos to the boosters program leadership skills extremely dedicated members of the band take on leadership roles such as us and with Mr simonon to prepare events that happen in our school with our band some of the student leaders include the drum Majors who conduct at for marching band uh the section leader who is who instructs and helps the other people in his the
011other people in their section to become better better musicians and help them if they have any problems with the music or in general some of the managers uh the equipment manager manages stuff like our podiums or our equipment in the classroom the librarian me chased planine um organizes the music and helps keep everything orderly the Jazz representative represents the jazz band and can help with many aspects of organizing a jazz band the public relations manager organizes and manages our social media account uh to keep all of the information up to date a few statistics um in general the students will perform 20 to 30% higher on tests and quizzes they generally have a higher average IQ and make 20 to 25 more percent more money than others in their professional Fields they also have a
012higher College acceptance rate and form stronger bonds with fellow students thank you for your time do you have any questions yes thanks student it's not a question I live pretty close to campus so I get to hear you guys out there practicing love it have always loved it I've been there about 30 years and I just love being able to hear the band practicing thank you uh I have a question I have a couple questions um I uh preface with I was a first chair section leader for clarinet at my High School uh when to honor band uh so I can empathize with your experience which is really awesome and fun um one question I have uh which is really personal for me and then anybody out there listening in uh what opportunities are there
013for the public to tune in um attend in person or catch performances virtually to get also get to enjoy all that you guys are working on uh for honor band or just in general in general um B sure um so um as of current we um have um we don't necessarily live stream our performances but we do have a very lovely parent Who records pretty much all of our performances her name is Sarah kleene and she posts them all on YouTube and it is very wonderful because um for me I know that I have certain family members who just cannot make it and so they asked me to send them the videos and they get to see what I'm actually doing and all the um time that I spend and put into the band and
014they get to see what that actually creates and so I think that's really wonderful um and I think that's um really great but we do not have like a live streaming sort of thing but it is um available to watch typically in the following days after the performance great thank you um part of the yeah part of the inspiration of that question besides you know just not being able to drop in on a on an honor band concert or something you know um was some kind of drama that I had caught wind of in the fall with a football game and how it was you know there were people there doing a professional videography of the game and then there was the marching band performance and there was no camera on the field at that
015point and there were some parents that were upset about that and I thought that was really unfortunate and I'm sure that the public would like to see all of our students highlighted not just the athletes on the field so luckily Sarah Klein also records are Marching Band performances and and also when we go to competitions too because typically when we go to competitions it is out of city and so a lot of people aren't able to make it and so even for winter percussion and honor bands and um our marching band competitions she is usually there to record it and post it on her YouTube channel for us that's so great thank you sah Klein um and then a follow-up question um not the same same Main but uh in the first part of your
016chat I was inspired to ask because I'm a UC Davis alumni also if any of you have gotten the chance to go to UC Davis's um Picnic Day and watch the Battle of the Bands um they have uh their own student run B it's called the band uh and they do marching band stuff and it's cover songs and it's super fun and then they battle that out with other colleges other colleges bands come and it's amazing so strong suggest if you have not been able to catch that yet go please uh I have been to UC Davis I toured it in 8th grade with my school I did not go to the picnic however I have visited UC Davis yeah picnic day it's in April so if you want to catch some some fun uh
017live music action with the bands from different colleges that's that's the place to catch it so you mentioned uh battle the bands which is kind of fun because um during almond bow after the game uh Chico High MPV also have our own Battle of the Bands where we go and meet on the center of the field and we'll play a couple songs together a couple songs to each other and it's really just a good time where there's yeah across town rivalry but we're all friends at that point so it's just fun that's awesome um speaking of which shout out to all of the uh Chico Unified music teachers out there who are doing great work with all of our students right um wasn't for them and all of you all we wouldn't have a great
018program so thank you for your presentation anybody helps Chase what grade are you in oh sorry uh yeah I forgot to introduce myself I'm Chase tly I said I'm the librarian I'm also the low read section leader I am a sophomore okay I'm just really impressed that we have two Juniors and a sophomore so that shows me there's leadership in the band for a couple years to come so thank you for doing that it's G be exciting times thank you for your time thank you for being here so I'm just going to go ahead and jump right into the superintendent's report as uh usual we did have some people lined up to honor tonight and life happens and we had conflicts and they were not able to be here but what I did want to
019do is uh just recognize and they're not here hopefully they're watching um we've had some pretty significant storms recently and there was a couple times that I was very worried about whether or not we were going to be ready to rock and roll and open school the next day and our maintenance and operation and transportation team have been absolutely amazing they have given up their weekends they are out making sure that trees and and branches that have fallen are off school campuses even in some very inclement weather so I just want to bring that to you that even though we may be at home warm in our houses watching the thunderstorms watching the rain come down uh the wind going sideways they are out there working and making the contributions that make our district what
020it is and allow parents to drop their kids off regardless of what the weather is like and have our schools open so a big thank you to our M team headed by Joe Morris Eric German Dusty copper and then all of the individuals that work with them to make it happen um I am going to tell you also that this past storm had a ton of water as we all know dump so we had some very interesting natural phenomenons occurring with water uh the drains that usually water drains down were spouting up and we're beautiful new fountains that really should be draining the other way um and we had some drinking Fountains at Chico high in the gym same thing water coming up just because of the pressure of the water going down uh and
021again the guys are out there and gals uh making sure that schools are ready to open so huge thank you to them and with that I will turn it back to you madam president thank you uh up next is item six announcements uh are there announcements that any board members would like to make regarding upcoming events student awards or School side accomplishments yes please the um CTE competition results were posted on our website yesterday and um we had I believe 44 students that have qualified to move on to um State competitions so check out our cusd website and the [Music] CTE um competition winners we're we're just rocking and rolling and and uh taking names yes to add to that um that's the skills USA competition which we did have uh National winners last year
022yeah from Chico And so looks like we're we're we're gearing up 46 students that qualified to compete at State uh finals and so yeah stay tuned because we might be gunning for the uh national competition again so great job great job everybody um see no additional announcements uh I would like to introduce uh to the crowd Chuck zartman who is here to introduce the um uh full bite sorry full bright teaching excellence and achievement program and share some information with us at this time thank you yes we're honored to have 19 full bright Educators here from 15 countri countries four from usbekistan and the and one from each of the other countries and they will be at three schools two at Marsh three at Chico high school and 14 at Pleasant Valley High School beginning
023tomorrow so you're seeing them the day before they enter the schools so they would like to come forward introduce themselves their country and which school they'll be placed at so come forward hello everyone I am nigar from usbekistan it's so it's really proud for me to be in this meeting hello everyone I am mashur I am also from usbekistan nice to meet you all hello everyone I'm Hora I'm also from usbekistan hello everyone I am Janet I'm from Malawi good afternoon everyone I'm Diva I'm from India it's such an honor to be here nice to meet all of you hello everyone I'm manuk from Kazakhstan nice to meet you all thank you hello everyone I'm nuro Huda from Malaysia nice to meet you hello my name is Ivon I'm from Panama thanks for having us
024here hello my name is Muhammad I'm from Tunisia thank you good evening I am um Singh marma representing Bangladesh full bright te uh fellowship program 2024 thank you hello my name is Geral Chim I am from Mongolia I'm so happy to be here thank you hello my name is Alena derian and I'm from Ukraine nice to meet you all thank you good evening my name is Vala I'm from Armenia nice to meet you all hello I am Hassan I'm from Egypt I'm very happy to be with you hi everyone I'm Immaculate NAFA from Kenya I'll be at the Pleasant Valley high school and I'm it's a pleasure to be here hello everyone my name is Morena Jimenez I am from El Salvador and I am very happy to meet you all today hello everyone I'm
025J Le I'm from Vietnam and um I'm very happy to uh be here with you nice to meet you all hi everyone uh I'm mariaj from usbekistan thank you so much being here thank you well welcome to you all thank you for being here and joining us and uh just wish you the best in uh your adventures with our students and enjoy the classroom um it is it is a lot of energy and a lot of excitement and I hope that you all have fun and and take some take something away from it for yourselves thank you Al righty uh we [Music] have number seven next um it's items from the floor excuse me uh items from the floors for speakers who wish to address the board regarding a topic that is not currently agendized
026uh at this time we will take public comment from speakers who wish to address the board for topics not agendized for this meeting uh as a reminder speakers have 3 minutes to address the board uh we do have a new system in place which is exciting um you see a timer behind us at this point uh it's a three minute timer to give a visual to our speakers um to let you all know uh how much time you have remaining and there is still a um 30 second warning audibly and I think that's the right word to use um and then uh you'll see that tie run down just so you have the idea of um how much time you have left to wrap wrap it up uh four items from the floor the board
027can listen to public comment but cannot respond to any speakers under items from the floor uh and tonight we have one speaker card signed up um if there's additional um desire for anybody in the audience to speak um to the board or address the board on anything that's not agendized tonight uh you you'll have the opportunity to um to to request that uh so at this time I'd like to call up melee Ben good evening members of the Chico Unified Board of Education I want to thank you for your efforts in developing a comprehensive policy to address hate motivated behavior in our schools drafting clear guidelines on how to report and respond to incidents of discrimination harassment and bullying based on protected characteristics sends a powerful message that all students deserve to feel safe welcomed
028and valued in our district I also want to recognize your collaboration with the NorCal anti-racism Coalition by working together with us you are tapping into the expertise and insights of community leaders who have long advocated for equity and inclusion this partnership reflects a commitment to crafting policies and programs that authentically meet the needs of marginalized students there is still work to be done but this policy and your joint efforts mark an important step thank you for your leadership on this critical issue together through open communication and continuous Improvement we can build schools where every student thrives and Ida patino is going to speak she's the real leader of our group what you got this [Laughter] girl hi I'm hi I'm ARA patino I go to rosale elementary if you remember last time I was here
