6/29/2022 Special Board of Education Meeting

001calling the chico unified board meeting to order and we'll do 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 okay are there any announcements that someone has any announcements all right well if nobody's kids have won anything or whatever okay i guess not that seems odd for us but so we will move to the consent calendar and is there anyone who wishes to pull an item anyone on the board who wishes to pull an item from the consent calendar okay seeing none is there anyone in the audience that wishes to pull an item from the consent calendar all right so with that may i have a motion sure

002i'll move pass it to the consent calendar all right second second okay moved by tom and second by matt so all those in favor it'll be a book roll call vote lando eye kaiser i tennis eye okay so passes four to one thank you i mean four to zero all right so with that we move to the discussion action calendar and number one is the draft 2020 2 23 local control accountability plan and is tim and tina are coming up to the podium i just want to say a few words about the importance of the lcap we moved to the local control funding formula in 2014 and with that came the requirement that we do a local control accountability plan what was unique about that is it was the first time that schools were required

003to engage with community and get input from our different constituent groups into the goals of the district so since 2014 we have been doing that we've been meeting with our community and we've gone initially beyond what was required we met with different groups of parents we met with students we've met with staff which was required so it has been something we've been actively engaged in the entire time for chico unified it sets our goals for the entire year for both the district and for the school sites the school sites align their plans to the lcap and those goals are in common and it's how each of us are evaluated ensuring that we address the goals of the lcap another unique part of the lcap is that for chico unified we look at it as each

004individual students the group as well as groups of students and that is required by the lcap that we do that so our belief is that we help every single student each student is important each student has unique needs we need to help each student we're also required to look at the different groups that are designated by the state and it's important that we do that and i'm just going to give one example there are many examples but i want to give one example of why it's important for us to look at the data that comes out for different student groups and i'll use the foster youth and homeless as an example when we look at that group of students and we look at that data we see that their academic achievement is not as high

005as other groups we see that their attendance is not as high that they struggle with attendance and so that tells us okay we have a group of students that are struggling that need some support so for chico unified what we did is hired a foster youth homeless coordinator who has the skills and the knowledge to connect those students with the supports and services that they need so that's just one of the things that comes as an advantage of us looking at different groups of students so with that i just want to say we're really dedicated to both the lcap the lcap process and the outcomes it requires that we look at our outcomes every single year so it gives us a chance to ensure that indeed we are progressing toward the goals that we set

006and the goals we set with our community so just wanted to give that as a little brief intro and then i'll turn it back over to tim and tina thank you good evening following the public hearing last week of the 2223 el cap tonight we bring the document before you for approval a few notes and that will follow up with what kelly had to say um about about the lcap and lcff in general um oftentimes when we're discussing the lcap we talk about targeted groups and achievement gaps and i just wanted to add some additional clarification after last week week's meeting around the turn that term targeted groups and achievement gaps so the state requires us as kelly alluded to to identify gaps in achievement in all the measures that are present on the california

007state dashboard achievement gaps between are all students so how is the district doing as a whole and how are certain student groups performing and there's if certain student groups follow uh fall two or more level or more than two levels below the all students group they're officially identified as that's what officially we term an achievement gap and we use the term targeted student groups so that those requirements are set out by the state do we find them useful absolutely kelly used the foster and homeless example earlier and that's a great example of us targeting a specific group of kids to give them what they need to be successful academically in school that being said services provided in the lcap based on our analysis of these targeted groups and all of our student groups are available

008to all students for example we see an achievement gap in elementary reading between student groups and when we address that achievement gap we bring in intervention teachers we bring in professional development and those intervention teachers are not just serving the kids in the targeted groups those resources and funds and and personnel go to serve all kids based on their need in that area and that's an important important thing to note because we do talk about student groups etc a lot in the lcap but the services that are provided are given to students made available to students based on their identified needs with that i'm going to turn it over to tina to talk about our budget well right along with what tim said the money budgeted for these expenditures goes to all students when they

009need it so we work very closely with our fiscal department since the 2013 school year when el cap came into b we've followed that line of making sure that all of the funding that goes to say counselors for example in fact does what tim just said if any student needs help that student will get it regardless of who the student is so just want to make that distinction i think it's it's probably pretty clear but if you if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask about that so with that we will open it up for you to ask any questions about the lcap tonight we bring it to you for approval to submit to bcoe before july 1st that is our deadline to do that and on a side note we do work closely

010with jeanette spencer in particular from butte county office of education she works with all of the butte county schools on their l-caps and plans and she has seen no no issues with ours and has given it her stamp of approval pending uh yours all right so is there any board member who has a particular question or comment on our lcap okay eileen whoops thank you and um oh boy i hate that thing did i miss [Music] [Laughter] um some comments from a consumer um it took me three times through the lcap before lights began to come on today was day number three going through from beginning to end what i was looking for when i started going through was to look at what was being identified by our process of meeting with people and and

011meeting with schools parent groups you know what was that doing and um the overview of the meetings that started in march and ended in april was really good you could get an understanding of you know what was being highlighted by the community and by a community i mean everybody's students staff parents and people at large because i know some community members did attend too i i saw the um the different breakouts in the in the process of who was coming in as those targeted groups and what their numbers were and i began to look for you know have we have we covered all of those disparities with some kind of plan and i did find that that most everything that that had been identified especially where you get into the graphs where it says you

012know all students and then which students um let me get to it because it makes more sense if i have the stuff in front of me um this this is another thing we need a guide that says you'll find this here you'll find the next the next group on pages sorry about this i didn't write down i think we start on page i'm past 27. you know while you're looking i'll just mention that a guide is not a bad idea uh it is a very large cumbersome not easy to read document again if i were in control of the lcap world it would look differently but it is something that tim and i can consider for next year when we start on page 33 that begins the measuring and reporting results that i mean it

013may be just the way my brain looks at things and can't comprehend a lot of stuff but that's where i really began having trouble trying to figure out what it was these um metric baseline outcome things were reporting and um i also had a hard time with the graph that says that some aren't um okay so let's go to page um page what 38 okay because 38 has the pupil achievement local indicator graduate a to g completion so that's that's a simple thing to understand 1920 all students was 41.9 percent 41.9 of [Music] that was my question that's a really good question um and to answer it and then i'll give my commentary afterwards that is the percentage of graduates meeting a through g requirements so that's what the graduate meant in front correct okay

014huh okay well i i i was looking at the um the left-hand column quite a bit to try and figure out what the other columns were trying to tell me and so i need to pay more attention to what that column says the cte pathway completion there were some disparities in um in those metrics and i saw later in the elk that it talks about um the increase that may have happened because of chico high going to the block schedule and i went ah that makes sense so some things that i noticed were disparities later on in the lcap there's an explanation for why that may have been um if there's any way of of making it a little user a little more user-friendly that would be um wonderful and again all of the things

