001call to order the uh Chico Unified Workshop uh featuring today the Career Technical Ed uh programs as one of our first uh items so with that uh I ask you to salute the flag 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 so um because there's appears to be some confusion about the distinction between the workshop board meetings and the regular board meetings I have uh a little educational piece to read um the board voted on January 19th to modify the meeting agenda format for the special board meeting workshops as noted on the meeting agenda tonight's meeting will begin with the February Workshop as I said Career Technical aded which is anticipated
002to be approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes the board will begin the discussion action calendar which includes the California Voting Rights Act at approximately 6:30 as a reminder announcements are to share community and school events open to Chico UniFi District families or School related functions or Awards public comments will be first taken from those who submit speaker card request in advance if time remains after hearing from those who have submitted a speaker card the board may hear from individuals in attendance that did not submit a speaker card individual speaker comments are limited to 3 minutes total public input on anyone subject or agenda item will be limited limited to 30 minutes this may be extended at the discretion of the board in the event of numerous requests to address the same item the board May
003select representatives to speak on each side of the item items from the floor which is a discussion related to a topic that is not listed on the posted board agenda is an agenda item on the regular Board of Education meetings not on the special board or Workshops the the next regular board meeting is on Wednesday December I'm sorry February 16th 2022 at any time members of the public May submit public comment to all board members by emailing public comment at Chico unified.org thank you for participating by being here so with that um under announcements one person did submit a speaker card and that is apparent Kimberly snip okay so not seeing her here then um we will move on to our consent calendar um and business services approval of the contracts drer we do have
004one announcement okay I thought we didn't so February 7th through 11th is uh National School counselor's week we will bring we be bringing a resolution to the board at our next board meeting but this year it happens to fall between this meeting and the next one so we just wanted to make um a recognition of our counselors It's the intent to focus public attention on the contribution of school counselors in the United States school systems especially in regards to the increased mental health needs due to the coid pandemic and like I said we'll be bringing forth a resolution next time but we just at least one to make an announcement that we're recognizing our counselors that have been working very hard hard in our district yes thank you and they've been uh playing an increasing
005role as well all right so then to the consent calendar Business Services um do I have uh questions or comments does any board member wish to make a motion I move passage to the consent calendar okay is there a second I'll second motion all right so Mr tennis and uh Robin Miss Robinson have moved uh and seconded um any questions or further discussion all right I'll call for a roll vote since this our first one so I'm sorry uh Robinson I Kaiser I Dolby I tennis I all right so four to nothing all right thank you all okay with that we move to the central uh Workshop topic which is uh Career Technical Ed and we have Tiffany heringer is that right so I'd like to first introduce Tina Kean who the board and Community
006are very familiar with she is our director of state and federal programs and she will uh introduce the topic and our presenters good evening good evening sorry about that uh thank you for being uh so warm and hospitable tonight to introduce uh the people that we have here with us I have Tiffany heringer with me sitting down there she'll be coming up in a moment Tiffany is our new CTE coordinator in Chico Unified this year we're very excited to have a position that can support all of our CTE programs to a very deep degree Tiffany's put together a very comprehensive presentation for you tonight on our Chico Unified Career Technical educ ation program or commonly referred to as CTE and I want to welcome Tiffany to come on up we also have teachers and students
007here that she will introduce along the way and in advance I want to thank those folks all for being here tonight as well as extending a welcome to their families who are sitting in the audience as well so we do have 75 minutes for our presentation tonight I'm going to assist Tiffany as the timekeeper so if you see me raise my hand or make some kind of wiggle please don't uh please just ignore that um and Tiffany is also to note has built- in question times during the presentation that um she can obviously welcome questions along the way so sit back relax Tiffany come on up take it away hello hello welcome um like you said my name is Tiffany heringer um I'm the CTE Ator um I'm going to start with a brief overview
008of CTE as a whole in our district and then invite um several of our programs up to talk to you guys um about your their program specifically all right so CTE in Chi unified um covers nine of our high demand industry sectors meaning that these are industry sectors that um have a high opportunity of having jobs openings in currently and in the projected future so we are teaching students careers that that they have the opportunity to actually go into so it's it's really we base that on labor statistic data our nine industry sectors um within that we have 21 Pathways um and a pathway is a minimum of two sequential courses that they can take but some of our Pathways have up to four in five courses that a kid can take in a single
009specific subject at Chico High we have agriculture mechanics architecture cyber security Digital Arts Engineering Floral Design patient care ornamental horiculture Robotics and software design and sustainable agriculture science and at Pleasant Valley we have architecture design Child Development commercial Arts education engineering food service and Hospitality graphic arts media arts patient care public service and Welding fabrication so you can see we have a wide variety of different um career Pathways that we have um available to for students to take it's really a fantastic opportunity and in my experience coming from outside the district it's really impressive that there's this much CTE um within the two compreh Comprehensive High Schools so it's really something that Chico UniFi should be proud of within our presentation tonight um I'm going to talk to you a little bit about our curricular
010achievements and then I'm going to hand it over to our programs to talk we have teachers and students that are here that's going to cover eight of our um 21 Pathways after that I'm going to talk about our funding sources and then give you some updates on our CTE facilities so curric curricular wise um we have a lot of opportunities for students as well so we have 14 sections of dual enrollment and we have 17 classes that receive articulation credit both of these two things are ways for students to get college credits while they're still in high school a little bit of the difference between the two so these are our dual enrollment classes for dual enrollments students receive an actual grade on a but College transcript as if they had taken the the class
011at but College for articulation students receive credits on a transcript so that's really the main difference between the two um between dual enrollment and articulation any questions so far I'm going fast yeah thank you um with bu College being um partially online right now are any of our CTE courses that that we uh share being impacted that you know of not that I know of because they are all classes taught at the high school level by our high school teachers even the dual enrollment courses okay then I misunderstood part of never mind yeah yeah the dual enrollment courses are taught by chica unified staff um that meet the qualifications to be Community College um professors yeah that's a great question um we also have expanded the crack the career code um which is a partnership
012with bu County Office of Education this is um an opportunity for eighth graders to um get exposed to careers that are out there last year we piloted it with one course at Marsh High SCH Marsh junior high school and this year all eighth graders at Marsh Junior High School are getting that experience and our plan is to hopefully expand that to all of the middle schools at some point so that's a really great um achievement that we've made this year as well and then we have two new um Pathways so we have one new pathway this year that's been offered in commercial arts and then a new pathway that is um planned for next year um in a new culinary um class um focused on um pastries and baking and Barista work so that's some
013of the overview of our curricular um achievements yeah um whoa my microphone's loud again um the crack the career code um for the eighth graders that's a required class for eighth graders to take at Marsh it's a um a series of lessons it's five lessons that bu County Office comes in and and does with the class um and it's embedded in their science class okay I was kind of curious about where that was fitting in um because I they're kind of limited even with their amount of electives that they even get to to take so cool thanks yeah it's really a week out of their um curriculum so right with that um I we're at the point where I'm going to invite our our teachers to come up so we are going to start with
014our architecture and engineering program with Scott farar after he comes up John Andrews will follow him and then Melanie and uh Tammy Taylor will come up to talk to the about their medical Pathways and Susan Solin will end with her education pathway this is Scott farore would you like this you want me to oh no hello uh thank you very much for having us here uh it is always wonderful to have students uh uh approach and let you know what is happening in the classroom uh we are going to be starting off with Ben here and he is working with a program called build it uh design build design build yeah so uh design build is a program it starts in uh January 1st and goes till May 5th um we will submit plans to
015um the competition uh February 1st we submitted those last last night and then coming May 4th and 5th we will take 15 students down to Sacramento and they will be building a structure over a period of two days um and this will help educate them about what what it means to build structures um we're going to fund this through uh vce by contractor exchange they have a pass through fund that is used to fund local projects that teach students um how to build things and so that'll fund our materials and then we've had multiple industry experts come in um uh green build or sorry GBC California or green build building contractors California has come into our class and taught us about um hers ratings and different uh building methods along with proframe construction has come
016in and taught us how to frame a tiny shed they have been learning they have already been learning so much it's it's a it's amazing we've already had several people come in we uh um have already got the frame structure built for a shed which is our little testing unit that we're doing uh before moving on to a tiny house uh which will eventually be donated to one of the fire victims as they are building their current house as well um so I think this is fabulous that the students get involved with this type of program okay so were there any questions about about this go yes please um with the with this the the future of the tiny house build um is there a model that we're basing the program off of are there
017other schools that we've kind of already seen this go through yeah so there's about 30 schools involved in the competition so far um this will be Chico year Chico High's first year competing we just competed in the uh design competition which was strictly a design um and this year we're doing the open competition with the shed so what we're doing is we're actually designing a full uh home in-house we're going to submit it to County go through plan checks go through the full process to get it actually built as a structure and then transport it and put it on a site oh that's awesome great thank you thank you so I just wanted to say that a couple of years ago Chico State construction students uh did something very similar for the victims of um
018the floods uh in Louisiana so this is phenomenal that you guys are I won't say following in their footsteps I will say making your own path thank you means a lot but the program that they're using is called Autodesk Revit which is a program that the actual professionals use and so they they've been you've been learning a lot oh yeah oh yeah okay okay so the next one that we're going to be calling up here is uh create which is another competition that we ended up uh being involved with uh that was the fall semester so we would have started that in September and we just finished it up uh about a week or two ago so I'm going to have some of my students come up here um we did win some of the
019awards there uh create was basically an architecture event where they actually design an Autodesk uh Revit they actually get to choose what type of CTE program building they want to build on the campus and then design that building uh use Architects we actually had she builds come in and a couple of other Architects come in uh to actually work with the students to let them know oh you need this you need that and um so it was a fabulous little event and we came back with some of the hardware we actually won Chico High School became on the map because we won five of the seven Awards which was uh pretty amazing question yes what were the awards that you won so the awards great great question so we have right here uh this is
020the champion so we won first place we went against schools that were in yeah San Diego La Sacramento San Francisco um all over this is a traveling trophy so it will permanently say Chico High School on the trophy and we have a sibling team right here that actually won the award okay any questions with for these two right here well I don't think you can just say siblings so they have to say something okay hi my name is McKenna Winson um this is my brother Mason and we were part of the group that um won the competition for create we decided to build a culinary arts building at our school because we um don't have that and a lot of the students have been interested in it so we decided to why not potentially give
021them something they can use in the future fantastic yes there were a couple other students that were part of the competition they were not able to make it today unfortunately uh we also had a model where they actually had to uh build to contractor level uh some type of model for the building and the winner this year was Ben okay so uh what we did for the competition is we uh assembled a decking system so we designed a two-story classroom for uh floral design and hor culture and so our Second Story was going to be assembled with a metal sheeting um platform that you pour concrete into and so we Bend to the metal sheeting assembled it and then poured concrete into it as a part of our competition excellent and then the the other
022two word or couple of the other words that we won uh we actually won best presentation that was a different uh one unfortunately the the person who won that was not able to attend today uh we also won student leader for the State of California uh so that was uh Grace uh Becker she's not able to be here today unfortunately um so she's a senior in the class and then um actually came away with a rookie teacher of the year so so there we go okay another program that we have in the class is called Society of women Engineers it is part of Chico State and here we go hi my name is ashin fortino and I am president of the Society of women Engineers next Club um this is a chapter of the Society
023of women Engineers Club which is at Chico State and I started it uh as a freshman to continue working with the imagineer day which they hold every year as an event for kids of all ages in Chico to learn more about engineering and um unfortunately there was the co disruption as soon as I started the club so we weren't able to participate until this year we're planning on having we're planning on making a lab and we're going to be able to be teaching some of the kids how to actually do that where they um use small robots and they follow a track in case of Co we do have plans to make an online option just in case it would be a different lab but we'd find something um we are also reaching out to
024the middle schools in Chico and we're going to try and connect with them to do events or field trips to promote more stem and Engineering over there thank you that sounds fantastic did do you want to say something [Laughter] too very impressive okay we got another I have a question um when did your interest interest in engineering start uh I've gone to all seven years they've had the event going on uh since they started it and I'm actually the only person that's gone to all of those years but that's been did yeah have you felt supported even at the middle school level here for your interest in in that or has it really took off since you were able to join the programs um at the high school level I didn't do any of the
025stem programs in middle school but but in high school I've done three years at the of the architecture program how about your colleagues here um this is my first year at Chico so it's really been my first year with the school that promotes engineering so this has definitely been a fun experience that I've grown to love and hope to continue with my future education at Chico awesome are you a senior this year I'm a sophomore sophomore got it thanks I'm a Junior M is a senior okay got it thank you so for somebody who didn't want to talk did gotcha Dr kais thank you um I think it was about 10 years ago when I first discovered that there was such a thing as women in construction and Engineering then the closest chapter was Sacramento
026so it got it got uh broadened to be available here and I'm just thrilled at the participation of our students especially our ladies thank you so much yeah very good also want to just add that I feel like we have some really good role models in our district at the district level um in in this field too so it's pretty pretty great that you know we got some strong women uh in in construction and Engineering um in our in our whole District any other questions for our engineering and architecture group before they head out I think it's going to be hard to beat them boy all right so our next program is our ICT program and John Andrews is going to come and speak on that behalf yes okay uh hello my name is Jonathan
027Andrew I teach information communication technology Chico High School uh consists of two different Pathways uh one's uh information software systems and one's in Software System development one's Hardware one's software um this fall we uh really participate heavily in the uh Vex competition uh which is just a small robot uh we have two of our teams over here that participated that are driving over um we were actually held one of the tournaments at Chico High School this year too so uh we had 27 teams that signed up 25 showed up and we held all the event um one of our teams uh won a trophy judges award trophy up at Chasta High School for the battle of the north uh for basically a perseverance because they kept at it uh even throughout the entire match most
028things didn't go right for them but they still had fun they came up there uh that same team got the sportsmanship award because they were helping out other teams at the Iron Cow classic the one that we held at uh Chico High School um most of those teams actually competed in skills USA as well uh which is our Career Technical education organization um so that's on the robotic side things uh that leads into this semester into more of the Drone and design drone design Theory type class uh those students who are taking the aonics and drones class are actually going to be getting their uh commercial drone p license uh if they passed the test oh um the pictures you see up are of a couple of uh of one opportunity we had to do
029a flight operation out by Hena arms when they're uh discing it for the pumpkin patch uh we filmed parts of prom last year we were at uh graduation uh we managed to be able to figure out how to get our drone camera to hook up to this uh video system that was being broadcast and so we are an extra camera for them as well as just taking footage um we are at homecoming this year we're looking for every opportunity we can to get more drones out there and more of our students certified so they can earn money piloting too um yes would you guys have any availability to put a drone at our board meetings like camera and shining it on us you laugh I thought about it and then I thought maybe not this
