001all right foreign ER the May 3rd 2023 special Board of Education workshop and meeting the board meetings are recorded and live streamed and uh to kick off tonight's session uh let's all please stand for the flag salute absolute pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice all right thank you we will move to announcements item two do we have announcements from any board members remember Robinson thank you madam president um I know that we're we're headed into an evening where um there's going to be a lot of dialogue and discussion and I love that thank you I wanted to let people know that even though there were in excess of 100 emails in my email Bank
002I tried desperately to respond to each one if I missed you I'm sorry um but I I do try um the other thing I want to just mention is that during the night you may Wonder well how come they meaning the board didn't take care of that already and it's because we don't talk to each other between board meetings we can't we are restricted to dealing with your business in front of you so the fact that it may seem like oh my gosh why couldn't they have already taken care of that it's because we are mandated by the brown Act to do the Public's business in public so that's all I have to say thank you see no additional announcements we can move to our consent calendar um do we have Let's see we do
003have one speaker card for consent calendar um and I'll call up Julie 3. a lot of people here I thought so too okay well you may suckle back I actually thought I saw Julie here um okay well see no additional public comment for consent calendar uh do we have a desire to pull any items or a motion I'll move it off into the consent calendar okay I'll second that motion okay we have a motion by member Lando and a second by member Robinson any other discussion on consent um Julie I called you up for a public comment we have not voted yet so if you would like to speak on consent calendar had to read my get my reading glasses yeah so I wanted to talk about the one additional head count that you've got
004from one of your programs one of your um I believe the IEP programs so I'm just here to encourage this board and everybody to we need to really step back and you know last um spring Diane brought a presentation here and she talked about you know over 2 000 children you've got on these IEP plans these state-sponsor disability plans there's it's a trend line you went from like three percent ten years ago up to 20 it's got to be 24 now I want to know how many kids are you know basically fundamentally disabled we need to have that conversation so and just adding more head count more nurses and more Wellness is just too much so just wanted to raise that to everybody's attention and see if we can have a conversation about that one
005thank you all right thanks for the comment um we have a motion and a second for consent calendar um uh let's just start off with a roll call Vote with Mr Lando Orlando okay uh the item is unanimous just a list of field trips and some fun things yeah uh all right uh let's see we're moving on to item four which is our board Workshop um sorry um can you elaborate on making oh yeah yeah I would like to move that we uh suspend the rules and consider item 4.2 before item 4.1 uh on account of a lot of people with kids being here getting them their chance to speak and home on a school night second [Applause] um okay so we have a motion to suspend the rules uh to move item 4.2 up
006to be heard first um and we have a so we have a motion by Mr Orlando in a second by member konkin um so it's up for a discussion simply one additional comment that if you have the means to stay um and listen to our give input into our uh discussion of grading philosophy and practices it will be interesting and useful and I would love to have some extra public input but I know what we're all here for so is your microphone working because I can hardly hear yeah you need to you're it's not sensitive enough so you're gonna have to talk really close to it tonight okay thank you did you want to have any other discussion okay all right um so if there's no further discussion um we do mine's too sensitive so
007I'm gonna actually move it away from my face uh we can let's do another roll call vote uh we'll start we'll start with um with you and Sterling distance you made the motion Amanda what 10 aside Dolby I Robin Robinson I konk and I all right okay so with that we're actually going to move the workshop topic which was inform it is informational only on homework philosophy grading philosophy and practices and local assessments another thrilling topic for especially students to speak on if you want to stick around after we move our 4.2 item up to be discussed first since that is most likely what brought you all out here tonight so thank you for bringing that to the table Mr Lando um so with that we are going to move to item 4.5 4 I'm
008not completely numbered sorry 4.2 okay I just said it I just don't have my stuff fully numbered um and this item is a discussion action item special board Workshop facilities Master Plan update consider Elementary Surplus capacity and prioritization of Elementary School master plan projects presented by Julie Kissel and before Julie gets up here and starts there's a few things that I want to go over just a little bit of History how we got here and why so Chico Unified passed its first facility master plan in 2014 and that really gave us the opportunity to pass two bonds major e and major K as a result of having a facilities master plan um at our meetings that we had just I don't know in March we heard from all of our schools we asked all of
009them to come forward and talk and we have as a result of our bond measures we've been able to touch our Comprehensive High Schools we've been able to touch our Junior highs we've been able to touch several of our elementary schools but it was really clear that we still had some Elementary School sites that needed attention and those were Fairview which is not an elementary school site but that facility still needs a lot of work Chapman Citrus Hooker Oak Park View Rosedale and Sierra View so hearing all of that and hearing that there was some discrepancies between the facilities that we have in the district the community and the board tasked Julie Kissel in the facilities Department to find ways to renovate these schools as soon as possible we want them tomorrow their job was
010to develop options to get as many schools renovated as quickly and as cost effectively as possible quickly so our students can be in them cost effectively because we do have limited dollars we only have so many Bond dollars even when we go out for a new Bond we will have limited dollars and we want to touch as many schools as possible so miss Kissel and her staff looked at the facility's data they did the job they were tasked to do they provided options for facilities they were not tasked with putting an emotional political or really even an educational value on our schools and we know that schools are incredibly important to their school Community our staff our students our children the graduates people that have have ties to the schools are passionate about their schools
011and we've literally as Miss Robinson mentioned we've heard from hundreds of you and that's exactly what we want we want that passion we want your involvement but the board also owes our community due diligence to look at all of the options that are out there so I do want to really thank Julie we may not always like the options but at least they did the work to give us the options so tonight our facilities team is going to present those options and our board may make some decisions and the decisions that the board makes will guide our facility master plan which Julie will bring back in the fall and um just kind of thinking out loud here a little bit we have a lot of people here tonight that want to speak and we do
012have an option that is option six that is status quo so I do want to throw out to the board after you hear the presentation and you hear the data if that is the direction that we're leaning let's try to save the emotion of all of our speakers that are lined up here tonight and try to get if that's the way that you're thinking in your mind and you get to vote I don't let's think about ways that we can get to that vote and let people relax and move on if that is the direction that you're headed we could suspend the rules we could limit our number of speakers to the 30 minutes that you have designated on the agenda so there's different ways that we could get there but just something for the
013board to think about in the interest of your decision and the time that we have tonight so with that I'm going to turn it over to Julie and let her do her presentation and Julie I do want to thank you and your team I know it has not been easy but thank you for the work that you put in to give us these options thank you very much good evening board thank you for the opportunity to speak with you about this important topic tonight I had also created a review to discuss with you prior to the presentation but thankfully superintendent Staley has already created that review for you so we'll jump right into the presentation so the goal for tonight is to answer a request by the board to prepare examples of what the open
014structure program could look like if the Hook Road campus is repurposed so we will be providing some options which you've already seen that we can walk through together to provide high quality facilities for all elementary all elementary schools student-wide the following options are presented for consideration toward this goal uh reviewing the guiding principles that have been brought forward to the board both in March and in April The Guiding principles are right sizing addressing our elementary school capacity concerns keeping the commitments to our community that we've made with our bond dollars planning for the transitional kindergarten integration adequate planning for sped accommodations and facilities and Safety and Security the board requested the following information what options are there for the open structure program do we house will they will they be joined with an existing site
015will they remain unchanged uh the time frame for the relocation will there be a guarantee of program enrollment possibilities and what would the transition look like these are the questions that I left with at our April 5th meeting and was tempting to answer for you in the following options option one is a co-location of the Chapman Elementary School population as well as the open structure program in a large capacity Campus of 672 students the second option to a is providing the open structure program at Neil Dao in one class per grade level option 2B is for two classes per grade level which is the current program of the open structure program option number three would be a split of the program with a portion of the students going to McManus and a portion of the
016students going to Neil Dao 4A is open structure program at McManus at one grade per class one class per grade level and then 4B is the two classes per grade level at McManus option five is um eliminating the open structure program from [Music] the district and number six is the status quo option where we leave the open structure program at the current Hooker Oak campus [Applause] we present this slide of the model loading scenarios that were presented to the board previously of the small mid-size and large campuses that are utilized as a planning tool for the master plan there's discussion about how additional capacity on those campuses can be realized with higher loading in each classroom and utilizing specialized spaces as regular classrooms as well this slide shows the options um laid out along the
017top and the Surplus capacity that would be realized by the implementation of those options the first two columns show the current enrollment and the pre then the second column shows the projected enrollment in the year 2930. this slide discusses those model option capacities and their costs and then the tiles to the right show the costs estimated for the various options one through six this slide summarizes the information on each of the options presented the board also requested out the April meeting to investigate the historical building process which we have done so we provided what the criteria is and what the benefits might be of a historical designation there is an application process that the district would go through and if approved it would go to the city of Chico to also approve then we talked
018about the prioritization of the remaining elementary school campuses which is needed for the development of the Master Plan update and we have this slide which you've seen before that has important data that we thought would help the board in their decision making for prioritization yes so I can hear me um just to clarify that this um slide shows the population of the students that are currently enrolled in those schools that's correct and just to clarify for those that aren't familiar with some of our our terms unduplicated means they fit the criteria for low socioeconomic um they are classified as an English learner eligible for free or reduced price meal or a foster youth okay but it doesn't include the low socioeconomic that we get our lcap funds enhanced right it does it does okay that
019I I thought I understood that it did okay thank you you're welcome thanks for asking we were also asked to provide some assumptions regarding scheduling and available Bond dollars regarding this implementation schedule that we're asking you to designate for us so assuming that the district is able to pass a 225 million dollar bond in the future and an assumed allocation of 15 of that value allocated to Charter Schools would uh culminate in a total of 190 million dollars available for the next projects of the master plan again yes I'm sorry guy had to ask this stupid question and get an answer so I figured somebody else might be curious um it says assuming the 225 million dollar thing if we know that we need 425 million why don't we just go open it for 425
020million so I know the answer but I'm going to let you tell everybody else what that answer is well that's a good question uh go ahead Jacqueline I can take that one so there is statute that is a unified school district we are only allowed to assess sixty dollars per 100 000 assessed value of property so depending on the property value within Chico Unified boundaries that's the constraint at which we can issue a bond thank you so it doesn't necessarily always match the need it's the ability yes that was a surprise fact for me so I figured well because it is constraining that limit to how in how much debt we can carry has a significant impact on how long it takes us through a facility's master plan to implement the different phases that we
021have out there I just thought it was important that we all know that I have a follow-up question to that my goodness my microphone is sensitive um when or what is the constraint to then go out for another Bond so at what point would the district be able to justify or allowed to go out for another an additional Bond so there is a maximum debt that a unified school district can have so as we much like a home mortgage as we pay down the principal on our general obligation bonds that gives us what we call bonding capacity or the ability to issue future bonds so you have to kind of pay down your principal before you'd have capacity to issue another Bond and so in this scenario if we were successful and it was the
022the most amount that we could go out for this is too many variables to for you to like give me a firm answer but would we be looking at four years later we might be able to go out for another Bond six years later what what is what would be the general layer measure e measure k and a potential new Bond and 24 on top of each other so when you pay down principal in all three then that gives you the bonding capacity so how we've structured measure e and measure K have a direct correlation or impact on how our ability to be able to go out but you're probably looking at six or eight years six or eight years okay roughly thank you another important Instagram oh to remember is the answer to Caitlin's
023question was six or eight years out after we've passed the first successful Bond important thing to remember um since we're on the money topics option six uh the status quo option uh says that doing so would have an estimated Bond impact of 50 million dollars can you explain where that figure comes from yes so that um jumps to the conclusion that we would not be incorporating the Hooker Oak campus into the master plan implementation so we would not be performing a master plan project on the Hooker Oak campus does that answer your question I'm sorry it adds 50 million because you would sorry about that hook out of our future cycle of improvement and rebuilding right one of the advantages to taking the Hooker Oak campus um repurposing the hookero campus means that you would
024not be spending the 50 million dollars to modernize that campus renovate that campus so if you're putting it back in then the money goes back in as well can you explain a little bit better that figure for Hooker Oak specifically um last time we had a facilities master plan discussion we talked about Citrus we talked about just doing a light touch on Citrus because the alternative would be to completely demolish it and rebuild it and there are additional costs now associated with with new State Engineering requirements that make that project way more than what it would have been you know even six or eight years ago I think I think that's the timeline that's correct the the replacement cost comparison to the modernization cost comparison per square foot leads you to a complete tear down
025and rebuilt to to make a cost-benefit analysis of the Hooker Oak campus right so that leads you to a complete rebuild of the campus that would be comparable to the other campuses we have modernized so different from what's shown in the 2019 master plan significantly at a cost of an estimated 50 million five zero yes sorry I can't hear 15 versus 50 sorry okay um Julie thank you for all your hard work on this um I understand and we talked about this a little bit at our meeting a month ago that option number five could have some very serious benefits for Chico high and Inspire high schools could you please describe those yes our meeting on March 8th the board was received information that the implementation of the chico High facilities master plan would be
026impeded by inspire School of Arts and Science being located in the current footprint that they have now on the chico high school campus it is um that current footprint in the master plan includes significant Career and Technical education facilities to provide offerings to the high school students at Chico high school that would be similar and comparable to those provided at Pleasant Valley High School on the chico High campus what would those be do we know um yes medical pathway Sports Med pathway Arts teaching Academy Ag and Natural Sciences to name a few yeah go ahead so finding an alternate location for inspire School of Arts and Sciences has been on our to-do list for a number of years they the board had decided to place them at our Canyon View future Canyon View High School
027property several years ago they have designed plans to move to that campus however the project is too expensive and the funding is not available and not available for the foreseeable future so the likelihood is that they would remain at the chico High campus until another viable opportunity comes up so what would some other viable opportunities be for inspire High School so they've been doing a great deal of fundraising they they hit a really tough spot during covid trying to raise funds for their project so that it has been a slow a slow go for them but they could get a funding source somehow if they are actively trying to do that so they some money could come in and then they could build at the Canyon View campus or elsewhere they have a grant from
028the state to build but it does have to be on a field app compliance site in order for them to use those funds so they're not able to use those funds at a commercial site if they were to buy a commercial property for their school so they would have to have a School site then you'd have to have a School site in order to use that yes if we had a campus repurposed because we have Surplus capacity in the district at the elementary level and we surplused a campus it could be um offered through the prop 39 process to inspire to be housed there so um they have some source of funding that amounts to something like eight million dollars for construction either renovation or new construction yes and I understand that this pot of
029money has a lifespan of some kind where it might go away yes a couple three years if it's not used somewhere yes can I get clarity on what that those sources of funding are and I hear they're in the neighborhood of eight million dollars Jacqueline feel free to chime in here if that's true so the grant money that Julie was just referring to that's the that's the money that Inspire has that's in addition to their allocation of measure K and any fundraising money they have to be able to secure a location a permanent location for their school and that's about eight million dollars and how long do they have to spend that at a school site before it goes away completed by 2029 their School site has to be completed by 2029 and when would
030it need to initiate a 2027 they'd have to be in contract under construction so for at least 50 percent of that Grant amount so if we want to move Inspire high school out of the Portable Buildings that they're in on Chico High campus we will need to find a school site for them by 2027. is that approximately correct yes either we will or they will have to find a site what's another good School site option besides Hooker Oak for inspire High School within our district yes I don't I don't really have a recommendation for that I assume it could be any site that the board made available for them but it it all is a a painful um effect on families and students that are within the district so maybe Shasta or Parkview or Rosedale
031or Citrus or something like that in theory yeah and I'm not advocating that we that we do that but um so if Inspire is going to move off of Chico High campus I think that should be clear to everyone in the room it's going to happen by 2027 if they're going to keep their major funding that they have in place so I just want people to understand what we're talking about here tonight inspired and really make its way onto the the formal analysis tonight but but that is in the backs of all of our minds so so I don't know anybody who really likes Inspire being on the chico High campus the buildings are very old and dilapidated as I've heard repeatedly as a board member when I've toured Inspire the chico High faculty and