015that we've been talking about in the way of disparities between groups they show up they're not in some areas they're significant to the point where um uh for example priority for people achievement local indicator graduates passing an ap exam with a score of three or higher with some of the groups it's zero um and and that's that's disturbing but our our goal is to to move those numbers up um and the goal is what's over on the right hand column the the next thing that i wanted to point out was on page 27 we go into how we get feedback and one of them the most interesting feedback groups was the students and if you notice we have um we have gone out and talked to students at every elementary school um where is that

016that was page 29 it's 29 kathy thank you ah there we go yes you're right it is 29. um and i was impressed with how [Music] the student input correlated with some of the other things from the total groups with the exception of a couple of things and i am hoping that those student inputs about for example the positive experiences with math games prizes meeting with accelerator the ar goals for accelerated readers motivation provided in classes with you know with things and they they encourage paper and pen activities as well as computers um i thought that was interesting and something that that was of interest and of course they mentioned campus bathrooms i think they all mentioned campus bathrooms they're not in the lcap with the junior high student input one of the things that

017stuck out stood out to me was that they were wanting to have more this is wanting to ensure a reward system over a punishment system need to give students time to go talk to someone to de-escalate detentions do not work to correct student behavior need other options that's junior high input and there was it at the high school level um the big it says big steps have been made in improving mental health services students need to access mental health services more students should not be penalized for missing class or work due to mental health services and the alternative education does an excellent job supporting student mental health was a comment at the high school level and this goes along with one of the things that we were talking about at the last meeting was the

018ability now of students on their chromebooks to indicate that they want to see an adult that they want to talk to somebody instead of having to go in and sign in at the counseling office and so this fits right in with that step that was made to make it to make being able to access more easily the behavior this the student at the secondary level level it says students would like to see teachers follow through more with classroom discipline issues and they think teachers would benefit from more training bullying and name calling including racial slurs need to be addressed more thoroughly i don't remember seeing that as a specific pd topic i i hope it's in there because if the students are mentioning it you know there's a significant need there students know what they

019need the only other thing i have is it just a tremendous amount of appreciation for how all of the identified things that we were supposed to do how we did them and what we're going to do to do them better all seem to track once once you've been through it three or four times it did seem to track i do however have one word change suggestion on page 48 at least well i have two computers here so i'm not sure which one i mentioned this at the last meeting until tom said no [Music] um page 48 i don't see a word on fortnite i know let's let me see 48. at the very bottom 1.10 on page 48 professional development the um next to the last sentence says other professional development may include trauma practices

020social emotional learning and mindfulness and implicit bias awareness i would suggest changing that may to an active word like shall um that's that's not something that i that i want a may on i believe that's one of the things we really need to have as a will be included so i suggest we change that to shall unless somebody has a better a better word or disagrees with me i'm sorry i was going to say i would refer to staff and see what the input from staff would be on that i feel like we addressed this a little bit at the last meeting correct sorry i feel like we addressed this a little bit of the last meeting right um we refreshed my memory about how the conversation went from your guys's side i remember so

021do i so we can do this and we have done this and we do have staff development planned the problem is we have minimal mandatory staff development so we have the day before school starts that is mandatory staff development and we have four days that are after school two hours each first actually hour and a half for secondary now so how we have done this and i just want to be clear about it is that on our staff development day we give options so for example our secondary right now is going to be very focused on the block schedule so that would be part of what they do on a staff development day and we can schedule it so the other items are then available we can make one of those mandatory but making all

022of them mandatory for a thorough staff development could be a challenge on time we can do other options offer things in the summer offer things after school but i just need to be clear that on those we can't make those mandatory we can pay and encourage people to be there so the time constraint was the only thing with available staff development time could it be a will instead of a may with an and or so at least so it's so it's we'll do at least one so got it got it if that makes sense yeah jay you want to top it yeah we can do that and also what we like to do because we have a pd plan available that we've been working on at ed services for this next school year we would

023definitely share that with the board a lot have to do with our tier one in instruction our mtss continual of our udl trainings that we're doing so we have that in place and the people that we have coming in for those trainings but what we can do is again bring those to our staff meetings possibly with some of these until and talk to our principals at eac and sac to possibly include some of these but i also know some of our staff meetings are including those udl and tier one and reading and event reading um specialist trainings also so we do have things in place but again those things that we have on there are things that we've done in the past and we would like to continue to do so i'm not discounting those

024professional dollars because those are ones that we want to continue to do we've known trauma and trained especially with our new staff that have not been through them that we would like to continue those harley thank you dr kaiser the lead in sentence to this was what i thought provided the flexibility because it says we'll provide professional event throughout the year in the following areas so to me that that gave administration their flexibility um but the message that that as a board member i would like to see stated in that sentence is that it shall include or will include trauma-informed practices and trauma-informed practices are at the the basis of our social emotional aces impacts on our kids and how to deal with with the trauma that students have faced social emotional learning and mindfulness

025and the mindfulness is is something that's a unique kind of uh process of dealing with all things and it's not something that in my opinion that we all have the innate skills to provide our students with a way to you know to get in touch with how to calm how to uh you know that the mindfulness exercises that can be done in a just a very very short period of time uh can can be extraordinary and and of course the implicit bias awareness is in all areas and so that's why i wanted to put it as a will or i have a question related to this same thing this particular item about professional development for those four pieces um and it's that there's zero dollars i think outlined for spending on that but i'm assuming

026that's coming from somewhere else that's not in the lcap yeah we're using so dollars and title two dollars for that to make that happen so that plan goes in the lcap because we're going to be doing it but we can we're pulling from a different funding source exactly and then same thing for the school climate surveys and i totally agree with um mr robinson and one of the other things that we do when we uh plan our professional development plans for the years is we meet with our elementary district leadership council and our secondary leadership council and we plan out a plot what you know they also believe um that they would like to see in our professional development because we trust our teachers too on that so it's between the district office and on

027my team and our dlc that plans out um the professional development eileen were you making a motion i i'm going to make that in form of emotion i don't think we're at the point in rules of order of making a motion at this time we're not there yet in rules of order so we still have to ask for public comment and continue asking questions of staff and all of those good things so um this is my only part about this is that this is a pretty narrow specific issue right now and we were collecting other comments about the lcap so if you could hold on to that does anyone else have other comments on the lcap well i i do and uh it was back to page 27 when we're looking at the community meetings

028uh feedback and facilities need improvement that was also brought up by some parent groups and by students and um we do have a statement in this about the nature of that first of all lcap doesn't pay for facilities but the second part about this is we have a modernization facilities plan that's all scheduled it also requires money the money would not come from the lcap so i just wondered if there might be [Music] because it was mentioned multiple times about facilities especially bathrooms so i wondered if we might put a little stronger statement that recognizes that the ocap does not pay for facilities and that there is a facilities plan because i think it's a perfectly valid point your point is well taken we thought of that too at on page 31 at the end