029I was trying to persuade you to implement anti-racism education I just want to let you know racist bullying and racist jokes are still happening at rosale I want students to stop feeling Hur if this is happening at Vale then it's also happening at other schools last month I think there was an attempt to provide anti-racist education but it was vague didn't make sense and didn't say say the words race or racism when kids tell racist jokes it makes me feel uncomfortable and makes it hard to focus on learning just last week I heard a student imitating the Chinese language and I believe if she knew why this Behavior was V she wouldn't do it which is why we need anti-racist education I really hope you listen to me I am a child but I feel
030my opinions matter just as much as anybody else's thank you for your time good thank you uh is there anybody else excuse me that would like to address the board for items from the floor okay seeing none we'll move along um to our consent calendar item eight uh is there anybody who would like to pull a consent item for further discussion I have a couple questions um so yes okay okay uh 8 2 10 and 11 relating to welding and sorry I was busy um actually kind of doing some welding today so I was not able to ask um beforehand so 8.2 8.10 oh there are two 810 and 11 not 8.2 8.10 8 210 and 821 three of them no no T item to 10 and 8 to 11 T got it okay sorry
031spell out the word to okay and then um we also need to pull item uh 8.1.1 meeting minutes so 8.1.1 8 Y 2 two two I think I understand now it's awesome great fantastic um okay what are we doing well I think we would oh okay well we're gonna we're gonna vote on the rest of consent please please stay you don't have to walk all the way back um do we have a motion on the rest of consent minus the items we've pull yes I move to approve the consent calendar less items 811 and 8210 and 8211 second thank you for clarifying that for for everybody including me um uh let's do a Voice vote um we'll start with Mr tennis tennis ey Conan I Dolby ey Lando I Robinson I fantastic all right um
032we'll do uh the in order I think you should do in order sounds great so 8.1.1 is meeting benns um this is the meeting that member Robinson was unable to attend and so with that uh this will be a recusal I think um correct okay um so do we have a motion to approve the minutes uh from that meeting so moved Second Great uh we'll do a Voice vote because it is not going to be unanimous so we'll start with Miss conin conen I Doby I Lando I tennis I abstain yes reuse me see right for the minutes for the 17 yeah okay Mr tennis so uh addressing uh items 8 to10 and 8 to 11 in item 8 to10 we have consideration of course name change from a mechanics and Welding one to intro
033to a mechanics and then uh changing a mechanics and Welding two to a welding what's the reason for the change do we know I wouldn't blame you for not knowing because I just kind of came up with this I do know um it is because when we named the courses last year as proposed um we did not and had not hired a teacher yet so we named them strictly after the pathway that we were pursuing um our teacher has since advised that he thinks it's best if we change the names to more accurately um describe the content of each course so the intro to a um mechanics course has a broad spectrum of skills that are being learned where the a mechanics the seconde course or I'm sorry the a welding course seconde cours is
034more focused on welding and is this at both high schools is there no there only Valley Valley MH so what percent of the welding program roughly speaking at PV is encompassed in these two these two classes here the majority I would say I don't off the top of my head know how many sections we have of the intro class this year but it's either four or five where there's probably one or at Max two sections of the others okay are there non-ag related welding classes no we replaced our former um welding courses with these okay thank you for the information and just for my clarification the a welding class is has the prerequisite of the intro toag mechanics first okay thank you do have a motion I move the these two agenda items second fantastic
035um we'll do another Voice vote or further discussion seeing none Doby I Mand I Robinson I tennis I Conan I all right moving right along to our discussion action calendar thank you everybody uh 9.1.1 is Educational Services an informational item excuse me for artificial intelligence and the future impact on prek to 12 education with Mr John Vincent good evening board thank you for give me some time tonight to speak with you um I know we do have that new that new timer up there I just wanted to say that if I know John well he's not here he needs experience so if you want to like use that timer for this presentation I'm open for that so I he could use some practice so let me dive in on this I artificial intelligence is just
036this amazing thing that has merged you know come out in the last two or three years is amazing um and I am really fired up over this um I didn't think I would see this happen so quickly and it just had just steamrolled over the last two or three years um so really quickly to start out with really um you you've probably seen for a long time the ability to ask your phone things or to do things you know where you ask something and the system will respond back in the old days that really was just a a big list of if then so if you ask it this it's going to go down the list and say oh you ask that I'm going to respond with this oh you asked that I'm going respond
037with this so that has changed now so now it uses generative AI it actually is generating output live as you're doing things and so you can ask it the same question multiple times and you'll get different responses back from it each time because it's actually generating as you go um it's a whole new ball game it's um it really is if you have have you guys I if you any of you have used it yet um if you want to like a demonstration I can show you it's a it's amazing um it does problem solving as well um for instance um a problem solving would be um they have an instance of AI that now does um Imaging for medical so they put all these images these X-rays and um CAT scans and MRIs and
038now they can use that to look at X-rays and MRIs and identify issues that maybe doctors can't see they can identify problems that are you know that a disease or something that someone has based upon previous images that the the system has looked at so we are moving we are not diving in on this there are AI is a brand new technology it has issues and so we are taking um very metered steps on this to make sure that we don't overstep um for instance um right now we're really using it more for like a grammar check or spell check you probably use that on your computers um we also use it for document creation so I probably use it once a week to create a document um it doesn't create the best documents it's
039it's like a really good assistant you know you have an assistant who can help you with things but um they can't just create the whole thing you really need to take that and then shape it into what you want it to be can I just pause you there sure maybe scale that back to it's a decent assistant because a really good assistant would be offended from you saying that okay you're right thank you and you'll see in a couple slides here in a minute that it is a pretty good assistant um it does it it does a great you know great job but it's not there it's still brand new I you know back when TV first came out it had lines on it and it rolled it's kind of the same thing with this
040it's a it's a new technology it's going to take some time for this to mature um let me look at my list here so one other thing that we use it for in our department is to create some programming so we if we have an issue that we need to fix we can ask it hey can you create some Powershell or some scripting for this problem and it will write that up for us it's pretty amazing but it's like 80% of the way there it doesn't do it all the way it doesn't work when you get the script from it it doesn't work and we have to actually go in and massage it and same thing when you ask it to create something for you generally you have to take it and pull it apart
041and rebuild it yourself it gives you great ideas and there's some really good sentences in there but you really end up having to redo it yourself so this slide these next four or five slides I had or created a presentation I was going to do and then I thought you know I probably should L AI create the presentation so the next four or five slides AI created and so I did not go in and in mythologies and make them look beautiful and you can see they're kind of wordy um and it just has that kind of a there's a a feel to it that feels like AI so this first item here what we're GNA be talking about go ahead which which AI tool did you use to produce this this is open AI thank
042you yes so this first what we're going to be talking about really is the future of AI and education and what that looks like coming up so there are so we have five different IDE ideas here um personalized learning is this first one the idea that you can have you know kids are in class and you can really Target what those kids where they are and give and create a lessons for them that really match up what they do so for instance um it can look at a student's reading level and choose what kind of books they they do based on their interest and their reading level um to really help those children to be able to learn the best they possibly can so adaptive assessment so this allows us to will AI be able
043to assess children where they are and be able to look and see where what level they're at and their educational journey and be able to Target where they need the help most so that it really would be be a huge help for our teachers because then they can look at that and say oh I can see this is where you're you need help the most and allows them to be able to address those those areas that need help so virtual tutoring this is actually really exciting right here because imagine if you're a let's say English is a second language you can use AI you can talk to it and have conversations with it it can listen to your language and give you suggestions on your phonetics and the language you're using and and give feedback
044live feedback to those students so it's not like they're having a conversation with someone who's speaks another language but gives them the live feedback so grading and feedback this is really going to be a huge help for our teachers so imagine you're a um an English teacher and you have you know five classes of English papers that you need a grade so you could use AI to go through and do basic grading they can go and check the grammar check the spelling and do that for you so you don't have to go through each one and read each one and say oh yeah there's a comma missing there you can do all those basic things and give immediate feedback because it's through the internet so it'd be right like right away then enhanced development of
045curriculum this is very similar to the other ones so it allows a teacher then to be able to create curriculum that really matches what that student needs what their needs are um so if and also if you are let's say let's say you're a teacher and you want to be able to create an assignment that's about let's say California missions you can tell it all the things that you want in there and it can create that curriculum to match both the what you're looking for and also the state standards or different standards so it's it does a great job of being able to pull all those things in that you need to create your curriculum and then in special education yes I'm uh let's go back to the slide on grading and feedback um if
046the AI has algorithm has looked at what the student is doing H how does the communication to the student occur how does that feedback what does it look like like so it vary so in some instances the student might do an assignment and then turn it in and AI will grade that right there and report that back and then the teacher would see that as well in other instances it might be where the teacher wants to see it first and see what the AI how it grades it and they go through and they can make changes say no I don't really want that and and they can make notes on there and then submit that back to the student after they've gone through and this is all on a program that's on their Chromebooks yes
047this would be a program so these are things that are coming they're some of the tools that are out there now are they're new and so these are all things that are coming down the pike yeah I think it's really important to point that out that these slides say will with very good reason the tools we have now are not doing this to the level that we would actually deploy them in an actual ongoing classroom environment it's all very rudimentary at this point yes I agree I wanted to ask on this how how is this different or more robust or better than say turn it in or grammarly or any of the other tools that are already being used right now so a lot of those they do very similar things but this is going
