001board member tennis okay i'm calling the board workshop for today into session and hopefully we will have our other board members joining us very shortly so with that um we'll do the pledge allegiance 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 all right thank you okay so um and for announcements [Music] do we have yes hi my name is jessica hunt and i am the pta representative for district 13 and i am just announcing again our awards dinner that is happening may 16th the doors open at 5 45. will we be served appetizers of bruschetta and crostinis after that we'll have a salad course and then our main entrees include rosemary tri-tip
002with garlic mashed potatoes and roasted vegetables chicken parm with roasted vegetables and pasta and for our vegetarian dish will be a pasta primavera tickets will be 25 apiece they include that and a wonderful dessert bar that has so many listed that i can't say them all so checks can be made payable to district 13 pta please please please come we would love to have you and you will get to also see these wonderful kids at pv serve this great dinner because not only do they cook they're like doing everything they're decorating i mean it's just going to be amazing you want to give me the date again may 16th 16th okay good all right and i encourage everyone to come and the student chefs are wonderful all right so the other announcements mr shepherd do
003you want to talk about our glowing accomplishments state competitions so every once in a while we get to step out of the box and not just recognize athletics right we get to recognize all the all the things we have going on in our district and we have some amazing students i was commenting to one of my colleagues earlier these kids are way smarter than i am it's not a high bar and they have been able to represent chico unified in various skills usa competitions so i'm going to turn it over to one of our outstanding representative teachers and he's going to explain the success of our cte programs all right thank you hi my name is john andrew i teach industrial technology computer science robotics and drones over at chico high school um i'm here
004to talk about three different competitions and i thought there were slides but it's okay the first thing i'll talk about is the cyber mayor's cup uh this is a competition that's been going on in the state for quite some time uh oh thank you uh it's only in the last three or four years that they had a far north region which chico falls in they used to lump our region in with the greater sacramento area but to try to give us an opportunity they started promoting it in the more northern areas we've competed in the last two years and i'm happy to say chico high's represented well uh last year we had one team one first place and this year we had two teams they got first and second place wow so great over here
005is uh simon fan who is on the golden panthers team uh who won the gold medal and then we have jacob toss who got silver so that's the school's trophy there is a larger more elaborate beefier trophy that goes in the mayor's office and that has a plaque that just keeps getting added as a perpetual type thing great fantastic um you want to talk real briefly about the composition entail i think it's just a good opportunity to have what we learned in to take theoretical knowledge and put into you know practical application and it's a good way to also look further on into other kind of leads you into what kind of industries you can go into with the cyber security or computer science in general so good opportunity to have i'm glad that we
006had it this year all right great okay the second thing i am going to talk about is a county robotics team called blue belt bots i've been involved with this for 10 years now we started a non-profit about 2016. this team consists of any student in high school from throughout butte county so this year we had team members consisting from chico high inspire and las pumas just double checking all three members behind me are actually members of the team simon focused on our scouting application where they identified what teams were doing uh what well at competitions and then these two gentlemen over here were on the drive team and design team and build team because we had a small team this year but forest here is an inspire student so he's representing them all right
007um you saw us driving that around a little bit earlier uh i'm gonna let them describe what it was and what they the two events that they participated in real briefly okay [Laughter] yeah you want to be able to talk so people can hear you yeah thank you yeah so um this is our robot blue tang she's meant to compete in the first robotics competition uh 2022 rapid react um we went to the sacramento regional and the oh yes yeah as well as the um utah regional um so yeah do you want to talk a little bit about what our design process was yeah um interesting it's a lot um over pretty much all of covid we had no frc season so it was a great time for us all to get a practice doing
008having cat experiences and knowing how to design parts which for this spot was an immense help good point at the 3d printed ones pretty much all of the colored parts have either been milled on a cnc router table or 3d printed which both of those have taken a lot of time and effort and cadding the entire robot to making making sure everything fits together in a way that actually works um so question for you are you telling me you guys made every single component on that thing kind of more or less or not everything does i mean we don't make bolts ourselves like the shafts perhaps you know you did not make maybe there's a lot of stuff that we just bought that are basic frc supplies but um pretty much everything that's colored we
009made ourselves the stock aluminum is either cut down or bought to the exact size but the clear polycarbonate this blue piece on the front the entire front bar intake assembly was pretty much 3d printed oh the axle on the inside we did sure it's amazing so it's one of our goals that every year we take them to at least two tournaments it's all dependent on fundraising because it's a non-school activity this gives them the ability to iterate basically so they we went to the one competition without a climbing mechanism that arm on the side we made sure we had it for this next one because we realized that was a big make or blaric moment for that this is the first year that our team has made it to the elimination like the elite eight
010type thing from using a basketball analogy of the actual event we've been in the elimination before we just got out really quickly um we went to elimination in both tournaments we made it to qualification the quarterfinals this time around as well so uh we're getting better and better and they're learning more and more and the more that they build on this they build legacy access to equipment at chico high school compared to other years has been tremendously has built our game because the 3d printing and the cnc router capabilities as well as mr cockrell's powder coating booth that's what got this noticed it's bright orange for a reason so people look at it but that's what allowed them to win the industrial design award which is sponsored by general motors all right the car dealership
011the manufacturer of the cup vehicles so um that type of thing so i'm going to let them devil and what's the relationship between the inspire student and the chico high student what that's expand on that a little bit so like i said uh we started a non-profit called inspiration robotics in northern california in 2016 just before the oracle dam crisis we did that because we wanted to be able to do fundraising it was the whole buildbots program was developed with the rop program and that's the year that it went away and so we needed a better way of keeping track of funds um when it was part of rop it allowed us to bring in students from all over the county and it was very inclusive some students from las plumes knew how to build
012things really well other students from chico high and inspired knew how to design things really well and everyone cross-pollinated and it was really really advantageous environment for them because they saw students outside of their own school their own district even and so we've just kind of kept that going and as time goes on we just keep bringing more people and it's whoever wants to participate um so really it's the non-profit that spuns the whole program where do you guys like get together where do they get together to do all their their uh do you know where the highway 70 industrial park is in oroville across from surplus city and the paintball zone okay uh steve's hand class has given us a 2 000 square foot office space to operate out of and so usually we
013make the trip down there two or three times a week during the build season if it's smaller things we'll use my classroom because it's a convenient and more the majority of teams from chico but we look at this and say where can we make the biggest impact and there's a lot of opportunity for the kids in chico to work on things we want to try and see if we can get other kids involved too that's why we make sure it's a butte county thing um so we've had kids from regalia paradise gridley biggs all part of the team in the past and so it's really a part of that blending of it thank you yeah thank you so what were the criteria for this robot yeah so um going into this competition season what we're
014first given is a basic game animation that showcases roughly what you want your robot to do and for this year that was to shoot balls to hang on a hanging structure and also to intake balls off the field um so to go off of that they also give us what is it like 180 page rulebook where we have to memorize basically what the gain elements are the dimensions of things and just figure out what mechanisms could we make to accomplish these tasks it's really fun to go to these these competitions because you always see someone came up with a unique way of doing something uh the best operation that i saw to get up to a 12 foot high bar what what was it 12. it was like transversal one small feet yes okay 12
015feet in the air basically they put a giant compression spring on the robot and it jumped up to it wow it's amazing to watch but um so any more questions about viewport boss before i move on to skills usa so two weeks ago we came back from the skillsusa state conference down in ontario california mr farquhar jill mckay and i sent 23 students down there we did things from technical drafting architecture photography there was a t-shirt design contest cyber security drones computer programming and related technical math we had two students meddle at this conference and one of them jasper nikolai got a gold medal for technical design it's a very difficult contest that requires you to have a lot of knowledge about drafting techniques and procedures he's a sophomore and so we're really excited that
016he's going to nationals as a sophomore just to see what can happen there yeah and then uh fiona was uh in photography and she received a silver medal for her photo shoot that she did at the contest so we're really happy with what how they performed really happy that they had the experience and just really excited to be able to give them that opportunity type thing year after year after year for skillsusa i just want to really compliment you guys on working together and being so creative i also know that you were sometimes beating our quote unquote athlete administrators with your robot so that's cool hopefully everybody saw the front page of the er yesterday of a 14 year old being funded by the navy to develop an artificial intelligence that would detect fire danger
017and they're now putting it to test in a remote area so when you think about how much we have suffered from wildfires that we didn't know were happening until they were out of control this will be an incredible development and he's only 14. so you guys are on the right track do you know which school he's from pardon do you know what school they're from cycles yeah newport beach okay so go snag him yeah all right anyone else questions or comments are we going to see this thing work or well we saw it [Laughter] we have a before uh viewbuildbots.org buildbots.org there is a website uh shopping area that we use through teespring all right okay so you're not gonna shoot it at me right you're gonna i'm gonna go over here [Laughter] yeah you
018can shoot tom that's okay kelly our insurance policies all intact and everything right all right [Applause] okay actually yeah this thing first time i started driving it was really top heavy and tippy uh their solution wasn't going to get uh less top heavy but like no if we want to go fast but if we do get out of balance [Music] all right way to go guys and do i understand it picks up balls too yeah let's see let's see this [Applause] can i get a prototype of that for my toddler's toys please vex iq is where it's at look how fast wow but you're thinking these guys could actually are going to play basketball someday you're going to [Applause] thank you hey thank you guys really appreciate you coming great you gave us a kick-off
019start [Applause] uh classes i'm teaching next year is software uh programming and robotics and drones that's one pathway and then the other pathway is computers components the networking of things then cyber security and networking so all right we have mr parkour's engineering and architecture courses uh he is busy this today and yesterday building a tiny house on campus building a what now a tiny house oh that's right i saw that yes oh he did i missed him i must be in class that's cool all right [Laughter] well we also have both schools high schools track and field qualified to go to state and state is coming up this weekend all right so okay okay well actually consent happens right now so we moved to our consent calendar and um john you have two you want
020to pull yes please i'd like to pull 3.1.3 all right fresno trips okay and anybody else at one they want to pull okay so seeing uh nothing else being pulled dr kaiser we do have public comment under consent okay like two oh i see yes i'm sorry so julie hi treat good evening i had an emergency eye surgery problem so you didn't see me for a few weeks oh i'm still kind of on the side a little bit uh detached right now that was fantastic yes oh my gosh i'm gonna cut the tail into that um so on the consent agenda there were a few things um that marigold trip really um kind of made an impact on me when i was in elementary school sixth grade in the bay area we went up to
021redwood glen for our overnight and you had to get certain grades but you went up there and looked for lycan and we dug through scat and all this crazy stuff but the one overnight piece we had to do a hike no lights no flashlights nothing and you just had to kind of keep track of each other front and back i'm 58 i can still remember that to this day so the fact that this that's money well spent the things that i see in some of these consent agendas i always tell parents you gotta dig into the details because you know we tend to focus on some of the negatives but that that stuff's just incredible so kudos for all of that the track team i could never run so congratulations on that and the only
022part in here was that um the piece on the kids that are um you know that need the grade adjustments a great assessment the great accommodations and it's just breaking my heart to see some you know the percentages of kids that are struggling for a variety of reasons and i'm hoping we can just kind of come out of this and maybe learn something i've sent a note down to the butte county um or the board of supervisors but public health department behavioral health department scott canelli um danette york you know if they can just engage i mean my gosh all of this stuff just needs to be solved and cracked i mean 30 i think that i saw in here that needs some accommodations and i watched that workshop a few weeks ago um with
023the iep so i'm all behind helping with that and getting us through this so thank you very much but go marigold and my gosh go the robotic team [Laughter] all right thank you okay so can i have a motion i move passage of the consent calendar minus uh 3.1.3 and 3.1.4 is that right john shepard yes second dude all right so i have a motion and a second uh it'll be a voice vote um robinson i landed i kaiser eye dolby ai tennis all right 5 10 11 thank you okay so mr shepherd is back with 3.3 3.1.3 go thank you so both three and four i want to thank member robinson for catching this the dates for both of those field trips um dues to some um inaccurate calendaring we need to adjust those
024dates to may 26th through through the 29th for both oh for both okay okay all right so it will read that the chico high track team will go to the championships may 26th through the 29th and then number 4 we'll say that pb will go may 26 through 29th all right so can i have a motion i'm of approval of 3 and three four all right with the dates corrected seconded second okay so i have a motion and a second uh all those in favor say aye okay so thank you for that and i'm glad you caught the error in the dates all right so now we move to our board workshop topic um which is chico unified district technology and cyber security madam president board members i appreciate the time today to be able
025to present to you what we're doing with technology and chica unified tim karis is going to be co-presenting with this with me he did a lot of work on this uh slideshow and preparing for this i just want to say thank you to him for all his work on that um we are going to let tim take this one yeah good evening everybody um we are here to talk to you about technology and chico unified um it's a huge topic because it really touches everything that we do um just like people in their personal lives technology has kind of taken hold in our lives and very very same for uh for the school environment as well so we're going to talk about security um in both internet security and individual student security and monitoring of
026of computer use and then talk about some of the uses we do have a couple guest speakers one from a consultant firm that we use to advise on cyber security and one from the fbi so before we get into the big scary um topics of cyber security and the threats that are out there just to go just wanted to take a moment to go over why we use technology and she can unified in how we use it first of all for students college and career readiness we saw a great example that just prior to this where students are getting their hands on technology very high level technology so that's an example of technological skills higher level technological skills but even those that aren't going into a tech field need to be able to function on
