001nope I'm ready thank you I will now call to order our special board meeting uh it's a meeting workshop for June 28 2023 for the Chico Unified School District with that let's go ahead and stand for the flag salute please 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 alrighty is there are there any board members who have announcements this evening oh uh the amazing National gold medal winners of our Pleasant Valley High School video production kids first time ever from Northern California first time ever for Chico Unified obviously at the complete roster of all the medals they won we'll do later when we get back to school but just so
002proud of that group Mike Peck is the teacher and it was 30 something schools throughout the nation they competed against and they won Gold Bravo okay now I'm done [Applause] yeah that's amazing um I just opened the email again to reread that National medal winners in June of 2023 for TV video production gold medal was first in the nation Rafael wentzlaff and Drew Barron so that's that's awesome exciting actually like really exciting that smells big are there any other announcements okay we'll move on to consent calendar do we have any public comment on consent calendar this evening alrighty uh do we have a motion I move the consent calendar okay we have a motion by um member tennis in a second by member Robinson um we'll just this is our first vote for the evening
003is there any discussion seeing none we'll do a roll call vote starting with Mr tennis Tennessee I'll be I conk and I all right thank you um well next on the agenda we are moving to item number four which is our board board Workshop um but we do have an approximate starting time of 5 15 for this so I just kind of want to caution us to not go too quickly in case there's more folks that are are trickling in um that are interested in this topic as well as uh our fifth board member um so with that um I would like to open up this item discussion action item Inspire School of Arts and Sciences long-term housing presented by Julie Kissel good evening thank you for having me here tonight we're going to start
004out with the the first slide here in our presentation oh there we go the reason that we're here tonight and the reason that this is the board Workshop is because the board took action motion was passed to discuss at this meeting the last meeting in June a future location for inspire School of Arts and Sciences and the requirements for the 8 million dollar State facilities grant that the project has next slide please okay so we're going to dig in a little bit and talk about the grant funds it is a complicated funding mechanism there are two types of funding that the grant is providing one is for modernization and the other is for new construction this modernization grant is possible because we are utilizing the eligibility for modernization that is wrapped up in the age
005of the Portables that are at Chico High School we're currently Inspire is housed so on this slide it's showing that the proposition 51 which is charter school funding available Grant is 8.8 million dollars of that 5.3 million is in the modernization portion and three and a half million is in a new construction portion proposition 51 grants require a 50 50 match so on the match side you see that Inspire has 2.2 million dollars remaining in their measure K allocation the charter school allocation they have fundraised for eight hundred thousand dollars and for the project at the Fremont Street Canyon View Property the district had offered to provide one million dollars toward infrastructure for the storm water retention that was to occur underneath the parking lot because that storm water retention Basin was going to be
006utilized for our future Comprehensive High School at the site so it was a mutual benefit to Chico Unified and to inspire and that leaves a total possible match of four million dollars any questions on the funding available yes I have a question excuse me um about the use of the land itself because the land is Chico Unified property ownership correct yes and so is there no uh way to qualify being able to utilize that land as like almost an in-kind match or is it only dollar value like actual bank account dollars that are that could be used it's actual dollars okay yeah gotcha and the land will remain the property of the district right but if they if there was like um an amount that would qualify for um you know Chico Unified is is
007basically providing an in-kind gift match by allowing the school to be housed on that property you know that it would have it would have been nice if that was allowable under the grant rules so yes and I understand that a lot of the grants that the district applies for do allow an in-kind match like labor [Music] but these do not unfortunately okay okay yep so so anyway the the like I guess the follow-on to that is just keeping in mind that there is another layer of um of value that the district is providing by providing that by offering that space which was voted on years ago yes thank you it was part of the 2019 facilities Master Plan update and measure K was 26 yes thank you sure okay now the next slide is going
008it outlines the timeline requirements of the grant so DSA and CDE division of the state architect and the California Department of Ed must approve the plans and specifications for the project by February 26 of 2025. in the case of the Fremont Street Canyon View Property plans those plans and specifications have already been approved by DSA and CDE but if we were to define a new location that the grant could be spent on we'd be starting that process over so therefore the next bullet point explains that it takes nine about nine to 12 months to develop new plans and get them approved through those two important agencies upon these approvals then the Office of Public School construction processes and and releases the funds for construction based on this schedule that would be sometime between December 25
009and June of 26. from that fund release date The the district then has four years to complete the project and the district must show progress every 12 and 18 month increments during that four-year term hello any questions on the timeline requirements okay next slide so as you know um the district and Inspire have met jointly I believe three times now to discuss ideas and options for housing Inspire and being able to utilize the measure both their measure K funds and the grant funds from the state of California so we have four options to describe that we've been discussing and we'll just walk through those now so option one and these are not in order of weighted weighted order in any way they are just the four options that we've been discussing option number one is
010to to make permanent improvements to the chico high school campus that a meets the immediate needs of inspire and Inspire will stay on the campus for a term at this point an unknown term of time but those permanent improvements also have to be meet the future needs of the chico highmaster plan so not an easy thing to do but possible to do inspired needs large Dance Space they need Administrative Office Space of Chico High has planned for that same piece of land Career and Technical education improvements you know in the form of large classrooms that can support their CTE programs Agriculture and medical pathways as as well as Performing Arts band choir and drama this option we would not take a loan from the state the first the funding mechanism that you saw previously does
011require inspired to take out a loan from the state of California at a low interest rate over a 30-year term if you if Inspire were to enter a loan agreement with the state then a 40-year facilities use agreement must be put in place that it must be put in place 40-year facilities use agreement it wouldn't be in our interest in the district's interest to enter a facilities use agreement for that long of a term because the improvements that would be built in this option would be utilized for a charter school if it's not Inspire it would have to be offered to other charter schools in the future that could could pay for the loan if there isn't any charter schools that could pay for the loan and occupy the property then eventually it would fall
012back for the district to be able to utilize it but the use agreement is it's strings attached that would be difficult on this option so without without a loan from the state the 50 percent match would mean that option number one would likely be an 8 million dollar project maximum so what we could build with eight million dollars at Chico high that could meet the needs of inspire now and meet the future needs of the chico High master plan and this option would also require the district and Inspire to enter into a long-term facilities use agreement between us without the state it's called the same document but it would be a different agreement for a long-term housing of inspire at Chico High School so at that I know that's a difficult description I'm happy to
013answer any questions on that option okay CNN will move on so on our next slide and I know that's difficult to read sorry yes I thought I was going to interrupt you can we turn the microphone for Julie up just a little bit please thank you okay so option number two is to build the Inspire campus at the Fremont Street Canyon View Property the plans as I said earlier are already completed and approved by the California Department Ed and the division of State architect so the project is shovel ready the issue is as you all know the budget Gap somewhere between 8 to 10 million dollars short of being able to fund that project a benefit to Chico High for this option number two would be that the shared spaces not shared spaces but Chico
014High spaces that are utilized by inspire currently classroom in the J building j226 the dance room and one large portable that's currently utilized by inspire could be taken over and used by Chico high if Inspire was not there so that's the that would be the immediate benefit to Chico High with this option there are two ways to get there the first way to get there is for inspire to borrow the Gap funding from Chico Unified Bond dollars and pay back that loan with their future Bond allocations this would mean that the district would have to pass two Bonds in the future assuming that the same percentage allocation of those Bond dollars is provided to the Charter Community at approximately 5.5 million dollars would be allocated to inspire for each of those next two bonds and
015the district would get paid back for what they loaned inspire can you clarify what you just said you said something uh um as long as the same amount was guaranteed that the charter school community right in in coming up with this estimate I had to make some assumptions so I assumed that the next two bonds would be 250 million dollars could be that's what we've been told for this next Bond that we're hoping to go for so I utilized the same amount for the next Bond and then the charter allocation was 15.34 percent of our previous Bond measure K and that was based on in District Ada so what percentage of the students being served in the boundary of Chico Unified School District um was there at the time and that was 15.34 percent our
016charter school students yes at any Charter School yes right so that's how I came up with that estimate so it would take two bonds two future Bonds in order for inspire to pay the district back for loaning them the Gap dollars would anything come out of the hide so to speak of the other Charter Schools if we were to you know make a focused allocation to inspire over the course of two bonds would it be a loss in any sense to the other chargers in town not with this estimate that I'm providing you today since we don't know what the future bonds will look like using the Assumption the 5.5 million dollars per future bond that I'm stating Inspire would be allocated is based on their percentage of in-district ADA from measure k so it
017would not impact any other Charter allocations but that is the assumption that we're moving forward in the same way that we did measure k so with measure k um there was the 15.4 sorry three four percent of the measure K funds that were portioned off to go to the charter schools and then is it my understanding correct that then there was the a charter committee that that formed among that group to then determine further how like did the district say how the charter schools are now going to allocate those funds amongst themselves or did they drive that that decision or that discussion the Chico Unified board created the committee the measure K Charter facility committee so they operate under you and they have representatives from each Charter School in the district that that receives measure
018K funds because they didn't all get measure K funds so the ones that did receive measure K funds are in this committee and they met and they decided to allocate it the same way that the district had allocated the total fund so they allocated the funds amongst themselves based on their in-district Ada so in theory they could have chosen to allocate it differently if there was a school that had a greater need for example it wasn't something that was driven by a decision from this board yes I guess that is correct they could have they did bring their recommendation to the board and then the board adopted their methodology got it thank you sorry follow on to that um so then if if it all went the same okay there's a lot of ifs in
019this right um if we do go out for the next Bond in the next election cycle and then if we do follow the same formula as we did with measure k um and if the numbers remained relatively um you know ratio wise similar to measure K what was the percentage for measure K that then inspired got or I guess um you know when it's all you're probably getting to this point but when it's all kind of said and done or settled out um the money that they got from measure K how does that translate to what it would be with this with Bond X maybe and maybe this is a Jacqueline question um so of the 15 that was carved off was just over 23 million dollars from measure K and Inspire was about 14
020of that total so barring everything's the same then it would be about 14 again of the carve out of the 250 million so we take 250 250 million and then 15.4 percent of that I was preempting uh would go to all cusd sanctioned charter schools and then about 14 of that pot would go to inspire correct and just to clarification it would be any Charter School within the boundaries of Chico Unified not necessarily charter schools that we authorize okay and that number is the 5.2 million it's on the the slide yeah correct approximately 5.5 million for bonded the next Bond and then 5.5 million for the next Bond after that shall I continue kind of an aside but well that's loud today all right um the measure K facilities committee when we created that did
021that was that bound only to that existing previous Bond measure well we need to recreate that organization that we should we pass another Bond I see Kelly we're basically Basics over again I think there are Lessons Learned on the district side and on the charter school side that mean we've only done this one time it's it's worked pretty well has it had its challenges yes so I think that we would you know put our heads to the drawing board and try to make what we've already done even better on the next absolutely I'm just checking whether the current organization as an exact committee is time bound to the yes previously specifically measured okay thank you sorry okay so the other funding option that has been discussed is that the charter schools the remaining dollars left
022in the measure K account for Charters assist to fund the project and the remaining dollar amount which would be reduced would be funded with by the Chico Unified and then repaid through future bonds so similar to the first however it would be asking that the other Charters provide some funding to help in this effort and I know Becky is here from Inspire tonight and but she did provide a report to the committee that they did speak to every Charter in the district that and asked them if they would be willing to do so and although they would like to help they have plans for their allocation so they were unable to um so just so that I'm understanding totally clearly especially when reading the note with the bottom if Inspire borrows funds from the district
023implementation of the cusd master plan projects will be impacted so we have a a chunk of money from measure K that is you're marked beyond what we we still have for current projects correct we've been we've been doing this with the facilities master plan right right and what you're saying is the report back from Inspire is that all the other Charter Schools also have measure K funding still to spend down and their funding is earmarked already for projects so everybody has already predetermined what they're going to be spending their measure k money on and they're so and there's and so therefore at this time unless any anybody changes their minds whether it's this this board here or any of the charter schools there's no measure K funding available to try to put towards this option
024so in your first statement you mentioned the facilities master plan so this board has identified specific projects that we are to spend the remaining measure K Bond dollars on we are not finished with the master plan yet we have done some preliminary estimates on those focused projects that were identified by the board so I can't really answer the question that you raised that it's all allocated at this time I guess that doesn't help with my follow-up question which was going to be what what projects or what um what items on our to-do list would then go by the wayside or be pushed back to a much later time if we were going to take our measure k money to put towards inspires need for get this this filling this Gap yeah well my my personal
025answer to that question would be that we have determined over 600 million dollars worth of need in our district schools in our master plan both in the past and moving forward as our buildings age the need becomes even greater we don't have specific projects that we have allocated with remaining measure K dollars that are unfunded but things do come up and having the funds available to be able to react quickly for instance you know Safety and Security projects that come up um it's it's good to have some cushion there truly um just to clarify I I think I know the answer but I want to make sure everybody else knows the the breakdown of the measure K dollars that have not been expended there's there's two types the ones that are in the control of
026the charter committee that was sanctioned by Chico unified's board and the other part of measure k money is the money that we earmarked through this middle process of our facilities master plan to take care of some immediate needs and there there's about 50 million in that fund correctly correct correctly okay so I I got So currently there are remaining balance actually this isn't current but it was as of April there was about 8.6 million dollars remaining in the Charter allocation for measure k some you made some approvals last week on Wednesday night that haven't been deducted from that yet Julie can you speak up I'm sorry I can't hear you I'm sorry on the monitor I can hear myself loud I'll I'll get a lot louder okay did you hear that the remaining dollar amount
027in the measure K Charter fund as of April was about 8.6 million okay and our and ours is about 50 on the cusd side yes a little higher than 50. and just to reiterate that 8.6 million well less because of what we spent last week the charters have indicated they have plans to spend that money down by the expiration of the measure k um time limit they've indicated that they have plans to spend their allocation and one of our recent facility Master Plan update updates um there was one of the many action items was to determine which of our kind of smaller projects that we wanted to spend the measure K funding on there's there's a pretty extensive list right I don't have it at my fingertips right now so I can't like exactly say
028what that is but it would be really helpful to know basically what are we talking about possibly prolonging to be able to do so is it making our updates at Citrus that might be chopped if we need to take some of that chunk of measure k money and put it towards this need for inspire or you know I I guess I just need a little bit more of a tangible like what are the consequences of of moving These funds around now and how far off this is going to push some of these other projects for Chico Unified students good question so the board authorized for the remaining measure K dollars for this in Citrus Elementary School improvements traditional our transitional kindergarten additions at schools that will need it that aren't aren't the schools you identified
029in the first prioritization Safety and Security projects throughout the district and restroom Renovations also at those schools that aren't in those first prioritized so we can bring those restrooms up to a nice standard until we get to them in the implementation plan and also the design for those first phased projects that you identified I'm going to say them wrong in the wrong order Rosedale Chapman Parkview Sierra View I believe so the design for those campuses you authorized us to utilize those measure K remaining dollars for and our estimation is that those are well covered within the remaining dollars available so um I don't believe any of those those projects would be impacted by this inspired decision what would be impacted would be any other projects that we would identify as a priority to the district
030so if something else were to come up yes an example of something that just came up recently was the bathroom Renovations at Fairview right because we wanted to install a shade structure and had no idea that we were going to be impacted by the state making their their observations and saying oh you have to fix this if you want to do that project it's going to be another 400 000 plus dollars to do those renovations yes so um so it would be our basically like our rainy day account right so these projects are covered and we still have a buffer of I'm just gonna say this number and it's it may be wrong but we'll just say 10 million dollars um for those like things that come up that we were not anticipating necessarily of
031measure K funding but so therefore if we were to take that instead at 10 million and put it towards inspires project we can do that and still do Citrus TK editions Safety and Security restroom Renovations design for first phase campuses but then we just won't have that pot to dip into in case we have some of these other emergent things come up sooner than later yes that's accurate and where it would really be an issue is if we are not successful in passing a new Bond and then we don't have the the funds for an eventuality of an emergency project coming up a probability of an emergency project coming up right as our thing as our as our excuse me as these schools are deteriorating it would be an eventuality yes but but even like