048to be taking it to the next level because it has such a huge um amount of data that it can pull from to be able to to do these assignments create curriculum do grading um grading is kind of a simple one but it is you know like creating you know targeting for students where they you know what book they should read or what their curriculum should look like that really is um is a very because it has so much data that it has to pull from it's the same idea as what we're seeing right now but it's really taken to the next level do you think that there's potential then this just occurred to me or just thought just came to me something that's really hard as an educator is to evaluate a student based
049on their growth in real time you know in in the classroom you we have standardized tests that help you know Mark that from year to year but how do you do that from last assignment to this assignment is a lot harder um where a student might have gotten I don't know we'll just say a 60% on the this style of writing or this type of assignment last month and now they have a they got a 65% it's still a d but really that amount of growth you know and and so is there um maybe the potential for AI to at some point help Educators base their assessment of students more on the growth rather than just strict you know numbers if that makes sense it does and so that's one of the slides talked about
050State Standards sorry sorry sorry as like an individualized thing so they're not being based on a a a complete classroom standard but they're being based on a standard that is their own personal standard right yeah just thought so sorry didn't mean no it's okay so um from what I've read yes it would be able to do that it one of the real powers of this is the fact that it can really individualize um the educational experience for each child because it really looks at where they are and where their strengths are where their interests are do they really like mystery novels you know if they like that then maybe mystery novels is a great way to go for reading um you can look at where their strengths are there strengths in in in grammar or
051if not then then maybe they need to like be simpler books so that they can start there and work their way up and and build upon what they've already learned and build upon that and so that's what they're looking at is using that to Target where that sweet spot is where the child is right now to help build upon where they are which sounds great as long as it's not adding additional steps or stress for the educator themselves when you have 175 plus students that you're trying to you know manage all of those individualized programs which is what we would like to work towards or to do like that's the ideal you know level of education for our kiddos um as long as it's assisting with that and not adding another layer of steps to
052take to do that I mean that's the ultimate goal right it is and that really is what this is too it's an assistant to our teachers um it's not meant to I should I should have mentioned this earlier it's certainly not meant to replace Educators it's it can't do that um it's just a tool that can be used to make our teachers to make their jobs easier that's that's what they're aiming for this so as tools are created that will be the aim when companies create tools to help teachers um is to help them and not make it more difficult and that's where as more programs come out and we look at those and we can look to see what it is they do and and how other districts are working with them find those
053tools that actually do the best job of that of helping our teachers yes John I'm gonna uh just I noticed something you said about making the job easier for the teacher I think what would be more appropriate and a way of description would be to make it more effective yes because we don't we we are looking at making the teacher that you can't replace more effective with these tools I like that word more I think it's one of the things they're trying to do is to remove some of those mundane jobs so that it they can be more effective they can take their time use their time to be more effective with students yes I think you're right it fits better yes so I'm going to go just slightly off the trail but do you
054know of a system or standard any kind of process to make a system or standard by which we can decide whether or not to trust AI output like in this case AI made this that's great yes and I believe it because you're here telling me it's good stuff so so it's an interesting um there was a story I can tell a story really quickly so um I went to a training and they talked about a bank not a bank sorry it was a lawy a law firm so this Law Firm had to submit a brief to the court I don't know if you heard this but and so they made the AI to make this beautiful brief and it had the court cases on there that applied to it to back up their their case
055they submitted it and it was all fake the AI just made something beautiful it looked great but all the court cases were not real and so um they call those hallucinations that's a that's an official term for AI it has hallucinations it just makes stuff up as it goes and so uh but it looks great it's so you're very right it's it's so so so important to make sure that the information you're getting from AI is correct because it's not always correct yes thank you for bringing that up any other questions on this before I move forward all right so Ai and special education this has great potential as well because we could utilize AI to help to create IEPs um to look at the strengths and the places where children have need to build
056those IEPs to give them what the the the services that they need um also there is um we can use AI to do more assisted um systems so for instance we already see some of that right now we see systems that are helping kids that are in special education to help their assist of systems so allows them to to talk and do different things through the systems it's really cool what we're seeing right now we'll see even more of that going coming forward as well as time goes by all right so this slide is mine so those all those last ones were all AI generated they were big and wordy hey John in the future can you just do a little footnote on those types of slides that say yeah yeah generated thank you so
057um current we we do not allow students to access AI systems um it's not because we don't support that I fully support students access in I the whole world is going to be based on that in their in their world they're going to be using that so much um it would be wrong for them not to utilize that but at this time we don't have um privacy agreements from those companies so State of California Assembly Bill 1584 requires privacy statements sign contracts with school districts before allowed to share data with them and so at this time we don't have these so every every AI company out there Google I went to a Google Presentation two weeks ago they are still like do not allow kids to use it because it's we don't have privacy statement
058so right now it's blocked for all of our kids um on District devices um but at some point we're looking forward to opening that up to them um something to consider too is so we're talking about open AI it's an open architecture so anything that you type into that is accessible for anybody else it's open it's like wikip it's like this the new version of Wikipedia it's something like that yeah so when you type in something and you're trying to create something all that data you put in there is actually it's not private to your account it's open to the world and so you need to keep that in mind when you're using AI not to put personal information into AI um and so that's where that second item comes in um the pii information
059never never ever ever and that's like I think when I went to Google it was like five never ever Evers they said put personal information into AI because it's it's anybody can see it then um we're waiting on them to come out with um a more closed system and that's what education will use will be a closed AI where you can put information in it doesn't go out anymore um but that's still on the way it's kind of terrifying to think about younger folks our students for example like Discerning between what's okay to put in there and what's not you know they might think people can look at my phone number it's not that big of a deal for me to put it in there but that's scary it is scary yeah yeah so if
060you're watching right now Don't put personal information into that don't do that just don't do just don't do it just don't do it all right so um any questions is there a cheating angle to this at all I mean oh yeah I mean I guess anybody who has access to Google you know could could cheat you know I don't know that having access to some kind of artificial intelligence would well I guess to write your paper that's the thing yes and so are we incorporating that into our you know program at all I mean um maybe this is a Kelly daale question or or or have we thought about students using AI to write papers I guess they're taking their life in their own hands in theory because they could be putting hallucinations in there
061and things like that so could which is what we're all going to be doing I guess I mean every reporter and so forth and novelist I mean is going to be having AI take a crack some big onerous project that they're facing down and and then they'll just kind of go through and groom it you know when it's over I mean do we have a philosophy on students doing this I mean uh will we give more pop quizzes uh in response to this I think we should uh so what do you think of superintendent Kelly Staley boss of Chico Unified and the non AI expert but um I think we have seen technology Advance throughout time right so it used to be cheating if you use used a calculator now we wouldn't even think about
062having students take a test without being able to use that calculator especially in the higher Mass so I think um from an from a education standpoint we're going to have to really think about what is important what's the important knowledge that they know and certainly John already mentioned that it's going to be increasingly important that we talk about the ability to discern between you know what is accurate and what isn't um but students right now can go home and use artificial intelligence to write a paper and there's a good chance we're not going to know right so we may have to change how we teach how we assess more may need to be done in class where we know that it is truly their thoughts that we're getting um and then uh we're going to
063need to embrace it because kids are going to use it in the real world they're going to use it in jobs that are coming up and just like we had to do with calculators let's figure out what are those essential skills that that kids need to know and certainly thinking and Discerning between reality and not as one so I got a question for my fellow board members does anyone else think that we should convey that we think pop quizzes in like for writing is a good idea I mean um I mean for me in my life I mean writing has I think been just a really important you know tool not only to be able to convey my own thoughts to the rest of the world but even to you formulate your own thoughts for
064yourself for your own consumption I mean when you sit down and do the hard work of you know putting pen to paper and formulating thoughts you know you it forces you to to weigh your you know your viewpoints and are you really somebody who can CL think clearly um and I think that if students can't think clearly enough to be able to write something down on paper we ought to in the vein of trying to to educate them we ought to be willing to expose that by subjecting them to um you know essay essay assignments in class what do you guys think about that um anecdotally I think that um at least the Educators that I know who are teaching our students uh are really good at teaching critical thinking and uh understand how to
065navigate what you're talking about and how to recognize using AI tools even um when students are not giving genuine feedback in written form um and to ensure that that students are being held accountable for their ability to think and communicate critically and clearly um to say it the most succinctly like I have really good faith in in our Educators to to be able to to navigate that professionally and I'm also I'm very encouraged to um there's just a lot of really smart Educators across the country that are working on this so as time goes by we'll see things you know ways of doing of dealing with this come out from around the country including in our district we'll have ways of dealing with cheating and and ways of identifying that will happen so same thing
066happened with Wikipedia and really any new technology that comes out um we we adjust defining what cheating is yes I also want to add to what um Mr Doby was saying that a lot of our teachers do a lot of exit TI exit tickets on the way out checking for understanding a lot of formative assessments inside the classroom where they will give quick prompts or here's two problems I want you to do I want to check for understanding immediately even if it's on their Chromebook they could say here's a quick prompt write it right now before you leave I just want to make sure that we have the understand of what the concept um before you leave the classroom today I still believe that's still happening in our classroom but the bigger papers what we're
