001okay this is dr kathleen kaiser i am opening the school board meeting for tonight august 21st 24th excuse me and we will go to closed session until six o'clock and we'll come back then to open so see you then thank you um so okay sorry rap wrap calling this session of the chico unified school board into session we have been in closed session there is nothing to announce from closed session and so with that we will move to the flag salute i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you i also have a civility statement to read at the start of the board meetings and there has been actually a new
002law passed by the governor in regards to the climate of public board meetings the governing board recognizes the role that civility plays in creating a safe and positive school climate and enabling a focus on student well-being learning and achievement civil behavior is polite courteous and reasonable behavior which is respectful to others and includes integrity honesty acceptance dependability the observance of laws and rules and effective communication the board expects civil behavior in the use of district electronic digital systems and platforms on district grounds and facilities as well as at district events including school board meetings students staff parents guardians and community members shall participate in district activities including school board meetings in a civil manner so i thank you for your attention to that and with that we are going to turn to student reports well
003school is back in and our high schools are hopping we wanted to hear directly from both pleasant valley high school and chico high school so mr shepherd do you want me to just go ahead and have him come on up all right we are going to start with pleasant valley high school and is mrs volk here i don't know hi i'm allie williams i'm a student at pleasant valley i'm jackson blakely i'm also a student at pleasant valley and we came to talk about link crew so basically link crew is an incredible three-day for our seniors and juniors where we train and learn to how to work with freshmen and then the freshmen come on a friday right before before school starts and we have an amazing rally with them we start off in small
004groups and it's just an amazing way to create a unity with our upperclassmen and lowerclassmen yeah it's it's really great um i've created already so many bonds and uh friendships with a freshman already we kind of introduced them to the the high school way pleasant valley way get them in groups i've had plenty of freshmen that i've had in my groups came up to me and just kind of talked to and it's really great it's a great introduction for the new incoming freshman yeah and with that being said it's you go in thinking oh these are just some freshmen like no big deal and then you come out with them being your like little best friend and then you see them in the hallway you give them a hug give them a high five or
005you ask hey do you want me to bring you off campus lunch it's cr like and it creates a beautiful like circle in a way because my freshman year i had amazingly crew leaders and i was like i want to do that one year so with that we wanted to create that this year and i really hope we did and i hope freshmen will do that their junior and senior year as well all right yeah and you thought enough to wear white and blue yeah yeah totally yeah i worked out perfect thank you guys all right thank you do you have any questions for our students i already nailed mine okay then we're gonna invite up chico hi thank you pb oh you're just aiming for trouble dude that's a good way to start yeah
006well good afternoon my name is dylan i'm the athletic commissioner for chico high asb and i'm here to like tell you guys about our before school activities this year what we've done over the summer so we got started pretty early in summer we had our joint um summer retreat with pv's asb where we had a trainer come in and we learned what it meant to be a leader what it meant to be a good leader at that too and we got to know each other really it was great it was a lot of fun we did that for two days and we took that right into our work days the following weeks i think we had probably around six or so work days before that we're getting ready for the fresh incoming freshman lean crew
007training all the above we got posters done for our first week of school activities um this bishop really helped us get into the like routine of things it was great and we made a lot of new friends during those two weeks too and we really got to see like who was good at what and everyone really just like fell into place and got working um so the week before school started we started off with link crew training we had not just asb members but members from all throughout the school um primarily juniors and seniors come in and we gotta like once again we learned about what it meant to be a good role model for these freshmen and get them excited for high school get them ready to be a panther and at that at
008that like we really learned that hey like when we get these freshmen here we need to get make them excited for high school like make them feel like hey we're not coming into an alien environment we're coming to someone we're coming into a place where people really care about us people want to get to know us they want to care about who they want to know who we are not we're not just another freshman we are like we are a person um so that friday after chiseling through training we did our freshman orientation and we started off with a gauntlet with music playing dance party should have seen it it was dance party usa like you've never seen anything like it before we got 98 approximately 98 of our teachers and staff to show up
009for this gauntlet so freshmen started off seeing friendly faces the faces of people they're going to be with for the next four years um afterwards orientation we did like pv we both broke into small groups played games with them really like taught them important lessons about high school you know stay on top of things don't let like one bad thing hold you down right um we finished that off with the barbecue which was put on by four or so teachers they barbecued for the freshman and for us so all right yeah so hi i'm brooke and before we like wrap this all up i'm gonna talk about exciting like traditions that we have really fast you guys just know a little bit more about chico high i am also our asb vice president at chico
010um one really cool thing about link crew that we continue throughout the whole entire like school year is that not only are they our freshmen in our linker group but they become our friends and so this one freshman her name's addison her and i see each other on campus all the time and we just knuckle boom every time we see each other which sounds really childish and hilarious but it's so much fun and it really helps the students feel included and it shows that all grade levels can be friends with one another and that's a huge thing for us at chico high along with making freshmen feel welcomed we also had our senior sunrise we chalked parking lot spots which was really fun and our band also helps us all feel really welcomed because our
011band is a huge thing at our school they play every friday our football team like sings the alma mater and it's really fun because there's all ages in the band and all ages on football teams and it really just helps our school feel included and inclusive for all grades and people and it just has been really fun meeting all new people as a senior and this year has just been so fun so far so all right hi my name is summersun i'm a student at chico high school and i'm also the um asb president this year so i'm just going to wrap this all up with talking about upcoming events so next week is back to school night which is super exciting because the parents come and it's a really great way for like the