029of that educational partner input which is what was formerly known as stakeholder input at the second to last paragraph we addressed exactly the two things that you just talked about that the lcap does not fund facilities and also we reference the modernization plan and the math things you got that one too so you did respond to the oh yes and the math yes yeah the most common points pardon that's page 31 31. because those comments were made by multiple groups as feedback and i think it's really important that the public realizes that we are responding to those comments they were their participation was important i do have a question um on that note um how is that different from action 1.4 facilities maintenance for 5.5 million out of lcff funds i'm looking at page 77

0302223 expenditures table can you repeat the page number the total expenditures page so in reference to page 77 the facilities maintenance is our maintenance department so um so that's separate that is maintaining the existing facilities so they're safer students safer staff what i think dr kaiser was talking about was the addition of new facilities or modernizing our existing facilities so for chico unified it would be the differentiation between john carver and his staff which is what's here on page 77 and then the facility master plan of new facilities or modernization would be under julie kissel's purview great thanks for that clarification i think that's good too for the public to hear about you know what these funds are specifically going to and are allowed for and also where the funding source comes in for those

031other projects that you know we all acknowledge need to be done so thank you all right are there any other comments from the board okay i'll open this i have a comment oh go ahead i just want to say beforehand that i'll be voting no on this lcap for reasons previously stated in last year's discussions um i like the old cap el cap a lot better i don't like the fact that we've given up on the basic more garden variety goals that used to exist in the previous version of the lcap i also feel that the various lcap meetings that we're having i think are structured to be kind of a curated feedback mechanism and i see a lot of politics finding their way into the the structuring of curriculum and our resources through through

032this process and i think we should go back to the way that it was all right any other comments sure i would like to agree with uh mr chenis in part in that i think we might want to look at how our community feedback meetings are structured in the future because i also received several comments about i feel like they were more curated show and tell than actually information gathering sessions i'm not sure how to fix that let's think about as we go into next year so did did any of the board members go to any of the those meetings because they really were set up where we out and i know we have parents there where we asked what is going well and what is not working and collected all of that data so

033there was the opportunity for us to hear what we were doing well and what we should continue to do but also the very specific what isn't working and what needs to change what do we need to do differently what i would agree with is the time i mean you start getting into the conversations and they really take a lot of time and i think that we need to build in more time and probably especially for that second question you know what is it that we need to do differently but out of those meetings we did come up with lots and lots of input and lots of feedback um and i can say as someone who sat at a table and took notes um for the group i was the note taker there was lots of

034there were lots of things we were doing well which was great to hear and i and i think that's important for us to know so we continue doing it there were lots of suggestions of things that we do differently some of which we could not do restrooms came up a lot there were things that you know we just cannot do with lcap dollars we probably need to do a better job of describing that that yeah great input we can't build this um and then at least for my table and i think most people followed suit i would then turn that list back over to the parents and say i need a parent to report out on this read it through you pick the ones if i miss something add it but i tried to get

035every comment that was written down so very open to other ways to do it but i don't want it to be a scene that we only talked about good things or it only came from us because that was that was not the case um i just want to make a comment um on that last that last piece that you gave about turning it back over to the parents because having participated in these in other committees in the community it can sometimes feel like the person taking notes if they're already in staff it's almost like they're just writing down what you know what's going to make it look good or you know kind of directs the the conversation and in a in a direction that's going to you know paint a positive light so to speak

036so i think it is important to emphasize to all folks that are taking notes that it needs to be reviewed by the rest of the members of the note-taking system so if it wasn't happening at every single table that wasn't normalized that's something that maybe we just consider and make sure that we keep doing that yes eileen um thank you dr kaiser uh never tennis i i do recall that last year you were very concerned about the um that how many people had information about and and had been advised of these meetings and had the opportunity to provide input and or attend and i i paid attention to the effort that the district was making to get every single household notified of when the meeting was what it was going to discuss and and then

037having the um the ones that were targeted just for specific groups so that there was a smaller group to a parents to talk openly about what their specific concerns were with their student group [Music] i'm i'm just at a loss for understanding how you don't feel this year's process provided as open and productive process as as could be made we even had the notices in several languages not just interpreters i i just i'm sorry that you don't feel supportive of our lcap because it exemplifies you know putting not only the money the staff the resources behind the things that we have said are our number one priority which is bringing up all of our students that that are not up with the the 100 percent the all students metrics and it to not support this

038plan and all of those resources um puzzles me i i just i it's like i want to ask what more do we need to be doing i'd like to i'm just make a point of order because uh i should have interrupted mr tennis but i am not feeling like the interrupting type tonight but um it would be more appropriate to have these when we are in discussion with the board and have a motion on the table so i would suggest that we focus our comments and our questions to staff at this time before we take public comment i don't think it's appropriate for us to convey how we plan to vote before we hear from the public as part of our rules of order all right so any more questions that would be directed to

039staff i did have a question about the mathematics tim of the statistics being reported where there's a number sometimes given in brackets after that the numbers were under 10 which is needed for statistical significances sometimes says 2 or 6 or we chose last year following the targeted student groups to show student groups under 10 due to feelings of certain student groups being ignored i recognize that there's inconsistencies in the the end size in in parentheses and that was a clerical error essentially and that's something we'll work to clean up okay thank you um for the audience that this is particular on page 57 for example if you're not familiar with statistics a group number that's under 10 is not regarded as statistically significant and some of the groups where some of the changes were the

040most dramatic i'll just pick out one filipino went from the highest number we have to zero and it was just flipping back and forth so my mathematical conclusion was it's a very small group it is a very small group especially going back to eileen's comment earlier when we talk about graduating classes or we may have an 850 student graduating class and then we break that single grade level down into student groups that are already small when we look at the whole district the numbers get really low that being said again the feedback from our our targeted parent groups was a feeling of being ignored if they were left out of the elk maybe we should have a just an explanatory sentence about we are representing every group i think that's a great idea okay thank

041you any other direct questions to staff before i turned it over to the public comments okay so i opened it up for public comment do i have anyone in the public yes of course come on um while she's headed up here i had a glitch with my child care communication tonight so i actually have to leave in just a few minutes to go pick up my child from daycare okay hello i love the expectation of me coming up here um so yes so what mr tennis and mr lando brought up about the lcap meetings um one very happy that we are having specific group meetings um for el cap i had actually suggested to diane in 2020 when all that happened like parents that have children with special needs we don't some don't show up

042to these meetings because we feel most of the topics discussed do not apply to our students that's why there tends to be a lack of involvement in pta ptso pto all those things because we feel those things don't apply to our students but um going back to what mr tennis and mr lando said um it did kind of feel like a big ol we're amazing and we're great and hear all the wonderful things that are happening and we had very good facilitators at our group um but our group tends to be a little more vocal about our concerns that we have and so we left the meeting upset because we felt that one it was definitely short on time like there is a lot more detailed um input that we could have given um felt