067talking about now when we're writing an essay and those types of things we're going to have to wait just like kind of um turn it.com came about where kids were before were cutting and pasting in college and in high school um different research stuff and we couldn't check it then turn.com came in where would catch if it was more than a certain percentage of the thing was copied so I would imagine what John's saying companies will start trying to come up with systems on that but again I think Matt you are correct we need to continue to do formative assessments you know that day in class what they've learned this is what I taught today I want to make sure that you understand my concept let's do a quick prompt and that way if I
068need to retach it tomorrow and those types of things and we're always our teachers like um Caitlyn was saying are are really good at that but we have to continue to do that as this um AI comes into play until we can figure out how um they're using it at home when they're not on our um W Wi-Fi very good any other questions all right thank you so much thank you John all right moving on um in our discussion action calendar 9.1.2 is also an informational item on chica unified homework policy defining homework could we have the um not the board policy but the other document pulled up to the screen please thank you could you blow that up just a bit perfect thank you so much Zach um good evening um I'm here to
069talk about uh homework a more traditional educational topic um than what you just heard um the topic of homework came to the board at the uh November 1st uh board meeting and um we were exploring the possibilities of changing homework policies and the board at that time the board directed staff to uh work district office staff to work with our teachers to um come up with a common definition for homework um just for your reference the the board existing board policies included um as an attachment to this item um this document um essentially adds details to the general ideas um present in the current board policy um no big changes it's it's essentially fleshing it out um the work was done um coming up with this definition um with our um District Leadership Council um
070both Elementary and secondary unfortunately Ted Solen um is ill tonight so he's not here to to speak to the elementary portion of those discussions but um Pedro and I were were part of all the secondary discussions um essentially um what we realized real fast and we kind of knew what we were getting into is um when talking about a definition and and purpose of homework is is fairly um straightforward with teachers however when you get down to the nitty-gritty details of exactly you know how much homework and and those kinds of details the differences between departments you know at the secondary level is significant um the difference between um approaches at the elementary level um is significant um so coming up with a very very detailed um document is is difficult um however um the
071document presented to you tonight um was approved by you know all the our teacher leadership parties and it it has a few sections here first we have the purpose of homework and I'm going to do a little bit of reading tonight I apologize just for the benefit of folks out in the audience um the purpose of homework um homework assignments are designed to reinforce classroom learning and encourage independent study they should not serve as the primary method of instruction but as a supplementary tool to support classroom uh learning the definition of homework here um homework en compasses several key aspects integral to student learning and academic achievement it serves as a tool for review allowing students to reinforce Concepts already learned in class and solidify their understanding through practice whether it involves reading assignments completing
072tasks left unfinish during class time or engaging in activities that frontload upcoming lessons homework is designed to extend learning beyond the classroom walls importantly homework does not require immediate teacher support fostering independent and self-directed learning skills among students it is crucial to emphasize that homework should not introduce new learning but rather consolidate existing knowledge serving as a meaningful and purposeful extension of classroom instruction it is the goal of the district that homework is a valuable component of the learning process enhancing student outcomes and promoting uh academic success so the spirit of this is essentially um we're not giving kids um tasks to do at home that they haven't been presented with it um during class um it is to supplement um the work that is being done in class and the learning that is taking
073place moving down the document um the group decided that um the Imp imp of of homework completion should minimally affect um the student's grade the time allocations here at the bottom are um you know something that's commonly used um an example is you know back when I started teaching kind of the rule of thumb was 10 minutes per grade level in the elementary World um that's something that a lot of districts have settled on so first grade would be 10 second grade would be 20 Etc um we adjusted those a little bit here um essentially following the board policy of as the com which states something to the effect of as the age of the CH as students get older and subject matter um gets more complex that they will have more homework additionally we
074added um Aster there for additional homework for Honor and uh advanced placement courses um these courses by students know what they're getting into when they sign up for advanced placement courses there's going to be um work at home and they're in fact built into the courses um by the college board so any any questions about this a comment just something that I I wish was a little bit more clear um or maybe discussed further uh towards the end where it says these are General recommendations it would be nice to clarify that um the following our are um basically like it's it basically makes it sound like there's an expectation that there should be 30 minutes of homework every night for third graders instead of saying there should be no more than 30 minutes of homework
075per night it could be zero but there shouldn't it should not it should not exceed this number I think would be I would feel more comfortable with that statement if it were worded in a way more to say that it shall not exceed not that the expectation or that was for an example it doesn't matter which grade level I think that I think that for nth graders it should not exceed 90 minutes a night of homework it could be zero that would be totally acceptable clarify that it shouldn't be a minimum is what you're saying right um one thing I I failed at the ex existing board policy um has been in place for a while um this document is back is meant to back that up and provide more details so um just uh
076as far as time allocation the amount of homework assigned will uh be mindful you have the age and the grade level but maybe also um including ability level um something to sort of Encompass um students who might have IEPs or special needs right adding age maybe ability is the right word or um right what I'm I hesitate to do this at the moment but looking up at the definition and see seeing if there's wording we could we could use or possibly add is there I think that there's a intention to bring this back to School sites and get additional feedback from staffs um but also maybe to run it through some of our our parent groups um from different targeted areas just to get feedback from them as well um to sort of continue to
077massage it out and kind of pick out some of those you know inclusive pieces that and to that point if I may sorry um the board policy which is also attached does within one of the first paragraphs talk about about that the board recognizes that students learn at different rates that's part of the preface to discussion that's very important I'm glad you that up my other concern is that um what is there an attached AR to this what happens if a you know one of the a teacher with a very old school sort of mentality is assigning what feels to other teachers or parents like a hugely excessive or unnecessary amount of homework what what and if this were to turned into an AR which I believe that is that is the plan administrative regulation
078um the principal would have that um to refer to when discussing that with the teacher Tim are you done Tom okay um one of my concerns when I read through this in preparation for the meeting was the um the difference in the um bell curve of student ability with the up I'm talking upper grades um and because you don't know what teacher a has just done if your teacher B and um my concern is a student who is doing their best but struggling um how do we protect homework from becoming a negative um impact on the students attitude toward getting in there and spending the time to do the work when the time becomes I don't want to say overwhelming but um it just that that's that's my concern right and I I think our
079teachers know know their students very well well and they understand um there's different ability levels seated before them um in some cases there is you know a separation um made by just by course enrollment um so that students are somewhat Group by ability um for certain subjects so that that would make it easier for teachers to make those adjustments for an entire class but in any case our expectation and and what we see is that our our teachers know their students very well um they understand uh the backgrounds of their students and then our expectation is that they take that into account when holding um students accountable I actually don't have a problem with um the language like approximately 30 to 50 minutes per day um I think that using language such as no more
080than 50 minutes a day um to me seems a little bit restrictive and I I think it could open up you know problems that for I don't know students and families who um feel that that's unfair I think using approximately 30 to 50 minutes just leaves it sort of general and open and allowing teachers to use their discretion okay yeah I think it's good to clarify that this is an average also you know we kind of talked about that some days may end up being especially at the secondary level some there Tuesdays are probably a popular day for there to be a little extra work that is done in class and maybe carries over um might not be due till Thursday but if a student has something going on Wednesday night they're going to pile
081all their homework on one night so I mean it would be you know an average um right additionally we have block schedule at at the high schools yeah and with that block sorry with that block schedule kidss are at the maximum only having four classes versus pre-block schedule like our junior high right now have six classes so they're they're concentrating on those four classes possibly if they're a senior or Junior maybe they only have three classes that they're doing homework um and on those days so hopefully that'll do that and then also with the counselors and the teachers could um recommend for a student to go into an academic success class as one of their class periods to be able to get more time to be a to work on their homework during the school
082day and having a teacher there to support them we're continuing to want to improve those academic success classes to be able to support our students that need that extra time yeah I mean so at the ninth well really down to the sixth grade level but at the nth grade level for example it it it doesn't spell it out here and it may be beneficial to do this or not um but it it comes out to about 20 to 25 minutes on average per class per day um and so if teachers and families had that kind of mindset and a teacher was consistantly um assigning an hour or even 45 minutes of homework per night or per class um that would be excessive and I think it it should be regulated um because if there's three
083teachers doing that then we're really getting up there but but there's no accountability among classrooms to make sure that there's collaboration on how much time is being assigned to students so it's really up to the district to set that standard and to make sure that it isn't excessive somehow which we don't have yet and I think that's that's what kind of what we're working towards here okay along those lines I'm less concerned with the uh time allotments I mean as long as it's not hugely excessive as with making sure that as we um work with our teachers and um train them that we always keep the purpose of that homework in the Forefront that the homework we're assigning is specifically to reinforce and to encourage independent thought about a topic they've already been introduced to
084and I think if we do that we won't see the huge piles of of homework that become abstraction yeah I'm glad that you brought that back around because this this discussion really was came from that presentation where we really didn't have a definition for homework um that was kind of a more of a standard concept to even this discussion so it's really helpful to be able to Circle back on that for sure yeah and I think this this definition um addresses that any further questions how long did it take few months yeah yeah meet with our DLC the about every two weeks so took a little while going back and forth between the groups nice way to stick it out thank you all right I'm not seeing any further questions or comments um it is
