001good evening everyone welcome to the regular meeting of chico unified school district board of education the october 20th regular meeting the board is going to go into closed session at this time and we will be back to open the regular meeting by six o'clock thank you ladies and gentlemen excuse me welcome to the open session of the october 20th chico unified school district board of education the board was in a closed session and during closed session we took action the board approved the district's purchase of the property located at 1350 east lassen avenue with an assessor parcel number of zero one five zero two oh zero zero nine for two million eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars the following and the follow the the vote of the board was as follows yes dalby oh three
002three to one do we not identify oh okay all right 3s one no so it was approved okay um we will now officially open the regular board meeting with pledge of allegiance to the flag please if you would rise i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you okay student reports um superintendent staley says uh is who's you know it has been an unbelievable two days with the rain my brain loved the rain but it's disconnected from me sorry about that that's okay we've got it and this group we're gonna hear from next is gonna connect everything all together we have a wonderful group of students here from shasta and to
003introduce them we have principal principal bruce bainard [Applause] good evening everybody i want to say hello first of all to all of our visiting teachers from around the world it's very nice to see you i'd especially like to give a shout out to my friend clement who is wearing the pv hat in honor of the upcoming victory for the vikings the almond bowl on friday [Laughter] uh my wife and i hosted um the majority of them for dinner on sunday and we had a wonderful time getting to know them and sharing all the wonderful things that they've done um in their time here so i can't wait to hear a little bit more from them later today but i am super excited because we have shasta's outstanding students here these students represent our sos program
004this is a program created by former teacher of the year now retired dave foster as a conflict manager program for students it started with sixth graders and after our sixth graders moved on to the junior high our fifth graders took over the responsibilities they are volunteering their time some of them miss class time some give up their own recess time to patrol the playground in pairs and help mediate peer conflict they help keep our students safe they encourage those who are doing the right thing they give out bobcat bits when they catch students doing well they are a fantastic group of students and i'm really happy that they get an opportunity to be here and share a little bit about what they do so i know we have a big agenda so i'm going to
005have each student introduce him or herself and say what their class is and i'm hoping that somebody has a couple of questions about what their favorite part is of the sos program so i'm going to turn this down a little bit and colby's going to start my name is colby and my teacher's name is mr bonisich wait wait wait colby what is your favorite part of the program i can follow mr bainard's lead my name is jordan and my teacher is miss cox my favorite part of the program is helping out the teachers out there and hi my name is matthew seeger and my teacher is miss cox my favorite part is probably helping all the kids my name is wyatt i'm in mrs cox's class is making sure the kids are safe hi my
006name is sadie simcox and i'm in mrs cox's class my favorite part of the program is definitely handing out bobcat bits and celebrating the students being safe hi my name is lana haley and i'm from i'm also from miss cox's class and i really love seeing people being kind to one another hi my name is ashton and i love and i really love watching the kids um playing and making sure they're staying safe and kind to each other hello my name is owen and i'm in mr bronech's class my favorite part of the program is helping kids if they have any problems um hi my name is brianne armstrong and i'm in also in miss cox's class my favorite part of the girl program is probably not having to wear a mask and people uh
007letting like people sing my smile my name is maddox my name is madison i'm in mrs bush's class my favorite part is helping students be safe i got a question from madison so madison um so did somebody tell you you had to do this or did you volunteer to do it yourself i volunteered to do it well you know what that says about you is that you are a leader and these guys over here all you guys who were who who stepped up and decided you wanted to do that you're pretty young to be doing something like that but the reason you did it is because you got leadership potential which means that someday you're going to be a you know a teacher or a mom or a superintendent like ms staley over here or
008maybe on a school board or something like that and so you madison and each of the rest of you should be really proud of yourselves and you need to know that you're in a good position to help your peers do the right thing in life so good job guys [Applause] so obviously one of the benefits is it takes the pressure off the teachers and some of the yard duties i really like that they get to be role models for the students and the younger students look up to the older students too and they know that they are looking out for them not necessarily trying to get them in trouble but to keep them out of trouble and make our school a better place and so they are a like you said mr tennis a fabulous
