001foreign I now call to order the regular Board of Education meeting for September 20th 2023. it is just after 5 00 pm and uh we will be going into closed session until 6 PM seeing that there is no public comment I'm I will now move us to closed session thank you all right I will um Now call this meeting to order um returning to open session uh the board has been in closed session since a little after 5 00 PM during closed session the board took action to and voted 4-0 to reject claim number 240011 I'd like to ask that we all stand for the flag salute please absolute pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation thank you for
002joining us in that uh this is the September's 20th 2023 regular Board of Education meeting um I did say that at the very beginning but now that we have an audience I should probably say it again um just a reminder that um we uh do hold this over a live feed so it is being recorded um just FYI um and with that we will move to student reports well as you can see we have a group of students behind me here that are very excited to perform for you and I'd like to introduce Ted Sullivan he's going to give you a little bit of information about how this all came about yeah good evening thanks and we're excited to have uh kind of our new music program for lack of it award sharing for a
003couple minutes tonight so I just want to throw some Kudos out there also if you're going to think back the state about a year ago threw some money out there to augment art and music kinds of programs in our district or in the State uh we Nora Hunter and I have been talking about it for years of how how we can augment that in Chico Unified the money came in so we had some great ideas kind of thought through with Nora but we also have a great relationship with couta so we're able to take our current contract look at how we could kind of mesh those two great ideas contractual things with cuta and kind of come up with a programmer so every kid and she grannified is now getting music K-5 with those kinds
004of things so really excited about it so it's a nice change for us and we love it and with that being said I'm going to let Nora Hunter if you don't know Nora's music teacher extraordinaire for Chico Unified also but we'll let Nora take it with their class so we don't have to disrupt it hi everybody I'm so excited that Chico Unified now has it's weird to I want to face everybody but we now have 16 full-time music teachers for Chico Unified which is just so amazing and I'm so happy to be bringing music to elementary students and I know with that comes a lot of challenges and I think the biggest challenge we face in many ways is just space and I brought these second graders I've only seen them this year four times
005so they're very very nice to come here with me and they represent three different classes so some of them are mixing in ways that we haven't mixed before but I just want to say that you know music takes space Arts takes space and as we move forward as a district it would be awesome as we make future planning now that we have prop 28 money that at the elementary level having music and art spaces are essential what we're going to do today has lots of movement picture doing this in a classroom with a bunch of desks right so so music and art both take just space so hopefully today you see us take up some space we're going to sing a song called 2a2a which is from Africa and then we're going to be doing
006in honor of Hispanic heritage months Los machetes [Applause] [Music] [Applause] foreign [Laughter] [Music] foreign [Music] [Laughter] [Music] foreign [Music] [Laughter] [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] thank you very much also nothing is possible in music without support of people there's all the research out there but without supportive Parents Without supportive principles without support of unions without supportive School boards and superintendents nothing's possible so thank you for believing in music and seeing how important it is to make a whole child thank you [Applause] thank you students and thank you parents for bringing them here tonight you guys did great and I'm pretty sure if I had those sticks I'd have bruises so you guys are doing good great job thank you so much how about another hand as they're going out [Applause] so I'm gonna
007go ahead and move right into the superintendent's report and I'm going to invite up Emily Mullins who I think's daughter was also performing right all right good good evening I'm gonna say good morning it's been that kind of day good evening it's a pleasure to be here and I'm excited that this evening I get to recognize both a classified and a certificated uh employee of ours for the superintendent's award so I am going to start with our certificated recipient uh it's a huge honor to be able to present this award to one of my outstanding teachers Stacy Benoit Stacy why don't you come on up Stacy is a mild moderate special education teacher at Hooker Oak School when I first started Hooker Oak in 2019 I assumed that Stacy was a veteran teacher she was
008a leader on campus she was active in a variety of committees and a mentor to other staff members when she asked me a question about induction requirements I was shocked then I learned that Stacy was new to the teaching profession having worked in the private sector and then as an instructional paraprofessional prior to obtaining her teaching credential I realized then that Stacy is just one of those teachers who has a natural innate gift she's so good at what she does and what does she do the more appropriate question would be what doesn't she do Stacy wears many hats at Hooker Oak her primary position is the case manager of our students with mild to moderate disabilities at Hooker Oak she meets with students in small groups one-on-one and through push-in support to assist students in