085informational only so uh we'll tuck that away until the next update um as you make progress there and we'll move on to item number three midyear local control accountability plan lcap update good evening okay okay thank you we're we're up uh we're coming to you tonight for informational only with a new requirement M that the state's given to school districts County offices and charters for a midyear update to the lcap so we're just about ready to get into lcap season as I call it and I have Tim and Sharice here with me my partners in crime as we write the lcap with Tim looking at the data pieces and Sharice handling all the money pieces so those are the two things that this midyear lcap report has to uh share with you and then of
086course in questions you might have some of it will be review if you uh if you've looked at the data you'll know what I mean but Tim's going to give a quick overview of that first okay none of the data that I'm going to show you tonight is new to you um this data was presented to you um at the uh January regular board meeting um none of it is new um my intent with that uh agenda item in January was to get you this information as fast as possible um and what we are seeing right now is uh a midyear lcap update as as Tina mentioned so we're required to provide this data to you um again in my opinion it's a little too late for a school board to get this data so
087um I just I'm not going to spend a a heck of a lot of time on this um but um just so you just to orient you on what you're looking at um the first slide is our English language arts indicator um you're all aware that we increased our overall English Language Art scores um and when we look at student groups uh we see a significant number of those student groups improving and a significant number as well improving more than our all student student group in math we saw a more significant increase um and we saw the same um kind of pattern that we saw with English language arts with our student groups some of our targeted student groups such as socioeconomically disadvantaged um growing at a much higher rate than than the goal that
088was set for them so an example is socioeconomically disadvantaged here that grew more than six points and the goal for all these groups is to in increase three the um it says LP up there that's the English language progress indicator and this is an indication um of student progress towards becoming English proficient as measured by the elpac test or the English language proficiency assessments of California um and you can see us compared to similar districts um up at the top there we're very proud of our um our program for English learners uh when we look at graduation rate we saw an increase um in Chico Unified um we saw some significant increases for our students with disabilities um and our socioeconomically disadvantaged students so we're working on closing those achievement gaps when we look at
089Chronic gaps and te ISM um the rates remain very very high compared to preco um chronic absenteeism rates these are kids that are um absent at least um 10% of the school year um we are very very high but so is most of the rest pretty much all the rest of the state at this point um we are improving um we are improving our chronic absenteeism rate at a higher rate for some of our targeted student groups which is what we really want to see you can see some some outliers there at the bottom that actually increased um however most student groups um went down we look at suspension rate um we essentially remained static last year um we saw um particularly proud of socioeconomically disadvantaged our students going down I keep bringing that up
090because that's our largest student group in Chico Unified with uh last year was about 57% of our our student body um is accounted for in that student group and we're happy to see the the Improvement um this is the College and Career indicator um we don't get a like a color score from the state on the state dashboard but we we are um at about 46% graduating um our kids College and Career ready as deemed by the state um looking forward to next year and looking at this um with the implementation of the block schedule um being in place for more years and with more um hoping to see a lot more CTE completion a lot more AP tests taken um more SE by literacy students um so um really looking forward to seeing these
091numbers next year with that I'm gonna any questions before I leave yeah yeah I just want to make sure I'm looking at The Chronic absenteeism rate correctly yeah did I say that 19% of our students are chronically absent yep that needs to be and sure it is for our staff but for all of us that needs to be a huge alarm yeah it well it's it's still you know I mentioned preco pre-co just for a reference around eight yeah and so it's still very high last year we were in the TW high 20s so it's improving and our attendance rate's getting better but it's it's still an issue um and we're very well aware of that um our attendance clerks are doing a wonderful job um making phone calls as well as our targeted case
092managers to get kids to school we're able to provide bus passes for certain student populations things like that to help them get to school and I and I hear that we're addressing it and I see that the rate is going down just want to make sure that we appear that's an outrageous number and it's we needs to be a priority for for the board where are you seeing that that number can you go back to that SL it was on slide 12 I want to say or 11 oh that's changed I'm sorry so right here so you see the all student groups up there it says 19.1 rate indicator yeah and what what it defines being chronically absent you think 10% or 10% or more of the school year yeah can anyone say like generally
093kind of what what is the the bread and butter of this population is there anything you can say like to explain this you're seeing this Across the Nation and across the state so after covid the uh kids just didn't come back or there's much more of an expectation on the part of families that there is flexibility that it is um you know we have something else coming up and we're going to do that or my kid needs a mental health day um and also we really really reinforce with people if you aren't feeling good stay home and so now we want to flip that and you know you need to be here and again I don't want to see but we really you know pushed it so but it's not I guess my point is
094it's it's not at all unique to Chico Unified yeah we're aware of it we wanted we all want to do better but there's a lot that went into it yeah we're we rank about in the middle of our similar districts for this and again I'm not saying that our dist is doing anything wrong per se or not following best practices just it needs to continue to be on our radar both because you know as we know funding uh for the schools depends on attendance and also because students don't learn if they're not here and having I mean if we really want to see excellence in our students they need to be attending school as regularly as possible which also means we need to look at ways of potentially capturing attendance data you know um and
095make sure that students are in a program that allows them to um participate as fully as possible whether that's something like an online program or an independent study program or whatever else and again I know we're doing all this is just right this this percentage is probably a under count is my um understanding because at the secondary level if they show up to just one class they're counted as as present um right so it could be that it could be even higher if you go you know throughout the day class by class um that's something I learned at csba so it could be wrong so one thing one thing I will say about this is um High School is not included in this per that's the the state that's the way the state um calculates
096it so this is only um tk8 tk8 got it um right so it would so it it so it is an under representation probably yeah oh yeah yeah I agree so uh I had a thing to say from all three of you that are separate and I'm trying to unpack it or repackage it in my brain um follow on to uh Matt's question was similarly I was wondering um if there's certain School sites that you know this number is higher versus lower or certain demographics where that we see the ever higher and lower and I know that there's like a task force that's addressing these things and and those conversations are being had at the district level I just I think that that's part of what Matt was asking was was if there are certain
097um aspects that you know we should be honing in on yeah yeah you know on that note one thing to keep in mind is the younger kids um you were talking about the older kids but the younger kids that came into school maybe right before covid or right during Co their learning experience is different than had there been kids that have been in school so it's really educating our families about the importance of of being in school not only for the reasons you mentioned but um just for the general well-being of kids so it's that demographic that sometimes people don't think of that we have to remember um and that's just a lot of educating to our families with young children or incoming kids that are not older uh as well so I'm sorry E
098I had one more thing before I leave it no um the so the last piece the third thing in my brain that was all happening at the same time um was another quote that came from a presentation from csba um that I don't have a reference for was that a classroom or a School site that is experiencing 20% or more of chronic absenteeism the entire populace of the students are affected by that um and so that's why it is really important to make sure that we're addressing those especially those classrooms and school sites School sites some okay and something was mentioned about the work that the attendance clerks and the targeted case managers are doing and I wanted to reinforce that in in my 25 years I was once upon a time one of those
099treny officers attendance clerks there were lots of horrible names for the job I did but the thing that usually really got the attendant of the parents and and the students was when I would tell them that if you just miss one day a month that the cumulative effect of that at the end of your school career is you've missed an entire school year just one day a month and um that was one of the things that you would see the AHA go on and I know it's still the script from attendance clerks and targeted case managers but there might be people watching and and it it is significant one day a month and um it is something that we are working on reversing and um will help with everything from our acad mic scores and
100things that you measure in the tests to you know students just recognizing through parent support the school is important there really is a reason to get up and go to school when you don't want to get up so that's all okay I'm going to turn it over to Sharice for the financial piece thank you good evening so um as Tina mentioned this is a new requirement from the state and the two pieces that we have to bring to you are data and then is um along with that is the financial piece so we're going to start with the actions as far as the budget goes um and in comparison to that where our current expenditures are so this is expenditures that we've paid out through January 31st um and then the implementation when we were
101talking about this and looking at it if we're on Target that's we're over halfway through the year so that means that we're 55% um around that of spending so far done um so if you look at all of goal one we've spent about 14 million the budget was about 25 um so we're over 50% so we consider that on target the one category where we're in progress is um technology and the reason for that is we typically do our big Chromebook order in the spring so we don't have as many expenditures in that category right now okay okay and then these are for goals oh yeah go ahead um the other area where it's not quite half is in professional development is that simply because we do most of our professional development in the summer
102and that's counted is a little bit of that but if if you see there's actually two professional development categories on this one Tom so um in action 1 point you are looking at 1.9 um that's our title two funds so the 1.17 was added this last year and that's district-wide professional development so we actually as a school district it's at the very bottom there so if you see our budget was 223,000 we've actually spent over that amount so I didn't see that thank you very much yeah so we did new professional development this year that was paid for out of lcap funds that kind of took the place of that a little bit more um so if that makes sense we didn't spend as much out of title too does thank you very much you're
103welcome okay so then goals two three and four um same with these ones so so the two if you look at goals two and three as a total we've spent about 53% um in both of those areas and so we consider that on target so same with these categories um and just as a note any of the items that say budgeted expenditures or midyear expenditures zero it's just because the expenditures in that are captured in another action number so I've made notes as to where you can reference the um expenditures for those particular actions okay and so then the second part of the financials is looking at the budget overview for parents so when we come to the board with the lcap in June we also have to do the budget overview for parents um