009group of young leaders and uh my favorite part about this mr foster when he left left us a binder of how to make it done and he has pictures of robbie ciriani our first and only sos student who served all year long he just graduated from high school he was in my wife's class and he recalled fondly his dime as an sos at shasta so thank you very much for coming out and thank you for all you for what you do for our school making it a better place thank you [Applause] um can i make a comment really quick uh just also from the you know teacher perspective because i used to be a teacher in my past life i can tell you that it's the work that you all do that make teachers go
010home feeling like they're doing something that matters too so thank you for also giving the adults in your life a smile on their face because i know that that's what you're doing for them every single day too thank you shasta sos you make us proud do the sos students want to go home with their parents now and work on work on homework you are welcome to stay though i i think several of them will the uh the fifth grade teachers this week are dissecting sheep eyeballs and so i know one class has already done that and they're gonna go home and try and uh rinse that site out of their eyes and the other ones are anticipating it on friday so good luck everybody thank you mr bainard and thank you again students and parents
011for bringing them here it's really special so i'm going to move right on into the superintendent's awards and i'm going to ask diane olsen to step up to the microphone at our last board meeting we honored the nurses but unfortunately we didn't have the nurses here with us um as we mentioned then as we have gone through all of the challenges of not just coveted but also the challenges that our nurses face on a daily basis of making sure that our students are safe and healthy we wanted to thank the nurses for all of the extras they have done and really learning a whole new thing on the fly so diane i'll turn it over to you so our school nurses as many of you know they are actually registered nurses and they have an
012extra credential they have to earn to become school nurses so they're doubly credentialed in order to provide all the health and safety needs and meet the needs of our students and they do a multitude of things on a regular basis already from care plans to for students with medical needs to screenings for hearing and eyesight to diabetic monitoring on daily basis they train all of our lvns our health aids and other aids who do transfers on students and other medical procedures during kovid they have been doubly busy trying to help and and with the quarantining and the information that goes out to family staff so we really want to recognize our people this day and so we are going to go ahead and call them up and then did you have additional i did if
013that's okay i had a couple of additional remarks too before we call them up just because they're fantastic people so the pandemic has certainly brought us a variety of challenges but our site nurses have been a solid foundation throughout this past year and several months these women are bright professional and compassionate they work over and above typical work hours to ensure that our students and staff are heard and cared for there have been more times than i can count in which they communicated after hours weekends vacations and yes even holidays i had the unique experience to work with diane and all of these ladies in the very fast ever-changing and emotional environment that the pandemic brought us they're problem solvers and good communicators i know for a fact that the most important thing for them
014while working through the pandemic has been the good health of our students families and staff members while working so closely with them i was fortunate to not only get to know them as professionals but also to be able to call them my friends in between work duties we talked about our families our beloved pets and jobs we've held in the past among many other interesting things as friends i would also say they are bright and compassionate additionally they all embody and have been able to maintain a healthy perspective and a sense of humor in the most difficult of conditions they've worked so hard in their professional lives and one julie scalette even finished a master's degree during the months of the pandemic so i know right all have masters by the way they all have
015masters that's more than i have so we do want to kind of commend them for their work i'm going to introduce them is that social you want to have this i'll do it okay i think they'll be able to hear me you may not be able but you'll be able to hear me okay i first like to recognize julie parker [Applause] can you tell us the schools they work at that they can because they're at several so i work at marigold here i work at loma vista the preschool assessment team and oak bridge all right thank you [Applause] julie scalette i said it right thank you so much hi everybody i am at pv high school um sierra view elementary school and then um the alternative education campus so cal afc oakdale and fairview sharing
016[Applause] i work at citrus and at chico junior high [Applause] and michelle neves dean [Applause] i'm at chico high school as well as mcmanus elementary i am at bidwell junior high at rosedale and at chapman elementary [Applause] i'm the newest member of the team and um was lucky enough to be oriented by mel who's going to come up here um i am at marsh junior high shasta and parkview elementary and forest ranch shasta bibwell uh forest ranch in parkview so yeah and not present tonight is tina collins i think on this side of the podium [Applause] and once again thanks to our nurses and all the work they have done and continue to do with that i'll turn it back over to board president robinson thank you superintendents daily um are you going to introduce