027a computer in college they need to be able to function on a computer in just about any job that they are going to take after after leading us our curriculum is to a large degree online right now students use technology for research we get assessment data from students via the use of technology just about all of our our district assessments are given online and so you can see that number almost 90 educational websites visited by chico unified students through january from a staff standpoint we're able to better monitor student safety both safety in general and safety online using technology teachers use it for managing learning with with software such as google classroom um data analysis takes place online there's you know unlimited amount of teaching tools around out there and we're better able to communicate
028with folks so with that i'm going to let um we'll talk more in detail after the security presentations but um i'm going to let john take on cyber security care so cyber security is a big subject nowadays it's as we're going to see here in the in upcoming presentations it's just exploded the amount of like ransomware that's going on right now yeah we have a couple of presenters with us nathan may is a special agent with the fbi and so he's with us today and so i'm just gonna let him start out this conversation to kind of give you an overview of um what's going on in the cyber world right now so nathan you there yes i am can you hear me yes we hear you well all right well thank you for the
029introduction there uh i run a cyber security team here at the local fbi office in sacramento and we address we investigate uh things that have to do with uh cyber crime whether conducted by criminal gangs or conducted by state sponsored hacker boots and i've been here about two years we've been in this job for about two years i've been with the fbi about 17 years so that's kind of a short summary there since we don't have too much time today i'm just going to jump right into some of the things that we see happening with government organization in particular school districts and there are two things the two height of cyber crime that is really disruptive to um an organization and and these two things are what we have observed happen again and again to
030governmental local government or agency in particular school district and the first one is business email compromise and essentially what that is is a financial fraud scam where they try to get into the middle of your email conversation between you and perhaps a vendor so how it would work is they would pretend whether through script email or whether through getting access to the actual real email account of the vendor and let's say you have an ongoing relationship or you have a bill to pay that vendor um a vendor will they will the the actors the bad guys basically will observe the email traffic your communications with each other and what they would do is they get in the middle of that and they send out the email and essentially email would say hey we changed our
031account number so you know for next month's payment can you send it here and redirect that payment to an account they control and once because it's a trusted relationship there's an existing vendor relationship there right so you just go based on trust you make that payment and that payment goes you thought you paid the bill um the real value did not get paid and the money is then withdrawn by money more networks and most of the time they'll end up overseas so as you can see um we've seen losses anywhere between a couple hundred thousand dollars up into uh you know millions of dollars so that could be a very very disruptive to an organization for small private small to media private companies that could bankrupt them right for a school district that could take
032away resources that are used for educational purposes um the second thing that we see quite a bit is ransomware essentially um criminal uh gangs a lot of time they're overseas um eastern europe uh russian but uh in other places as well and what they would do is they would whether through phishing or through some other intrusion methods they would get into your network they equip your network then they leave a note behind or they send them a no and they demand payment and if you don't pay them then you lose your data if you pay them then you know you're kind of enabling that crime right you making that crime um profitable so um so that's uh and then we've also seen the second stage ransom as well uh which essentially is okay if you
033pay us will give you the key to decrypt and if your it team has backup and um and have been doing a good job at keeping backups um you may be able to just wipe network restore from backup and keep going well in that case the second stage come in and say we have your data right and your data is sensitive in value depending on what they've got and they may say if you don't pay we'll sell you data we'll put on the dark web we'll make money from it somehow and um you know if the data they stole was really sensitive um you know uh personal identity uh identifying information things like that um sometimes organizations will have to have to pay to get that new data back or pay to not have data
034distributed outside of your organization so those are the two things that we see happening again and again and those two things could be prevented by changing some business processes by putting player defense into your network right so for the first one bbc um have having that follow-up you know don't trust that email alone right so if the email they say we change your bank account we change our bank account send it here it's then um i wouldn't trust that email to go with to begin with right i would uh pick up the phone and it would call me not not phone number that they left of that school email but um you know maybe a phone number that you know is good right a known good phone number to your vendor and verify hey did
035you send this email because once that money is sent and goes overseas it's really hard to get back and then on the law enforcement side we have a process where if the fraudulent transaction is detected early enough and and you fill out an ic3 or you call your local fbi office or something if it's early enough within um let's say seven two hour period um beyonce is it's gone right it's been much gone less than 72 there is a good chance of getting something back right so uh the longer probably toward the 72 there's less likelihood toward the you know the zero or as soon as it's discovered there's a higher likelihood of getting uh the money back right so that's on the dvd side on ransomware again backup is something that should be done
036regularly it's verified it's done well um also defenses uh make sure that the ransomware but other times they get in they deploy ransomware and then the the ransomware just kind of quickly throughout the network so have network segmentation things like that protect your valuable data you know identify what's valuable to protect and put some extra uh you know fence it fences around it uh to to uh to make sure that uh even if they do extract data they can't it makes it harder for them to get to the the value provider that would prompt you to make that payment right so those are some of the basic things if we have more time happy to talk more about additional things that we can do happier questions than you may have as well so i'd like
037to ask um so have we seen been seen a really large increase then i take it of ransomware is that something that is is it is it plateauing or is it still continuing to climb the amount of ransomware that we're seeing right now it is um it is not stopped like that is one of the uh the scam that we see the most coming in in terms of reporting in public and um the way it works is the ransomware gangs and it's really organized crime at this point it's a they coordinated each other they each bring certain skill sets to the table they have money neural networks you know malicious coder software developers people who can code and it's called malicious software instead of legitimate software right so um and and they organize and they
038they victimize people so yes we do see a lot of and different different games i don't know the exact numbers but the fbi is tracking probably a good three dozen different variants of ransomware um perhaps more and i know private cyber security companies in the private industry also track these groups i have a question yes sir does it ever sensible to um try to make incoming emails dumber you know and what i mean by that is uh you know sometimes if uh i've got like a word document or something and there's a bunch of formatting in it that i don't don't like and i just wish i could just get rid of it you know because i don't like the way it looks you could save it in a really dumb format you know like
039a text message or something that doesn't support all that ugly stuff that you don't want um can you put some kind of a or is it ever practical for you know like when the emails come in that are from outside of our system they say external on the top which i think is really helpful right is there also a way to program in like a reserve it is a decision that you could make that any email coming in would immediately just be converted into a text only sort of thing with no you know no live links to you know no no no no no files that could be open to just kind of strip out the smart stuff that the bad guys are using i mean that's that's something that uh i think a lot
040of depending on what's off of what software you use what what email solution you use i think uh some of some if not most of the features you're talking about are customizable and i think your it team will be able to to um to answer some of the more specific questions so they would know what what software solutions being used right but yes there is there are ways to shut off links there are ways to shut off auto loading of images and things like that on email very good thank you any other questions important agent nee thank you so much for your time today i appreciate you taking some time away for your schedule to join us today thank you very much thank you thank you for having me so um we're diving into cyber
041security and you received the side of this from law enforcement we also have braun martin with us today he's from executecheck who is one of our cybersecurity consulting firms and he'll also give us a little more insight into the current um the current cybersecurity um environment that we're living in right now can you step up to this good afternoon thank you uh thanks for having me uh so we're executing tech we have several hundred employees a dedicated security team and uh kobe was the greatest thing on the planet earth for uh the bad guys i i can tell you that so you hit the next slide this is kind of the security landscape looks like i'm gonna go through this relatively quickly uh but again the intent here is for you guys to be as
042interactive as possible i can specifically mr tennis answer some of your questions i've learned some of those things in the past on what the pros and cons of that are so i want to cast your mind all the way back to 2016 what did that universe look like from an i.t perspective um back then everything was pretty much on-prem you had a couple things that were hosted at the cloud but for the most part john his team was responsible for everything that ran out of the district right that's just that was the reality of it today that is no longer the case right it's actually relatively rare to run all of your applications out of it i've granted one client that does that today um i'm sorry what did you just say that you have
043one client that does what that runs their applications how if they did not allow any cloud applications of any other organization so for instance we have a lot of our applications that live in our data center at the district office instead of having them host it up in amazon or someplace else i only have one client that still does that for all their apps they do not allow any cloud applications inside their environment one out of thousands of clients we have one client that does not allow it everyone else has moved to the cloud for one reason or another um so essentially data collection accounting sales sorry that means they're kind of like an island they're kind of disconnected from the internet basically or they have some sort of intra web very very significant and
044the reason why they do that is their financial services firm so their clients are wells fargo are bank of america things of that nature so they're just about that perspective they're so sophisticated the event that their entire primary data center went down they'd be live in their other data center crosstown in 30 seconds so these guys they take this very very very seriously central data collection as a result is now very very common right you don't have a bunch of distributed systems all over the place everything's kind of in one location uh and again now that kovid sent everybody home for a while and that was super fun for john and his i.t staff right they had to figure out how to get everybody to work remotely and access their data and as secure as
045fashion as possible which now meant that you needed more bandwidth you need more access by more people 24 7. right the old hey i've got a backup window i've got an outage timing things of that nature it doesn't usually have those luxuries anymore right we kind of run like a 24x7 shop and then on top of that and this is the big nasty out there that really kind of weirded today which i'll talk about is the internet of things there's a lot of devices that are connected to the internet that aren't computers i guarantee you that presentation thing has an ip address on it just literally your your screen it does but we don't plug it in it's yeah because it's an iot device so and i've been in so we've got again a dedicated
046team does it like we've gone into areas like this we'll find like a toaster that's got an ip address on it and we can like turn the toaster on during the presentation which can freak people out and it should because there's not a lot of security around some of that so targeting the home depot hacks from a couple years ago that hack actually came into their iot system it was actually through the refrigeration system one side and hvac system on the other so that's how those guys got into their environments so why why is that the case in 2015 ransomware is a grand total of the 325 million you just heard nathaniel right he medias this up all the time so these numbers are legit um it was 11.5 billion in 2019 again covet hit
047and it was over 20 billion dollars last year and we're tracking to be 30 billion this year it is now the most profitable business in the world it's more profitable than drugs as he said they're tracking dozens of these cartels that are out there there's been one major arrest made total so there's almost no risk to being part of some of these things in fact there are websites that are available that you can go to and put as much information about an organization as you can into that website the cyber criminals will use that information to try to get into the organization and if they do successfully they'll give you a piece of it as a finder's fee some of these links i'll send this document to you guys going to check these things out
048later if you want but again we've seen about the these are the very very public ones that were made you guys may remember last year like the east coast suddenly ran out of gas for a while because one of their big producers was there they got crypto but just so you know their pumping stations were fine like their ability to generate energy was not compromised the system that was compromised was their billing system the billing system was completely turned off and wrapped up it was so expensive for them to try to figure out because they can't just keep pumping oils they don't know who they're selling it to that has shut down their entire operation they coughed up 40 million dollars to turn their billing system back so so that's that's the real deal this
049morning just i was talking about with the internet of things so last year i had a very large client get compromised and we worked with the fbi at that point in time and we started theorizing about what the next level of attack is that was uncovered this morning it's called a botnet in most of the universe you have a compute device like your laptop and then you have a server somewhere it's amazon or something john hosts or things of that nature their compute they have the ability to like you ask it to do things and then it will do them but between those two points you have a whole bunch of other devices that aren't particularly intelligent their routers their switches their hubs are things of that nature but they handle the network traffic this
050latest attack is so sophisticated what they figured out how to do is update those devices and what it says is if i get a piece of information from you send it on to where it goes but make me a copy of it and it just slowly starts to bifurcate what that traffic looks like so over time they're dumping that information and eventually they're going to get some of your data out of it it wasn't malware it wasn't crypto it was something completely new and they're targeting financial services organizations and government organizations because they know if they get enough of that data for you guys and they lock up your systems you're gonna have to pay to get the stuff done undone later it's brand new i'm gonna ask just probably a boneheaded question but um
051i feel like it's my job to ask it so i'm going to do that um is there like a you know i gather there's not some kind of panacea response or if there is we'd be going back to the educational stone age of some kind but just saying well let's see let's go down the list of things that maybe we don't need you know um is there a room for a world view or maybe a voice at the table that would just say well maybe we can do without that one really dangerous thing you know and is there is that have any traction it would be tough so i have a hospital client but that was kind of their mechanism they said they were going to basically go back to paper in the event that
052something went wrong they were going to go back to paper it failed so many things now require so much electronic interaction that the idea that i can just go back to paper to do my job and actually do it successfully it's just not reality anymore it just isn't so i'm with you it'd be nice to do it but it it hasn't proven to be successful in any cases that we've seen instead what we've tried to do is how do we start looking at some of these things right now we have tools and i'll i have a slide that talks about this later that we're pretty good at scanning what the compute device is at the client side and there are tools that do a pretty good job scanning what the computer is doing but we
053don't necessarily have a lot of tools that do stuff in the middle because they're hideously expensive traditionally the ability to start monitoring looking at what that stuff does is now possible and we typically refer to this as a sock a security operation center that's now reading what is that device doing because the device knows that it's sending it to you and sending it to you at the same time it knows that it's doing that but we're not looking at that information because those logs are huge and super boring for a human being to look at it so you really need a computer to say why is it that we're now suddenly streaming that to two different locations so that's kind of that next layer of the onion the security onion that we need to start