030one I think it'd be fun you get some you know zoom in on like our our faces when really important decisions are being made I think put cards in yeah we'd get a away I think we might get a much like bigger online following don't you think yeah I think so I think so so you probably recognize a few of the students that were from the engineering architecture so we have a lot of people doing a lot of things um in addition to S and skills USA we also have a Mesa Club on campus and a robotics team besides the class and so we we're doing a lot in the industrial technology department um between Scotty and myself um it feels like we're making progress we're clicking we're humming and we're doing great things and
031the kids are really achieving um you heard about sweet like kolina Faro come on up here and talk about Mesa for a little bit all right hello um my name is Carolina and I wanted to talk about mess a little bit so um this is actually just my second year at Chico and I'm a senior and all that but um I'm actually from the Bay Area are and over there you know everything is very competitive when it comes to stem engineering especially uh women in engineering uh minorities in engineering so I just wanted to create a space for um marginalized communities of that type especially moving here at Chico uh so that's why I founded Mesa um just this year and I kind of got it rolling uh it's basically just a type of club
032that um really branches out to all communities and and helps them pursue a career and stem there's a lot of uh scholarships also available uh for uh those who participate in Messa so since this is my fourth year doing Messa I did two years at my old school and two years at this school then I'm qualifying for like uh 2K 3K scholarships just because of that because of the opportunities that um my schools were given to me so I wanted to give people that go high those same opportunities so uh I founded Messa um the the competitions that I've been a part of are the math competitions also uh the prosthetic arm competitions at my old school where you had to create an arm for those that didn't have any um and then you had
033to use it either using um different electronic devices or it could also just be using like a garbage can handle um there was different aspects of it which I thought was really interesting um so I'm sorry what is I missed I think what Messa stands for um Messa um it's an acronym so it's for mathematics engineering uh science and achievement I'm so glad you figured out that we were better than the bay yeah well yes I um I was pleasantly surprised with Chico high and its range of Robotics Su um the engineering department right now I'm in my third year of engineering and um I I really like that a lot of high schoolers now have you know the opportunity to do these kinds of things to be prepared for the future fantastic anybody else
034all right excellent thank you um the last thing I just want to mention is that uh three of the four people standing up there are officers in our skills USA Club as well oh good um this year for skills USA Chico High School had over 50 people participate in the event that's as far as I know the most in a very very long time um so we are really excited about that and we wait tomorrow to find out who goes to State yes sorry how many participants over 50 wow um before before you step off um I have a question and this is kind of for all of our RCT teachers who are doing so much I'm honestly already going a little cross-side like keeping track of all the different clubs and teams and competitions
035and where you're going and when you're doing them and how many awards are being won and all the great things that so many students are doing and overlapping in that's a lot and so are our our our CTE teachers being supported even in that extra capacity as far as you know stien funding or extra hours or because I know I know I know personally that it takes a lot to do field trips and to you know take students you know outside of the community to other places and it just is a lot of coordination and a lot of time and a lot of extra extra yes I I feel like we are very well supported in that regards um Tiffany and the other individuals at the district office work very hard to make sure that
036the CTE programs are funded and it's all that as competitive um she'll be talking about the strong Workforce program Grant later on uh for me personally I was able to buy uh robot kits for the middle schools uh and push those down to Marsh and Chico Jr uh so that they could have robot kits then then funnel into the chico High program already having experienced some of those things so it's really how we feed each other and support each other in all of this thank thank you for doing all of that you can't guarantee us you're gonna kickass and go to skills USA oh we're going I know people are going I've been told that already so I just confir way to go thank you thank you right thank you John our next group we
037have oops oops if I go the right way yeah no you're going backward there you go there you go yeah so we have our Patient Care Group so we have Tammy and um Tammy Taylor from Chico high school and then melini Castillo from Pleasant Valley one thing I love about these two is that they work very closely together um so the what the kids experience at either High School is pretty similar so' like to come up all right welcome so we are the patient care Pathways and like she said we work very close together um it's a great little bonding experience one of the reasons why we work so closely together is because we generally put our students out in the community um and do a lot of internships however um it has been difficult
038in the last two years because we have been unable to do that based on um Public Health requirements and so this year we have been um usually they go in the second semester to two eight-week internships where they go four periods out of the five or four days out of the five days away and working and since they are unable to go and work we've been doing a lot more things in the classroom to try to supplement um things that they wouldn't normally get to do and so we're here to talk about that and um also to talk about the success that we've had um with students that um have graduated from our program so um with that in mind um we're going to have some Chico high students come up I'll let them introduce
039themselves because they really want to be on the mic and and tell you um what they were able to do um I'll start by saying that we are part of a HOSA is rcts so HOSA and um one of the different events that they can do is to make a career board and do a presentation on a career of their choice that's within the medical pathway and so uh Chico high students are going to tell you how they were able to use this event in a little different way hi so my name is Riley my name is Kennedy um and I'm ta so um one of the projects that we've done this year um was our career boards um we took them to Chico Jr after doing all of our research on a career of
040our choice and presented them to the middle schools um and not only did it give us an opportunity to like teach younger kids and interact with the younger kids but it also um was super beneficial for me at least um because I got to completely research um the career of a paramedic and and I've always known that I wanted to help people I've always known that Healthcare is where I'm meant to be but um I don't know where in that field I belong and so being able to research uh a career that I thought I had interest in um helped me to kind of make a decision on whether that is something that I want to do in the future or not good yeah so um with this career board we got to learn not
041only about careers that we were interested in but we also got to go to a junior and teach kids about it and the funny part was they kind of thought that we were already in the career so they'd ask us questions how is your day going how's the hospital and we'd be like no hopefully one day we'll get there but yeah so this class really teaches us a lot about how um daily life works also right off the bat we all got CPR certified so um I would have never done that maybe earlier on my career maybe later in my career when I got to the medical field I would get CPR certified so this class allowed me right off the bat to be CPR certified and help um hopefully one day like random strangers
042on the street or something like that yeah um with the chico junor project I've always known that I wanted to be a nurse one day and um with this project allowed me to research um what types of careers I want to do and this is the career that I'm mostly interested in being a ncku nurse and and I would not have gotten that opportunity without this class you want to explain what kind of a nurse that is um a niku nurse is a neonatal nurse and they work with um infants that were born like prematurely or have health issues when they were born MH so and um one thing I would like to add as well is not only did we get to learn about the careers that we researched but then we presented them
043in class too and I actually ended up finding out about a career I knew nothing about and that's what I want to do now so all right um what was that uh it's called a perfusionist and basically they're the people in the operating room who uh operate the mechanical hearts that keep you alive while you're going through a transplant awesome we're glad somebody of your character is going to do that for us fantastic guys they didn't seem nervous at all did they they did good way better than we are all right um so we're gonna there's some pictures flying through all right this right here is a simulation that we have done before um it is uh a surgery that it's going through after actually Dr Kaiser was able to see this one um so
044just a couple of examples of how we're trying to simulate uh this one right here is we just recently did this um I got a bunch of mouths and put a lot of plaque on them and then the kids um got to go through and clean them which they found out was a lot harder than they thought yeah so nice question how do you put plaque on a on a pretend mouth um actually there's the this product that you purchased that we got through our grants thank you very much um that is from dental schools that they use to put on to them that simulate what what plaque would be like um actually when we were going through and and putting them on it seems a lot like um black nail polish so I'm going
045to test it out and see because that's a heck of a lot cheaper um but yeah they they're pretty cool yeah definitely um hi I'm Melanie Castillo um and I teach at PV um of course Tammy and I try to have the same experiences um I've been lucky enough that um I was in the around for uh the building Grant so I do have a bigger facility um than Tammy has currently um but we still try to do kind of the same simulations um we're also looking to hopefully have her students come over and use my labs to do some other labs as well um once we can have some more professionals come in to do those demonstrations for us and to do those lesson plans um let me think I I did want to
046plug um because some wonderful person um thought of me when they were at computers for classroom and they just donated probably $45,000 worth of equipment that's coming tomorrow that was given to them by um Feather River Hospital woo that's wonderful I know so we're going to even have more equipment so there's crash carts and all kinds of stuff so it's a it's amazing um and it's it's brand new it's almost brand new equipment it's not like used dumpy stuff that I'm getting um it's like very nice so I wanted to say that secondly Tammy brought wonderful students and she and I do have totally the best students in Chico un I just want you to know um but we also have great students that have already graduated and I know one of the things that
047was sent in the first emails to us about tonight was that you were looking at how do our programs reflect or work into um the current job market or the market here um and so I was trying to think in my head like okay what do I do to show that because it's hard for us um many of our students have to go to postsecondary education to have careers but there are other things they can do as well they they can do entrylevel jobs and they also can get certificates um do shorter programs that in the interim can get them into the field so I ask one of my students um I have Mr ilas Castillo here and he is a 2020 grad of PB high school and our medical pathway and I would just
048love for him to just give you the shortened version of his beautiful story so all right here you go yeah hello my name is elas Castillo I graduated in 2020 and I'm basically want to talk about how this course helped me figure out what I want to do what I'm doing now and then what I'm going to be doing soon so coming growing up I always knew I want to work in the medical field I knew I wanted to be a nurse I that's it I didn't know anything else other than that my senior year of high school I took the Medical Careers class of Miss Castillo and she uh I still had the opportunity to go to the hospital and job shadow certain locations she put me in the laboratory I didn't even know
049what that was at the time and then once I found out I'm like this is going to be the most boring thing in the world I'm watching in people stick needles into people all day little did I know I'd fall in love with that the second I then I got put in it again for the second term of it right after I graduated high school Miss Castillo taught me on how I can get my certificate you have to be 18 with the with your diploma so the second I graduated I got into the bu County photomy program my first try you uh there was like0 applicants only 10 of us got in as by far the youngest one to be in it so I got through it and then at 19 out my license and
050now I'm working as a phlebotomist at the bloodbank vitalent oh and just to let you guys know huge blood shortage right now if no one's donating we need blood okay so I also have my EMT license I got that while I was getting my fleb license but through bu College I got my photomy license through the county and now next semester I'm eligible to get into the nursing program which has always been my long-term goal obviously there's a weight period in between so I decided to do photomy in between that but I found out how to cut out the middleman I'm going into the air force after this they're going to put me through their expedited nursing program so I'm going to go work as a nurse for them and that's my plan for now
051and I would have never knew I want to do this without this course that's phenomenal thank you I've been through that photomy program also you don't carry needles around with you do you like not to worry I'm very accurate with them all right was there any questions that the board had I think it's always the same just make sure that you keep letting us know or keep us in the loop and how we can continue to support your programs come come see our classes I mean really anytime come you know hopefully we can do some fun Lou while you're there but yeah we love it when anybody can come and and see the kids and they love it too and I have been that's it's really e did you want to um yes I just
052was going to ask the same question that others have asked you just to make sure we're not missing something is there anything else in the way of support with grand applications and things that our district supports through some of our administrative Personnel to help with that or or are we are we cooking cooking with gas really well um I think that the big thing is is for someone that started a couple years ago going like oh my gosh this is so much stuff um we were able to learn through uh people that had been there before and then we continued to get more support and from the time when I first started when it was like oh my gosh we have so much to do and how are we going to get this done to
053now it's completely different in the fact that you feel supported there's people that are there and it doesn't feel like I'm just like a fish out of water trying to figure out what I have to do and if you could wave or do something that could get rid of the pandemic Tammy and I would be really happy so yeah that's about it for us yeah I I want the Air Force to see CHS or PV on his side of his uniform you know yeah I'll bring you pictures have that yes I have a comment are they kind of winding down there your Pres presentation yeah um is there more CT okay in that case they'll all withhold that comment but thank you very much for the information awesome [Applause] job there go our last uh
054teacher that we have is Susan Solin she's gonna come and talk to you guys about her child development and education Pathways you're on this hello I'm Susan Sullins and I'm at Pleasant Valley and I have the education and the Child Development pathway they're different but they intertwine and I have some students with me who are going to tell you about their experiences um we have a introductory course at PV for all of our depart for our family and consumer science department which is called life management where we give students a smattering of all of the options that we offer Child Development culinary education um I also in child in life management we we give them a taste of interior design and you know a few other areas that we don't have Pathways in but um
055we're here to talk about the Child Development pathway um our student organization is called FCCLA that's family career and Community leaders of America so we focus a bit on leadership as you can see in the slides we took some students to Washington DC recently and they advocated with our state representatives um our national representatives for our state for funding for f um for CTE programs in general and we did this a couple of years ago also we were the only um delegation from California to attend the last time we were able to attend so we visited every representative and every Senator's office which was a kind of a Marathon this year it wasn't quite so bad because it was Co and they wouldn't let us in the building so we had to meet out in
056the uh outdoor area um okay so I have two programs the um Child Development pathway starts with life management then we have a class called human development and uh then they go to careers with kids as their Capstone class careers with kids puts them in the classroom in the elementary schools and and um we're very fortunate that we have our own elementary schools that we can work with so we place students at marold and also at mcmanis during their class time four days a week and then on the days that they're with me they do um teaching activities did you do yours today Brenda no you you just got yours ready today yeah okay so we we have in our beautiful child development lab um oh there's some more pictures of our great kids um
057okay well where's those pictures I don't see them maybe they're coming up later in the presentation um we do have a beautiful child development lab which we just moved into in January so I've been trying to make great use of it by having the students practice teaching lessons with the other students acting as um the younger kids so that's our um Child Development pathway it leads kids to working with preschool and um pre kindergarten uh that would be the goal of that program and then the education pathway is designed a little bit more for students who want to work with elementary through older grades and and we're also placing those students in marold and mcmanis um so that's kind of a synopsis of my program I could answer any questions about the program or we
058can have the kids tell you about their experiences any questions to start yes ma'am do you um do any um looking out okay back up I mean the shortage of teachers going into special education and developmental uh students with de developmental um does there anything in what you do uh help uh people to maybe choose that career um uh away from you know High School to going into to try and um get more special education teachers we do a career research project um in careers with kids and that's certainly a topic that students can research and like in the other program they may become aware of something that they weren't previously aware of when other people are presenting their projects if they haven't found that to be their particular interest but I I do find
059some kids come with that like they just come with a heart for kids with special needs it's less than you know the average person but it's out there good question thank you all right so we have Brenda oros Medina and she is currently in careers with kids and she's in our other program called teaching in the after school program where students are employed by card and they um are placed at an elementary school around the city and so I've asked Brenda to just tell you a little bit about how those two classes have been working out for her so come on hi my name is Brenda oros Medina and I'm in both careers with kids and teaching and after school and during the day in my school time I get to go over to marold
060and actually work with one of my old kindergarten teachers which is really nice and I get to see how she runs the class and I get to take that back to to um teaching in after school and it helps me overall and honestly the environment I'm in at my elementary school is really nice because I get to work with my old elementary teachers and I see them every day and I just saw one of my old principles right here but yeah I honestly love working with kids and I hope to like find a career that really suits me because working with kids has been something that has always been in my heart and I know that I want to do something with kids one day good thank [Applause] you one of the components of FCCLA