012panther family to start coming in with the parents and so i think it's a great way for parents to get acclimated and know that their kids aren't just the only panthers also next wednesday we have clubs on the quad which is where our amazing clubs on our campus come and they set up a table and it's a great way for freshmen to see the amazing like over 30 clubs that we have on campus we also have our first football game next week and for our first freshman football game the freshmen get in free because we really want them to know that chico high is a safe place for them and that they can come out and have a good time with their friends and then after that we have homecoming which is super exciting because
013we really want to focus on the alumni and the importance that past chico hires have to um our amazing school so that's it thank you is your mom a chico state faculty member yes she teaches she teaches physics yeah okay excellent and uh why are you sporting 50 on your chest young man i'm sorry um it's the almond bull shirt for last year that we had designed yeah yeah we have all the scores and like who won who lost yeah so it was a pretty cool design yeah so we get to actually have the almond bowl this year correct yes all right all right actually we just had like the opening ceremony for the car raffle so we came from that oh very good on my face yeah well yeah i'll be happier when one
014of you guarantee me i win the car i do when it keeps escaping me every year miss bishop yeah she knows all so yeah yeah thank you i do want to introduce kathleen bishop she is their activities director kathleen thank you for being here both pleasant valley and chico high thank you so much for all you do for the school climate at our schools and wow we are in great hands in the future these are our uh leaders on the school site mr tennis i have a comment madam president um i have a student who's going to chico high for the first time this year my first child who's going to high school and i want to say you guys must just have incredible personal bandwidth to be able to take this on transitioning these
015young kids into that environment you know when i was going through chico high if that was happening then i don't remember it you know it was kind of like hey you're on your own man and uh the fact that they're not is really neat so thank you so that's a parent thank you all right thank you guys that you can stay if you want or you can you can [Laughter] thank you guys okay so now we move to the superintendent's report and recognition and i'd like to ask dr kaiser to join me so as i know the board already knows we have an incredibly fabulous information technology or it department they especially during the pandemic worked miracles every single day but prior to that they were already way ahead of the curve which is what
016allowed us to survive during the panic pandemic you know without of course there were issues but we had technology ready to go so i do want to ask everyone here that works in the i.t department to stand up this is just an amazing department and mr john vincent leads that department and they're just we would not be able to do the things that we do if it were not for them so again thank you to all of them tonight is a little more specific we will be honoring the i.t department throughout the year and we're going to kick that off tonight with honoring the individuals that actually do the work for the board to make sure that everything is set up for your board meetings that it is live stream so that our community can
017watch and as i got to find out a few meetings ago all the work that goes into taking it back down and storing it away so we would like to honor a few people and i'm going to ask dr kaiser to help me and maybe mr marchant can help as well with that so i'm going to start with mr patrick bessetti all right i know he's here come on now not officially a part of the i.t department but definitely uh gets all the facilities set up and ready to go mr phil morgan [Music] [Applause] zach vanroekel [Applause] tyler ward that's right he just he's a brand new dad priorities brand new dad he's not here tonight he's in a much more important spot that's right uh john vincent who leads the department [Applause] and brandon
018morgan did i forget anybody okay kelly i'm gonna talk over your presentation if that's okay absolutely patrick in addition to sitting back here and keeping us all um being heard shows up out front to help put my electric cart together and take it back down and put it back in my car at the end of a meeting while i i couldn't be here without him [Applause] i just again want to thank rit department you guys are fabulous and you really keep us rolling so thank you very much and that concludes my report and you guys also do not have to stay but we'd love it if you do want to without you guys we don't have live mic so you know the moment you leave something is going to break you know this right thank
019you guys all right so uh announcements i have one um my son kip tennis is kind of a rich history with chico unified school district kind of a phenomenon in parking lots from time to time but he is 11 tonight so i want to give a shout out to my son kip congratulations on a happy happy 11th birthday and dad is here so thank you okay birthday kip all right okay any other announcements all right so items from the floor i have one speaker elaine ward imagine it's the first day of school you drop your child off at the gate because they want to be a big kid and walk to class by themselves but as you're pulling away your parental instincts kick in something is wrong after 45 minutes of trying to reach the
020school someone finally answers and tells you student doesn't go here anymore you rush to campus where the principal informs you they tried calling you for three weeks over the summer to inform you of the change yet you have no missed calls nor have you changed your phone number you ask why you weren't contacted via email and you're told we don't do that when you ask who made this change you're told you did when you did no such thing no addendum meeting was held to discuss the new placement of your child at a new school nor was the proper placement put in place with the proper support nor was your child placed in the proper classroom setting how would you feel if you're wondering no this didn't happen to me but to a parent in our
021local support group one would hope as they attempted to resolve the situation the principal would have felt it needed immediate attention and would have accepted fault in the situation but this principle didn't instead this parent was made to feel that this situation was their fault and they were gaslight they were made to feel less than and simply told i guess i can put him in a class today how is this admin supporting this parent in a very difficult situation how is this admin making themselves approachable in the future how is this admin building a working relationship with this parent regarding the future success the future long term success of their child i'll tell you how they're not two days later this parent received an email from the principal saying how much they loved this student
022and how much of a gem they were but where is the love for this student when this incident happened and most importantly where was the apology to this parent for the principal's extremely unprofessional behavior in handling the situation some could argue it was the first day of school and there was probably a lot going on no this is a prime example of the lack of support we asped parents receive from school site principals being stressed doesn't excuse unprofessional behavior being stressed isn't a reason to blame a parent for something they did not do luckily this parent had a supportive network of parents who rallied behind them and gave them next step actions but i ask you what is happening to those parents that do not have a supportive network how are they being treated behavior