054adding onto the systems and this is gonna spur that more and more as this stuff comes out now this particular botnet we know has been out there for about 18 months i'm pretty confident that a couple of my clients actually were impacted by this so that gentleman for the fbi and he just mentioned that vendors will change their routing for your for your payments we had a client that that happened to about a quarter million bucks and everybody was like how did that happen what you know what took place and it looked like it was completely legit well now we're pretty confident after seeing how this bot network it was legitimate it was legitimate because he was you know releasing information that she didn't know was being released so that's the kind of thing that's
055happening at this point in time so something that everyone really really needs to be aware of and as you said the number of tax is dramatically increasing you'll use to see attack once every couple months now it's very very very rare for a week to go by without some sort of attack taking place which if you kind of think back to beginning of covid there's a big huge stigma if you got it right oh you had coveted you weren't cleaning your hands you weren't you weren't by the end of it and everyone was talking about how many times they got it like i got it twice how many times did you get right we destigmatized it that kind of needs to happen when it comes to cyber security we need to be really really comfortable
056saying hey i think something happened to me without somebody going what you do wrong because i've had vps of operations do something but they didn't want to acknowledge it and then two weeks later we find out that you know 50 grand was sucked out of an account we're like why didn't you tell us like you knew what was going on you knew there's something weird in that last email you read it's like well i really want to talk about it we're like okay well now we know you just got to talk about it there's no stigma to it it's going to happen and it's going to get worse so if there's one thing that comes out of this is that if you see something that's weird tell i.t tell somebody don't keep it to yourself
057it needs to be de-stigmatized because if you haven't been hit yet my father-in-law is a pilot there's two kinds of pilots ones that have crashed and ones that will crash okay they're just it's gonna happen so just be aware of it and be comfortable with it so that's what's the toughness okay so again the tools and technologies used to be millions of dollars they'll build a sock they're now much more reasonable and you don't just have to build them internally there's also third-party services that will do this now for you as well they're much more easily priced they're not cheap but it's a heck of a lot cheaper than cuffing up a 5 million dollar payment to get your students data back which i'm sure you guys heard about me at the same time we
058now need the distributed workforce to also be protected like everyone from here works from home at some point in time during copay right that just does a normal part of the operation and there's no possibility that you're going to get everyone to come back into the office five days a week it's just not going to happen not for a long long long time so we need to really build up the understanding that you need to protect the entire network no matter where it is so what does that mean these are the security layers that we talked about again this is kind of that network from the outside then you have your platform right this is your antivirus it's the stuff that we have the at the edge piece that the chinese team managed really really
059well get your applications what what are you using to get to it then you'll get your data and then the last part is the response which very very few people have a real formalized mechanism or how do you respond again you need to have it out there that when you get hit if it's a win not an if these are the steps that we're going to take in order to make sure you protect you as much as possible there are tools out there now that'll actually tell you in the event that something happened what data did they get because really really if they have your data that is not particularly sensitive don't pay them who cares like all right yeah you've got i'm a public organization you now have my budget for last year congratulations
060you can find it on the cheaper website right there's no there's no downside to that so if you can actually sort through and find what data they have it makes a big difference on whether or not you make the decision to pay the ransom or not and this is what your security risk management looks like today again it's a cycle right we have network security user education awareness malware prevention removability controls i was very happy when i first handed my little key drive if that he asked zach asks can i use this can i plug this into my system which is good three years ago someone would have had you used to be dry you just want to plug it in there would have been no hesitation whatsoever so at least now we have awareness
061that maybe i shouldn't plug that into something secure configurations managing privileged end users this is a big one a lot of people have the same password and same access to different layers of the environment if john goes to login as an administrator he should be able to log in this way to access this part of the system and he should log into a completely different way to access this part of the system and that needs to be the case for every single thing that happens and now we know again based on what that botnet there now needs to be a third login you now need to have a different login to access security systems and security controls of network layer then you do from your server layer so it just gets more and more layered
062as things take place incident management again track what's happening who's doing it again we need to start moving the stigma what's happening out there monitoring and then mobile and home working so there are certain people that they have direct vpn access into the system they need to be tracked differently than somebody who's just coming in over just a portal so what about the person who was deliberately providing information in hopes of getting paid another word so that's what the stock is doing because we're trying to see why because you're you're literally coming through millions and millions and millions of logs so if we start seeing something i'll tell john earlier we had a client that um they went down south america they logged in their system and then very very quickly we started seeing something
063coming in from laos from the same person we have a sock that's doing that a normal computer would be like yeah that's a legit credential let it in like because it really was it was it was just the fact it was coming from an unexpected place that the system turned off that traffic so unless you have those kind of controls like your log into your login so you just kind of be aware of how these things operate i think that's next one okay so this is kind of our recommended approach this is the hardest thing the average security environment is never done there is no end there is no and now i'm secure right nothing could be proven to be secure it can only be proven to be unsecured right because i broke into it
064it's a bank it just hasn't been broken into yet so there's a constant ever evolving space that that requires new tools adoptions methodologies things of that nature is our recommendation as many layers that we know of can be protected with as fast as possible so if you saw a couple things that last slide you don't necessarily have try to patch those as fast as possible it is better to have more coverage than to have better individual coverages like having the latest and greatest server backup software that was hideously expensive but that's the only thing you've got is not as valuable as having okay backup and then putting some resources to some of these other some of the functions and then again as critical note there's no one solution right there is no magic bullet there
065is none specifically to your question earlier part of the problems we have we have like law firms and such that we work with if i'm cracking open the word document or the excel document or the powerpoint to strip that information out that goes it that means it's seeing some of that so if there's hipaa information in there if there's you know ppi in there it becomes a problem that becomes a district issue so you need to just be aware that if i'm going to look inside the word document and strip out all the formatting that i like and just read what's in there and put it to a different format something was looking inside that document so just be aware there's some privacy concerns that you can take it's not just some dumb computer tool
066that just strips it out and it is but at some point they screw up right they make mistakes et cetera et cetera and then there's the thing that we really do recommend is like if you're gonna send some information it should be encrypted if it's encrypted that tool can't see it it doesn't understand what's happening right it's all scrambled anyway so if you're going to send out all of your social security numbers don't just send a blank word document make sure it's a password control and things like that so back to my question um like um but if somebody's sending in some piece of spam or some random just phishing email what do i care if it's got you know if my tool is is is looking into their email and i don't know the
067tool that's sophisticated enough to understand the difference between this and just spam versus this is something i really shouldn't be looking at it doesn't know that right scanning everything and you guys are scanning for spam malware right so it is trying to catch the big ugly stuff it's just not necessarily sophisticated enough to understand the nuances between them good questions any other questions and this is legit like i might like i said we've had clients pay a lot of money a quarter million dollar just lost in just one transaction for a school district like ours you know without tipping our hand too much to the bad guys who are all obviously following this on our youtube live stream right now um what's like the worst case scenario like like you know i mean our our
068kids data i guess they can walk up and we have they have locked up and we have seen all your um student information system and all of your active directory has been locked up and completely malwared which means that you don't have the access to it so um then they'll they'll post it they'll post everything right so that's that's problematic and then on top of that these latest attacks are so sophisticated um so for example you guys got off the 365. okay so office 365 behind the curtains you don't see will keep 200 copies of every word document excel document anything that you're working on if you store in the cloud it'll automatically keep 200 copies of it so you can always recover if you accidentally delete one there's now malware out there that's written
069in a macro that'll go out and it'll change one symbol in that document 201 times and save it and then delete it so that when you're actually going to go find your document it's already screwed it up to the point where the document you're trying to go get back is gone that's how sophisticated these attacks are so they know how these the attackers know how your backups work so they actually go and they look for most backups they tag it somehow they'll have like a dollar sign at the front of the file name or at the end of the file name they actually go on they look for those and the first thing they do they join your backups but they don't crypto you they don't encrypt your data they just delete the backups for
07030 45 50 days because they know if they just delete your backup from last night and then crypto you well i can take a day's loss i'm not going to pay a million bucks to get a day's worth of data back but if i do that for 60 days now you go john i need the last 60 days for the data he's like it's gone okay now recover everything for the last two months but my point was kind of like that's a word document right you know i mean who cares right these are the computer these are like the student information systems so like all of our gpa data for example like could just all of a sudden proof you know be gone unless we pay somebody a bitcoin or something like that right exactly
071exactly so gpa data i mean i just like to maybe think of maybe again without like tipping our hand like like what are the kind of things that we that's really sensitive all the home addresses any social security numbers for any of the parents that are coming into the system like literally any piece of data that you can store about any one family their addresses etc etc all of that's stored somewhere and they will post that as well as their any kind of student trouble like if you have an hr department says hey the student's on a pit plan and things of that nature like all that will and they're nasty data iep thank you yeah to finish to tie off my point that i want to make on this i would just look for
072things to not keep around you know if there's things that we don't really need to have you know digitally then you know why collect them that's just my thought any question i was just going to say there have been two districts in the north state that have been hacked successfully and they had their all of their student data all of their staff data everything was frozen so you couldn't get in to do um you couldn't get in to pay your employees you couldn't i mean they were basically dysfunctional um they did not post it they did pay a two million dollar um ransom but they got their their there's actually been far more than two that those two just were made public the rest would be able to keep quiet yeah those are the only
073ones i'm aware of yeah but again they had to pay they had to pay because they literally couldn't run payroll they couldn't do anything right in the event that something does happen again you know reach out to a firm like us like those documents that the nathaniel from the fbi were talking about we know how to fill out those fbi forms because we filled them out many times at this point so we work with that team we understand what to do against the incident response the the sooner you know what to do when this is going to happen the better off you'll be what happens well 72 hours is a very short time framework it's next to impossible unless you have some sort of sock that's like throwing up information to you right away like
074you don't know and these guys are smart like my biggest client got hit always on easter weekend now we know that they had been in there for at least 40 days and they were just waiting for easter and then that friday night at 11 40 they kicked it off and we just happened to have the tool there that alerted to say hey we're starting to see a lot of disk activity what's happening so we're able to turn things off before it really got out of control but even in that case it was sophisticated enough that it had basically encrypted about 20 of their data for their executives it ignored all the arrests but they knew who the cfo was the ceo like they knew who those people were they started encrypting their system first that's
075very sophisticated they indeed they're they're cartels these are not good people okay thanks for your time appreciate it hey i appreciate you providing the information in the service critic so as you can see things are it's really an interesting time right now um we've seen a huge increase in cyber crime um one thing we've been doing is we put layers into place so braun mentioned about an onion about layers and that's really important is have layers of protection in place and so what we try to do is make it painful for someone who comes in and tries to you know a bad player comes in and tries to steal our data or tries to ransomware us for the payout for as much as you know as much whatever we have our data that we have
076is worth so much to them so if we can make it painful enough where it's not worth it for them they move on so for instance we have i have this light here so i want to do just a quick analogy to you let's say a car in a dark parking lot right so you have this beautiful you bought a new car our district's kind of medium-sized so it's like a camry it's not a la unified works as a ferrari and it's not a little tiny school that's that's just like a you know a 1960 dart sport it's you know it's a decent car and it's parked in the parking lot and so you know recently you probably all know we changed our passwords and now we have to change our passwords every you know
077a couple times a year we make it so that um you get fishing you know fake fishing emails so these are these are the basic things we do now to make it so this car is secure you know we're we're turning the car off we're taking the keys out we're rolling up the windows with our firewalls and we're locking the doors these are the basic things right here that help keep us safe and so we now have other systems too where we put layers in place to make it difficult for people when they do get into our system to get through to that data to that car to be able to steal it so that's where people like braun and others come in to help us put those systems in place and we've had great
078support from our senior cabinet from business to be able to do these things and so i just wanted to to ease your mind a bit that you know we're not wide open with the car running and the windows down but that threat's always there if someone really wants to steal that car they're going to steal the car right i mean if it's if that's really what they want is that that camry and they don't want to go after that ferrari they're going to they're going to be able to do it so our job is to put those layers in place and just make it painful enough where they they find another car with the windows down so go on to the next slide so i think the next one here i think goes to tim
079nope this one is me so i want to talk a little bit about student data privacy so you know we beyond just our you know us protecting our systems and our data here we have other systems out there we you know illuminate different systems that store our student data out in the cloud and so we have to have contracts with them so if they get hacked then we have you know there's repercussions they they have to report to us what happened and let us know within a certain time frame so there's a link on here and this is a list a public website that lists all of our software and all the contracts that we have with those with those different companies um this is required by law assembly bill for 1584 requires that so