032I know at least some of the students in the informal conversations that I've had don't really like it being there because it disrupts their flow on campus and then these timely questions about the renovations that are on schedule for Chico High down the road such as Career Technical education programs that we all really really like they are also a source of funding for a school like Chico high so I want people to know that I'm very conflicted about that and I don't I don't think that the chico High campus is good for anyone in fact I think it's harming both schools with that I'll have you let you carry on with your your presentation Julie um I have oh go ahead yeah so um related to this same topic um with knowing that we wouldn't
033be able to go out for another Bond measure first uh six to eight years the soonest we really could do any reasonable updates with the chico High master plan wouldn't be until likely after we get the next next Bond measure six to eight years plus down the line is a fair assumption to make there is a there is a a chance that there would be a Delta depending on how the board decides to prioritize the elementary schools similar to what we have right now with uh remaining measure K funds that are not allocated that are not enough to tackle an entire Elementary School and we're unallocated until our last meeting uh there is a chance that there would be funds like that left over from the next Bond that would could be spent similarly to
034how the board decided to spend the remaining measure K funds so there could be some dollars there but otherwise yes you are correct it would be not until the Bond after the next so what would happen if we were to see inside Inspire relocated by let's say it was 26 or 27 but we don't have the funding to actually tackle the CHS campus for their Innovations until 2030. what what does it look like in the interim so it fires off the campus which is great and there's there's but there's no money to do anything with that space or little money some money but not to do the full renovation that we intend yes but it I think you're correct maybe not exactly the years but basically correct however it would then free up those portable
035classrooms that inspires currently using to Interim House Chico high school plans Chico high school students for instance if you were to renovate buildings in the front B and C the the major classroom buildings and a you could move those students to the Portables that Inspire Us in now and renovate those classroom buildings without having to pay extra for interim housing currently that because it's so far in the future it's hard to wrap your brain around but that's an awful lot of students to have to house while you're renovating on an active campus so the buildings that Inspire Us in currently would be very helpful go ahead one of the reasons why I think I your bike's not on it's the way I answer my phone I push the green button and nothing happens inside joke
036folks um my focus as a board member are the quad schools the quadruplets we've called them there are four elementary schools as we all heard in February was it February or March March March there are four schools that were all built within a very short time span of each other using the same campus model and they've all been occupied and used for the same period of time and they're all basically horrible um in spite of all of the bailing wire and bubble gum our maintenance and operations folks have used to try and keep those campuses going um they're ready to be rebuilt I think we know that we no I I that's what I see I see four schools at the elementary level that desperately need replacement I also can read those numbers on how
037much a bond would give us make us available we have four schools we'll be cut off probably only do three in the first round a large two smalls a medium two smalls a large there's a couple of combinations but basically we're not going to get four done out of the next Bond election which means we're leaving one elementary school again to wait another three to five years for its replacement I don't like that I wish that there was magic and we could get more money out of a bomb but we have constraints we can't do it my focus then turns to making sure that no matter what I do to vote tonight I'm getting that fourth School included in on replacement as quickly as possible to me the um the impact of of a repurposing
038of Hooker Oak right now on those students plus depending on what configuration we were to approve at other schools um it's spreading the misery around with no good reason in my opinion [Applause] compared to the impact on non-cusd students remember Inspire is a charter [Applause] it's an amazing Charter I was involved from the beginning of the formation of that Charter and and what they've been able to do has met the purpose they have done an amazing job of doing what they said we needed to do for a charter they accomplished it beautifully and I you know I am so proud to have anything associated with Inspire being at all connected with Chico Unified I hate that the cost of moving them out to the Canyon View Property is as high as it is um I'm
039hopeful that they are able to pull things together and and somehow work out the funding between what the state has offered and what they can raise themselves they had some really good ideas before covid for for big massive fundraising that wasn't able to happen because of covid and I'm you know I'm hopeful that that they're able to get back into that to that vein I don't see a need to rush to move them off the chico High campus since we don't have the funding to to really do significant damage to that footprint and um we do have an opportunity to um use what we have available with a bond if it's approved and the 50 million that we currently have sitting there to work on Citrus and Hooker Oak to the extent we can without
040running into the I mean can you wrap it up we're supposed to be asking questions can you wrap it up I have a question okay okay yes okay and since we don't get to talk between meetings I'm going to talk now um we have we can get to a certain point of renovation without running into the the state saying it's too much you can't do that uh and so I have I missed something am I off in the you know in the analysis of where we are no not at all um the only thing I would add is that in no way would that facility be comparable to what we're trying to achieve at the elementary yes it would not be comparable in special education or transitional kindergarten or the nutrition services multi-purpose it would
041not be comparable to projects like Marigold or Neil Dao Shasta or what McManus is going to become hopefully shortly can you um Julie Express in layperson's terms basically we have more school capacity grade school capacity in the center of town then we have students in the center of town is this not correct uh yes that is that is the case in the geographical center of Chico we have Surplus capacity we have Surplus capacity that is not in the area that the district really needs it the district really would need capacity in the Northwest where there's the significant amount of residential development however the district and board directed that the district provides Choice her parents to send their students where they choose so we we don't enforce School boundaries unless we have to because a school
042is over full so yes a great deal of the Surplus capacity at the elementary level is in central Chico Within four or five schools and so one of the things that puts Hooker Oak on the radar screen for possible repurposing is that is that it's in this area where we don't really have an increasing number of students and we have excess capacity yes um I have a question okay um in regards to inspire and I I agree with you Eileen I I believe our priority is with our Chico Unified School District but um understanding like the partnership that we have there with Inspire just as a community member I see what they provide for our community um and I think it's a wonderful opportunity for so many students and I had the opportunity to meet
043with several of those parents and they expressed just how meaningful Inspire has been for their students lives so I don't want to devalue that by any means but I just want to kind of understand a little bit more like what commitment we do have with Inspire and maybe it's helpful for all of us to know that's a really good question thank you Inspire was established approximately 10 years ago at that time a similar process as trustee tennis mentioned about where could they be located occurred an analysis of each and every school campus that the district owns was evaluated at the time for housing inspire um eventually they landed at Chico high school because we built a two-story classroom building at Chico high and we were supposed to demolish the Portables that Inspire now is housed
044in they didn't get demolished as planned and Inspire moved in and they've been housed there under a in lieu of Proposition 39 agreement for the last 10 years that actually expires this June 30th but the district has offered to extend it for a year to come up with some possibilities for their future home we will any Charter School in the district can provide a Proposition 39 request for facilities so Inspire does have the ability on November 1st of this year to request facilities from the district and the district is obligated to provide them I have a question about um the the um Bond measure money again best case scenario if we do go out for this Bond next year and we are awarded the full amount um I think I saw a quote of about
04535 million that would be allocated to our district charter schools because we would be obligated to give a percentage I know it's a rough estimate but based on the last Bond measure that was the rep estimate how does that money get divided out to the charter schools so first thing is we are not obligated to allocate any portion to the charter schools that will be up to the board to decide when we go out for a new Bond if we are I've jumped to the assumption that it was successful on measure K and that we would do it again the 15 percent is actually 15.34 percent and 15.34 percent of all of the students in our boundary at the time were Charter students so that's how that number was was decided on and then after
046the bond passed the dollars that were allocated the charter schools themselves have a committee that's appointed by this board decided that they would divide those dollars up based on Ada within their Charters and that was approved by this board so that's how those dollars were allocated to the separate charter schools that were operating and chartered under either our district or Butte County at the time okay thank you that's helpful um follow-up question um uh actually it's it's sort of a question so um with the future need to relocate inspire so that we can build out the chico High campus looking like that would probably best happen no sooner than 2030 unless there was other funding that we were able to piece together to to do that and even then it would probably still not even
047be as early as 2028 I just mapping in my head um I think it's important for everybody to keep in mind a that Inspire students most of them were Chico students at one point so you know many of the Inspire students come up through our elementary schools and our middle schools and so to me Inspire students are still very much Chico Unified students even though they go to a specialized program that's a charter school that's now separate from the district that's just a personal philosophy but on top of that I would be willing to Guess that many Hooker Oak students and or other students that are um you know are successful and similar programs will probably end up being at Inspire or chico High School so at some point if it was determined in the
048tonight or in the future or by some other subcommittee over a longer period of time with more research or something that Hooker Oak was the best the campus of the Hooker Oak School was the best option to repurpose for a site for inspire the students of Hooker Oak would benefit from that as high schoolers probably whether they're going to inspire as high schoolers or chico High School and I'm it's fair to have opinions I'm just pointing out that that there are future students that you all have in your homes that will benefit from some of the decisions when they're at height and high school level and I'm not saying that the group's the best option I'm just saying for example there are students who are first grader second graders third graders now that will benefit
049from some of these upgrades at the chico High campus and as Inspire students in 2030 to 2032. because is the bottom line and so um I'm not obligated to to feel any particular way about whether it's a charter school or it's Chico Unified Our obligation is to Chico Unified students first but I just wanted to address that some decisions made will be positive decisions for our students as they grow through the district um but I I think that their options are still um in need of more research it's actually you mentioned the agreement uh the prop 39 extension that we granted inspired this year and that November one we have to make another decision on that could we for example not that I'm proposing this it just could we offer the current Inspire site to
050inspire for as long as 10 years yes that's a possibility you I I can't think of any other scenario that you could offer at this point it would the only space that the district has available is at Chico high so that is the only offer that is on the could be on the table in in the in the options that are available and I have another question um once upon a time I was on the Inspire board I'm sorry one more clarification Proposition 39 agreement is a one-year term so right what they're at a time one year at a time that I I didn't know that thank you when I was on the Inspire board there were statistics about the number of students coming from outside of the district to attend Inspire does anybody have
051that figure off the top of their head in the past in the early years as much as 20 to 25 percent were out of District students so they they didn't live in the boundary of the district um but that number has uh has come closer to more students are from within the district than outside of the district but I'm glad you brought that up because a prop 39 offer is the district is only obligated to provide school facilities for in-district students not students that come from outside of the district I think that figure changed after campfire because a lot of paradise students had been attending inspire and that option you know went away so we can research that and and provide that information to the board I just want to clarify that the scenarios we're
052talking about with um Inspire hanging out on Chico High until 2029 or 2030. that could involve inspires loss of this eight million dollars that they have for School Construction yes it would you're nodding your head and you you are a representative of the right so so she's here on behalf of what firm us Chico uniforms so this is our expert and she's affirming it's true Jacqueline Krueger also affirms if we think that way about Inspire hanging out on Chico High until 2029 or 2030 that money very very probably could be gone is there any reason not to think that it absolutely will be gone so we're basically if we think that way we're saying Inspire high school you can kiss your eight million dollars in new construction funding goodbye I just want to make that
053clear I'm sorry sir which spot would you propose all right I'm gonna put the stop to this please we'll have order do you have any other questions for Julie at this time we'll have a quick one regarding um hip hop 39 agreements because I just wanna clarify but I believe is true that while they can make a prop 39 uh request and we have to honor that for one year we could go outside of that and make a separate use agreement with them they would so they wouldn't have to keep coming back every year right we could say correct you've got five years or until you find a better site foreign [Applause] a long-term in lieu of prop 39 agreement and that's what we currently have that is expiring uh this June 30th with the
054allowable extension we have similar agreements at our properties at Forest Ranch Nord Chico Country Day for schools that operate on our campuses so yes I don't the second part of your question though is for when or whenever you find a other suitable place I don't think that that is possible it would have a definite term and then it could be renewed but it would have a definite end date not an open-ended agreement we couldn't craft them kind of a clause and know whatever contract we put in with it either party could could opt out under certain circumstances yes and they do include that yeah okay yes so you're suggesting it could end earlier if they found something yes yes that would be included in the language I thought you meant a maximum term gotcha yes
055thank you thank you and we did uh Tina worked her magic back there and Inspire has 18 of their students are 67 that come from outside of Chico Unified and their current total enrollment is minus the ones that don't go that don't live within the district meaning we currently have how many Chico Unified students enrolled at inspire fast math total enrollments 366. 67 students are from out of Chico Unified boundary area so the three say again three how what's the their current enrollment is 366. and of that 67 7 are out of Chico Unified boundary area and 299 are within Chico Unified so we're talking 299 students thank you so Julian immediate benefit the only the only prop possible immediate benefit of um don't boo me I'm just asking questions [Laughter] of relocating the Hooker
056Oak program um it would be to potentially use it for interim housing for the other three schools that we will be able to fully renovate over the next four years if we get a bomb measure because because we we oh okay because we wouldn't be I mean and Inspire wouldn't even need to be moved until I mean if we wanted to honor the 8 million Grant then 2627 I mean it just I'm it just feels like there's a lot of years ahead I mean in advance that we're talking here um for these two benefits that this recommendation has come from the benefit of using the Hooker Oak campus for interim housing during construction of our elementary projects um does a couple of positive things for those schools it lessens the impacts of multi-phased construction on
057their site and it also decreases the duration of construction on the site therefore bringing the cost down and it has a domino effect meaning you get to the next school faster because your construction period was decreased you're able to do more construction sooner but those schools could be done simultaneously I believe that three of them could be done simultaneously yes and without interim housing they can be done simultaneous without interim housing but each one's duration would be lengthened the duration and the impacts to the campuses that don't have interim housing or we have to provide interim housing on the site for instance let's let's use Chapman as an example so Chapman is a fully operational school and we want to build on their campus we would need to create a portable campus on site at
058a cost of roughly six million dollars to house those students in while we tear down and renovate their existing buildings or if you had a campus like Hooker Oak available you could relocate those students not spend six million dollars on creating a temporary campus for them tear down rebuild their buildings move them back in so that's the that's the benefit of having a campus that can be utilized for interim housing you're either you're going to pay for it somehow you're either going to pay for it um you know by putting a temporary campus on the campus or you're going to do it in very small multi-phases so you're you're building something new you're moving a certain amount of students in then you're tearing down old and rebuilding that moving students in so it's a leapfrog
059within the campus which is similar to what we have done and experienced at McManus and at Neil Dao and it was it was impactful to students and teachers and families to to do a multi-phase project and it did extend the timeline for construction substantially um I just want to again for clarification if we had a campus that we were using as interim housing for construction that would preclude it being used to house Inspire right it would until a later date okay so if we had such a campus roughly I mean do you have any idea how long we'd be looking at before Inspire moved I'm gonna let I'm gonna let Laura Nas come up because she's been helping with these and it and brainstorming on these options so I'm going to let her come up
060and help me with that by all mean thank you so with the assumption that a bond passed in November of 2024 and we had done some pre-work out of the current Bond allocation it was our expectation that the students could be in to the campuses before 2027 and the idea would be then that space could be available for inspire and they could leverage their eight million dollars on perhaps some upgrades and renovation at Hooker Oak the devil's in the details of course but that is the Assumption um that we're making now and as Julie said running several projects in parallel in order to um move those elementary schools a little more quickly thank you so there's a for doing that because of the temporary housing versus relocation but there's not a Time benefit like there's
061a Time benefit for actual construction but there's it doesn't mean that we're going to be able to finish our facilities master plan list faster like we'll get through the next three schools but we're still gonna have to wait several years before we con can do another um uh full renovation right so well I guess what I'm saying is it doesn't matter it doesn't matter to me I mean to me it doesn't seem to matter if we have the three schools that we will get to to do the full renovation on uh get done in 18 months versus 30 months because it there's no rush what are we rushing towards I said besides the cost savings the one-time cost savings I understand that and if you're talking six million dollars maybe per school or maybe it's
06215 million per school you know so that's so there's a time I mean there's no there's no reason to rush through it except for there's a cost savings associated with that and I'm just not sure that I'm convinced by any of the research that's been done or presented so far that that cost that cost savings is worth making massive changes to school programs right now [Applause] finally I got some Applause so the only um the only comment that I would have um trustee Dolby is that you would have increased costs over what we're showing um here so these costs do not include the additional costs shown on this slide of 15 per school so my assumption and Laura you can correct me if I'm wrong is that these two scenarios where you can perform one