017um under announcements thank you i thought that's where we were was under announcements under announcements superintendents daily do you have an announcement to make about our guests i do uh we are lucky to have some international guests with us they are here with chico state and um if we have someone that would like to be the representative and step right up and tell us what you're doing and give each person an opportunity to introduce themselves yeah wonderful my name is charles hartman i'm a professor at california state university chico director of the center for bilingual multicultural studies and in this role director of international training programs and i've stepped in for diana parks who ran this operation with distinction for 27 years and she retired in 2019 and i've had the honor to uh to
018fill in her size 28 shoes in the interim and one of the programs we have is the fulbright teaching excellence and achievement program funded by the united states department of state educational cultural affairs through irex and california state university chico won a competitive grant to offer this program and we have 16 teachers from 15 countries who were in four chico unified schools for a six day period chico junior chico high school marsh junior high school and 11 of the were at pleasant valley high school it is now my honor to introduce them they will say their name their country and the school that they were at and clement who who mr baynard mentioned will be the last one and he'll share a little bit about his perspective on the experience dr sartman um one of
019the things that that is usually so interesting as our international teachers are introducing themselves is for them to let us know what they teach in their home country excellent thank you hello i'm marina i come from moscow russia and i teach english and spanish i was at pleasant valley high school good evening my name is ivani arias i'm from costa rica i teach esl and i was placed at pleasant valley good evening my name is theophil du senge i'm from rwanda i teach geography i was in pve high thank you hello everyone i am usman ba from burkina faso west africa i teach english in high school and also at college i was placed at marsh junior thanks good evening everyone i'm proud from thailand i teach english and i was placed in prison prison
020valley high school good evening everyone my name is kimena from ecuador i'm happy to be here i teach english as a second language and also spanish as a second language i was at pv with marcel it was an ex excellent experience thank you good evening my name is tracy lee edwards i'm from south africa and i'm an english teacher and i was at pleasant valley high thanks good evening my name is esther eisenborus i'm from turkey i teach english as a foreign language in my country at a public high school and i was at chico junior high school thank you good evening my name is dave from thailand i teach science and biology and i was placed at pv heart thank you good evening i'm nuro fazno binti muhammad usaini i'm from malaysia i teach
021english in malaysia and i was at chico junior high school thank you good evening my name is fella i'm english teacher from iraq i was a place in chico high school good evening i'm bridget howard i'm from ghana i was placed at pleasant valley i teach social studies in my country a government-run senior high school thank you good evening i'm sachin pal from bangladesh i teach english and i was placed at pb high school good evening ladies and gentlemen i come from vietnam i'm an english teacher in a high school a government rent i had an excellent experience at chico high good evening ladies and gentlemen as already said i'm claiming to nilanda i'm from malawi southern africa i was at army viking so yeah i was at prison by present high so app isn't
022very high so i teach history and social studies uh i would like on behalf of my colleagues here i would like to thank the board and all the parents here we've had a very nice experience teaching in the schools which are under you i can say for certain that to the parents you've got nice kids we enjoyed having teaching your kids the board i guess the whole system the principles the teachers we were welcomed very well in the schools wherever we were the movies do not do you justice we have we had this picture of high school in america and we were presently surprised to find out that it wasn't what we were thought it was so on behalf of everybody here from deep down our hearts we remain members of uh in my case
023i'll be a viking for life so on during the arm on ball go vikings thank you okay i have a question um so um i got a question are we better or looking or not as good looking as as the movies uh what the movies do justice to you is that you're good looking but what they don't do justice to you is that uh you know you have this picture of like american students or would be on ruling class and that kind of thing but we were for real we were surprised uh there are better behavior than the kids i teach teenagers will be teenagers but your teenagers were good so i think that's thanks to the parents probably you are losing very good kids very nice kids [Applause] okay the only thing is now
024that you've done that is that you have to sit on the pv side because if you sit on the wrong side at the game on friday you know i i i know which side that morning i'm a viking i know what i'm going to do thank you so much and thank you for [Applause] sharing i'll just make one last comment i was a foreign exchange student um in college i had the privilege of doing that um i was in the middle east and uh you know we here in america which i think is probably true in any country but you think about a certain issue you yourself are a history teacher and i think that we often have schools of thought you know maybe a couple different ways that people think about some historical event