009meeting their IEP goals she has a special ability to connect with students and to form a relationship that vastly improves their ability to learn she teaches her students far more than just academic content she uses social stories to teach expected and unexpected behaviors and she was an early adopter of the check-in checkout intervention system to modify Behavior she has been an instrumental member of both our school Wellness team and our PBIS team she assists in providing professional development to our teachers and to our paraprofessionals just today I observed her in the hallway with two of our Paras training them on how to use an ABC chart to identify antecedents to behavior and the consequence as a first step towards creating Behavior Support plans for students these paraprofessionals are now trained and empowered to use a
010research-based tier 3 behavior intervention support to support a few of our students with intensive needs this is a wonderful example of how Stacy creates the conditions for an entire staff to thrive she models teaches supports and then trusts staff to implement strategies she's a true leader in this area Stacy is always on the go you rarely find her with downtime she's always looking out for the needs on our campus and finding a way to best support both students and teachers I'm very proud to work alongside an educator like Stacy Beno I'm grateful for her leadership her knowledge and her dedication to students Chico Unified is incredibly fortunate to have this outstanding teacher in our district congratulations Stacy [Applause] I'm back up alrighty so next up I'm going to present the classified superintendent's award and it
011is with great pleasure that I present this award to our amazing attendance clerk Emily Moulton [Applause] so it's been really fun having two Emily's in our office at Hooker Oak School especially with the last name of Moulton and Mullins it doesn't get confusing at all when you know parents call uh so Emily has worked at Hooker Oak School for just over a year but she already functions like a seasoned veteran her knowledge of office procedures and policies is incredible but even more impressive is the way that she interacts with students staff parents and the public no matter how busy she is she always drops everything to make visitors to our office feel welcome and to make sure that their needs are met she often steps into the health office to assist with boo-boos and upset
012tummies and this year she is even filling in from our my office manager one day a week while she's out on medical leave no matter the task I never have a doubt that Emily will be able to exceed expectations and to do so with a smile on her face as an attendance clerk Emily makes a lot of phone calls to families to verify absences I love it when I'm working in my office and I have the opportunity to listen to Emily interact with parents she is compassionate helpful and always so kind when speaking with parents she offers support and resources when needed I have had many parents share how much they enjoy interacting with Emily in the office either in phone or on person our office manager Jess Rhodes works very closely with Emily and
013although she couldn't be here tonight she wanted me to make sure I shared this with you Emily is an amazing team player to work alongside with Emily has gone above and beyond to make sure that our office runs as smooth as possible she is never without a kind smile positive attitude and always willing to help in any way she can Emily has proven that she can tackle any goal or challenge that has been placed in front of her you are amazing Emily and you definitely deserve the award you are being presented tonight Emily definitely is deserving of this award it is an honor to work alongside her every day at hook Rogue school thank you Emily for all that you do congratulations [Applause] thank you all right that was great um congrats uh already we'll
014move on to item number six announcements uh does the board does any board member have announcements um regarding upcoming student events student awards School side accomplishments Etc all right seeing none here I just want to acknowledge that the school year is well underway now that we're in mid-september Merchant real quick towards that November cool down time but October is sometimes a big push to get through so um I think everything I'm hearing from out there is positive at our school sites and I'm I'm excited for this school year still um yes I just um wanted to make sure that we mentioned that the Ammon Bowl tickets are on sale and it uh Ammon bowl is John the 10th of October okay it's soon so make sure you get your tickets because somebody wins a new
015car from huh October 13th October 13th Friday the 13th yeah yeah oh Friday the 13th okay yeah please get your Ammon Bowl tickets win a car and see some really good football Robinson I want to thank you for your pronunciation of Ammon Bowl well done you I was a farmer those of us that farmed them still call them ends well that just leaves me out of the loop because I'm an almond speaker well yeah that's the Chester speaking is where she's from that's the mountain kid in me yeah yeah I was actually going to ask if I'm the only one who maybe pronounces it that way or maybe I shamefully shouldn't admit it but here we are I'm not ashamed all right um thank you for that that's good to know um October 13th Friday
016the 13th the Ammon Bowl uh at PB this year thank you um and get your tickets uh all right uh with that we'll move on to item seven items from the floor excuse me items from the floor are for speakers who wish to address the board that's the four of us up here today uh regarding a topic that is not currently agendized at this time we will take public comment from speakers who wish to address the board for topics not agendized for this meeting as a reminder speakers have three minutes to address the board uh a bell will ring when 30 seconds of speaking time remains thank you um that's your cue that you have 30 seconds to wrap up your thoughts and then um and then your three minutes is up the board can
017listen to public comment during items from the floor but cannot respond to any speakers under items from the floor due to Brown act rules which is a law uh and so at this time we will start calling up our speakers that have signed up for items from the floor this evening as soon as I pull my list out which is right here um so first up will be Loretta Torres followed by Michelle Cooper oh okay then we'll move on to uh I I hear I'm hearing that Loretta Torres is not here this evening so we'll move to Michelle Cooper and then um call on Gina backs to follow hey good evening okay so I'm here once again to urge this board to adopt the resolution that was presented to you in June a resolution that