080that link is available for any any public member to go out and look at that and see what our different programs are and and that we have contracts with them um we also we use you know we use a lot of chromebooks and so we have a management console that we use to manage those the google management console allows us to lock down those chromebooks and keep those you know keep our kids safe in there so they can't just install things and do whatever they want to we lock down our student email so that they can't receive email from outside sources so that they're not getting links to click on that's going to get them infected and affect our network and then recently we were able to lock down our windows machines so it used
081to be a student can put in a usb drive and you can run a program on a machine so that's been locked down now so that they can't do that anymore you can't they can't run any software that's not pre-installed by cheap you're going to find okay you go to the next slide all right so security is a program that we use it's a it's the filter that we use for our chromebooks but it does more than that too so it when the kids take their chromebooks away from school they're no longer behind the filter that butte county boss education has so they have to have a filter still on their chromebook that's security so when they take that home their devices are secure they're they're filtered correctly so this shows some of the things
082you know as it filters the internet on those chromebooks it also then watches and records where are they going and what they're doing so you can see from this one you know that the number one thing that's being blocked are games right that's the number one thing that security is blocking for us our games and the number one site that they're going to is discord so discord is a gaming chat site so it's blocking that because parents wanted it to or because it's just securely decided or we you decided or something that that we want to block that so it's doing that because we as a district decided to block games yeah so we had a short list of games that were requested by staff yeah that were allowed all other gaming was blocked so
083like cool math games for example which which sometimes has a little bit to do with math and usually it's just a huge time suck for my boys but that's why on the approved list i i gather that was on the approved list it no longer is oh really it's most anything but math games so yeah so we are looking at those those gaming sites that were requested by staff and we're putting into place a mechanism so that sites can be submitted and then we can look at that and see if they really are academically based games or not well i really appreciate us being on this as a parent with three kids in the system who um you know they have active little minds those those those guys and yeah they like kids are drawn
084to video games you know and sometimes they're drawn to it right in the middle of a of a history lesson you know in class so that's um that's great they find those dozen websites that are open they know about those so so we're going to be looking at those and what will be available coming next school year will just be educational games because gaming is important for kids though i mean it's like when i was a kid they would bring in the movie projector and that like really ages me they bring in the projector and show a movie right and so it was you know the lights are down it's like oh good a movie and so for kids it's the same kind of thing you know and there are some really great sites out
085there um starfall great site for young children to be able to learn abcs and it has games on there i have some reason to believe i may have asked you about this or talked about this before john but um that i've had guys bring home a chromebook with a book or something stuffed in the to keep the book to keep it from closing all the way okay and i have some limited reason to believe i've never taken the time to do an experiment but that if you open that up and you never properly closed it that it worked you know that thing they were looking at at school because the filter the filtering is different at home versus at school at school you're able to access things on your chromebook that you can't if your
086parents have blocked it at home you it might still be okay at school because this on-site filters don't take that stuff out that parents have have have programmed into securely you're aware of that yes right um but i'd like to have confirmed if that's true or not so that would be something i need to talk to security about to confirm that or not so um i've heard that that might be happening but i have not seen it yet so i would need to talk to security and see if security has means or google has a means then to to get around it to cause that to stop so oftentimes when we find something like this there's oftentimes almost every time a solution that could be put into place to resolve that and so that's where
087i really you know for the public for our parents if there is an issue that i asked that you would bring it to our attention because that's how we find these things out and then we can go in and we can fix it so you know we've had issues where kids are getting around you know there's millions of kids in this country who are trying to get around the filters on their chromebooks i mean we have you know 30 million kids who are running chromebooks who are trying to figure out how do you run this stupid filter so that was it's a stupid filter so kids figure it out and they post it on reddit so when something come back that comes out then we then need to find a way to fix that so
088if you hear about something like this please let us know so that way we can put fixes in the place i just realized though there's probably a bunch of kids at home watching this meeting on on youtube you know and they heard me say that and now they're all going to do it geez can't win let me make a note about that that matt can't win [Laughter] so really quick sorry john take a minute to pause just to let everybody know that i actually have to step out for a presentation for my organization that i couldn't get away from um and my intention is to be back ideally by the time we have our action calendar but um i will do my best to be here in a timely manner and then i will i
089will follow up with questions if i have them as well as watch the presentation um recording on youtube so thank you for putting the time and two into this and apologies for having to step out at this time just it's been quite quite the week in a little bit thank you so then the next page here is um also about security security it scans through all the different files that are in student drives looking for keywords that might be in there that could be a concern and if it finds those it sends alerts out then to our staff to let them know hey you know look at this and and we i get all of those so i'm an administrator so i see all those and it's just a great system because it really helps
090us to identify kids who are struggling and having issues and it gets our counselors involved early on so it's a great system and it goes beyond that too so then the next slide security 24 takes that to the next level so if the artificial intelligence and securities data center sees a progression of alerts come in that hints that there might be some kind of an event coming you know the student might do something severe it will alert them and then they can take the step then to call the police and so as you can see from this slide here they've made eight calls to the police so far and so it's a it's the system works it's it's been very beneficial for us when i think about how many school shootings might have been involved
091avoided if we had had this kind of checking system yeah yes so from this we're going to transition into um classroom technology is there i know that that's cyber security portion was kind of harsh i know it's it's a difficult subject um but it really is the the state of things today and so i just uh if there's any you know you have any questions you have anything that you want to ask me at some point please feel free to let me know and i'm going to turn this over to the tim for right now all right so i'm going to talk about the use of technology in the classroom highlights of you how technology is used in the classroom because there's we could be here for for days we talked about every software system
092etc etc in use in chico unified so uh first what you see here is digital curriculum so when we buy when we adopt a textbook and this has been going on for quite a few years now we get a digital copy so students are able to access the textbook as well as enhance content right here you can see a virtual field trip video that students can watch the instructional strategies are are modern instructional strategies that align with our approach to to teaching in chico unified which is the universal design for learning um [Music] we we we depend on these a lot um they're easier to go home it's easier for a care student to carry one chromebook home with a handful of textbooks on it than a handful of textbooks on so digital curriculum and
093then social emotional surveys and services uh we were able to leverage uh technology in the classroom to get a better read on where our students are as far as their physical and emotional safety things like sense of belonging at school mental health concerns so we're able to get more robust data than ever on the status of our students that's kind of in the um it's not all bad news category associated with technology you know i mean we all know that's a double-edged sword right i mean the fact that these kids are like on i'm gonna we're introducing them right wrong or indifferent we are introducing kids to a world where they're going to be looking at a screen a lot and we know that that has a huge downside to it because statistically apparently you
094can see that the people who are on social media all the time and stuff like that are getting more depressed um but i guess it's not there's a silver lining in that at least we can kind of find really alarming search terms and things like that that direct us to kids who might have some sort of crisis right correct and the kid i'd like to add so so gene was telling me about the the new curriculum is coming out it's just amazing because it you can like highlight a section and it'll read that to the student and you can change the speed on that you can click on a link that'll take you to something to explain what that is so it gives kids so many options to be able to dig deeper into the
095lesson and really learn in a multimedia in an interactive way that they really are comfortable with and so it's just a it really is amazing there's there are difficult things in the in you know with technology right now with the cyber security but the idea that i can have you know the mass of human knowledge in this device in my palm of my hand is amazing so there are amazing things that technology can do as well so it really it is a two-edged sword i totally agree with that you know i mean the internet is truly the most powerful research tool that has ever been created bar none you know i mean i i i came of age in college and stuff like that researching things in the library right going to the card catalog
096and then pull a drawer out you're looking for your topic maybe you're talking to the librarian right who may be steering you toward this drawer or that drawer now you just if you can think up you know i've gotten in my opinion quite good at this just the right you know obscure search terms i mean you're right there the idea that we would keep kids away from that you know somehow and and limit their exploration too much you know to a point where they they weren't fluid fluent at doing that you know would be from an education standpoint probably a mistake i agree it's wrangling in it so it's finding that balance between you know what the internet has to offer and the threats and finding that protection for the kids yes so yeah so
097back to the social emotional side of things kids can we have multiple ways via technology where students can request to speak to a counselor an adult on staff kids can in some cases kids can scan a qr code on their phone to make a request kids are regularly presented with surveys where they can click a button and say i would like to talk to an adult and so that's been especially given the you know the last few years you know around our area that's been huge for us okay assessment is an important part of educating students we give a variety of assessments for a variety of different reasons right now we're in the middle of our state tests which are given online in addition advanced placement tests are moving more and more to online district
098common assessments whether it's given on illuminate or renaissance place to administer star reading or ixl or iready all of that is is done online and in a lot of cases those systems are able to give students instant feedback on how they did and you know we talked earlier about why kids kids love gaming and kids love gaming because they get that instant feedback they know exactly where they stand and maybe what they could do differently next time to go further in the game same way with with education you know we talk a lot about instant feedback whether it's on technology or whether the teacher is giving them students instant feedback based on a question they asked or reading over the shoulder of a student it's hugely important and technology allows us to leverage that the
099reports that you see here we see an i ready report and a star reading report will give teachers and a huge amount of information on discrete skills in a lot of cases where students need to get more help or where they're excelling they're able to get broad broader areas of areas of need or areas where students are excelling and allows the teacher to reflect on what they're doing in the classroom so hardware in the classroom we have a lot and john and his team have done a great job rolling out chromebooks so we've been on one one-to-one for a while now as far as chromebooks go chromebooks have a four-year life cycle in chico unified so we purchase an average of about 3 500 a year so we keep cycling new chromebooks into the rotation
100for students we have over 20 000 currently being managed and the reason why chromebooks are chosen is the balance between price and performance um they're cheaper machines um if we spend a thousand dollars on a laptop per student that laptop would still be out of date pretty quick four years five years max maybe so it's cost efficient john mentioned the google admin console we're able to manage those on an enterprise level as a district to lock them down we can see traffic on certain websites it gives us a lot of the chromebook gives us a lot of flexibility to to meet our needs as a school district the viewsonic touch screens have been a huge hit in all of our classrooms um those purchases have been made probably over the last four years i believe
101four or five years we started putting those in using bond measure monies when we would do we we do at school and then when kobe came we were able to complete that project yeah so viewsonics are a touch screen um so it's a basically a modern whiteboard or a modern chalkboard with the enhanced capabilities of the internet and the software on the machine etc etc so that's been a huge win for us and very popular with teachers and students [Music] staff laptops we were able to purchase recently laptops for for staff through covid a lot a lot of folks were working from home and it is easier for for adults with the software they're accessing to work to work on a laptop so those have been provided for all staff members over the last couple
102years and again everything i'm saying has been a huge heavy lift for our it staff and it's been supported by by senior cabinet approvals and board approvals and that's why we've been able to keep up document cameras as well are out there are out there so a teacher can can take a picture write something down and have a project very easily so that's just an example of some of the hardware in the classroom and john john had so i did what i want to mention on those those document cameras so we purchased document cameras with cobit monies and the new model is 4k so it's a really sharp picture and has a really really big zoom like an optical zoom that zooms away in so you could put something on the table that's small you
103know if you're in a science class you can put you know an insect or something there and zoom way in on it almost like a microscope and so it's just a cool amazing tool that our teachers can use and these all these things that we're talking about here are in all of our classrooms right so as far as classroom management goes managing the day-to-day workload assignments correcting assignments et cetera et cetera we use google classroom for it allows teachers to it's what teachers used for the most part to run their classrooms when we were remote but even when we're not remote it's dependent on to notify students of due dates give details on assignments provide resources teachers can grade any link that the teacher wants the students to see they can post in google classroom
104and it's just a very flexible tool our teachers have been trained over over the years in a variety of settings there's always a google classroom training available we make sure our new teachers coming into our district are know how to use it so it's been an invaluable tool for us in managing student work and a classroom in general more on veering more off on the security side of things but it's also a general classroom management tool is is go guardian where teachers can add additional website filterings for the time period that those students are sitting in their classroom they could see at any given time what students are looking on their chromebooks looking out on their chromebooks they can set themselves up to receive off-task alerts of the students you know going to websites that
105aren't part of the curriculum and then teachers can also chat with kids uh during class none of this is meant to take the place of traditional classroom management like i didn't have goguardian as a teacher but if i didn't want my kids on certain websites or on the on the on the computer in general just shut your chromebooks you know you can't there's still that that human factor in managing somebody still has to look at the screen somebody still has to you know see what the kids are doing and deal with that but it does give teachers a valuable and powerful tool um i want to geek out on goguardian for a couple of minutes because i see this as an important since kind of realizing that um securely which is where you as the
106parent you can control things that your kids are looking at on the computer at home but that doesn't apply at school that's that's the domain of of the administration and the teacher um so should we be informing parents about well we're doing it right now of course but but in a more pointed way trying to explain to parents that here's kind of the lay of the land in terms of how what keeps your kids from doing certain things at school you know and if you have certain wishes or desires take it up with your teacher encourage your teacher to set up a scene on securely on sorry on go guardian is it a good idea for us to be like empowering parents with all this information so that they can if they've got an agenda