032more critically it would be a a probability of sooner than later because some of our schools are so in need of replacement I'm just saying it would be more time critical that could be correct right sorry for the tickle of my throat um so let me I'm still trying to like make sure that this could require voter approval of two future Bonds in 2024 and 2030 so that's another big if if the bond passes in 2024 if both bonds pass right we would still need a second bond in order to cover all of that 10 million dollars so we would have to pass two bonds if if all of the formulas stayed the same yes that's my estimate okay so the 5.2 assuming all the numbers stay the same would be um that 5.2 million
033or that 10 million we would provide up front for inspire to be able to to move forward with their project 5.2 million would be allocated to inspire with the 2024 Bond assuming it passes and then reallocated back to cusd to pay back this upfront funding that that we're offering I don't know administratively how it would happen but the bond dollars never leave the district we're the ones that spend the money sign the contracts and spend all of the measure K dollars so it would simply not be allocated to inspire we would absolutely what you're saying is is accurate I'm sure that there would be some kind of paper trail that we would track that yeah there'd be an agreement of a loan of bond dollars and I will say just the preface all of this
034that much of this is contingent on approval of a 2024 Bond so if for instance the voters don't approve a new Bond in 24 then the three schools that we had for prioritization are not in the numbers for new bathrooms and some of the Safety and Security because we had kind of assumed that those schools would be covered in a new Bond so any excess that we that we have could go to those three schools should a bond approval not be passed it's risky so if a bond does not pass then option two here would require us to fund Inspire before we fund things we've prioritized correct and the payback to Chico Unified say that again the payback to Chico Unified would be extended out even further because we wouldn't be successful in 24. for
035a bond approval I would imagine as a district given our facility master plan and the need and the hundreds of millions of dollars in need that we would go out to the voters again but we don't know what that date looks like so take Rosedale for example where as we've observed doors are falling off the hinges choosing option two here building Inspire campus at Fremont Street could if a bond measures fail delay fixing rosedales numerous structural problems as that's right correct we would need you know 250 million dollars to get those three elementaries done so if it failed then we'd have zero dollars for Rosedale to be able to do a massive renovation thank you on that note I think if a bond failed would staff would perhaps recommend that we come back and look
036at all of our assumptions about the facility's master plan in a new light we probably have to start would that be what you think we do if it failed we'd come back and just reprioritize everything well we'd have about a year probably a little over a year between when we started spending the remaining Bond dollars the 50 million dollars that's left in measure k um before we find out whether we've been successful passing a new Bond or not so some of those dollars will be expended or committed already but I think it would be a good assumption that we would have a good look at our position and re-look at our priorities to make sure that we were putting those limited dollars then in the right places thank you I have kind of a bigger
037like Broad View question um that I'm just not retaining probably from a previous presentation and Jacqueline also probably could provide this pretty quick but Cooper can you remind me what our funding sources are is it three different funding sources that we pull out of for facilities can you can you reiterate those yes so we have measure e which was Bond passed in 2012. measure K passed in 2016. we have a Redevelopment dollars that are passed through from the city of Chico and we have developer fees we also have state school facility funds so for every project we submit application for matching dollars from the state however they do take sometimes five years maybe more to be reimbursed to the district so even today we have applications in place that are being processed for instance Emma
038Wilson Elementary School we've qualified for one of those tkk grants we built Emma Wilson four years ago and now we've qualified and we're going to get funded so those dollars will continue to arrive at the district on an undetermined time frame because we never know when the state is going to pass pass bonds that they fund their grants with so we have that fund as well and we still have to measure e-money coming in or to spend we have one more Bond sale of measure e of I want to say 45 million in 2025. yeah and measure e is uh as Kelly is saying it's a a tax extension not a new general obligation Bond so it's a little bit different from measure K so we have a cap of the the dollars per square
039foot of assessed value measure K is a hundred dollars um sixty dollars sixty dollars um per 100 000 of assessed value of properties within the county that we can get with measure e we are limited to what the taxation was at that time I think it's approximately 42 dollars per 100 000 of assessed value so we have assessed values must rise uh for us to be able to get the measure K it's a little more tricky I'm going to measure e sorry measure e is a little um more math that has to occur are the best value Rising we uh we talk about we're kind of getting the weeds from our Inspire conversation but it's helping me get a bigger understanding of like how do we pay for all this stuff um so we talk
040a lot about measure K is going to be used to fund these these projects as we move into the need for a new Bond measure is measure e all the funds that that are in that last Bond sale are those already earmarked for for projects in the facilities master plan that had been done already they're included in the remaining 50 million okay thank you thank you for clarifying that for me so it's not it's not an additional okay yeah got it oh and then sorry um that where I was going with that whole question is um just for my understanding Bond money is makes up about what percentage of that pie if you break it down of our of our budget for facilities and no other funding can be used for facilities really is it
041I mean is it a pretty big percentage or pretty big I would say it's about 80 percent yeah okay about 80 of the money that the district has obtained for facilities um is coming from Bond measures correct okay about 20 comes from state school facilities grants I have a question okay um for as far as you know historically have we ever in the past provided um money before we've actually received it in a measure like basically have we loaned money with the idea that we weren't sure we were going to receive it back in a in my experience um this particular situation has Endeavor occurred so we can go through the other two options quickly and then open it up for any additional questions on the next slide um to have Inspire continue to look
042for commercial property that they can utilize the funds that they've raised and their measure K dollars to purchase a property that can be utilized um they do need a large amount of square footage for their school and we always have our eyes open as well at the district level looking for any potential opportunities that that won't stop we'll continue to keep looking Julie just to clarify on that that that would be basically a three million dollar opportunity right the 2.2 from measure K that Inspire has plus 800 million that that has been raised by inspire yes it could potentially be more because Inspire could take on a loan as well out you know commercially available Loan in the purchase so they may be able to get a little higher value of property if they were
043willing to do so um but then they wouldn't be able to utilize their Grant yes I'm glad you brought that up the grant dollars must be spent on a district facility Unified School District facility or property right or is it in a district so I guess um getting into the weeds it could be uh Durham unified it could be like a public school district property it doesn't have a beach you could necessarily okay you're not I'm not I'm not suggesting that Inspire goes to Durham but yes but it does have to be a School site that's been approved by the California Department of Ed okay thank you sure and then the last option that the Joint Committee has been discussing um is for inspire and District to proceed with the Proposition 39 process that's the
044where the charter school um sends in a request for facilities to the district by November 1st of every year and they submit their methodology on their enrollment their expectation of enrollment for the following school year and negotiate with the district on the allocation of classrooms and spaces to be utilized for the following school year and that is repeated on an annual basis how many Charters go through the prop 39 process with Chico Unified there used to be quite a few right now only Sherwood Montessori school goes through the Proposition 39 process on an annual basis we have negotiated long-term facilities use agreements in lieu of prop 39 with Forest Ranch Chico Country Day Nord and Inspire so there are four long-term in lieu of prop 39 agreements currently and then the rest of the charters
045have their own facilities and properties that they yes that they've figured out for themselves yes only Sherwood is on a shared campus through the prop 39 process currently right thank you so I did a rough estimate currently Inspire occupies 26 classrooms on the chico high school campus and a Proposition 39 situation you compare these square footage of Chico high school and the chico High School enrollment so a usage per square footage to the enrollment of inspire and it creates a ratio of classroom space and specialized teaching spaces and administrative support facilities so in my estimate Inspire would be offered 23 classrooms Under The Proposition 39 process and shared use of the multi-purpose gem Library spaces and field spaces so those are the four options that the Joint Committee has been discussing do you have any
046more in your presentation Julia I do not excuse me um is there a staff recommendation on these four options I don't have a staff recommendation no are there any other questions at this at this time no I'm eager to get to the public comment I think that's the piece we're missing is to hear from Inspire frankly um when uh so before we move into public comment I I do want to um mention that something that was also discussed um in those in in the last meeting with Inspire was um a timeline for board action um and so tonight's item is a discussion action item however there is time to come back to this in August and take final action in August if there is anything that we still need to ask for get more clarifications
047on um so we don't have to necessarily take action tonight on a final decision on on what's going to happen with Inspire but I just wanted to make sure everybody was really clear on that and that that did come out of the last meeting that I was in with with Inspire last month this month it's been a long month it's still June okay all right well with that we will move to public comment um I have the list um and so I I will read um the name for the person to come up and also the person who's on Deck with public comment uh you're limited to three minutes and when you have 30 seconds left in your time you will hear a bell um and that means that your time is is running short
048and please wrap it up respectfully and then we'll move to the next speaker and so with that let's call up Margaret napin and after that will be Becky Brown hello my name is Margaret knappen I've spent my high school career attending Inspire and will be a senior this upcoming fall Inspire has shaped me as a student as well as a person through the positive impact of my teachers peers and educational experience I find it imperative to speak on the importance of more permanent facilities that don't limit our incredible top-notch programs I've been pursuing my passion for dance for the past 13 years and have experienced numerous different dance education programs however nothing compares to the unique inclusivity of the Inspire program which allows all levels of dancers to flourish from beginner to pre-professional as the
049president of dance and choreography Club I appreciate the importance and necessity of proper dance education facilities to keep our dancers safe and comfortable our dancing choreography program is housed in a space that was initially built for a two to three year duration of use the effects of a space being used 10 years over the initial timeline is apparent despite constant Repairs by instructors inadequate weak spots on the floor limited storage and a lack of designated changing areas impair the ability to pursue our art form our specialized dance floor is in such disrepair in view of the fact that it cannot be permanently fixed to the floor as it would properly be because we are in a temporary space for the past 13 years while learning as well as teaching choreography I've had to mindfully avoid
050the weaker spots in the dance floor and obstructed space a proper and secure space for our school is greatly needed to sustain our powerful and unique programs thank you [Applause] up next we'll have Becky Brown followed by Monique day should I hunch I can't go after Margaret good evening of the chico Unified School Board my name is Becky Brown and I'm principal superintendent of inspire Ms Robinson Ms dalby Kelly Julie and the members of the Chico Unified facilities committee we know that you have been working diligently to find Solutions and ensure Inspire is able to leverage the 8 million in state grant funding Before Time Runs Out we are grateful to you for meeting with us on May 30th and for your openness and collaboration toward forward progress on our grant project in that meeting
051a proposal was developed that would provide the initial outlay out of districts measure K funds to cover the cost of the shortfall for our new campus project on the Canyon View Property a cost to be reimbursed fully by inspire out of future bond funds of the options that you've heard tonight this is the fiscally sound option the achievable option the option that puts Inspire on the hook for the cost of the project and to free up space for Chico High Doug I'm over here the only option that's left on the table and here's why Inspire stands ready to contribute the match for the 8 million Grant I don't think that's the number that you heard tonight so if this is not clear I invite you to ask me for further clarification um let's talk about
052the rainy day fund and I want to encourage you to reframe that notion of the 10 million dollar rainy day fund that does not impact the projects that you have prioritized for your schools and to think about the cost of providing the facilities that Chico High needs if we don't take advantage of these Grant funds our grant Consultants have given us clear guidance that the design and approval process must begin in August no later in order to meet the deadlines or we lose that grant money if that's not clear tonight urge you to seek further clarification from District staff this option guarantees that we're off the chico High campus and that is a top priority of the chico High community and that came out in the surveys this spring and I urge you to seek
053further clarification if this is not clear from our Chico High Neighbors a decision that results in a status quo that forces inspired to file for prop 39 if the impacts to District staff to do that are not clear to you I urge you to seek further clarification about their desire to go down that path with the help of the Chico Unified facilities committee and countless hours from Julie Kissel and facility staff we have a solution 12 years in the making tonight Becky that's your time and on behalf of inspire I implore you to choose the only real option on the table thank you Madam president point of order um can I ask a question of staff at this time relevant to what she was talking about sure I have a question too but I was
054going to wait until we heard all the public comments but I'm not gonna say no okay then I'll ask um we need Clarity on what she just said about them needing a decision before August a date in August compared to what she had got clarification on uh where she believes that we do have time to make a decision in August and I think I just heard Ms Brown say that we don't have time no to make a decision Miss Brown told me that in August we can make a final decision thank you um thank you I'll ask my question because it's very related um that August deadline is that only if we end up as a board or a district just saying that they will not be utilizing the Canyon View Property since they're already
055approved for Canyon View I was confused a little bit I think in that in the presentation so if the decision was to go to Fremont Street Canyon View that design development and review and approval has already occurred so just the portion where the expenditure the construction completion Remains the Same that end date doesn't change okay so I guess I guess what I'm asking is is the August is the August deadline with the August deadline be made irrelevant if we reconfirmed that that there that this will go that that we would be moving forward with the Canyon View project correct okay up next we'll have Monique day followed by Rose sorry about your name wrong there we go I am the parent of a recent inspired graduate and an incoming freshman my daughter had the best
056high school experience imaginable um and that's saying a lot considering she spent a year of it on Zoom by her choice the staff at Inspire create a magical learning environment where teens want to be there and want to give their all whether it's for dance and theater where my daughter pursued her passion and thrived or robotics engineering and definitely Digital Arts Department there's always something going on with students and teachers working collaboratively in those buildings my son recently spent a week at Rock Band summer camp Inspire offered and even though he has three guitars at home he's chomping at the bit to be on that campus spending as many hours as possible in the music room in the recording studio all of this is happening this magic is happening while the school is existing in
057deteriorating Portables on an old blacktop it's honestly quite remarkable in addition to being grateful for the array of offerings in the Arts I'm very grateful for the excellent education my daughter received from their highly dedicated and motivated teachers her courses were academically rigorous and I credit The English Department with her excellent skills that got her accepted into numerous colleges to decide between for continuing her education I also previously had the honor of being on the Inspire scholarship committee and was extremely impressed with the academic achievements I saw among the many applicants however above academics and above starring in school musicals I am most grateful to inspire for the community that they create a place where students feel seen and empowered empowered to take leadership roles Empower to Dream Big Dreams for their Futures and empowered
058to be themselves in our current times where suicide's been on the rise Teen Mental Health Awareness is at the Forefront of our minds I cannot express enough how important a safe and supportive environment has been for my daughter and how much I value that will be there for my son my daughter always had friends in elementary and middle school but it wasn't until she came home to inspire where she found people to truly connect with through their shared passions and had her first best friend and a group of close friends she'll stay to connect a two to life for life I have loved every minute that my children been part of this school and the only thing that could make it better is a real home a home that has its own identity Room to
059Grow awnings to provide Shelter From the elements and a beautiful exterior that matches the extraordinary things happening on the interior just because Inspire teachers and students have the ability to make do with less doesn't mean that they should continue to be required to and I acknowledge this is a complex problem without easy answers however my children and all the students deserve the time money and creativity needed to come together to be invested in finding a solution thank you so much for your time [Applause] up next is Rose kripelka followed by Brian Boyer start it when I say something good evening Chico Unified board I'm speaking tonight as a supporter of Chico Unified and of inspire I've been through the whole school system my kids have been through this school system I have a son that
060that attended Inspire and I don't have any I'll say bone to pick of the either side I just want to make sure that as a concerned Citizen and taxpayer that you guys get all the information you need to make a good decision I've been increasingly involved in the Inspire campus project and done of a lot of investigation and research on deadlines and funding and I've been looking for that win-win option that the district wins and Inspire wins and I believe the proposal on the table can achieve that I'm serving currently as a chair of the Inspire Foundation hoping to assist Gathering funds for the campus project s along with uh ongoing school projects I've outlined a few points to consider in making your decision on the Canyon View proposal which is currently being discussed number
061one this proposal will keep some chicken unified money off the table in the short term but it puts Inspire on the hook to cover all of the money to to move off the chico High campus that to me is a win-win for Chico Unified and inspire number two the timing is very critical in order to receive the eight million dollars of funding from the state both Chico and Inspire win State monies don't come from either of their budgets of the local budgets number three the only other option this time would force Inspire to to file for prop 39 which we have heard is not a positive thing if the district can't agree on a viable plan for the csfp grant that keeps Inspire on the chico High campus in perpetuity if this happens the district
062is on the hook and it is going to need to provide ongoing equivalent facilities as the other high schools and will which is about 80 percent in District students Inspire would only have to continue to pay for 20 percent of the students attending Chico unify would still be housing still be responsible for housing those 80 percent as indicated in the charter prop 39 alternative will continue to cost the unified money for the long term and it would definitely hold up the chico high school goals outlined in the master plan to me that's a Chico Unified and inspired loss this also incentivizes inspired to help Chico Unified secure future Bond monies if future Bond monies are secured the district is is about a positive and Inspire has a win I believe your support in short-term cash
063needed will benefit both Chico Unified and Inspire in the long term and allowance buyer not to have to bend on the district for assistance in the long term Inspire has already invested over 750 thousand dollars in Architects and planning for this project we've raised an additional 250 so far even without a clear project in addition both inspired GQ ID that's fine I'm sorry next is Brian Boyer followed by Ken Hardy good evening and thank you for the opportunity to speak here tonight I'm speaking to you in my capacity as a member of the board of directors for the inspired School of Arts and Sciences prior to serving on the Inspire board I spent 30 years working at Chico High 20 years as a classroom teacher 10 as an assistant principal at the beginning of one