104it just speaks to the revenue that we project spending or um receiving this next year and the expenditures along with that so the chart on the left there that's your projected Revenue that was the um brought to you in June and then the one on the right is our revised Revenue as of first interum that we project or um present presented to you guys in December so there was about a $5 million swing uh most of that was in state revenue as you can see it went from 12% over in the projected Revenue to 14% so that's state grants along with Transportation Revenue that we received and then the second part of the budget overview for parents is expenditures so um we have on the top part there that's the original budget that was presented
105in June and in the blue or the bottom section that's the Rev budget as of first interim so there were some um there was about 17 million or so in expenditures that we increased between our original budget and when we brought it to in first interim the difference in that mostly is in compensation increase so as we stated when we did our presentation in December that 6.11% or so um across all categories CCA cuta and Kuma that increased our budget quite a bit um we have a large budget so when we do a compensation increase it affects it a lot um and then the other areas that increased um were some Capital outlay so Transportation Vehicles which we also mentioned at first interim um and then over on the leftand side the biggest difference between
106the total budgeted expenditures in the LC cap itself those differences were again compensation increase and textbook funds so we actually had more carryover and textbook funds than we anticipated so our budget goes up here between the original budget and the first interim any questions on the financial side okay okay as you can see I'm wise enough to surround myself with really really smart people with data and financial savviness uh my part is actually pretty easy when I have them next to me so we look forward to meeting uh again with you down the way in June in the meantime Sharice and Tim and I will be busy at work but um one thing that we do need to note here on the last slide uh while I mentioned I surround myself with really bright people
107here we also love to get our family engagement um feedback that is specific to lcap while we've had a multitude of family engagement meetings this year we do uh have starting February 29th our specific lcap meetings with our family our targeted groups of families and our students as well so in those meetings from that run from February end of February through April we um have specific slides similar to what we showed you tonight the the data that Tim has that he shares with our family and then uh we show the the financial pieces as well get input from families on that because it is specific to lcap but perhaps the the input that we love the most uh and and as a parent I can say this while I love to talk to parents we
108do love to talk to our students as well and um you I think you do have a copy with you that looks like this of the meetings that are upcoming on one side are the remainder of the lcap meetings here you are welcome at any time to join us and the student elcap meetings are on the flip side of the paper and you're welcome to join those as well we get a lot of great feedback from the kids as you've heard throughout um throughout the years and we look forward to meeting them and they are a wide variety of kids and uh it's the best part of our day when we have those so please join us do you have any questions Tina the next time the next time we'll be hearing about lcap here
109is going to be at our June hearing correct okay um I was wondering if there's any interest in um talking about committing to having board members attend um any of the like community Community meetings and or student meetings um not that this is an action item or anything tonight but uh I kind of like the idea of having kind of a a prehearing share out you know if if board members were able to attend at least one community meeting and then come back in May and just do kind of like we do post csba and just share out some of the highlights that we heard from either a student meeting or community meeting that we attended I um apologetically have not attended an in person elcat meeting in the past and um I definitely intend
110to turn that around this year but it would be nice to you know know that there's a board Presence at at all of our meetings even if it's just one of us um at a time but I know none of us have the capacity to to do all of them um but maybe you I have the student meetings on my calendar and and I since I work um during the day it's really hard I may be able to flex one of those days to attend a student meeting but I would love to just hear before we get to June just kind of what's some of the feedback coming from our students and and coming from our um our community members um so if there's interest to discuss that at some point or just even informally
111say yeah let's let's have a a share out session in May from from what we've taken away personally from from just sitting in on and listening to these these meetings um are there any particular thoughts from board members not taking any action but just to right you I'm intending to attend the student all the way from elementary through the meeting at Fairview sounds really fun I always say the more the merrier we enjoy our parent uh meetings as well and those are in the evenings if they're a little bit easier to get to um but it's it's really great feedback and a great time of of community with our families cool well if anybody else thinks that that might be a good use of our board meeting time either at the May Workshop or regular
112meeting um maybe let maybe let superintendent Staley know and and we'll maybe work it into an agenda very much and again I've been to them in the past not in the last uh year and I do need to I have them on my calendar now so hopefully we'll get to more than I did last year you know where to find us I do at Marsh thank you Tina thanks group just kidding now we're cruising turn my mic back on uh on to business services uh 2.1 is a discussion action item for the 2324 demographic analysis hi good evening uh thank you for your time tonight in order for the school district to plan for our facilities into the future um in an informed way we update our demographic analysis annually um we find out where
113we're getting our students from where are they choosing to attend you know which campus are they going to um how many kids can we anticipate in the future at certain locations it's very integral to um the implementation of our facilities Master planning um you've received the overall demographic study for your review um last week but tonight we have Rob Murray here from King Consulting uh we have worked with King Consulting for I think 18 years now so um that enables uh us to have a wealth of data all in the same place so when we have questions about uh what's happening with our demographics um they're on hand and can analyze that data for us in a really quick manner which I think we found very useful to the district um he's going to present
114a summary of the major points of the study to you tonight and with that I will turn it over to Rob then we'll open it up for questions okay thank you Julie and good evening Madame President members of the board members of Staff it's good to be back uh I am Rob Murray the director of demographics King Consulting and I know I've played to a packed house here in the past I guess I'm on the casino circuit generation of my uh career but that's okay I do have a good presentation for you tonight uh as Julie said this is a summary of the full report if in the time that you had the report you have questions about something that I don't bring up tonight obviously feel free to ask and feel free to stop
115me along the way though you have not been shy tonight so I'm not too worried about uh that one but let's go ahead and uh just quick overview I think one thing that isn't on the slide but that I'll point out is last year's projection that just about a year ago I came and presented to you uh with your bottom line total we came in really really close I do feel like we have a good handle on things and a lot of the basic patterns that we're looking at are the same as what you heard me talk about last year you have a lot of residential development additional large projects are still coming into the pipeline through the city of Chico and as long as that remains the case you have this pipeline of new
116families with new schoolage kids who were moving into your school district and enrolling in your schools and that's good as far as increasing enrollment because from your existing Community if that development weren't happening we are as I reported to you last year continuing to see uh much later than has happened in many other places around the state but we are finally seeing that same demographic trend of fewer births uh just each of those birth cohorts is getting a little smaller the whole model of cohort replacement you have your seniors matriculating out kindergarteners come in to replace them or just at the elementary schools your fifth graders move out your kindergarteners come in to replace them and whenever you have differ sized populations that's what's going to drive enrollment up or down and again absent those
117new kids coming in from the new developments you'd be seeing that downtrend every new cohort that's coming in for the next several years is probably going to be a little smaller than the ones they're replacing the other big part is we're still in the middle of this rollout of transitional kindergarten by 2025 26 effectively it's a new grade level it's not mandatory for families but every four-year-old who wants to come to you for TK is eligible to do so by the then and that's going to keep again these aren't kids that you you probably were going to get them the next year for kindergarten anyway but it's more kids that you have at the same time when those come in and the net result for all of this is continuing growth and I'll explain some
118caveats at the end last year I told you we were seeing a point where you would grow up to a point and then probably level off this projection that I'm going to show you tonight does show continued growth through the 2030 31 school year but there are some assumptions built into that that I will explain to you basically why I'm off the hook uh if certain things happen that go a little bit differently than our most likely assumptions so again just that quick review historically over the last 10 years uh you had from 20145 on through 201920 been growing at a steady clip something happened in 2020 that we all know what was uh you like many other school districts that time had a big one-time drop a lot of those kids and families simply
119moved away there was a lot of complicating uh G demographic factors at that time but what you see now with now four years uh of data including the core covid-19 year in 2020 2021 but on from that is you're right back to resuming that previous pattern I think in 2020 what the thing that was that happened maybe that affected us was that um Matt and I were elected to the school board yeah so yes that have been to whatever extent that influenced the numbers as well but sorry it's getting late and so I'm getting silly no that's it's all right I had my fun you should all have yours too but uh but what but again what we're seeing is back to that growth at a pretty steady clip again you see uh from the
120you know that first year you really started growing uh it's been pretty consistent numbers usually between 100 you know something sometimes approaching 200 or even above above 200 but you take that Co year out and it's been a pretty steady Pace otherwise but here is the part that uh you see the effect that that TK is having uh over the last couple of years that light blue bar at the top as you have more TK students coming in coming in in a given year you look at all your TK and Kinder together and that's what's keeping uh some of that bottom line as healthy as it is if you just look at the dark blue lines uh you see that again starting in 2021 and then going forward from that uh 2122 you had another
121year that was consistent with some of your pre-co kindergarten sizes but now you've had a couple years where you just have noticeably smaller cohorts of kids coming in at kindergarten however again there are some things that we'll talk about with what that means for your existing cohorts so of course anytime small Kinders come in they're probably taking the place of a cohort that had more kids enrollment tends to go down however you have this offsetting issue of a lot of new development going on all of you live in this District you have certainly seen just going around Chico uh how much is happening and I'll show a map in a minute of a lot of where that's happening but before we look at that we do need to know what does that actually mean in