107i mean how many you kelly staley the superintendent have gotten to know me and my family pretty well over this stuff because my wife and i were very interested in in monitoring and some trying to manage our kids activity we don't like them wasting time in class and stuff like that do we want how many parents do you think really are interested you know on that level i'm embarrassing myself here by asking you this question because i'm sure i must be a freak of nature yeah i have honestly no idea i do think it's always a good idea to make sure that parents know the resources that we have and you know parenting runs that wide spectrum from those that are hey we're going to let you do things and fall down and then pick
108you back up to ones we're going to prevent you to getting to that point yeah i mean i think parents yeah sorry man as a former principal especially when we first started rolling them out in carts and and those types of things and when phones came readily available for every student we had different things that families would ask us to do at different levels towards the end of march we were we had some families would say all right i have a way for my child to log into google at home with my desktop computer and those types of things i'm going to have log in i want this to stay in the teacher's classroom you know so my my kids don't having it from to and from school and those types of things we we'd
109have it from that level all the way to a parent not saying anything and having um the child just bringing it back and forth those are all adjustments we we make but i can tell you since we rolled out the big roll out when we needed to go full online uh when we went completely online we want we haven't come back to our teachers and say these are again all the the safeguards that you can do in your classroom we do it on our new teacher training every year but again we want to go back now that we every student has one all the way down to elementary back when we come back in august on this next year we'll be doing training again for every one of our teachers and we do an all-day
110training day and one of the sessions that every teacher will get elementary junior high and high school again is how to do the scene how do you work your goguardian if a parent's asking you you know these are things you can do you can pull up every screen every computer screen on your video so you can see when a kid is supposed to be doing maybe research on an english thing and they also now open up another tab they can shut that computer down right there you know from their desk so we need to need to go again going back over with our staff in which we will in august because we talked about that john john jonas and his team will be doing that for every one of our staff members and then matt
111you bring up a great thing i think back to school night or what whatever these are things is available to your kid and our teachers talk to us what you want for your student or our your classroom what we'll be doing in those things technology wise to make parents more aware i think the most things we can do that is back to school nights because that's when we get our largest amount of parents coming back on campus and we we can also we have things on our website that we can push out too but i just want to know though that is something that since we've had these conversations that we need to go back and remind everybody what we're handing it to our students that sounds great you know nothing we talked about in
112our meeting that we had um we had a meeting about this because i'm on the sub committee or whatever for this topic um uh the idea of like uh pushing the concept of um citizenship right like like digital citizenship right once i had one of my guys who shall remain unnamed um once uh my wife found he had like about like a hundred tabs opened on his in his chromebook you know he's maybe he's just wasting his life away and and mine too doing that you know but maybe he wanted to hide something on one of those tabs you know or something like that you know he's sneaking around the teacher or something like that you know um well that would be the sort of thing that you know we want to discourage that right
113we want him to develop you know responsibility and use these resources appropriately you know so i think that concept of digital citizenship for kids would be a good thing for to mention and kind of circulate that concept i also think we need to recognize our quality of teachers which i think is quite high and so for my very bright six-year-old it's very simple he sits in front of her because that's the quickest and easiest control function you know for a kid that is going to be doing something in a further part of the class and so that reminds me dr kaiser i want to make a point too hey i mean we're not paying these people these teachers to be in there and be a bunch of like little you know like babysitter cyber cops
114i understand that they've got a complicated job to do and you know this is going to be one part of what they're doing but but you know too much it can't diminish from their the main thing which is to teach an entire classroom full of kids which i you know recognize is a very you know challenging job and has many different facets so so one thing we can do and so when we when we do additional training on goguardian for our staff and in the fall this will give give them an extra tool so so for any teachers who don't use this or don't really haven't seen the power of this tool it'll open a new door for them because it's you know you're seeing a screen then on that slide right there that shows
115you know seven or eight chromebook screens and what's currently on those screens and that's what a teacher would see there's another screen that has color bars and so each website has a different color bar so if all the bars are the right color you know all the kids are on task if one bar is a different color and they just have to glance and see oh that person's not on task and they can go back and look and see what they do if they go back and close the tab you can go back and go guardian and see what was going on two minutes ago or ten minutes ago or three hours ago and we can help them to automate so when class starts it automatically launches a scene that gives them you know it
116limits what kids can do and so it's just a it's a very powerful tool right and you know we talked a lot about kids essentially going off task in the classroom and that's happened forever it will always happen this just gives them a tool [Laughter] so this gives them another tool up their sleeves make sure their students are on task even beyond like a security concern or looking at anything appropriate teachers want to know their kids are working on stuff they should be working on so very nice tool so when we talk college and career readiness um it's everywhere technology is everywhere um right when kids get accepted into a college or given a portal all parts of the college logistical experience are online they're registering for classes their class calendars or their assignments etc
117etc course catalogs so they are technology is embedded into colleges at well as well and you know like it has been said numerous times here we want our students to go off and succeed and not have technology be a hurdle in college as far as career goes recruitment and job seeking the most basic thing is is done online now basic computer skills are present in just about any job description and then you know as the job market continues to change and jo the job market will look different in 10 years than it does right now the one thing that we can be sure of is that technology will play a large part in that and this the bigger head start we can give our kids the better um and then of course again like what
118we saw the first you know the student presentation today from the chico high students those higher level tech skills um you know kids are hungry for them number one and they're highly marketable you know if you're a coder you can pretty much work wherever you want you know you have a job somewhere if you're a database person you can work wherever you want you have a job somewhere database person send them to me because we yeah that was a plug for any database people out there for us and then you know before we get to questions i just wanted to bring up the chico unified mission statement and you can see there uh in bold is we want our students to confidently participate in a changing global society and we're all very well aware of
119the role of technology plays in that and it's not going away anytime soon so that is a big part of how we're making kids ready both academically and with the tech specific skills so with that any questions i think one of the things that first of all chico unified we had all of our students equipped with chromebooks before chico state had their students and it was in the similar you know shutdown from koved so i think that could use to how quickly and effectively you were able to respond and the second part of that is the fbi and our consultant guy they're talking about major criminal gangs and going after big ticket items but a student who doesn't understand when they're exposing themselves and their own checkbook or their own you know whereabouts by their
120lack of being at least credibly prepared that they could be hacked that's a serious risk to them and to their families so i think that's another aspect of this where we are trying to make them understand that it can be dangerous in a different way for them to just randomly go off and jump into some kind of sight so i think that's very important so yes so i need to be mindful of the fact that today i got a message from a t and t thanking me for paying my bill and that that they'd love to give me a gift we have um we have systems that send automated emails to our teachers and often a teacher will email me said can i open this because john's put the fear of god into him regarding
121fishing so their our staff is very well conscious of that and i agree kathy we do need to um but it's happening our kids aware so often with the things that i try to do business with in the world that i i've i as much as possible i just don't anymore it just it's too scary because i'm not sophisticated enough to know how sophisticated they are and and i have a daughter in i.t who does the security stuff and she she does this oh god mom i can't believe you did that way too often because it it they're clever and and i do appreciate the fishing emails that most of them i've caught so they work and you know i said we've seen a huge improvement with our staff on on the number of clickers
122so they're called clickers in the system so the number of clickers has dropped substantially so if that is working very well so yeah um we've done the one-to-one chromebook rollout we've got the the viewsonics the touchscreen uh do you have an idea what the next big thing is gosh it's hard to say i you know ai is coming into its own and so you know in the next few years ai based things probably in the cloud would be something to really watch for i know i thought that 3d you know the the virtual reality classes would just take off but you know i i get motion sick on them maybe others do too it just has not flown it's it's there but it just hasn't flown like i thought it would so um but yeah
123i think ai maybe is something to really keep an eye on what about the metaverse is the metaverse in our future here at chico unified it's not in my world so that's the new facebook is the metaverse and so um it just seems strange to have these these icons for yourself it just it's odd kids can just lay at home you know like in like dark closets with weird glasses on and they can just be in a virtual classroom and yeah how about that i don't think so either well thank you i mean i think that was great yeah excellent presentation complicated subject thanks okay so um caitlyn is not expected to be back until a quarter to seven correct a quarter to eight okay so um we do have our discussion action calendar and
124um on it we have our resolution 1577-22 increasing the level 1 school fees it's good to see you back julie thank you to everyone for your your well wishes i appreciate them very much good evening um thank you for having me here this evening we have lynn gruber on the phone from koppel and grouper they are our consultant that developed the fee justification study for the district lynn see you there hello thank you for being here tonight if you want to uh we're going to just go over a quick review i'm not sure what was covered two weeks ago so we're just going to do a quick review and then lynn has some slides to cover as well so we'll go through them quickly as possible if you have any questions please stop us okay
125okay okay so we're here to talk about developer fees oops there we go i think there's a wrong button sorry about that there we go so what are developer fees back in 1986 the state legislature passed a b 2926 that allows school districts to collect developer fees on residential and commercial property in order to fund construction and reconstruction of school facilities as a result of new development why do we collect them it is our mission and our integral is integral to board adopted goals to provide safe healthy and positive learning environments for the students we serve our district has made a promise to our community to leverage all available funding sources in order to implement our facilities master plan the master plan was developed by our community by our schools parents teachers and staff and
126was adopted by the board of education yes when was that adopted originally it was adopted in 2012 and it has been modified updated uh three times when was the most recent 2019. and it talks about facilities correct right and that's all i have for now okay carry on okay the current facilities master plan that's the 2019 version describes an overall need of 590 million dollars for our facilities this is a page out of the master plan which shows the implementation schedule we're currently in phase four the red line shows where we were at in december of 2019 when we passed this or when the board adopted this master plan you could shift it over most of the way through the pleasant valley high school project and completed with chico high and we have begun with
127the programming for mcmanus at this point what's the duration of how long this plan is in theory was was was going to take forgive me if you said that already not a problem i have the dates that were projected is the final date but it is dependent upon fund availability we don't have all of the funds to do all of the projects is isn't it also impacted by the fact the law just changed and we have a whole new group of children who will be our responsibility yes we will be putting out an rfq for consultant services in the form of an architect to come in and assess our facilities and help us figure out how we are going to provide essentially double the amount of kindergarten classrooms at our schools in order to house
128the tk community so this slide shows developer fee revenue over the last 10 years average we bring in about 2.8 million per year in developer fees and in the last 10 years total of 28.3 million this is a list of projects in the last 10 years that were funded with developer fees or partially funded with developer fees so you see the project and then you see the dollar amount that follows those dollars are developer fee dollars that were spent on the project it's very common that we combine measure e measure k state funding developer fees everything we can get our hands on to fund the projects that are in the master plan so the grand total there is 29.8 million dollars in the last 10 years of developer fees spent on these projects so this
129slide gives you historical information about developer fees since 2012. so the first column is of course the year and the second column is what the fee was adopted for that year and then the percentage of increase the commercial rate and then the impact per student per square foot on the on the community for housing the student in a classroom five dollars and you can see the five dollars and forty cents the last column is the difference between the residential fee that the district is allowed to collect and the impact that is proven in the justification study and the dollar amount at the very last column is the impact or the deficit so for instance 2022 the rate if adopted would be 4.79 per square foot for residential development the impact is actually 6.99 so there's
130a deficit of two dollars and 20 cents per square foot yeah um briefly can you uh explain to us how the impact is um decided like what goes into finding that number yes i will let lynn answer that question lynn sure and ashley can you hear me yes okay great uh actually i'll be going through that in my slides but the the impact is calculated through the fee justification study by the state correct well the the rates that you can charge are adopted by the state allocation board and then once those rates are adopted by the state allocation board each district has to do a fee justification study to prove that they are justified in levying up to those speeds so in the justification study we have the the formula for that impact per square
131foot yes and i'll be going through that thank you i must reminisce no no worries okay and then we're gonna hand it over to lynch he's gonna take over the next few slides just let me know when you want me to push ahead okay sounds good so as i said the estate allocation board determines the fee and that is based upon the statewide cost index for class b construction and this is set forth in government code um and the at the state allocation board or the sap reviews these fees and adjust these fees every two years so we're always kind of looking backward at the increase that we've already seen and as we know these last couple of years we've seen significant in increases in the in the cost of construction the fees were adjusted
132in february of 2022 up to 4.79 per square foot of residential construction and 78 cents for commercial construction next slide so as i said before each district is required to have a fee justification study prepared and that study demonstrates the nexus of the requirements and the fees and the nexus requirements are set forth in government code section 66 000 which sets forth how to calculate the fees for any type of impact so the cities also use 66 000 for like how how much a sewer uh costs the sewer impact fee costs the library impact fee all of all of the fees that public agencies charge new development are governed by government code 66 000 not just school school districts that requires us to identify the purpose of the fee the relationship between the fee and
133new development and then the relationship with the fee amount and the facilities cost attributed to the new development and then there's an annual accounting of those fees collected next site so this goes into your question of the study methodology and first i'll go through the residential first what we do is estimate the cost per student in in the case of chico for the eligible modernization projects and this is based upon the 2019 master plan costs then we look at we project the student enrollment from new housing and we use student generation rates in the case of chico you recently had king consulting do an enrollment study for you and those student generation rates were based on the housing that has been built in recent years and they were deemed to be sufficient for this study