023like this from school site admins needs to be stopped it needs to be addressed and i assure you that as these situations continue to happen i will continue to bring them to your attention thank you thank you all right that's the only uh person who submitted a speaker card so with that we will move to the consent calendar and our last board member is arriving so is there anyone who wishes to pull an item from the consent calendar an item from this consent calendar anyone all right seeing no one um then may have a motion i move the consent calendar okay you have a motion from mr tennis and seconded by tom lando and we've any other discussion all right then we will uh do a voice vote robinson i orlando i kaiser eye dolby
024a tennis eye okay five to zero thank you with that we move to the discussion action calendar and opening day updates for the 22-23 school year jay musharn thank you dr kaiser um as we do every year we just like to kind of go how our first week of school went and what things are going on on our campus so i'm going to go over a quick slideshow if we get it pulled up there we go and i'm going to see if my clicker works so um again the 2022-23 school year update things i'll be talking about summer programs staffing professional development enrollment facilities and management co and extracurricular participation in technology um summer programs these are things that happen over the summer not the first week of school but we just wanted to give
025you a quick update we had 398 secondary students uh go to credit recovery and earn credits we had uh two different summer sessions for tk through five uh the one in june we had three weeks we had 744 kids attend one week one in august we had 407 kids attend we also do a k boot camp for families who want to get their kids into a kind of a what it's going to look like when they walk in we have 13 uh kindergartners show up for that we also had our extended school year um esy for our special ed students we had 328 um students attend that and then we also have this year where the first time was a junior high early back so we had students come in at the different school sites
026for that for that was 105 kids showed up so we had a pretty successful summer session this year and we continue to we have a grant um elop grant that we will be using ms keane tells me for uh for the future summer so we're excited to continue to be able to do that yes do you have the number of total unique students for the summer i'm sure there's a little bit of overlap in those numbers i was just curious if we knew that you mean like student groups or how many students were reached this summer oh how many total well i can only just tell you about those are the numbers that each one i couldn't tell you like how many different ones went to one versus another i was just wondering if we
027had the cusd saw this many students this summer for you know our different summer programs oh curious if we had that specific number i would have to do i would just add it up in my head no because there's overlap so oh okay yeah i'm sorry i do not i did get good feedback about the early back for junior high thank you um just go over staffing certificated staff we had 70 new hires this year that um get anywhere between elementary junior high high school specialized staff so we hired 70 new certificated staff this year and then classified staff we had 45 at from may 30 to july 1 that's number that i was getting from classified that we hired 45 new staff members during that time period a lot of professional development going on
028there was a group that went to the mtss conference um this summer we have different types of curriculum training we have also just some individual ones we had our new teacher orientation so i believe we had 68 of our 70 new teachers show up from the new teacher training we also had a special education new teacher training first on august 9th and then all teachers showed up on the 10th we had again a very good showing for that we had our professional development for all of our teachers that we had on august 11th it was a good showing we brought in obeyo to do uh training for all of our teachers one for tier one instruction and then obeyo also worked with our secondary teachers to go over the block schedule and the things that
029they could be doing on their campuses for that we also had um sorry could you give me the meaning of the initials for abeo it it's very descriptive actually it's it's not an acronym so it's just a name that they came up with for their company and i know this only because i asked the exact same question i thought it was an acronym yeah okay thank you i'm one that i did skip over and i which was a very big day for we have a leadership advance where all of our leadership our principals and psychologists show up we had a dr greenfield come in to do equity work with us and we will be most likely to be he'll be doing more training for all of our leadership throughout the school year and then we
030hope to bring them in for our teachers next year it was a very positive day we had a very good positive imp um from our staff saying it was a good thing for dr frank greenfield to come in so it was a very good day for us um some of the things that we also did uh we did some behavior support training for our instructional paraprofessional and campus supervisors so that's one of the things that we heard in our lcat meeting for our from our special ed parents that they're asking for more training for our aides and so they came in our behaviors came in and did a training for them and then also our administration asked if our campus supervisors could go to those also so they did um we had a good number
031of our campus supervisors show up for that and another one for transportation this year we did a neutral heart approach um training for our our bus drivers and we had a very high showing for that which was a it was a great day for our bus drivers because they were excited to come and they got some very good training on how to do different strategies for their students on the bus enrollment and we're just kind of giving you a 10-year snapshot as of today our enrollment was 12 175. it will uh continue to fluctuate as our registrars our attendance clerks and our office managers find out that students that have not showed up yet um if they're going to be showing up or not so that trend usually we wait until right after labor day
032weekend to really kind of figure out what our enrollment was going to be but right now it's the highest enrollment that we had for this day in the past 10 years but again we have some work to do because we have some new office managers on different sites that are still working with figuring out how many students we do have on our campuses so we'll have a more realistic number usually right after labor day facilities and maintenance mcmanus will be getting started up this spring julie did i talked to julie kissel today she said most likely after the bids will go out that we're hoping to start in the spring of this year on mcmanus and they're hoping for the summer of 2025 that that campus will be completed that's our goal um coming in