043that it was short on time and um again just felt like it was a big ol we're amazing and we're great um and that's not to say that our district does not is not 100 wrong but there is definitely room for improvement and i think it's important at these meetings um where some parents aren't as involved as jessica and i tend to be um i kind of felt if they hadn't haven't been involved they were kind of like oh like it isn't as bad as i thought it was here's all the amazing things that our district is doing um and that's not the case like there is definitely a lot of room for improvement improvement and i felt it could have been better addressed in presentations and things like that that were displayed at the

044meeting um and like kelly said too like i think the meeting was like an hour if that may be two hours definitely not enough time i think it'd be beneficial to have them quarterly because there's always ongoing concerns and sometimes parents don't make notes of like oh when this comes up i need to make sure to address it at this time or i need to email this person or i need to come to this school board meeting if we have those meetings more regular regularly i think that allows for parents to give like that continual input of what's going on what's happening what we need to improve on and yes showing us what is going well but not having that be the complete presentation of giving ourselves a big pattern in the back when it's

045not completely deserved thank you so we are obligated to have the two lcap board meetings in this cycle i mean a week apart but um are you suggesting more frequent i'm i'm kind of picking on you are you suggesting more frequent lcap meetings for the very specific lcap groups that like you know homeless or disabilities or is that what you're suggesting yes okay thank you i just wanted to get that clarification yep all right okay any other come on up i gotta go okay is it me is it something i say [Laughter] just kidding i'm just joking thinking my time are you gonna be able to come back okay oh all right that's my heart hi everyone so yeah i am i agree i think somewhere we've gone too far right or too far left

046whichever one we've gone to an extreme here from a political perspective from like a radical perspective and it's so much terminology and so much information that you're trying to um kind of catch up to and digest right so so last year's lcat plan i'm still trying to realize the terminology and we're still into mtss and all sorts of things so i'll give you a couple examples so i mean this whole world of equity right what's equity it's like two perspectives and if one side's too far out here the other side has a big meltdown it gets very intimidating it was very intimidating here last week right we had one position one man here and a whole nother slew of people over here and it was like i felt the whole world imploding it's very intimidating

047to come in here and ask questions about equity and things that are so progressive and so far to the left so it's extremely intimidating um you know and we had this attack on rosedale elementary and you know i watched it from afar and i looked at every perspective and the fact that you know we've got a kind of a a perspective of one side that is able to consume and absorb and come in here and and march in here with a big production that makes it extremely intimidating i mean there was costumes in music i didn't know what was going on and when you take a step back you've got teachers in this community at that elementary school and parents that have been there for decades saying one thing and then you've got this one

048faction over here and there's i mean there's all sorts of inflammatory information in the media i mean how was this woman allowed to go to the media and let natalie hanson gin this whole thing up we had like almost a race war outside it was insane and i you know she's it's just it's just way too far out into another perspective here i guess and when i look at the you know the policies and programs again if i look at um this one's a bail service proposal for chico best practices for equitable access i mean here's you know equity is a driving force in all decisions for any learning organization great interrupting and disrupting in equitable systems and structures to transform the experiences that's the goal that's the aspiration interrupting and disrupting that's what's happening

049and it happened with the rosedale elementary thing it happened last week with the two people it's happening constantly it's all politically based and then you've got everything connected to chico state which is we know is extremely progressive right stonewall alliance is right here for your counseling pages and you've got you know a goal here to continue to strengthen lines of communication with csu chico i'm like what happened to the churches and the other organizations that we've banned that aren't allowed equitable access so i just think we've gone way too far over here and we're i'm just a normal person trying to catch up to the terminology and the policies and procedures so i don't know the answer i just think continuing the process is just going to create more problems and more more more disruption

050so thank you all right and did you also want to speak on some of what elaine said um about the time it is really a short amount i mean school site council itself meets quarterly i don't know why lcat couldn't do the same thing again i noticed that there was some groups there that didn't have a lot to say they're not as vocal as we tend to be i thought you know it was nice but when you start off with hey what are we doing right you know everybody wants to put in that and then oh well we only have you know one minute left what do we need to work on and it doesn't all get put out there and and you know some of us left kind of unsatisfied with the thing you

051know that we didn't get to say what we needed to say i think lcap is super important i don't think i personally don't see any politics in the lcat meeting at least not in ours i mean we're there for the special ed program that's it i'm advocating for my kids elena's advocating for her kids i mean i don't have there's no political agenda for me to be there to advocate for my children um but we need these base things for these for our i'm just gonna say we need these for my kids i know elaine feels the same that there are some needs that aren't being met but then we just got to talk about it more el cap and have more lcap meetings thank you all right thank you is there anyone else from

052the public that has a comment they want to make i'd like to respond to jessica real quick i i totally see where you're coming from and i think that you guys do a great job advocating for your kids and um and thank you for being here and and i didn't mean to throw any shade on you guys about that i was thinking of other other things all right well let's keep our we'll let the public comments and then we'll tell our board discussion so if there's no other public comment then i'll close oh yes i looked at you and you didn't get up oh i'm sorry come on i don't really like doing this i'm bringing this because i put something down on here if that's okay thank you um just one question what's your

053name please oh sorry my name is brandi brandie mccann um i know that a lot of people have come to me asking questions about hey i know you have opinions on this or that what do you think about this or that and um i don't really feel that i'm the one who should tell people what to do with their families or what to think i like people to come to conclusions on their own and kind of guide them into doing their own research about what's going on sorry one thing someone asked me is will our schools be affected by the president's withholding of school lunch funding for we've all heard about this we promote inclusion but many things going on behind the scenes are not as transparent enough for most parents who are spending most

054of their time working and using what little time they have left over to enjoy their families i know many parents who feel as though they're not included and you know like me i'm not ignorant anyway and although it is my job as well as a parent to be aware of what changes are being made within our schools i hear more of what's going on from my children than i do like information and i don't like that because as we know children have their own perspectives and i believe he hasn't seen my kids they're very bright intelligent but i it's a perspective in their kids so i would like a little bit more transparency is what i'm asking and you guys are doing a really great job i just i'm asking of that where i seen

055those lcap things you know um as a single parent we struggle with managing all the different things that come up and especially everything that's happened in the past two years so um maybe like she said i liked that that you know maybe making more time for things like that um and not just you know set times by the time i'm scrolling through my hundreds of emails i get a week it's really hard to keep up on all this stuff so maybe making it i don't know um easier to understand and we'll stick with that oh easier to understand of what's going on because um [Music] uh let's see a parent shouldn't have to struggle interpreting and will this district be as transparent with the parents regarding their plans moving forward as they are with their

056social media posts all right thank you thank you and those were your two kids that went skipping out i guess i'm sorry i don't have a child doctor it's fine the last speaker asked a couple of questions and i know the answers to them on the the i read the bulletin about the budget trailer bills that were passed this week and the the school lunch program subsidies are in the state budget so we will begin continue to have the funding for the school lunch programs in fact they've also expanded to allow for some upgrade for our kitchen so that we can utilize more locally sourced produce and things and and have more cooking going on in our districts and and the other one was the um what was the other question one was about the