134then we look at the projected residential development that is expected to be built within the next 10 years we utilize recorded track maps approved track maps for projects that are actively seeking approval and through that process reaching out to the city and of chico we've determined that there's the potential for approximately 3 117 units to be built in the next 10 years then we look at the cost impact and the cost impact is the total cost of the master plan divided by the school district's capacity and then we look at the the average student per household divided by the average square footage of new housing units and since 2016 that average is i'm sorry for the past 10 years that average has been square feet for the average unit next slide unless you have questions
135there okay so in our report the cost per housing unit is approximately 9791 divided by 1400 square feet which is the average unit size equals the impact of 6.99 uh cents per square foot so i'm sorry what is that 9 hundred and ninety one dollars reflect that is the cost based on the per student um average of the current capacity so that's your the the current capacity of the district is about 931 i think it is and that divided by the master plan cost of that 590 million that that julie was talking about earlier and then that's divided by the number of units so who bears that cost that that well that's attributed to all the housing units through the district right because we can only charge new development for their impact and certainly the
136um the cost the cost of the total master plan is is born by not only new development but existing development as well the commercial impact is set forth in the code as well we have to use employee generation rates of per each category of commercial and those are based on a san diego study that was done many years ago so if you're wondering why we have a san diego reference injury justification study that's because of the code requirements and new employees also create new housing needs and therefore students and inner district students impact school facilities so folks that work within the district but don't live within the district also have an impact we do take off a residential offset so any new housing that employee that houses employees we subtract that off of the impact
137and then that net cost impact is what we are what's eligible to be charged on a per square foot and the next slide shows those as as set forth in the fee justification study and if you recall we are only allowed to charge 78 cents per square foot so each of these categories is well above the 78 cents per square foot except for residential self-storage and that's so low because there are typically very few employees for quite a bit of square footage of building and then the next slide talks about redevelopment so this is we need to determine the next net impact between existing development and new development and we only charge for the additional impact so if you have a 2 000 square foot home that is say demolished and it's replaced by a
1383 000 square foot home we would only charge the residential fees on the net impact of the thousand square feet next slide the adoption process we've provided a public review and notice period and that is required by law to be at least 10 days hold the public hearings which we did at the last board meeting and then the next step would be to consider the adopt the resolution and then the fees would be effective 60 days after the adoption date and i think i'll turn it back to julie to go over the actual timeline of the notification thank you so this slide is just in response to some questions that we had received from the board after the last board meeting so the notice regarding the study and its availability for review was in the
139chico enterprise record on march 15th and then again on march 29th and the study the draft study was made available at our district office beginning march 15th and available for review by any citizen the final study was also available at the district office on april 5th copies of the study were sent to a company called ccon financial construction company on three occasions march 15 march 28 and march 21st on the march 15 occasion we sent it to them because they always request them from us so we automatically sent it to them and then two individuals from their company requested it on those other dates so we sent it then as well with that i'll open it up for questions so i need to have a good understanding what's going to happen if we don't approve
140this increase um i've gotten to know you know the team here and i know that everyone in this room has nothing but the best intentions with every facility that we build and the way that we manage all these facilities and the things that we do with them and the kids that we educate and you know i thought long and hard before giving any back on this at all because you know i know that the heart of this organization is good um and the money would be used you know i mean uh state contracting rules like prevailing wage and stuff like that not withstanding this money would go to good use in terms of building a better educational facilities for our kids so what is going to happen if we don't approve this today well the
141short answer is the other funding sources that are available to the district will will bear the burden of funding the implementation of the master plan we would continue to collect the fees that were adopted two years ago and so what are those other sources so we have measure e we have one more draw on measure e in three years we have measure k which we have taken our last draw of measure k bond measure we have state facilities program grants we have applied for every state facilities grant that we possibly can us receiving money for those grants is dependent on the state selling bonds and adopting bonds we have several projects approximately 14 million dollars that have been approved by the office of public school construction to refund the district for the funds we've spent
142on previous projects and we don't at this point know when those funds will come to us because we're not in control of that schedule so if i said hey you know miss kissel the state's loaded right we're always hearing about the budget surplus they've got there and we know they're nuts for education down there if we just said you know we think that money's going to come in to help us fulfill the plan do you agree with that i would love to agree with you on that the fact of the matter is if we have 14 13 14 million dollars waiting to be funded from the state you can imagine what every other school district in the state has in their [Music] you know their applications that are in and the way it works is
143they fund projects until they run out of funding approval and then they continue to review and approve projects beyond bond authority and then when the bond authority is there they will fund the projects from the top of the list down and then when they run out of money they will cut them off so and and the state also allocates funding based upon a formula of grants which have historically um not been representative of the cost of construction i'm sorry can you repeat that i did you kind of were muddled there at the very end oh sorry so so the state funds based upon eligibility of the school district as well as a grant formula and the grant formulas were initially set forth to represent approximately 50 percent of the construction costs and now we're estimating
144them to actually cover about 30 to 33 percent of the construction costs of what they are funding and they do expect the districts to pick up the remaining percentage either with local bond dollars or developer fees i think the other aspect of this is every single school district has a new group of students that now by law are available to come and that's the four-year-olds and [Music] that also means very different structures to the rooms to how they are handled how they're processed and so it's not just the kids that will come in with new houses built we will have kids who will come in who are already here they just weren't eligible and now they are and that's the law didn't say wait till we got money the law said next year eileen thank
145you what i'm going back to is the the hand wringing that we did during the years that we were putting together the facility's master plan and how much work went into um itemizing the need of every single school in the district where we stood with our portables with you know the maintenance that we hadn't been able to do for so many years and when we put that facility's master plan together and put it out over about 30 years 12 to 30. yeah um we knew that the funding was the issue but that if the district was going to upgrade to the point where education was being determined by the the need for education rather than education being determined by the condition of our facilities which was the goal we didn't want we wanted our facilities
146to reflect what we needed to do with our kids and thanks to um you know your work and your predecessors in pulling in every single possible bit of funding and and to the citizens of chico who passed the bonds with the you know with the guarantee that we provided about what the taxes were going to do if you go out through our district now compared to what we were looking at in 2010 and 2012 it worked you know our our school district is looked up to as one of the shining stars in northern california that's why we're not a declining enrollment district i think and now we're faced with a wish come true as educators we've known that the most impact you can have on a child's success in later life is to get them
147into school as young as possible and after years of pounding on our state legislators to make it possible for us to bring those four-year-olds into public education um we have that threshold in front of us the only problem is where do you get the 29 million dollars to house them i don't want to be responsible for doing anything to make it harder for us to realize the dream of bringing our four-year-olds in under our umbrella and giving every one of our kiddos the best possible shot at their lives i understand that um you know there's there's always an issue of what's the impact and i um i'm not blind to the fact that the developers you know they have a job to do and making it possible for new homes and new developments to move
148forward is their job and i appreciate that because that's what supplies us with a vibrant community however if you don't have a vibrant school district to pull those people into those new developments you you're fighting a losing battle i i want chico unified to continue to reflect the best possible vision for our kids and so it it i i couldn't live with myself for not voting to approve this increase um it means too much to the district it means too much to our community um i know that the city council has moved to expand on um how developments and and others are zoned that's opening up a a more robust opportunity for development both residential and commercial and so what i see ahead are are good things but part of that good things is to
149make sure that the school district can um do what we need to do to bring our four-year-olds in to an environment that is conducive to their learning in an environment that that it is uh you know where for your four-year-olds can reach the handles and sit in the right i mean i remember when we had to um put junior high kids into an elementary and they couldn't they couldn't function in those little facilities but we didn't have the money to put the proper facilities there for the kids i don't want to be in that position right now with this amazing opportunity we have to bring four-year-olds in so i am you know i'm very much in support of doing what we are legally entitled to doing what our study has shown we have justification to
150do and and with apologies to developers that may feel that it is um you know hampering them i'm i'm not blind to that feeling in the you know in the field but overall i think it helps everyone it helps the developers bring in um you know new people into a community that that values their kids i'm going to open it up to public comment at this point and then we can come back to the board in terms of questions or commentary so do we have anybody from the public who wants to comment we do have three people three people okay first is mr bill webb okay and they get three minutes you'll see a card over here a car nothing no no green light red light yellow light or whatever uh thank you board my
151name is bill webb i'm representing chico builders association also representing the community homeowners and renters uh in our town and our county i think one thing that's lacking or maybe missing or maybe just wasn't explained very well it's not just the city of chico obviously that we're looking at we're also looking at the surrounding county areas that have development as well so we'll get into that a little bit more but as as a builder developer um and a home provider because we also have apartments we're very used to paying fees that's one thing that we're accustomed to paying is our fair share we're also cognizant of the cost to our home buyers and our renters so what's before you tonight if we're using the 1400 square foot uh mean for the unit size and a
15271 cent increase is about a thousand dollar per unit cost that ultimately gets passed to the homeowner or renter national association of home builders puts out an annual survey across the whole country of every city county and state based on the median income level home home costs this would price out a thousand dollar increase would price out about 91 individuals or homes from purchasing that home so these times were were confronted with increasing costs on it on a daily weekly basis so just an another thousand dollars um made me think well what what has happened in the in the school district over the last 20 plus years so we went back and we pulled the enrollment since your enrollments decreased yet in the city of chico alone we have built over 10 000 units so
153now we're going to project another 10 years and build 3 000 units how are we justifying that enrollment's going to go up 642 students i get that i get to tk4 but how do we justify 640 kids when we've built over 10 000 units over the last 23 years and enrollment's gone down i i would just ask you look into that and and the nexus of where we're at on that the other thing that's i don't want to say misleading but maybe inaccurate in the report is the 3117 odd homes or units to be built over the next 10 years historically in chica we build 500 units a year that single family and multi-family if you extrapolate that over 10 years that's 5 000 units so where are they coming up this doesn't count anything
154built in the county is that 30 seconds or 30 seconds okay well so to wrap up school fees don't solve the problem they're they're they're a small amount of of your cost allocations so the difference between not collecting and collecting the increase is about five hundred thousand dollars you're still going to collect over three million dollars annually we don't oppose school bonds we don't oppose that it just seems like this is this is the low-lying fruit that allows you to grab money so we'd like you to consider you know a no increase or maybe maybe there's something we can gradually step into thank you gm hello um chris giovalli uh chico builders association as well and epic homes been home builders in chico area with my dad and i for the last 30 40 years
155um this is a probably it's a difficult decision because i i i understand where you're coming from you see where you can get the fees and it makes it easy and and it's validated by a fee structure but it doesn't necessarily always need to be maxed out at that that fee level um the nexus fees need to show a really reasonable relationship between the fee and the use and the cost of it well in the county in the state state is lost and has decreased in population this year and the year before the county in the last five years has decreased 15.56 percent in population so if you look at back years ago and i'll say 2010 there's 219 000 folks in the county today there's 185 000. so if we take the relationship between
156the enrollment which has gone down in the last 10 years and then the actual population decreasing i don't see the justification of why we need to increase the cost i mean i'm not saying to get rid of anything and by no means but it doesn't seem like it follows through with the actual um the graph that's been put before us meanwhile it bill brings up that yes it does show that about it's been consistent about 12 000 units but in the next three four five six years the amount of housing that you have in your your own report shows it going down to almost 50 houses so the report itself is a little bit misleading showing that you have a negative single-family and multi-family amount of housing that's going to be built the capacity is
157935. we have 634 or some of that like to be to be fulfilled in the next 10 years but at the same time our in time the enrollment is going it's saying that it's going up um but the population of the county keeps going down and the state's population keeps going down so there's got to be some inverse relationship between that as well um i i hear the example of what you folks are talking about with the the t4s but how many of those t4s and the relationship needs to be with how there's a new building and new construction and that's how the relationship for the fee gets charged to the builder and so yeah there might be this and i think it's a great opportunity to have the new four-year-olds but are those relate
158is that direct um reaction from new building and new multi-family or is it as you said um is it existing folks that are already there so sure there might be some more folks that need coming in or younger kids but it needs to be a reasonable relationship between that and building i thank you guys for your time and i know it's a tough decision but thank you and kitty thoma the other thing i wanted to mention is julie does an excellent job too hi i'm katie toma and i'm the executive director for chico builders association and i want to thank you for the grace that you extended to us um by extending this for two weeks i'm new to the position and um don't haven't wrapped my head around all your protocols so thank you
159for that we we really appreciate that um i'm hoping that by now you all did get a copy of the letter that we sent if you didn't i have copies and so my my rule right here is i'm going to read to you what we sent you so thank you for honoring our request okay at the last board meeting we stated an increase in fees could actually price some folks out of the dream of home ownership mr lando challenged me on that and said he wanted to see some evidence of that of which we did provide that's already been alluded to that in fact a an increase of a thousand dollars would price out 91 households as a result of that one of the things that bill did i believe it was bill didn't mention