033from facilities extra co and extracurricular um again we heard some of the great things that link crew was doing um at our high schools for incoming ninth graders we also do that for incoming sixth graders um it's called um web wherever where everyone belongs and again that was very successful in all three of our junior highs and then we right now in our fall athletics we have an estimate of about 1100 total students participating in high school and middle school athletics start the school year technology i'm john vince and his team um today uh which we were highlighting today they've done a great job they wrote um they rolled out new chromebooks for second graders sixth graders and ninth graders this year again we go on four year cycles for those chromebooks and so this
034year was second grade sixth grade in ninth grade so approximately four thousand chromebooks new ones went out this year and then we also one of the things that we heard that we wanted to do in one of our workshop was to do more goguardian training um so john vincent and his crew and tim carris did a training on for all of our teachers on the 11th so all of our teachers got training on goguardian and all the updates on to that so they can uh better utilize because as um we found in our workshop a lot of our teachers um were not unders didn't understand the new things that gore garden can do or weren't using them so we wanted to show them all the different things that goguardian could do for them in their
035classroom so what form did that did that training take so all of them were in different like grade levels or their departments and so i'll just kind of talked about since they led the training they're racing up there let's see who's going to talk first yes so so um it was an all-district training for all of our staff so we had a tv with a a demonstration of goguardian we had how many six students i think that were logged into our goguardian session we had services directors along with jay and kelly so you'd like to know kelly was on task the others might not have been so we use goguardian too to bring them back to being on task so we showed our teachers how they could use goguardian to view what all the kids
036are doing how to close down tabs how to lock all the chromebooks those basic things that really make it so that they can manage those devices in their classrooms and and they were at home watching this they were in classrooms over at pv so they were in all the different classrooms they actually were physically there in classrooms and it was like mandatory and they had to be there and yes wow it was mandatory and we had admin overseeing the different classrooms well for all of them who are glued to this board meeting right now i want to say thank you for doing that um because it's important to me as a parent you know um one of the hardest things is uh when we look on securely right and if we happen to see that
037our kids were you know messing around wasting time during class you know we're looking at things that have nothing to do with what they're supposed to be doing um you know just just generally wasting time it's it's frustrating so um teachers knowing how to work with that goguardian system and and monitor that is very very much appreciated so thank you to anyone who did participated in that or put it on yeah i would i'll say we we did have a slight influx in help desk tickets coming into i.t for goguardian help following that training and anecdotally there was positive feedback about ease of use for some reason the student name jay was looking at um hotel rooms at the venetian um during class time so i don't know how that came about but thank you
038for that all right all right so that was kind of a nutshell of our summer and our first week any questions for any of that services we can help you we'll be obviously giving you constant updates um for uh what our enrollment looks like uh mr karis has told me that he will be sending those out daily and then we will be giving you updates as the school year goes on how we're going how things are going on our campus jay you had a picture of the facilities and maintenance for peavey's culinary arts but you didn't mention it yeah it was just one of tho again we talked about that briefly because pv started their block schedule this year first of all we were talking about how sierra nevada believes that's one of the best
039kitchens in in northern california period even for restaurants but we can tell you the number of sections i think they pretty much doubled or almost tripled the number of sections of kids that are taking culinary not one because of the box schedule and two because of the facility and we hired another teacher that we stole from i believe the yuba city area yuba city area and then uh one finding another uh culinary arts teacher it was a great thing because we know priscilla is going to be retiring i don't know in the next we hope the next 10 years she says less than that but we would keep her we'll keep hanging on to her but it's nice to find another one to add just because we had so many sections that added to absolutely
040all right thank you for that okay so um the 2022 local control accountability plan revisions tim you're going to speak to that or dean okay yeah we'll both be here tonight to speak to this good evening and a happy birthday to mr kip i know him to be a very polite young man so please give him my best birthday wishes as is very often we have a couple of little edits that come with our el cap from the county after adoption and we've added those i i have it here printed out and marked if you want to take a look at that but they're pretty simple one specifically came from the county for uh goal one under uh once 1.7 specifically to make sure that we include students with disabilities in an in a description
041for that goal so that was very easy to put in there and much appreciated okay yeah the other two were data related number the first one was suspension rate the suspension rate originally put in the lcap brought to the board in june um was lower than the true end-of-year suspension rate that is due to a clerical error that cut off uh counting suspensions in early may and it's not to say that we had a a ton of great um increase in suspensions at the end of may but also what happens at the end of the year is administrators are cleaning up their uh discipline records to ensure all the necessary codes are are present in the records to allow us to query them so there's two things going on there so that was a clerical
042error we thought it was important to bring what we knew as the as the correct data to the board and call your attention to it the other two are related to survey data and that the student surveys that we gave last year was the first run of them and we had you know large teams of counselors working on them and being that it was our first run of them we mistakenly included a neutral category um and we believed that the inclusion of that neutral category has been uh deleted and we we believe that um the data was falsely representing the results because neutral results were not included the data is now [Music] it's documented that the the neutral responses are included so it's positive and neutral that are included in those counts so we thought
043that was a true representation although imperfect as perfect as we we could get given the answer choices uh my own going through the data has been that i think uh a lot of times the percentages without the number the n number would if someone wasn't very sophisticated with the stats they might misjudge them so i think it's well as a mathematician i think so much better if the end is there so then we know yeah i think we talked about that um back in june and will be included okay thank you yes eileen um thank you dr kaiser um i'm interested in seeing a pie chart or something that reflects what happened when you took that neutral response out is it is it in the attachment it's not but we can certainly provide that to