064of those school years at Chico high when I was an assistant principal I attended a cusd sponsored Workshop it was based on the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People now no it was not a life-changing event however one of those habits resonated with me begin with the end in mind tonight the end we need to keep in mind is that at some point Inspire needs to get off the chico High campus so working back from there I wonder three things I wonder about location I wonder about funding and I wonder about timing about location in order to meet the restrictions and timelines of grant funding and to qualify for a loan Inspire needs a site that is on the cusd property and available right now the Fremont Street location is available right now all planning
065and agency approvals are already in place what about funding our most recent estimates project an approximate 10 million gap between available funding and project needs two thoughts come to mind about this first the estimate we're working with was done during a spike in construction costs I wonder if costs have since gone down second I also wonder about remaining measure K funds after board prioritized projects have already been completed if cusd we're in a position to use those funds to close the gap and based on the passage of future Bond measures Inspire would be in a position to repay this Gap relief provided by cusd in this scenario Inspire is still responsible for the cost of the project it's just a cost spread out over time so then what about timing right now is as cheap
066as this project is ever going to get in 2011 the projected cost for inspires move to Chapman was nine million dollars this current move to the Fremont Street is estimated at 27 million dollars leaving Inspire on the chico High campus for any number of years will surely put the cost at an even higher and more challenging level so to wrap up I'd like to say thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight and also point out that after many years of hard work by both Chico Unified and inspired staffs we finally have a viable path forward the Fremont Street relocation represents a chievable and mutually beneficial end to inspires relocation thank you [Applause] hold on one second don't start yet next we have Ken Hardy followed by Maya Klein sorry I was in my head
067good evening I want to share some information about Inspire this may not know as associate principal of inspire I give tours to prospective students and families and always begin by acknowledging that that their student is fortunate to have choices on where to go to high school here in Chico PV Chico High Oak Ridge Butte Corps and Inspire are just some of those Choice choices I also tell them that I have over 23 years of High School teaching and coaching experiences experience six years in San Jose 17 with Gridley High School I also mentioned my experience as a wasp Committee Member where I conducted visits to roughly half a dozen other high schools I tell visitors if there's one word that sets Inspire apart from all the other schools that word would be different some of
068our teachers tell me that I should say Inspire is better but I wouldn't use that word my my kids attended Chico high they went on to graduate from a four-year colleges and are gainfully employed in their fields of study so I don't say that I wouldn't say Inspire is better what makes us different I tell them is first it's our facilities we don't have a gym we don't have a locker room a library theater tennis courts playing fields and until recently we didn't have opportunities for students to participate in sports we now offer cross-country running skiing and snowboarding and golf second it's our programs I take visitors through various rooms which as you know are almost all outdated portable or Modular Buildings including the art room where we have 10 pottery wheels and two Kilns
069we move on to our music room where students have access to a wide selection of electronic and acoustic guitars basses drums and pianos into our digital media arts room where we display our state and National skills USA champion banners I showed them our science labs our digital recording studio in our dance room where students can choose to take dance PE to satisfy their state PE requirements at some point in the tour I talk about our practicum where students Juniors and seniors usually can pursue a semester project in an area of interest that they have worked closely with our teachers to cultivate during the first few years at inspire I also tell visitors that we put up a drama and a musical each year last year we ran The Importance of Being Earnest and Mamma Mia
070which had over 100 participants 40 were on the stage while the rest worked behind the scenes students design and build the sets do the hair wigs make up costumes design and run the lighting manage the stage during the production manage the props and body microphones and manage the front of house and in my four years that inspired two of our shows and one student have been nominated for the Rita Moreno high school music awards this is a program that's open to all high schools north of Santa Barbara to the Oregon border I'd like you I'd like to invite you to visit the Inspire campus and so you can see firsthand what we offer Chico area students and at some point during the tour like many parents and Guardians who have toured the campus you might
071turn to me and say gosh I wish I had gone to this high school thank you for your time we have Maya Klein followed by Chris Boson thank you for the opportunity for speaking tonight my name is Maya Klein and I am a recently graduated student from Inspire High School I graduated with a double major in Humanities and technical theater and was involved in both subjects throughout all four years of my time there I'll be attending Cal Berkeley in the fall and I would like to impart on you the extent to which Inspire helped me achieve this goal each year I had teachers who endlessly supported my passions and presented me with opportunities to allow them to grow perhaps the most impressive element of inspire is that they are able to have this profound impact
072on students while teaching completely out of a campus of Portables I arrived at Inspire in 2019 besides its academic and creative offerings one of the factors in choosing Inspire was the promise to be on a new campus by what would be my senior year however as the years stretched on it became clear due to factors outlined here last month and tonight by our community speakers that being on a new campus by my senior year would be unrealistic all students have a right to resources which should nurture them into adulthood and Spark excitement for education Inspire students have been deprived of this right for too long and its teachers have been forced to pick up the slack it is Testament to inspire's extraordinary power that Despite All Odds its teachers are still able to support each
073individual student not only does the community succeed as academic students but we also succeed as individuals who love our passions we are active and valuable members within the Butte community and deserve to be treated as such the frustrating reality of such a limited limited and debilitated campus is that we have been forced to produce some of the most creative and impressive solutions to issues which we wouldn't need to think twice about at a new school the tetris of costume racks in our tiny theater department is notable and the steadfast fundraising efforts on the part of student groups such as our environmental Club to create on-campus action against issues such as plastic pollution is inspiring what could we do with the campus that we deserve although I never had the opportunity to be an Inspire student
074on a campus which was on par with the quality of its student body I sincerely hope that my younger peers will the board has the opportunity to present Inspire students with the resources to become great scientists engineers artists musicians and people and I implore you to act on this ability thank you [Applause] hello okay good evening my name is Chris fosen and I'm an inspired board member and also a parent of two kids at Inspire one of whom just graduated I'd like to talk briefly about inspires facilities needs and encourage you all to vote for option two which would allow Inspire to begin building a canyon Canyon View as shown in the recent facilities master plan presented to this board the entire inspired campus is classified as in the red this means the school has
075inadequate classroom environments and program space and that were vastly undersized relative to our school needs this has led to a situation in which even Basics accessibility Renovations among other badly needed fixes are currently impossible the majority of inspires classrooms and administrative spaces are housed in portable buildings that are over 30 years old some Portables have rats and are housed and and others have feral cats living underneath I've been told not to mention the birds that have made nests in the in the eaves and swoop down and dive bomb the students as they go from class to class the school has almost no common places one would see it in normal high school no theater no Library no cafeteria or kitchen no sports facilities or fields and perhaps most crucially no meeting space large enough for
076whole school gatherings yet despite these huge challenges but Inspire has a thriving community that provides excellent instruction to almost 400 young adults inspires an outstanding school that has won awards like the number one high school in Chico from U.S news and World Report and best public high school in Butte County from Niche it's been deemed to California exemplary Arts education program and has won accolades in the Arts from Regional State and National bodies and has also collected a number of Awards in The Sciences the most recent being of Vex robotics award our most recent graduation showed how tight-knit our families are and how caring and responsible program like inspires can flourished in the cracks and interest disease of its crumbling infrastructure option two seems like the best option by far for both Inspire in the
077district freeing up some funds is loans to inspire would enable the school to use already approved building grants to begin the construction and eventually free up space for Chico High please please vote to support inspires young adults its community and its continued growth by voting for a new spite new site for inspire thank you [Applause] um that's all the public comment that we had signed up for for this item before I call for um any sort of motion I would like to encourage any further questions for clarification from staff I have a question of you Julie Kissel we talked a few weeks ago about the possibility of the well the fact that we have more school facilities in the center of town than we actually have students to fill them our attention was specifically drawn
078to hook a rogue School and the idea was um presented that we basically put Inspire in the hooker Road campus in that um that motion failed on a uh two to three vote so is there any conceivable way that that could be resurrected as an option I mean if the board were to reverse its opinion about that and decide that Hooker Oak would be a more cost-effective sensible home for inspire how would that proceed I think I'll defer that to Kelly thank you it would need to come back from one of the board members who voted in opposition so for those that voted in favor of the um what got voted down you cannot bring it back forward but one of the other three board members could thank you very much Caitlin I have a
079question um and I don't know who to ask it of since the huh Whoever has the answer okay back in the years when I was on the Inspire board as the representative from Chico Unified there was discussion about raising the funds for a new campus I mean this isn't a new idea or need and several of the ideas that were thrown out were to go to um deep pocket philanthropists like Bill and Melinda Gates um Ellen DeGeneres um Oprah some uh like Google in Silicon Valley I wonder if any of those approaches were ever made come up to the microphone I'm currently the current chair of the foundation and that's kind of my role is to try to raise money um there there have been a couple things that have been recognized number one yes
080we're doing great things you can write Google a letter I don't have Sergey is my personal friend or anything um but the reality is we don't have a defined project we have to be able to ask people for something we're going to do that's been a problem with I mean we've raised just out of community members 250 000 so far but that is only because the community supports this cause but it's and it's not we we need a defined project we either know we're going to move to Hooker Oak we need to know we're going to move to Fremont Street because you have to tell people what they're giving you money for and once that's more defined by all means we can continue down that path we did hire a director at one point that
081that indicated he was going to lead us to Silicon Valley money and that did not pan out so well I'm a little confused because in my understanding you did have a you do have a project that's that's gone through full approval that has board approval to utilize the Canyon View Property like there has been nothing to to stop that process from happening so going out to unless I'm incorrect or misinformed uh going out to ask for funds from other entities there that should that shouldn't be an issue since you do have plans they have been approved you do have a site it's all been approved it should be ready to go that's a good point um the kickoff for the fundraising and I wasn't here then had started in March of 2020 so that might
082have a little impact on it as well so um we have no qualms about going out and asking for that money but we again we need to say okay we're we're built are we building this campus are we not building this campus and and basically what you're saying is you're building this campus if you can get the money and so the range was so far off that I mean if we could go out to Google and and the district did forward the money we could pay you back early I mean that's the there's there can be something included like that but it is very hard to get those huge corporations to open who are laying off tens of thousands of employees right now to to work in the philanthropy option thank you for clarifying on
083a somewhat similar note um that's all I want to acknowledge the lottery ticket nature of you know pinning any hopes on um an angel investor of some sort and secondly I do sincerely hope that uh inspiring I believe you will continue to work on the fundraising angle should we adopt option two Michael question though um is for Doug um I hate to put you on the spot because I know you're kind of squeezed between a couple different groups here which option do you like best so to be honest here you're in a paradox you're right where I am right um I'm reflecting on a couple things it'd be easy for me to I thought there was a question when Becky asked me to come up here but um first of all everyone's doing unbelievable educational
084things with students I don't think that's the issue it's just everybody needs support at their sites I would just if I was thinking about this issue I would really want to think about as many options as I could because oftentimes as a principle you have to think about the people that don't have organized groups to come and speak or can't speak for themselves and that would be the other charter schools that would also be the money going to other principals that aren't here that are waiting or watching at home to see that if it is in his is made as you've mentioned earlier what does that mean for my project um does that mean that I can't redo the bathrooms and for me it's kind of like robbing Peter to pay Paul at Chico high
085school because if you give the money to get them off my high school which I'm supposed to be happy about because it'll allow me to further the master plan it also takes some money away for me completing that master plan so that's why I think I'm being really honest where you're you're sitting in a paradoxical position right now and hopefully when you think about this you might come up with revisiting other options that you've that you would know about that I don't know about and not tying Chico high or Inspire into with each other but you keep as many options open as are available I know that's not an answer for you but I don't think I think this is a very complex issue and I think as a board you should be thinking like
086you always are about the immediate impact which is going to in fact Inspire the immediate impact which will affect Chico high but there is a five and a 10 and a 12 and potentially a 40-year impact and also a philosophical impact on is there an additional burden for public entities to be efficient with organizing their funds and shouldn't that also be placed on charter schools to work together to prioritize their funds so these are the questions I know that you're struggling with and I don't know if I helped you in this and I'm not going to pick one of those because I'm not a board member and also being on public display it puts me in an awkward position because I want to support educating all students in Chico we will work with Inspire whether
087they're on our cameras or not on our campus and I will be asking Kelly and you for funds over other principles whether or not you decide which option there is or not but I want to make sure that I don't take my time at the podium to impose uh my own personal will in a situation and I would just wish that you would think about all you know you do represent not only Charter Schools but all the other schools in Chico Unified as well I don't know if that clarifies it or makes it well I mean it puts us right back where we were but I do want to say I always appreciate your willingness to uh state things as they are in an unvarnished and truthful way and I really do wish about you
088thank you I have a question not of you since we asked Mr Williams I think it would also be helpful to get um Mrs Brown Becky Brown's perspective on if we were to or if it was a possibility or to resurrect the option of Hooker Oak would she prefer Hooker Oak versus um than the Canyon View Doug did you want to come back up and my brain is spinning trying to answer that in a diplomatic way and I don't know how to do that I don't feel comfortable in the least speaking to a topic where I know so my kids went to hook Rogue and so it's it's deep in our hearts they had an amazing experience there and I wouldn't want to say anything that would would you know put that community at risk
089Hooker Oak when it was we sort of got that surprise option in in the board meeting um it it it it was it would be a viable option for us I'll just say that it would be a viable option for us that was was taken off the table and we're sorted down to the Bare Bones here in terms of the decisions that the board can make I feel like that's kind of all I can say at this time if that makes sense thank you okay well it sounds like we have as much information as we can get for now um are there any actions that uh anybody on the board would like to take this evening on this topic yeah okay um people have stated repeatedly there's you know how tricky this situation is um
090and I think some of that is on um us as a board in the district both past and present it's frustrating that we're here I'll be honest um we have more needs than we have space or funds and that's never unusual for school district but it's frustrating to have it be this Stark that said um I would want to have uh Julie and Jaclyn if we pass measure two sit down and really hammer out some details to protect the district as uh fully financially as possible and to um outside of that first of all I'm going to move eventually when I get done speaking for option two that said one of the things we really need to do is start building a coalition of people who will really go out and help us sell a
091bond in a year 18 months from now so I sincerely hope that the uh creative talents and energy that we know existed inspire you know measure measure M the musical uh I'm here for it um I'm only half joking that would be amazing um that said there are a lot of moving pieces I would feel more comfortable if we are going to go with option two if we did it now so that we have all the time between now and August to really nail down something in terms of a financial use agreement that again protects us and make sure everyone knows exactly what their parts are given all that I would like to move that we adopt what is option two here and temporarily front the money needed to create more space I think more
092space for students is better I think we're going to develop Canyon View at some point and we might as well get it started now when it serves a really clear and immediate need can I ask a question of clarification um do you did you want to specify an up to dollar amount I believe I'm gonna have to go back and review the notes Here that there is a maybe Julie just has it off top of her head that was mentioned in the uh the Gap fund need in the presentation was it 10 point something 10. up to 10. okay in that case yeah let's say option two uh up to 10 million dollars remember Lando uh do you specifically have a what funds you want to designate to meet that eight to ten million dollar
093Gap in order to start the project at Canyon View so as I am again looking at uh option two that was presented to us can we put that back up on the screen please that slide thank you um thank you it I suppose it doesn't mention that I apologize um as we discussed I think that money would come out of our remaining measure K funds from the Chica unified side so yeah if you want to specify that within the motion we can certainly do that okay so um the motion is to adopt option two for a maximum of 10 million for a maximum of 10 million from ticket unifieds existing measure K Reserve but it's not within the um the allocation already headed to the charter schools and to be and to be reimbursed essentially
094you have to be reimbursed over uh the next two I don't want to have the next two bonds um we've maybe set a time limit instead because again it's always the option that the possibility was next two bonds one of them doesn't go through um and I also don't know if this is all too into the weeds to do before we have a second yeah procedurally to you I'm in a second thanks yeah well I seconded it so now we can just ask questions and discuss sorry um memoranda you said something about um the allocations for charter schools so you are intending that that proposal to have inspired use their allocation from the approved Bond um well one yes the money they have left for sure my point in saying that was to make sure
095that we are not spending the money that would go otherwise go to the other charter schools not the 15 that is allocated to the Charter School okay that let me walk through that again so I'm certain because the the current allocation to the Charter Schools is is off the table that's not what you're yes intending so what you're intending is with the passage of a bond inspires allocation following the last pattern would be 14.9 percent um and that that would be what they would make their first balloon payment with basically yes yes oh no did I miss did I misunderstand what she was saying all right Kelly what do you got well that wasn't what I heard I thought I heard you say then we need to figure out how that looks to ensure that