018reaffirms the commitment of Chico Unified School Board to the fundamental rights of parents and legal Guardians to direct the Education Health and well-being of their minor children when this resolution was first presented I was met with doubt I was told that I didn't speak for all parents and that quantification was necessary to prove that this is indeed what parents want well today I bring with me the voices of over 1250 parents who have unequivocally expressed that this is precisely what they want in recent months we've witnessed troubling incidents in our state excuse me that underscore the urgency of this resolution in Monterey County a school district was ordered to pay a parent one hundred thousand dollars for socially transitioning a child without the parents knowledge or consent this case serves as a stark reminder of
019the importance of respecting the rights of parents to be actively involved in decisions regarding their children's education and well-being furthermore in Escondido an injunction was recently ordered against the school district's secrecy policy the presiding judge aptly characterized this policy as a trifecta of harm it harms the child who may need Parental Guidance and mental health intervention to determine the nature of their feelings and experiences it harms the parents by depriving them of their long recognized 14th Amendment right to care for guide and make Health Care decisions for their children and lastly it harms individuals like the plaintiffs in this case who are compelled to violate the rights of parents infringing upon their own religious beliefs these cases serve as alarming precedence and we must take heat of them it is not a matter of whether
020we support the rights of parents it's a matter of when not if Chico Unified finds itself embroiled in similar legal challenges if our policies do not change our resolution is not about impeding progress or stifling necessary discussions it is about upholding the cherished rights and responsibilities of parents it is about transparency trust and collaboration between parents Educators and administrators as a community we must come together to protect the rights of parents and legal Guardians to be actively involved in their children's education health and well-being this resolution is not a divisive measure it's a unifying one I urge each of you to consider consider the gravity of this resolution and the implications of ignoring it let us not wait until we find ourselves in the midst of legal battles and controversy let us take proactive steps
021to it to affirm our commitment to the rights of parents today let us stand together in support of this resolution sending a powerful message that we prioritize the well-being of our children and the rights of parents thank you is Gina Bax here all right um seeing no items additional comments from the floor we can move on to item 8 consent calendar uh we don't have any speakers signed up for consent calendar um so is there anybody who would like to pull an item from consent for further consideration okay seeing none do we have a motion on consent calendar so moved second I'll second that motion okay we have a motion to approve consent um by Mr tennis in a second by um Ms Robinson do we have further discussion board no I'm seeing this as
022actually yes uh do we need to do a voice call roll call vote tonight every time with an absent member okay um thank you we're gonna have to do it anyway but uh we'll do a roll call about each vote tonight so um I'll actually start it off uh dalby I Robinson I konk and I genocide thank you it passes unanimously and we will move on to our discussion action calendar Miss dalby on the discussion action calendar Business Services needs to pull item 9.1.1 and we'll bring that back at a future meeting okay thank you yes thank you so 9.1.1 um which is approval of a design build entity will be moved to a future meeting thank you um okay so we'll move to 9.1.2 discussion action Charter Schools measure K projects request and what
023that is is Julie Kissel good evening thank you for having me here tonight um I'm really excited to bring forward a project to be funded with our measure K Bond dollars for one of our local Charter Schools Chico Country Day School and as it was presented in the board agenda they have a fantastic project that looks very well thought out and planned for and it includes shade structures drinking fountains small play area Landscaping trees and an outdoor classroom which I'm really excited about the Outdoor Classroom we have a representative here tonight with us and I would just want her to come up and quickly introduce herself to you if you don't mind hi there my name is Gretchen Bender I'm the new Chief business officer for Chico Country Day I guess I'm still new I'm
024in my beginning of my second year and this project has been in the conceptual phase for most of the time that I've been there we've spent time Gathering input from kids from parents from community members and spent extensive time with Landscape Architects in order to design space to be usable and to be the to the maximum benefit for students so we're excited to finally be at this final step and to get to work on this project if you have any questions I'm happy to answer them question are you familiar and maybe somebody else's that Chico Country Day Has within the past week has has like abolished their school board or their parents committee or something like that do you have any knowledge about that at all um I do that's a separate item I don't
025know if I can speak to that but um the Parent-Teacher partnership has not been abolished um what we've done is created a new parent advisory Council that can be a bit more organized around parent volunteers creating events mobilizing families for the benefit of the students within the classrooms and for fundraising and donation collection been aware that there were some very upset parents at the fact that that body had been dissolved I gathered from the CEO of the school or the principal or something like that so I'm pretty concerned about that because I think that parent involvement in education is absolutely critical yeah that was the main reason for creating the parent advisory Council was so that we could have a more formal body that was an integrated part of the school rather than an external