044the board would you please absolutely yeah forward it with an explanation sure thank you i i don't have the statistical brain that dr kaiser does matt um i just want to say i appreciate the integrity on the part of the district i think going back and you know if we painted a picture that was slightly rosy in the original lcap and we're coming back to say no it's not quite as rosy as we had said here's the real data i appreciate that so my other thing is we need to get the magic super glue answer to math can you explain that a little more depth please we score lower on math than every area than we do on english and it's all of our groups so i see that as as important as english language
045and we have made a lot of strides in that but our math is still kind of hitting all the bumps in the road i would say yeah agreed and and that was a going back to the uh it was a 1920 school year when we really started looking at earnest and the progression of students through the math courses and where where students dropped off and like a lot of things was put on the back burner during covid we picked that that conversation back up with math via the dlc we now have universal screeners going up through grade level 9th grade math which is im1 the high schools are working on systematizing their academic success courses to better meet those needs of of students based on those universal screener results in addition we've added the a
046a diagnostic system that allows teachers to measure what students know or don't um on the course content as they start the school year and that is given from sixth grade all the way up through im3 beginning this year so of course giving an assessment is not enough it's the analyzing and the reacting to the data that we will be working on and continue to have math as a focal point of discussion we have some really really impressive cte courses connecting with the high school butte and admissible to chico state even so i hate to see people falling off just because you know nobody was looking and reaching out a hand yeah another thing of note is um both high schools have have taken a a new look at the progression of students through especially math
047c and i am one um and looking for the best ways to support those kids that are struggling making that leap because that's where that's where we've seen it in the data where the leap is the hardest okay thank you you know and additionally additionally i just want to add real quickly that it's um the goal of our mtss program to see where this data lands us and with a person on each site and dlc working in in conjunction with the staffs that's a really good way to make sure that we're not falling through the cracks so i'm excited to see that continue forward too with the support of the mtss crew and i can also tell you dr kaiser um on the august 11th day elementary teachers it was a big portion of their
048professional development day that they were working on math is that correct we hired several teachers to come back through and really reorganize our scope and sequence for reading ready classroom math and did a significant retooling of it so it's just much cleaner crisper we adjusted some of our assessments also we're aligned much more with like fibs iebs with some of those things rather than just some district level ones with those things put a bunch of supplementary materials with it we have trainings with our publishers coming up also so we've we've had the same angst that you're expressing with it also and our dlc group has really put a lot of effort into revising things and having it ready to go this year great thank you eileen yes thank you dr kaiser has the state department
049of education delaying the math framework yeah thank you framework that was the word i was looking for is that going to have any impact on on us or are we are we independently moving forward like we did with um the creation of our math pathways here a few years ago we we oh my short answer to that is as we are moving forward we like i said before this is this is not a new question for us um and we are moving forward with you know some of the things that ted and i talked about today and in addition what i want to say is one of the when you look at the at math scores um one of the big drop drop-offs is fifth to sixth grade and we have worked to get diagnostic
050tests for math a which is the sixth grade math in the hands of fifth grade teachers so that they understand what it truly means to be ready for math a and we started with that with the pilot last spring so and your question uh absolutely by not having a framework fully approved yet you know the textbook publishers kind of wait for that to be done they write accordingly so then that becomes what we can be adopting a couple years down the line so it's kind of this domino chain that we've been kind of sounds horrible twiddling our thumbs waiting until a new a connected adoption comes out so it absolutely makes it harder with not having that framework in place like that ted um why would that matter uh what's up because publishers want to
051wait and see what's in the framework before they start putting math curriculum together to match up to what's in that framework and so the old curriculum is so inferior that it's not bad but it's just not nearly as crisply aligned to kind of what they're going to be tested on with state testing with some of those kinds of things thank you i think you're excused all right thank you all right thank you tim and tina all right with that um we moved to the uh dual enrollment agreement for chico high and pb and i already made a reference to that and there's john yeah thank you dr kaiser so this is a request for approval of the appendices to the agreement that was voted upon last year each year we'll be bringing to you we
052hope a growing number of dual enroll enrollment opportunities from our high schools so this year the both dependencies together we have 12 courses that we'd like you to approve we're excited about these opportunities for our kids going back to your comments about cte completers and those kinds of things so we'll be hopefully bringing this back to you each year in addition to these 12 we're hoping to develop some partnerships with four-year universities such as southern oregon has reached out to us so okay another opportunity i personally was very impressed with the courses i was a little surprised to see that some of them were identified as non-transferable but they appeared to be interactive in a lab kind of a setting so yes and to keep in mind too that while they may not be transferable
053to a four-year some of these courses are are a component of a two-year certificated pathway so for example an lvn pathway or a master welder pathway so they won't be transferable but they'll lead to degrees i was just impressed with the scale and the scope of the courses all right any questions any comments okay well then may i have a motion sure i'll move approval of the dual enrollment agreement i'll second that okay so we have tom lando and eileen as the seconder all right any further discussion okay so we can have just a voice vote on this all those in favor please signify by saying aye right passes five to nothing so that's great thank you john okay so i think we have maria she's hiding there she is good evening tonight i am
054here to present a couple items the first item is 9.21 informational relocatable excuse me update on the relocatable classroom building at parkview elementary on june 22nd 2022 the board of education approved resolution number 1585-22 authorizing emergency relocation of a portable building to parkview elementary per the resolution it is our duty to update the board at every board meeting until the project is complete the current report is the classroom has been put in place remodeled and ready to serve our students as you may remember this project was started or started construction pre-dsa approval as of yesterday afternoon we received dsa approval for the construction of this project we have a couple items that dsa has asked us to bring up to code or up to date and one of them is school lighting emergency ada lighting