025you know there they liked it they didn't like it something like that but you're limited to how broad your thinking can be when you grow up in the same place but when you travel to another country or if you have somebody from another country come and talk to you i think they bring a school of thought to you that you never would have been exposed to otherwise you know and so i think that's a really special thing about um doing what what you guys have done this year so thank you for giving that opportunity to our to our kids thank you uh at the same time i would also like to say most of us back home from where we're coming from this is not our first experience with americans we've had americans especially peace
026corps so we've had americans from all parts of the states coming to our places working with us living under worst conditions because i've been here and i know what home is like so they leave up all the comforts and come and live with us and uh we are here on your taxes i would like to thank you very much for the experience that you've given me as you said being in one place you have this world view which is limited to what you're saying coming here has opened up a lot of possibilities and i'm still right now processing them i've not yet sat down and seen but for sure this is like a whole three four years learning experience in a small space so thank you for giving me the chance to be here through
027your taxes and i will sure repay uh whatever i've senior and i'm speaking this on behalf of everybody here because i i'm with them most of the times and we talk about these things and we appreciate not only the schools where we've been even the community around chico we've had a very good experience with people so far no bad experience none whatsoever and i'm not just saying this because i'm here but no it's the truth so thanks for welcoming us with open arms thank you thank you and you are welcome to stay for the board meeting um i also know you probably have lost on your plate and you may be tired so we will not be offended if you need to leave either thank you again [Applause] okay our next item is items from
028the floor yes we do have some in-person speakers and one phone speaker our first in-person speakers we have clay and rebecca slocum listed together i don't know if clay and rebecca slocum i don't yeah here they come madam president uh i have not reviewed the right the rules we we have uh hold on second because we we do have rules in this that we limit to a three-minute presentation so you can share it or whatever you wish to do the cards who has oh there are the cards at 30 seconds the yellow card will go up when your time is up the red card will go up are we still using the bell or is it just the cards again i'm sorry what okay yes oh right thank you uh so that you uh don't
029think we're just ignoring you we are we are not allowed to exchange dialogue under this section so we we're glad you're here and we'd like to hear what you have to say thank you thank you good evening and thank you to the board for hearing giving us the opportunity to speak i really appreciate it it's our second time here we were here three or four years ago we are the people that were on dusty lane if anyone remembers prior to our kid um being in shasta but we wanted to address the board tonight um and we're primarily asking directly for the new on-campus policy to be re-addressed at the next special board meeting the current interpretation of the governor's mandate excludes a portion of the population from experiencing their children's experiences on campus and not
030being able to attend school functions and assist the classroom with a negative test does not allow parents the opportunity to comply with osha or the cdph note that other schools have interpreted the recent governor's guidelines mandate differently for example our neighbors that achieve school had a different advantage achieve is not only allowing unvaccinated parents and custodians to volunteer participate both indoors and out with proof of a negative test but they're going to step further and providing that test to their community we understand that that might not be fiscally um what what's feasible or desired to provide that opportunity or the same services but at a minimum parents need to be given the opportunity to comply with osha and the cdph by providing a negative test would be an alignment with how our unvaccinated teachers and
031staff comply with ongoing safety measures we asked the board to re-evaluate the current stance and to choose to be inclusive with their community at a minimum allowing us to provide a native test from an approved source this would also be allowing family members and volunteers to participate in their children's experiences whether inside or outside at school we are proud parents of the chico unified school district and i've always volunteered in my children's classes and i've always been a very strong supporter done every field trip and to not have this option is um is definitely not it's hindering my family and i'm not the only one so i just speak on behalf of the population that's being excluded and then i'll only add that i'm a former shasta bobcat myself and a viking and um i
032i have vivid memories of grandparents day and of christmas carols and my family was there for me i would like to be there for my kids as they sing the songs i don't remember know if everybody remembers mrs forrest but she had us all singing and jiving and i want to continue to be there for my kids too please so please allow that thank you [Applause] okay our next speaker is a phone call i am now calling jessica montgomery jessica montgomery okay go ahead jessica hello today kelly staley issued a letter to placate the public stating the governor's proposed vaccine mandate for students as a primary concern for many of our families and wanted to emphasize there currently is no mandate there is a mandate that is only being held up by fda approval today