057lunch program [Music] i i saw a bulletin today um regarding the number of different languages that we are pushing things out um from our district level to so i'm i'm not sure if they have just now started that i i but but it is intended for this next year that a lot of the stuff that goes out to two parents will be in [Music] multiple languages i think it's three although i'm not sure hmong was included but i know it's english and spanish and our targeted case managers we have a lot of multilingual targeted case managers that are in contact with our non-english speaking families so it's a significant problem we've known it and we are finally getting some ways to be able to make that better she still all right come on up you

058need to ask it so it's on the mic so other people hear your question and therefore thank you they'll be paying attention the funding is is already there did that have to do with what the president was speaking about is was that already something that was set in place in our schools that many parents were not aware of the money for school lunches um the issues that were that he spoke of regarding that that if i'm not in these schools is anybody aware what i'm of what i'm talking about nobody it was a statement that was made regarding allowing other children of the opposite sex into the same bathroom those those things are not in the lcap at all and i have no new information on that i do know what you're talking about and

059it was a statement made through the department of education that the president initiated and and why that's a concern to me isn't because you know i have any judgments towards other people but just speaking to my own you know my daughter who's 11 she felt very uncomfortable with that as that was allowed in her school she didn't say anything like mean or you know she's not that way we're not that way but um she just felt uncomfortable it is a complicated issue right okay thank you so i i just do want to address that in that right now it is a public comment period so we really encourage you to reach out and i believe erica can provide a link if you're interested but they are asking for parent feedback into that decision okay thank

060you thank you guys all right thank you for coming up and i and i just like to continue and address some of the issues that we heard we are absolutely happy to have more meetings and gather more input if people come we like that we're happy to listen happy to learn and work with people that's not a concern at all on our end um we do have our board agenda and in fact if you look at your agenda you can go right up to the top there's a little toggle switch there and you can put it in many many many different languages and other documents same situation erica has done wonderful work in ensuring that we get online services that allow that translation to take place for most of our documents that go out especially

061via social media in regards to the lcap i am going to be the first to tell you that this 108-page document is not user-friendly it is not family friendly it is not even educator friendly it is a format that we are required to complete by the state it's i mean nobody can look at this and say wow i now understand what's happening in schools because i read this that is just not the case so i just want to be very upfront that we don't put this together thinking wow it's really enthralling reading and people are going to be excited and fully understand what we do at the end that is not the case it is a mandated document that we do what we do after this is done we did it the last two years

062is a two-sided sheet that is a synopsis of all of this that is user friendly so i just wanted to acknowledge um you know all of your comments this is even though it was designed to get community input and tell the community what we're doing it's not an easy document okay i'm going to close public comment and now we'll move back to the board so again for the board we don't have a motion yet uh was that what you were going to do is make a motion all right yes dr dr kaiser thank you okay let me get mike this is the first time i've ever tried this with two computers up i saw tom and and uh i'm not sure matt if you've had two computers up for but it looked like something that

063would work so i want to make a motion to change the word may what was the page 48. i'm getting there well maybe having two computers wasn't a good idea okay the uh 1.10 provide professional development and a reminder that this is regarding professional development throughout the year and i do recognize that um the way it's developed and stuff that that there's there's a lot to be covered however even understanding there's a lot to be covered i believe the things mentioned in the sentence that i'm proposing change from may to will include some of our most important areas of focus so i would change other professional development will include trauma-informed practices social emotional learning and mindfulness and implicit bias awareness that's my motion all right can i have a second i'll second that in order

064to allow the discussion to continue all right ma'am yes so my uh concern is uh the same thing that we're about at my staff we have to we definitely want to cover this but i also don't want to be out of alignment if we don't have a specific training on each one and we only touch on them at some points so i'm hoping some kind of language we can say our goal is to cover all this um i agree completely this is all important but i also recognize that we have a very limited amount of professional development time built into the contract so if staff has any idea about uh language to that effect i know kaitlyn's working on something you remember what her suggestion was i think caitlin said um other professional development will

065include trauma-informed practices social emotional learning and mindfulness and or implicit bias awareness she put the and org that would be acceptable to me yes to add or to the and or for the last item okay okay i'm okay with that as a seconder and jay is that going to get enough time framework yeah we will uh uh that will abort and what the lcap says we will continue to offer those trainings as best we can throughout the school year okay all right any other discussion on this motion so just for my own clarification i guess i should look at the exact language what page is that page 48 item 101 1.1.10 1.10 it's the last thing so it says and implicit bias awareness may include it and the change would be will and then the

066last part and or so instead of saying and okay will include these things and or implicit bias awareness thank you no further comments right now all right uh if there's no further discussion then we'll take a vote um robinson i landed treyserai tennis name okay so that's three to one so it passes okay all right uh were there any other changes that someone on the board wanted to make i don't have it i'm gonna drive the floor yeah yeah i i don't have any other um specific changes the um things that i mentioned to um tina and tim about giving us some more guidance as we work through the format i know we're stuck with the state's format but we can do some user-friendly you know how to how to decipher because this is not

067user friendly this is not parent friendly it took me going through it three times on three different days and several hours of you know reading rereading trying to connect the dots and that's that's not that's not good for getting the kind of participation that we're all anxious to have as as all of the speakers indicated and the superintendent has indicated a willingness to provide more opportunities for input if the document was a little bit easier for everyone to engage with i think we'd see a more productive and by productive i also mean if you go away frustrated and angry that's not productive and so i'm that's those are my only suggestions i i understand you know the reason why it is the way it is but i also hope that it can be changed to

068be a bit more user-friendly not not i know we can't change what we are required where we are required to respond but we can do a road map that's what i'm asking for yeah yes so yeah on that note we wouldn't be um doing something we weren't supposed to do by the state if we added something in front of it right like a kind of an executive summary slash uh table of contents for hot button issues i don't think that we can but i'll turn to tina and tim i mean the template is the the template here it would need to be an entirely separate document but yeah the template is the template and i would have one thing to add we'd work with bcoe specifically jeannette spencer to make sure that we were not

069going outside of anything we needed to be going out of and i understand that the template is what it is i think what i'm thinking of at least was something like an extra document that again it's kind of an explainer in you know uh plain english that we could also then use that before uh the lcap meetings to distribute to parents and say hey here's the short version what kind of like the flyer but maybe a little bit with a little bit more meat on it right and just to be clear we do not um distribute this whole document at the lcap meetings because people would probably run um but i'm thinking you know listening to what you're saying and eileen saying maybe something along the lines of what ed services presented last week as

070the overview of the lcap which is a little more friendly easier to follow easier to to see what the specific goals are and doesn't get into the details that this does and this can always be that backup document for people that love this stuff and want to get more into it but i thought they did a really good job of breaking it down last week so tim and tina christian sorry gosh um one of my former students too i'll have kids at home do you guys uh have any uh response to that i i have seen examples um of documents similar to what you're mentioning and tom i think hit the nail on the head with something similar to our our two-page uh summary but with a little more meat to it we're actually gonna