055from the classroom to the parking lot the other item that is pending is the ada ramps those are long lead items we have temporary ramps installed for the moment we expect those within a couple months will they not approve it until the permanent ones show up it's approved oh all right okay yeah okay and this is going to be kindergartners in this building right we have kindergartens in this building and a new staff member at a parkview i'm in hornet i was over there today actually visiting the classroom to look looks fabulous it's just a beautiful space very inviting so they did a great job getting everything right in a short time all right great thank you so this is just informational yep okay i want to give some information too for those who don't
056know that julie kissel was pretty severely injured in a bicycle accident and she is has had surgery and is in recovery but right now she's taking a well deserved break so maria is stepping in very nicely yes she is thank you okay the following item is item 9.2.2 charter school measure k project request as stated in the measure k bond language part three the eight charter schools located within the chico unified school district boundary are to receive 15.34 of measure k bond funds the charter school committee has brought this project to for your review and approval location forest ranch school blacktop repair there are asphalt areas in the rear of the school containing basketball courts handball cords etc there are several cracks and ruptures in the present asphalt with weeds growing out of them resulting
057in several safety issues etc is came out of the report so this re-asphalt cracked and fracture blacktop correction repairs estimated amount cost is seven thousand seven hundred fifty dollars all right so um we would need a motion on that correct correct all right may i have a motion is there any public comment oh is there a public comment i have a question should i ask it now or yeah you can ask it now has our maintenance staff or does our maintenance staff routinely check on something like this to corroborate you know the the claims about the condition of the parking lot up there the eric germans of the world looked at this and so within our schools within our chico unified school district yes they routinely maintain and oversee all of our sites being that
058this is a charter school jaclyn would you please yeah so part of the part of the facility use agreement is that they mean they maintain the facilities essentially we'll do the exterior of the physical buildings but they have to maintain everything inside that includes the grounds so in the request that's attached to the agenda item there are pictures that substantiate the cracks that we're looking at so i don't know if it's zac or phil if you could bring that up in addition with routine maintenance on asphalt blacktops cords etc with wear and tear in use and years of use and service this type of maintenance is common yeah it's page four of the pdf there oh pretty bad so it is pretty substantial and as maria spoke to you can see the grass on the
059top picture that is growing in those cracks yeah some of these uh cracks were three and a half to four inches wide potentially being a tripping hazard yes and again this these measure k products project requests go through the charter group review yeah i'll move that we approve this item okay i'll second that motion okay so motion by matt second by eileen any further discussion i have a couple of clarification questions just okay triple check and put on the record we we still own the facilities right so yeah so okay and this is well within their remaining measure k allocation so yeah awesome thank you all right oh we have to take a boat you have to stand right there the vote yeah don't run away from the vote okay uh again we can do
060a voice vote here so all those in favor please signify by saying aye okay pass this five to nothing all right okay now you're off okay jacqueline you're up yeah so the next item is informational it is related to a 45-day budget update so ed code 42 127 basically says that after the state budget is signed sealed delivered if you will if there are material changes in the actual legislative language compared to what the assumptions were that you generated your budget on in in may and june you're to take it back to the public at a regularly scheduled board meeting to provide those additions so zach would you mind bringing up the pdf that's attached to the agenda item please so i will say the template is has a lot of numbers on it this
061is the template that we're required to use per view county office of education really the important piece here is the change column which is the third set of group of numbers so you'll see the single largest change is that very top line there's 14 million dollars more coming in in our local control funding formula that's largely due to the 12.84 increase to base it does also include inclusive of that 14 million is 386 000 related to additional funding for our tk ada so that we are getting an extra set of dollars to accommodate the fact that we now have a 24-2 staffing ratio in those classrooms additionally on the unrestricted side you'll see there's 1.1 million additional funding and other state revenue and that is related to our transportation so there is legislation that was
062passed that said we'll now be funded on 60 of our transportation expenditures so not fully funded but we'll take 60 percent so that is above and beyond the 600 000 that we already received so we'll get an additional 1.1 million uh for that and i want to give a shout out to our transportation because we have buses and drivers when others do not yes big cheer yes and dr kaiser i'd also like to give a shout out to california school boards association that lobbied very heavily to get this transportation stuff worked into the legislation and get it passed and on to the governor yes so on the restricted side you'll see a very large number there 22 million 22.7 million with corresponding expenditures so that's three pots of money there's two pots that are one
063time in nature so there's 7.4 million for the arts music and instructional materials block grant as well as 14 million for learning recovery block grant so basically 21 million of that is one time money and then we'll have an additional 1.1 million for our e-lock program expanded learning opportunity program which funds our after school program and our summer academies as well so this is just the revenue side because that's really what's impacted by the approval of the state budget expenditures on the district side so i'll be back with my team in december for our first interim budget revision for the current year which will have the closeout from the 21-22 school year as well as adjusted assumptions and staffing for the current year is there any questions it's nice to be looking at green instead
064of red yep exactly okay mr hanlon i think you're up so david cole and i are going to tag team this so um we've had a lot of press interested in staffing shortages that are in the national news it's not just hitting chico it's across the nation and state and all over the place so we wanted to kind of give you a snapshot of where we are and how we're handling it here in chico unified the stories are a little bit different between certificated and classified so david cole is going to go over the classified piece of that after i do the certificated so let's go ahead and click that so just to give you give you a little idea there you go we have about 798 certificated staff 711 classified you can see there's