160is that mortgage rates are increasing significantly um as you've probably watched and also the cost of materials so that 91 number is probably very conservative question for clarification on that sure mrs toma um so what does that mean 91 people want to buy a house say a police officer or a teacher moves into town what what what what is this so according to the national home builders association if you increase in chico if you increase the price by a of a home in chico by a thousand dollars you are you are disenfranchising or not allowing 91 households to purchase a home based on the median income so if you look at the chart um so the median income is of of a new home the is 341 000 um 847 and then you you goes
161on and then the number of households um that shouldn't have a dollar sign in front of it um so those that can afford it is 17 788 those that can't but the 91 would be priced out by the thousand dollar increase does that make sense okay um and then the other thing we wanted to challenge was the um in the letter that was really important and this was also brought up were the number of units that would actually be built over the next 10 years and if you looked at the graph that we supplied that that you know the average building in the last 20 years has been has been an average of 490 units and so when we use that number we project that the number of units built over by 2029 would be
1624860 using your student enrollment at 642 using the 1400 square foot that the actual square footage cost is 4.49 not the 6.99 that the consultant came up with also the excess capacity currently you have an excess capacity of 935 students that wasn't discussed in the calculations and you have a projected student enrollment of 642 over the next 10 years so we're wondering where the correlation is between the impact of new construction 30 seconds okay making me nervous um the the impact um of new construction um that you already have the x am i losing my train of thought but you already have the excess capacity now and with a projected enrollment of 642 students over the next 10 years we don't see where the impact will be um so before you go sure um i
163just want to clarify that my question was not about whether this is going to raise the housing prices and it will people will get 5 000 yeah my question was do we have any evidence that school districts actually taking these fees has an actual impact on whether developers choose to build or not like do we have a case study in which a group did take the fee and the number of houses building bill went down or they didn't and the number of houses built increased okay i don't know i don't know the answer to that but i can tell you that the increase by of a thousand does eliminate 91 households which is really significant i'm very aware of it yeah yeah so any other questions welcome back okay thank you well thank you i
164just have a couple of things to add regarding the information provided by the chico builders association um kelly pointed out to me that the enrollment numbers that they're seeing from several years ago [Music] would you say [Music] here um but the year that they started 1999 through now have decreased but they we have had a significant growth in charter schools in our district over that period of time and the charter school students are not added to the district's enrollment however we do provide school facilities for a majority of them so there is a little bit of a difference there um question on that who are the ones that we do provide facilities for versus the ones that we don't and do we get paid for that or not we do not get paid in the
165form of rent no um we have forest ranch charter school nord charter school chico country day inspire school of arts and sciences and sherwood montessori for sure school and they're housed in chapman and who are the ones that don't benefit from chico facilities the only ones that we don't we're not responsible for providing facilities for are those that are not chartered by chico unified and right now that would be core they're part of our bond but they're they are not a they're approved by you county office event blue oak is also one of ours yes and achieve one of ours the list is growing so that does represent a significant number of students that aren't shown in those enrollment data from this team and the second thing i wanted to point out chris is correct
166that not all four-year-olds that come to us as tk students are generated from new development but some are not all but some are yes um i also wanted to point out the um the priced out table that is in the letter is from data from 2021 and i looked up the data from 2022 for chico and that number of priced out residents is down to 47 instead of 91 and then at the table where they were talking about [Music] lynn and her folks not projecting as much development as there actually is going to be the math i believe the math in the table doesn't adequately address it because if you say there's going to be 4 860 units built you also have to calculate how many students would be generated at that higher number so
167the 642 number would increase as well they both have to go up more development means we're going to generate more students from that development and that's the only comments that i i have on the letter thank you for bringing it and thank you for speaking tonight i have a comment on our approved master plan which is we we're in phase four but phase five is our next cycle and that includes rosedale little chico creek chapman parkview fairview and citrus those are a number of our schools in the lowest income areas and yet they're next to where a huge amount of construction is expected little chico creek is already anticipated to be significantly impacted by the construction in that area so those are the schools that are sitting there waiting for their turn in the master
168plan yes yeah thank you there was a some comments about how we have capacity existing for 900 such extra students but i know that when we're looking at our demographics and our master plan we calculate capacity in a couple different ways so do we know whether that number is the uh in my head i call them the comfortable number or the sardines in a can number i don't know that answer to that question and i'm not sure if linda's if it was the target capacity or the maximum capacity that was utilized for the study let me see if i can look that up i believe it was the capacity based on state loading standards which is um probably not quite sardine but closer to sardines yeah yeah it's based on the um the state loading
169standards so the max thank you you may have covered this but i remember last year governor newsome was announcing some odd billion dollars that we were going to spend statewide on um tk expansion and i think you did kind of mention it but can you talk more about that money where it is now and when it's going to get to us sure i can tell you what i know about that i am i'm a member of the cash organization coalition for adequate school housing and we have a conference every winter and at our latest conference in february i learned that the mechanism that the state is going to implement to fund projects for school districts in california to implement transitional kindergarten will be based on free and reduced lunch count for those districts so what
170i was told is that every district that applies will get one funded project for one school and then the state will go back to the top of the list and the top of the list being the most needy schools with the with the highest free and reduced lunch count and all of their projects will get funded and they'll move to the next district and all of their projects will get funded and they'll move to the next and all of those projects will get funded now we do know because we learned recently that the state has a surplus of funds we've all been reading about it in the paper so we are hopeful that our district will get funded for more than one project but two weeks ago this board approved resolution to apply for uh
171our project that we already completed at emma wilson where we added three new uh kindergarten classrooms that up that qualify for that funding so that's the project that we're applying for and then our second project will be mcmanus elementary school which you know we're in design for right now but as far as i know right now our district is only going to be funded for one project this is a question for anybody who can answer it because i missed the council meeting last night did the city take their full share of what they were allotted in terms of raising their fees i'm just curious if there's ever a jurisdiction or agency that that chooses to take less than the max and i haven't heard of one you mentioned to me uh over the phone a
172couple of weeks ago that there was a time when we didn't actually you can clarify this comment there was a time when we didn't so much collect these fees right looking at the historical data over the last couple of weeks there's been two periods of time where the district didn't suspend the fees but suspended an increase of fees for a short period of time most recently i believe was just after the campfire i believe the developers came forward and requested that we delay the implementation and we did so i believe it was a six month delay julie wasn't there also a period of time that we did not collect any commercial fees we only did residential yes for a four year period we didn't increase the collection of commercial i don't know about other districts
173or other agencies but that's what i know about chico unified are you trying to get a lot of conversation about the fees right that were there because a massive amount of fees going through and so they were talking kind of about the same thing and um there was some debate about pushing aside the commercial fees and doing you know different meeting for that and at the end of the day they passed them all but the biggest is did they were the commercial ones but the one thing for me that stood out was um the homeless advocates that were there and they're always they're talking about affordable housing and a big chunk of what's in development is for affordable housing and so my question is the impact on affordable housing in addition to the impact to
174the 47 or 91 homes that people are going to be priced out of what is this going to do for the affordable housing community when they're not going to be able to then again be able to afford the rent and afford the housing and now we're again back on this whole hamster wheel with the homeless community and they can't find housing they can't find housing it just seems to me that needs to be part of the conversation too so thank you so i'm going to close the public hearing and then move back to the board in terms of our decision about adopting the resolution 1577-22 which at this point addresses increasing the level one school fees just to the point that have been validated by the state and by our own study correct okay so
175so i also wanted to get clarification so when i believe you were talking about the gap you're talking about the gap between what our costs are to actually do the new construction and how much impact the fee increase affects that correct correct the difference between the impact and what we're allowed to collect okay i think i just want to make sure because that wasn't laid out so does anyone else have questions or clarifications that they want i have a question that i don't i mean i i tuned in on my way back over here so i heard some of the public comment but i missed the presentation read through the presentation we met yesterday so i've gotten a lot of questions answered already i just wanted to ask because i think this question got asked
176last time and i don't know if it got answered completely or correctly but is it possible to approve a a certain percent increase whatever it may be whether it's the full 17.4 percent or some some some iteration of in between um and or uh the real question i'm asking right now sorry is um to phase it in over the next two years so do part of the increase this year and then push the the second half of that increase or the additional part of that increase to next year it's certainly at the discretion of the board okay thank you what is the next opportunity we have to increase the fees if we want to two years and that's based on what state cycle state law it's even years the state allocation board reviews and adjusts
177every two years they did in february so if we didn't increase tonight we could in one year for example you can raise the fee from its current rate to the approved rate by the sab at any point in the next two years if that's what you choose to do but not over i like that's jacqueline jacqueline and and also of course julie um we have exhausted one of our bonds completely correct and the other one we only have one draw that's correct there's one draw left on measure e and what size of that draw is left i think it's between 30 and 40 million okay and [Music] mcmanus took a serve you sierra view are next and they're all major projects yes i'm trying to remember what our estimate was for mcmanus 40 million 40
178million oh there's a difference right there one school and again as i know the the schools that are are expected to start in 26 are some of our schools in the most low-income areas with the greatest need [Music] so waiting for emotion i'm calling for a motion okay madam president yes i move approval of resolution number 1577-22 as presented okay emotions been made i'll need a second all right then is there another motion to be made sure i'm going to try something out here currently the allotted it increases 71 cents right i would like to uh move that we raise the um fee collection by 50 cents over the next year instead with the option to come back and look at it again next year and see if that's what effect that has had what's
179that no it doesn't if you're going underneath it doesn't have to be two years we can go up to the ceiling at any time yeah mine either but she she just clarified a second ago so i think that would give us um again i'm still curious to see what the real world outcomes are when these fees change um and i'm very cognizant having uh recently purchased a home in chico myself of how very nickel and dimey it is to get housing here i mean on the other hand because i completely understand that you know our responsibility as school board is to how does it get so i'd like to find a way to split the difference is what i'm saying um and i think that aiming at 50 cents for now it's a good place
180to start the negotiation at least is what i'm trying to say so motion is uh 50 cents immediately with an option to to come back and look at it in a year and i think um you should maybe clarify that that's 50 cents per residential square foot and then what you would like to do for the motion on the commercial good point thank you yes um my motion is for a increase of 50 cents per square foot on the residential and to leave the commercial at the highest allocated level as recommended the 12-10 increase okay we have a motion do we have a second i'm in a second um so that we can discuss this this concept okay so we have a motion and a second the motion is to increase the fee by 50
181cents and come back in a year to assess the implications uh and to keep the commercial fee at 12 cents all right discussion i need help with math please i did the spine yesterday i had a number in my head and now i can't figure out how i did the math yesterday because it's been it's been a long week um can somebody help me that can do the math right now and not make me think more um what percent increase that is because that's how i i'm working in not real sense that's funny um i'm not working in since i'm working in percentages that's how my brain is it thinks a little bit better so um sorry for the pun that was bad that's a 12 increase thank you i knew you'd have it so
182um here's i guess i'll just kind of lay out my my thoughts on the table everybody's made really great arguments for doing the full fee increase for not doing the full fee increase we're doing no increase i think that i think that there's a lot at stake for our school district and our facilities especially looking at the master plan as it's laid out now and knowing that our bond measures are dwindling rapidly soon but also looking at our community as a whole as i have done quite a bit since i've joined the school board is is we don't work in isolation and um you know on that note these fee increases that are being proposed the city council will also impact our school district because we have to pay those fees to the city so
183that is also a reality that we have to kind of you know still juggle as far as all the numbers go so there's a lot of moving parts here it's a lot of variables that that cause a lot of uncertainties and i think that uncertainties have been the the season for the last two years and so it's hard to say yeah let's do a 17.4 increase without really understanding how things are going to kind of continue to settle out when it comes to our affordable housing shortage in this community when it comes to our families who are being priced out of housing in this community when we talk about those 91 or 40 something i'm sorry i didn't catch the number um 47. you know folks or families are or we'll just call them a
184unit those those people who can't afford homes with that thousand dollar increase um those aren't the those aren't the part of our population that are are you know really well off that's that's our those are our borderline folks those are the people who are maybe make enough to possibly buy a house like that's we're talking about the bottom of the the bracket here you know those folks above that they'll buy their houses they'll move from the bay area whatever i'm starting to ramble point being that 17.4 percent increase is very uncomfortable to me um what else is uncomfortable is the concept of taking funding or not not having funding for our schools to to have those facilities to house our students and and good facilities that that we can be proud of and that our
185students will flourish in um so it's a really hard place and i think that a compromise at least at this time is reasonable so that we it's kind of still the wait and see as we sort of come out of this really weird uncertain period of time that we've been in since the campfire essentially um so i um i i guess coming into this i am in support of you know a middle of the road compromise 12 is still a little high to me um on average i'm not doing math again but it hasn't been any more than 8.9 in the last six years so you know that that seems like a pretty decent ceiling to me is is right around what the most or maybe even just a little bit more considering inflation and
186you know looming and more fees coming down on us and also costs of materials going up like we still have to play the game along with everybody else um so that's where i'm at as far as discussion goes i'm sorry i'm glad i made it back on time okay so we have a motion a second they've both been presented does anyone else have anything to contribute um oh did you were you about to say something what oh okay um i i i i was going to amend see if i could amend the main motion um to a uh fee increase instead of the 12. um so um yeah an amending yeah it's well ten percent increase is a little bit easier for me it's i um and i'm still not saying it out loud because