033the white house detail plans for the expected fda authorization for children five and up so stop gaslighting the parents into thinking the inevitable is not going to happen i would like to enter into public records some of the testimonies shared about what they saw with their own two eyes this last monday for my nephew who attends bidwell i had nine kids in my first class i know more than 13 or 15 in the rest bobby richmond haynes said i was sad to see so many are missing from my school today karen chandler wrote that's why it was easy today less crowded and it looked like no more than 14 and eric's class of 26 were there i wish that were his usual class size i don't want to distract from the entire purpose here statewide
034the parent showed on october 18th the california school system will be brought to its knees whenever the fda decides to approve experimental mrna shots for our kids unless and until this board and the superintendent says no we will not be complying with this before any of you say you're just following guidance i would like to remind you the fda cdc cdph osho the teachers unions and any other government agency colluding against the public do not write the laws the treatment being marketed as covet 19 vaccinations are still in phase 3 until 2023 to 2024 making it an experimental drug the u.s constitution which you all should have taken an oath to uphold still reign supreme the national school board association and their state affiliates have become an immediate threat to our constitutionally protected rights as
035mothers as well as the physical mental and emotional health of our children nsba and their state affiliates work directly with the teachers union superintendents association and the national association of state boards of education to lobby union agendas that endanger the health and well-being of our children usurp parental authority and ensure superintendents and school board members toe the union line and they do so with public funds our children are being exposed to inappropriate sexual content gender indoctrination anti-family and anti-american propaganda and the tenets of critical race theory all under the nsba indoctrination umbrella of social emotional learning or sel our nation's children are being taught to hate their country hit their neighbor and hate themselves as we have and we have had enough i ask you all to pass a resolution in opposition to the looming
036mandate and publicly state your position on the mandates thank you our next speaker is choir tenon in person choir tenon hello i'm choir i was invited to come and speak encouraged to do so it's a little intimidating with all of the qualifications in the room the site nurses i applaud you the international teachers i applaud you and i believe even the sos kids probably outrank me in many ways um as a youth some years ago i used to sit around and watch the old men wax poetic about troubled youth and the state of government now at the uh the threshold of becoming an old man myself me and my friends we talk about troubled youth and wax poetic about the state of our government oftentimes as we're having these conversations different men have different hypothesis
037schools of thought and opinions on how we have come so far from yesteryear i'm having a hard time breathing with my little mask forgive me um i have i agree with most of the schools of thought on how we got to where we are but when we look at the multifaceted thing that has brought us here from my perspective i have a hard time looking at it without using the word hypocrisy hypocrisy is what drives our trouble youth away from the dinner table and keeps them out in the street when the street lights are on hypocrisy is the number one reason given when people say they don't want to go to church i'm not here to um disqualify myself by standing on or building a platform of religion that's not the point uh hypocrisy is
038an excuse given for why our country that used to be called a christian nation isn't necessarily so as much anymore uh that foundational belief many times has been simply um does that mean i only have 30 seconds left i'll get to the point hypocrisy has really done a lot with destroying families homes and communities i don't believe anyone here would appreciate me calling them a nazi i think that that would be rude and disrespectful and no one here deserves that that would be uh out of line i also would like to say really quick as fast as i can that should i call anyone a nazi in this room and they'd be offended by that and at the same time would believe that it is appropriate to mandate that people take a vaccine to them
039i would point my finger and wave my finger and say hypocrisy i'm not here talking about whether you should or shouldn't have the vaccine i have the vaccine i'm fully vaccinated it's not about that it's about having the choice thank you for your time thank you okay next we have catherine posey catherine posey hi everyone so i'd like to echo some things that rebecca slocum mentioned i know that i'm only the second person to speak on that topic and that you have that policy about that so i might repeat some of what she said i'd like to ask you to adjust your policy on parent volunteers in the schools in the district so to prevent parents who have not taken the cover 19 vaccine a vaccine that does not prevent infection or transmission from participating