065a thousand 44 44 positions but that means we have many classified staff that have more than one position 171 classified exempt positions and 73 administrators so it gives you an idea of where we're at when we're talking and these are just the different kinds of certificated staff that we have in the district includes all of those folks so over the summer it's a little easier with certificated pretty much resignations and retirements come just before summer sometimes we know in the spring sometimes we don't but we pretty much have one time a year within a within a window where we know who's going to be leaving us and how many positions we have to fill as david will explain in a few minutes classified as year round and it's much more challenging so we had 44
066retirements um 29 resignations we hired 59 new people and staff on leave were 39 and so that's why the difference between the 70 that jay um explained earlier we have some staff that are temporary that came on to to fill some of those those people on leave these are the positions that we have currently um still open um as of a few days ago we we also have a um we have it up there yeah a math position in junior high also that that came up um just recently for some unforeseen circumstances so so we're pretty well staffed we have those positions are open and we're moving toward up interviews here shortly so we're pretty well staffed as far as certificate i will add that if you went back four or five years ago we
067would have dozens and dozens and dozens of applicants for each position that's not true anymore so we are feeling the effects here in chico certainly with our certificated staff we are we have maybe a handful of applicants for any given position and and sometimes we're just taking those staff from other districts that are around us and then they have the same problems filling um their staffs fully so so sometimes that's that's um not the best way to do that when we hope that everybody in our county have have adequate people to draw from but it's um it's difficult there are a lot of factors for that we have a lot of retirements people moving out of the area you saw that's a that's probably an abnormally high number of resignations not so much on the
068retirement side um so we are are filling those and on top of that we had we moved the block schedule um in the last couple years first at chico high and then a pv high school and we added a total of 30 additional secondary teachers so so not just filling old positions where people laughed we had to we had to hire for new positions too but um we're pretty well staffed these are the new administrators this year we've introduced a lot of us one quick question about the data on the previous slide um the certificated positions that aren't uh that are not filled right now um are those being filled by subs or are those just hanging out open no they're they're subs right now and that's why we want to move as quickly as
069we can like the preschool position just um resigned so that's that's fairly new the um the math position at um fairview just opened up i mean so there's some things that are like within days so we're not we haven't had and they don't plan to have subs in there for weeks and weeks and weeks we've we've opened up and we already have applicants for those positions and uh we'll be setting up um interviews quickly here thank you very much for the clarification every same like back one more slide um just because i'm a little confused on the math so there was 59 new hires but there was more than 59 plus those numbers of vacancies so i'm just curious about the numbers not matching up necessary so on leave um i hope if i'm answering
070your question on leave that kind of throws it we may have people on leave for a month so we can't get somebody in there that's properly credentialed so we may have a long term sub in there but on some of those we know they're out for a semester or the full year for different reasons typically medical but and then we have to hire temporary staff so they actually sign a contract and we hire them so i don't count the subs the long-term subs as as highers because they are really um short-term relatively seventy-three retirements and resignations but fifty-nine new hires and we didn't in elementary we didn't replace all those positions so people left and um and because we had extra positions for class size reduction at elementary we want to next year the funding
071runs out so we want to kind of glide into getting back to regular staffing levels in elementary so we didn't replace all of those folks either okay so the math doesn't quite jive but it works out in the classrooms any other questions uncertificated before i turn it over to david yeah we i just wanted to get the names up there we had introduced the principals and assistant principals earlier but um these are the new folks just in administration well good evening um again uh these are the different classified positions actually this lists um about a half a dozen or so there are actually 74 different classifications and security lists within the classified service so let's just list the larger classifications so so when you look at retirements uh it's quite a bit different from what
072happens in classified versus certificate we have classified retirements throughout the year there is no date set that people uh come to an end same thing with resignations uh a lot of our positions are partial positions so we're resignations throughout the year we have a lot of students that leave us we have a lot of registry resignations from parent restricted where people work in the classroom but when their student leaves the classroom they have to resign and so we'll see a lot of changes the new hires are just what's happened since july 1. so essentially when we fired 30 new employees but when we start looking at ips and some of the challenges we have it kind of goes back that new hiring will touch on that a little bit staff on leave is 35 so
073the challenges we have in the structural paraprofessional we have about 81 positions that we haven't filled yet and if you go back to july 1st we had 61 positions filled we have done seven recruitments since july one we hired 120 total employees over the school year or since summer 90 of those were in special ed but because of new positions resignations people leaving and going to different positions we've actually are now at 81. what happens in the ip world is that some of our positions are less than six or hours she may have a position that is a two hour position in a three hour someone vacates that go to a six hour and now we have two open positions when we just had one and so we're constantly with our order of offers with
074the contract having to go out and ask our employees first by contract if they have an interest in position if they have a seniority right to it they're automatically placed into it so the other positions when we look at the cafeteria assistant and the campus supervisor a good example is campus supervisor we have 10 open positions but it's only an fte of two so we have a tremendous amount of two hour positions three hour one and a half and so those add up and so when you start looking that's where you saw that eleven hundred and everyone i think was eleven hundred and forty positions from that effect when we only have 711 employees i have questions can you go back to the last slide please um so how many of these or all of