071meet tomorrow at nine o'clock to discuss our two-pager so we'll bring that up in that conversation as well you're off our community meetings including our um our uh special group meetings uh we do have more of a simplified version of what we share with the families of what the lcap looks like in the in the goals and stuff like that so we can do continue to do work off of that too right and that's similar to what we showed last last week the data that we showed to our parent groups thank you all right so uh any other um board suggestions or changes okay seeing none may i have a motion then yes i move approval of the 2223 lcap proposal document what is it hmm oh as amended yes very good okay thank you

072i'll second that all right so i have a motion by eileen in a second by tom um we'll do a voice vote again sure robinson i landed kaiser eye tennis name okay all right so with that um thank you and we'll move to the california school dashboard and does that let tina off the hook that let's tina off the hook and for real thank you both of you for all the yeah the work you put in yes i know you've put in time very appreciated okay as part of the local control funding formula the dashboard that that calls for the california state dashboard we're required each year to report out on local indicators so the indicators that are are metrics that can be measured and displayed on the state dashboard are done in that manner

073and it is left up to districts to evaluate their own progress towards other priorities so this is a information item the cal the you can see it says fall 22 and here we are in in summer of of 22. the local indicators will be displayed on the fall 22 state dashboard which according to typical timelines comes out the first week of december so that's when we should expect to see it public we are asked to evaluate district progress in priorities one two three six and seven last week in our lcap presentation we we listed the eight state priorities and so these are additional measures on those five priorities we are simply asked to evaluate our progress in the form of number ratings or narratives depending on the priority and whether we quote met that requirement

074or not is dependent on the fact that we evaluated our progress not the amount of progress we don't get extra credit for extra progress or we don't get dinged for for less progress the state simply wants us to report out that we are evaluating progress so the first item that we evaluate is priority one basic conditions at school um and this would include proper teach teacher credentialing and facilities inspections amongst other things priority which we have met priority two is around the implementation of state standards where we're required to give ourselves rubric scores based on a variety of in a variety of areas around the implementation of standards and for that priority we have met so excuse me tim just as a clarification we didn't have state testing a year ago so these are our

075results with this these are not test results the test results on the state standards for english math and science come out in the california state dashboard okay this is the implementation the stages of implementation of standards including english and math and science but moving beyond that into you can see history and social science as well okay priority three parent and family engagement there's been a lot of talk about that tonight um and in this case we're simply writing a narrative about how we engaged families and community and so for priority three we have met the requirement priority six around school climate requires us to administer a school climate survey and analyze those results which we have done so we have met priority 6. priority 7 requires us to write a narrative regarding how we have

076improved student access to a broad range of courses that also comes out in the lcap when we talk about cte a to g completion and ap enrollment and ap test scores um so that's that's mentioned in in our narrative response and we have met that criteria as well and so like i said these will be part of the california state dashboard when it comes live in the first week of december according to a regular timeline and i'll take any questions right now i guess i have to admit uh the whole thing about the amount of time it took to go through all the data and i was just having a very conflicting schedule at home but i was assuming testing was involved so it really helps that you clarify that and um i don't know

077i'm i'm taking responsibility for that so i don't know that it needs to be stressed again but um you know some of the parents may not understand when it says that our reach out to families was you know at a very high level and that's not what they thought that was being measured right right it's a little confusing so i'll say that again yeah when when i say you can see our our three choices there on the on the screen met not met or not met for two or more years so for for this um for this metric it would for the parent and family engagement it would mean that we did not have stakehold either we didn't have stakeholder meetings or we had stakeholder meetings but we didn't indicate it in our response okay

078all right good that that clarification really helps me any other board uh comments or questions all right speaking of family we have a board member returning so that's good all right if there's no other discussion i'll open it for public comment no public comment okay all right i'll close public comment all right so um do i have a motion just informational thank you that helps all right so appreciate that so we moved to business services and the 22 23 budget uh jacqueline yes so before you this evening is what was presented last wednesday seven days ago regarding the original budget for next school year for 22-23 and i will preface it with as i stated last week it's a pretty conservative budget based on what's currently in statute so good news we did receive word

079late monday afternoon that the governor's office and the legislative leadership have agreed on a state budget so the intent is for the entire legislature to vote on it by friday which is the start of their summer recess and then governor newsom has 12 days to sign the budget at that point it was bargained in good faith so we do feel like the information that's coming out related to ab18 which is the new state budget for next year is going to come to fruition in the next couple days so i do want to highlight a couple things that were major changes in the budget so i think i did say last week there was a 98 or 99 chance i'd be back in august with a revised budget and now it's 100 so i will be

080back so i do want to point a couple items out to the board in the audience this evening so one of the provisions that is going to go through is a three-year rolling average for average daily attendance from a funding perspective what this does is for declining districts or districts that took a large hit related to average daily attendance due to quarantining days with covid it kind of softens the financial impact of the district so we are very encouraged to see that actually come through and it is in statute so it would be an ongoing provision going forward related to that our local control funding formula we knew that cola was 6.56 pretty substantial the plan that is moving forward into the budget is going to be almost 13 of an increase in ada funding

081on a per ada funding perspective so they are increasing what they call the base amount per ada as well as applying a cola on top of that so that will be substantial dollars coming to the district for that another provision that we are excited to see maybe with some strings is related to home to school transportation so we've received a flat rate of just over six hundred thousand dollars since the inception in 1314 of our local control funding formula they are now going to fund 60 percent of our home to school transportation which will be just over a million dollars for the district so we're encouraged to see that what is required though is that we transport tk through sixth grade students as well as any low-income students so there'll be a plan coming forward

082by april 1st of how we're going to do that so i will be meeting with the transportation supervisor at the end of the month um to see what that leads because we'll need to see trello bear language of the exact language of what that entails okay yes mr tiss the 13 increase that you mentioned before transportation yes what category was that again um that's our ada funding so our primary funding of unrestricted dollars for attendance of students in school and so that can be used in any educational expense so really at the priority and the will of the board facilities yes thank you so the transportation of home to school will be tk tk through sixth grade okay is the provision right now um we're also looking at two pots of one-time money so there

083is uh 7.9 billion on the state level which is a lot of money we don't know what that will equate to for chico unified quite yet for learning recovery funding and we have six years to spend that but it's largely for additional instructional time social emotional learning school meals much of what actually is is supported in the lcap related to learning goals the other one-time money that we will receive is an arts and music block grant so we will have money that will be earmarked for those services as well um the other piece of great information that we did receive is with the implementation of tk there is a 12 to 1 ratio or 24 to 2 ratio at all times in that classroom and there is funding in the in the state budget at