096the district is reimbursed yes um and I unless someone has a secret you know paperwork already written up I was going to say could we could if we as a board were to approve option two tonight that gives clear indication that this Project's moving forward sooner than later and everybody can start figuring out how we're we're putting it all in the pot so yes but I do think everybody needs to be real clear so for example let's say a bond doesn't pass is inspired still required to pay that money back and if so how do they do that I mean that's you know anytime any of us get a loan we have to think that through right how are we going to repay that my hang up is that I don't I don't know if
097if I have enough understanding of all of the nuances agree um to be able to put that all in Emotion right now did you have one adjectives and I just had a quick comment on that and we would need more Direction on what is payback is a dollar for dollar is there an inflationary Factor because five or ten million dollars today is not five or ten million dollars in 2030 and to Kelly's point if a bond doesn't pass is Chico Unified just waiting for a next Bond when and if it gets approved or is there some sort of time yeah interim payback period and what is the payback dollar-wise I have a motion a second motion a second I have I have this Subs well it's a second motion it yeah it's the second motion
098and my motion is to table action on Mr Lando's motion tonight until the August third is it August 3rd our next meeting it's a workshop meeting oh it says third week August 20th 23rd and that we um that the expectation is that all of the uh information that we have asked of Staff will be brought to us at that time so we know for sure what we're doing when we do it I'll second that so what I what I want to know is if we can do a little bit of both is there a way we can word um word tonight's motion to indicate clearly that this board is approving moving forward with option the idea of option two so that that August deadline isn't weighing on everybody and then bring back the numbers more
099specifically for approval in August I wouldn't be in favor of that I'm sorry I mean I I think what I'm trying to say is um like never mind let me think it through and tell you what I'm thinking if I if I could try men on that I think it's clear what Our intention is in the discussion we've had the motion that was made the second that was made and discussion I am hesitant to do anything beyond that until we we actually have a majority commitment to do it and I don't think we can make the majority commitment in a vote to do it until we have the numbers so I I'm not bothered by not voting on it tonight do we have any comments from staff too or any input that staff would like
100to give or not you could say no well I do think it would be good for everyone to be very clear what we're voting on and I don't see us coming back with here's the answer it would need to be options is it we're going to just give 10 million in the story is it going to be 10 million with a requirement that it be repaid regardless is it 10 million with a time frame is it 10 million with a percentage interest for lack of a better word on it so I think those would have to be options that we would need to calculate out and bring back so the board does know exactly what you're voting on so it's like man no um I think we're on the same page well many of us
101are saying kind of different things um so I would like there to be some kind of motion on the table says in spirit we are all or we are as a board um looking for a way to go forward with option two but we need to have time because I don't think we're going to hammer out I mean a contract right here in public that doesn't make a lot of sense to try and do that in the next two hours so we just need to find a way to word emotion that says yes mostly isn't that called a consensus well right now we would have to um either have you pull your table your motion to table or vote on it is is consent voting on a consensus an appropriate motion well it'll be the
102first time for me it would be a sort of person you would just make your statement and as a motion and then if there's indeed consensus then then people would agree with yeah we would just vote on it well I think I have to take the the motion to table off the table with the permission of the person that seconded it the permission to take it off the table okay that that sounds like a um a good way to take care of business does anyone want to do that consensus motion I think that was the intent of my original so let me see if I can word it in a way that that makes more people happy again I move that we as a board agree that there is agree to allocate the 10 million
103to this project given that at our next meeting we are provided with conditions conditions and options that are to which we are amenable is that you need more specificity if you take the word agree out of there about the 10 million I'm all for it we disagree about 10 million no we just don't agree on how and when because of all the information we're waiting for yes up to 10 million right okay pending I'm not clear what you're getting here I apologize semantics yes yeah yeah but what would you so what would you like it to say um happy to hear a different wording uh I move that the board affirm through a vote of consensus it doesn't have to be consensus sorry for interpreting you to move forward with allocating the 10 million dollars
104pending receipt of um the financial and if the financial implication information we have requested for the August 20th meeting 23rd August 23rd meeting death you feel like that's clear I think I understand the intent and it does seem to me that the intent is to bring back options to fund the 10 million and so I mean maybe that's what we say maybe it is simple as direct staff to return at the August 23rd board meeting with options for funding the 10 million okay what superintendent Staley just stated is my intent as well adopting that language are we all happy-ish with that motion I think I'm going to withdraw my motion because um uh you have a motion no oh no but I I mean sorry I withdraw my second yeah because um I have she
105already took that off the table anyway oh really okay yeah the current motion is my original motion we're changing the words I believe Caitlyn's seconded that one and I'll second motion all right I think we're just going to move forward with a vote at this point Mr Landau let's do a Voice vote actually we have a comments right sorry further discussion sorry it feels like we've been doing lots of discussion I kind of got lost track of that thank you for thank you for that sure Mr tennis I have some some explanation here great please speak just to my no vote on this item um I have believed that Inspire is a special place I've had the pleasure of touring it with uh my friend Ken and um I think that it is totally unique
106I think it Inspire occupies a singular place in in the the fabric of Chico's you know academic scene especially as it applies to high school I would proudly and happily send one of my four kids to inspire if it seemed like it would be a good fit for them and since I only have one child who's as yet of high school age we haven't run the gamut yet and so it remains to be seen if one of them does indeed go to inspire but um I also have had the experience of touring all but two of Chico unified's grade schools and I've seen all the Leaky roofs and all the dingy run down bathrooms staff bathrooms student bathrooms and I have seen all those inadequate facilities as aforementioned I've seen doors falling off the hinges
107at Rosedale school which is a dual immersion school as most of you probably know Spanish language immersion I've seen Chapman School which is in the poorest neighborhood of Chico which has numerous portable storage facilities for a lot of their equipment is in storage facilities there are bats I have seen evidence of bats living in in attic spaces I have seen um roof tiles fallen through and students in endangered conceivably although I think that our staff does a good job protecting kids to the best of their ability um and I've spoken to a lot of parents especially moms who have as it happens spend a lot of volunteer time at these locations and have been happy to see me there and so that they themselves personally mom volunteers could take me around these Great Schools where
108their kids are studying to show me all the problems that there are at their schools and I personally am unable to prioritize you know the immediate needs of inspire for a campus of Their Own in front of all those kids and in front of all those moms just because they're not here crowding this room right now doesn't mean that they're not there you know it's just not their night to be here and so I I can't I can't be persuaded to prioritize the needs of inspire High School one charter school in the event that we do fail in our efforts to get these two Bond measures that it would take to pay back Chico Unified and restore that ability to fund those other needs that are out there so I I think that the courageous
109thing to do would be to um take one of our existing facilities where we that we own and that we maintain here in Chico Unified that we don't actually need to meet our our students needs and gift Inspire one of those facilities um and if we were being fiscally responsible we would not commit this 27 million dollars to build new at a time when it's probably it's the worst time to build in in in memory so what we should do is take one of the facilities that are in the center of town that we don't need because we don't have students there gifted to inspire giving them a place to spend that eight million dollars that is hanging in the balance and everything else they would bring restoration and Life to a dilapidated facility that's
110on our books taking it off of our books and would just solve so many problems but um but what it really goes back to for me is the needs of those families and those kids and and all the volunteer parents so we have about 400 students at Hooker Oak is that right 350. 300. um we don't have any school facilities that don't have students no you can see the vacancies saying we we saw it we saw it oh yeah we saw all the excess capacity in the middle of town how many empty classes presented that we don't have capacity on the outskirts of town where the development is oh you're talking about on the map on the heat map what you're talking about on the heat map like where facilities are on the chico map
111it is very clear and and leonakis our highly paid Consultants totally agree with me that where we need capacity as a school district is on the outskirts of town where the development is we don't need it in the center of town and that's why leonakis yes recommended and conceptually you're not wrong and I agree with you conceptually until we heard some pretty compelling testimony from the school that was on The Chopping Block to upheave their program months ago and until you have one of the board members who who voted that decision to want to revisit that decision and possibly flip their vote it's not an option to revisit well I think that's very irresponsible of you and um you know you're for you to have that opinion that's fine so before we get any more
112grumpy um I just want to really quick clarify um Julie you said earlier that we had some cushion and some of the uh fixes that need to be done um can still be done and we're not directly and I recognize that there is limited amount of funding and you know there are multiple things we need to do but my understanding is that a lot of those immediate needs like the bathrooms that we talk about fixing up can still be done if we move this to allocate this 10 million this way tonight I'm going to jump in here just for a moment in that I am going to save Julie because we haven't completed the facility master plan yet so I don't think that at this point and correct me if I'm wrong Julie I don't
113think that we can give firm costs for what all of those things are that the board has asked to be done I was just you know make me honest I think we're pretty close on we know that one because that's in the works but we haven't decided what we're doing with Citrus yet must much less how much that's going to cost um you know the safety projects we haven't decided what those are going to be much less how they're going to cost so I think it's unfair to ask Julie what's that dollar figure and I'm not asking for a specific dollar figure I'm honestly just trying to recall to make sure that my recollection of what was said earlier was corrected we have a little bit of a of a cushion remaining in our in
114terms of rough estimates is that what I heard earlier today and again I'm not trying to put you on the spot right I understand that these are all estimates at this point correct um and Kelly is correct that we are still in the thick of cost estimating for our prioritized projects and that plan will come back to the board in September at that time those numbers will be solid thank you just discussion here um as I stated when we were talking about the option with Hooker Oak I mean I I believe we made a commitment to the Inspire school and that's why I was in favor of um what seemed like the responsible option that Julie presented for hooker Oaks so um I'm gonna say go on record and sing I think that remains the
115most financially responsible option I don't typically support ideas that um are spending money that we haven't actually secured in two different ways so it's not even one measure but requires two successful measures that feels uncertain and I think everybody would agree with that from a financial standpoint I'm still actually not clear how I'm going to vote here because I'm someone who stands by commitments and I feel like we did make a commitment to this community and so it feels not right to back out of that or provide a feasible option so I I'm super torn on this and I think yeah I I guess I still would love to revisit the previous option if one other board member would consider that I agree with that in part I don't love any of these options and
116I totally agree that uh spending future money is both really uncomfortable and not a good president set for us um that said um does in the end remain Chico Unified money and we will find a use for these facilities um this money now where to choose to put it is going to serve Chico students um and while it is really uncomfortable to be spending money saying we'll get it back at some point I do think that we have a pretty good commitment from Inspire and we'll bring back some good language in August about how we can protect ourselves in the event of not getting a bond and I think it is to everyone's benefit to figure out a long-term solution for inspire and I'd bring up the the ghost of past decisions doesn't serve a
117lot of purpose and also I mean can you imagine I mean I can't I just can't imagine going back out of nowhere with no warning to tell hooker okay hey just kidding I mean it doesn't seem reasonable plus I disagree with a lot of the the tenants behind that idea that we have to right size um in that particular regard at any rate man I petered out there sorry guys no concluding statement I'm done oh I was not ready for that I still have I did not get to give a point of discussion so I'd like to have my peace thank you um so I I definitely have the same reservations as every board member here has has mentioned some of the same reservations as Mr tennis and and uh Mr Lando and miss konkin
118and Ms Robinson um my my thoughts coming into this were that um it would be more comfortable to me more slightly more fiscally responsible not as as to the extent that you are looking for if if we were to commit to what could be repaid in one Bond cycle it would feel less risky to me um that being said then there would have to be a very concerted effort to to go out to all those other funding sources which could be the Charter Community it could be a philanthrop philanthropic entities but Inspire would have to go and say all right we have this other five million dollars to now fill the Gap in um other Charter Schools could we allocate the next Bond measure based on need rather than straight Ada numbers and maybe the
119charter schools can figure out how to um have a more Equity driven allocation rather than just you know a student by student allocation you know Aspire has a greater need than some of the other Charter Schools do so therefore shouldn't they have a potentially greater share of that pot of money is it just the questions I've been asking myself you know kind of leading into this conversation um so originally I had been thinking more about trying to see if there was an ability to go that direction how to build into an action item or sorry how to build into a motion uh words that did talk about inflationary equivalency for the future possibly interest if that doesn't start to get paid back by a certain you know year and and possibly as Rose mentioned maybe
120they do pay it back sooner than the full two Bond cycles and we somehow write that into an agreement all of those things are very complex and I don't things I mean I know we've already said we can't we can't make that full decision tonight um so anyway I just kind of wanted to put out in the in the universe the things that have been floating in my head lately too because I do I do have that same trepidation because it does feel risky to commit to two potential Bond Cycles assuming that those bonds are successful um that's it's risky um so I just yeah wanted to be able to get that out there point of order um as clerk I'd like to request that the secretary Reed the motion do you want me to
121restate what I said all right so the original motion on the floor was made by board member Lando moved to adopt option number two and temporarily front the money needed to create more space up to 10 million and be reimbursed seconded by dalby and later later clarified to direct staff to return to the August 23rd board meeting with the option to fund the 10 million dollars which was a friendly Amendment to the original motion on the floor so it amounts to staff will come here and present options for funding the 10 million dollars correct so is this a decision to to Grant Inspire 10 million dollars that we're voting on right now or to forward or front shall we say um a Inspire 10 million dollars I think the in if I understood Mr Lando
122correctly is that the board is inconsensus that that's what they want to do but before making that decision they want specific information so direct staff to bring forward the board to the board options for funding the 10 million so to further the project at Canyon View this motion is to direct staff to bring options for funding the 10 million correct but to be clear we are not funding the 10 million at this moment is that correct Madam superintendent well I think that's a question the Board needs to answer the way I phrased it you would be bringing we would be bringing you the information you needed in order to then vote at the August 23rd meeting okay well as clerk I will say that in order for me to sign this this thing it will
123need to be abundantly clear whether we are or are not at this moment allocating 10 million dollars to inspire I will not I will not sign a a a nebulous document that maybe is US allocating 10 million dollars or maybe not are we are we looking at are we directing staff to bring options or are we actually funding Canyon View my understanding is that Mr Orlando's motion is to approve up to the 10 million dollars to be fronted for inspire and that staff would be coming back in August with options for um the the conditions around how that will then be repaid and how it will be or paid out and repaid that wasn't my understanding but the Board needs to make clear what their intent was my understanding is we've been bringing it back
124so you knew what you were voting for and so Inspire knew the obligations that we were voting for so if I may my intent with the motion is um I just couldn't think of the words at the time an agreement in principle that we recognize that the end result we want to sign off on allocates up to 10 million to the development of the Fremont site with the intention that it will be used by inspire so that's the agreement in principle and then we want to see exactly what those numbers look like design off on it would seem to inspire would want to know those conditions too yeah that's Again part of the reason I think we need between now and the August meeting to make sure that everybody sounds like what I need clarification
125on then is is does this does this leave open the opportunity to to not approve it at all you're saying adopt option two but then what I'm hearing is we're asking for more information and how to adopt option two I'm saying we adopt option two and we say yes that's what we're doing but the details need to be filled in still so when you talk about what are the options for repayment or refunding that needs to be unified by Logic unified and Inspire that both parties agree to that so would it be more useful for the rest of my colleagues up here if the motion were something like directing staff to work with Inspire to present us with options for allocating that 10 million at the August 22nd meeting because on I'll be honest I
126don't care exactly what the word in this particular motion is I just want to make clear that of these option two is the least worst option and we'd like to see a contract about it at the next meeting right so back to Mr tennis's Question he wouldn't be signing something tonight that says we are fronting 10 million dollars to inspire I mean it's all our money regardless so no sorry um I mean look until the money is you know spent or a contract assigned we can always turn around and say hey no we didn't want to do that so yes I guess that's technically correct but I also expect that if we all sign off on this if this motion passes the understanding is by the end of next meeting we'll have some kind of
127an agreement we'll have a we'll have a draft agreement to then propose to inspire I mean sure we could always say say no at the last minute we'd have options to select from I'd like to add just a minor um I don't know if it would be an amendment or how it would be said but it would be additional Direction um to include an option for the half the half amount and what it would look like just with one Bond cycle and and really asking Inspire to figure out the other the other half so we're only committing to the risk of one Bond cycle to be repaid rather than two I'd I'd support asking that as one of the options that staff brings back to us okay I would maybe propose a re-articulation of this
128motion yeah um and this won't change my vote by the way but um the board intends to fully fund Canyon View the such and such what's the other word for it inspires calling it the Fremont Street project Fremont Street project pending ultimate approval of fill in the blank Jacqueline um contract of D of details of option of an options contract maybe repayment options approval of repayment options still at the um August 23rd 23rd I still think the uh board meeting do we mean is it was your intention to not include the up to 10 million dollar Language by just saying fully funding funding fund uh to fund the Fremont Street project up to 10 million dollars pending ultimate approval of repayment options at the board's August 23rd meeting Mr Lindo do you want to reread