187i don't want to get it wrong um yeah so ten percent increase would be right forty forty point one cents yeah jacqueline you wanna settle them down thinking off real quick so uh ten percent increase would put the rate at 449 per square foot um is it at all appropriate to hear from our hold on just as a point of procedure we've got a an amendment so it would need a second on the floor and i'm um i mean i'm fine with the amendment so if we want to consider it friendly then sure it's a friendly event yeah okay okay so i think we're still negotiation at this point so we're not but yeah we're not in discussion with the audience this is just the board now making that decision so the difference in the
188percentage increase versus the actual cost per square foot was 41 is that what you said a 10 increase would be 4.49 no she didn't say you did 10 10 increase not 12. oh okay okay 449 10 increase okay so everybody's clear all right so that was in the form of an amendment yeah which he accepted okay so the amendment now provides an increase where's the chart instead of 78 cents per square foot it would be what the increase wasn't 78 that was the original that has not been approved per square foot yeah at 71. so for clarification the original proposal to max out at the state allocation board is 71 cents oh 71. the original proposal from mr lando was to increase that 50 cents the amendment by ms dalby said let's increase it 10
189percent which would put it at 449 which is actually a 41 cent increase 41 instead of 50 based on what yes mr lando had proposed versus 71 is the maximum we could do is there any other need for clarification all right so i'm going to call for a vote uh we can do roll call pardon vote on the amendment uh yes which he had accepted is friendly so the motion in front of us is to increase the the fees only by 10 percent so they would go to 41 cents per square foot and come back in a year to look at the ramifications so that's 30 cents from what was the 71 cents that was in the original recommendation down to 41 cents yes okay i'm clear okay roll call vote robinson no orlando i
190uh hmm delay don't be delvie aye tennis name okay so two two and i'll say i so it passes three to two that way nobody's happy yeah was it henry calhoun who said a good compromise leaves everybody unhappy yeah apologies to everybody i love being the least liked person in the room all right julie we're back to you good evening thank you for having me here tonight so the next thing i'd like to speak with you about is bit approval for new walk-in cooler freezer for our corporation yard because of the dollar amount of this equipment that's why i'm bringing it forward instead of the director of nutrition we did put the project out for bid with specifications for the new freezer and cooler box we got one bitter from myers restaurant supply in the
191amount of four hundred eighty eight thousand two hundred thirty dollars and eighty seven cents four hundred eighty eight 000 in what 231.87 which is actually lower than what we had estimated it to be it is very large and it is it will be adjacent to the bakery it will store frozen food and cold food for the entire district it's just a big um like padded room basically with a big air conditioner unit blowing into it basically right yes and it will have a large roll-up door so forklifts can drive in and out and make the nutrition services um duties much more efficient is the building already there yeah this is just for the cooling unit correct we will have a project coming forward for the concrete slab that needs to be poured it's in design
192so uh that will be coming to you in the future and what pot of money is this coming from this is coming from nutrition services uh fund 13 budget none of it is is any of the um the rescue package monies or anything like that there's a very small pot of money that is specifically allocated to the nutrition program related to cobin relief but we're talking about 50 000 of the 488 000 becoming from that but it has to be spent on your nutrition services program so no general fund dollars would be towards this project um and none of the coveted relief dollars that have already come forward to the board would be reallocated for this project thank you isn't it true that the number of meals served by our nutrition services has dramatically increased
193dramatically yes it has and that's a good thing yep kids are their tummy's full i just want a key for the high heat days because i like big fats and i would we'll just add the logistical placement of this we'll put it right next to the bakery right now our current walk-ins are are in our warehouse and so they have to um oftentimes push parts and whatnot across the way to get over to the bakery the other piece to this is our current walk-ins are not really forklift ready if you will and so what's happening is when new because you have to rotate inventory when new shipments are coming in you have to pull everything out of the existing freezer put the new inventory in the back and then replace your current inventory in the
194front so oftentimes unfortunately our staff is having touch the same box two three four times in order to adequately rotate so with this larger walk-in we'll be able to do forklifted pallets that will be drivable within the space so it'll be much more efficient for our staff in getting food rotated and get it onto our trucks to get delivered to their sites in the morning yes next question um what's going to happen with the are we going to continue to use the existing walk-in we're actually going to remove the existing walk-in from the warehouse and reutilize that space thank you you might have said that already i apologize if so i didn't thank you for asking so kids now get a breakfast they get a second breakfast if they got to school too close to
195time to go to breakfast they get lunch and if they're in the after school program they get another meal about three o'clock and don't forget we have a summer feeding program as well yes um did you do an energy cost savings um did you look at like what this will save in energy costs by replacing this we did not study that um that is a good question in general newer equipment is much more efficient and the coolers and freezers that they currently have are very old and i would imagine too on top of that just being in the warehouse itself probably takes on another layer of having to work harder to keep it cool yes yeah because it's not a conditioned space right exactly i'll be curious but it's not a requirement for my vote
196but always get to know those too because when we're talking about how much a project's gonna cost you know it's also going to save some money and somewhere else probably so you know it's good to know what the bottom line is all right more discussion or can i have a motion i'll move uh approval of the the bid there's no comments from the public sorry thank you for that all right good see okay we have a motion second a second um you know thomas this path says you don't get to go sleep in it or anything like that [Laughter] all right um i'm just trying to make julie a little bit happier with me now i know she's upset all right so um vote robinson i land away kaiser ryan tennessee all right 5-0 good
197i'll be the one taking a nap in there thank you okay so we moved now to human resources and mr hanlon okay so i'm bringing to you resolution 1579-22 which is recognition of our teachers and certificated staff appreciation week i do want to point out i don't know what i was thinking i put the dates on here may 8th through the early may 4th through the 8th it should have been may 2nd through the 6th um i think i put it forth because that's today and then i counted five more days which obviously is not correct so there needs to be a correction on that for may 2nd through 8th third may 2nd through 6th because this whole week is uh certificated staff appreciation week okay so you want to have it may 2nd through
198may 6th 6th okay and i will comment that there are already schools where it's written on the wall clearly i did not read the wall i apologize so um would you like me to read it through into the record sure whereas a strong effective system of free public school education for all children and youth is essential to our democratic system of government and whereas the united states has made considerable progress in the social technological and scientific fields due to our system of free and universal public education and whereas much of this progress can be attributed to the qualified and dedicated teachers and certificated staff entrusted with the educational development of our children to their full potential and whereas teachers and certificated staff should be accorded high public esteem reflecting the value the community places on
199public education and whereas the chico unified school district is keenly aware of the importance and impact of teachers and all certificated staff on children and whereas it is appropriate that teachers and certificated staff be recognized for this dedication and commitment to educating students therefore be it resolved that may 2nd through 6th 2022 we proclaimed teacher and certificated staff appreciation week in the chico unified school district and urge all citizens to pay tribute to our public school teachers and staff furthermore the teachers and staff in the chica unified school district should be thanked every day for their dedication professionalism and for the services they provide to our students i move adoption of that resolution we do have public comment oh yeah okay if you want to open the public comment um public comment is open hi
200everyone uh so definitely a pro teacher advocate my mom's an elementary school teacher my brother's a high school teacher here so um recognizing teachers is a big deal in my life do it every day and uh recognizing the teachers of when my kids were going through school was a big deal for me too um and the one comment i'm just going to make is to and believe me we've got fabulous teachers in this community i will over that um i just want to make sure as we're entering the season and what we've gone through this past year as a matter of fact um that we're not going to recognize teachers who are bringing political their own personal preferences into the classroom um i'm hearing about it all the time from my parent groups that i
201go to and especially now we've got this roe v wade going on we've got elections coming up and um it really needs to be just re-emphasized reinforced that there's no vaccine awareness there's no you know i'm going to vote for this candidate because they're anti-trump whatever it is black lives matter having kids march to you know this is how we do things and we're going to you know march with their hands up blm et cetera i hear it all the time i just really want to make sure that we don't recognize bad behaviors i grew up i grew up i was a career human resources professional for 20 years and i did performance management so i want to make sure again that we're valuing the good behaviors and we're paying appropriately and that we're again
202not reinforcing the bad behaviors i hate to bring that into this resolution but the resolution was a little bit odd too with the way it was worded fully support fully recognize um the teachers in the community one really quick antidote i had my kids in a private christian school in the bay area and private christian school i came to my son's third grade class one day she had open class for the kids to come in and my son always needed extra help i walk in she's got the radio on with rush limbaugh and i went that's a problem now i have to think to myself do i say something right here my son's here that'll embarrass him do i walk right over to the principal's office that might be a problem my daughter is up
203for the lead in the play you've got to go through these mental gyrations right go home have a conversation with the parent my dad my mom needs to become needs to be part of the conversation go back to the principal have that conversation and the next year she's not there she's not teaching and so i wasn't obviously the only one so it's on both sides can't bring up god can't bring in somebody to the classroom to talk about christianity can't come bring in the doctor that's going to talk about why it's important to get vaccinated to go see grandma none of that has any place gun control none of that has any place in this in this community anywhere on the public school those k through 12 i'll talk about the elementary school those kids
204need to come in here and not expect to have that happen and then have parents have to go around and look for it and kind of be spies so but the rest of the teachers fabulous job thank you all all right no other public comment all right i'm gonna close public comment we have a resolution um made and seconded right we had a second i don't think we have a second yet okay okay i thought we already had a second okay thank you so um any further discussion yeah all right um i just want to re-emphasize that this does in fact say all teachers and that there's all teachers do their best to help kids learn and grow and i am not going to be party to second guessing what is right in the classroom
205and what is not unless i'm right there with him the whole time um i just want to thank our teachers for their service full stop end of story it's a hard job some days it's an impossible job um and we are profoundly grateful that you are here i was ready to make an amendment that we just keep it till the 8th or you know all year long because teachers have a hard job and really all anybody that's working with kids has a hard job um it's a very important job and it does tend to be a very thankless job and recognizing one week out of the year is is nice it's nice it's good it makes us feel good like we're you know giving everybody a pat on the back but it's it's never enough
206there's never enough to show how truly valuable our educators are to our students all educators because students will learn valuable lessons from all of the the people that they learn from however that may translate any further discussion all right then the last boat was uh unanimous so we can do it that way all those in favor aye aye hi yeah it was matt what did you vote okay all right so okay it passes five to zero and we move on to mr hanlon again okay so um we're also bringing to you at the same time the classified employee appreciation week resolution 15 80 22. now that's on may 15 through the 21st i got those dates right and um the reason we're bringing both of them to you at the same time is we as
207a district want to celebrate nutrition um does some goodies that go out to the sites and this way we can we can uh recognize that the board has um recognized them in you know in for for that future date and the 15th has actually already started and they and our next meeting is until the 18th so we thought we'd just do them together and uh be ready to go when we we celebrate district wide tyson i think with uh what missed all these comments was is that it does take everybody on the school site right for the kids to get the best possible education and in some cases it's a teacher in some cases it's an age in some cases it's the principal bus driver it can be anyone yes so that was a good
208segue did we have any public comment on this uh we do i don't know if um was it with the prior one or did you want both okay oh okay open public comment obviously i'm very grateful for this administrative staff here they're fantastic bar none last night at city council they had a um debbie preston's contract was on and i said you can take debbie preston erica smith and kayla restart the county do all y'all's job and you don't even have to show up for work so i'm here to recognize miss kayla erica smith so what they got a few goodies for her and mr mr hamlin there's i think there's a typo on this one too at the bottom it says march at the very bottom they're march 15th through 21st but not a
209big deal this is this is this is on you this isn't for you so it does say march oh man let's do it both march and may so anyways yes i've got her some of my favorite goodies um my epsom salts with lavender relaxation and some wonderful flowers oh there thank you and something just got knocked off diana's going to get [Laughter] our standards are dropping what what level standard is that are we tk i think that's a tk standard all right uh may i have a resolution or a motion excuse me emotion yeah i'll move the adoption of resolution 1580-22 i'll second that okay we have a motion i would like to offer a friendly amendment that we changed that date to may yes accepted all right so uh we can have a just
210a voice vote can i make a comment oh so ditto to what i said and thank you for recognizing me segway but also just to reiterate the job that our office staff has to go through because making those schedules is not easy taking those phone calls is not easy being the public face of the school is not easy and i know that there's some people that that that do get forgotten that are completely pivotal to a smooth day are our attendance clerks and office managers yeah so um all of our classified staff are very important our classified staff that are face to face with students all day very very important um but also you know those that keep the things the most the things in motion are are um i just feel like we should
211just give them an extra shout out ellie uh yes um kelly yesterday uh you uh shared a memo on uh csea's uh was it the abc yeah it's called the ace program there we go and chico unified was one of 10 in the state that has been awarded this by cs csea our classified union and um we get the opportunity this is going to be great and the board is all welcome and encouraged to participate as well to shadow classified employees in their work you can pick whichever of many different positions you can ride with the bus driver you can serve food you can work as an aide in a classroom can help with the custodial crew there's many many different opportunities depending on your interest and they are doing a big pr campaign they
212will be up here and videoing some of it taking lots of pictures and sharing that with other districts so we're privileged to be a part of that how do we how do we make contact or who do we make contact with if we're interested at this point we're still trying to set the dates with the csea representative so if you are interested let me know and then as soon as we have the dates confirmed i'll share that and i'll share that out anyway okay thank you okay so um all right voice vote for resolution 1580-22 hi hi all right five to nothing and jim's gonna fix this small error okay so now um is there a board member that wants to request to agendize an item okay seeing none we will be moving to closed
213session and after a closed session if there's any decisions made there will be an announcement all right thank you all you