061is um public speaking and I just threw these two in I mean I said could you come to the board meeting and talk okay and next Sydney Sears Sydney took careers with kids last year when we weren't able to Place students in Elementary classroom so she got a lot of textbook knowledge and she's also working in the teaching in the after school program and let's hear what Sydney has to share with us um so basically um when I did take careers with kids I couldn't go anywhere but we did a lot of yeah textbook stuff so that helps me with now because I am in um teaching in the after school program so the cruise with kids last year helped me a lot this year planning like different activities and getting to know what different
062kids like at different ages and stuff but at my teaching at the after school program this year I love my kids and my co-workers and it's super fun time and it's awesome having like connections with my own kids and it's really fun what school are you at I'm at Shasta Elementary School yeah and they're the best they're the best kids ever I can I could go on for hours about how awesome they are they're the best so yeah and I really want to continue to do something something in educ like in child development when I continue out of high school so yeah all right that's all [Applause] great um thank you ladies you're cool uh do you have any questions about the teaching in the after school program have you heard of it I should
063have talked more about it because it's Kelly's brainchild and um I think it's working pretty well what was your goal for that program well I wanted us to be able to um provide child care for all of our community and card was then have students that were coming up to be able to go and work in that area both in high school and beyond all right and card was having trouble finding plenty of employees so yeah these kids are captive for the whole semester and for the whole year and it's been a small class this year I believe I have maybe 11 um hopefully a bigger group Next Year yes um and with the new schedule that we have it it'll be a challenge to figure out how to make that work but we will
064figure it out all right how how how long has the program been going the teaching in the after school program this is our first year um so I believe we use some of the coid funds to fund my position for this one year because they don't usually let you have a class with just 11 that's that's pretty expensive I think um we're going to grow that program we are and um so the students who are in that program you're 11 students this year they all have a like a paid position with card they have a paid position with card and they most of their jobs begin at 2 o' so they have two periods so both of their hours after lunch they check in with me for attendance and then they take themselves to their
065job site where they work from about 2 to six is that about right right some longer some start earlier there's a few all the schools have slightly different schedules but yes it's a paid position with card and you guys even get like vacation days don't you a few paid vacation days yeah yes more of that please I mean not paid vacation days but more just you know students have the opportunity to to to work and make money but also provide a service you know to our district and the community at large I think it's amazing and I I can't see this being anything but a growth area that's what we hope we have a giant facility to um grow into too mhm I've got a toddler so you know okay them all over all right
066well you know you asked a question about if we're fairly compensated or if we're fairly supported and I think most of the CTE teachers will agree yes that's the case but we also really love what we do um I was an elementary school teacher I taught kindergarten first grade and sixth and seventh and also junior high before coming to the high school so this is a really good fit for me and um you know most teachers do have a passion and I think that we're really able to use it in um CTE all right thank [Applause] you thank you one other thing I wanted to highlight about the their program is that not only the students get that um receive the the work experience they also so she has three classes that earn articulation credits
067um and that's it's a total of nine units that they can apply to that early childhood education um for that is required for the um transitional kindergarten teachers all right so it's a good start for them if they were are interested in being that so that's definitely a need that we're going to have um in the community right so um some of the other programs that uh they sent sent me stuff to include that weren't able to be here so we have a new floral teacher at Chico high with the addition of the block schedule they were able to hire another agriculture teacher um so this I just wanted to show some pictures of that she's starting a subscription service for flowers as well so the students will be able to have actual customers that
068they're making um arrangements for too so our media arts um Mike peek he always does an outstanding job one of the things that I think stands out about his program the most is the amount of work experience the kids get um outside of the classroom um because of his connections um students get um real paid jobs doing filming and photography and then our culinary program our food service program um they always do an outstanding job in competition as well they just competed at the FCCLA competition ition uh January 22nd and brought home some um awards for that as well and then our mechanics our welding program at PV wanted me to share some of the projects that they're they're making so some of the upcoming events for our ctsos that I know the board is
069interested in what's coming up competition wise so our ctsos those are the student clubs or student organizations every single one of our Pathways affiliates with one of the four that we have in this presentation We Have Skills USA FCCLA FFA and the HOSA so skills USA competitions like John was saying they happened in January they should be getting results of those competition soon and then if they move on to state level that happens in April fcca they competed in January and their state competition is in April as well FF fade they compete um they have a long season from February to May where they're competing in what we call Career Development events um there's about 36 different options that they can choose from um our school um Chico High has probably four teams that they're
070going to have competing um again February to May their last competition is May 2nd or 3rd and then the hosta competitions are in February and their state competition is in May so those are some of the the um upcoming Big competitions for our ctsos and these are so ctsos are nationally and state um Affiliated so they're not um just a clubs that are created they are an actual affiliation with a pretty high level some of our oh that got a little bit off sorry the the uh hopefully you can still read it um but our all of the of what you've seen tonight has been possible because of our ongoing grants so there are three main grants that we apply for the strong Workforce Grant which is the the K12 s swp we have applied
071for for the past four years and we have been funded for the past four years um you can see the amount that is listed there in the blue those are expired funds the C TIG as well okay so CT incentive Grant each year we have been funded for that as well and then annually for Perkins we get about $100,000 um so there's literally millions of dollars coming into the district just to support CTE um it it's really been fantastic opportunity and really the the way that we have been able to build our CTE programs into the 21st century and then you can't see it because it got cut off on the bottom um about 9 .5 million has also come in um to support our facilities so we had seven different facility grants um for
072CTE that were um funded as well know if you had any any questions on funding before I move on just keep it up I have a question but I don't know if it's necessarily A funding question or just a general program question so it's it is about like and maybe I can just ask it and then we can address it more at the end after you're done um if there are any areas in the realm of CTE that we might be a little uh like less robust in I don't want to use the word weaker but you know we don't have as many programs in that field that you know we could look into pushing into that that field a little bit more yeah so we we are always looking at Labor Statistics that's really
073one of the things that drives us um because mainly we don't want to prepare students for a career that doesn't exist um so we look at Labor Statistics ICS and basee what we teach off of that um I think districtwide the the only thing that we could probably feel better is a business pathway um although a lot of our programs do business skills within their programs as well but more of like a business leadership management type of a gotcha yeah yeah I I can relate to that thank you yeah some updates on facilities so I will go quick through this because you guys have seen the facilities um a lot so just some a review we did get new facilities um at PV for our coolinary program that opened up in November our sports medicine
074and our medical pathway lab opened up in November as well and these were um from that facility's grants the $9.5 million our agriculture program got a new greenhouse and modernized classroom and shade structure is still being um constructed the Child Development lab um which is what Susan was talking about um she just moved in I unfortunately do not have updated pictures she has some beautiful pictures that she took that that I will forward to you guys so you can see what that looks like um but the plan you can see the plan um what they have there so they have a classroom and then they have an observation room that they can bring kids from marold they can bring preschool kids in and um have them play in the that area and then observe um
075the children without um interrupting them and this is currently the sea building um on PB our graphic arts and Commercial arts building is also being renovated the currently the D Building at PV they're going to have um a studio art classroom and um a couple other other labs that also um they should have moved in to by by now I don't have updated pictures on that one either okay that's what I was going to ask you when when you said win or break you meant January okay yeah and then the last one that we we have um on coming up and Julie might be able to answer more questions about this one um currently the ebuilding is getting um some Renovations that will be happening our welding shop is going to get completely renovated adding
076some storage area in the blue there in the green is going to be an Architecture Lab and a cad lab um for the architecture and engineering program atpv um I don't know if you have update questions on that or any questions on facilities go ahead Julie update us yeah so this is the e building at Pleasant Valley high school and you approved the bid for construction at the last regular meeting and it will be starting around spring break so when we'll get started on that okay all right with that that is the conclusion of my presentation um I open to any comments suggestions questions okay Matt um the students who tend to do CTE I know I'm painting with a very broad brush here but are these academic rock stars usually or are they you
077know not necessarily you know it's a very broad spectrum um so some of our programs like our engineering and our medical Pathways you know they're going to be going into careers that that most of them require a college degree um some of the other programs it you know they can get into um a career without a college degree but I was a former um CTE teacher so I was an agriculture teacher for 10 years and I can tell you my experience that there really was a spectrum so you have all kinds of kids a lot of times get kids get put into a class and they don't even know what that is and then they fall in love with it um so it is a a a broad spectrum of all all kids I want
078to um and I would have liked I would have liked to say it in front of the other teachers too but um this is going to amaze you guys but I wasn't always a totally awesome student there were times when I was really you know especially in junior high but in high school a little bit too when I was really you know kind of struggling with to keeping up with all the academics and stuff like that I was not an academic Rockstar um and CTE you know formerly kind of known as vocational education um if there's any way we can I'm not saying we're doing a bad job maybe we're doing as good a job as we can but you know I know that out there there's in our system there's probably some kids who
079are just really struggling day-to-day with the academic load that they have and they might just not be bookish types but they might be just diverting a lot of Mental Health Energy you know time to trying to beat the system that's bearing down on them and CTE could offer them you know a way a breath of fresh air in that so if we can be on the lookout for that sort of thing and people like that um maybe you're going to tell me what we're already doing in that regard to it's really exciting on January 25th both high schools voted to implement a block schedule next year and the challenge has been with some kids as you're describing when they get behind they have to take remedial courses intervention courses they're in a credit recovery mode
080so it excludes them from the very electives they're coming to school for and the block schedule implementation at both high schools blows that out of the water now they have 80 credits worth of opportunities for to do exactly as you've said they might still Str strle a little bit in math but they'll want to come go to math because they're going to two periods of welding or they're going to two periods of culinary and we didn't have that opportunity before it's a huge piece of that implementation and it's student centered and not adult centered and John was just very instrumental in getting that past so thank you John that's going to be a game changer for our kids I also want to add that um CTE you know we can't say that it's not academic
081because we do have many uh CTE courses that are a through G so they are still college prep classes and it does you know address that wide range because in the career World there are jobs that require minimal skills and you get them on the job um and you know I just think of construction you may go in and you may be hanging Dr drywall but hopefully you're going to progress and get skills but you might also be as we saw tonight the kids that are the ones that are drawing the plans and being the engineers so um it is a as you well said it's a wide spectrum but we do have some very high achieving students and some very uh academic courses within the CTE world I was thinking one of the great
082things about college is that you focus on something that you've chosen and that you're really into you know anytime you take a person and you put them in an environment where I mean they may be horrible at all this other stuff but Man Welding they've found this thing that they just are So Into You know um I mean whether it was a something that was going to require a college degree or not just sometimes breaking somebody out of their um you know a difficult situation or a rut that they're that they're in academically can be really valuable so as far as our counseling staff you know looking for opportunities like that to pitch CTE if if a kids not not exploring that you know maybe as much as they should at this stage given the
083resources that we have I just wanted to throw that out there but thank you for that explanation Mr Shepard and for your presentation and they are pitching it right now just to follow up on the counseling side we're registering enrolling kids for next year and that's why we voted so early so the counselors could go to those kids those eighth graders who are thinking what am I going to do my I don't know how many CTE pathways are available to me and now they have eight periods a day and they can they can get into two periods of welding so the counselors are having those conversations right now as we getting ready for for next year uh e um yes thank you uh one of the things that was so exciting for me was to
084hear what the kids are doing at the high school level to pass it down because that's always been you know one of my major concerns for anything whether it's on to college or CTE is that we're not um uh getting these information this information to the kids third grade fourth grade fifth grade so they begin to have a vision of uh life beyond School uh just as Mr tennis was saying for some kids school is such a frustration that they don't see Life Beyond school or they don't see school as being what's going to support them to do what they really want to do and can do well that's why I I too I just supporting the CTE programs in all the areas that we are able to get them in because it it does
085give the kids uh you know opportunity into life skills that are going to get your job and you know that's even if you change jobs four or five times after you've begun that process just as the the young man was talking about you know not knowing exactly what he wanted to do it it just it's the one thing that we haven't had a broad enough um scope of uh what to put in front of our kids at a young age to make all of these explorations possible it's so exciting I am just thrilled I have a grandson in Texas who's going to go to the Air Force to get that push into he knows what he wants to do in medicine and the Air Force is going to be his ticket in just as our
086CTE programs are because he doesn't have the CTE advantage in Texas sorry one great example of that is our act department is we had them a few board meetings ago we were able to add a whole another teacher in act we have over I know it's like I believe it's 375 I know it's over 300 students were above what we had the previous year with before the block schedule and I have a family member like myself needed extra support with academics so he has an academic support class but he was able still to take his welding class which he would not have been able to do that before and he loves his welding class now he's going into FFA and having an animal and all those types of things and all those things probably would
087have not been there for him if he did not have um these the these block schedule the CTE Pathways so that's just example I think the other aspect that really shows up dramatically is the leadership opportunities that these students are getting they aren't just doing something they're learning to how to present it and how to lead in it among themselves and all the awards they're getting is evidence of how outstanding that is working I mean when you're the top student leader in the state that's just incredible um and I think the phrase that was repeated the most often by the students was that they didn't know they were going to love what they ended up doing as much uh and that's that's incredible that's a real real opportunity so uh very appreciative of the presentation
088does anybody else have any okay Caitlyn um I was going to say mad superintendent and and Mr Gant um are board members allowed to take the welding class say no there are liability issues Caitlyn um thanks I have quite a a little list here of just like quick questions um so uh the first part of the presentation was about um construction and um design basically um and then the discussion of the tiny house um my old high school when I was actually teacher there um built a a house um and it was really amazing because all the students had exposure to plumbing and electrical and all of those skills that we don't really um get to spend a whole lot of time focusing on so that's amazing and I really hope that there's a broad
089range of students who get exposure to that in that program and if not I'd love to see that expand out a bit more um I think this is like the first year to attempt it but maybe there's more to it than just just that um and that leads me to the other question the next question which is apprenti ships so is there any kind of apprenticeship Outreach or program that RCT program does with the community at large or is that something that's been talked about or is there potential for that so by Apprentice sh you just like mentoring that type of yeah like Partnerships between what they're doing in the classroom and learning it but then also being partnered with you know a real life organization where they're actually going out and doing the work
090and then you know it's it's in it and it kind of goes together there's a couple examples so we we have been working with rotary this year and partnering with them to um to make that connection we're going to be we're in the very infancy stage of working um having one-on-one mentors with some of the um programs that we don't offer um I just met with um one of the rotary members this this week and um we're we're going to Pilot it my with my husband's class he's a a math teacher an academic success teacher um so we're going to Pilot trying to Mentor um students when I want and some of the programs that we don't offer as well um so our first of all our teachers do an outstanding job um getting and