129that and make sure that's yeah yeah we should make sure that um Mr Orlando agrees that that fulfills the intent because I have been yes I definitely needed a succinct motion because I'm my brain's starting to hurt from all of the semantics the board intends to fund the Fremont Street project up to 10 million dollars pending ultimate approval of repayment options at the cusd school boards August 23rd board meeting yes I'm sorry that's more or less what I have yeah um see I have something like Chico Unified intends to provide the funding up to 10 million for the development of Canyon View site with the understanding that it will be used by inspire High School and the understanding Inspire will repay any of those funds used under terms to be decided based on staff options
130and discussions with inspire that's too wordy it's not clear I mean it's just got to say that that you know we intend this this is an intent yes this is an intent so read yours again this is not this is not you know not a contract you know it's not a guarantee this is um this is a and the intent of the board majority so we read yours again sure thank you the board intends to fund the Fremont Street project up to 10 million dollars pending ultimate approval of repayment options at the cusd school board's August 23rd board meeting yeah that'll do okay okay I mean we're recording for a reason Eric we're going to call it a friendly Amendment yeah to the original motion um any other further questions discussion items were you ready
131to vote all right um Mr Lando we'll start with you voting no now just messed that but no I wait which is it aye Lando yes uh tennis Nay it's all B yes Robinson I can't name okay thanks everybody that wasn't quite as painful as it sounded I promise thank you for all your input looking forward to the August 23rd meeting to see the details of how this partnership might pan out and that we spend July enjoying the summer time and letting our years keep rolling on how we can make sure that Inspire has a bright future over at Canyon View slash Fremont Street I think on top of that I would like to Thank The Inspired Community for their advocacy and staff for working with them and for putting up with all of this
132us while we do this um it's been a long road and we're it's still going but thank you all very much for your participation in the process I would like to add too that I'm excited for you guys I think it's a great opportunity I was super torn and I think when it came down to it um as a board representative representing Chico Unified I just felt where that's where my loyalty had to lie in regards to voting and I was pretty sure it was headed that way anyway in your in your favor um with that I'm going to call for a 15-minute recess am I supposed to have a lot on recess we're ready okay all right we are returning from our break we just took action on item 4.1 um for inspire School
133of Arts and Sciences we are moving on to um number five discussion action calendar starting with Educational Services 5.1.1 discussion action draft 2023-2024 local control accountability plan l cap good evening tonight we bring the lcap to you in we have some slight changes that we'll talk about we'll but we'll be asking for approval of our ocap tonight as from the version that we shared last week um at the public hearing following that that meeting we have heard from the county who reviewed our lcap actually a little bit early and they had some very minor changes for compliance reasons for us to make so Tina and I just wanted to give you a broad overview because really all these changes are very minor superficial and inconsequential to the meat of the lcap which is the actions
134and services and metrics so I'm going to let Tina start off thank you good evening yes as Tim mentioned a couple of those things one of them lies in goal four we were asked to put the homeless liaison into goal four even though we don't fund her out of lcap and which is why she was let out can you reference a page goal four will be on page oh yeah and we have not made the changes yet just yeah we didn't want to make any changes from what you have seen so when we asked for approval tonight it will be with these changes as part of it so wanting to include Jamie McLaughlin our liaison in in that Gulf War and um some more descriptions about reading Specialists and professional development that they will offer
135for us and a foster youth data analysis system that we're looking at they would also like to have that into goal for instead of the homeless Foster Grant Tim changes recommended for the lcap under increased and improved services but really the addition of a single sentence to the narratives for each action or many actions not all actions asking for a statement of what metric we'll be using so we simply restated the goal statements from the metric session sections under each goal also there was a few that we had to call out certain student groups to identify need a little bit more clearer and that was all an increased and improved services so with that and then I realized that's an overview of the changes but it's very much minutiae uh with the changes that we
136kind of gave you an overview of we're asking for approval of the 24 or 23 24 l cap and this is year three of a three-year cycle okay thank you so when we approve it do we approve it as another three-year plan or is this just for the 23-24 year thank you I move approval if you did you say you were ready for a nope oh then I don't move approval are there any other questions for clarification do we have public comment on the lcap tonight and none from the audience okay now that we've gone through our order I'll take a motion I move approval of the 23 24 lcap with the noted adjustments changes suggested by the county Butte County Office of Education all right we have a motion for approval with the changes
137from Member Robinson and a second by Mr member Lando and I will uh open for discussion I'm just going to say thank you again and I appreciated the the time you took to spend orienting me on on this and uh noting to the I don't envy you if they're going to change the templates like we're hearing they're going to so next year's won't look a whole lot like this year's that could be a great thing yes thank you for all of the work and time and energy you put into everything that goes along with this document including all of the Outreach and Communications with students and staff and families and community members yep that what you just said reminds me that the the recap of the input from all of the groups that meant to
138contribute to this was really helpful I read every bit of it and that was really helpful and showed just how engaged our school public is in not only the targeted case managers and site staffs getting their parents to these meetings but when they show up they're really engaged in taking a deep dive into sharing what they feel is working and and very honestly sharing what they feel is not working thank you it is a work in progress and I have to mention Elaine again because she's sitting standing and sitting right next to me here she's a part of that process as well throughout the year all right see no further discussion um we will start with uh member Robinson Robinson I konk and I land away Dolby I didn't miss it passes thank you so
139much thank you onward and upward uh next is 5.1.2 informational item California school dashboard local indicators with Tim Carris yeah per uh state law we are required each year to bring you our local indicators that will be featured on our state dashboard in December of 2023. um local indicators are essentially um it's essentially a variety of self-reflection tools for various lcff priorities that all districts in California are required to to do um it's It's Kind of a Funny requirement in that we are required to self-reflect there's no um by just by the simple fact that we self-reflected we have met all of the priorities that will be shown on the dashboard and it's really a very small portion of the dashboards that's a little bit hidden on the bottom of the of the landing page
140for each district in site so we're required to self-reflect on the implementation of standards for example facilities safe and clean functional school facilities parent and family engagement School climate and access to a broad range of courses and District staff Med and discussed all those completed the self-reflection tool that was included in this agenda item and we have met all indicators any questions from the board technical questions yes sorry just because going through here it stands out what are your concerns over to our concern to staff regarding the Next Generation science standards which were the only place we rated ourselves less than a four correct um I believe later later this meeting will be bringing curriculum for your approval for the high schools oh got improved in consent sorry so that that's why so we're just
141we didn't have the upper curriculum correct thank you any other questions it doesn't look like it all right thank you so much thank you um I don't know that we have any public comment on this and so if there is a additional that haven't signed up um so if since there's not it's informational only and we can move to our next item thank you thank you all right moving into business services uh 5.2.1 is a discussion action item it's authorization of build sorry design build construction delivery method resolution 1613-23 presented by Julie Kissel hi thank you um I have Vince and Cerro here from nutrition services as my partner on this item tonight moral support so this is a resolution bringing forward for the board's adoption for the design build construction delivery method in the
142resolution it says that the district has examined the various construction delivery methods that are available for use by K-12 public schools and we have done so we have not performed a design build project within the district before but given the specific nature of this particular project it is on city property so it's under the purview of the city of Chico instead of the division of the state architect this will be a freezer cooler building added on to the bakery out of the corporation yard and Vince is here to just give you a little description of why it's needed so I'll just let him tell you about that real quick so our walk-in coolers that we have out at the out of the courtyard have been there I believe 35 years so the district was much
143smaller back then we've grown considerably they have cost us quite a bit of money in the past five or six years and we've been looking at different options on how to repair them or replace them with the growth that we've had in the past five years we've got to the point now where we've had to rent a portable freezer out at the courtyard to be able to hold all the products that we have so with this we've gone and looked at the best option delivery wise how we can get deliveries in that doesn't impact Transportation as well as the the warehouse the building itself and so we're hoping to get approval for a walk-in cooler freezer combination that will run alongside of the bakery where the current ones are at right now that will be
144removed it will go too high so we'll be able to put pallets like at Costco you can go too high up there instead of single single height force and it'll allow us to be more efficient in what we're doing as far as getting product in and out give us better buying power for those refrigerated and Frozen items so yeah any questions on that truly you said it's on city property I thought well it's I'm sorry it's Chico Unified property but it's it's not a school so it's not under the purview of the division of the state architect yeah the plans that are developed will actually go through the city of Chico's building department for review and approval okay the unique nature of this design um really means that a design build construction delivery method is
145suitable because we'll bring in someone who specializes in this sort of facility to design it and build it and we'll have a guaranteed maximum price to bring back to the board for review and approval once we receive that so the one thing we're asking is that you adopt that delivery method tonight as well as the request for qualifications and the requests for proposals process that we will go through in order to develop that and bring it back to you for a review and approval Vince um you've been pushing out trying to do more on-site um cooking rather than just warming this will really help with that won't it coming down this route is because we don't want to do the traditional aluminum foam walk-ins they don't they're not as efficient and so Julie's had some
146experience with some builders that have done it a different different non-traditional way so it will be 50 years hopefully 60 or 70 years down the road before it needs to be updated or repaired fantastic building rather than a portable portable freezer fantastic okay so we're asking the board to adopt the resolution 1613-2-3 this evening turn my button off so seeing no additional questions for clarification as well as no public comment on this item I can call for a motion I will move adoption of resolution 1613-23 I'll second that motion motion remember Lando in a second by uh member Robinson our last vote was unanimous so all those in favor of adopting this resolution please signify by saying aye aye opposed okay it's unanimous thank you yeah good luck with the uh with the process um
147okay next item is 5.2.2 it's a discussion action item on the 2023-24 original budget presented by Jacqueline Krueger yes good evening board um before you this evening is for approval of the 2324 original budget I had two of my amazing colleagues here last week to present the details there's been no changes so the presentation of the financial stay as standing from last Wednesday is there any further questions from the board regarding next year's budget I will say we're very close to assigned state budget we're hoping to have that by Friday I did see a csb article this morning that they are very close in getting fairly finalized um negotiations between the state legislature and the governor but I wouldn't be surprised if we don't have a signed budget till Friday and things are relatively looking
148positive for what we've been what we've been projecting correct um fully funded Cola it appears that 8.22 and the reduction to the two one-time block grant monies are going to be less than anticipated that may revise awesome that's good news for schools yeah yeah it was the reduction in the reductions in the block grant in that uh I was really pleased about and yeah I think we're going to get it signed Friday all right so see no further questions for clarification no public comment on approving next year's budget I'll call for a motion I'll move approval awesome talking all right Dolby uh sets the motion and uh member Orlando seconds um all those in favor wait sorry discussion none all those in favor aye it's unanimous once again I already said that I said see
149no public comment and scanned and then I moved on I'm getting better thank you well it comes and goes I'm sometimes better and sometimes much worse um 5.2.3 discussion action 23 24 education protection account yes so the EPA money or education protection act money was voted by the voters in 2012. it's not new money to the district I just want to reiterate that every year so basically there are three funding mechanisms for local control funding formula or basically the money that funds our average daily attendance so property taxes is always first and then there's state aid and then this education protection act so these dollars go to fund teacher salaries so they don't go for administrative purposes in any way and the estimate for next year based on our Ada is just over 23 million
150so the disclosure and approval of this evening is to acknowledge that those dollars are spent on teacher salaries I have a question for clarification is EPA supposed to be for Education protection act or account the acronym itself is a count but it was an act that was approved by the voters in 2012. I thought I misspoke for a second and then I re-read my paper um there's just just for my own clarification uh any other further questions again just for clarification you said 23 million or sorry 29 million okay yes thank you so 29.7ish that's on the papers that is correct thank you yeah seeing no further questions for clarification from the board and no public comment I'll ask for the motion so moved okay we have a motion by Mr Orlando and a second
151by Ms Robinson uh all those in favor please uh seeing no discussion Wanted let's uh vote with a Voice vote all those in favor to say aye aye opposed it's unanimous next item is 5.2.4 discussion action 23 24 original budget reserves disclosure yeah so every year when we come forward with our original budget the state does require that if a district has a reserve greater than three percent which is the minimum that a district our size is required to have that we must disclose that to the public and to our board on how those dollars will be spent so this is different than the 10 Reserve cap that is currently in place related to the state budget so this evening we have that in front of you so the three percent Reserve is 6.3 million
152so we have 12.4 million dollars more than that which the board has already taken action to set aside an additional two percent Reserve as well as the one-time money from 1819. we do have some e-rate carryover which is associated with our I.T Department and then the remaining Reserve is really just about cash volatility attendance volatility in our special ed basically program costs as well the uncertainty of what may be coming down the future and negotiations let me put that in there as well do we have any questions of clarification public comment uh call the motion I'm of approval of the um okay budget minimum recommended reserves report well 2324 original budget reserves disclosure thank you you're welcome Oh seconded by kanken gotcha um any further discussion all those in favor it's unanimous thank you for
153approval moving on 5.2.5 discussion action ab2756 public disclosure documents for compensation agreement with the Chico Unified Teachers Association couta that was a mouthful thank you you should have heard last meeting so before you this evening is what we call an av-2756 disclosure and it is acknowledgment to our community and to our board the financial impact of any sort of tentative agreement that the district would enter into with any bargaining units so later in the agenda Jim Hammond will be bringing forward tentative agreements related to Ceta so before you is the financial impact so the tricky part here is our tentative agreement is based on a formula that we will establish in September but because the TA is being ratified tonight pending board approval we have to do a financial disclosure so I estimated given the
154point in time what the financial impact would be and so that's what's before you in the disclosure so basically it would be a compensation increase for Cota which means both salary and Health and Welfare benefits a 6.08 percent and that is inclusionary of a settle up for the current year 2223 as well as the formula based in 2324. so for cuta that would cost roughly 5.6 million dollars can you clarify the relationship that this has we did approve a sizable increase last year this increases for the 23-24 school year and we did have an increase in 22 23. I want to say it was 7.02 and so this is an additional six percent raise any other questions I'll just announce so I'm going to be opposing this just because of the financial uncertainties of possibly
155impending recession for the district I'm going to be voting no are there any other further questions for clarification from Jaclyn nope Jacqueline this follows the same I mean it essentially follows the same formula that has been used in the past recently about 70 of it is a similar there's a few carve outs on it but conceptually it's very similar to the prior three-year agreement we had and so is it yeah I guess I don't really have too much of a question on this I uh I was trying to see if there's a way to ask a question to kind of clarify for anybody that might be having reservations about providing a raise to staff the previous years it's tied to enrollment and this one is to average daily attendance so it's tied to the actual
156dollars you're receiving from the state I would remind because I hear your concern I would remind you there are years when the formula provides a zero Cola so sometimes we have feast and famine on these we've had two back to back years that are that are Feast obviously but the projections on the out years on this are not nearly as as generous so it kind of you hit the feast and failing on yourself but the formula is tied to correct those swings so that protects the district when the state budget is not so good so part of the formula that we talked about in negotiations was um because we're now tying it to New dollars coming into the district there was concern a couple months ago about the governor not fully right so if you
157just use the cola percentage or or a portion of cola then that doesn't affect your real dollars but if you're talking about real dollars and if coal is fully funded or not fully funded that impacts those dollars so let's say between now and Friday the governor comes in and says we're only going to fund five percent of the the 8.22 then the total dollars available to Chico Unified would go down and that then would reduce this so it does provide a protection mechanism so in your opinion as our lead Financial person is this a fiscally sound uh way to go forward I believe so yes I think it's in the interest [Music] that deserves as well and the impact would cause us to deficit spend next year and the impact of not not having this
158increase may be a loss in staff or in increased difficulties in recruiting new staff that's definitely a component of retaining existing staff as well as recruiting future stuff this Jim did you want to speak to that yeah I just wanted to say yeah if we don't stay up with salaries with competing districts other districts in the area it's very difficult to catch up because the dollars don't come to us every year so when they do come to us we want to make sure because other districts are doing the same they're they're trying to attract qualified staff and it's getting more and more difficult especially in math science special ed speech therapists psychologists nurses all of those are very difficult to get and just to clarify again what we're observing with this motion is the County's
159dis agreement that we can afford the the tentative agreement that we're about to consider approving yes thank you you're proving as a board that we have the financial resource research that's under Jim's section in the agenda all right thank you I appreciate the uh the Adaptive formula it's it's pretty fancy the other thing I do probably maybe I'm speaking a little soon before I get to my part but with it connected to average daily attendance for example attendance went way down during covet and so even though the dollars were flowing in at the cola rate we get fewer dollars kids weren't showing up so that impact is reflected in the formula also so if we are not getting the dollars from the state then they don't flow out into salaries all right thank you okay