063large one mid size and one small assuming the 225 million dollar Bond you will not be able to do that because you will have increased costs for those projects so these scenarios would not work so what are the increased costs if so if we take option six effectively kicking the can down the road what are the increased costs at that point can you please enumerate them right so here it says both Rosedale and Parkview can be built on available land on their own site multi-phased implementation that we just talked about increases the cost by approximately 15 percent per school so what is that 15 percent increase to it's yeah increases a 50 million dollar project to a 57 million dollar project and how many 50 million dollar projects are we looking at yes I think
064we're going to go to this slide where at least I'm out for you if you exclude Hooker Oak from the conversation we have a 150 million dollar 267.5 million dollar campuses and won 84 million dollars so at 319 million dollars plus or minus times 15 there's probably somewhere between 30 and 40 million dollars of excess costs from the escalation costs of extended time the contract time General conditions and all of those things as well as the costs of interim housing again we are in the theoretical cost structure world right now so you know I I wouldn't want my feet held to the fire but we've seen something around 30 percent escalation over the last two years and so the costs are are pretty real and and staggering when you get up into those millions of
065dollars and then what's the 50 is it 50 million the savings uh hookah Rogue campus removed from facilities master plan implementation at a savings of 50 million dollars so um if Hooker Oak remains in the master plan the Assumption was that it would be brought up to the same level as your other campuses which would equate to a full replacement if we did as trustee dalby mentioned or maybe it was trustee Robinson the um light touch like we talked at Citrus that number I I could imagine would be less however both Citrus and Hooker Oak like the other campuses require some sort of interim housing especially on those sites because as single buildings are predominantly single buildings there we can't be hopscotching people around so we would probably have to build some sort of interim
066campus for either or both of those or spread it out again over tiny chunks over three to four summers in order to complete the work so [Applause] is that what you estimated at 50 million that is estimated and it includes the district's soft costs on top of raw construction costs and then the 35 million dollar that we just calculated a couple of minutes ago would that be included in the 50 million or would that be separate we calculated out 35 million dollars associated with a 15 increase that would be in addition that'd be in addition yeah so so by doing nothing right out of the shoot we're at least looking at it looks like about 85 million dollars if we choose option six that we know pretty concretely it's going to cost an extra 85
067million dollars so if I got that correctly so 35 million we added 15 across the board to the projects and you're telling me there's a savings we would not benefit from a 50 million dollars so that's 85 million dollars I think we're missing um a key element is we would be able to do some work so we're adding the 15 on the total that doesn't we would likely be able to to take care of two schools at these model costs so the 15 would be on the other to maybe not not all four yeah yeah so instead of 35 million it's uh 17 and a half 18 million dollars correct so 70 million dollars is what it'll cost minimum if we do nothing tonight approximally potentially yes thank you that 70 million would include at
068some point uh the upgrade restoration of hooker Road yes yes okay which we don't need because we have excess capacity in the middle of town go ahead um Julie you mentioned if we were just to you mentioned Chapman as an example and needing to provide housing during construction at Chapman if you could temporarily house at the uh Hooker Oak campus could you still continue to use hookarok as its regular program and housing Portables on the Hooker Oak site for those Chapman kids you were going to house them in Portables it the cost would be the same no matter where you put it you could you could do it on another campus I don't know why you why you would but you could so you could do the complete temporary housing with Portables at the Chapman
069site without having to um do anything with the hook or Oak site other than the allowed modernization yes you could at a at a cost of about six million dollars and um I believe at the March meeting we had discussion about there is money left over in our last Bond and that we could use those dollars for both Citrus and Hooker Oak to the modernization that's allowed so the board decided at our last meeting at I don't have the language in front of me to allow the use of those remaining Bond dollars for potential light touch upgrade at Citrus Elementary School transitional kindergarten Safety and Security and possible restroom Renovations within the district we have not gotten to the point of allocating those funds within the master plan for me to answer whether hook or
070Oak could also be covered within those remaining bond funds this time yeah oh any way of putting that together while we're meeting the cost meaning meaning the last time we said see what you can do with the many doing the things you just mentioned if we added the Hooker Oak new paint for lack of a better term is there any way of knowing if we could do that I'd be very hesitant to throw out that information without preparing fully will you keep my checkbook for me I'm not good at planning ahead I'm going to actually switch attack for a second here because I know that we did some public Outreach together information about facilities Master Plan update and clearly we missed the mark somewhere because we surprised a lot of people so could you you
071or Miss daily refresh my memory about what the public input Gathering was like and yeah so I think about how what we can do in the future to have more concrete and long-term engagement from from parents at all the schools that's late for now what did we do to get public input sure I'd be happy to discuss that that um we had several Community engagement meetings we had a meeting scheduled for every school within the district that we performed in the late fall of this year we have presented all of the information gathered from those meetings to the board we've also performed multiple surveys to the public and to those School communities namely the the teachers and the other staff on each campus and we've also provided that data to the board it culminated in
072the presentation on March 8th if you recall lots of slides regarding what we learned from the school sites and what we learned from walks with their staff and principals feedback from parents and ptas I I do recall um and this is not on you this is on us the problem is that we ask for additional options and the ones that came back um once we even have an option on the table about something as momentous as either closing or moving a school somewhere else in the future we need to find a way to get lots of input from those parents because I suspect I really do that if we had a chance to talk this out with everybody um you guys we were talking about this all night I'm talking to the audience I'm not
073you I apologize um understand that we are in some straights here right we have some some facilities questions that have to get answered otherwise we end up with Elementary School students in 100 year old buildings and I suspect that if we had found a better way to actually engage our parents and our students in creating this solution that we wouldn't be facing um people who feel like you know we're pulling the rug out from under them which is definitely not our intention [Applause] and I apologize to you Mrs there's not much of a question in there I'm not trying to put you on Twitter again this is a planning issue that we need to address going forward in terms of how to gather that input so I apologize to you the public who here today
074because I if someone told me that my students school was considered for closure and I only had you know A month's notice I'd I'd be upset too for sure [Applause] but that doesn't negate the very real issue we have in terms of facilities upcoming costs and our and our aging infrastructure so It's Tricky and I hope everyone sees that it's we're in a quandary here for real Julie do you still have um your present deserve more to your presentation um no there isn't other than the slides that we we briefly touched on sorry I'm going the wrong direction at the end um the possible scenarios with the assumed Bond measure future Bond measure of 225. so trying to provide the board with a possible scenarios for the next Bond construction where we laid out that
075you could do one large one mid-size one small school utilizing our model capacity schools that we're using for planning purposes and or to mid-size and one small it does show that the which schools would be deferred to Future Bond and then the slide that shows the the costs that the district incurs for not having interim housing available and and or for multi-phased project implementation at our elementary schools and that concludes my presentation thank you very much [Applause] are there any additional questions from the board I probably still have a whole bunch floating around in my head that haven't all come together yet but that's how it goes sometimes we also um I think just for the the crowd to hear this um we do at the very least see all of the emails that come
076in there was as of this afternoon more than 130 that have come in since Friday it's a very impressive turnout um and we ask questions to District staff frequently based on our our own internal monologue as well as questions that come from the public so those public comments from emails that were sent in were very valuable for us to get information even ahead of this presentation via email to have some of those really good questions that are being asked by the public um to have some more information coming into this conversation as well um I don't think I have any other questions from staff which would move us to the public comment um portion of our um uh order and we have uh let's see we have 42 speakers signed up our our typical rules
077are to allow each speaker three minutes to speak and limit it to 30 minutes of public comment per item which would be 10 speakers um I promise you all of you have been heard um and I would in no way want to discourage anybody from taking the microphone um so I uh feel like we can hear from a group and follow our rules and um and perhaps we suspend our rules at some point to hear more speakers or if there is a sense from the board that we're ready to take some kind of action we can move forward with taking action after our typical 30 minutes of public comment so I am going to um I'm going to uh start with some names and we'll just start going down the list from there and uh
078when the 30 minutes is up um we can revisit our rules and determine how we want to move forward from there I need some water sorry major dry mouth problems luckily it's your turn to talk and not mine um okay and so I'm going to uh call call names and I'm going to name who's going to be up after that person just so that you're ready to to speak and then um when you hear the Bell from Mr Hanlon that'll be your indication that you have 30 seconds left to wrap up your comments that'll be where you're at the two and a half minute Mark and so that's your indication that you're almost out of time we're not fancy and don't put up timers on the screen most folks bring up their phones so they
079can time themselves as well it's not scary even though it feels scary and I hope that you speak your truth and we want to hear from you so with that I will call up Lauren in I'm gonna say your last name wrong please please remind me on this is your name and after that will be Nancy Marie um all right my name is Lauren inaway and I have three current students at Rosedale Elementary School and please don't we have a very modest delegation from Rosedale tonight please don't take that as apathy on our part It's just literally the busiest week of our school calendar we've divided we've delegated um so reflecting back on the March 8th board meeting as a parent that was difficult to have to sit and see the stark contrast between the
080schools who came up and we're thanking you for the renovations that have already been done for their campuses and those of us who are still waiting our turn um if you put a bond measure on the 2024 ballot we've already heard you've got enough to do maybe three schools I am asking you to please prioritize Rosedale um you already are very well aware of the state of our campus it is comparable to the other five schools that are up and so I'm going to focus on three other reasons that I think Rosedale should be prioritized the first is that we currently have a school with the highest enrollment of the six under consideration and would allow you to impact the most students um with a single project the second is our student body represents an
081amazing cross-section of our Chico community on our most recent sarc report we have 74.7 of our students who are identified by their families as students of color and this would allow you to put a greater focus on Equity as you're dividing out those facilities dollars our school was bumped down in the 2019 revamp of the facilities plan and that was very frustrating for many in our community because it was felt that the district was prioritizing whether this was intended explicitly or not to prioritize the needs of non-minority more affluent students we provide an option also for students and families who might otherwise choose to enroll their students outside of the district and it can be difficult with the state of our current facilities to compete with other programs like core Butte or chico Country Day
082School who have managed their facilities funding in the last four to seven years to provide really nice see functional campuses for their students so again please consider Rosedale for this next rollout of Renovations we would greatly consider your consideration in that matter thank you all right next we have Nancy Marie followed by Laura Holman sorry hello dear Chico Unified School Board I am currently a teacher at Neil Dow school and I stand with Hooker Oak and ask that you choose option six tonight last Thursday Neil Dao found out there was a proposal to have the hook rope program moved to or take over our School site this came as a complete shock working in good faith our schools should have been contacted prior to these options being made or even discussed the pros and cons
083on the six options do not talk about the negative impact these changes were will have on our school culture the pros and cons listed are focused on facilities and money they failed to mention the negative impact these changes will have on staff families and most importantly students the impact options of one through five will be massive and it will disrupt the education path of many students our school Embraces all students and we've worked hard as a team to create a safe rigorous and positive learning environment there's documented evidence that our students have made extreme growth in the past through year three years there seems to be a major focus on a school needing housing during construction Neil down and Marigold did not have housing during our construction it was difficult but it is possible to
084stay on your site I would like to be assured the suggestion was not made because it will make things easier for construction workers or the facilities team the education and continuity of our students should really be the priority making the wrong decision hey folks please making the wrong decision tonight will mean that students will have to change schools or return to their neighborhood schools the students who will be the most impacted will be the ones who do not have Advocates the student the ones who are disadvantaged and the ones who have suffered the most trauma busing will have to be offered to all of these students and that's another cost that hasn't been talked about the real Financial loss will happen when most of these students will choose to go to a charter school rather
085than stay within Chico Unified that is a reality in closing sorry I'm retiring so I'm getting emotional I've been a teacher in this district for 37 years I love my job I love my students and I love my school please save our school and also the school cultures of Hooker Oak McManus and Chapman work together with the hook rope team they have many ideas that will put students first and still solve the problems at hand vote for option six to ease the minds of parents teachers and students let the end of the school year end on a positive note for all not with a cloud of uncertainty honor our District's model every student every day thank you foreign I don't want to discourage anybody from expressing their support ever I'm only concerned about when speakers
086have to pause it takes away seconds from their speaking time so just with the cheers I'm not discouraging cheering trust me but but just be mindful of how that might be taken away how long to explain her time's not even started yet sir thank you thank you for your concern okay thank you ready okay so um hello I'm the mtss title one teacher and DLC rep for her group Hooker Oak schools were on the Hidden Treasures of Chico charming and quaint it represents the very soul of Chico as a teacher candidate in 1997 one of my field trips was to visit the Nature Center of Hook Road the assignment was meant to instill how important it is to include real-life thematic-based instruction to awaken excite and expand the minds of our students Hooker Oak Embraces
087this important job every day of note hookero continues to partner with Chico State as an enriching training ground for future teachers the Nature Center is just one example of how our students are encouraged to embrace authentic learning experiences not only do our students enjoy learning in and caring for a thriving and Serene Nature Center with a bog and a small Creek they also attend a school garden with weekly lessons from a professional Gardener in addition numerous field trips at every grade level are frequently scheduled to authenticate and reinforce content taught in the classroom embracing the whole child approach Hooker Oak has established Wellness PBIS and learning center teams dedicated to ensuring our students are academically social emotionally and behaviorally the best they can be every single day when a student needs support is with a
088very caring and specialized team approach because of this our teachers and staff worked hard to earn our school the highest PBIS Award of Platinum Status in one year's time in addition our Learning Center paired with the special ed team and reading Specialists support academic intervention needs for reading and math foundational skills our children never walk alone and neither do our parents Hooker Oak is a school of Ingenuity and creativity as an example of this we recognize that an area of need is to build foundational skills in math therefore we piloted a research-based universal screener for a number since last year for all of our K-5 students to determine a baseline of skills established and needed to succeed in math we had a hundred percent buy-in from our teachers data reviewed from this screener has been
089critical to knowing where the areas of need are and where to apply intervention to build those skills before coming to Hooker Oak I worked at another school as a special ed teacher and in the private sector for 10 years never have I worked both outside of and within a school setting that has such a dedicated cohesive and professional team as a school in conclusion the attributes of our Mighty Oak School are endless and will be a huge loss to the chico Community to disband or disrupt this incredibly successful community of Learners and Educators this amazing school is a necessary and historic representative of our beloved Chico thank you [Applause] up next we have Beth Bradley followed by Elizabeth Thrasher Wheatley oh no that's not terrible okay thank you uh if you're here to support Rosedale
090raise again please there was a lot of you last time though yeah and the time before yeah yeah and your emails no thank you thanks for being here um okay so we'll move on to Elizabeth Thrasher Wheatley sorry oh a call we don't have the calling option anymore okay um then we'll move to Tracy did thank you tokowski thekowski [Applause] uh followed by Sarah van hoot hi my name is Tracy dikowski I have the pleasure of representing Hooker Oak staff tonight we would like to thank the board for not taking action last month we appreciate that you recognize the importance of giving extra time and research to this very important matter as a staff we would like to respectfully ask to stay at our site we understand that we would not be able to have
091a complete remodel of our site and would be open to having some sprucing up done at our site when the funds were available our students have been through so much in their little lifetime first the campfire then covid now our students may be asked to leave the comfort and security of their school to move to an unknown site while merging with another site please take the social and emotional well-being of our students into account and allow us to stay at our site the program at Hooker Oak exists is successful because we have the ability to utilize every inch of our site for our educational purposes our program would not be as successful at a shared campus if we had to plan lessons and activities around a program that has a different philosophy than ours from
092the Royal Dance Academy performance to scoop and Sarah made to an art show we enjoy Gathering as a community and celebrating together as the family we are sorry our site is so much more than just teachers and classrooms it includes office staff families and para professionals who understand what our program specifically provides for our students please choose option six thank you for your time and consideration [Applause] hi my name is Sarah van Hout I'm a Chico Unified parent I have two students at Hooker Oak Elementary School a second grader and a fifth grader I'm here to express my support for our school and concern for its future under the recommendations being presented by the facilities Department it is important that you understand our program and the choice you are being asked to make in either