075these are partial ftes when you look at all of those positions maybe other than the campus supervisor there may be one in that group i don't believe there is right now that number ten i checked before i left is that eight will fill two this uh this friday none of those are full time seven half hour eight hour positions on that list and do you think that that's probably what's attributing to such a high number of vacancies is that they're all part time and very low part time at that well part of the issue cafeteria assistant's a great example we only feed kids in the morning and we feed them at lunch and so to have them work a full day we aren't there for eight hours so we have these short term positions to
076feed people in the morning and in the afternoon the other problem that's happened is when you start looking at campus supervisor and cafeteria assistant the delta we used to have with minimum wage has gone up from 10 to 15 very very quickly we used to be about 13 when it was 10 and as it goes up our now our dealt is 43 cents so our lowest level positions when you get to campus supervisor and cafeteria assistant are 1543 with the minimum wage increase july january 1 will be below minimum wage in this position but what's not built into that is the benefit factor when we look at those lower level positions we have to include about 50 percent of the hourly rate and benefits and so we look at and say how much does that
077position cost the district it's much much higher than what we're posting it doesn't help the employee working i do understand that that is an issue right i'm just kind of curious about what what what kind of creative thinking there is going into or out of the box thinking there is going into filling getting these positions filled because obviously what has worked in the past is not working anymore we're in a much different type of employer employee environment these days as a whole society so in a lot of our positions um and within csu you can hold combined positions so you could held a campus supervisor position you can a cafeteria assistant and you can build up to different hours and that's a different change and so people are able to do that the big thing
078when you look at ips particularly when you go back say 15 years ago we had about 225 positions in position control for ip today we have over 407 and so that has kind of exploded over the last couple of years it's become more difficult to fill this as we go we offer a lot more training we've increased those hours and most of those positions they're getting closer to six hours the full school day and so we're having better luck filling those now but we we have right now on our eligibility list almost 40 people that have signed up so i'd like to be an ip we have another recruitment that opens up next week and so is one opens we close i believe we opened 21 last year and so i think there is an
079opportunity for us to catch it finally but it is difficult particularly in this environment i have a lot more questions and things but i feel like this is like a brainstorming session that needs to happen or i don't know okay we could set up a time where the three of us can meet and answer questions and go you know through it if you'd like to set that up okay thank you and anyone else is welcome this is this is a challenging um area for us um we're playing constantly playing catch up um with jobs just for those reasons and students aren't in school eight hours so to create an eight-hour job and we don't have a need for it is a conflict with um fiscal you know um responsibility so and that's that's the tug
080of war that we're we're dealing with in some of these positions so all right so thank you diane since may we've done four rounds of hiring for ips the first two rounds was a lot of movement like david was talking before people leaving positions for four or five hours to our six and six and a half hour positions the last two rounds including one i did today i interviewed 16 people today i'm going to be offering 15 of those people positions not one of them is leaving another position they're all from the outside so we are seeing a change the last round was similar to that there were only like three that were leaving positions so we are coming around the corner on that and this is one of the best pools i've had for
081interviews we're getting a lot of these people that are in preschools in public and private preschools and because their numbers are so low they're looking for new opportunities and so these people with the experience are coming to us now so it was a really good pool so we are turning the corner i believe based on the increased rate that we've done and just every time we do an interview pool they open it right back up so i can just keep on going through them thanks for sharing that all right this is informational i really appreciate that so now we have uh uh a request by hanlon this is you again right you just thought you'd run away okay let me just uh okay so this is a variable turn waiver and um so we hired
082a new social worker counselor who is working on her credential and it's just another one of those situations where they do not offer internships for social worker counselors so we have to do a one-year waiver in order for her to put in complete her credential work while she's completing those classes and working on those hours that she has to put in in actual practice so i brought one last time for a variable term waiver and this is a new new person that we recently hired there aren't there just is no one out there with a clear credential so um these are folks that have a social worker license and can go back and fairly easily get the credential but they then have to put in those hours and that usually takes the full year all
083right okay any uh questions or a discussion i do um just because i want to make sure i'm reading the tax documentation correctly um in the attachment uh the paperwork it says that there's a question about how many individuals credentialed in the authorization were interviewed so is that not saying that six people who've held the credential already and i'm not i'm i'm definitely not casting inspiration on your hiring cards i like uh yeah where are you at i'm looking at page um three uh under c it says how many individuals credentialed in the authorization of the waiver request were interviewed so that makes it look as though six people who had the who who held the pps credential were interviewed for the position the numbers don't add up there and have to i'd have to
084check into that and get back to you on that yeah good question i will find out and then let the whole board know okay but we need to move forward with this correct for her yes i do need approval so that we can then apply to ctc for the clearance okay will ctc question the numbers on the document if just not with board approval no no and i don't know the particulars there may have been um there may have been an applicant or applicants that did not pass the background um check i just don't know um what the particulars were on this right yeah the numbers don't add could have been wrong credentials not an appropriate credential and then we would have been in the same same position yeah so i just would have i'll
085have to look into that and see what the particulars run that endless members don't have help can can you send that clarification as soon as you get it though jim yes okay yes thanks tomorrow morning okay any further discussion thank you tom for catching that any further discussion all right um may i have a motion then i'd like to move the approval okay tom i'll second that motion eileen seconds all right again this can be a voice vote um all those in favor signify by saying aye aye okay five to nothing all right and then we'll get a clarification hopefully by tomorrow so uh any items from the floor we have no speaker no additional speaker card no speakers all right um is there a board member who requests to agendize an item all right
086seeing that then um move to adjourn thank you all thank you you