091doing Outreach um with the community they have advisory um committees that they um that come and advise them um and have that kind of I guess apprenti ship for all the students in the programs that we don't offer that's what we're starting to to to do with the rotary members yeah and almost like a stepping stone to a having a job even as soon as H summer hits or you know or they're graduated um that that's yeah kind of what and most of the CTE programs do uh they have um I'm thinking of our a program places kids out in the community they do their own Farm they've done projects where they make money we co has made things a little more difficult without a doubt but there were placements at the hospitals that then
092would turn into uh positions we have had in our architecture and engineering programs some of those kids have been fully employed making really good money over the summer working with local engineering firms so there are many examples of them being placed and um our architectural program actually was so popular and valued that the firms were reaching out to us wanting our kids um so a little bit of that obviously has you know with people working more remotely the hospital be being very careful you know the last especially since Tiffany's been here she hasn't got to see that part of it as much the fact that our kids are going over to marle that's really an internship that is happening the fact that they're uh you know teaching in the card program and being paid so
093I think almost every CTE pathway could share uh their community outreach and job placement programs that then if the kids are interested they can can really take off and and make summer money uh even while they're going to college yeah I just definitely want to see more of that and then what you're explaining with the rotary Outreach and partnership um keep us in the know and how we can support more of that um and and really um bolster that program because I think that that sounds really great um I was a College Bound person but I also was required to take an RO it was Roop back then an Roop class um won an award um for barbecue all the gentlemen that I was up against but it really built my skills as a I
094I learned um how to serve and I became a really um strong you know restaurant server than bartender and that you know that got me through college too so you know I I just feel really strongly about our C programs and making sure that all of our students going through um have that Workforce ready mentality in addition to those who want to be college students are academic ready too um so that also leads to my next question which I should know this and so I'm apologizing in advance for not knowing this but do we have or what is our graduation requirement when it comes to CTE I'm gonna give that to somebody else oh good it's not just me oh so generally our students have to have 235 credits out of 240 and that's where
095the struggle comes in because there's only a five credit buffer and so in each of the core areas there um specific number of requirements um they they vary when we go beyond just the State graduation requirements to Chico Unified graduation requirements we have kids on different paths so for example some um 1806 legislation credit recover credit requirements change um generally we keep in mind so 235 credits for a general high school student um then from there it varies it varies by student but just from a general perspective uh up until next year there they had an opportunity to take 240 credits and um we had a 235 credit requirement so they only had a five credit buffer now moving forward they're going to have a significant buffer so they can take more electives gotcha so
096there's not like a i the question comes because this is going way back now but I was requ ired my my cohort was required to take one Roop class in order to graduate from plumis Unified School District so I didn't know if we had something like that here or if it was even a state kind of thing or or how that worked but I mean obviously you have restrictions and limitations when you can't offer enough classes for kids to get all the requirements they need in the first place yes and yes and um students because we have 21 Pathways there are multiple opportunities for kids we also have to keep in mind which of those pathway courses are a through G um articulated or aligned which is really important if an elective can become a
097through G aligned then obviously more students want to want to join um when we saw the list of of Pathways um the CHS side looked shorter I didn't like side by side comparison but is it relatively Equitable um what CTE is being offered at each um High School site or is there a way to that it it is you know um where a student if a student has an interest but they're at one school and it's not offered they necessarily is is there a equivalent type of situation or what's what's happening there yeah I'm chuckling because in everything we do between Chico And py there's a rivalry right including how many CTE Pathways you have and so they're always talking about what does one school have and the other doesn't and trying to find that
098Niche that's not being not being filled that need that's not being met um so for example at PB and Susan described this earlier there are a couple of Pathways within one industry sector so it's really most important to us that we represent the the the data driving the industry sector that's the most important piece to us that we have industry sectors represented maybe multip in multiple ways gotcha so so each so that each industry sector is represented at each both School sites it's just the pathway might be slightly different or there might be more than one pathway whereas at the other site there's one pathway and some sometimes we only offer one more sections thank you more sections or offering one course because we're trying to build a pathway so that that CU you know
099obviously you got to start somewhere awesome um looking at the time I'm trying to go fast I'm sorry um I like E's point about pushing to grade schools and making sure there's enough exposure for kids coming up who might be struggling academically um and that also is uh accessibility at middle schools so at middle schools at least last time I checked they're only you know doing six periods a day so um there's that kind of a limitation there too in the number of electives that they can take going into the high school level and so just wanting to make sure that we keep up any momentum where kids are getting excited about a certain pathway even at a young age that it doesn't fizzle out and that yeah so I'm just going to address that
100that just in that one way and then um the last thing is uh something I did notice missing is um again this is just going back to my own experience is firefighting so is there any kind of um you know uh exposure to that field specifically or um at least looking into that field or exposure um going on for kids who might be interested in in that I could go but I'll I'll tell you a Community member just texted me because he was interested in a different pathway with kind of the same question like hey we have a we have a a group in this community that would love to support recording Arts pathway right so along the same lines I think it's going to come from community and Industry sector uh data okay if
101we have that available obviously we're going to we're going to pursue that because this sounds really crass but there's money out there right to support these pathways we can go after that money to build these facilities to Tire these teachers to teach these kids in that pathway that's what we want to do yeah um people I went to high school with were firefighters and they would get called out in the middle class and go go do their thing um and that being said uh I just saw a flyer for a cowf fire academy it's women's fire Prep Academy it's a free firefighter summer camp for girls that are high school age happening in reading this summer so um maybe we'll huh yeah okay yeah I'll send it I'll send it to you because that sounds
102really cool um and it just goes back into forestry and kind of a really relevant thing that's happening right now where we keep experiencing fires so um that's all I had promise thanks okay that's good because we have one minute yes yes one minute to address part of yours um we do have a public safety pathway so he does hit on fire science in that yeah part of it too is is finding people to teach the classes so CTE credential teachers are hard to find so that's and ultimately we need students to f fill the classes we have a set number of students so we can't make that too thin I want to say that uh Tiffany for your first presentation to the board I think you knocked it out of the [Applause] park thank
103you it was a pleasure to be here U my contact information is on the the slides if you have any other questions all right thank you thank you thank you okay it is 6:30 and that is the uh Lish time to start our discussion action calendar um so the first item is um Julie that was great that was really exciting seeing all those programs I loved it former Vintage High School student Napa California regional occupational program student I loved it thank you okay so the first one we've got here is resolution declaring futility of public bidding change order work for Cho High a project um you just approved on the consent calendar this change order but you must also approve this resolution um the resolution basically in a nutshell says that it makes all kinds
104of sense in the world for the contractor for the chico High a project to perform the work because they understand it they're on site they're mobilized already and it saves a district uh money and then you don't have two contractors trying to work in the same location doing uh different scopes of work you've seen resolution like this in the past um it is unusual um that we bring this forward and it's only because of the dollar amount that we must do so any questions all right I move approval of this resolution okay all right so Matt tennis moves and Eileen Robinson seconds any other questions or discussions all right so with that um I think we can just take an I vote correct all right I think we need to ask for comments from the
105public okay any comments on the floor all right thank you um so all those in favor signify by saying I I I okay it passes for to nothing I do just want to make a quick point of order to remind the board that we do have order to follow so we need to wait to make a motion until the president calls for it after we take public comment okay I'm really I'm losing your Clarity of what you just said I said okay let's follow the rules of order and wait for you to call for a motion before somebody just makes a motion okay so the next one is also Julie yes thank you so this next one is um a bit unusual I have not brought a resolution like this to the board in the
106past um again to summarize it it is um asking the board to authorize a product to be tested by the district so specified for a contract in particular a product to be specified for a contract um in order to field test or experiment the project uh or the um sorry the product so in this this case it's enviroplex um manufactured um classroom building and it will be the test site will be for inspire School of Arts and Sciences and um we will get a good idea about the product from this project in order to utilize uh for future needs of Chico Unified any questions this is basically just sort of using Inspire School of the artarts as kind of a preliminary test site for something that we might be implementing in other locations yes and
107and the key part is that we will be specifying this when that project goes out for bid we'll be specifying this product as approved by our board for that project and for the uh the purpose of testing and experimenting with it and they have a need for this inspire yes they do yeah um I move no I I I was needed a question oh all right go ahead yes um Julia I I think I understood that um what we're looking for is to make sure that these things are going to be tested can be continually serviced and maybe upgraded or whatever by our current District um personnel and services so that they're so that we don't have one set of Maintenance people for this kind of building and another set of Maintenance people for another
108kind of building that these are being tested to make sure that they conform with the other things that we have to service in the district yes that is a part of it yes okay can I ask how long the uh testing period is likely to be I imagine it will last as long as we need it to before we're making a decision to use a modular building uh somewhere else in the district we can we can continue to observe and test that product once installed until we're making a decision on another modular building in our district so we would we would evaluate that the process the engineering the design the um the maintainability the durability of the buildings when we make our next decision if we're going to uh perhaps um put a modular building
109at one of our elementary sites we can learn from the Inspire project in order to make a informed decision Kaitlyn oh yes a followup on on that um uh I I don't see in the resolution uh not to exceed so I'm looking for where is the monetary amount of this project so you have had presentations in in the past on the Inspire project and the the design is not completed and approved by the division of the state architect as of yet but the pricing on the entire project will be coming back to the board for review and approve that's that's what I needed to know when when do we get to the bottom line issue all right does this um lock us into only certain contractors or um building companies that can put out for
110bid for this project for the modular portion of the project it does there are all all kinds of other Scopes included in the Inspire project it's it's quite large but for the modular portion it does and so there's just been it's been noticed that there's some kind of this alternative is is for some reason seen as potentially better and that's why we're testing it out I just don't understand necessarily the need as opposed to what is typical well that's a really good question there's kind of a a kind of a misalignment when you have to design a project and it has to go to the state architect for approval and then it goes out for bid but when you're utilizing modular construction you have to utilize that modular company to assist with that design and
111then it goes out for bid and another modular company isn't going to bid on it because the design isn't their design so it's kind of a misalignment when you're using modulars we have not had a lot of projects with modular that in our district we we've done traditional construction on all of our new construction projects we have moved around Portables within the district as part of a project but actually identifying new construction that's going to be modular and they're doing it Inspire doing it because they must because their budget requires it so I think am I explaining it uh in a way that is understandable that we're kind of you had to put the cart in front of the horse uh not to identify that modular firm in advance thanks Julie you I move approval
112of this item point of order Madam president okay I'm uh any motion then oh public comment yeah any public comment all right does anyone want to make a motion I move approval of this item I'll second did you say oh okay oh well again it's I'm for some reason I'm having trouble here okay so we have a a motion in a second uh any other questions to ask or comments All right so I'll call for the vote and this is on resolution d22 all those in favor signify by saying I I I okay that's 4 nothing and and um all right so thank you Julie so the next item on the agenda um is the public hearing discussion action on the California Voting Rights Act maps and sequence of by District elections um and so
113I just want to clarify for people who are here the board could approve another map at this meeting but if they were to do that that would mean that there wouldn't be a vote until the February 16th regular board meeting um they could move uh to consider a vote on the four maps that have been presented um and then that would be uh the decision and it's in the board's hand so um so we do have with us tonight uh via Zoom yes our Consulting King Consulting was not able to be here in person this evening I do see Rob on zoom and I don't know if Jamie was able to join you or not we do have in person a legal council Paul Gant so I'm going to go ahead and turn it over
114to Rob Murray to take us through um the presentation and then it will be turned over to the board thank you very much and uh visible but Jamie is also here with us on the zoom so I am here now again and just thank you for your flexibility with allowing us to make this presentation via Zoom since again we just unfortunately as much as we would prefer to be there uh just are not able to be there tonight um and so this is the public hearing for the draft trustee area maps for February 2nd now we can go ahead and we can move to to the next slide and uh this is substantially uh the same presentation with a couple of small points uh that I went through the last time we were all meeting
115on this uh so some of this I will probably move over fairly quickly again the slides are all in there if it becomes a point of discussion a little bit later on you know we can certainly bring everything up and go over it uh but we're just going to look at the criteria uh summaries of some of that feedback and then of course the the draft trustee area maps and the criteria data so we can go ahead and go to the next slide please and again so uh as already I think summarized very well uh we are here at the February 2nd meeting uh this there is an opportunity that the board could select and approve one of the maps that has been previously presented uh and then if not we'll be back on the
11616th so next slide please okay and so again uh to some of those original criteria that we have discussed quite a bit uh really some of the key things is just that population range that one person one vote mentality of just maintaining uh proportional representation of the board to the people living in each trusty area next slide please and then of course the fact that we are drawing these truste areas based on the census data that is released in the package of these census blocks uh you know which are not uniform in shape or size or how many people are in them but we at least uh we know the pieces that we're working with at this point and we have to keep our lines uh moving those whole blocks uh into or out of
117a trustee area if we want to look into any adjustments or new options or anything like that next slide please okay and so we can I think uh move on to the next slide I think is where I want to uh there was a question that came up when we were last here of uh the popular population in the district which we have shown that number of 12,19 quite a few times uh of that based on the 2020 census 10,475 which is 84.5% uh also live in the city of Chico and the whole city of Chico is within the Chico Unified School District so there is no part of the city outside of that but of your District uh you know a little under 85% of the people also live within the city and then
118if we looked at it based on our student list uh you know pretty close number 86% of the students enrolled in Chico USD live in the city of Chico okay and the next slide please so those draft trustee area maps uh just making the note uh based on the vote at the last meeting uh all of the blue Maps uh have been removed from consideration uh but we still have the green the purple the orange a and the orange B and we'll just do a very uh quick look at those Maps just so everyone is nice and refreshed uh next slide please oh yeah uh the election sequencing I think I will leave these in so that we can go back and refer to them if there are any questions uh but again that uh
119came up with a question uh that was OS to our community relations on which trustee areas would be the ones that would move forward and as as Mr Gant can elaborate a requirement of uh any new trustee map is to also specify a sequence of Elections so as we went into that uh we wanted to spell out all of the uh possible scenarios that would be inherent in any of the uh map options and so you have uh your three members who will be up for uh whose terms expire in 2022 corresponding with three trustee areas that will need to hold an election in that first year that they exist next slide please I have a qu a question actually Mr Murray yes um this is Matt tennis yes you said you had some kind
120of communication from this oh sorry let me yeah a communication that led to a discussion about sequencing can you repeat what you just made reference to at before at the beginning of this slide you yes no and that I believe that was a something that we went over at the previous meeting uh but there was a phone call that was received from The District's uh community relations head uh with the uh question of uh which of the areas for someone and I and uh I believe if I remembering correctly this was from kind of the angle of someone if you were interested in running for the board which areas would be open in 2022 and that was I think a lot of what uh while it was something that we would have been planning to
121look at anyway uh was what really spurred that look into the election sequencing uh in between again that meeting in November and coming back in January and with the development of an option that produced a more simplified election sequence in so there was a phone call I I guess to somebody on our staff that triggered basically the creation of the orange Maps that's the origin story of the orange maps and it's based on a phone call that we have no public record of that's been given to us the content or substance of that phone call is totally unavailable um and and I just want it to be noted for the record that that we have had the creation of two very promising for passage Maps based on a some phone call and that is against