093moving it off its existing campus or eliminating the program altogether Hooker Oak is the entire reason my students are at Chico Unified we did not take the decision lightly and we were thrilled to find the option of the program at Hooker Oak I think Chico Unified Prides itself on meeting the needs of every student in the district by offering a variety of alternative programs we have fantastic elementary schools in this district and this one fit our needs and best aligned with our educational philosophy the educational experience my children have had at hook Rook has been an integral part of their success as students my fifth graders test scores have qualified him for honors classes at Chico Junior in the fall I have been an active member of our parent-teacher organization throughout the course of my
094kids time Hooker Oak we host events throughout the year to bolster our school community and enrich our students curriculum just since the April 5th board meeting our students performed with the Royal Dance Academy after learning and rehearsing for two weeks we hosted a daytime performance on our campus it brought parents grandparents family friends to watch their students dance our blacktop was full of people and the energy on campus was electric on Friday April 21st we hosted our annual scoop and serenade an art show uh students practice with their music teacher for weeks and each grade performed a song over a hundred pieces of art created by our students were on display as well as group art pieces created by each classroom once again our black top was full we had scoops of ice cream for
095sale donated by a parent who owns a local ice cream shop and we sold over 750 scoops of ice cream our school Community is strong and thriving it is not dying on the vine and the further we get away from this disruption of the pandemic we are seeing that strength return I could go on and on about the benefits of the school and its program I trust that you know how valuable it is to our district please do not make cook an afterthought our campus needs work yes it has needed detention for a long time our program deserves its own campus as do all the other elementary schools in our district in my opinion displacing the over 300 students at Hooker Oak is not a viable option let alone the Myriad of other questions and
096potential problems that will arise in regards to disruption of students on other campuses we heard loud and clear at the board meeting on April 5th this board had no intention of closing our program I know that Hooker Oak is a valuable asset to Chico Unified and I hope that you will show that our district truly values our school by keeping us on our campus where our program can continue to thrive it is in the best interest of the entire Elementary School community in Chico Unified for hook rope to remain status quo thank you for your thoughtful and your thoughtful consideration for the future of Hooker Oak Elementary School [Applause] I'm going to call Reagan Lyon followed by Claire MossMan [Applause] hi um in my opinion I think that Neil die should say Neil Dao there's
097been a lot of memories in you though and I have a younger sister she's in third grade and I wanted to experience a full year at neodel I don't want her to share the school with um hooker elk or I have kneeldao completely replaced by it I think that you know that was a good school and I don't think my sister deserves to um but you moved to a different school and the um a lot of kids would have to get kicked out of no doubt and they would and they usually like sometimes they walk and because their parents can't drive them and going to a different school would be very stressful because parents wouldn't like some parents wouldn't be able to drive or they would have to take a bus and that's hard and
098um my I would want my sister to experience a full year at no doubt because it's an amazing school um it it's really nice and it's everyone there's an eye she has friends and I don't want her to get separated from her friends and I feel like everyone deserves I feel like neodad deserves to uh be a skull [Applause] uh Claire Mossman followed by Audrey Lyon hi my name is Claire Mossman as you discuss remodeling school facilities and maybe even building new ones I'm asking that you consider recognizing the rights of students to have a basic expectation of privacy possibly that means creating a neutral area for those who are uncomfortable or confused with their gender or maybe that means creating an adequate single-use restroom and changing areas for anyone that needs them I am
099a 16 year old sophomore at Pleasant Valley High School my friends and I are expected to use locker rooms bathrooms and even showers that are all open to boys we are exploited and violated for other people's agendas I really didn't want to be here and I really don't want to have to fight but I will the adults in charge are failing us when you went to school the girls room was just the girls room however today when we need to use the bathroom maybe just to pee or maybe to have to deal with painful feminine and hygiene issues we do so knowing that any moment a boy might walk in on us this is awful when changing in the locker rooms girls try to do so as fast as possible before the boys in the
100room walk past to find us naked come on please have some compassion during my years in junior high and high school I have seen the valley nearly flooded from Bad engineering when the lake Oroville Spillway failed I I saw forest fires destroyed thousands of homes and businesses due to bad Forest management we lost our beautiful paradise and our own home house in the campfire because of corporate greed and failure we then spend the most of two years being isolated from family and friends having those terrible Zoom meetings instead of school and force hide our faces behind masks because of government screw-ups and cover-ups now I have to fight to have to not have to expose myself to boys I still have two years left in high school and I can't even imagine what new Horrors
101are in store for store for me I'm so thankful for God's promise that I can do all things through Christ which strengthen strengtheneth me Philippians 4 13. I should be hanging out with my friends listening to music doing my homework or playing with my dogs instead I have to be here as a teenage girl fighting to keep my dignity and Faith because the school board wants to take them from me thank you Audrey Lyon followed by Katie Yancey Audrey's next hi my name is um Audrey Lyon and I've been at nail doll for almost five years and these five years are the best that I've ever had I I have friends that go here amazing friends too and I don't want to have to be put at a random school and be separated anyways I
102love Neil dots the best school I'd probably ever experience and I don't want something I love to be taken away neither would you look I love this place and I don't want to go to and I don't want anyone would want your favorite place to go but what I'm trying to say is I'm sure a lot of people like mailed out and we don't want it to be taken away because it's something we love and we appreciate because we are dragons and I know half of the people here are so please board don't take something away from people that many others love just because we are an option doesn't mean that we or any other school should have to worry about another school coming and taking this away that's not fair to anyone even Hooker
103Oak and board you might think that it's helping more people than harming but you're wrong it's actually harming more people than it is helping so please please don't take Neil doll away from me or anyone else so save Neil doll so we can be happy foreign up next is Katie Yancey followed by Nicole Phillips good evening my name is Katie Yancey I've gone by Miss Pendergrass Miss P sometimes mom um I am a teacher at ocroke and I just keep asking myself how did we get here how are we here um after the campfire and after these multiple years of covid and now we're like ready and we're back and we're ready to rebuild and at the end of the year at the very end of the year it's like you might not have school
104to come back to and then it's you know it feels like we're being we're being pitted against other schools when we're hearing that other schools are mad at us want to do what we do we are unique I drive all the way from Orland every day to be here to be at the Hook Road campus because it is what I love I could teach anywhere I could teach in my home my home City I choose to drive from Orland here every day because of my community because of my school and I am asking that you keep Hooker Oak we don't need 50 million dollars in renovations you don't need to level our school let us do what we do let us continue to rebuild let us grow our community and our program back because we
105are coming back and we are coming back better than ever I guarantee it thank you [Applause] hi Nicole Phillips um so my name is Nicole Phillips this is my daughter Avery um we have been at Hooker Oak since the beginning um I knew from the minute I toured that school that that would be our home um I've been involved every year since we have started there um I think I'm on that campus more than I'm at home just doing activities and PTO working in the classroom um my daughter's phasing out but there's a lot of my friends are sitting behind me tonight whose kids still want to be a part of that program and they still want to be a part of that school and they don't want to have to go to another campus
106well we have it hook heroic nobody else has in this District it's Unique my daughter wouldn't have thrived the way she's thrived in any other typical learning environment and I know that they've set her up for the best success that she can have going to Bidwell next year she's a student ambassador at Hooker Oak she's come to the board and spoke on hooker Oak's behalf two years in a row and she's involved in band um and she's even done the TK night where she gets to explain the uniqueness of our school so I am pleading along with all of these other families behind us do not take 300 families and displaces like Katie said after the campfire and after covid please please do not take this away from us you guys couldn't control those events
107that happen but you guys can control this tonight so please pick number six and leave her crochet status quo thank you [Applause] so that was our 10th speaker but we do still have four minutes left in our 30 minutes so I'm gonna call the next speaker on the list which is um Kevin Hudson sorry if I say your name wrong it's like my least favorite thing in the world just to mispronounce names uh good evening Chico Unified School Board my name is Kevin newts and I'm here alongside my wife Shelby our daughter Matilda is in the first grade with Nancy Marie and I think she said it perfectly our kids can't go through any more disruption whether it's the children of Hooker Oak or the children of Neil Dao Neil Dao is much more than
108an elementary school to many in our neighborhood in addition to providing best-in-class education Neil Dow provides stability support and improves the overall health of our children with their meal program and Social Services in addition Neil Dow provides a place for after-school care and extracurricular activities for example my wife Shelby is a Girl Scout Troop leader to nine Neil Dow students and used Neil Dow Elementary as their meeting space if option 2A or 2B are passed from the facility's master plan we fear these services will be discontinued in our neighborhood children we'll suffer extreme hardship for these reasons we stand with hooker up community and urge you to embrace option six thank you [Applause] all right um just for my information could you please raise your hand if you are here to uh because you submitted
109a speaker speaker card raise your hand and of you folks that are raising your hands uh can you stand up if you're here to support status quo for Hooker Oak [Applause] and then in addition to that if you're here to support that as well please also stand up if you're here to support status quo for hooker please stand up [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I just want you all to know that you're seen and heard um and so we are at the end of our 30 minutes for public comment um and I am compelled to ask if there is any motion from the board I'm going to move the board adopt option six Robinson I'll second that motion I have a substitute motion okay we have a substitute motion on the floor we're not on the floor
110yet sorry before I roll this out I'm gonna make some comments um I have always tried to cast a vote that I felt that I can be proud of I think that we are faced tonight with very limited Financial Resources we have honestly as we've been shown by staff for years and I've sat through many meetings where we've been briefed on this subject we have too many old dilapidated schools in the center of town where we actually need the schools is on the outskirts of town now I never like to be the unpopular person in the room but I've done it before and I'll probably do it again I see serious problems with the location of inspire High School of dilapidated Portable Buildings right in the middle of Chico High which is going to keep
111Chico high from being able to expand its career in technical education programs and across town PV high school has benefited tremendously from the expansion of careertech on that campus we have all applauded it and we've thought it's great that can't happen on Chico High because of the presence of those old dilapidated buildings that Inspire High School is stuck on there we all know every single one of us that Inspire brings value to the community and while and but but at the high school level we have a lopsided Community right now because PV is enjoying the freedom to develop its campus and offer spectacular you know CTE course offerings Chico high is limited across town because it's bound together with Inspire which is not a good situation and we all know that every single one of
112us so a lot of you aren't going to agree with this but I've thought a lot about this I have meditated on this topic so I again I hate to be the unpopular person in a room but I'm going to make a substitute motion and it goes as follows uh Point number one the Hands-On and thematic learning program will remain untouched at the Hooker Oak campus through the 2024 and 25 school year so that's over two years of status quo if you will this in my view would enable Inspire High School to hold on to the eight million dollars that they're going to lose if we do nothing tonight if we Embrace option six and what I'm proposing would enable them to hold on to that but it would enable hooker road to remain in
113place through the 2024-2025 school year Point number two Chico Unified will phase out the Hands-On and thematic learning program in its current form at the hookero campus at the completion of the 24-25 school year school year basically that's equivalent to option five Point number three the superintendent will form a working group to discuss and propose solutions to the board for the continuation of the Hands-On and thematic learning program at Chico Unified School District so that's my three-part motion question Matt yes before I consider a second um would you be open to the idea of not using hook or Oak as a um I guess what you're saying is leave it as as it is so it would not be used for any interim housing projects correct could there be a need for interim housing after
114the 2024-25 school year so there it could be utilized for a Durham housing after 2024 and 25. but as of now in your motion it would stay status quo for the next two years two academic years two plus yeah two plus the rest of this year foreign so the scenario that was described and feared earlier of finding out that you're going to lose your school in a month no one's proposing motions on the table is there a second now okay so we have a motion by Mr tennis in a second by member konkin which opens uh this item up sorry this motion up for discussion as well excuse me and we'll have to vote on this one first before we could return to the first motion unless this motion were to pass very briefly I
115won't add to what I've already said but I'll say that I support school choice sometimes charter schools are a good option as many people believe no and so I'd like to keep the Inspire option available because I've heard from many families that it's a valuable valuable thing yeah um foreign talking about this from a dollars and sense point of view as well I do want to reiterate that um ultimately our general fund funding comes from attendance and there are programs that offer something comparable or in the same vein as hookarook at least and I do think there's a real threat of severely diminished funding if we move hook broke at all I think that if we're talking about it from just uh just a money point of view and I know there's a lot more
116than it to that I still think it's not a very wise idea because it'll probably push enrollment down over the next couple of years [Applause] and so I'm going to keep going just because I know everyone knows it but I want to put on the record one more time I agree with many of the speakers that the Hands-On thematic learning is one of the best programs super unified has the elementary level and one of the most effective [Applause] what would the committee look like that would study the future of like a thematic learning model at another site and I'm imagining that much time and would be given to trying to determine where the best site would be right um I'm actually going to jump on that uh so um if if there was a committee
117formed to discuss and explore the possibility of um real reallocating a campus um for for a different need and moving that program to a different school so effectively closing a school but without actually closing down the program um the California Department of Education wow I need more water um has uh guidelines when a district is facing decisions to potentially close a campus and that tends to include the recommendation strong recommendation and I've been through this with another District as a teacher by the way to form a district advisory committee um that would actually be subject to the brown act and so they would be open public meetings just like this one there would be posted agendas just like ours and that committee would be made up of ideally a very diverse number of stakeholders probably
118no more than 12 people that would include parents community members business business owners just the full array staff Consultants demographers Etc um that's that's generally when a decision as heavy as repurposing or closing a campus that the state recommends that would really improve you know the discussion about transparency and getting input and creative solution fact-finding and all of those things but it would have to be a a long-term process where everybody is involved in the discussion in an open forum can I add any Clarity to that [Music] um no not really I mean I I guess since we're in the mode of discussion I would I mean I I see extreme value in what Hooker Oak the Thematic learning I I fully support that and I I see opportunity for for growth and I see
119that we're faced with um uh all sorts of challenges and all sorts of groups being affected here so I'm trying to um weigh in with common sense and see what's the best option or what is the better option for most people and it's really hard I like the idea of a committee that's going to study this and not make a rash decision but really weigh in and with members from the community teachers um basically an Advisory board that would study this and I see it as an opportunity for potential growth and for Hooker Oak I see it I see it as an opportunity for for growing in our community do we have any further discussion on this one more thought oh yeah go ahead sorry um and I mean along those same lines of um
120using the analogy like the church isn't about the building it's about the people and it's about the beliefs that you possess and likewise I think Hooker Oak I mean it's clear that it's about the people and it's about the beliefs and their core values and I I don't believe it's about the building that they're in and I think that this is just an opportunity for them to be something bigger in our community thank you check my present me uh yeah sorry I'm gathering my thoughts they'll come eventually um I agree that ideally I would love to see the growth program get a bigger stage because I think it is something a lot of students in our community would benefit from however there is a lot of Merit to considering the amount of disruption that would
121occur not only for them but for the yieldow community as well and this I mean this is tough right because we're basically balancing students now against the potential of having great facilities down the road I do think we can find a way to get those great facilities without um this kind of a sudden shift but from what I understand it wouldn't be upsetting shift right we're talking about two maybe plus years but the way the decision has been arrived at I mean if we had a standing committee or a district advisory committee that was composed of all the analytic schools and we had come to them a year ago and said hey we see this facilities problem coming up we need you guys to go back to your school sites and get input and then
122it's up to you guys make a recommendation because then they have buy-in right like it's their idea and if all the school the elementary schools come to say okay you know most of us think that closing this campus has to happen and it hurts but here's why then they've already had a year to explain it right and to back it up and to absorb that and we Serve the People right we need to make sure that and I think the district has needed to work out for a while we need to find better ways to really engage with those in those conversations that's what I meant lesson um I had my hand up for next just to remind us that the timeline for upgrade for the the four schools that we have already identified is
123anywhere from seven to ten years out so having those discussions during that time that doesn't involve those four schools is kind of not the point we're here to talk about our facilities master plan and deciding which for schools and how that's going to look just just to get us back on track of where we are making a decision tonight so I would ask anyone up here who's bold enough to answer of my colleagues what is your plan for the future of Chico High the future of inspire high and their eight million dollars what is your plan for the eight million dollars that's going to go away from them if we do this I can tell you right now that that there are still ideas floating and there is still a lot of input together and