0842 800 dollars a kid with acknowledgement that that is increased cost that is increased staffing that we would have to incur in order to run that program so it's great to see that both the governor's office and the state ledger's legislature um acknowledges that it that that is a cost to the district in order to have 12 to 1 in that tk grade range all right any questions from the board that's really the highlights there so i will be back in august um with those revised revenues to see what that impact does to the chico unified budget it's nice to hear good news it's great okay so um this is discussion action so i'll open it for public comment does anybody want to complain about more money we are happy now okay i'll close public

085comment and any further discussion by the board all right can i have a motion what's the just throw out some ideas what well i'll have you do that what sort of motions might we possibly make right now approve the 22-23 original budget as presented okay um i move that we do that i'll second all right so matt and caitlin all right it's hard to argue with this much more money okay uh any other all right may i have a vote robinson i landed kaiserai in tennessee all right okay good okay so now we're moving a still jaclyn to the education projection protection i'm sorry account yes epa or education protection act was voted in by the voters in november of 2012 related to prop 30. it's not new money for the district it's just a

086different pot of money that must be used for non-administration essentially so we do as presented last week we do have 13.8 million that would be in this account and we are using 100 of it on teacher salaries they are the closest to our kids in our classrooms um we think that's the best use of those dollars okay discussion okay public comment close public comment all right may i have a motion yeah i'll move that we uh adopt the education production account plan as presented okay i'll second that motion okay so we have tom as a motion and eileen as a second any discussion all right all those in favor signify by saying aye aye all right perfect okay so now we go to the reserves disclosure and jacqueline yes the last piece related to original

087budget is a reserve disclosure so any of our fund balance or savings account if you will that is assigned or unassigned must be delineated as to why and what those dollars are for so we have 15.7 in that category which is basically an 8.3 reserve so we do have our standard three percent based on our ada that we are required by the state of california to set aside this board has taken action for another two percent um which about 3.7 million an additional 1.8 million related to some one-time money that was set aside as well so it leaves about 4.5 million and we have that set aside for cash flow attendance volatility really any educational expense that may come up that we haven't anticipated for because that happens we think it's prudent to have a

088healthy reserve in the event that the economy turns south we have a cushion things happen legislation changes and we have to be able to adapt implementation of tk is a great example it came very fast and we didn't see it so we need those dollars for that all right any comments from the board okay i'll open it up any public comments discussion money in the bank all right i'll close public discussion all right may i have a motion sure i will move we accept the reserve disclosures all second okay so we have tom and caitlin all right so all those in favor signify by saying aye hi all right okay hey girl all right so with that jim we have the california school employee association tentative agreement okay so we reached agreement with the csea

089back in may last week um cse down in sacramento approved through the 610 process this language which we had signed off on earlier the last step is board approval um csca voted on this and uh approved it also this is language that we've been using for a number of years now i think four or five years it was um in a side letter on a previous tentative agreement but it was never placed into contract because we wanted to see how it would work and it's worked fairly well very well actually um it's it's um reallocation and reclassification and just really quickly the difference between those are reallocation is when a position is not competitive with the market and we need to raise the salary in order to attract new people into the district we recently

090did that with bus drivers we do that with it folks probably more often than not because that's a highly trained area also plumbers heating and air conditioning when we need people to to apply for a position so it's a good thing that works for us the other is reclassification so if the job changes in the quality of our the complexity of work for example for example where you need increased technical skills the job may not be the same as it was 20 years ago we had typist clerk 20 years ago we don't have that now people are working on computers constantly so the level of knowledge and skill is much higher so we have to do reclassifications occasionally to bring up salaries so we compensate them for their um their skill level so anyway um

091all of this language is language we've been working under for the last four or five years with the exception the only change was we went from twenty five thousand dollar a year cap to thirty thousand uh we've had um significant raises in um minimum wage over the last few years and that bumps up our minimum wage that we have to have to attract employees in our step one um salary structure so that the five thousand dollar increase gives us some flexibility to um accommodate changes as they come up in the reallocation reclassification process so anyway um like you said the this language we have been using um for a number of years and i'm bringing it forward to the board for approval so we can put this in the contract as permanent language all right

092any comments from the board well i have a comment but i'd like to make it after this this is for technical clarification questions right so i just want to hold a place to talk after we have a motion before we vote on it okay thank you i was just going to mention to mr hanlon that the position was a clerk typist yes i i was one i i'm sorry i literally could not understand what you said other than jim hanlon's name uh mr hanlon had said that they were typist clerks and they weren't they were clerk typists so and i know because i was one okay all right just so i'll open it up for public comment this is again a change to a contract agreement with csea any comments all right i'll close it

093and uh so is this now when you want to make your comment i'd like to move approval of the tentative agreement i'm gonna second that okay so we have a motion to approve the uh csa chapter 110 tentative agreement and a second by eileen um no okay discussion the second with tom oh i'm sorry and i am going to uh vote to approve this of course i'm glad we've got it uh squared away but i just want to put on the record that in the future i would like to talk about um adding some language or money into this uh specifically for training for some of our parents and that's something that i talked about a little bit earlier but uh for what can you can you say that thank you um i would like

094at some point to talk more about um adding more training time oh training time for some of our paraprofessionals okay um but just then again as i held this position at one point um i felt very thrown into it and it'll be great to see maybe that's changed in the last 10 years but either way i would like to see a little more formalism structure before we throw them to the wolves i can get you information on how much training we've actually been doing um it's quite substantial you may not be aware of it i can get a printout from classified hr and if that's not sufficient then we can certainly talk about that in closed session for future negotiations thank you that i'm looking for okay and just to back up what tom was

095saying that is one of the things we get a lot of comments on especially with with special ed paris okay all right so we have a motion and a second a voice vote all those in favor signify by saying aye aye okay passes thank you jim all right so the next is the discussion action approval of the updated new board policies kelly so we have had the first reading on all of these they are back to the board for approval if there are any questions or changes we'd be happy to address those in the past how we have done this is the board has identified if there's any that they would like to pull for further discussion and pass the rest as a group and then go into individual discussions about any of the ones

096that have been pulled dr kaiser yes um just for clarification um board policy 1313 on civility this is the first reading on that one is it not that is and it is a different uh agenda item right they're not talking i'm confused we're only talking about items uh one uh four one not four two we're on 4.1 4.2 is the new board policy we're looking at 4.1 and the items there and we are on 4.2 4.1 that's what i thought i had up here it starts with board policy thank you i'm okay i was mistaken all right so any uh questions or concerns with the board policies identified at between 4 15 and 7 to 11. um i don't know that we any public comment on these most of these come from changes in state

097or federal laws okay seeing that i'll close it all right may have a motion or a move adoption of these edits okay we have a motion by matt i'll second that okay tom seconds it all right any further discussion i'd i did have questions but i got them all answered and you guys should have gotten my communications of my questions okay thank you all right so we made we then have a voice vote all those in favor aye aye all right all right okay so now we move to item number two and that's the one you had a question about 4.2 is the civility policy this is a new policy that has been put forth by csba and we are bringing it forward it really sets the structure for what our expectations are for behavior