026group of families that kind of operated on their own and have fundraising money controlled by an external 501c3 the North Valley Community Foundation rather than Chico country day which is its own 501c3 so that was that was the point um all parents are invited to participate in fact we had about 40 parents um attend the initial parent advisory committee meeting on Monday all right I'm gonna um I'm gonna move us along um thank you any more questions about the Landscaping project no thank you so much I don't think I have questions uh it does it seems like you have a pretty decent long-term plan for how you want to see your facilities grow or look in the future is that a is that an ongoing process you're always reflecting on on how you want to
027utilize Bond money to make investments in the infrastructure um this particular project has been at the Forefront for a while our our long-term goal is to create a facilities master plan that will look out five to twenty years in the future so that we have a better idea for our priorities lie and how to fund those great thank you thank you it's nice to see long-term long-term planning for long-term money when it comes to utilizing bond funds so it's really a really nice looking plan thank you so much yes I think I think they did a really good job on this plan and I think it's going to have a very meaningful impact on the students on their campuses with that I'd like to ask for approval of this project will spend the remaining dollars
028that were allocated of measure K to Chico Country Day School and I think it's a really good use of those funds um I don't see any public comment on this item and so um with that I'll ask if there's no other questions for Julie I'll ask for a motion I move approval of the major K expenditure request from Chico Country Day second great we have a motion by Ms Robinson in a second by MS konkin any further discussion from the sport on this topic I have a substitute motion I want to I've just learned today about what I was talking about earlier with the dissolution of a parent committee which I'm very concerned about at Chico country day so I would substitute motion that we put this vote off for another two weeks while we
029can see what the exact result is from that would there be a problem to the construction schedule if if this vote were to be put off for two weeks I I don't have an answer for that question Matt because I just I just don't know um what the deadlines are involved Madam president it's not it for discussion unless there's a second okay so the substitute motion fails we'll go back to the original motion which is to move for approval a discussion point on this is um that our job as the Chico Unified School Board is to approve how Bond measure money is spent in regard to measure K and how that ballot language was originally written and this is within the scope of that and if this board agrees that this is good use of
030that funding from our taxpayers for this project than it is it is under our purview to approve the project um otherwise the management of the school itself is not under our jurisdiction so we're here to approve use of bond money and that's it any other further discussion on this topic all right we'll call the vote starting with Ms Robinson Robinson I konk and I attendance abstain uh Dolby I um it passes three zero with one abstain thank you thank you all right we'll move on to 9.1.3 excuse me this is an informational item it's an update on the discussion with Charter the charter school Community regarding potential a potential 2024 General obligation Bond and with that I'll turn it over to Ms Jacqueline Krueger yes good evening board at the last regular meeting August 23rd
031the board took action to direct staff to meet with Charter leaders and talk about funding options related to a potential new Bond and related to inspired relocating out to the Fremont Street project Fremont Street um so chica unified administrative staff and one board member attended a meeting on August 28th I met with Charter leaders to discuss potential funding options and what that may look like in another Bond a lot of discussion about potential options nothing was solidified at that point in time the group then met again on September 13th to continue those discussions of how the dollars can be allocated and more importantly starting to look at what ballot language for a bond could look like so we are tentatively going to be meeting again a third time next week to continue those conversations to
032move forward with looking at the dollars the allocation of the dollars related to a bond in 2024. I understand that early drafts of this language have the 10 million dollars coming out of the Charter School portion of the bond nothing's been drafted at this point the conversations have been that I think there's a conceptual understanding that when we look at the bond dollars that a portion would go to charter schools that percentage or dollar amount hasn't been determined yet and so if there are dollars to in improve facilities related charter schools that would come out of the charter school allocation but nothing's been drafted it's been peer discussion at this point has there been serious talk of taking the money out of Chico Unified program okay thank you yeah any other further questions um maybe
033it would be helpful to I guess uh in terms of the timeline and when it may be or where there may be a point where the board will actually take action on anything that comes out of these discussions um there's a fundamental difference in my understanding with our experience with measure K between ballot measure language versus like the final product of how the money just gets dispersed um and so I guess my question is for clarification that these discussions initially are focusing on um the potential ballot measure language and what may be agreeable among all educational agencies is that pretty decent summary yeah I think I understand what you're saying so really the first step is to talk about what the ballot language would look like um historically with measure K that was a certain