124frankly I don't have enough information to make an informed decision as heavy and as big as this for for the hooker up campus tonight and I've been in a lot of meetings in the last four months I just want to by not making a decision you are actually making a decision you're making a decision that inspires you to lose their 8 million that we don't have somewhere for them to go I think that I think that you you saying that is actually false I literally just told you that that there are more ideas and I believe that there are more Creative Solutions out there that you haven't actually thought about just yet so why don't you just hold on to your choice and what like what what are those moves I'm not prepared to share
125that here because there aren't any okay you can call me a liar if you want to but I'm telling you there are more things I don't think you're lying but I think that you're you're kidding yourself if you think that that somehow it's all going to be okay and and foreign so is there further discussion no one [Applause] nobody would want to close their school nobody would want to lose their school even if it's two years away you know uh but the point is I have been around to just about every one of our elementary schools okay and they are in bad shape we've got doors falling off the hinges we've got you know the glazing around the outside of the windows that's crumbling out all all across across town you know we need a
126bond yes but we also need to identify where our areas of greatest need are and population wise when it comes to the students they're not in the center of town they're on the outskirts of town where the development is and so that's why I'm saying what I'm saying I can I can honestly say that um I I do I I do recognize and I appreciate the thought of taking a much longer period of time having you know stakeholder meetings and and working groups to solve these these conundrums that we're facing um I I don't think that we have enough information to put any kind of firm timeline on that frankly and that that was going to have to come forward as a as a different agenda item possibly at a future meeting and it doesn't
127have to be about closing Hooker Oak in 2030 or 2025 but it does need to be about um how do we move forward to find solutions to some of these problems that we're facing um and so uh that's that's why I'm gonna vote no on this this second motion uh do you have a question like clarifying questions okay uh my name is Olivia Wilson and I have a student at Hooker Oak I'm also a CPA and I realize that there's a lot of financial implications of the decisions you're making and I find those incredibly important as well two questions I had were first of all you had mentioned that there was funding potentially available to the Charter School at the discretion of the district should a future bond be passed I am wondering if there
128would be a possibility of that money than being combined with 8 million currently available to inspire to then use to find a facility build a facility and so forth that is one question I have and then the second question I have is whether or not Inspire has voiced interest in hookero campus thank you it's great questions the same questions I've had which is why I don't feel prepared to make that kind of decision tonight like this they want no part of the debate because they don't want to be seen it's a bad place [Applause] that said I'd like to call the question um we have a motion to call the question uh we have a second um I'll also say yes which is uh majority of it so um we're gonna call the question the
129motion on the table is two um sorry I'm just gonna I'm almost out of water thank you I'm talking too much it's in water for me I'm just reiterating the motion that's currently on the table to be up for a vote first is Mr tennis's motion to keep the hook program status quo through the 24-25 school year phase out um phase off the program from the campus at the end of the 2025 school year and then simultaneously develop a working group or a committee of some sort to determine how we move forward with that program did I summarize that properly one two three I took notes I just I'm sorry I was I was uh not paying attention to you madam president I was reading the Inspire letter to us which said nothing like what
130you articulated that it said I'm sorry we've moved the vote so we are moving on Inspire has had no conversations with the district regarding Hooker Oak facilities and we feel it would not be appropriate for us to speak at a time when the Hooker Oak Community should have the floor okay [Applause] so Mr China since this was your motion we'll start with you I on the um what do you call this your it's your alternative motion I dalby no Robinson no konk and I donate all right it fails so um that brings us to the first motion [Applause] um the first motion is to uh go with option six um I would like to maybe get some clarification Mr Lido so um option six being status quo for Hooker Oak with this facilities Master Plan
131update yes so under my motion that I can summarize if I need to um hook rope would remain the home of the hands automatic learning program it would hook up campus yes a group campus it would remain in the facilities master plan at some point for renovation we do need to at some point create some kind of Community Committee like this to address the upcoming facilities problems but I think that's outside of the scope of this particular motion we bring it up later and president I just to remind and some of you may not have been around long enough to do we do update our facilities master plan every three years so basically that's when we would be doing what you're implying should be done again we do it in three years and the three
132years is by board prerogative we could we could address we could look at that more often if we felt the need to do so if we had a safe standing committee that reported to us yearly about you know what we were we could that's true all kinds of options okay but this motion is motion is just keep things as they are for now um going with my theme of starting with who made the motion um I'll start with you Mr Lindo oh unless there's a need for the discussion I'm sorry I just have a question and I don't know when I would ask this but when would we propose discussing um how we'll move forward with Inspire slash Chico hi that is certainly a separate emotion that could be made it could be made during
133board member um the opportunity to request an agenda item well we could have we could have more than one motion on this item if somebody's prepared to make such a motion tonight um I don't know personally that I'm prepared to make that particular motion for myself tonight but if somebody else has already formulated it and you know the board agrees with it then yeah but on any on this agenda item there could be multiple emotions yeah I guess I've not really prepared to make that motion but I I mean I just I we're leaving out a big group of people tonight and I want to acknowledge that I think that perhaps it would be useful as they said that um right now hook Rook should have the floor that wasn't their letter um that perhaps
134after we make this decision we could invite Inspire to a separate meeting to have that discussion [Applause] so just be clear that's not part of the motion it's a recommendation for us to consider for a future agenda item yeah right now we have emotional segment we're having discussion um and or even informally by staff to you know reach out and continue conversations with inspire and she died yeah thank you um okay are we prepared to do the vote thank you Mr Orlando Eye tennis Epstein Dolby I Robinson I konkanipstein okay well it passes [Applause] okay so we still have actually Madam president I'm just going to say I really object to a board member not going on the record [Applause] so we're not done with this item the case for hooker Hook is settled to
135maintain status quo which also gives us the next step which is to discuss our prioritization for the facilities master plan um we have been presented several times about prioritization um Julie do you want to summarize what type of decision we can or should be trying to make at this time for prioritization sorry to put you on the spot I just feel like there was so much focus on that particular item that we might need to regroup our our thoughts for prioritization and you know maybe we should do like a a like a take a break yeah let's do like a 10 minute uh recess thank you Instagram tomato all right I'm going to call us back into order we were at a recess and we are still on item 4.2 yes thank you so um
136thank you for taking action on the first item that will be very helpful for continuing with the master planning number two action that we're requesting under 4.2 is for the board to prioritize the order in which the elementary school campuses the remaining elementary school campuses will be improved and I have the list in front of you for prioritizing the order of which they will be addressed now we did talk about at the last board meeting the remaining Bond dollars addressing the needs at Citrus so I think that that could be taken out of the the mix uh for this discussion and the remaining schools are listed there on the slide will we be making a decision about the order priority order tonight yes that is exactly what we're asking for tonight given the allocation exactly
137given the allocation we made last time of the um you know the remaining Bond dollars from k um how much basically how far is that going to get it from cigarettes I know we've earmarked some of our Citrus some for other projects um yeah what's it just gonna look like in terms of like this this scale here um yeah so we we really have not had the time to investigate the um the costs involved with TK rollout at all elementary campuses so that's a significant cost Safety and Security projects potential restroom Renovations which what I would suggest would happen at the schools that are not prioritized early in this list so I I don't have and the allocation of the remaining Bond dollars that I could share with you I assume you're moving to a
138discussion about using them for Hooker Oak as well is that what you're considering okay instead of taking pictures out of this conversation completely I just want to know where we're at so we can see if we need to apply any you know future putative Bond dollars to it as well and put make sure to still I don't want to just go halfway with Citrus if it makes more sense to do something bigger later once we got the rest of the money assuming a bond happens so I might ask Laura to help with the conversation but the um the work that we could perform at Citrus would be limited to non-structural work so typically when we have been addressing Elementary School Renovations we've been taking those buildings on the interior down to the studs we've been
139moving walls we've been repurposing spaces for instance previous multi-purpose room is turned into a Media Center Library space so walls are moved and and uses are changed to other more modern uses that we're using these schools for now we would not be able to perform those types of Renovations at Citrus so it would include heating ventilation electrical possibly upgrades and then finishes with the classroom within the classroom flooring ceilings hopefully Windows I'm not sure if we would trigger a seismic upgrade for that so we are limited by 50 of replacement value as defined by the state before we trigger those and right now that's sitting at about 250 dollars which I could argue is about a third of replacement value not 50 percent I did some preliminary calculations uh 250 dollars a square foot so
140that will get the things that Julie mentioned roofs but once we start to replace exterior windows or HVAC it starts to trigger energy assessments that you know the dominoes start to fall and that 250 dollars a square foot goes very quickly do we have TK already at Parkview yes we do I mean I'm just you know I'm looking at capacity um or capacity alignment and then um thinking about rolling out TK because not every campus has TK yet right is everything correct not every campus STK thank you okay okay Parkview has one TK and as a medium-sized school they would end up with two TK classrooms that's right thank you yeah Rosedale has one TK right now but they would be slated for three with a renovation right thank you okay I'm making sure I'm
141remembering all of the all the Matrix the matrices thank you is a large so how I've thought about this a lot so should I just ask her what she thinks of my my proposed top three maybe I don't see why not if you're asking I mean we're not going to ask a more objective question not such a subjective question but actually I want to ask a soaring question that she's going to just be able to expound on if she's going to reiterate that it's not fair to ask Julie how she feels she can say I don't really have a lot of thoughts on that Mr tennis Maybe all right I propose um well I'm thinking that I I I've thought a lot about this and I feel that Chapman is a good one to have
142on the list because it has been passed up for renovations for many cycles um it is a place where there are a lot of lower income students in the neighborhood and um you know I think we want them to feel special and loved and they deserve to have As Nice a school as the one that we're meeting in right now um in a more affluent part of town and so I think that Chapman is a good one to have on my list um I think that Rosedale is a good one to have on the list because it's very uh very run down and it is extremely popular it is it is busting it's so popular and and his popularity is very long standing um and then finally I think that uh just looking at the
143numbers only I think that Parkview lends itself to a renovation and primarily because this is a school that a lot of people want to go to it's not in the red category like Hooker Oak and citrusar where they're um you know under uh I'm sorry there's excess capacity in that location they've got more space than they really are using uh Parkview is not in that situation so Parkview is using every little bit of classroom student space that there is and it is one of the schools that is most in need of renovation and so it stands out to me Sierra View is um uh has access capacity in it if I'm not mistaken there are not uh it's not full in other words um and uh little Chico Creek aligns you know so it's not
144needing it so again I'll come back to Chapman Rosedale and Parkview so Julie Kissel what do you think about that well these are very difficult decisions to make I I could support that recommendation for those very same reasons um Julie on the um looking at the uh the 200 million dollar there's a just under 200 million dollar cap on our next Bond um Chapman is considered a small right yes Rosedale is a large yes and Parkview is a medium yes so if I remember correctly from discussion you said that I'm what I'm trying to do is find the the dollars connected with Chapman Rosedale and Parkview now that we've made the other decision do we get those for just over 200 million those three Chapman Rosedale Parkview it was it was one of the options
145that you offered but I think those numbers were provided um with the thought that there would be interim housing available I can't hear you Laura so um what what they're saying is that the one large one mid-sized one small that was shown in the slides here would be a total of 201 and a half million it would require some utilization of other funding sources like State reimbursement dollars and developer fees in order to fund this I have to say that given the decision that was just made regarding the Surplus capacity and not not utilizing the Hooker Oak campus as interim housing or repurposing in any way we're still faced with the master plan is a long-range facilities master plan we prioritize the projects we develop what we want to do and as the funding becomes
146available we we tackle them in that order so um it's my job after you decide the prioritization of these schools to figure out how to fund them and get them completed as quickly as possible so you would have to trust that our department would work our way through this prioritization process sort of a road map where as funds become available that's our next project in line and we work in that order so I don't want you to be hung up on the potential future Bond and and how you could allocate those funds because clearly you you can't at this point so we will need to find more funding more funding sources we do apply for State funding on every single project it usually takes the state quite a long time to process those applications and
147the money to actually start to arrive back to the district but that's what we do is we juggle those funds and and we make the best use of them possible does that help yes and thank you so much I we all really appreciate your work in your apartment's work and I know it can be frustrating when five Yahoo's disagree with the experts and tell you that we're not going to close a school I'm sorry because I know it throws a wrenches plan I know you guys have worked really hard on this I do want to acknowledge and appreciate all of the work that you guys do in planning this um that said instead of ranking lists of schools again and again I think it might be useful for the board to decide what like values
148or properties where trying to address the most like do we want to address just the most number of students we can get in the next wave do we want to make sure we address the unduplicated students and the sites with the most unduplicated kids first what is it what are our priorities in terms of who we want to impact and then we can go and maybe see which schools match that I think my priority is uh at this point our schools with the biggest population so we can't get the most students affected per dollar and then after that uh getting the most unduplicated students affected but you know I just want to caution us from having discussion rather than asking questions of clarification since we don't have a motion on the floor I I do
149I think we could reframe that as um is there guidance that the staff might be able to provide for us for how we internally go through the decision I I have my criteria in mind about what of those characteristics I tend to prioritize internally not that that's a set list of prioritizations for the board and it may be different from other different from other board members so I think that the question you're asking is is would we be would it be beneficial for us to first to decide as a board if we want to standardize our prioritizations and then allow the um the numbers speak for themselves I guess frankly um the objective measures to then formulate the prioritization we have a guiding proposed guiding principles it's slide number one two right sizing which is
150one of the things we've talked about um keeping our commitments ensuring that our you know the equalization thing TK planning making sure that we've got special ed rooms and Facilities at all of our sites there was a slide that fell in kind of with Mr Lando's um I don't see it Julie the one that showed um our unduplicated count and that's the slide I was just on the the bar graph that lists all of the schools oh that had that had the I believe so I'll run back to it real quick sorry there's so many two go through here oh right well that doesn't have the unduplicated it's right there they're right there 21. yeah or just rejected to him okay I I make a motion that we prioritize four of the schools for the
151next um several phases of funding and let let the department come back to us with a how that can happen being Chapman Parkview Rosedale and um Sierra View Sierra View Chapman Parkview Rosedale Sierra View yes those four and in what order well do we do we have to provide an order or is that part of what the department come back and says we can do those for with the funding that we can identify I don't I don't I think what Julie just said is is we want to take the concept of funding kind of out of this part of the discussion we we want to just focus on our our prioritization of the schools that we want to hit one two three four five six seven eight nine ten okay then I'd go Rosedale One
152Park View two um Chapman 3 CR review four that would be my motion I just wasn't really prepared for us to put a motion on the table yet I didn't call for it I know you didn't call okay so I jumped right in there with the motion so we could discuss gotcha I need to hear it again if we've moved on the motion is to have Park View one no I'm sorry Rosedale won Parkview two Chapman three Sierra View four see our view for a complete rebuild yes even though it has um it's under capacity they Sierra View is one of the four the quads point of order I'm sorry can we have a second for the motion before we begin debate thank you okay no um I have a friendly Amendment actually I have
153a question about it you can't amend there was no second it dies so you you would you have a second no with there was no second on my motion so now it's back open for somebody else to make a motion you can't amend no you can you can ask for a friendly Amendment on a motion that hasn't been second yes because it's a friendly Amendment is asking for a friendly where you don't have to go through the process of voting but the the person who puts the motion on the table would have to agree that it would be that it was friendly a friendly it's a friendly suggestion we'll just call let's call it that okay so Parkview no sorry Rosedale Chapman Parkview Sierra View yeah yeah and and then no that wasn't her list
154was yeah Rosedale Parkview Chapman's interview was probably yeah yeah I'm not going to second that um would you like to know why okay um okay so I want to go back to Tom's question first Tom are you you were asking about if there's uh value in prioritizing those categories rather than schools you know I will second your motion and the motion is Rosedale Parkview Chapman Sierra View it's close enough to my okay thoughts that I think I'd be hearing kind of the little Rumblings here I think I'd be dumb not to second that Rosedale I had this thank you Parkview Chapman Cru iser if you want to make a like a substitute motion you can definitely do that okay my substitute would be Rosedale Chapman and then Parkview are we listing a fourth as well
155see our view ERS just leaving Sierra View off is that is that um not necessarily I I mean not a strong opinion about that but um prioritizing uh Rosedale number one Chapman number two Park View number three I'll second that are we going to discuss now I'll consider that a friendly you would consider that friendly yeah I would okay one motion on the floor I definitely checked up just a little bit so what was the order again I'm sorry we it was Roselle Chapman Parkview series okay it was flipping Parkview and Chapman okay um okay uh do anybody who's made motions do you want to discuss your thought process or why you want to see it that way I kind of gave my rationale earlier but um Chapman is deserving of this um Rosedale because