122the reality that we've had numerous written Communications from constituant who liked the blue map those were ignored and now we are being deluged with emails of people who like the purple Maps um but the orange maps are here before you today ladies and gentlemen because of a phone call that we have no record of any text from it thank you rob no and uh any I Dr Kaiser yes uh Rob I I have a question um had there been any presentations to the board about the need to do sequencing in this process before um last meeting was that yet part of the discussion it had not been yet part of the discussion thank you I think that it's remarkable that you would spend tens of thousands of dollars by that by that time we had
123spent solidly $70,000 on this effort and and now all of a sudden there's a revelation that we're going to have to deal with sequencing this is nonsensical I mean the idea that that people in this room and up here at this at this Das did not think about the fact that we were going to have some realities about whether people were going to go to vote in 2022 or 20124 is is really to me quite unbelievable Dr Kaiser yes if I might respond um I just want to caution discussion versus asking our pres a presenter questions at this time we don't want to engage in discussion until after we've heard public comments I'm just word of caution that the issue of why two additional Maps were um put together is important if we are to
124fully discuss those Maps having been on the board from the beginning of this process I know that we were um we were ahead of when we would need to discuss things like sequencing which you know we not an expert on how this happens when the timeline was cut off by the governor and we ceased all discussion of this process we didn't talk about it again until I believe November um it may have been with but until the the process got lifted we weren't even thinking at least me I'm this board member and since I'm not the expert on how you do do this we that's why we have Mr Gant uh here is to keep us properly moving through a sequence and so the fact that now is the first time we had sequencing brought
125before us it's because that's when it was supposed to be brought before us I do believe that we should uh have uh our demographer continue Rob yes thank you so uh just continuing on uh we H uh as presented at the previous meeting uh we do have uh just the various permutations that spin off from multiple trustees residing in an area either on the same cycle or in different uh election sequences uh with that particular complication of current board members in different election Cycles uh residing in the same trustee area uh uh which leads to one of two uh things either a candidate uh whose term expires waiting for an election to occur before they can run again or in an earlier election uh a candidate who at the later term who doesn't want to
126risk having that same two-year Gap happen to them down the road uh running but if they win the seat uh creating a board vacancy so those were kind of the big considerations with those uh and then on to the next slide please uh and so then that green map uh this one was created uh really using uh the High School boundary as a uh point of guidance trying to ensure that each of the five trustee area spand both the chico high and Pleasant Valley High attendance areas with at least a portion in each and next slide please on each of these you can see again a selected sequ a suggested sequence and and uh at least just the names of the current board members who reside in each area then the purple map uh was
127drawn again while meeting other criteria uh to have trustee area boundaries follow Elementary School attendance boundaries uh wherever it uh was practical to do so can I I want to ask a question what percentage of students in any of these separations attend the school in which they live yep I mean that varies a lot but I mean uh we have some slides in our data that will come up that show that you have uh I mean in any uh truste area of the district you have students attending literally every school in the district okay and then across the district uh I think Jamie you I think were the one who had the number last week but it was something somewhere in the ballark of 40% % of students I believe who are transferring out of
128their assigned school to another school just kind of very broadly yeah that's correct it it varies depending on the school but pardon me I believe you have you know on average somewhere between 35 and 40% of students in your District attend a school that isn't their neighborhood school and isn't in their boundary um some schools that's significantly higher and some schools it's it's less but you do have Comm comparatively to um other districts in the state you do have a a high rate of of intradistrict transfers and um parents you know taking advantage of the opportunity that you give them of of choice all right thank you Jamie then uh going to the next slide so the orange a map uh developed again U making sure that it aligns with other requirements and criteria but
129with a specific effort to uh simplify a election sequence and have current board members each residing in a trustee area so that there's no possibility uh particularly of those uh 2022 versus 2024 uh cycle candidates uh leading either to the lack of opportunity to run or to the potential of a vacant seat and appointment or special election uh requirement to fill out the board to five members again so this map was the original one developed and then there was a variation on the next slide of orange B uh which uh adjusts an area that contains uh and the boundary between areas four and five where PB high maragold and L M Vista are located in some of the areas surrounding that particularly up to the north between merold and uh and cotus and I apologies
130if I am not pronouncing that one uh correctly but up to eaten uh that kind of rectangle uh going out of four and into five uh because there was uh expressed on feedback to the orange a map uh that even though the students uh attend uh schools throughout the district having the actual physical School site location of only one of them being in truste area 5 if there was a way to put more school sites in and this isem uh A variation that accomplishes that uh and then on to the next slide Mr Murray I've got a question for you can can you reiterate um why the orange Maps were created yes the orange Maps were created in response uh to concerns about the uh once the sequence of Elections uh was put out for
131the previous Maps of having a map available that would have a more straightforward uh sequence of Elections as all of the original Three Maps uh did pose some potential complications for the district what do you mean by potential complications for the district that would be trustees who are have terms ending in 2022 and 2024 residing in the same area so again if the election holds off until 2024 that means the candidate whose term expires in 2022 just can't run for 2 years if the election's held in 2022 then the candidate who or the sorry the board member whose term is at large until 2024 uh can just wait uh you know if they don't run uh once their at large term ends in 2024 then they are the ones having to wait two years if
132they want to run again and if they do run in 2022 and they win then they have won the trustee area seat they can't also hold the atlarge seat which is vacated and that leaves a vacancy on the board but since that isn't resolved until after the election that means there's a need to either appoint a member to a two-year term or to hold a special election in another trustee area for a again just a special two twoyear term so uh all of the original maps and the two original maps that are still in consideration uh had an area that had current board members on those different election Cycles living in the same trustee area and would present that potential once the elections were to be held can I clarify something you just said Rob
133or I I think I need to reand it if I'm not understanding it correctly if there was an atlarge seat that became available because and let's just like name the people right it would be either myself for or Mr tennis that would run this year to take a a districted spot um and give up our at large term which goes till 2024 so if one of us were to win the election this year that would create a a vacancy in the at large seat for the next two years until our current term is up and so that's if that was going to be appointed then that would be appointed by the whoever is in the new board after this year's election or or it would be a special election it would have to be decided
134by the board to spend the money to do a special election but that would still be at large that wouldn't be in the district and I believe and uh Mr Gant please correct me if I'm mistaken but I believe once because you have changed your method of election from at large to by trustee area and so uh if actually can we back up to let's just say go on to the uh either the green or the purple map uh if we can back up up in the slides okay so in this case uh truste area 5 if it held the election in 20122 uh and either uh Miss Delby or Mr tennis uh were to win the the seat for trustee area five uh and then uh areas one and four based on this suggested
135election sequence also held elections so that's three board members uh whichever of M Mr tennis or Miss Doby did not win the trustee area 5 seat would still be at large and that's a fourth board member uh but uh whichever one did win would have given up their at large seat and that means there's only still four board members and in this case either trustee area 2 or trustee Area 3 uh would go ahead and hold a special election for a two-year term they otherwise wouldn't have held an election ction until 2024 but in this case with a board member vacancy to fill uh areas 1 14 and five already have setting trustees and so one of the two areas and this would just be something that came up during that transitional period from at
136large to trustee areas but one of those two trustee areas that had not yet had the opportunity to elect a trustee would then uh need to be selected to hold that special election are we aware of Chico Unified ever holding a special election to fill a vacancy not to my knowledge that seems like something that would be very expensive and I do know that Cho unified has appointed people to fill vacancies I'm sorry my answer still hasn't been or has answer who can provide a legal opinion so so two things first uh Rob's description is correct uh and um as far as the the legal basis for that what he explained in terms of the um appointment or the special election that would be required for the two-year period it would be associated with a
137trust the open trustee area the unrepresented trust area and um the voters of the trustee area would vote for that if if there was no appointment and the appointment would have to be of an individual who resides in that trustee area so that is not in align with what happened with city council this year so habo city council this year we lost two Council people in Chico and within a very short amount of time apart and um the they were replaced by appointment one of those people was just elected in the newly created districts one of those people had been elected at large a few two election or an election ago so they were in their um last year and a half in their at large term but when the city council did their appointments
138they flew that as one districted seat and one still at large seat so the person who filled that other position was allowed to live wherever they they were um they didn't have to be in the the district to fill that spot so that's why I'm confused about the legality because what you're saying is that that's not the way it's supposed to be and so I guess that's where I'm kind of unsure about what I can't I can't speak because I don't I don't do City elections and I don't do city election redistricting there are differences because uh the uh the redistricting uh issues related to this to the school districts are different than those that relate to municipalities um there's quite a lot of differences actually both yeah you know statutory and and case Law
139related to that but uh you know I'm I'm happy to look again but my uh my research has indicated that the the holdover if you will the issue of the hold over board members is one of the actual board members who have been elected have the right to finish their term uh that's why the uh circumstances that Mr Murray had described exist once that is eliminated by the resignation and we are talking about filling a seat uh within uh a system of established District trustee area elections we have to follow the law with regard to filling those particular seats and that means um if there's a appointment needs to be appoint an appointment of an individual residing in the empty trustee area and if there's an election it's um it's an election that is decided
140by the voters of that trustee area okay thank thank you and then I don't know I think there was a second question from Mr tennis I don't know if we want to hold that or did did were we looking for sir um it just seems obvious to me that we would appoint somebody to fill a vacancy and that there would not be serious discussion of spending a lot of money for a special election if there was a board seat and I was inquiring as to the history of that it sounds like there's been one appointment since 1906 and that was in uh 20201 um and that was Gil Alister and he served less than a year was what was the background of um I want to say that Elizabeth Griffin was appointed at some point
141in time no elected every time yep okay and special elections you're not aware of any or you know that there were none I have been here 20 years and there have not been any during that time um 200000 was right before I came here and there was one at that point okay I mean everything and I know this border is on discussion so I'll make it very brief that that that our Consultants have explained in terms of how sequency would go sequencing would go is all very Dem Democratic and legal it's not like it's some big crisis that you know you have to appoint somebody for a couple of years to fill a vacant seat it would not be a big deal what would be a big deal is if we drew Maps specifically for
142incumbents which nobody likes and everybody finds unsavory it's going to carry on and get into uh just again that quick summary of the criteria data uh that we've put together uh again this is not this is new to this meeting but for each map we have uh just in the white area across the top uh the that is the districtwide numbers with the total population and the voting age population and then how those split out based on the census ethnicities and then for each map option you see those same splits for each of the five truste areas and uh under uh one of the main points of Voting Rights Act is looking uh for concentrations of historically underrepresented groups uh who uh will be able to exercise a higher degree of voting power uh within
143certain truste areas so going so this shows the green and the purple uh it's just a little bit too much to put all four on one slide and then on the next slide uh we have the same information for orange a and orange B uh keeping in mind that really with these two areas 1 2 and three are identical and we're really just looking at a relatively small change between areas uh four and five and then next slide uh the socioeconomic and tenure data and again these now we're getting uh out of things that are from the 2020 census and looking at the most recent American Community survey data uh and again which is also compiled by slightly larger units uh but to the best uh you know kind of the closest match of these
144block groups uh with the truste areas uh we can still give you a kind of averaged out median household income uh much more precisely from your student list we have the student residing in each area who participate or qualify for the free and reduced price meals program and then again back to the Census Data with the percent owners and percent renters and here you can see just all four of those map options all together next slide please uh Mr Mar I've got a question um you have spoken you've done a lot of this demography stuff you're our consultant you you this is you live and breathe this every day um the fact that the orange maps have I think if I'm looking at this chart correctly the biggest disparity by by quite a bit of
145economic of income between the districts you've got a a one District district five that's where people are pulling down $98,000 a year versus people in District 2 where I would be where they're pulling down $46,000 a year would this be considered a strength for the orange Maps or a weakness that you have you know one very wealthy district and then one that's that's not and I think that's a matter of perspective uh some I've worked I've been doing this kind of work uh in various districts and I've kind of I've had some expression that it would be preferable to have uh each area more balanced I've also heard that it could be preferable uh with a socioeconomically disadvantaged area uh actually having a uh kind of a trustee who really just represents that area and
146the concerns that they have uh might be a strength but again I I don't think it inherently is one or the other uh but it is just information that as it informs uh each board member's opinion uh is there to help you make that decision thank you and then uh we have uh the neighborhoods that we have identified uh kind of through the process and uh how each map does in terms of keeping those neighborhoods within a trustee area or splitting them between multiple trusty areas and again for some of the larger neighborhoods that uh sometimes uh we were just discussing with the socioeconomics it could be uh preferable to be allinone it could be preferable to have the opportunity to have a couple of trusties who are interested in or or who have some
147connection to that neighborhood and then uh on to the next slide uh and then that enrollment analysis uh without again looking into those numbers but what you're looking at in each column is the percent uh so of all the students of elementary junior high or high school who live in the trustee area area just by percentages what schools that they're actually enrolled at and so you can see there's definitely some alignment with uh you know uh like em Wilson for instance uh you can see it's pretty much uh on the green map in areas one and two where you have a lot higher percentage uh but what you will notice is that every single box of this grid has something in it uh every trustee area has students who are attending every uh school and
148that again uh just something that Jamie and I can speak to uh working on your demographics going back to what I I believe 2004 Jamie but uh that Chico USD just has uh really does uh a remarkable job uh with that uh honoring the choice of uh the families who live there and that just is really what just what reflects in these numbers yep uh and then but that's so that's uh just for anyone uh just as a reminder of what exactly we're looking at and then we can just go through we have the same information for each of the other map options uh as we move through to the next slides uh we don't we won't go through and read uh all of those but again to the extent that it informs anything about
149which maaps might be more or less preferable uh that information is published for your disposal and again it was just something that was discussed at one point earlier when looking at that free and reduced price launch data uh to also just see how it looks uh based on the School boundaries uh where people live or with the schools that they attend and then you have that districtwide percentage again and uh here we're just looking at the elementary schools again that's why it's a different District wide percentage than when we're looking at everyone K12 and then next slide please uh and then uh what I what turned out to be a really interesting uh analysis uh from a question that was posed at one point but looking uh kind of comparing that voting age population from
150the 2020 census with the registered voters uh in 2020 uh to get that percentage of the uh eligible voters who were registered to vote at least by comparing those two data points and just how that looks AC Ross all of the map options for all of the trusty areas and then I believe that might be the last slide of numbers yes yeah there's a lot to uh get through I think it's important just to rehash what we're looking at make sure that everyone's uh nice and refreshed on what all that means and so again if there is no uh you know no decision made tonight about adopting any of those uh maps that have been previously ly presented uh again pending uh any other uh input tonight uh we can be back next week uh