034percentage it happened to be 15.34 percent that was written into the ballot language that said that percentage of the dollars would go to Charter Schools and then it was followed up by a small paragraph talking about a subcommittee that would provide a charter subcommittee that would provide recommendations to the board related to projects so the prior agenda item was the perfect example of that recommendation coming from the subcommittee to this board for final approval so that really is the first step is what is the ballot language then I think Miss W what you're talking about is the second part is okay now that we've identified either a dollar value or a percentage then how do those dollars get allocated and that's really the Second Step then of who did who did the dollars get allocated
035how do they get allocated ultimately that would be a decision made by the chicken unified board because you are the fiduciary related to the general obligation bonds that are issued so in measure K the ballot language drove the kind of legal constraints about those two buckets of of money from the from the bond funding which was either to Chico Unified which was the 84 percent and some change and then the second pot of money which was to to Charter Schools there wasn't there wasn't Charter Schools identified in how much each percentage of each charter school would get in the bond language and so um as far as like legal constraints goes that percentage is a is a firm Line This goes to cusd this part this percent goes to charter schools within COC boundaries um
036but then from there it's become a final board decision to determine how those monies get divided out among all cusd schools and as well as approval of Charter projects and then the next step for historically was with the the um the oversight committee so I'm just trying to summarize yeah and I would say it's a great clarifying point the way we did it with measure K and really the Reclamation we're coming forward with a future measure is to not list individual charter schools within the ballot language and the dollar value but rather allocate in totality the percentage of dollars or we could even do a flat dollar value that says these will go to this amount of dollars will go to the charter schools but we're not we're not ready for that decision yet there's
037more meetings and more discussions to have to more discussions certainly and then and then at that at some point the group will be ready to bring forward maybe some recommendations for this board to consider okay correct because ultimately that that language will need to be approved by this board um prior to it maybe move forward to the elections office the final resolution will come forward in May of 24 to officially say we're going out for a bond measure at that point but you'll draft language prior to that but that's kind of the final deadline from a timeline perspective I know there's been some discussion about whether the chart or money would be divided um amongst the charter schools based on the number of kids who go to each of those schools versus some sort of
038needs based process by some other criteria will that need to be explicit in the in the bond language that will pass or could that decision be made later whether it was going to be that decision could certainly be made later yes it doesn't have to be in the language right yeah so we can initially we can choose to give you know people uh just whatever distribution we we thought was appropriate of the charter school bond money we could choose to give it all to one charter school if you wanted to yes I would say that is one option that the board has the right to do is being really responsible for those dollars if the board decided that 100 of the charter money that was allocated in that measure wanted to go to one charter
039school the board would have the authority to do that the last measure K did that have would that have been compatible or or was it specified that no it's going to be divided in this other way the ballot language in measure K just said 15.34 of the total dollars will go to Charter Schools and then there was going to be that committee that was created basically to advise the US and and that committee came forward with the recommendation of let's divide those dollars based on Ada but the school board in theory with measure K could have completely ignored those those recommendations and done whatever it wanted with that money with the charter schools correct yeah how do charters I had to go to Charter Schools right okay thanks no other questions for clarification I don't
040have questions or clarification just uh observation that the discussions have been productive those meetings and I'm hopeful that you know they'll continue to move forward with the uh very constructive attitude that's been exhibited in the meetings yeah I'd agree with that I think that with magic Chico Unified has really operated in good faith with the charter schools and everybody wants to see what's best for kids in this community overall so um I have confidence in all of our ability to be a productive creative problem solvers and and find the best path forward together so I'm optimistic for sure personally I don't speak for the board necessarily but personally I'm optimistic any other comments or questions all right since it's informational we'll move right along to our next item thank you Jacqueline for kind of diving
041into that a little bit for us um and there was no public comment on that item um either and I've lost my numbers we're on 9.1.4 yes yes okay uh 9.1.4 is discussion action resolution 1617-2-3 resolution of the Chica Unified School District Board of Education certifying compliance with section 17289 of the Education Code and authorizing the execution of exemption requests with State allocation board yes good evening so this resolution in front of you is related to our Oakbridge Academy independent study program so there's Ed code 17280 which is also known as the field act and that field act provides basically building and safety performance standards for for buildings and schools of which children reside but there are exemptions to that field act facility and one of those exemption is it is an independent study program