160seeing no additional uh questions for clarification um nor public comment on this item I will call for a motion I move approval uh no I'm of acceptance of the public disclosure form and a second by member konkin all right so you have a motion to to move this item and a whatever you said I know what you said um and a second from member konkin um where were unanimous last vote Yes it's been more than five minutes and now I can't remember look at that um okay uh no further discussion those in favor please say aye aye opposed okay it's unanimous thank you folks um all right we're moving on to 5.2.6 um discussion action a b 2756 public disclosure documents for compensation agreement with the Chico Unified management association Cuma while the management group
161isn't a bargaining unit they are a group that does have a financial impact on on this on the district's budget so we do also have to do a maybe 2756 disclosure the formula is the exact same however the kuma group has decided and voted to put all available dollars on the salary schedule and zero increase to the district's contribution for Health and Welfare which is very similar to what they've done in Prior years so the estimate right now would be a 6.6 percent increase on the salary schedule because there'd be zero dollars going towards Health and Welfare so as those as those premiums increase the employee would bear that additional cost but fundamentally it's the same dollars that would be allocated at the 6.08 percent do we have any questions for the board all right
162I'm seeing no additional questions or public comment I'll call for a motion I move approval of the acceptance of the compensation disclosure form for Kuma I'll second so we have a motion by member Robinson and a second by dalby um any further discussion all those in favor aye all right all right um moving to Human Resources 5.3.1 is discussion action board approval of Chico Unified Teachers Association tentative agreement okay as promised I'm bringing to you the tentative agreement for the Chico Unified Teachers Association uh Jaclyn kind of went over the the formulas we talked about that nothing new from the summary I've sent out to you prior and what we've talked about in closed session regarding negotiations they did pass 38 330 to 9 out of 760 members so it was overwhelmingly accepted I will
163just give a give you a little history this is our third three-year agreement so Jackson said correctly that we're this is about 70 or 80 percent of it is similar language we have fine-tuned it over the years and we believe this is the best language yet that protects the district and the concerns that you've expressed and um recommend adopting this or approving the standard of agreement questions all right see no further questions um or public comment um I will call for the motion I move approval of the tentative agreement between cuta and Chico Unified seconded we have a motion by Robinson and a second by Lando all those in discussion okay all those in favor aye opposed uh unanimous uh we'll move to 5.3.2 which is the same board approval of chica unified um sorry
164of the of the agreement but with Chico Unified management association I tried to like shorten it made it longer sorry okay so this is the agreement with Kuma it's not negotiated we don't negotiate with Kuma but the district has a long-standing history of of essentially providing to management the same that they to provide to the employee groups we will be bringing or John Shepard will be bringing the CSEA agreement forward in September when when csca votes they are not going to over the summer so that will be coming forward and it's the same language again with the exception that as Jaclyn explained as far as the benefits all it will go into salary schedule for Kuma rather than in nothing on the benefit side but otherwise it's the same there are no additional language it's
165only salary all right no questions and no public comment we will move for a motion I move approval of the agreement with the Chico Unified Management Association second okay we have a motion by Robinson in a second by konkin any further discussion all those in favor aye uh unanimous once again thanks everybody um and with that I think that was Jim's last Open Session item I don't know if he's listening to me oh oh he's looking I have to pull something from the agenda so I'm it's not quite the end oh man I thought we were done with you it's a board it's a board policy so I thought we'd never have to listen to you drone on ever again and now here we are geez I'll explain it when we get there all right
166all right I've been waiting all night for that you took it away from me all right uh we're gonna move forward with uh our board member items our board items 5.4.1 discussion action public employment assistant superintendent for business services well as the forge is aware we have an outstanding assistant superintendent for business and they are very difficult to find so in front of you is a contract that extends her contract by one additional year so it would move it to be July 1 2023 through June 30th 2020 that's the only change so what do you think Miss Krueger sound financial move for us thank you that was great Eddie any other questions public comment I move approval thank you I'll second that motion all right we have a motion uh by Mr tennis and a
167second by Miss Lando any further discussion oh man I said Miss Lando Ms Robinson wow wow I'm gonna stand up Lando moved so tennis moved oh tennis move tennis moved Robin's a second I need to stretch my legs out I'm sorry I gotta get my blood flowing a little bit better um all those in favor aye aye all right you're with us for a whole other another next year additional year woohoo needs like a adjustable standing desk up here maybe uh 5.4.2 discussion action approval of revised slash updated Slash new board policies so the board was presented with several policy revisions as well as two new board policies we have not heard of any recommended changes or suggestions to these so um unless there are some we would take them oh there's Mr Hamlin who
168invited you back I know I have to pull board policy 4119.20 I'm going to fall on the sword on this I inadvertently sent you a draft of the administrative regulation and not the board policy so it's going to have to be brought to you at the next time we bring board policies to the board he's creating more work for Mr Shepard so I mislabeled them I switched them and so anyway we have we have to pull it so that what you're reading is actually the administrative regulation draft and not work policies senile moment yeah we'll bring it next time it's I just needed to leave something for John Shepard to do because otherwise the work is all done yeah the work is done here yeah I've got a question and I'm sorry I just looked
169at this shortly before coming to the meeting but zero four six zero this is the local control and accountability plan there's new language in here that says um unless the district has an established student Advisory Group beginning July 1st 2024 two students shall be included as members of the parent advisory committee students Shall Serve for a renewable term of one full school year student members of the parent advisory committee or the student advisory committee shall represent the diversity of the district students in particular efforts they'll be made to reach out to at-risk or disadvantaged students to serve as members of such committees where did this language come from oh hi hi yeah we do have two additions to that have been suggested for that from Ed code and one is what you read and another
170one is to have more information from the idea plan the special ed plan to go into lcap as well okay and I'm going to add here while they put this in we really hadn't already been doing this only to a much higher degree we go out and we meet with students from every School site and get input from our students already so I feel like the state was kind of saying hey that was a good thing you're doing and made it permanent but it's not that we weren't already hearing from students now it's formalized yeah I think it's absurd to have students on a parent advisory committee like that at all so I'll be voting no on that what would it take to establish a student Advisory Group as an alternative so we do have
171student groups that advise to the lcap already yeah but and but do those meet whatever qualifications State wants us to call a student advisor group yes they're a very diverse group of students well for sure I've done exactly what the state language wants to look like you County Office event it has approved our parent meetings as a parent advisory group and our student meetings as of the student Advisory Group so it sounds like your Mr tennis's concern is moot because we are meeting the first criteria of having two advisory groups rather than having students on the parent group they're they're welcome as is any Community member and we have had some come to to General meetings to community meetings to parent meetings we've had some students come and and share their thoughts and and what's
172working and and what needs to be considered students are always welcome thank you so we can approve these as a whole if there is a motion to approve um all of the board revisions with the exception of the one that was pulled by Mr Hamlin are we at that stated yet um if there are no further questions of clarification from board members from staff of board members from stuff we do have public content I'm getting there thank you don't jump ahead of me in my order okay I don't think that person's here anymore we have um we have Michelle Cooper signed up for a public comment on this oh maybe that is Michelle Cooper well I'm a little bummed that you pulled that item Mr Hanlon because I really liked it and um I was
173gonna speak on that um I'm actually I was really I'm really pleased with a lot of this stuff I read through the mall and um I it's like something I can agree with and so I wanted to come and say I'm not always here to complain um the one thing I thought maybe if it's going to come back that we could add in is language that states um American flags and California flags are the only Flags flown on District properties in um to go along with the language of you know no political Flags etc etc on that one but I did also want to speak on 6164.2 um on number one item number one I'm I'm a little nervous about some of the language in that item um particularly using terms like Community partner I
174think it seems Broad and I was wondering if that could be defined to what that means and would the board be approving a list of Community Partners for the staff to use um it just seems like that without proper definition this could be left open to interpretation by staff and counselors and I highly caution against that I think that's opening a door that would be very hard to close so those were my comments on this item and thank you which number was that um 6164.2 thank you do we have additional public comment no okay um I will call for board action at this time all of these but the one that Jim Hanlon pulled or it's already it's pulled no need to articulate that or it's off so it's pulled um I would um agree
175with Miss Cooper I would ask that we sort of table six one six four point two until the next go around for further consideration so sorry can I is your motion to approve all of these board policy updates sorry so I'll just pull one too because I can do that too right yep I'll just pull it I'll just six one six four point two for a separate consideration yeah for separate consideration and the same please for uh the lcap one that I mentioned earlier uh zero four six zero for separate consideration and I'll move the rest yeah I hope that's okay I'm kind of making that as a executive decision like we treat it kind of like a consent calendar where we can just pull pull them for a separate consideration okay uh we don't
176need action to do that okay thank you um okay so we have a motion to approve all the board policies listed um with the exception of considering those two policies separately that's zero four six zero and six one six four point two second thank you so the motion was from Mr tennis the second is from Miss konkin um discussion board seeing none uh we could do a Voice vote I think we were unanimous last time all those in favor all right that is unanimous um let's move to zero four six zero so I think that the probably the the best way forward would be to make a motion to approve it or not approve it or approve it with specific changes that any anybody who is making the motion would like to see or or
177table it for future consideration but I would want staff input on on that I don't see the lcap one what was the number again zero four oh there it is thank you okay I'll move approval but strip out the paragraph um straddling I think it's page three and Page four that says that uh unless the district has an established student Advisory Group beginning July 1 2024 because we already have a student advisor group and we're doing a lot of work to reach those people so I would mass that we strip it out and pass it edited form I will say and it was mentioned before that those additions are according to Ed code um so I'm not a liberty to take that out from my understanding yep it could 52.63 I agree with you it
178does say in other words what we already have and when I sat back down I did think too you know our site councils also include at the high school level they include students on them um so can you say that again the state councils do include students a couple of students and that's statute as well psych councils but is that a parent advisory committee that involves students is it called a parent's advisory committee no it's a school site advisory committee it has staff it has certificated classified parents and students but it does approve the expenditure of dollars I'm reading the education I'm reading the Edward I'm reading the Ed code right now sorry okay we can certainly take it out however it doesn't mean we don't have to follow it because it is law we've
179heard that we've heard that before and it does put us at that risk not in our board policies and get down the road and there's a whole new group of people you know it does help to have a clear in it or policy that's it lcap changes frequently yeah that's for sure I have some input um I've been on um I comment discussion wait we do have a motion in a second on this one I'm sorry I'm just yeah that's okay you're you're excused um I've been I've participated in both a um site Council and um the the other um parent advisory committees that have students present and um the student input and I think we saw this at csba last year was probably the most valuable of any of the inputs getting the perspective
180of the students that were not only receiving the education but trying to provide input on how it could be improved was invaluable the student input is just I think we're crazy if we don't not only don't have it but increase it because I just want to clarify we currently do not have a motion on this I think Matt you stated you wanted to pull it which we did was it a motion to take the language out if so we just didn't capture that yeah I move we take that language out thank you Erica thanks you so the motion is to approve this board policy update with the language referencing students being included on a parent advisory committee yes is there a second I just don't see it in Ed code about the me either about
181the students being required to join I mean I'll take all the student input that they're willing to give personally so I don't have any problem with this board policy as written or updated I'm just not seeing student mentioned in that particular Ed code language 52063 yeah I mean 52063 definitely covers lcap you know input mechanisms it may not be in there yet because it does say beginning July 1st 2024 maybe if you're looking at the actual Ed code that's the only thing I can think of why it might not be there since but I certainly don't know that for certain and so these did these updates they came like they typically do like from csba because they're following the the incoming uh updates to that code okay correct so we can certainly bring it back
182along with the one that Jim Hanlon is going to have John Shepherd bring back we could bring this back again and make sure we have all the full Ed code to show with it if that's preferable I'll revise my motion to to say that we should do that so we're just taking it on hold and I think in that case we don't necessarily need to take full board action to to do that or yeah or do we I would I don't I agree with you I don't think we do but um I think that uh if we're getting legal guidance from csba I think that staff should be clear when they can be that it's legal guidance not just sit over there and say oh it's in Ed code you know if it's not right
183they're being told us that they're being told by csva that this is in Ed code for that starting that date so it might not be in the documents that we're looking up now we would have to get that correct that that language from the legislature basically much like the one on the first page for the uh idea the the students disability idea that the individual with disabilities Education Act addendum that says it's starting July 1st 2025 that it has to be included so while I have not looked at that Ed code in its entirety it may not that particular one may not be written in there yet either but we can certainly look at it good job we can bring back with the language after those dead codes come in place in 24 of July
18424 and then one the other one in 25 too they don't need to go into board policy until but but well there are other updates in that part policy that we do need to approve that is true so let's actually I would prefer to um to move move into having Mr tennis make a motion about how he wants to see this play out if he really wants to remove the language from that one part of this one policy I think that it it would need to be approved by the full board sure I'll make that motion so the motion is to bring it back oh sorry okay the motion is to strike that language out of the proposed board policy and and pass it as amended gotcha yeah I sure we don't need to argue
185about it yeah no I I think I don't like it yeah what I was looking for I think was um was a motion to bring it back yeah I mean I would just say this um uh hey what's wrong with having a parent's advisory committee you know you just have a parent's advisory committee and and you don't need to have students in it so that's my philosophy and so so that's my motion and you guys are all free to disagree I'm just here to follow the law so uh we don't have a second on anything right now um I'm gonna I'm gonna move that we approve this as written um I'll second that motion now can I discuss it um I think we can do both again since we already have student advisory groups can
186we just put in the section the Border policy instead that we will as a policy always maintain student advisory groups that we meet the letter of the law and the language you don't like is gone if I understood you correctly sure yeah I'll agree to that so so we'll put in there this thing has two Clauses right either we have student advisory groups by July 20th 24 or we have to have members student members on the parent advisor committee and the goal is clearly to get student input okay so if we just say we're always going to have student advisory committees starting that date and in perpetuity then we should be covered am I wrong crazy both is there any reason to think that we would never have a student advisory committee but we put
187it in policy that's there we're covered in terms of having this so in the policy we would say in order to meet this requirement should go unified will established student advisories okay um so I'm going to retract my emotion and I'm going to move that um I dang it I wanna I would like to see it before we approve it so I don't want to just say with those changes we'll approve it I wanted to come back with the changes before we approve it um so is there any motion that I could make that would help you like maybe we'll put this off for we'll Kick the Can here for what a month two months we can bring it back in July no not July we don't have a meeting in July August I'm willing
188to make that that motion Ms Dolby so my understanding is that the substitute motion here is that we delay this until our next meeting in expectation of seeing language about having student groups okay for sure all right let's do that what he said okay all right um could I clarify your intent is not to exclude students from the parent advisory committee that that's still available to them no we're going to fulfill the law if I don't want to speak for Mr Lando we're going to fulfill the law by having a student Advisory Group so that we don't have to put students on the parent advisory grooming well then I don't agree with that because I think the student should be on everything why would you want to have a student some on a parent's Advisory
189Group I mean well that that would be because it's part of the law that's where that's where the law part comes in um all those in favor of bringing this back with a slightly different language to take another look at it in August visit us right okay signified by saying aye all right all right sorry about Valentina that's okay I I just uh well it's all good okay [Laughter] we'll let it rest for a month sorry well she's going to have to work on it before our meeting and then six one six four point two lcap uh no let's see what was this oh yes I just think I I appreciate Miss Cooper's comments and I propose that we put this one off for two months as well so we can study it harder and
190maybe try to come up with some alternative language or can I just get clarification was it number one or number four we're number one okay so that's what I just want to make sure that that's what we're looking at at bringing a new language I believe it's in both also because I think number one is I think what you're talking about I don't want to put words is is um regarding public and private community services and number four would be um other people Personnel Services professional families Community Partners and Community agencies right okay I mean we can we can bring back are there are there I was going to ask staff is there any implication of postponing adopting this now versus in August um I mean that's that would be my first concern is if
191there's anything that's needed for the only thing we're going to want to do is after this board policy gets approved is going to be able to go over the board policy and the AR with our counselors right so the counselors won't be starting the school year off with the updated board policy and AR if for two days if we were to push it to the August 23rd my two days a week and have a counseling DLC meeting shortly after and uh so I guess okay that's I think that's all the clarification I I questions I have made it possible like if we could have the board take a look at one and four and give us suggestions possibly on on changes so we're not possibly not doing it on August 20 actually at the board