151or not next week but next week 16 uh to uh continue the proc so thank you okay uh Caitlyn um just a quick question um so my understanding from just kind of looking back at the history of this process is that the early 2020 discussion of the the board that was sitting at that time um was that previous or the board member addresses were a lowest priority also meaning sequencing was a lowest priority um is is that is my understanding there correct I don't recall that I'm sorry uh board member Dolby if you're I don't know if you're addressing your question any wants we're not here but I don't recall that we were given any clear directive that we were and Rob refresh my memory if I'm wrong it has been quite some time but
152I think we were really more focused on what to focus on and I don't remember that we were given any clear directive as to you are absolutely not to consider this yeah yeah I mean there was a conversation that uh that uh we weren't going to really put too much emphasis on the board member addresses and uh as something that was confirmed at our last meeting I did not even have board member addresses until after the initial three Maps had been created but then uh and then I kind of to the second part of your question Miss Noby but then the election sequencing is kind of a different thing in that that was always going to be something that came into the process because when you adopt a map you have to adopt an election
153sequence to go with it so my follow-up question is with um with your contracts when you do this for other um uh other districts or whoever it is um do is taking sequencing into account using current B Uh current member current trustee member uh addresses typical we have had other districts and um public agencies ask us to make that one of the criteria um ultimately it depends on the district rob you can speak you know expand on that a little more if you like but every every agency that we work for is different every Community is different and uh and what they like to to consider as criteria in addition to the legal requirements yeah and uh just on that point yes it's something that uh kind of when districts or because there's almost there
154is sometimes a hesitancy of like can we do that and yes it's uh it is perfectly valid it can't be your primary criteria you have to make sure that U kind of as I explained with the orange map that if you are using that as part of your guidance that you are maintaining the kind of seal clad uh you know kind of voting rights requirements and equal population requirements uh but uh kind of the phrase that comes up is honoring the will of the voters who put those people on the board and might wish for the opportunity to see all of them reelected so again this was something that uh we were told didn't necessarily need to be a point of emphasis when we first created Maps uh but we now there is a map
155that uh you know presents an option that aligns the current board with the trustee areas can I make a comment uh please if you don't mind because uh what I don't want there to be misunderstanding what what Rob just said uh my understanding was it may have been a comment uh it it was not a vote and it was not a direction by the board to uh prioritize or not prioritize that particular issue yeah um and I think that's an important point and maybe I can just briefly make the the comment and then take questions but I think it's an important distinction when you say um receive input even though not a voted direction that this are criteria we'd like to see reflected in these Maps whether it be a member of the public in
156a at a meeting by a phone call to staff or any other channel or a board member who may say gee I have an interest in this particular consideration could we I hope that shows up as in one of the options and for a comment that might say I don't think that's a criteria we necessarily need to focus on because when the those proposed or possible maps are developed again and I know I'm being a little repetitive here but in case there are members of the public are hearing this for the first time it is the I would say it's fair to say staff's feeling of responsibility Consultants feeling of responsibility and my responsibility make sure that if there are criteria that are out there that that may u be pertinent to the board that
157we have at least Pres presented those and brought them to the attention of the board it's up to the board to say that's either direct us specifically do not include that or don't give us a map that includes that and then of course we're going to follow the bo Direction I have another question I um yes uh thank you Paul um I was there at the meeting where the comment and it was a comment was made about um not prioriti izing where individual board members lived um it was in the process of discussing all of the other things Dr Kaiser was very concerned about socioeconomic balance um we were concerned about the um the voting strength of our Hispanic Latino uh population um we we had a number of things that we were discussing and
158this this is in the preliminary part of what we were looking at we knew we had to have numbers balanced and we were talking about the things that we wanted to you know be thinking about and the comment was made about um you know well we don't want we don't want where everybody lives to be you know the the criteria and because I was very concerned with all of the other things that we were talking about which seemed very important I nodded my head I was one of the board members when that comment was made that said oh yeah that you know when um we stopped discussions and then brought discussions back when the governor's timeline started ticking again I had never heard the a presentation by anyone in this process you included that sat
159us down and said okay if you do this and the voting sequence is applied it will cause this it wasn't until that information was applied to where we were in the process and I went oh my God that's going to disenfranchise a number of these districts because they won't be able to vote on if one of the three incumbents that are up in 22 decide to run again they won't they won't be able to the the public will not be able to vote for them and that was my concern is the disenfranchisement of the people in that District to not be able to exercise their right if they chose to and if the incumbent was running to vote for them that was huge for me I wanted to make sure that everybody in every District
160had an opportunity to vote for the person in that District whether it was an incumbent or someone else and so that was why when that was presented at the last board meeting I took considerable note of what would happen with the sequencing that disenfranchised a whole block of Voters uh Mr tennis um the public needs to know and any members of the media who are present need to know that we have not heard a word from these you're you're you're calling them disenfranchised voters we have not had a single there's one pro orange map email that has come in in the past 3 weeks since this map was created um and you speak of disenfranchise point of order we have had point of order please I don't appreciate being interrupted she just this we we
161are not in discussion right now we are asking questions of our presenters so it's a it's a point of order we can discuss this when it's time to discuss well this is very upsetting um because um I I I want to bring some clarity to this this foggy memory that we have of the conversation that occurred and I want to read what board member Lando said and it was quote I have no interest and unfortunately he's not able to be here this evening but I have no interest in seeing the kind of Shenanigans in which districts are drawn specifically for any incumbents and I hope that we're all on that page with that one Madam Robinson thank you for acknowledging that you nodded when he said that the reason you nodded and the reason he
162said that is because it's unsavory to do that um I don't think we should be ascribing uh motivation when somebody's here to speak for themselves the other aspect of this is it was not a motion uh it never got a vote um so um without uh does anybody have a specific question they want to ask of our demographers or of our law lawyer and then we can move to public questions okay uh Doby so a n a number of the public comment that's come in in the last two days has really said the same thing um and one of the bottom lines is is this um claim that and I'm looking for clarity here or for you know the like the evidence of it um that the orange Maps give an unfair or unbalanced Advantage
163for current incumbents so I I would like that better explained to me because the the public the the public who's responding right now T seems to think that and I and I would like to understand that a little bit better why they why they might think that and if if that's you know something that we really that is true so how does the orange Maps give unfair or unbalanced Advantage for current incumbents um I mean from our perspective you know ultimately everyone will serve out their term and then you know have and and everyone at the end of their term will be required to uh compete again for their seat in another election so I think from our perspective as your demographers we don't we don't necessarily see it as giving anybody an unfair Advantage
164everybody will continue to surve out their term it just provides an opportunity for there not to be a special election or a special appointee uh and allows everyone to uh to run for reelection at the end of their term so the orange m apps are basically would would allow the process to continue the status quo where a current incumbent can choose to run for re-election and the public can choose to vote for them or not if they agreed with how they did in the first place correct okay so status status quo Mr Gant do you have something else to add to that please just add it isn't an issue of Advantage it's an issue of opportunity if you compare one map to another map um Maps other than the orange map there will be situations
165in which there are current board members who because of because of the particular way the map is situated would not have the opportunity to run again at the expiration of their so-called atlarge term they simply have no opportunity uh it's not an issue of Advantage if if you uh adopt map that looks like the orange map in the that uh board members currently on the board in depth situated in trustee areas they have an opportunity to run but they have no advantage of over any other candidate who might otherwise run other than the fact obviously that they are existing board members with whatever may be it goes along with being an incumbent so I want to thank you for saying that I think that the fact that you just said that right there demonstrates that
166you are unhonorable hble man because we all know every single one of us in here that an incumbent who's in a political race and this is a political office has an advantage over somebody who's a newcomer but that's also true of those and I'm not it's not I'm not debating I just think it's important to point out that um those board members who happen to fall in different trustee areas where um in those other Maps where they they do reside in in the trust area in which they are drawn um do have the opportunity to run so they there's nothing inherently unlawful about being an incumbent or having an advantage Visa other candidates that may be in your trustee area there's no there's no U provision of law there's no case that says there's a
167problem with that and I will say because it was brought up uh with Mr Murray's firm as to whether they've been involved in situations where this was a consideration I have been involved in a number of these redistricting situations uh I agree there are those in which um the process uh has reference to uh existing board member situation and those that don't um I've been in some that one I can think of that was intensely litigated by one of the most aggressive attorneys in the state and um it started off with the assumption that there would in fact be some honor if you will given to the trustees that were currently on the board and it and it wasn't challenged at all there was no suggestion that that was in some way uh unlawful so
168I think it's an issue it's it's it's an issue of policy for the board to decide it's within your Authority uh to consider as you look at these maps how much importance you wish to to place on that issue and other issues before you but from a legal standpoint so long as the map that you adopt uh is honors the fundamentals of the California Voting Rights Act so be acting racial gerrymandering we know is illegal right I mean if you purposefully try to try to split up I mean then if it's not then um I'm mistaken I thought I saw purposes I I don't handle voting rights in all of its many aspects I advise school districts uh in a couple of areas one under the California Voting Rights Act and and and then one
169under the census redistricting those are really the areas that I focus on because they focus on school law and the the California Voting Rights Act does require that we consider the impact of the districting on the on the um on the voting rights of minority groups and particular raal groups so yes if if um if the voting rights of of racial minority groups are diluted through this process that would be likely unlawful and partisan Jerry mandering would be I'm I'm thinking also illegal if you came out and said hey we're going to choose this map because this you know these three people are all you know we're all you know Republicans and these guys are all Democrats and we want there to be fewer of them and more of us and we want us to
170be safe and and then to not be that would be I'm guessing that would be probably in conflict with the law is that not true it really hasn't come up in school dist School District or School Board elections that I'm aware of I'm not aware of a single case where the issue has arisen uh School Board elections are nonpartisan I don't believe that there's any reference on the ballot on on the ballot to anyone's party um that it's an interesting question uh I believe although it's not my area of expertise just in terms of my general observance of the law uh I believe that in Municipal elections uh in partisan elections that California does have restrictions on uh partisan Jerry manderin so but that does not they aren't specific to elections for schools when you
171say that um you know in a court of law it's okay for a majority of incumbents on a board like this to tailor districts around their residences around where they live you say it's legal to do so you know and I would just make an observation that in a court of law that might be true in a court of public opinion it's not true people know when they are being manipulated into specific districts uh if we don't have any more uh actual questions I think we should move to public comment um and I'll remind the public if you wish to make a comment you have three minutes to do so um do we have any names yes then the timer will go off do we have any names for public comment yes we do our
172first one is parent Gina back I just like to remind you the first Bell means you have 30 seconds left the second Bell means time is up yes it's not my first time here thank you okay how are you my name is Gina back I am the co-chair for Chico parents for personal learning and I'm also Hispanic um I just want to say something after listening to everybody that how redistricting will affect board members incumbents these people I haven't heard anything about how our kids will be best represented or how R districting will affect our kids going back to my speech the original day to choose map was December 15 the date got pushed to January 19 for more public input and on January 19 the community get hit got hit by the addition of
173two new maps nobody knew about it I'm pretty sure the experts know more but the fact that these Maps were added at the last minute and secretly and in private that's my issue this is America how can this be legal you know okay so on January 19 the community and the minority of the bo of the board members demand answers for this addition where were these Maps coming from who request them and why the answer was that the maps were organically created per staff request up to this point nobody knows who the staff is so I don't really care these two Maps follow all the rules needed to qualify for voting because I'm not an expert and I really I'm just here to make my point across but my point is that these two maps
174were again secretly added and I don't think this is fair there were no public input no requests nothing n everybody was fine with the original Three Maps so what happened and why things changed at the last minute why the board ignor Community input about the blue the blue map the community do not want maps created in the dark we wanted the blue map back but obviously it got rejected maybe I don't know I'm not going to give reasons why I'm not an expert um so the community do not want for the board to vote on maps that were created in the dark since most likely the blue map is not going to be back I would like for you to guys to really take into consideration the purple map it has the highest percentage of
175homeownership 40% it has as a Hispanic it has has the highest percentage of Hispanic at 24.8 percentage orange maps have the lowest percentage of Hispanic at 22.7% the purple map is the only one that emphasize on Elementary School boundaries so parents will have more opportunity to be involved with their schools and to get to get to know the board members I do want to thank Matt in London but since he's not here I get you can I guess you can send a message for listening into the community by voting on eliminating the orange Maps thank you that's your three minutes send the message to London that I will I I thank him for that he's not here so all right is there uh another yes our next speaker is a parent Jordan Colby okay uh
176good evening board uh I would just uh like to say I'm Jordan kby I am a parent I have a second and fifth graders at Parkview Elementary and a seventh grader at Marsh who just won his basketball game out in Willows so go Gators um I want to offer my support for really uh any of the initial draft Maps um I think that the purple map makes the most sense um it emphasizes Elementary School boundaries and I feel like a really great time for parents to be involved with their schools is in their neighborhood schools and that Fosters a lot of sense of community um I think about just getting to know other parents when we walk our kids to school wouldn't it be great if in the future board members are their you know
177if their parents their kids attend the same schools and you get to know your board member because you see them at pick up and drop off um the only thing that I would say is you know really the the blue the green the purple they all make sense because they're somehow tied to a School boundary and they do something to Foster that sense of community and and involvement um as far as I can tell there's really only one reason for the orange Maps it's the problem of election sequencing uh I'm one of the disenfranchised voters in the city I don't have a current city council member and didn't get to vote for one at the last time but if I want to talk to correspond with anybody on the city counil I just do it
178um it hasn't caused a problem it's a hiccup in 2022 all I'll vote for another city council member and then I'll have one so temporary um I really just liked what uh Carl Ashner said in his comments at the last meeting um we're looking at with the orange Maps it's really uh not thinking about the future it's creating a permanent solution to a temporary problem that's all thank you all right thank you uh do we have other yes our uh final speaker is Community member Julie 3 just reminded of when my mom came home when I was a junior in high school and uh she was having a fit she' just come home from a Schoolboard meeting like okay she said that because of a decline in enrollment they were going to have to close
179one of the high schools so that was a big deal that was huge so I'm like okay this is big but that was huge I was thinking about what to um what to bring to this and I thought I'd just give a little perspective um last September I was over at the Elks Lodge um listening to the contractor there for the county go through in detail exactly what redistricting was um I knew it was a huge big deal right census every 10 years and when I left that meeting it was bigger deal because of the campfire and the loss of enrollment so I really dug in and I really knew that I wanted to invest my time in the um in the in the districting process for the county at the city and then I
180thought oh my gosh the school board this is fantastic it was a it was a wonderful opportunity to do all three but three Consultants three Maps three tools it's it's been a process so at the county we kind of ended the same place and on November 17th um this was my input back to those two maps that were kind of thrown out um one out of left field at this point you can pick whatever map you want flip a coin neither one represents the will of the people this process is broken down the Board of Supervisors disrespected the members of the community it's just unbelievable The only positive I got from being party to this entire process is I've been party to this entire process quite an education so now here we are again and
181on November 17 when I got home Gina was here in the in the room I was watching from TV on Zoom or on YouTube and everything was pachy K it was like wonderful it was like and I know we were having glowing Raves for um for the consultant so I thought this is going to be easy and fun all of a sudden it's January 19th and I'm like what just happened everything kind of blew up so for me the um yeah I left that night thinking I want to know I want to know who who when and how how did this happen I'm I'm a member of the community I'm a taxpayer and I I've been at every one of these meetings so the phone call and and the Phantom thing was okay it was