042so we currently have our independent study program Oak Bridge located on Lassen Avenue in a building that was originally you know basically built for commercial or Office Space um it fits the program it works very well there and so what we're looking for is this passage of the resolution this evening to acknowledge that they are exempt from the field act and then this will go forward to the state allocation board and this is required every two years for a program of this nature is there any questions related to the program or the exemption that we're asking for this evening I see none and I also don't have any public comment listed so if we're ready for moving on to emotion I'll take a motion um Madam president I move approval of resolution number 1617-23 second
043okay we have a motion by Ms Robinson and a second by Mr tennis uh we'll do a further discussion by the board a real call vote we'll start with Miss conken this time can I set aside Dolby I Robinson I all right it's unanimous thank you board yes yes unanimous is 4-0 thank you unanimous of 4-0 of this board tonight miss uh all right 9.1.5 is discussion action resolution 1618-2-3 a resolution to approve piggyback contracts and Cooperative purchasing agreements for 22 to 20 23 to 2024. yes so the resolution in front of you this evening is related to piggyback contracts and essentially the district because we are a government entity there are Bid threshold dollar values um so when we go out to purchase for goods that are above a certain threshold we either have
044to go out to bid or we can use a piggyback contract which is basically an existing contract that another district has already gone out to bid for and selected a vendor and within the terms of that contract they allow a piggyback or other districts to utilize that same bid so what allows the district is we can save time and money on having to God forbid and instead utilize these piggyback contracts and get the same Goods at the same pricing and basically every element of the existing contract has to stay in place so some common examples of of times when we use these piggyback contracts buses are are often used on piggyback contracts so that the district doesn't have to go out for bid we know there's piggyback contracts out there where we can get the
045same price as our peer districts Chromebooks when we bought all our Chromebooks that was another example we spent over a million dollars I think the first time that certainly would have to go up for bid but there was a piggyback contract that we're able to utilize through RIT Department playground structures and classroom Furniture other examples where we can just save time and that's really what it comes down to is time to be able to get these purchases in our door and into our classrooms and our campus is a lot faster do you have some kind of criteria for identifying a good piggyback contract because I could imagine like if there was a really bad one floating around out there you know that like some company is was charging some astronomical price for an electric bus
046or something like that then we would say it's in the best interest of the district at that point that we just got to bed so oftentimes I'll use Chromebooks as a good example John Vincent our director of I.T very much has his pulse on pricing in the I.T industry and so when we find a piggyback that says hey we we can utilize the Chromebooks through this he's going to come and say yeah this is a good deal or no it's not a good deal and we need we need to go out for bid for example and I see that he's walking up right now but like uh you would you know before you just say hey look these guys over here bought Chromebooks so you know let from this company let's let's let's let's let's
047piggyback on that like you would also check you know Amazon eBay you know what's the price of these things out there in the world you know right so we do we can we compare the price on on multiple different brands and look at the quality of the product and then the price so it's really about quality and performance versus price yes so we do our best to get the best deal for the district we put if we put a contract out to bid such as this is it always the requirement to go at the lowest the lowest bidder lowest responsive bidder and so there's components that you can look at criteria wise for responsive bidder because that could kind of get us in a weird bind if the quality isn't as good so we have
048a bid sheet that we use like with Chromebooks and we use that for our e-rate project we got that from our e-ray consultant so 40 percent is for Price the remaining 60 is split between four other categories so prices weighted the heaviest but it's not the only thing got it great thank you all right seeing no other questions or public comment on this item I'll call for a motion I'll second that motion on resolution 1618-23 notice is there any further discussion all right Mr tennis we'll start with you Tennessee Robinson I konk and I it's been a while since I've missed my my uh button to turn my microphone on uh it's unanimous with 4-0 and one board member absent today um thank you so let's move right along to 9.1.6 uh it's discussion action
049on EB 2756 public disclosure documents for compensation agreement with the California Schools employee Association csha chapter 1 10. Jacqueline again yeah um so this is the before this evening is the ab2756 which is the financial disclosure related to a tentative agreement with our bargaining units so I'm not trying to steal John's Thunder here um this is basically the financial piece should you approve the TA under the HR section what it is at this point is an estimation of a settle up from prior year of 0.67 percent as well as a which would total for the current year 6.08 percent we'll know in the next week or two the final number it is the same methodology and language that we had for cuta and the estimated cost is about 2.9 Million for our employees any questions