156of its success and because of the just horrible conditions over there is also deserving um Park View not as horrible of conditions if I if I may say so as somebody who's pretty familiar with that campus having gone there as a child and then my own kids have gone there but um but it's very popular it's bursting at the seams it's in a location that is that is very very useful and so that puts it over the top it puts it on this list for me yeah um I I'm gonna just put it out there um I came into this and I this is my opinion about how I would if I was the sole decision maker um I would say my order is Chapman Rosedale Park View see a review sometime in there do
157the touch-ups on Citrus and Hooker Oak LCC then Fairview and CHS to my informed opinion from these discussions over the last five months and my personal preferences for the factors to consider yeah I know that we're looking at elementary schools here but I must say it seems a little strange that we're not considering Fairview also just because it is one of the old elementary campuses so it's in the same state it's because of TK mostly tkn special ed yeah yeah but if and Arts and Music actually so all of those require more facilities on the elementary campuses spec could find a lot of room for other programs to consolidate there if we did an update Fairview though Thinking Out Loud how do you mean sorry just thinking out loud um yeah I would I think
158it would be a remiss not to mention Fairview is is needing to be you know on the on the list and of course obviously eventually we'll prioritize the whole thing right but I know we're talking elementary schools and the more immediate needs um I my personal philosophy is to um is to focus on the the most um the most underprivileged students first and that's why I moved Chapman up and put Rosedale at a second but I think that if we pass a bond measure we will be able to address all three of those schools by 2028. and get creative so I like your thinking I support the order okay so we're I guess I would call so would this be a second version am I making a second motion a friendly Amendment by or a
159substitute motion like by her to to rearrange the order from the from her original and then I seconded Rebecca conkins motion so we're at Chapman Roseville Rosedale Parkview Sears no no we're at Rosedale Chapman oh you were Rosedale I was I was weighing in the I'm looking at both the population and the unduplicated trying to kind of weigh both of them into the equation for my personal value system what was your list uh you were just telling us what year uh it was Chapman Rosedale Parkview for the top three and then Sarah View I don't uh I don't know mister no I had Sharpie last I had Rose I had Chapman Rosedale Parkview my original thought but so Rebecca what's your order hers is Rosedale Chapman Parkview motion which was the last substitute motion which
160means that it should be taken up first thanks for understanding is correct thanks for keeping track for me because I lost track of my notes yeah yeah no so we have a second motion on the floor which is um which is Miss conkins but also I believe that member Robinson said that she would actually accept as a friendly Amendment right okay so it's the main motion on the floor anyway so it Remains the most I think maybe you need her permission to let that be a friendly amendment I that was her permission you didn't make a but we didn't amend we didn't amend is it wasn't actually Amendment it was just a separate substitute right and then our first motion accepted it as friendly so we didn't need to yeah I think we should just
161uh recognize that member cronkan's motion is the one we are deboting on okay okay let's hope you got all that Erica so the motion on the floor is Roselle Chapman part of the museum we're on there at some future point or we could we could just expression yeah a large portion of the doing what we can without rebuilding okay um we could just vote on these top four first and then go through another round for the next handful or two or four how does that sound really okay I think it's easier to break it down a couple times start to get quicker at it okay um so let's unless there's any more discussion on these four so um I'm not going to repeat it because we've said it a lot of times um and we'll
162start uh we'll start the vote um with Miss konkin I Robbins and I uh Dolby I tennis eye Landor [Applause] I know that's she always does that when you start for some reason she goes instead of us keep going in our counterclockwise order throws me off every time huh yeah yeah she likes to do that okay all right so then the next group of schools would be um sorry LCC Citrus Hooker Oak the Citrus is set aside now correct um and so we would actually need to make the motion if we wanted to to give Citrus or hooker up the same treatment as citrus we would have to probably do that at some point in this discussion yes okay and then do we also need to give any kind of prioritization to additional schools like
163Fairview or CHS or are we getting too far down the line at that point in the 2019 master plan Fairview I believe was prioritized similarly it it is definitely the next priority um in the 2019 master plan behind the elementaries how does so um I think I might need a little bit of help understanding the pros and cons of um prioritizing Fairview above LCC or not so little Chico Creek master plan included editions of kindergarten classrooms prior to the TK coming on board so now the need at little Chico Creek would be kindergarten classrooms and TK you have directed us to handle TK needs with the remaining Bond dollars um so in a way little Chico Creek is going to come into play going to get an improvement with those Bond dollars okay so really
164um just acknowledging that Citrus is tackled with the remaining Bond dollars little Chico Creek K and TK as well um and then prioritizing where hook or Oak comes into play is what we would be needing from the board which it would seem like it would it would go Rosedale Chapman Parkview Sierra View Citrus and um Citrus and LCC handled with remaining Bond dollars so the hooker Oak would be the next prioritized Elementary School it would be the remaining prioritizing needed I have a question of Julie um would it be a benefit because what I'm wanting to do is put Hooker Oak in the same category of citrus where we do just enough to not trigger does that make sense Julie what I'm saying sure yeah that's the motion I'd like to make is that hooker
165will be placed in the same category as citrus and that we do upgrades I think you can classify them as upgrades without doing renovations is there a value to what term you use absolutely and I think we understand that that's the desire yeah that's my desire is to do we just need to know when when in the order does that occur yes at my desire is to put it in the category of doing upgrades without renovation and triggering that understood um and that it be after the little Chico Creek kindergarten TK I I too prioritize kindergarten TK so I'd like little Chico Creek to happen before Hooker Oak that's my motion are you saying that you want hook or Oak to be prioritized with the remaining Bond dollars not future Bond if we're prioritizing the
166future Bond IT projects right now if it what we're doing is we can't do all four elementaries that we just prioritized with the first Bond right correct that's so it would be the following one in the following one oh no because little Chico Creek we're going to try and pull um money out of developer fees and and other dollars to do the two kindergartens and the TK at little Chico Creek my head doesn't put enough money left over for that to do Hooker Oak correct you are correct so I'm so I think I think what you're saying is that Hooker Oak would be prioritized after little Chico Creek or actually Sierra View yes that's correct and it would be your desire that it be a light touch yes non-triggering seismic retrofit yes I think I
167understand that's my motion I'm sorry I have to clarify but I do because now I'm lost uh yeah me too that would be with the with future Bond money yes okay with the exception of little Chico Creek and what the Julie's Department was saying was they would like to look at pulling our other funding sources to get little Chico Creek done time wise so that we have kindergarten and TK accomplished there don't look on Julie's face right now well I think I think I just need to clarify what what I'm my understanding is and then you can all tell me if if I've got it right or not so the remaining Bond dollars you decided at the last board meeting would be spent on a light touch of citrus Safety and Security projects TK and
168Safety and Security yes is that correct so just to clarify on that I think I'm starting to finally kind of grasp what we're talking about here it sounds like truly Citrus and LCC would be very first which would be in the next year and a half with the remaining Bond dollars with the 50 million essentially right yes okay and then the and then the sorry I'm just trying to simplify enough to understand the timeline and then um should we obtain that new Bond then we would hit uh Rosedale Chapman Parkview Sierra View or and then hook her up and then hook her Oak yes that's my understanding of what you're requesting okay do you anticipate uh that the projects just mentioned for the remaining Bond dollars from K would be more or less used up
169in those projects we just we just mentioned yes okay thank you and then Fairview goes on the list after Hooker Oak yes um okay I second your motion after clarifying all of that the order is what Rosedale Chapman I'm sorry I think we're moving on what comes after that right what yeah what what right now what what how did the prioritize remaining schools okay so what confused me was that LCC doesn't end up being further down the list they're actually kind of moved to the top with the current remaining dollars so and that was something we pretty much already voted on last time because we said we wanted to prioritize increasing the capacity for kindergarten ntk and there's a need there for that we're not talking about renovating Little Chica Creek or demolishing and rebuilding
170or anything like that we're just talking about adding some some additional facilities to house those new grade levels okay thank you so then the motion on the floor from there is that um we would then after hitting Citrus and LCC then Rosedale Chapman Parkview Sierra View then it would go to Hooker Oak and Fairview yeah the motion on the floor is our next priorities afterwards of our realistic will be a broken Fairview I just I had to wrap my head around moving because I have LCC at number five and I had to wrap my head around just that what that means is actually somewhere else it's like two different categories well it is and so there's motion and a second any further discussion why hookah Baroque over Fairview Elementary because we have the needs to
171make improvements to our elementary schools for the things I rattled off with the TK and special education and we have an increased um uh I would mandate basically for um our Arts programs and I will also reiterate that we are going to be going through this process again before we even get to CR review yeah I'm probably going to vote no on that not that it really matters the hill beans for the reason that you just stated but but spending money on another old school in the middle of town that we don't need I'm going to vote no on that I mean there's only one Fairview but there's multiple grade schools yeah I mean if it was up to me I would move Fairview up higher in the list but because of our increased needs
172at the elementary school levels with all of these mandates that's not feasible my list would have gone Chapman Fairview Rosedale Parkview no offense to Rosedale it would still be in the top three all right I'd say we should call the question okay whatever well if there's no more discussion we can but but all right um we'll we'll you know you already voted so let's start with you Mr tennis a tennis name Dolby I Robinson I konk and I all right attention from the board at this time on this item thank you thank you thank you Julie thank you thank you everybody excuse me and Maria and Maria h [Applause] oh here they come are you guys the grading philosophers okay sorry that everything's always taking so long nope it's great stuff okay it's all important
173stuff it's really important thank you for preparing your presentation this evening absolutely well we're excited we have a couple of uh DLC folks with us tonight and I'm glad they stuck around because we have a lot of really important stuff to talk about so just want to make sure as we're going through this presentation that we remind ourselves that the topics for tonight are really the start or the continuance of previous conversations we realize that tonight because this is only an informational item we're not going to be taking any action with the idea though that soon we can have deeper conversations about these three items so as you can see here we appreciate member Robinson and member conken spending some time with us and uh ensuring that the direction we were taking is uh represented
174their Vision as well as you can see here Tim Carris and Ted Sylvan and I were putting this presentation together I think most importantly later on the presentation you're going to hear from a couple of Staff DLC members Morgan Darr and Gloria godinez so thank you for hanging in there with us they learned a lot tonight so just some background uh we heard it earlier our motto is every student every day and we're talking about all different levels of students so as you're hearing this presentation please keep all of them in mind in all their different backgrounds and ability levels again we're really focusing on every student every day both member Robinson and member conken wanted to be sure that we reminded people of how we were able to start implementing some ideas based on
175some some additional funding that we received and that's going to become important when we get into the um the different portions of this presentation because some of what we're doing is still funded by those dollars so we need to keep that in mind as we're focusing on learning recovery and then obviously unduplicated account I'd really appreciate the definition of that earlier and lower attendance based on what we've been experiencing both effect and are affected by these three elements that we're going to be talking about tonight so we're going to start with grading philosophy and practices what we wanted to do was not really as background but to frame each discussion and again we have three discussions tonight to frame them first with what documents What policies um provide kind of the bumpers for these conversations
176if we're in a bowling alley and so we want to just remind the board and the audience that obviously we want to be sure we're focusing on our teacher our teacher contract now when we're talking about grading what comes up all the time is timeliness of grading it's the old formative versus summative conversation right so we wanted to highlight this paragraph because the last line of that paragraph is really important that when we're talking about grading we're doing it so staff can reasonably track student progress that's the premise of our contract all right that's important to keep in mind we do have a board policy directly directly related to this that's supported by Ed code I'm not going to read this whole slide to you but it's important to remember that we have contract we
177have board policy which informs our philosophy Mr Shepard when I click on this item on my computer it brings up the facility's master plan over and over instead of going to our presentation and that wasn't the case earlier because I I was able to get this presentation on my computer you have a master right behind you The Wizard of Oz guy here he comes there he is laughs I'm right there is a glitch I'm just glad it wasn't my fault Eileen I just got a really really blunt because our experiences have not always been the same it was hiding all right the wizard hmm all right so when we're talking about we have the contract we have the Ed code and we still have to have a philosophy and so we've been working with DLC
178really closely not just our our English or math but also working with our counselors because they have a role in how those grades affect students right having conversations with them and so we developed this philosophy based on the parameters of the contract parameters of the Ed code and then having our practitioners work with us on some semantics here we wanted to talk a little bit tonight about the power of zero and again I'm not going to read this quote To You by Douglas Reeves but I would like Tyler to jump into the link that's provided there if you wouldn't mind under more information yeah thank you member Robinson so if you can scroll down Tyler I strongly encourage the board and anyone interested in this conversation of power of zero to dive into this document
179it describes very specific problems with using a numeric value of zero as a grading mechanism specifically if you go up just a little actually go down to four you can see here that oftentimes zeros don't represent learning they don't represent what a student might have learned when they're trying to progress through some curriculum they might represent their attitude about that assignment they might represent their inability to to have a home environment that can support them doing the work but it a zero will not demonstrate learning and so we've been having conversations at our school sites about the power of zero a story I like to tell is when I've asked people in some of the classes I've been in about if a student is is uh is failing a class right what's that percentage what
180what are we looking for there and they always say well it's it's zero well if they haven't turned anything in and there hasn't been any due dates so kid walks into a class and there hasn't been anything in the Gradebook yet they don't have a zero they have an average we don't know what they are yet we don't know what they've learned but if a zero goes in the gradebook now they're failing right out right out of the chute so we just want to be I want if you can click back Tyler to the presentation if you can jump into that that um article I think would be really beneficial so we also want to talk about current practices when we're looking at each of these elements we have collaboration time for course alike norming
181we are ensuring that we have waiting grades at grade levels in subject areas and that we're always focusing on the essential standards you might hear things moving forward like standards-based grading and that's what we're we're going to be relating to so it came up in our conversations with our with our board Liaisons about the different methods that our practitioners engage students which then relates to how things are represented in those lessons and then finally how does a student demonstrate their learning and these are commonly referred to right now as Universal Design for Learning and we've been spending quite a bit of professional development dollars on these three elements because we know now that kids Express their learning in different ways and we want to be sure that we provide them with those opportunities we also
182understand that kids are engaged in different ways and we're continuing to learn more about that all right this is always a Hot Topic just reporting to parents they want more and more information as we know now the different platforms so Elementary and Ted's here to answer any questions about that when we get to the end but obviously they we get those those grades out to parents through a report card and we'll show you some examples in just a second and then we have Aries parent portal which is we think and really integral tool for parents to engage with with the school with their students grades I know this is really small these are just some examples I think you have copies of those perfect I really want to focus on the second page because that's
183kind of the the what are they learning right what are we highlighting what's important to us so when you look at that K2 Benchmark assessment page you can see here what we're prioritizing and going back to two slides ago when we talk about standards this page is critical so when people ask us what do you teach and when do you do it we can turn to this page and the same thing when you look at the grade five Benchmark you can see the specific standards that we are attempting to uh to teach and for students to learn just an example of what a what it could look like if a parent were jumping into the Aries Parent Portal most folks have seen this before but we want to remind people that we're constantly updating this
184yeah just clarification that last slide shows the not the real time really right because the real-time Aries you can see every single assignment yeah sorry this is the report card thank you yeah not the um oh I see secondary report cards at the top okay now they're jumping in yeah so this isn't this is this one's not live no no this is the report card yeah I think I misspoke and then we have a cumulative transcript so this is what has kicked out and students are wrapping up I think this is what we were alluding you were alluding to before member dalby that when we start to get into some live data you can see okay how is my student doing right now all right what's going on with my student you can see the
185different courses here you can see um the uh the due dates as you can read here last year 91.7 percent of our students have an Associated Parent Portal account which I'm pretty proud of a little nervous about the remaining 8.3 you need to work on them too because that's still a lot of kids a lot of times sorry A lot of times um I I feel like that that Gap is as simple as a like a mis-entered email address and it doesn't get caught till the middle of the year contact information Yeah because sometimes they get handwritten or um or it's taken over the phone and the wrong key is hit and yeah sometimes it's it's just a matter of user error but then it eventually when it gets figured out that they haven't been
186getting communicated with it's like who where do we drop the ball on that yeah well and when that does happen we want to know right if we're if we're not getting information out parents that tells us they're engaged and they're not we need to be sure we're figuring that out what we're going to try to do with each of these three elements tonight is be really transparent about the challenges that we're going to face with each of them so for example we talked a little bit earlier about the the timeliness of Gradebook entries because of Gradebook or if grades are sincerely going to be formative and they're going to help students rather than punish them it needs to be Timely having we have a relatively large district and so having let's say for example all