182the organic um design and I think that's the advantage the advantage for every one of you you drew these Maps or somebody drew these Maps knowing where you live and who your people are I think I don't know how you came up with I know where you put your addresses but how did these streets get drawn who picked you know 99 or 32 I don't know that process so I think that's where the advantage might possibly be um with that orange map um yeah election sequencing we never heard that word once so I would have thought that would have been at the Forefront um I definitely and it's the cost I mean I think at the beginning of the uh of the meeting here today you you had a an amendment a addendum for the
183contract $77,000 for this um for the consultant so that's a concern getting rid of the blue map was a concern the two reasons were the Hispanic numbers were slightly different and now the orange M uh Hispanic numbers are exactly the same as the blue map and the forest R Cohasset um issue um for your 14% of the population appointment makes sense if we're all about continuity that's why we want to pick the orange map appointment would just make the most sense to thank you all right thank you is there anyone else we have uh no others that have signed up this would be the time uh to allow speakers from the floor for our remaining uh time um we well we've only had four right okay so I see one person RAC in their hand
184um okay so thank you again 3 minutes thank you Bo um can I remove this I speak yeah my name is Jessica gianola for the record um I I came here tonight because I have concerns um over the the purple map as as far as the Forest Ranch cassa communities go it's my understanding the purple map would be splitting them apart rather than keeping them together and after following the supervisors disting that sort of um scenario that came up was a big concern and why many Maps were tossed out and more were added in for consideration because they would look at the ones they had and said wait a minute this one is splitting apart this community we should make every effort available to keep them together and so with the orange map it seems
185as if that is keeping them together um and with the ab um 849 the fair maps that is a priority we want to look at for the students um so that's why want to do support for the orange Maps either one um and it seems like from understanding with the reelection process if if uh a different map is chosen that the school board may be facing some sort of um Financial cost in whatever reelection process you're taking so the orange map seems to be avoiding that so you would be saving the school's money instead of unnecessarily wasting it in that option we're going to have a re-election soon you know it's going to come anyway so why waste money to do it ahead of time if we can avoid it taking those steps ahead of
186time so just thinking of this the communities keeping them together and saving our school's money thank you I have a question for staff of clarification does the purple map um separate Cohasset and Forest Ranch or are the those communities together as the mountain communities Consultants Rob Murray you might want to answer that yep I can uh yes the purple map and if we go uh you have to look at the inset uh up there but uh kasset and the Forest Ranch are in different Elementary School boundaries and so the purple map does reflect that and uh you do have one uh Cohasset area to and Forest Ranch in uh area five there okay all right so that was the answer to the question and we've now had five speakers and that's all that we have
187uh oh are you asking to be a speaker I'm asking to be a speaker that's okay all right let's see three minutes and this will be the last speaker thank you very much uh members of the board good evening uh my name is Keat nley I'm the manager for County elections I just want to provide some insight on some information that I've heard tonight and maybe correct or clarify some things that that may have been said um as was mentioned uh the election code 5091 and 5094 both do allow for appointments so a special election while it is an option is not necessary according to the Education Code uh the other thing that I wanted to point out was should a vacancy uh become available uh or happen due to a resignation on the board
188the appointment or that special election would be for the unexpired term of that seat just want to make that clarification and let you guys know that I was available if there's any other questions regarding the administration of Elections thank you for being here thank you Katon I really appreciate you being here all right so there's one more out here W waving waving her hand there's a member of the public who seems interested well we've already had five and we're already passed the time schedule that was identified which was requested by the board so I'm sorry um okay so now um we are in the discussion action phase so um does anybody um have a specific question or want to make a motion I move uh in response to the numerous public comments we've had against
189the orange map and now in favor of the purple map that we adopt the purple map for our new trustee areas in Chico Unified School District get a second it fails for lack of a second all right uh may I have another motion oh um I move to remove the purple mat from consideration moving forward that's my motion so do I get it okay the motion was to remove the purple map and do I get a second on that I'll second that all right so we have a motion and a second to remove the purple map uh any further discussion I have a comment on that um clearly this board is totally impervious to public comment and disdainful of their public you have had exactly one letter in favor of the orange Maps you have
190had you have had just today you've had over 20 emails in favor of the purple map and previously you had a similar number of emails in favor of the blue map anytime a map gets popular you hate it so much because it poses a threat to the orange map that you make these motions to eliminate the map that people like okay um there is this stinks politically um today in the newspaper there was a story about how Chico uh the city council is is going into their next phase of redistricting and the one person who wrote two weeks ago in favor of the orange map very interestingly is in the paper this morning talking about the redistrict process that the city is embarking on that person the one person who's written in support of the
191orange map had this to say they weighed in saying they hoped the redistricting process at the city could go smoothly and without political Focus quote I hope that we are going to do a much better job than the city council districting a few years ago this person said quote I hope we're going to not focus on incumbency and will instead base this process on making sure that everybody in our community has a fair voice and a fair vote it is shocking to me that when the people coming come to you they want you to do they want you to vote for objective maps that were that we paid more than $70,000 and and climbing to our Consultants to develop you have such disdain for them and if I may be so bold the parents and
192their coalition you can't stand these people so much that anytime they say they like a map you have to you know drown it in the bathtub it's unbelievable uh Mr tennis I think that we need to have discussion focused on the value of the maps and there is a motion and a second so um the context of this is um any comments relating to this motion I have lots to say so I'm sorry I have lots to say okay um the motion has been seconded I believe I seconded seconded then it is under discussion I'd like to hear from Caitlyn yes so first I just want to say that what we're not doing right now is approving the orange Maps that's not what's on the table right now that's not what the discussion is that's
193not where we're at this is about the purple map specifically and there there's multiple reasons why I've put it on the table to remove based on a very large set of criteria first of all all the public comment has come in in the last two days in favor of the purple map hasn't given any reason why except for um I think two emails that actually said specifically based on criteria what and I really appreciate the people who give public comment and made those points and I wrote them down and I'd like to address them um and I and I will um and so the other concern conc ER I had about those public comments was I mean it was it's it's very strongly clear that the orange maps are not favorable by the people who
194who wrote in but what became clear to me because I responded to every single email today and the people that I did get a chance to hear back from many of whom are frequent flyers and email us quite often um usually because they're frustrated with you know the majority of the board's decisions expressed that they didn't even realize that the green map was up for consideration and that was really interesting to me and I was very concerned that there was some kind of I don't know organization uh pushing for one particular map on the on the table rather than talking about what information we're looking at which are the different criteria to choose a map so again this is not about choosing the orange map that's not what this discussion is this is about what
195what it is about the purple map that I think merits us removing it from consideration number one being the separation of Cohasset and Forest Ranch 100% period I am a rural mountain girl from a small town and I live in Forest Ranch and that has nothing to do with me wanting to keep my seat it has to do with represent representation of the people who live in that community in those mountain and Foothill communities there are much different circumstances that those people us that we experience than people who are you know actually I would say more privileged living in a city center so there's that issue number one the reason why I want to remove the purple map the the issue that was brought up most frequently by the people who did give a reason
196which again was like less than 5% of people that I got public that we got public comment from supporting the purple map actually gave a reason they said just purple not Orange but why I want to know why I give a reason for everything using data using information like let's actually get to the heart of it so the the reasons that were given from what I heard primarily was that the because the purple Maps were drawn based on the elementary boundaries totally understandable I get that but when you actually compare the percentages and like the highest percentage of representation per school and District bound Aries it's actually kind of split so in in some cases the purple map has like for example little Chico Creek the highest percentage um truste area is 39% in the
197purple map meaning that uh 39% of the trusty area is covered by one District meaning that that specific district has the most representation in that school um in contrast the orange map has Emma Wilson as the high highest Elementary uh focused District trustee area so and it's actually like that all the way down I mean you can pull the data I could pull the data out and like read it all off to you my point being that that that concern that that you know we need to have our our hubs of of concentrated um uh folks that live in a a a specific trustee area be represented at that school in that with that concern whether you agree with that as criteria or not it's actually split and I didn't I didn't have time like
198this whole time I've been writing down numbers I didn't have time to write down the green and I could totally do that and my guess is it's probably somewhere very similar um the green map does uh make sure that every trustee has a pretty equal spread or has some representation for both High School Districts so I like that about the green map but we're talking about the purple map right now so it was um also addressed that the purple map does have the highest concentration of our targeted group okay and that was the reason we removed the blue map in the first place because it had the lowest percentage and that's a big deal and and if I were to rank these I would say the purple map hits the highest for that and about
1991.2% lower is the green map and then the orange map does worse but not as bad as the blue map was it's not the same it was still a 1% difference I know because I wrote it down and that's why I made the motion that I did last time so that all being said and there's probably more that I could blurred out but I would like to give other folks a chance to to explain you know their thinking or discuss um the biggest reason of wanting to um eliminate the pro map and still consider the green map and the orange map and really dig into those numbers and really think about how the the demographics are divided out and represented and give the opportunity for more public comment since I didn't get any public comment
200on the green map I would like to hear more but it again it sounded like people didn't even realize a green map was an option it sounded like people thought it was purple or orange so that's that's the the purple map being Cohasset and Forest Ranch split is is really my main reason for for wanting to eliminate it all right further comment yes no thank you Caitlyn um I uh I appreciate the in-depth analysis that you've done of purple and why I mean there were a number of things I didn't like about purple and I too responded to people that were emailing me about you know it's got to be purple it's got to be purple it's got to be you know why and there were a number of no number there were three responses
201everyone else chose not to give a reason for why why they wanted the purple map which to me is kind of curious it seems like if you were that committed to something you'd have a reason um I'm also I'm I'm going you know I Mr tennis I read your Facebook post urging your supporters to email us and support the purple map and I recogn Iz many of the names as Miss Doby said they're the same names that were involved with the recall and several other hot issues um within the the purview of the school board over the last year or so and I appreciate that they're still interested that's you know that's they're right however when I got to looking at parents if you consider one and a half per kid we have 12,000 students
202in this district and if you have one and a half parents on average and yet the only responses I got on the purple map were from the people that were on your list I don't like it I am not going to go beyond what my reasonable analysis of what we're faced with supports in favor of 80 emails for the purple map to me that's not responsible to me you know we know where the orange Maps came from we've been told about the phone calls to The District phone call at least one from someone someone who is interested in running for the school board who wanted to know when will we know about the districts and how do I prepare to run that's when the issue of sequencing came to light and within a week through
203through consultation with our experts the people we pay to give us advice we were told that there's this process of sequencing that you and so they said oh my God I didn't say but the people we trust to give us advice said we have to give this information to the board the only way to give that information to the board was turn it over to our consultants and our attorney to give us good Legal Information so when we make our decision tonight or in two weeks weeks we know the consequences of what we are doing so I I support the problems that you've outlined with the purple map and support putting it aside so we have a motion we've had uh comments and uh it has a second so unless there's a further factual point
204uh I'm going to call for the motion and I'll call for a roll call a roll call vote so Robinson I to remove the purple map okay Kaiser I Dolby I okay for shame tennis n all right so that's three to one so it is removed and now we have uh a choice the choice say we can continue to assess these Maps the green map and the two orange maps with the kind of uh more detailed analysis that's been used um and vote or we can wait until the 16th uh to give people time to look in depth at the at these three maps that are left because I agree I got very very little rational presentations um on them um so what's the I what's the will of the board we want to vote
205now or do we want to come back on February 16th and vote Yes Madam president I I uh I support continuing some discussion and questioning I appreciate the work Miss Doby did I'd like to see more discussion on the difference between the Green map and the the two orange Maps I think that would help the public too to decide whether or not uh to comment on any of those three Maps I think our discussion brings forward um information to the public that that that I think they need I need it so I'd like to continue discussion I I don't have a I'm not ready yet to vote okay any other comments I have a comment um as far as public input is concerned with the exception of Miss gianola who spoke I guess in favor
206well against the purple map because of the division of Forest Ranch and Cohasset this idea originates with one email that somebody wrote in on uh shoot I don't I I took a screenshot and I don't have what the date that it came in but this person said without making direct reference to the green map this is pre- orange I like this map because it is the only one that keeps the mountain communities of interest together if we learned anything from the Board of Supervisors it is that the two mountain communities want to stay together in a single District keep us together we have similar needs for transportation and unique challenges that make us different than Chico neighborhoods fair enough that is one comment you know and you've got a backdrop of so many comments you
207say there weren't substantive reasons why I think I heard you say a minute ago that you you thought that the reasons given by Mr Colby Miss ba were not substantive and it just makes me so sad that you would just discount them in that fashion um but it's apparent to me that these these orange maps are are golden children and and anything that the public you know especially parents come in favor of um you will eliminate and you will you will go against um it's a sad observation that I make but um there's one more thing I'd like to say and that is is that uh somebody wrote a letter to the editor about me a couple of days ago CU I had written a letter a few days previously complaining about the orange maps
208and how I see it as Jerry mandering and a majority interest trying to uh basically resist change and maintain that majority uh and this person said regarding recent redistricting issues Dear Sir this is an edited slimmed down version of the guy's email dear sir he's addressing me what's good for the goose is good for the gander as an example of payback is a and I'm going to leave out the exploitive um but it starts with a b and refers to a female dog as an example of payback is a exploitive in exchange for all the gerrymandering done in all of the red legislature flyover states that have resulted in the majority's desired agenda being obstructed by the minority I proposed the California legislature Jerry Mander to the extent that there there's not a single Republican
209left in office in this state of 40 million people including all local boards I do believe that with the current Democratic voter majority Statewide creative Jerry mandering might allow the elimination of all California's Republican congressional districts sweet if all the blue States followed suit I believe Dems could own the House of Representatives permanently it's just kind of obvious to everyone and it was obvious to you all two years ago with your exception of you miss who was not here that this was unsavory that you don't draw trusty areas or legislative districts at a first shot around where we live and the court of public opinion and the parents who live there do not appreciate this thank you I think if you felt strongly enough about the orange Maps he would have made a motion to
210eliminate them tonight rather than push for one map hold on I'm not done but but I but I'm not comfortable making that final decision because we have given the public so little time to give input on these maps and Mr Lando is not here today to make a final map decision that's why I don't want to continue this discussion until our next meeting either so I actually moved to end debate so I'm going to uh follow the first question which was Rob can you or Jamie give us any further details about the two orange Maps as requested so I had a I had written down a note of uh there being a desire for a kind of real side by side of the differences between the green and the orange Maps yes yeah uh yeah
211and then uh yeah and so I think I can certainly do something that's a bit more explic because right now the presentation is focused on just here for each map our various data points we can really just put everything side by side and uh do something kind of concise where everyone can really see those core differences so if that saies that I'm happy to put that together all right I think that was the focus of the question is that agreeable then to the other board members all right thank you Rob and Jamie I really appreciate that and I incredibly appreciate your service since you both were sick um to come and stay with us have a question Madam president um Rob when will that comparison reasonably be available to us I uh you know I