192meeting I guess yeah it sounds to me like the concern is that there's that the engaging with advocating for um and providing all students with Direct Services such as Individual Counseling group counseling risk assessment crisis response and instructional services including mental health and behavioral academic and post-secondary educational services and indirect services including but not limited to positive School climate strategies teacher and parent consultations and information regarding public and private Community Services the concern is the vagueness of um public and private Community Services because I sometimes when somebody doesn't will will they might get varies an example would be a family that doesn't qualify for medical so we might give them a list of private counts outside counseling services that they could get a hold of so they're not a families not searching for something like
193that we have a list of people who provide accounts we're not choosing a counseling service outside for them we just say here's ones in town that you can contact yourself if I don't know if you're wanting us to come to every approval of every thing that we put on a sheet that's what you guys would have yeah I I'm just trying to clarify or get get clarification on what what maybe so that's what I'm saying if you guys could take a look at those and maybe give those suggestions and what if there is any changes what would those might be I don't have a Broadway at right now because I know that we need to expand what's available to our families at this point yeah well I was personally and everybody else obviously can also
194jump in I had of some version of emotion maybe I didn't frame it properly but I I moved that we put this off until August with the expectation that we interested board members such as myself in consultation with the community might put forward some alternative language to put a a finer point on what sort of ground rules there may be for for Partnerships with outside organizations my second you also made a comment about the flag is that in relation to this as well that was different okay sorry it was a motion it's good yeah we're in discussion now okay there's is may I discuss what was the question can we recognized no I didn't I just asked the miraculous foreign oh just please speak well you know it's quiet just talk don't say that to
195me if I'm staring at my screen it's because I'm thinking of things gotta jump in um point is I um gonna vote against this I believe we should adopt this board policy as it stands uh pretty so for a couple reasons one this gives latitude to our guidance counselors to do their jobs as they see they are professionals uh aspersions in the media and other work to the contrary this is pretty much a way to try I mean we have seen a lot of attacks on some of our local agencies that provide Mental Health Services to various groups I don't want to prolong the um need to have fights about those groups I think if there are people out there that provide services we should trust our counselors to find the ones that fit with
196our kids best and that's exactly what the board policy gives them latitude to do yeah we're in a discussion I I agree with what Mr Lando just said hmm I think out of respect for the community that not just um Miss Cooper who's represented here but others who I believe feel the same way I think we should allow for opportunity to look at alternative language call the question all right all those in favor of um postponing this to the next meeting signify actually I'm going to do a voicemail because I already know that we're not going to all be unanimous so let's go ahead and start with um Mr tennis this is in favor of postponing your motion which is to postpone to August tennis I dalby nay Robinson no kanken aye Lando no okay
197um so we will um now take man make a motion emotion yes I would like to adopt board policy 6164.2 as presented I'll second that motion um my point of discussion on this is in agreement with what Mr Lando said um and that is that um our counselors are fully equipped to um to do a great job for our students and connecting our students and their families to Community Resources should those need to be utilized um any other discussion okay um Mr Orlando would you like to start off the votes landoi tennis nay Dolby I Robinson eye all right so I think that we've treated all of our board policies at this point and we can move to the next item staff we're all clear what the board decided was to approve all board policies
198except four four one one nine point two and zero four six zero which will come back in August correct okay let's clarifying that just as much for myself as I was for the public getting a little a little Wily here all right Four Points 5.4.3 discussion action proposed 23-24 chica Unified School District board adopted district-wide goals and mission statement so the board just approved the lcap and traditionally we have approved the goals of the lcap as our district-wide goals it is what we are telling our public we're not only going to do but how we are spending our dollars and our staff resources included in your packet is a just a very a draft of how we have done the goals in the past we have gold number one goal number two goal number three
199those would remain the same we would need to add to this the goal number four that was just recently adopted by the lcat really cold I think we did ask do you have any luck asking him to turn it down who's in charge of that Phil Phil's not here just kidding Mr Carver I'm just kidding Mr Carr we're extremely upset about the how cold it is if you look at the little skirt on the table behind right here it's that the air flows right here so like I've had goosebumps for two hours um okay sorry sorry for the I digress this goes to those um you know you gotta um I can't even remember the statement your your basic needs need to be met before you can actually be intelligent is how I'm feeling right
200now yes um since goal number four is not added yet I move that we move this forward to the August ready for a motion yet please we don't need to bring it back we can just add the goal number four we can amend it as is this is just a sample okay a document okay I will say on this one I would like to be able to do all of our staff development that we will begin in August with our board goals intact and and moving forward and I may have to call on Tina to give me the exact wording of goal number four just so it is stated for the record to like okay here we go gold number four provide additional support for the academic social emotional and behavioral needs of foster youth
201students it is a repetitive of our other goals but it is one that for the state called out on and we had to add to our lcap doesn't necessarily mean you have to add it to our goals but it is one of our additional goals okay so just for clarification what we approve if we were to approve this tonight would be this document as it is with the understanding that goal number four will be about any other questions of clarification okay we will move to public comment I'm shivering seeing none come on public sorry um okay seeing none I'll call for a motion so moved seconded all right we have a motion and a second um any other comments for discussion I scoured this thing looking for something that I objected to strongly enough that
202I could bring myself to vote no but alas I didn't find anything the closest I got was a couple of years ago you guys changed the mission statement which used to say the mission of Chico something like unified a leadership of students staff families and Community is to ensure all students achieve high levels of academic success Etc and to confidently compete in a changing Global Society by engaging in quality isn't that sound good he doesn't bookmarks you know we were going to buff our kids out to compete in a harsh darwinistic tough world out there you know where they might encounter hardships but Tom and Caitlyn wanted to change it to participate in a global Society so anyway we could even say succeed instead of participate if you want okay I'll take that okay it
203works for me session um Orlando uh I I I I I move approval of this entire document with the very minor tweak that students will be able to succeed did you take that as a friendly Amendment Mr Lando absolutely okay so Mr Lando then has made the motion I'm granting and I'm I'm projecting it onto him and I'm offering a friendly Amendment and he's accepted it yeah perfect all right so this document will be the motion is to approve this document with Goal number four added and with the word in our mission statement to change from participate to succeed all right uh Mr tennis let's start the vote with you one of the most grateful eye votes I've ever cast here I ditto Robinson I I all right thanks everybody moving on it's true it's
204so much more fun when you get to the last hour and more importantly Senator Caitlyn's going to start doing jumping jacks pretty soon okay uh it's time for us to talk about our board workshop and what we want to talk about in the upcoming year we need to identify topics dates to slot those topics in and board members that are interested in serving as Liaisons to staff in developing those board workshops so I have a request um do we have the ability to give somebody driving power to see that document editable document like we did last year on the big screen very good what's that Erica for somebody that yeah okay great I feel like I cut somebody off that was about to say something else um and then do we also have the ability
205to um toggle over to the the dates that actually fill in the workshops workshops the workshop dates it's on a separate document right so if we can Whittle down the topics then we can go back and select the dates to put the topics that might be a good way to go about that yeah and then the Liaisons Chris well since my submission one of mine is is number one and it says homework policy and after I got to thinking about what was actually the purpose of what I was suggesting um and after going and talking with one of the schools that does have um that policy the the goal is to improve attendance and success of the students and so rather than the homework policy what I wanted it to do was to um use
206a workshop to look at what we can do to help Drive attendance of our students that are contributing to our declining Ada stuff in um there's all kinds of ideas from using the targeted case managers and the attendance clerks to provide say competitions or everybody that attends for a week without missing gets a ticket into a drawing at the end of the month or there's just all kinds of things that can be generated to help improve attendance and um so that's that's my proposal yeah I'm pretty sure that I also had asked for a homework policy component so I don't want to lose that no that was part of I just don't want to frame it in the in the within the framework of attendance necessarily yeah I get it the I'm very much open
207to leaving the homework policy as the a part of that topic in the workshop so we added it as a separate topic yeah um given our action tonight do we still need a standing workshop for the Inspire facility now no but I do not think we do not as not not as a workshop entire Workshop topic yeah I'm sure we'll have updates as it goes along but we won't need a workshop thank you we'll just take that night off then well right now we've got seven topics plus the three that always stand plus and seven dates of the pill so effectively we need to pair three of the potential options off the list I'd say we could take four off too since we got a a statement of what their policy is we go back
208to that page please on the big screen yep please don't take far off yet did you see the the one paragraph response to what our policy is yes oh and you want to leave it as a a full 90-minute discussion until we take some kind of action on it I still can't see it on the big screen who's who's driving number four is the physical education dress down on locker room policy the list of topics I just wanted to have this queued up because we're going to need the dates there you go thank you is that the whole list or can we add things we can add things because I have things I'd like to add also so I don't see wellness and nutrition on there I had nutrition I have a community we don't
209we don't have a workshop no we don't have a workshop we have a committee I also had nutrition I wrote mine as nutrition and local food utilization which goes along with Wellness as well Farm Department school I'd like to dive deeper into that yeah yeah okay I'm interested in helping if that's an opportunity great so can I have some clarity on what is the uh why after school programs get an entire Workshop is there something is some pressing issue around them that we need to so these were suggestions that came from board members about topics that we should have either on regular board meeting agendas or board workshops and it may well have been me it was just it was more than five minutes ago I forgotten where that one came from but I'm happy
210striking that one is an entire Workshop I think unless anyone really wants that 90 minutes about the after school programs I support that concept I will say we have some amazing after school programs that are going on and we can do an update on that in a regular board meeting yeah and I would love to hear about them I just so are we able to add ideas or not we just added nutritional Wellness um would this be a good time to put in the technology piece and then maybe we could Loop in artificial intelligence into that number two number two oh artificial intelligence maybe throw uh technology onto that call it technology artificial intelligence and impact on Pre-K 12 education yeah okay is there a particular um just for I'm just curious is there a
211particular aspect of technology that you want to see focused on um artificial intelligence is a big one I think it's going to have a big impact we don't need to go over secure cyber security again although that's something good to keep in mind we need more cyber security training as adults I just went through one with my new job and oh my gosh I learned so much more it's kind of scary it's terrifying it's scary I know John tells me things that I can't sleep um but just to kind of keep us focused the board Liaisons to these committees will help Whittle it yeah yeah exactly get the word temptation done we're done there we all agree that's fine great number two is wonderful thank you so much for your valuable time [Laughter] yeah at
212some point in the future on that um great um you know um is vocation I'm sorry Career Technical oh my gosh yeah like a worth putting on there I was thinking about like uh you know or what's the status of our wood shops our auto shops I mean these are things that are really important and valuable to me I mean I got more out of auto shop holy stinks I mean I mean in high school then then then almost any other class you know I use that knowledge like every day there's got to be um and I is a big deal around here you know so in engines for Better or For Worse are you know important around here so we could certainly do a Career Technical education update we can do a whole workshop
213on all of the different Pathways that are offered Tiffany Harrington has done a few um for the board and I'm sure she'd be happy to do more so just a nice if we want to add that as a topic sure um so that this isn't even something I already wrote down um that just makes me think too like CTE is kind of like um an emphasis on alternative from your traditional academic classes so then I'm you know now I want to know more about the Arts and how you know what how our plan for rolling out the Arts elementary schools with expanding Arts at the elementary schools music those types of things um I but I but I I feel like CTE and arts we could probably do them together well I was like not
214sure if they were too big to go together or if you know if CTE was maybe too big to to be combined but but maybe we could do them together how long okay so great yeah really kind of elective programs is what we're dancing around yeah I like that thank you maybe maybe you've already addressed this in the past but just in talking with parents like via emails and I've met with several recently safety like not so much um not so much like from a facility standpoint like the doors are falling apart but more just like um Gates and um and basically like how safe our campuses are we did a board workshop on safety um in it was October last year okay I thought it feels like it was more recent than that I
215I feel like it might be beneficial if you might be able to go back and watch that presentation and then maybe um if there's more information you want to know we can agenda is like an update it is also part of what the board set aside in the master facility plan and so Julie will be refining that and bringing it forward so that'll be another opportunity to have that discussion as well definitely valid that's what we asked for last year yeah it would be good just so I could report back to them that will be readdressing it so that would be in what month I can let them know I'm not sure yet it's listed on here as item number item number five okay votes to have it as a workshop topic and where you
216agenda I said okay so maybe we could talk a parenthetical safety into that number five which is remember that's one of our kind of special subtopics thank you all right I think that list looks pretty good and I think we should adopt it so I think we should move on to the next thing um some of the things on my list I'm just going to Rattle them off really quick and see if it Peaks anybody else's interest um I know that there's new surveys and data available from our ntss pulses so an mtss presentation but I also don't know if it Awards a full Workshop um sorry I just feel like we go over that stuff constantly ad nauseam every time the lcap comes up you know we're talking about it mtss multi-tiered system of
217supports that you know um I would opt for not personally um the other one I had was alt Ed programs facilities needs and successes I don't think that we've had a thorough update on where we're at with all of our Ed programs as a whole including housing and what constraints there are in supporting our all ed students listen to that we need to whittle this to four topics no five five topics thank you I I support anything we can do to look at strengthening our all fed supports I wish we could get more access to the CTE programs for our all Ted students so you know so we have five spots and we currently have 12 topics right I had one more [Laughter] um a special education update since we have have a new director
218um and I don't know if maybe that would be good for towards the end of the school year or maybe just hold off after she's been in it for a year but it might be nice to hear an update from special education with the new director Vision goals updates on team teaching and co-teaching etc etc on all those things mm-hmm maybe I should talk first before we pulled the list up just kidding kidding sorry so I'm gonna make a suggestion we do this sometimes in our interview panels one way to perhaps with this back down to the five that we need it to be would be for each board member to prioritize and then we can list up there the ones that the board members rank as their top five last year we typed our
219own names in our top five choices yeah so everybody pick your top five and the ones that have the most total loads are the ones we go with absolutely okay with that process and this would happen tonight it would all be done done tonight yeah especially it's gonna like crunch all this do we do have an app or something like that I sense that we maybe do um yeah all right let's start doing that time consuming work who's the clerk sort of person you I mean who's the clerk I think your literal name is I don't have a pen well played all right um maybe Eric Eric I could just put our uh names in on the interested board members for now in that section and would that would that does that work or they
220can click on the agenda and then pull it up and then they can just type their file yeah but I don't think so each of you can go into the agenda item and for signed in and then put your name in but we interested do we all have permission now did you just open it to everybody yes you got to be logged in though mine still says I'm not this is a request edit access well maybe I'll update I'll refresh music thank you Erica you're the best no don't worry I can talk yep yep potential Workshop ideas under supporting links on the agenda and then you should be able to type your name um and I just also want to clarify that the homework policy piece um that was I'm recalling I don't know which
221meeting it was but that was a board member request to agenda as an item so whether it makes it as a whole Workshop um or not or if it doesn't make it as a whole Workshop it still would be coming in as an agenda item at some point isn't the facilities master plan review and bond planning that's not already its own date it really should be and it should be in October I'm pretty sure that that's something that just kind of has to happen right yep yeah I mean we're gonna we have to have a conversation and we really should have it as a board Workshop so we can spend a lot of time on it no they're good oh man this is really hard thank God thank you that was really hard okay it's
222getting warm enough guys more of you need to sign up for technology and artificial intelligence please nutrition was my number six unfortunately I'm hoping we can pull those back as you know at least uh update check-in item all right staff we've made good progress up here and I think it's time for you guys to say something now looks like careertech is is a a leader all Ed as a leader is already done yes Career Tech all Ed PE dress down and locker rooms nutrition and wellness that's five right alt Ed Career Tech PE dress down nutrition and Wellness okay so the ones with four are hold on hers it's already winning and winning okay so the ones that have four is CTE and all dead and PE dress down just changed no pun intended oh
223wow I wish I had intended it that's right high value and then there's conveniently two that have three sped and uh nutrition so there it is I move that framework so the problem here is we do have to have the facility master plan discussion because we're going to have to start planning for the bond and that does require our consultant to be here Bond Council to be here it's a pretty Hefty meeting in that case I know I'll switch one of my votes I'll fix it are you gonna fix it oh Eileen's gonna fix it sure I'm taking a vote off of uh like trying to read what that this is honest okay so that's Robinson and Tennis combined it was actually I don't even know what she did it was hilarious that when it
224was fully combined I always did it was hilarious okay so facilities master plan now has four yes foreign just lost out it's a tie between special special ed and nutrition nutrition and the tie breaker could be Robin no no well konken could make a decision based on between those two because she's in both oh and Robinson uh yes yeah I'm on both Conklin could add herself to all dead we don't need to that we just need to just there needs to be a tie breaker between number nine and number 13. so Rebecca conken your name is on both 9 13. so why don't you just decide which one you'd rather do you could make a suggestion about that real quick just because um Caitlyn mentioned earlier that maybe we put off sped until our new