187of our seventh grade math teachers having um very similar Department course level expectations intervention practices and acceleration practices and then ensuring that there isn't this hyper focus on GPA that there are other factors in there that can demonstrate learning just for this section questions that I can answer at least tempt you yeah I'm not sure how to phrase the question yet but I'm working on it um what is the value of the participation rates in the elementary school like are we basically saying we don't expect you to learn anything except to be here and do it I think part of me just want to know if they're engaged with it so that's one way to communicate to parents that your child's present they're active they're participating in class discussions I mean they're really being present
188and kind of taking as much away as possible from the lessons going on like that I wish it was a way to indicate whether these students were actually learning anything in and for me at social studies in the first grade one even at first grade I those studies in science are worth you know learning even in first grade it turns out yeah we've not put letter grades on there so I mean I think at some point we would love to actually have some kind of information like if you look at the fifth grade one on the back it's got some of the standards and how they're doing what they're saying just for Math and English right yeah I think there's discussions of someday would be nice to have those four key areas like that to
189build a reference just for that parent knowledge level with it as well okay thank you all right so oh whoops I just picked this out when we're done oh okay Tyler's doing it so the next part we're talking about is just homework philosophy and policies and what's the value of homework what does it help in areas What are problems with homework also with it says John shared here's kind of the board policy that drives our homework kind of expectations or how we put it in there support policy kind of the philosophy behind homework signed when necessary to support classroom lessons and really it's a design the the best way is it's a way for a teacher to check and see if a student is understanding something something they can go home drive at home bring
190it back and see if they get it kind of that fine line of homework of if we're sending things home they've had not experiences with in the classroom it's not okay to expect they're going to do those things at home without support like that but it's a good little check-in to kind of see send home five math problems those kinds of things are they doing well with it if they don't that's a student I need to be checking with kind of during the school they also and see what's going on with them so clearly there's some variance depending on subject grade level with those things an AP class is certainly going to look different than a fourth grade class as far as what's with homework um clearly more at the higher it goes up the
191more outside work is expected soon becomes more independent Learners the amount of work outside the class increases in the elementary world we kind of do about a 10 minute per grade level expectation so if it's a third grader about 30 minutes of homework is about kind of that spot that we're thinking is reasonable to be sending home fifth grader about 50 minutes max those things what kind of research is that based off of I'm not sure I think it's just kind of been the standard protocol for a very long time and I will say several elementary schools pre-covered we're actually just having some really um kind of engaging conversations about the purpose of homework also and I would say even one or two of them have really moved away from it pretty significantly also I
192know LCC doesn't really use homework in any way shape or form like some other schools do with it so it's just kind of been what has been in place for for the dawn of time for lack of better word in Chico Unified here's some of the challenges too you know every student's got a different kind of home environment and their ability to take homework home and do it some kids just don't have that kind of space to do those things so how does that weave in for them parent expectations it's a big thing some of our schools is we're having right pre-covered having these conversations about homework some of the schools are very nervous to not have a strong homework policy because of Parental expectations of the kids are bringing homework home other schools are
193having a different conversation about how complex it is for kids to do it and how can we set things up at school so they can do it here before they go home so they have a nice kind of a quality place to be doing that homework at the school site um I think and one of the other things that happens too is just authentic authenticity of student work being done at home you know is it mom and dad that wrote the two-page essay or is it really the student did it never mind AI kind of weaving into the conversation now as far as what's actually happening with those things as well um and just as mentioned the bottom there are different family and work expectations at home some kids just have overwhelming expectations from a
194home support kind of structure so to have them doing an hour or two of homework each night is not going to be something that's happening for that student so any questions on homework I will turn it over to Mr Karis and our DLC people Mr Sullivan at some point no well no it'd have to be a request for a gender item but I just like to have some dialogue with little Chico Creek on how they think the no homework philosophy would you like me to have um Kristen Schrock and Stephanie knipp just give you a call at some point and talk about it I can do that easily I think I think they've been very happy with it yes I think they felt some of the battles that were happening they heard from parents some
195of those battles that were happening at home about it have home is a happier time they can do parents you know they have time with their parents to do things siblings Sports other activities with that so I think they've been pretty good I'll ask him touch base with you about it thank you sorry I mean I think that would be valuable information for all of us okay um it might actually be useful if we could ask them at some point to come in and very briefly I have to invite them and put them on there for a quick check-in about kind of what they're doing with their homework policy okay okay moving on to assessment and we're going to focus tonight on local assessment and that is District required assessments and at times created assessments
196at the very least District chosen assessments this is a different animal than our state assessments our standardized tests that we give in the spring every year so like the previous two topics we're starting off here with board policy and we can see our board policy around student uh student assessment specifically names District State and or national assessments um as a shall like we shall use those and we use those for a variety of reasons they're extremely important to us to give teachers knowledge on where their kids are to identify strengths and needs of into both individuals small groups and whole classes our DLC is right they're not they're not right in the middle they are the driving force behind our district assessments they make all the decisions they assist with implementation the timing and so
197I'm we're very very honored to have two DLC members here morgandar from Marsh Junior High she's on our English DLC for secondary and Gloria godinez she is from our from Parkview on Elementary DLC and just a little bit more about these two Morgan is an extremely active member of English DLC and has spearheaded the implementation of a completely new Junior High assessment plan for English this year which is a very very heavy lift and aside from the normal you know Growing Pains of teachers learning new systems and things like that that we expect with all new rollouts she and her colleague Halls uh and Sarah who you met at an earlier board member we have done a absolutely Stellar job with that roll out Gloria godinez um assisted at the elementary DLC and all of
198the elementary World last summer with working on a map pacing guide with other DLC members to address what we all saw in my February presentation the needs of Chico Unified to better their math our math instruction and results in math so these are two superstars of our DLC and I'm going to turn a lot of this over to them hi I'm very glad I stayed because IXL is actually very exciting um just want to talk a little bit about why assessments are so important they really give you that Foundation of where the needs and the strengths are of the students that you're using those assessments on having a common assessment can help provide information that can be used across the district and it really does support those instructional Focus needs for not only the students
199the small groups and the whole class but I would say that having this Common Assessment really does support the needs of your grade level and your campus it ensures that the most effective instructional strategies are being used and you're using that information that does allow for course placement the recommendations are based on those student performance levels I also am an education specialist which I work with students with IEPs this program and having a common assessment is instrumental in being able to appropriately Place students in their least restrict environment how do I go to the next slide I know I'm so short how do I go to the next one I got you oh thank you so I'm the DLC representative at Parkview every I just want to go over like what that looks like so
200every school has a DLC representative and we meet every two weeks on Fridays and we discuss a variety of topics curriculum things that are happening at school and assessments so we do review our assessments annually and an example of some common Assessments in first grade in our next slide we assess for a letter names and sounds phonic skills can students blend and segment and we use that data teachers use that data to drive their instruction for students who need more support or who get it and they can be challenged a little bit more I'm also the title one teacher so us title when teachers use this data to identify students who need a reading intervention so these are all common assessments that are happening at the trimester that really Drive our instruction and at DLC
201what we do is after we discuss some of these assessments and if we need changes we go back to our site and just give them all the information that we have and get their feedback from our teachers and we meet back again at DLC we hear from all other sites and teachers to see if this is a go or if these changes are not going to happen so we really give teachers a voice and we really are the middleman in these situations um similarly in math we have F iabs these are interim assessments that we use students in grades three four five administer these online and they do help with a just practice taking assessments on the computer like we will in State Testing and DLC members also have the opportunity to have extra assignments
202so Marisol Lopez the assistant principal at Rosedale and I created a math pulse tutoring program will you go to the next slide sorry thanks uh based off off of these fiebs so we created a tutoring program that after students take these fiebs we are able to pull that data and see what students need additional support and we invite them to an after-school tutoring program so all these assessments really help our school our teachers to plan for and challenge students who need that challenge so we are supporting all students every day so before I move on to the the secondary assessment plans I just wanted to clarify the fiebs that Gloria was referring to those are the focused interim assessment blocks and those are are part of the smarter balance assessment system so when the students
203are on there taking the test or having a very very similar experience it's just shorter a very similar experience to that that they have when they take the real test and actually this topic actually came up and I don't recall which board member when I was giving my presentation on achievement scores in February and these are the tests that we use to get kids um practice both with the standards um and with the with the testing environment that they'll see in smarter balanced a question that always comes up to my my head is um what's what's the balance of the amount of time time spent testing versus instructional time right in Maine I know that there's probably a best practices there that's that's always a consideration and and one of the reasons why DLC is
204so important is because they're living every day giving these assessments as teachers and they're able to um to help with that with that question because that's a huge question with assessment yeah I just I know in the past I'm not saying that this is the case now because I've been a few years removed now that there was a lot of Rumble about how much time students are spending taking tests and being assessed rather than um yeah and obviously there's a there's a value to assessment because that's you know the evidence it's a fine line and a perfect example our elementary DLC there's an elementary assessment called a bass it's like a reading 101 reading with some questions we we haggled for the better part of the Year this year whether to keep it in place
205just for those reasons you know is the time it takes to give this are the are the teachers getting value back enough to help Drive their instruction and literally after about six months of grinding on it we've decided they don't we just said that's not something they're right you know getting information from the drive instructions so we shouldn't get rid of it we get enough other information from those other assessments yeah I think that's a good example and kind of just reiterates the ability for a teacher to know their student well enough to recognize without some of the extraneous assessments that there's intervention that's needed and then there's the flip of that where there are some assessments that are necessary to be able to catch some of those needs for intervention okay right and another
206piece I'd like to add as a former first grade teacher um instructional time can be much better used with better information so you're giving up time up front to gain that information but you're gaining a lot of of instructional time because your instruction is so focused we call that going slow to go fast right yeah that's how you start the beginning of the year too yeah yeah so um one thing you might have noticed is there's more Assessments in first grade a little bit less in fourth grade um the the difference is because the the skills that need to be measured to ensure solid early primary reading instruction are much more discreet than when kids become readers and they're working on higher level literacy skills so moving up to Junior High and I mentioned the
207English assessment plan had been turned on its head this year with some great moves we have implemented for English the IXL assessment platform which was actually piloted by Math teachers in Chico you know they've they look look for stuff to help them during covid and found IXL and we got really good feedback and so when the time came to evaluate our our previous assess assessment system which was I ready in in place of that or start reading I'm sorry for for English we weren't getting that bang for our buck like uh missed dalby just said the information wasn't as useful compared to the amount of time spent given the assessment so we so we went back to the drawing board we implemented IXL after a pilot last year um and that's that's gone really well
208with the usual you know Growing Pains that you see with the new rollout um the ELA performance tasks that you may or may not be able to read because the print small those are um focused interim assessment blocks as well so students are writing um in the smarter balance platform with similar prompts and that they'll see on the state test one of the things that I'm very very thankful to Hollis and Sarah and Morgan for is leading our Junior High teachers through training in late October early November on grading those um which in in my mind is potentially one of the more consequential um PDS that we've had at the junior high level regarding raising student achievement on test scores um for math we also turned the assessment plan on its head this year with
209the implementation of IXL again um and we also added a assessments from out of the series called mdtp and I'm totally going blank on what that stands for but it's an assessment a series of Assessments created by the UC and CSU systems that are course specific so we can test student Readiness going into the next Math course and as you're well aware math is a is a big focus of ours and we I feel like we're able to do a better job now keeping an eye on student Readiness for the next Math course High School changed also to IXL this year however we're only giving IXL English through ninth grade and we are giving IXL to our math students up through im1 so on an on-grade level ninth grader takes im1 so we're really kind
210of up through um ninth grade with IXL and then you can see mdtp is administered in courses up through im3 so that would be junior level math and I asked Morgan to give us a walk through an example adoption process a quick question um so in junior high you were talking about the writing assessments are effectively graded the same way that the cast tests are what do you guys do what do we do in um say High School to make sure that all of your writing assessments are graded in a similar Way by different teachers is there a similar kind of key or very close scoring method the rubric was modeled after the smarter balance rubrics the the actual writing assessments are district created and administered in a way that's similar to what the kids
211see in smarter bounce but not exactly and those really are tied to at the high school level tied to books that the teachers are are reading through the normal course of their of their year I want to interject too and he says District created it's really DLC created we don't want to take credit for that yeah nobody wants me or John writing an 11th grade English test we have plenty of smart teachers that that we have on hand to help with that okay so back to the IXL example this is again just an example but it's very similar at both levels when we adopt a new assessment so I'm going to have Morgan take over thank you I first want to just say how instrumental the DLC process is and has been through adopting IXL
212the example is with IXL from the English lens but it's also important to note that as a DLC member we take our roles very seriously and even though I am the English representative I make sure I talk to all those departments and the stakeholders on our campus and other sites to represent a true feedback situation to go back and then have that conversation at DLC um an example of how I excel has been adopted and it is taken about a year and that need was identified by DLC we need a common assessment we need this we need to look at different areas of what assessments are available that's where DLC had those conversations went into the sites and had those very at length and in-depth conversations and That Was Then brought back to DLC one
213of the available assessments was IXL and that had been brought from Matt saying this is a great program you should look at it it was piloted through math but also Marsh English six piloted it last year and that feedback was taken from the students getting their data and their assessment from the assessments IXL is not just an assessment it gives you extensive comprehensive information that we'll go over in the next slide but that information was brought back to DLC and was saying not only can we use this assessment to look in and get these numbers we can then move forward into how can we use this in instructional practice and in that daily every day-to-day instruction and I know that's been a comment that we've heard from teachers forever what do we actually do with
214this information IXL is a wonderful beast and I say Beast because when you first get all the data you're being fire host and when we pilot when we piloted it we thought this is going to be a lot but it's something that we want to move forward and try and adopt so we can give this really useful tool for instruction and not just as a baseline assessment or a common assessment when it was piloted that information was then brought back to the DLC and I just want to emphasize that assessment really does drive your instruction and this program I excel we saw through piloting that you were able to determine that individual student need as well as your whole class your grade level and your site across all campuses if you're using this common assessment
215when we decided this was the program we wanted to go to that adoption process and those discussions like I said not only at the site level and at DLC it was taken back with this team and discussed at length with that feedback from all of those stakeholders we decided that it was going to be a great choice and discussed how we should roll this out with training I mentioned the fire hose because initially when you tell a bunch of teachers that you have a brand new assessment right before school starts it's not very it's not taken very well however people were excited to have something new they were just overwhelmed at how is this training going to look and in August we had that at the back to school training was just how to administer
216the assessment that was all just this is how we're going to administer the assessment and then let them get used to that and then in September we offered for all secondary in English and math half day training we had a lot of people come to that training it was also recorded and sent out to the members who didn't know or the teachers who didn't know if they were really wanting to give up a half day but they were presented with that video DLC also was receiving feedback what are you thinking about these assessments what do you need from IXL I went to every single department and said have you looked at this this data I printed out every single English language arts per class period And I went and I met with science I went
217and I met with Social Studies by of their each of their class period And I said these are your English language arts overall scores these is your overall reading level and if you want to dive deeper into that I'll break it down into the different subcategories of those areas and the response from those other departments and even PE wanting to know do I need a speech to text or a text-to-speech for these assessments that we're giving based on this IXL English data those are conversations that wouldn't happen if we didn't have DLC so I really want to stress the importance of how this position has given opportunity for those conversations about I Excel so we offered those half day trainings and got a lot of feedback we want more we just want to be able