098typically we would have a first reading and board members this is the first time the public has seen it gives the public the time the opportunity to see it we will bring it back at our august meeting for uh further discussion and any changes as seen appropriate by the board okay question for you madam superintendent um you say csba brought this forward on what time frame did they bring it forward so uh csba is continually reviewing board policies and they are the one that that do the template for our board policies and they occasionally will bring forward new board policies for consideration uh so this came forward in the fall of this year of last year correct right follow last year 2020 what so we're not voting on this he's not on this tonight we're

099encouraging though the public to look this over as well since it reflects uh the nature of our interaction in public meetings and it's information only at this point informational only yes okay thank you all right with that i move to um number three which is the uh tentative letter to the city about the location for alternative sites for the homeless and this one is kelly well this was an item that was requested by the board that when the city identified um homeless sites for camping this is specific to rvs that we put this back on the agenda there had been a request to just draft our concerns about proximity to schools especially if they were within half a mile this is a draft letter and certainly just a draft open to the board using it

100not using it or making changes and edits to it so i'm going to turn this back over to the board this is a board requested agenda item tom thanks so i uh for the most part i appreciate the draft and like the language in it um i would like to see um i guess a a question put to the city of what exactly do you have anything as you develop these plans that um address the needs of the of the schools that are nearby like have they i don't think in what i've seen they haven't specifically addressed that in any of the encampments i would like to put out there to them hey we're here we'd like to we're an important you know population and group and entity what are you going to do seeing

101as you are this close to us am i paraphrasing this by uh wanting to see the sensitivity of a location to a school for our students is that the context yeah i just want to know that they've considered that the schools are there and what plans they have to mitigate any impact um giving the schools that are there yes okay eileen yes thank you tom i i agree i the um the paragraph after the bullets to me represents that concern and that direction to the city council did you want to add something more or something more because i didn't notice a question mark in there anywhere so i want to make sure they know we're asking for some for some consideration and possibly some information as well we ask that the city council continue to

102support safe and active travel to and from school walking biking i think tom was asking for what mitigations are they going to do is that what i heard you ask oh what mitigations the city might propose i completely misunderstood your concern okay any other comments or concerns welcome um with tom's question concern in in mind um is there anything that that we could do to ask um that they uh the lasso please continue to consider safety including this over 800 kids that attend marsh did you want to broaden that maybe with with something because i know things are so fluid the city manager was saying that they are now looking at buying private property which reduces the amount of control until it comes into the city's things it just it's a it's a significant concern

103if they are not committing to certain monitoring and and things so i agree with you we we need to ask them you know what are you going to do caitlyn did you want to do you want to just take that as a consensus and and see if you can put that in the letter i don't think the request was to put it in the letter but the request was to reach out to the city and i can certainly do that both verbally and via email um ask them to address for chico unified what mitigations they plan to take to ensure the safety of schools i mean i was envisioning it at something in the letter but if you think appropriately reach out i mean i kind of want to on the record that hey we'd

104like to know exactly what the specific plan is for us so put your question into the letter please inform chico unified of mitigation mitigations that you plan to take okay absolutely thank you caitlin um yeah i just um i think to kind of follow up on that um i think that the goal is that we are on the same page with the community and ensuring everybody's safety and so our students safety is really important if there are folks that are you know existing outside near a school that their safety is also important if we have extra traffic to and from school at drop off and pick up we want to make sure that maybe there's extra resources available to ensure everybody's safety so that you know the cars are are operating safely around if there's

105increased numbers of people and things like that so it's not a necessarily uh um not in my backyard sort of stance but more of a just general public safety stance and acknowledging that schools exist and students exist and so do these increased activity times and if there's other people in in those areas that we want to make sure that everybody's safety is is taking precedent anything else that somebody one thing that i do want to note um is that i do believe one of the locations is also close to oak bridge so you may want to consider adding oak bridge into this as well did i get it in the second paragraph i think it's kind of all-encompassing the first time we asked the pass through was within a half mile i think yeah so

106that should be a trigger rule street from burger hut yeah for the record for those who can't hear the conversation hats happening it was asked in the audience where oak bridge is that's our where we removed our new location for our independent online academy it's in northwest chico northeast chico i know my directions corner of cohasset and lassen thank you doesn't look like a school yeah it is good sorry all right any other comments suggestions i do think this is a concern um i was approached by action news today about this and um i suspect that a lot of community members are unaware of where these camps might be located or how close to the schools they are so yes all right so this would come back with these suggested changes it certainly can yes

107okay so any other comments that somebody wants to add yeah i would move approval as written as written [Music] i i'd be willing to amend the approval with the suggested suggested comments from tonight so we don't have to bring it back for approval at a later time i don't know if that's a friendly amendment or if that's a that'd be my decision right if it was a friendly amendment i think so right can you reiterate or summarize what the proposed amendments are that proposed amendments are that we ask what they are going to do what the city plans to do to mitigate the impacts to schools and that we are looking at this from a public safety approach um recognizing that schools have increased traffic before and after school at pick-up times okay is that

108i'm i think that sounds happy to listen to specific language if there is specific language is that good for you tom yeah i mean i'm not going to dictate specific language i mean right we set the vision you guys execute we're always told i like it all right so i'll accept that as a friendly amendment okay all right so we have a suggested change to the initial letter um stressing actual plans and stressing community safety as the central issue so if we're okay on that we have a motion and a second um all those in favor signify by saying hi hi hi all right okay so it passes all right and so this will get sent to the city council and then hopefully action news will be able to report out on it okay so

109uh is there any board member who requests to agendize an item yes president okay um i'm not sure this needs to be gentiles i just want to bring it up one more time we had talked and the public had talked about uh adding extra lcat uh stakeholder meetings and perhaps making that a rolling you know quarterly event um i don't know if that needs to be agendized but i would love to see some ideas from that about what that would look like when it would look like and how we'd manage the request for additional time for community input so again i don't know if that is that's something that needs needs movement or if it's just a hey i'd like to see this yeah i'm not i feel like if it's an informational item then

110we don't necessarily need to agendize it but if it might be action then we should agendize it well i guess the action i'm asking for just um that we give staff direction and that um yeah i've just tripped myself up and tied myself in so that was my fault yeah i meant that in the if it would be if it would come back to us as an action item or if it would come back to us as informational i feel like we don't necessarily need to vote to agenda is that that's fair okay i guess it probably would be information at this point until we know exactly what we want to want that to look like so i'm just asking staff not again doesn't anything sorry guys so that's a request then okay not emotional

111all right any other items to agendize all right so with that there is no closed session tonight so i'm going to close the board meeting thank you i would ask though that the board um stay put for just a few minutes we do have a uh since we're not having a closed session we do want to honor dr kaiser for her birthday that is coming up so we do have some little treats that we would be happy to share with the board does zoom get to watch us eat cupcakes that's really exciting for them