225special ed director has been in the position for a full year so maybe we do pick that one down the road and let her get a full year in and to the very beginning of next year's stuff instead when was our last our last sped um Workshop we get updates from them and it would be good to still get updates we had a workshop when was our workshop for special education we did it this school year yeah you're asking the fish I don't know I'd be in favor of doing it waiting a bit but we did it in November 2nd last year okay I went to the new director July 1. okay so she starts July 1. correct gotcha okay yeah I think that that maybe is it's fair for her okay um but I
226I do think it would be really helpful to have her just kind of give an update on how how things are going you know as a regular agenda item um sometime when she's feeling ready mid School year-ish and on that same note I would I mean I think these are all worthwhile topics I would like to see some kind of very brief even just informational update on each of these remaining topics at some point throughout you know the next school year is that reasonable just like a 20 minute here's where we're at the Hallmark policy is already requested to be a discussion action item yes I think we're there right so I move uh adoption of this year Workshop list with the understanding that the other items will come back to us with brief updates
227throughout the year okay I'm just looking a second I was looking to see if staff had any additional comments okay yeah they seem okay to you guys all right all those in favor aye okay Liaisons I'm starting to lose steam it's only 9 25 it feels like it's 10 30. oh my gosh Wellness I'd like to do Wellness okay that was a bad joke um I'd also like to do Wellness I'd like to do CTE also I'm going to take our names off all these I want to do all this too but I claimed him first so that's I'd like to do facilities oh I guess facilities we do have a facilities committee yeah right so that means are we writing our own names and things or are you going to do it because you're
228oscillating I'm not the boss lady I'm the boss lady um why don't we do this in an order here um yeah I heard tennis anybody else want to do CTE and by order I meant the order I wrote them down on my paper oh that's why I'm like what order are you doing this there's two board members per committee do you want to take CTE because I'll I'll take it if that's not one of the ones you wanted I'll go with with Matt on CTE and do facilities that gives me two okay so on and I'm done oh sorry no I just say I'm not counting facilities as one of mine so I'm not done but you go oh all right does that mean we already have that one sorry altered would be our next
229one yeah I'd like to be involved in that one I'm interested in that um okay conk and Lando no and me see uh okay if you want to go for it no it's okay that's too late you said no no that's fine let's see how it rolls out all right because there are other things I want to do as well so I'm happy to take that one since I did kind of floss until it got on there but and we need one more for nutrition and one more for altit oh I'm sorry 10 is in Concord on nutrition is it Dolby or kanken that's yeah we had it we had we had it Rochambeau on that one I apologize oh my access is expired you're out okay here's what I'm showing CTE tennis and Robinson
230all Ted Lando we need another person on that one PE dress Dam Concan Lando facilities dalby Robinson nutrition tennis dollby ideally each person would sign up for two counting the facilities Bond one that's going to be a lot this year the going out for a bond so I showed Robinson with two tennis with two Orlando with two just for clarification all Ed it includes everything from Fairview to Cal to uh to Oak Ridge ASL AFC any anything else I would fall under that well that will really be up to the board members that are designing it it could go um into our alternative education programs that we have at the elementary level which currently our CRV in Rosedale oh yeah Oak Grove it depends on how far you want to expand it at that point
231right now everybody has two I don't I can take the head unless tennis or Dolby want to switch with you what I didn't follow oh switch nutrition with altered okay currently you guys can wheel and deal later cookies or something might need to be involved CTE tennis Robinson all Ted Lando conken PE dress down conking Lando facilities Dolby Robinson nutrition tennis dalby and with the permission of the board I'd like to work with staff and put these into the calendar we can bring that back and have you adjust if necessary but I like that we can kind of pace this out so that we're spreading it out yeah do we have just an agreement on that yeah I think that sounds good last year we also decided on the dates during the meeting it was
232yeah I want to leave that to staff because they yeah I I like that thank you um except for the the first we probably should determine now what the first one will be though since that's going to be September right yes okay what are as the second one October should we determine the first two well October should be the bond for facilities and bond right and and what I'd like to do is just go ahead and leave this uh if you would give us the permission to just go ahead and set this schedule because then we can work with staff see who's available over the summer to get some of the stuff done so that they're ready for that very first one in September knowing there's a possibility when I talk to Julie she thought
233she might be ready to go with the facility master plan and bond even in September which would be great if that was the case so again if you just give us a little flexibility on the um I can figure it out as soon as we get it so long as you promise to give the Liaisons a heads up now now of course deal is that it moving on oh are we on 5.4.5 Chicago Unified School governance I'm gonna stop because I think did we take action to adopt the board Workshop we voted on the list of them we put them we put a motion up in a second I don't think we were actually took action on it though no vote I think I did I really Amanda made the motion and the second was
234I really didn't catch a second I'm willing to Second go on record a second for that cool so Lando made the motion Tim is seconded and you should say all those in favor aye I really thought we voted 5-0 vote okay all right thank you and then that structure right where'd it go of those people who are on it do we need to vote on that also okay great okay 5.4.5 Chico Unified School District governance handbook for the 23-24 school year uh this was on last this all of these were on last weeks and then we postponed them to this week just for the extra week to simmer on everything and ask any questions that we needed and now we can ask for a motion philosophically wait did you ever said sorry did you have
235something to say Kelly okay you looked like you were gonna touch a button so sorry I don't love the handbook I feel like this is a democracy and we're you know elected by people to represent them you know period I don't I don't know why we've got a bunch of you know rules and stuff but you know I see that you know you know maybe there's value and and wisdom in this thing you know that that can help us you know get along and and stuff like that so I'm not gonna I'm gonna oppose it I'm gonna I'm gonna vote I on this we don't have a motion yet so I don't even know what you're going to vote for yep um I'm looking for a motion do we okay I move adopting it as
236is no changes second that motion all right all right so I'm going to jump in here okay and uh I do believe we just changed the mission on our l cap so we'll need to change the mission on this yep friendly friendly Amendment accepted I mean yeah I have to buy proxy apparently that's how we're doing it now yep all right because I'm the boss yeah we're good pick up your mind accept it yes let's do it all right so I believe that one of the reasons we uh held off was so our uh newer members could take time to read over anything you guys find in the uh exploration of this that he's talking about I don't know you're good with this wait is the way it is I don't mean to call you
237out it's just that last time we talked it was because you had yeah that's all okay um see no further discussion uh all this in favor of approving this handbook as is as is with the one uh pointed edit of the mission statement thank you yeah I I opposed okay it's unanimous it passes thanks everybody moving on the least contentious uh discussion of the governor's handbook we have right um okay the next item is uh 5.4.6 discussion action uh proposed form and procedure for board members requesting to agendize an item um and so um attached to this this was my request from the last meeting I um wanted to at least clarify that this uh this was more of a um wasn't it wasn't to streamline that was definitely the wrong terminology but it's um
238an attempt to just give a little bit more formality to the process for a few reasons that came from um especially this last year or even me running these meetings um the way that the current process is a little bit messy and also really um really skirts if not um uh the word is not coming to me but with the brown act we get we get pretty in the mud sometimes when we're trying to agenda as an item and we're kind of just and all I shouldn't say all of us have done this but I certainly done this kind of have this word vomit that is some weird thing and then like discussion ensues and when really it just needs to be a simple statement and possibly just a statement of um of reasoning and
239um you know move from there but also um the other thing that I've observed and maybe staff could speak to their perspective on it is um that our job is to really ensure that what what we are spending our time on and we are requesting staff to spend time on our things that fall under our scope yes and so um just to kind of keep keep our agendas from from expanding Beyond um our staff capacity when it comes to time and having to reprioritize things when new things arise and then and then other other things then falling to the Wayside so to speak yes and I I can address that you know one of my jobs as superintendent is to make sure that we are very focused as the staff and that we are getting
240the work done that the board has set forth for us to do and um we get going down that and we're going great guns and then what has happened is we can get thrown off that because we have a lively discussion about something that comes up and um and very valid but not necessarily following within what the board has said this is what we want to focus on this year so then we're getting splintered off into the directions very quickly trying to pull together information to come back and present to the board and then something else will fall off the plate or you know we may not do a great job in getting that information if it's a very short turnaround so that was one of my goals in having this discussion about board workshops
241that we get some of these areas that are of intense interest to the board on our agenda calendar calendared so that we can bring that forward have those discussions but not continue to be adding to the plate and I did keep track of you know a lot of the things that just came up last year and you know some of them there was no getting around we had to have those conversations others might have been better had we full folded it in to agenda items that were coming up in the future or other board workshops at the end of the day though we're going to do what the board asked us to do and and you want us to present on something that's what we're going to do I'm just trying to find a little
242more organized and making sure that it falls within our scope and that we have the information when the board makes the decision um so that we're not violating the brown act as we kind of got on that ground a couple times where we were starting to discuss things that weren't agenda's guys I need to wake up tomorrow morning at 3 30 a.m so I'm going to leave that's very early yeah so so I just whatever you guys decide on this is fine by me thanks for your time yes thank you already very late and if you're traveling safe safe try safe safe travels it's actually oh well then be safe it was very early um so just to kind of I guess walk through how I visualize this ideally working if we were to approve
243the process and and maybe you know maybe I don't know we'll just see how how our discussion goes yes did you want to interrupt me I'm supporting I just want to explain how it works oh it's it's clear not might be about to everybody maybe to you I want to explain it to our other board members because I have not had a chance to walk through the way I imagined this maybe playing out um so the the form is is nice there also is a Google form that matches up with this that could be a really quick five minutes to go in and just type it up really quick but you know we have meetings or in between meetings we have ideas and we want to see it brought into on a future agenda maybe
244it's urgent and you want it on the next agenda maybe it can wait a month or a couple of meetings when it fits in right um so of course the name of the the person requesting it the urgency so next as soon as possible next agenda item at the December meeting whatever that might be would be written into their the type whether you want it to just be informational if you think it should be coming in as a discussion action or would like it to um ideally two selecting one of our four lcap goals when this was written up we didn't have a fourth dollar account goal yet um it's nice to be able to relate all of the things that we do to our strategic plan in which is the lcap and so to
245say hey this fits into our strategic plan so this is why we should be spending time on this and asking staff to utilize their their time and energy on this um and then down below is just a space for a few words to State the item so that kind of helps with the I don't know how to word this as I'm awkwardly up here with this new idea that I just came up with in the last 30 minutes get to put your words on paper and really think about how it's How It's Gonna you know come to the rest of us rationale can be very short um it's good to see like where does this coming from like what what's you know what's the the purpose behind you wanting to bring this for a full
246board discussion action informational and the rationale also helps staff because staff will see this before the agenda the staff may be able to address this without needing to fully agendize it and could you know do some information seeking and get back to you or respond to the full board and say hey a board member was interested in this information here it is already we don't even need to fully agendas it so that gives the opportunity for staff to just say hey I can just I can just address this address it and then say do you still want to agendize this or do you think that you have all the information you need or or do you think that that when we we're already planning on bringing this back at the September meeting um will that
247will that you know suffice it or do we really need to put this as a board member request to agenda's item that's where the streamlining kind of comes in a little bit um and then uh that uh that plus the how are you how does this like how does this relate to lcat goals is just kind of helping us you know really reflect on what our purpose is here what our goals are how it fits with our strategic plan and our vision and our mission then if if and then all of the things come together and it's like yes let's put this on the agenda let's move it forward this gets published for the public to be able to see as well as the other board members before we before we come to the meeting
248so we will have already been able to see this and think about it um a little bit um and the public will be able to give comment on it so that helps with the brown act rules situation um I I do understand that this like the way to agenda as items has has shifted um I know right before I started Mr Lando had run into a problem where he didn't could didn't even have an opportunity to agendaize and that this this the way we do it now that's how that came to be um and so um I've just been struggling a bit with this item every single meeting since I became president um and just wanted to put it out there that that it might be beneficial for staff and for us um as members
249that want to agendize an item or are on the listening side of hearing somebody's item um that a staff or a board member was interested in addressing um to be kind of more firm firmed up in in a sense that's my rationale and it IT addresses the lcap goals by making sure that our time and resources are focused on our students needs that's I think that's my Spiel are we discussing yeah I think we can maybe um probably should have a motion before we discuss I move acceptance and approval of this form to assist us in adding items to an upcoming agenda this form in process and I would add with Gulf War included on the on the form I second now we can discuss I just I absolutely understood what you were trying to
250do I observed the same issues it's not the first time a board has had this problem and we fixed the other one in a similar way only then we've been never created a form just agreed to a process so I fully support what's been put forward thank you president dalby I think my original hesitation um with it you addressed it and that was like just the transparency with the public so that they were able to see this form and even have opportunity to comment on that so I don't have any reservation um with the concept that they would it would be fully transparent yeah with the public I think it helps I think it helps like improve transparency it gives two opportunities if it ends up going on to a future agenda item for the
251public to comment on it um so thank you for for adding that I really was like wanting to make have us have a system that that opened up that a bit um yeah that's why I appreciate the um the concerns I think we really the focus on scheduling time for staff and on the brand act especially are super necessary I also think we could probably do that with some sort of explicit Norms perhaps even in the government's handbook um that we just passed without changing um I personally know that this extra step will be um cumbersome for me personally and I think we can find a way to I hope we can find a way to address these issues without adding uh an extra layer of paperwork essentially to what we already do um that's
252my Spiel and like I fight about too hard I think personally for me I struggle with I struggle with this the same type of thing I still have not submitted my reimbursement request from csba Jaclyn's really mad at me because this is the end of the fiscal year I'm really bad about that type of thing I'm hoping that I get in the habit of this is I my wind down time which I do spend usually an hour at least at home a week after I get home from board meetings awake just kind of mulling things over that that's my time to hop on the form and and just jam out my my requests while they're fresh I mean happy if somebody just wants to give me a call I'll type it out and get it
253down there just have a conversation part if that's helpful the other thing you know I think if we're at a board meeting you can fill it out we could have the handwritten ones here and fill it out right then and there while you're thinking about it and it would be on the very next agenda so the time wouldn't be it wouldn't take more time than the current process conceivably yeah but then you've got people potentially doing the homework while you're trying to teach it would add it would add the time to the process because it would be the request the request would go on the next agenda item or on the next agenda whereas right now we can request on the spot so it does add it does add a little bit of time but
254I think that that I think that that time is valuable because it may actually minimize the the volume of items that we end up adding because the process will help us just get that information or or get our request satisfied just by bringing it to the staff first and sometimes legal counsel maybe I mean We've ran into an issue where we've agendized something where a legal counsel told it went hey hey hey like we know sometimes that extra light that extra little step is necessary and we don't always have that information up here at our fingertips our lawyer is not on call during every meeting too to step in and say that's not advisable at this time you know so um so the process you're invasioning we fill out the form then the next agenda
255we go over the form and vote on whether to agendize the item yes okay um I am somewhat concerned that there will be times when um I mean is there does the Act of filling out one of these forms means we're going to talk about it in in an open session I think that as I mean as long as it's not closed a closed session because what I've heard you say is maybe staff will just get back to you and with information and you don't need to do it anymore no the follow-up would be staff we get back to with information and and say do you still want to agendaize this okay you know is this enough information or did this fulfill what you are looking for you know and then we have the opportunity
256to say um yeah actually this is great I don't need this to be a full agenda item or um no I do think that this needs to be taken to the board right for action or or whatnot sometimes staff does that too for us anyway actually a lot I would say like more than half the time that we try to agenda as an item that's how it plays out but it gets really muddy with brown actor rule stuff yeah okay it's it's two weeks before action can be taken on an item that where we may be very passionate about well and I mean to at least an extra at least two weeks well and the president and superintendent still have the ability to put things on the agenda they need to I tend to not
257oh I'm aware of that oh okay it's still there in the in the governor's handbook um yes you have granted me with the authority to add things to the agenda it's in our handbook and I appreciate that you've been gentle with that yeah I don't I don't I'm not enough oritarian okay um so is there any further discussion or would we like to go to the vote um we've been unanimous all night almost I mean recently I should say recently yeah oh but we're minus four members so we have to vote bye bye by voice I'm gonna vote um Dolby I Robinson I konk and I let's call it let's call it an a Okay so um that also will give us the summer time to uh yeah absorb that and and play with it
258a little bit launch launch that um the I it's passed but um the caveat two which I it was in here so hopefully it doesn't catch me by surprise that the idea is that it's submitted at the same time as other anybody else has to submit items so it can be included but if there's anything that's urgent that comes up it can be worked out with stuff so if it's you know if it's I don't know well in advance if if the meeting's been published right you could still probably add at it for a yep yeah an emergency function okay um we uh will are there any are there any requests to agenda as an item for this evening I'm glad that I'm I'm amusing to you all uh fine that's great let's move to
259closed session and I will say if we can get ourselves there within five minutes we can probably be done within 10 at the most okay it's Jim's last closed sessions last closed session and he has promised to be speedy clear