050related to the disclosure I'm I just I noticed that some board members are still perusing so no you're fine I just wanted to make sure that I I also wanted to just take a few more seconds to look at the numbers and all that just out of out of interest and due diligence uh so with that seeing no additional questions um or public comment I'll call for a motion I move that we yeah I move you move approval approval yes I'll second that motion and comment that uh thank you to our bargaining units and our negotiators that we are able to get this done in a timeline that gets all of our employees compensated on the next cycle everybody gets a check in the box or in their Bank I've seen it on years when
051we couldn't get that done that's not a good time SAR kudos to everybody involved so we have a motion by Miss konkin to approve the public disclosure documents and a second by Ms Robinson uh we'll do a Voice vote again um starting with me it's all b i Robinson I konk and I I'm sorry all right 4-0 it's approved we'll move right along to I think it's time for Mr Shepard thank you President dalby we are excited to present to you the CSEA cusd tenant of agreement I say we mainly because I'd really like to provide a shout out to Bonnie McCarthy the lead negotiator for CSEA and Jim Hanlon I'm sure he's watching tonight um this this I'm sure he is hi Jim we are so appreciative of all the work that they put
052in over the course of the last month um and and the previous year to make this happen the vote was a little delayed because they wanted to be sure that they voted when their members were working and were present so this vote obviously didn't take place at the same time as this UTA tentative agreement however very similar language and we recommend approval of the cusd and CSEA tentative agreement can I answer any questions I don't think that we have any I don't have a question but I will make a comment that there was gratitude expressed from CSEA members that were affected by the tentative agreement part that we acted on at our last board member that established some good language in our board policies so they did reach out and say thank you yeah um
053I would add that it's nice to see just as like an observer of what's happening with the workforce good faith bargaining and successful contracts being implemented there's a lot of even at the state level with Cal HR is going through not great negotiations with state employees and obviously the writer strike and automotive industry it's nice to see that at least here locally we're we're doing a good job at keeping everybody in agreement and moving forward in good faith so I appreciate all the work that goes into those negotiation sessions okay see no public comment on this as well I'll call for a motion on the CSEA cusd tenant of agreement for the 2324 fiscal year I move approval I'm in a second so we have a motion by Ms Robinson and a second by dalby
054oddly I do sometimes refer to myself in the third person um okay any other discussion fantastic let's start with you Miss Robinson um Robinson I konk and I genocide Dolby I 4-0 it's approved hooray much fanfare it's really quiet in here right now I'm about to start telling really bad jokes I'm sorry um okay we'll move right along to 9.2.2 discussion action which is approval of a provisional internship permit for Education specialist credential for Gianna Hughes great thank you president dalby so as you've probably already noticed this is the request for approval of a provisional internship permit for a teacher that we you already approved in a previous action we did submit the approval to the to the Butte County Office of Education credential office and they do have a new credential analyst and as
055a result of communication with the analyst she's asking that we'd be very specific in our board action that the grade level be included in the action so this is just a resubmission with the grade level nothing else with this teacher has changed same supports are in place we just need to be sure we followed their Direction so we included the grade level see the grade levels six to eight well it certainly as bcoe's job to help keep us narrow so all right let's let's do this any other discussion comments questions public comment motion I move approval of a provisional internship permit for Education specialist credential for Gianna Hughes oh second depth motion for the discussion board all right Miss Kong and we'll start with you just one quick question so um this and I know
056it's already been voted on but it's specifically for marsh not doesn't correct okay we want to make sure we include the grade level and the the school um to so the Butte County Office of Ed is very specific request applied if it's at Marsh but that makes sense um okay yes I I conk and I Robinson I thank you all right um 9.3 is uh board 9.3.1 informational first reading of revised updated new board policies okay we are bringing forward some changes in board policy as you know we work with csba and they send us changes that we bring forward usually those changes are tied to changes in either case law or Education Code so this is a first reading there is no action tonight but we're happy to answer questions if there are any
057in the case of the deleted board policies I just note that they're just I mean I went on to them and they're just a bunch of red ink basically just that policy is gone um is it being I mean or is school health services aren't important anymore or this is probably finding its way into some other uh I'll bring up Jen Scala that was her board policy um and she had and I um she said she'd come up and explain why that one is being deleted and while she's on her way up I must make an apology um and I can bring up Mr Sullivan to explain but on the other deleted item there was a miscommunication between my team and that only a portion of that was supposed to be deleted and not the
058whole board policy and so we're going to need to pull that one and bring it back with the actual changes that was a great catch by Miss daily by the way the board policy on Health Services is specifically referring to the district bringing Health Services onto school campuses so we would have like a Health Center on campus and we felt like that wasn't some that wasn't a direction that we were able to go at this point so we pulled it back it is something that could come in the future and at which point we would bring a board policy at that time but it was a little misleading in the fact that we don't have it now correct ready for question um in the things that I've read for the preliminary formation of our um