122terms of kids and if you look at the Gold lines there again not just reading numbers to you but we actually look at from a real estate database all of the addresses that have been recently constructed we have the thrilling you know don't be too jealous of my job but we take your student list and we just compare addresses and find for X number of houses that were built how many kids do you actually have enrolled uh we tend to look at things just built in the last few years and then we can use that looking forward to if similar stuff keeps getting built how many more kids are going to come out of it so you see uh for your single family detached which just as it sounds like Standalone home no adjoining walls
123with anybody else uh for S properties at market rate uh just below a 0.25 is what we observed this year uh which is down from something closer to a three that you had had the couple years before but that still means for about every four houses that are built you can expect to have a new student now sometimes that's going to be eight houses with no students sometimes it's going to be one house with three students uh but just across the board for estimating the impact of future development that's what that can tell us and then uh your single family attached rat there has been especially in some of the uh Southeastern parts of city of Chico quite a bit more of condos town home kind of uh housing being built and you are actually
124seeing more families than you used to moving into that kind of housing as it's being constructed uh your market rate multif family remains just a little bit lower and as always affordable or below market rate how housing is going to produce the most students it is a little bit lower this year than it has been but still considerably higher than any other kind of housing so again not reading at all but uh talk every year with uh CI Community Community Development Department uh just to get a sense of the status of some of the projects where things are in the pipeline looking ahead we're putting the barber yard project on the map this year is another large specific plan that's going to bring you know just a lot more housing units into the district over
125the next several years potentially uh but you still see the large concentration on the Southeastern part of the city of Chico but I think literally every single boundary has at least one or two projects in it so you do have things going on everywhere and then we use those student generation rates and an estimated build out of when those units are going to hit the ground and be occupied to adjust the enrollment project C to account for new people moving in the other thing we look at while we're doing all this mapping and that Julie referenced is this analysis and this is what I like to say tell me that you are an open enrollment District without telling me that you're an open enrollment district and that is you have this bingo card that has
126almost no blank spaces almost every combination of what boundary a student lives in and what school they're actually enrolled at you have at least one kid doing almost every possible combination of that somewhere in your District uh but you still so you can just look down those columns to see for example on just starting on the far left there with Chapman just all the students who live in Chapman 358 in total that are enrolled with cusd uh and then all the schools that they actually are enrolled at and of course when you have your hookero and your rosale programs you're naturally going to have every single student enrolled in those programs is coming from one of the other 10 boundaries uh and then looking across those Rose you see everyone who is enrolled at that
127school and you can look at where they're coming from where they live including the students coming in from outside the district entirely so lots of Trends with that the study has lots of maps and other summaries of what that looks like but I don't think it's a surprise to any of you that you uh partly due to the way that your district is set up you do have a lot of movement and choice available for your families so that gets into the enrollment projections so again looking ahead that really really big part for your existing Community is what are those kindergarten cohorts going to look like coming in for the next few years and local births Remains the most likely way that we have to gauge what that's going to look like in the future
128excuse me and this is where uh you have actually started dropping below a thousand total births and actually it's very exciting at least in my world just last week cdph put out the final uh through December full year 2023 birth counts uh it might you they they tweak them they hear records of people who lived in your community who maybe were on vacation and had a birth somewhere else and they those trickle in but the total stands at 1,25 right now so just back a little higher than 2022 still definitely below where you were in the high thousands up into the 1100s 1200s looking back a little bit further in time so that period where you were growing a lot consistently that Cod coincided with when you had increasing or at least steady births you
129are now for these years in the red box those are the kids that you have not seen for kindergarten yet and so again more kids are moving in in addition to the ones who were born here but that the core of your population the people who you know families who have their kids here those kid those kids grow up and roll in your schools we just know from how many kids have been born there just aren't as many kids available as there have been in the past when you were really having that Healthy Growth now you really are dependent as we see from this chart on those cohorts over time getting bigger because more people are still moving into Chico than are moving out so what these numbers mean is just the net if you
130were off on a remote desert island and it was very difficult to get into or out of Chico USD you would expect these numbers to be close to zero in reality people move in and out on a near constant basis every year but on net what you see from the kids that you had last year in grades K to 11 and that you would expect absent anything else to come back to you the next year for grades 1 to 12 is steady between two and 3% growth and that is definitely much higher than almost any other District that I work for on this consistent of a level again you had the one time drop during the covid pandemic and you actually had your highest uh net cohort gain between last year and this year and
131that's why again you are still growing in spite of starting to see some of these demographic factors that are dragging enrollment down in other districts across the state and so all that said we get to our enrollment projection this is what uh just kind of visually that looks like the dark blue line is your historical enrollment up to the current year the lighter blue line is where we think based on what we know now that you are headed and we convert that that bottom line in gold is those same numbers you saw on the chart but this breaks it down across all the grades and what I really want to draw your attention to is those first two rows the TK uh you can see you increased from about 150 before the rollout uh you're
132now at just under 300 now uh through 25 26 that growth is I think easier to account for after that we still have you continuing to grow some as my assumption is the program gets more normalized more families take advantage of it families that you would have gotten for kindergarten the next year if we look at the very very end almost 800 kindergarteners in 3031 the year before we're saying all but 11 15ish of those uh will also come to you for TK just because the mentality of when school starts has shifted if I'm off base on that and you really top out at 500 something TKS that's where maybe that line flattens out instead of continuing to grow so that's really one that will depend largely on how your community responds once TK is
133fully implemented effectively as a new grade level and taking advantage of that opportunity and then of course as Julia also mentioned this all ties in to your facility's master plan and this is just uh a I put this in there just so that you can see the projection for each indiv idual school but whenever it's highlighted in red that is where even if it's just by one student like the one year in Chapman uh but anytime that we have a projection that at all exceeds your model capacity from your FMP that was adopted uh we're just demonstrating that here it's really just a couple of sites that are consistently above that and always important to keep in mind if you look historically at the enrollments especially say at Chasta that it's not like they're just
134now getting up to the level that's above uh that model capacity this is ongoing things that we're working on but uh one other little bit of success with Shasta that is where several years ago we had that boundary adjustment precisely to keep Shasta from at least growing much bigger than it had been getting and it at least has nicely leveled off if you go back and look historically at those matrices uh sees you'll see the number of uh students coming into Shasta from outside of its boundary is taking down over time as the students who were grandfathered in are matriculating out and there aren't nearly as many now coming in from outside the new smaller boundary so that's what's keeping that enrollment at a steady level uh and that's everything I had prepared for tonight
135but happy to answer any other questions that you have thank you thanks R well I people a lot I'm sorry I I appreciate the fact that that we have been able to rely on your projections so um that that we have made decisions that have turned out to be wise ones um I know the you know the city council approved another big um development last night and it'll be a while before all of that construction takes place but um we know that Chico is a good place to live and our school district has a a very well-respected reputation and I think that's what keeps our kids coming and I appreciate your work thank you um in yours and Julie's opinion we're still pretty well within the the scope for our facility master plan like we're
136higher than what was projected last year but it still is is we're still on track with that facility master plan that we just recently adopted um the probably the wild cards that this can't take into account is um State preschool and and and kids you know families keeping their kids in state preschool rather than putting them in TK um other than nor the normalization of TK and then also um not having a TK at Shasta um so we we did vote to not um implement the TK program at Shasta and that may cause that to more naturally levelize we assume it's going to cause it to more naturally levelize also yeah that's really hard to model yes I mean well especially at the school level yeah we're tweaking every every year with just exactly that
137kind of information that you just shared and but but yes I think the important thing is in terms of the overall fit across all Sites uh you know you're looking more you know things are fairly well in line yeah it's it's just getting a couple of pieces to just fit a little bit better yeah I'll be curious to see what TK looks like next year enrollment already started in December um I know because my now my kiddo's enrolled all right congats so exciting so I've been talking about it ever since you started presenting about you know her being a number in your statistics now um so it's cool to see those numbers start to go up I don't have anything else it'll be interesting to see what happens with the uh Valley's Edge vote which
138is going on now and how that affects us one way or another yeah I'll be tuning in I I won't be up here next year when you present again but I I will be excited actually because I'm a data person also to see what those numbers look like with whatever this decision if there's a major decision that gets you know throws Valley's edge off or um uh when we get enrollment numbers for TK which is I think becoming a more normalized thing already um to see how those projections change from this year to next year it'll be cool cool to see so I am excited for you when you get those reports all right well think I'm glad someone also appreciates you we we love everyone who you know doesn't get it but is still
139here for it so all right well um just a couple of things to add on to Rob's presentation is um you know from that one graph you saw the in andout migration graph that he provided you can see that it's a constantly moving Target of uh where where we need to focus on for our facilities because we have that student and parent choice in our district it is um it is difficult to plan for and that's why we have to keep up on the demographic analysis every year so we can see exactly what's going on and Rob mentioned in his presentation multiple times the effects of residential development on our enrollment and that student generation rates for the different types of housing and I wanted to let you know that independently another consultant of ours
140CLE and Gruber will be here in May utilizing those student generation rates and also analyzing the residential and Commercial development in the city and in the county to discuss uh developer fees with you so you can have that in your mind that that is coming to you in May um discussion primarily around the residential development and how it impacts the district's facilities and the needs of the district and with so sorry purely out of curiosity I'm kind of interrupting here I apologize um but the special analysis Matrix um doesn't address the high schools do does anybody know top of their head roughly what percentage of students from one High School boundary attend the other and vice versa for the comprehensives it's almost 5050 right Rob yeah yeah it's in the full study and now that