218to look into how how do we use this so give us a little bit of time and then when we started getting emails and phone calls text messages hey can you show me this I want to learn more about that we reached out to the IXL rep and we cashed in on some of that training time that you get when you adopt something and so we had two additional trainings during those secondary plc's on Wednesdays that were highly attended and not only did we have English and math coming we had special ed coming I had a co-worker at Marsh that was there for the first part of the year and we I worked really closely with her because IXL gives you really in-depth information on each student that can be used for IEPs it also
219provides an opportunity for across sites to have that common IEP information and I excel has state standards that are directly connected to our adopted curriculum so English uses studiesync that's our adopted curriculum you can go and click the studysync tab and it shows you all the standards per grade level that relate to this information it's like I said a fire hose of information it's really exciting the the response from the teachers was we want more so which is not the case for when you are given an assessment how do we use this they want they wanted more the student or the co-worker then moved to Chico High she works in special education and she emailed me hey can Chico High come to these IXL trainings they're spreading the knowledge of how effective this information from
220these assessments and I mean that's coming from assessments so it's really really cool we gave a training Hollis and myself on IXL to the ELD teams that reached out saying if we're using this for redesignation we want to know more we want to know more for instruction a couple people from Oakbridge reached out and we had private trainings with them they wanted to know how to use it for small group instruction so there's been a lot of training opportunities even after we just did one two Wednesdays ago we have more people requesting more so where this has not been an unsuccessful rollout and I do want to say that it has been a really amazing thing to see it fires me up and it really connects those different departments on campus I'm going to go
221ahead and go to the next slide this kind of gives you a little bit of a better understanding how you can use this assessment data so you can see that we pulled it's an example of an eighth grade English student and you can see that there's an overview reading strategies and then it breaks it down into vocabulary writing strategies and grammar and mechanics you can also see all those lines are individual students and there's five different groupings showed now when you click on one of those groups it shows you the different areas that those specific students might need this is an eighth grade example this is a high need group and it's showing you that you have ranges from fourth third fourth and fifth grade on here and it breaks it down by skill and
222if you clicked on one of those little arrows it would give you examples and the opportunity to assign it to individual students a group or your whole class so like I said it's extremely con it's huge the it's a very detailed and monster of a wonderful Beast of information and this is directly being used and implemented and everyone wants more it also provides an opportunity in this program for live feedback and assessment results we have these snapshots which Tim showed you in the assessment calendar you can also go into the arena and take a mini assessment and it's recommended to to continually be doing that if you want accurate data in between those snapshots and the students want to know am I improving and they can do it in real time it's called the real-time
223Diagnostic and a lot of teachers are using it because it gives you that immediate feedback if I'm teaching compare and contrast points of view I know this is a high need I'm going to do a lesson I'm going to assign it I'm going to see how they do on it and it gives you a lot of information based on their student progress how much time they spent on a skill it breaks it down by how many questions they missed and which questions they missed I could talk about it for a very long time yes I'd love to listen I know I'm sorry no no question uh how did we fought this program well we went through the adoption process of DLC so that need was identified I believe right how did we it was identified
224as a need I don't know who paid for it Jay and Jack and Jacqueline and I are looking at each other going did you do it we think we believe it was Esser funding yeah it was just brought by DLC how do we continue funding this I think it's a five-year contract yes just five years well hopefully more with with the wonderful news we're getting yeah that's that was my thought was you know how do we make sure this doesn't go away if this is as good as it's turning out to be I can so just to go back to so IXL replaced I ready right and we had I ready for over five years before that prior to Esser so we're gonna we're gonna be able to sustain the funding figure out where it's
225going to come yeah we use Title One funding we also used lcap funding to pay for irated before we just had abundance investor funding so we wanted to use that money first for this program so which we were able for targeted learning group um so we used in that money then we'll go back to our title one and no cap funding after that and the El Cap yeah lcap would would be appropriate yeah oh I I it's very exciting it's not additional use funding it's it's replacing so that's all assuming that it works I know I love I love IXL it works well we don't know yes well it has their own data yes it says you know there's what a five point you know a 13 percentage of points I'm excited for the State
226Testing results to come back after using this and this is kind of addressed to um John and I'm so sorry I'm tired um do we have a solid plan for three four five years from now looking at the data and saying okay IXL is or is not where we want to keep going and do we have like basically a rubric for whether the adoption is successful absolutely um beginning it'll start here probably in a couple weeks we'll be looking at as Smarter Balance results come back that's really our measure for Success um and DLC has a prominent role in that data analysis very very early we're expecting to go back to normal results timelines and the data analysis begins in June are we going to make any knee-jerk reactions in June based on that no
227we need to give some a new program time before we evaluate I think you're right on the on the money we're looking at it like three years yeah um I used to use IXL but I've got the data pulled up here where they say there's a yeah 13 swing after three years and and I take like like you're getting at I take every every vendor's claims with a big grain of salt um but what we've seen like Morgan's describing in the classroom it allows for focused instruction which is what we want it allows for remediation um abilities um like this actually the previous slide um so it we believe we continue to believe um just like when we adopted it that it will meet our needs but it certainly it will be up for evaluation
228yeah and I'm again I'm not knocking IXL like today I worked extensively and it's a useful piece of software well really to make sure though is that um we're avoiding craft right we're not adding more and more programs every year is the new cool thing comes out and then not making sure to remove you know previous stuff so we're not overwhelming right and star reading was removed um this year from the English required assessments um and this is what replaced it when you do that analysis in a few years um there's going to be a several variables right to have to consider um how do you how do you reasonably assess how the assessment is working for the district based on Smarter Balance tests with the ver with the variable of it depends on what
229the teacher does with the information right it isn't the success of the program actually going to be what do you do with it correct like there's no magic assessment programs out there zero Med you can't buy a computer program and expect it to work miracles for you it's a hundred percent about what how teachers use it in class and one of the things that I've been very happy with that I'm ecstatic both that with our DLC members are taking the the lead on The Guiding the trainings but the the trainings from IXL themselves have been very well received and very well done Morgan how long have you been a teacher this is my 10th year okay so I guess my question in a in an anecdotal way is how has this improved or streamlined your
230process of of assessing students and planning for your next set of lessons I mean does it it doesn't add or take away planning and Grading time or does it pretty much just stays the same but is more effective in your opinion I love that question because the way that I've been using it and kind of supporting some of the other teachers that I've been working with is this specific what you see right here and it's how do you use this information to differentiate your instruction and use those udl best practices as an education specialist working with co-teaching what we were doing was doing kind of those small group instruction um that's more of the elementary model that's really successful so we were doing in my sixth grade co-taught English we we directly used this us
231and we do we're doing six week rotations and reassessing seeing they would go into the live Arena seeing if they did make progress was this something that we were seeing progress from having these small groups and using these skill specific instruction or the data based on what are the specific needs so let's go over the main idea of a passage am I using IXL extensively to teach that no but am I teaching that concept yes and I think that kind of goes to what you were saying IXL is not the only thing we're using for instruction but it's definitely what we're using to then base our instruction how do you maneuver and pivot with this information yeah so um just to clarify my Baseline question do you feel like with this program you are planning
232and Grading more or less or about the same I would say planning less because this does a lot of your planning for you and if you're using it in the way that I would hope we all kind of reassess and take the information when you test or give kids quizzes you then change what you're doing based on that and that gives you this information and like I said if you have kind of that Foundation of what you're teaching in the class you just go to maybe a different level or push them in a different way yeah I I just know I've seen my English teaching friends who spend so many hours with greeting and lesson planning and planning their own lessons that I you know I always want to kind of protect that time definitely
233I think that from the feedback that I've gotten from the different sites and the people that I work with is they really like using IXL and they want to know more I also know that math is really into how to use the information in their instructional planning also Caitlin I just want to say that um we're visiting different sites and going to their staff meetings and Morgan will test that I was just there yesterday one of the things when I said how can the district support you moving forward next year one of the teachers I believe with in English teacher he um first time that's ever happened to me come in and said are you going to continue to support IXL on our campuses and I said yes I believe so I believe it's been
234a very popular announcement Morgan stepped up and said yes we have a five-year contract and that's the first thing they said to me was thank you for continuing that effort I don't know what's next Gloria so the um Elementary example that we have for you is the fiabs that Gloria mentioned earlier um this is an example of a report that that teachers get following the administration of the fiabs so they're easily able to identify students in in need of extra help on these very very focused assessments so um you know some of the challenges um with assessment have been discussed already one being finding a balance between over and under assessing that that time factor and how much uh how much bang are we getting for that upfront investment in um in time that it
235does take to give assessments other identified challenges is teacher training time particularly on data analysis IXL like Morgan mentioned there's formal trainings where teachers were released from their classroom it's hard for a teacher to leave their classroom I mean it's not a it's not a day off you know they have to make sub plans and they come back after sub and have to reorient we were fortunate enough to be in tap teachers volunteer their collaboration time on Wednesdays to take part in additional trainings but still time and and time for the analysis and time for training is always a challenge with assessment okay any questions all right well thank you very much for your time thank you both for being here appreciate it sorry um so our next item is uh number five uh this
236is our discussion action calendar Business Services McManus Elementary School new construction and modernization project bid and contract approval hi Julie hi can you please state your name for the proud sorry go ahead back in my wheelhouse tired now um tonight um we bring forward the bid results for the McManus Elementary School construction and modernization project there were four bidders I've listed them on the lead sheet modern Slater United building contractors and BCM Construction I want to note that the top two bidders were scarily close within two thousand dollars of each other on such a large scope of work is I've never seen anything like it before but we're very happy um that their numbers were were lower than we had expected so tonight we are asking for a total project approval of the 41 million
237dollars seventy thousand five hundred and the um direction from the board to execute Construction contract with the lower the lowest responsive bitter Modern Building Company do we how we work with both of those companies I know we have worked with modern I just um we have we have worked with all four of these firms on several occasions and we would have been happy for any of them to be the lowest bidder okay let me know I recall there being and probably not to their fault probably because of some of the earthquake upgrades and such um that there's been times when we've had to revise the the contract for a higher amount because things have kind of snowballed and so I just I just yeah I'm just curious about I mean I'm not curious enough to
238go into a lot of detail about it but with the two thousand dollar difference you know with either of those is there has there been a history of a higher risk of having to actually go back and increase that amount from their bid amount no I would say they're there are always things that occur once you're under construction that were unforeseen that require an increase in contact contract amount and that is the case with any one of these contractors okay thank you or it could be a district requested change as well that is more costly that changes that contract amount but those come back to the board for approval are you ready for a motion uh I move approval of um the lowest responsive bidder which is Modern Building Company and the there were two
239parts to your request really the total project uh approval the total project approval of 41 million seventy thousand five hundred awesome I'm in a second though Dolby second in case you didn't know my voice sorry I'm getting loopy um okay any discussion from the board or are we ready to vote I'll start I'll be I Rob Robinson I konk and I when do I thank you that's unanimous thank you what's next Charter Schools measure K Project's requests item 5.2 Julie thank you so the charter facility committee has met recently and brought forward their recommendations for two things that we're asking for your review and approval on this evening the first is a request for an allocation of uh twenty thousand dollars for core Butte to assist with their planning and cost estimating for their sport
240field and then the second portion is sort of a true up for previously approved projects at core Butte um where the projects were approved and the final accounting summary is is coming through so those are trueing up [Music] um they're available funds within their measure K allocation did you have any concerns or questions about any of these items no okay I'm of approval second okay uh we have approval a motion from Mr tennis and a second from Mr Lando our last vote was unanimous so all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye hearing no opposed it's also unanimous thank you all right next item six board member request to agendize an item Madam superintendent I had incred intended to ask you this earlier today um when we spoke but um I recently learned
241that there's some kind of five dollar limit to a gift that you can give a teacher does this sounding familiar like for PTO per are you referring to the district giving the teacher or or a parent giving the teacher this is like I think somebody giving something to through the PTO for for for teacher gifts some sort of five dollar limit are there any five dollar limits on gifts to teachers that you're aware of from any source no usually any kind of restrictions like that like on donations or things like that have to do with Ed code I've I've gotten plenty of 10 to 15 gift cards from Starbucks okay thank you and and that could be an individual site or it could be a restriction that PTO gives so that they could be Equitable
242but if you have more information I'm happy to research thank you thank you in that case I have no further items to discuss with regard to putting on a future agenda okay thank you are there others from other board members yes okay um I would like to agendaize discussion regarding the possibility of a district-wide facilities committee to get more input from our families regarding facilities master plan I have a question so this would be different from our current facilities we have a facilities master plan steering committee this would be kind of like what we mentioned earlier like an advisory committee something that's more robust something that's possibly you know is subject to Brown act I mean how are we I mean I have ideas about what I wanted to look like but for now my
243discussions about what it looks like what it could look like when they talk about it if we decide to okay do you want that to be a discussion action item yes okay okay thank you thank you I'll second with that um I guess we can't really discuss sorry is the system we have now broken what is the system we have now how do we get community feedback right now about our master plan so Julie shared that a little bit earlier there were several steps there were Community meetings some were well attended others were not um and then there also was a survey that went out we got information via survey and then in this particular case it was a very compressed timeline knowing that we wanted to go out for a bond in having to
244backtrack the timeline from that and so you know I think that that played into some of the communication issues on this particular one I will say with the schools that were directly impacted when we knew early on we made sure that we had site representation start attending the facility meetings um but I will also tell you nobody's going to stand up and say yeah take my school I mean those are difficult discussions and that's evidence when we went through and had discussions about closing schools when it was nored when it was Forest Ranch we went through the whole school closure process and you know we had packed meetings for four meetings in a in a row on those so it makes awareness for sure so that nobody's you know surprised they know it's coming but
245it doesn't decrease the sensitivity nor would you expect it to so oh God so my understanding is the goal of this item would be to get more information in exploring that that option for um addressing the clear uh challenges that are coming down the line maybe include a discussion of the current steering committee and whether it's meeting our needs and how to prevent the kind of surprised that we that we inadvertently hold on to the schools here today so not necessarily another committee but just kind of fine-tuning the committee we already have maybe I'm open to options I just want to talk about it okay um do are we ready for a vote okay Mr Lindo when do I attendance name Dolby I Robinson no konk and I right it passes three two thank you
246um I would like to agendize um I don't have a timeline on this so if a board member would like to amend this with a timeline I'd be happy for that um to explore the option of a no homework policy um and what that would look like at each elementary middle and high school so a discussion with potential action on implementing no homework policies with the understanding that is just for the purpose of having a conversation uh I will second that I'll be voting no because I don't think that even deserves a conversation I mean uh edu public education two teachers decorated in so many ways um is to explore it um and discuss data and evidence and how how homework um is is or is not effective and what we can do with policy
247based on that so we have a motion in a second um I will start Dolby I Robinson I can't now tennis nay it passes three two um I don't have a timeline on that so um we might have to discuss that and just see where it would fit best timeline wise um my second agenda is item is to um put on our May meeting to vote to consider not having a school board meeting in July and giving our staff July off you're taking a pay cut also that's a good question we don't have it yes the board yes could not get the site because that is an egg coat you would not get the money so we would be saving the district money Madam superintendent do you have an opinion about this idea we did
248do this last year um and it was fine I mean it was nice for people to be able to say take some time off in July and you can plan a vacation and not have to worry around and most importantly Erica for putting all of the agendas together yeah my I have reasons but that's why I want to put on the agenda to to discuss it we could always end up voting no a second thank you um you have not started yet Senate have you have you started yet tonight oh I would be happy to start except I haven't decided how I'm going to vote yet okay we'll go backwards Dolby I miss your tennis Robinson I all right it's unanimous um with that I move to adjourn yay seconded we're done thank you ah
249it's a closed session