212think the public as well as board members would like to see that as soon as possible it would be published I uh Jamie pull me back if I'm uh getting ahead of our uh how we balance things out but I think uh by early next week we can have that available that seem reasonable for all parties involved Kelly what was your comment so typically it would be P published when we publish the February 16th agenda with direction from the board we can put it all on our website it when uh Mr Murray has it available yeah that's what I'd like everybody has to receive it at the same time yes at at the earliest avail would be great Paul um although not legally compelled because there's been some discussion about whether there's been adequate consideration
213of the green map or focus on it I do note that uh from a legal standpoint before the board adopts a map we know that the map has to be posted for seven days seven days yeah and even though as this map has been available I would recommend if at all possible that the additional material be posted at least s days before the next board meeting because I think legislature and passing the ACT felt that that was a time period that they want people to focus on the maps and consider them detail so pressure on Rob one last thing we we've received a couple of draft maps in the last week um they they came from the public they didn't come from experts and they have not been introduced What would uh be the process
214if we wanted to give those a shot or chance of at life you can I'm going ask Mr dant to address that because it does fall into that making sure that we meet the uh 7-Day posting period can I just really quick interrupt and ask for clarification so I I'm aware of one map that was submitted that was like kind of handdrawn is that the is that the only one or was there Sterling I want to say um a gentleman I I think and then another one came in today from Miss thre um and then there was earlier there was there was one a few days ago from Mr bird I believe Mr who okay and then I don't know if Mr Gant has seen that one yet but it was actually taking um uh
215partisanship in voting into consideration when he drew that map and submitted that so I'm aware uh that some addition some some maps uh originating with the public uh have have been come forth I don't know uh and in fact they would probably have to be be at least evaluated first by the demographers to give even an initial read on whether they would satisfy the very basic most uh uh critical criteria that we've discussed uh so that can be looked at the uh there's no legal bar to producing additional maps and uh again the the criteria that that we have to be focused on is that any map that the board does ultimately adopt has to be published at least seven days before the board adopts it other than that there is uh the opportunity if
216the U board wishes uh to to have other Maps brought forward uh it's just a timeline issue I know that the uh count the attorney who I'm in touch with with the county committee on School District reorganization has expressed an interest that the uh that the matter be brought to their March meeting and uh my understanding is in order to safely make that deadline we would need to provide them with our materials by the 22nd of February um I do get concerned about pushing past uh we we become at the mercy of other agencies and then I know that the elections office has its hands full as well and I I can't necessarily speak for for them but I do know that they want to have certainly there's the statutory deadline it has to come
217to them at least 100 more than 120 days before the election uh but I believe and I'm only speaking from from my sense of it at this point that they would like to get it sooner than the very last day before the de I think since he's here I just have to take this opportunity to invite Keat and dley up to comment on what our drop dead date would be on getting any any new maps in into shape and for our Consultants Jamie King and Rob Murray you can be thinking about while he's coming up and saying his piece if you could assign an approximate price tag to what it might take to get some of these draft Maps or one or both of these Maps into shape um I would appreciate that Insight go
218ahead Mr Denley yeah so um it may come as no surprise uh to to the board members that you aren't the only board going through this process what yes I know and I have the joy of communicating with all of them um so uh the original deadline um kind of pre-co anything like that would have been March 1st that that would have been your guys' deadline for having them Ms drawn um there was a Senate bill passed this last year 442 that does extend that deadline giving you up until 125 days before the election that is uh July 6th okay if you wait until July 6th candidate filing starts July 18th you're not giving us a whole lot of time time to set up and prepare for that election if we get the maps 12
219days before you know the election has to start happening so and that's not our approval that's like the state approval it would it would need to be approved finalized in our office by that date and that is the last deadline um and we would certainly appreciate much more time than that uh just from a Manpower perspective of being able to put on this election um for our voters with the Integrity that they've come to expect so you don't care about the Board of Education as is that what the other deadline was associated with I I did not make that statement I very much care about them and everything that goes on uhhuh but but but that that that deadline or you know they wanted to report it or something like that I mean maybe somebody
220can clarify this for me it's a legal approval process it has to be approved by the um bu County Office of Education board so uh references were made to the changes in law and there were some changes uh prior to uh prior to this past year prior to the current cycle um with regard to uh trustey area redistricting for school districts there there was either the obligation to have the electric vote on the maps or boards could seek uh a waiver from the State Board of Education so we had that whole steps that was had to be put into the process to seek that waiver and and there were many many months uh that were added to the process in order to do that for what was really just a check I'll be honest with
221you a check off the Box by the state board they didn't have any real clear interest in rejecting these um I wasn't privy to the reasoning behind the change in the law but the legislature saw you know and Governor saw uh saw it as being beneficial to eliminate the necessity for the State Board of Education appr waiver process and so they now allow the what we call the county committee on School District reorganization which in this particular county is is the board uh the County Board of Education and in most counties they have a dual purpose this is one of their purposes so uh now there is an allowance it is a May it's not a must but the County Board of Education sitting as this uh County committee on School District reorganization May approve
222approve the maps without their NE the necessity of either going to the State Board of Education or to the voters for approval um if we recognize that your District was under threat of litigation to go forward with this process so anything that would delay delay the uh creation of the trustee areas and push it to a later election remember the process was frozen by the emergency order but now we're expected to move forward uh would push you at risk that the uh that the organization that originally brought this forward would say that's unreasonable and you are unduly delaying the process and and they could sue you and be outside what we call the Safe Harbor so so I could go on but the the point being that if you wish to make that timeline to
223make make sure that your trustee areas are drawn and effective by this coming election you are relying on uh the county committee on School District reorganization to hear the matter and determine to approve your Maps now they're a separate agency I cannot tell you that they're necessarily going to agree with what you do I I don't uh necessarily expect that they would not uh follow your lead with regard to those Maps but in my position I tend to uh want to be uh if I may use the word conservative because if there was a delay that we did not expect that would push the county committee's decision let's say they said there's something we don't like we want you to look at this take it back and look at it I don't know what that
224might be that would then that could happen at their March meeting that could push the process at least another month or more depending on what their request was so now you're getting very close to your absolute deadline so that that's all I want to point out as you add layers to your process you get closer and closer to deadlines of that sort now as it stands right now clearly uh you're you're in pretty good shape as long as you act before February 22nd because that allows you to get on the county committee's agenda for the March meeting and that has been at least a sense of the conversations that I have with their council is that would be desirable they may have meetings after that and before Mr denley's deadlines but but it'd be desirable
225from the standpoint of the County Council the Council of the board of Education to have it done in that time frame that we've been operating under my training has kind of taught me over the years to expect the unexpected and that's that's it's usually been a pretty good rule of thumb not necessarily here but it's it's it's that it's unexpected so that being the case if we want if we wanted to honor that deadline does it work mathematically to to bring forward any any constituent submitted maps that have recently come in well there's time as far as that goes if the board says um yes we would like to add some additional maps to the mix for consideration um we might have to talk to staff about the necessity for a special meeting there hasn't
226been a formal motion to do this are you making a formal motion well I want to know if it's feasible I mean if it's going to cost a fortune and and and you know and put us in legal Jeopardy then then maybe I wouldn't make a motion right but trying to get answers to right now I turn to Jamie and Rob thank you um there is certainly time for you know poor Rob over there to or myself to take the maps that were provided and um you know they were very roughly drawn and try and determine if it legally they fit within the criteria it really depends on if we're just taking a a quick glance at it like that maybe eight to 10 hours to draw the boundaries collect the sensus data run all
227the analysis for each map so I think there were two um so a couple days work and then you know if there was if they didn't work if the board gave us direction that you know if they if they don't work perfectly the way that they were submitted take the time to Nuance them until you can bring forth um options you know those those options that are inspired by these Maps um that do work and that would take consider considerably uh more time so you know I think probably we could have something rob you and I can talk about it but uh maybe to your point uh a couple days of our time and then just to just to quickly look at them and share that information out and then if the if there's a
228decision to move forward to make viable options inspired by those those Maps uh and the criteria that were provided um probably at least a couple more days Rob do you have anything else you'd like to add it's quite quite a bit of data mining and Analysis for for each option as you've seen yeah no I think the I mean what I was really kind of coming on to was the I think the question that was asked was really uh just having those Maps as they were drawn and just I think the primary things would be the balance of total population and the ethnic con and racial concentrations uh and just see you know basically as kind of a yes no uh just is this map valid as submitted by the community and if it is
229I can confirm that uh as you said with you know with a couple of days of our time uh to bring those into my system and kind of tie all the data into it so that I can come up with those totals uh but yes and then if they uh you know if they are deemed valid then we can present that back out and if they are not uh as you just alluded to then that really makes it I think more of a open-ended question of does that question that was posed extend to uh making them viable Maps or is it just the intention of confirming that they're not and that ends the question on that particular map Rob and Jamie we do have to present any Maps under serious consideration 7 days before we
230vote and we would be voting on the 16th right so and we talked about posting the three Maps we have currently on our website with the kind of more detailed analysis that was suggested so um they'd all have to be ready and posted by February 9th by February 9th huh and you guys have been struggling physically so you have to just give us an honest assessment I I find this very high risk well Madam president yes I if I might interject on this subject of um do we have a deficit of knowledge in the three maps that we have in front of us to consider [Music] have do we have you know checked off a b c and d and the things we talked about the neighborhoods the you know all of those other criteria
231that we use to formulate the maps did we miss something I'm not feeling that I I um I want more information on what has been developed already that will meet the timelines um I appreciate the community coming up with you know time to to do other Maps I you know I I don't want to stifle somebody's you know interest and curiosity but what we're dealing with we've had a lot of input into and I'm comfortable with what we have in front of us with the additional information that we've asked so that we can make a you know uh more significant analysis of green and orange a& B so is that a motion I move that we not add an additional map to the three under consideration I'd like to offer a friendly amendment that we
232add both new maps to consideration um I I said I'd like to offer a friendly amendment that we add both new maps for consideration I don't consider that a friendly Amendment the point of my motion is to exclude that the point of your motion is to include so I don't see those as compatible do I have a second on uh Miss Robinson's motion what I'll second it so we can talk about it how's that okay so the motion moved and seconded is to stay uh with the three Maps the purple and the two orange already presented to have a little bit more of the detail I'm sorry green I was looking at what I green and uh to have the our demographers to do a little bit more refinement on some of the data points
233that were being used I think earlier correct I think the the purpose is to make the side by side comparison more clear for us and for the public right um by way of discussion for having that um yeah I think that you should all be ashamed of yourselves for leaving the orange maps for for for for allowing this problem to I'm going to interrupt you cuz the orange Maps were developed by our Consultants with plenty of time and so if that's the argument that we shouldn't consider the orange Maps because there hasn't been enough time why are we discussing adding even more maps to consider that's what I'm really confused about here because people don't like the orange Maps the only people who like the orange maps are are some of the people sitting up
234here on the stage um and then two two other people who provided input one two weeks ago by email and another one live and in person today there are certainly things about the orange map that I like more than the purple map which is why I did what I did tonight but that doesn't mean that there isn't more to discuss and that's why I think that you know you're out of line in accusing anybody of having made up their mind about anything so I think the context of this motion originally it presented and seconded was the seeking of a more uh clear comparison between the green and the two orange Maps um to allow a greater distinction so uh and I believe Jamie and Rob you've indicated you can do that and give us the
235seven days that we need absolutely okay and that was going to be February 7th Kelly febrary February 9th okay so we have to have it able to put on the website by February 9th all right is there any other further discussion of the motion Madam president I thought that there was a motion to that we not consider any additional maps that was that was my motion the motion was to not add Maps correct yeah well I just said green and the two Orange right and and I made a I made a motion you're right about what we've asked at the demographers absolutely my motion was to not add more maps to the considerations that we stay with the three we already have I thought that was my motion I thought that's what we were referencing
236and it's a second or that's clear with you too okay so um just for additional Clarity in that no new maps are added all right so if there's no further uh discussion of this motion then we'll vote all those we can do by by Voice vote or no excuse me by roll call so all those in favor of having the green and the two orange Maps examined in Greater detail as a comparison and not add any additional Maps Robinson I Kaiser I Dolby I tennis nay okay so it passes 3 to one all right I do have to say Julie three you're your presentation was very thorough I just the timeline and the controversy with adding new maps that this late in the game anyway is just a concern for me okay okay all right
237so at this point in time and we are unfortunately uh violating by 45 minutes our uh estimated time is there board member a request to agendize an item uh actually I have one um the presentation of the Career Technical um programs and their success um also really raises for me the question of the science that we are pursuing and the way we're pursuing it in our our secondary schools um in my position uh former position as the trustee for the CSU working with the UC I actually was part of the original discussion about how to integrate sciences and that was like nine years ago so um I would like to hear a a report about how our Science Program at the high schools and at the junior highs is leading to an integrated understanding uh
238which is the vast majority of high schools in California are using so that's what I request to have agendas uh I'll second your motion okay so any other discussion of that of adding that to the agenda I appreciate motion Madam president I you know our our emphasis on raising our integration with anything including science is crucial I support it however i' I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't mind that you and the superintendent look at when we would have the most information oh yeah to to bring that back to us yeah um I wasn't said I think uh yeah with the U with both schools going to the block schedule thing I think it's going to give us a lot of insight into what we're going to be able to add to that issue as PV
239goes online with with that so I I love it I want to see it but give it some time yeah I'll add um that the Next Generation science standards have been California adopted for nearly a decade and we still haven't really got a clear update especially at the high school level on how we are doing and implementing those standards and I can tell you from personal experience at the middle school level besides going through the curriculum adoption because it came up it was almost a cart before the horse conversation adopting curriculum at the middle school level because we hadn't really had the full discussion about integrating or not integrating and implementing the ngss even at the middle school level so I think that this is a timely and critical conversation that I would definitely love
240to get an update from the district on um at at the secondary level and we can do that can you repeat are we going to vote on this um I guess do we need a vote on this okay can you repeat the motion please yes uh I would like to hear an update on the Next Generation science standards which call for Integrated Science at the secondary level where are we at and what could we do I can't really object to that okay all right so um all right all those in favor signify by saying I oh okay roll call all right Robinson I Kaiser I Dolby I tennis I all right okay that's unanimous so great thank you guys um and then we will uh now move to oh well has anybody else got another
241thing that they want to agendize okay um we will then move to close session so I want to thank the audience you have been extremely patient and I especially thank our election representative uh for coming and giving us some critical information so thank you all thanks for being here Katon maybe we should have started inviting you a while ago oh yes um yeah we always that was why I opened the meeting early each time was to give public a chance to comment on Clos session before we went into Clos session I may be totally wrong but I don't how how could they there wasn't any speaker cards turned in for close session I'm sorry there wasn't any speaker cards turned in for close session okay yeah well to go to close session yeah okay