059community school thank you very much Miss daily with a brain um that at the time that we begin going through establishing the framework for our community school that this some would be something that would work very well with with our community school services what we had talked about um at the the last collaboration about that Community Schools Grant was we would start working with building those intentional collaborative relationships with those outside Health agencies so we can make connections with parents on behalf of appointments connecting to Services Etc rather than a physician a nurse somebody coming onto campus and actually providing the service which is okay two different directions so that will really be kind of built out as we go through the community school process yes thank you there it appears as though there there
060is a difference with reality and perception so thank you for clarifying that absolutely any other questions um not particularly from me for for you mascala but I do have a just um did somebody else have some okay I thought I heard another voice I'm sorry I just want to clarify in 6174 as Jay said my error uh we're looking to delete part of that there's some recommendations from csba which we looking through we felt were pretty onerous on our part to do those kinds of things we liked most of the policy somehow my communication was going to delete the whole policy we don't want to delete all policy we want to delete a section of the recommendation from csba so I think we'll bring that back in two weeks again and with that clarification in
061there and make it really noticeable to you guys is that board policy 6174 and so um tonight when we do our motion will we be pulling so it's like sorry no action right okay but so I guess my follow-up question what I was really getting to is that going to come back for a first read next time okay so the next time we see the rest of these for Action this one won't be included for Action it will be a first read and then we'll also okay yep thank you do you guys click on the um I didn't wasn't able to grab my computer coming tonight would you mind clicking on parent Guardian notifications 514-516 I'm also going blind because I'm over 50 years old now so thank you for that that enlargement this is
062just kind of maybe Technical and non-substantive changes would that be right yeah right okay okay yeah right I remember seeing that this morning when I went over this agenda so as always feel free to call or email me if you have any questions regarding the policies and then we will bring them all forward with the exception of the one that looked like it was completely deleted and was not so we'll bring those all forward for approval at our next meeting this is informational in other words correct all right um with that that's our last item under 9.3 for the board which just takes us to item 10 items from the floor I do see that um Miss Gina backs is here so we'll take your public comment at this time yeah um as you're on
063your way up here uh I read the whole thing earlier but just a reminder that at 30 seconds you'll hear the bell and that's just a reminder that you have 30 seconds left to speak and then we can't respond I'm a VC mother of five I'm always crazy anyway so I'm here to request um you reconsider your decision regarding the parental secrecy policy you adopted at your April meeting I'm here to support Michelle Cooper's resolution for the past three years I've been coming to these meetings to learn and educate myself about the way the school system works in this country and I have seen the same patterns of decision making in almost all these meetings your decision making is always based on the principles of diversity equity and inclusion and how these principles would affect
064minorities and other groups of Interest but I saw those principles being ignored at the April meeting we had the transitioners victims of sexual abuse and even a transgender person rapidly sharing their stories about the horrible consequences of keeping secrets from parents yet their stories were ignored so how can we talk about diversity when these people in their stories were totally ignored how can we talk about Equity when this decision gave results to only a vocal minority whose leaders don't even have any children so have never raised one how can we talk about inclusion while excluding parents how can we talk about diversity when cultural sensitivity cultural differences and cultural perspectives were absent while making these decisions you should have taken into consideration that children from different ethnic populations religions and backgrounds are held to different
065expectations and come from families where sexuality and subjects of that matter are sacred conversations reserved for the moment parents decide is the appropriate time to do so there there were other issues that were ignored such as the language barrier many immigrants children experience certain disabilities and mental issues we cannot talk about privacy when you're making your sexuality Public public assuming every kid's struggling emotionally is a perfect candidate for gender and transition it's as dangerous as assuming all parents are evil so how so far we have seen seven school districts who have passed the policy against secrets to parents and it's time for Chico Unified to do the right thing I know this is not easy and we might have another lawsuit coming but I'm confident we will win because the law is on our side
066school should be places to connect families to resources that will help children to learn how to have better communication with their caregivers thank you all right that's all I have on our list for tonight for items from the floor and so we can move along to number 11 which is board member request to agenda as an item at this time no board member requests to submit an agenda have been received but just a reminder to encourage all board members that want to agenda as an item to go ahead and submit the requests according to what we had decided on our June 28th board meeting um and then seeing no additional comments or questions uh I can ask for a motion to adjourn I move that we adjourn second all right we're adjourned thank you