141we have the magic magic of Dropbox on my phone I can actually pull that up so just uh hang tight for about 30 seconds to a minute and I can let you know exactly all right thank you sorry I didn't mean to interrupt while you're pulling yeah timer put it up there let's go johnp while you're pulling that up I I didn't realize how different um the student generation rate for affordable housing was I knew it was higher but that was significantly higher um which I thought was really surprising only because I wind up in a lot of conversations in a lot of districts especially in light of things like developer fees but it's incredibly important just to acknowledge that that is universally the case up and down the state it Coastal Inland wherever you
142are the more affordable housing is the more likely it is the younger families with schoolage kids are going to be the ones living in it and it's fascinating because that definition of affordable changes depending on who who is being asked and um uh certain folks or certain groups of folks will claim that um a development is going to benefit a school population and you know will need a school because the kids will be needing to go to school there but if it's not hitting that affordable level you know if you're only producing one per or households or less then um that may not be the case of of of being able to justify a new school being built very good point and that is um one child per four single family detached house um at
143any at different grade levels so it's not necessarily all one grade level from that development so spread around you know spread out between the three different U grade levels of schools then you know so if a development doesn't have enough affordable housing for young families with with especially young students if they're pitching a new elementary school for the example in their development but the available housing there isn't going to support that student population for that elementary school it doesn't really make sense correct so thank you okay and uh so I've got the high school Matrix pulled up and so uh I think if I understood one of the questions is you have this year almost exactly the same number of students going back and forth between Chico high and Pleasant Valley literally the net difference
144is uh Chico is coming out ahead by one student in the in the tradeoff so that's just about as close as you can get the question was roughly what percent so like of the students who attend Chico high do we know roughly what percent of them live in the PV uh boundary see uh coming so everything so in Chico High 28% of all their enrolled students are coming in from outside the boundary that also is going to include your in districts so I don't have that number right handy of just the ones coming in from PV but yeah about so probably about a quarter of their students is are coming in from the PV boundary and and vice versa I apologize putting on the spot but I appreciate I I live for to step up
145to the challenge uh I I do want to follow with what you said uh do we know I'm looking in the full report and I can't find it what is the definition of affordable housing that is used in your analysis so in this case it's going to be anything that has any measure of an affordability or a income requirement and there are different tiers of affordability some of them are you know you might just uh you use uh Census Data usually to determine what the average median household income is and then households that are making 60% of that uh are eligible for this housing this one down here you might need to be at the 30% level so anything that meet but for our numbers we're just putting anything that is uh in the in
146the city well yeah you can certainly find lists of all of the affordable housing that is either on deck or recently built so for this is just anything that's labeled affordable by correct yeah and yeah are certainly different levels of it now the one thing is we do exclude housing that is restricted so for example if it is a affordable senior housing we aren't counting those units in our numbers because we know you shouldn't have any kids coming from those if it's for disabled veterans you might have a few those disabled veterans can have families but it's probably not geared towards the traditional family setting so again we don't survey those and just like when something's getting built that's going to be restrictive uh affordable housing that's we're also not really building that into to
147generating a lot of students but you do have several projects that are still on deck that are affordable uh housing projects that are what they call family housing thank you one last clarification question on that the so on that um table there was a single family there was um you know attached shared walls and then there's the affordable category that could be any any combination of those right yeah affordable is regardless of the type you most commonly do see affordable apartment style housing but yes there are just near where I live uh in the Sacramento area there is a uh they are single family homes that are going to be for rent and affordable so I mean there are occasional models where you do have detached housing that uh falls under that affordable rubric gotta
148so it's inclusive in that affordable absolutely and and it wouldn't be included in your corre other categories got it thank you fantastic and we have a we have action to take yes okay yes it's a it is an action item for the adoption of the demographic study sorry about that it's okay adoption of the demographic study for this year okay um we don't have any speaker cards uh no public comment um so I'll open it for a motion I'll move adoption of the demographic report second all righty any further discussion board no um I don't remember what our last vote was so let's just do a roll call vote uh starting with Mr Lando Lando I Robinson I tennis I Conan I Doby I it's unanimous I'll remember that for the next one thank you
149um Rob is that it for you tonight I hope so prepared thank you rob yes I was following that up with give you a final version of the report just Cas it might already be final but if it's not we'll make sure there's no draft anywhere on it okay thank you very much Rob have a safe drive back thank you um all right moving on to item 2.2 discussion action Charter Schools measure K projects request thank you so our measure K Charter facility committee um approved last last month um an accounting true up for blue Oak charter school so they uh this is um returning $572 n59 that this board had allocated to a project that went unspent so this is simply um approving that those funds go back into their measure K uh for
150another project in the future it's simply accounting true up please and just for input into the um board um by putting These funds back in blue will have $3.6 million remaining um of their measure k money thank you any further questions no no further questions do you have a question I don't I I I don't have any more questions and no public comments so I'll open for a motion I move approval of um moving that uh $5,000 back into blue Oak's um fund second any further discussion uh all those in favor I I hi uh it's unanimous it passes thank you thank you moving on to Human sources uh 3.1 discussion action resolution number 16 31-24 elimination of classified services and ordering layoffs in the classified service for the 2023 to 2024 school year thank
151you Madame President so per Education Code 45308 um provides your layoff and re-employment of classified employees due to a lack of work and or lack of funds we have two similar resolutions so just to differentiate between the two the first one is really focusing on Old positions again these are positions that are not filled build right now so with the first um three positions those are old um and then are not being used and then you can see in your packet that the the second grouping the uh licensed nurses we no longer employ lbns we use Health assistance so we want to make sure we have the proper classification so that was for the first one so it's our recommendation to approve the um the determinations of those positions okay any further questions and no
152public comment uh do we have a motion to approve resolution number 16 31-24 so moved I'll second that motion fantastic all those in favor I I also unanimous uh moving on to uh 3.2 discussion action resolution number 1632 d24 elimination of classified services and ordering layoffs in the classified service for the 2324 school year thank you again uh very similar resolution however with these positions um essentially what we're trying to do is clean up some of these really small positions that are very difficult to fill and make positions more appealing and again these are not positions currently filled by staff um so as a result of us trying to um make positions more appealing to potential um recruits and also cleaning up related to our staffing targets so as you can see here these are
153very um interesting numbers of 01250 and a 3750 are very difficult to fill great no further questions um and no public comments so I'll call for a motion so moved I'll second that motion okay um for all those in favor of approving resolution number 1632 d24 I I it's unanimous it passes thank you um with that we are going to move into a brief recess um with item number 10 and so I will um it's always so awkward using the gel sorry I will call for a a hold on the regular board meeting to recess to the um sorry annual meeting of the board of directors and so I will now call to order the annual meeting of the chica Unified School District financing Corporation um board of directors agenda for February 21st 2024 um
154item two is uh discussion action 2.1 for approval of minutes of the annual meeting and I'll turn it over to uh Jaclyn Krueger yes so this year's annual financing Court meeting um there's no new items um so the meeting this year is really just approval of the minutes from last year and that's all we got fantastic and um I believe everybody on the board here was here for last year's meeting that correct so we don't have to pull um pull anything for that okay so uh no questions no public comment I'm not seeing any all right uh do we have a motion for approval of the minutes from the annual meeting from April 19th 2023 so moved second fantastic uh we will do a roll call Voice vote uh we'll start with Mr tennis I
155conen I Doby I Lando I Robinson I great uh do we have a motion to adjourn so moved all right we will adjourn this uh financing District financing Court meeting and we will return to open session for the regular District meeting sorry it's very awkward but you know just procedural uh moving back into the regular board meeting for chica Unified School District um we were at recess and now we will move on to item number 11 items from the floor it's like we're different people it's weird uh and in items from the floor uh it's another opportunity for public comment seeing none uh and that we don't have any um oh did did did somebody have a raise a hand okay sorry all right fantastic I'm not sure if you were here for my Spiel
156earlier about the three minutes and the 30 second warning at the end okay and that we can't respond to your comments but we are here to listen okay thank you thank you um my name is Sharon Tong um I have five children two are at the high school right now um at the public high school I think I have a concern regarding um the genderization and the not telling parents that's going on from I believe Kinder on um that my concern is that with young children we don't even let them do you know they can't play soccer without parental permission um and parents being aware um they can't go on field trips they can't go to the worm farm but they can get um you know called different genders without parental awareness my concern is
157that parents you know where does it stop where um schools hopefully are supporting children their development their education preparing them for future occupations um my concern is that you know where does that line where did how did schools enter in where they're um keeping things from parents overseers especially if development of the prefrontal cortex where there's analysis logic is not done till 22 we don't ask children in kindergarten to tell me what is your occupation in the future and you will not be able to change that we don't ask children who is going to be your mate now decide and then we'll go with that I'm my my concern is to include parents that the schools stay the schools educate them prepare them for college prepare them for jobs but keep parents parents thank you
158so much for your time but thank you you um and for looking after and trying to look after our children please let us parents also look after our children thank you seeing no um additional requests to to address the board um for items from the floor um number TW item number 12 is board member request to agendize item um at this time no board member requests were submitted so we will move to item number 13 which is adjournment for the evening so moved we will adjourn thank you