040in the life of the school i believe is discriminatory in denying them their right to medical freedom and choice parents who volunteer who are sick stay at home when they're sick this policy could be continued you could also ask parents to show a negative covet 19 test something that rebecca mentioned if the school is truly frightened of an asymptomatic carrier just a review of the current numbers in butte county um of those who tested positive for the copa 19 virus that we've recorded and of those who've recovered there's a 99.98 chance one would recover so the recovery rate is even higher if one does not have underlying medical conditions parents in butte county are more likely to perish from cancer or car accident than they are from covet 19. we know the survival rate for
041young people is even higher and i just wanted to mention a few other things so in relation to the claim that we need to follow the experts history shows us that the government and health authorities have gotten it wrong many times in the past cigarettes is one of those areas the us government was once the world's biggest buyer of cigarettes lead paint in the best doses another the government once deemed a bestow safe and then something interesting a yale school of medicine study found that nearly one-third of drugs approved between 2001 and 2010 had major safety issues years after they were made wildly available to patients it took a median of 4.2 years after the approval for these safety concerns to service and issues were more common among drugs that were granted accelerated approval near
042the regulatory deadline so in closing back to the mandate for parent volunteers other schools as rebecca mentioned have interpreted the recent mandate differently achieve star cards achieve star charter school so they can allow they're allowing unvaccinated parents and custodians to volunteer participate with proof of a negative test result it was mentioned again it might not be feasible for you to provide the same services of that test but to give parents the choice to to provide that negative test i think is crucial in any case to implement a policy that i believe and many others that it's discriminatory is not right and the school board should move to adjust it immediately vaccinated or not parents deserve the right to see their children in person at school during school functions field trips and events thank you do
043we have a one additional is ruth here yes ruth i'm old i'm just getting here as fast as i can i've been very moved by hearing from some different points of view tonight things that have been important at some point in my life and i did um prepare and put together a few thoughts that and some printed copies that i will give to the clerk the um they already are this article from new york which was 10 16 21 that was a couple days ago three days ago anyway um was saying we can you can go ahead and invite and order the the um vaccine even before it's approved get your get in line i think it's an important article i hope you read it and i have a couple extra copies i also wanted
044to let you know that i am very aware that there were over a thousand demonstrators in sacramento on the weekend on saturday and they a lot of people don't get the local paper here in chico so a lot of people don't really know what's going on around them sometimes they could be right next to it but they really don't see it they just look at one thing they look at covered they look at this they look at that i try to look at a broader section of what's going on the oceans are dying sea levels are rising and if you know right now there's only two ports that are open here shipping points in in los angeles and in long beach and there's a line of ships and there's pictures of it in the paper
045you got to read the ap articles because they come from every perspective and i think that this one of the articles that i have here is u.s expected to authorize mix and mass match booster shots and i think i mean i also i remember back the how kind of like food drug administration works and how long it gets to to get a a product that's killing a lot of people we had thalidomide uh babies from europe because we didn't bother to send instructions to physicians so they just used it anyway i have that and i have one just one other uh one that i will draw attention to here if i might uh the other is the cause of covet deaths no one wants to talk about and it kind of deals with all of
046the um all of the hazardous chemicals and the all the um firefighters that are out there are are prisoners that's why they're out there doing the dirty work and those are the kinds of things the people here ought to be thinking about because there's a lot of things that are killing people and fear is one of them thank you thank you ruth okay our next item will be item number eight negotiations update mr hanlon where is jimin yes so um tonight our last meeting we um brought to you the kuma tentative agreement i'm sorry the c-u-t-a tentative agreement tonight will be we will be bringing you the csca and kuma so really i'm gonna defer until then because that's kind of the bulk of what we'll be talking about i didn't hear the last part
047of what you said i'm going to defer until later in the in the agenda because we're basically bringing what we're going to be talking about to you at that point in time okay are are we going to include the other two bargaining units at the same time csea and kuma tonight yes we concluded cuta last time and we continue to talk with them on language issues but we've reached no no agreements at this point thank you this is uh not an action item so we don't need to um take any action at this at this point next is item number nine the consent calendar um are there any comments on the consent calendar from either the board or or the puppet yes uh mr tennis i have a couple of items to ask about um
048mr carris tim karis is that you back there is that him yes that's jim carrey i got a question for you oh there he is right there i thought this guy was looking the wrong guy thank you um on item 9.2.2 the enrollment update is that we get these how how often these enrollment updates uh just right here a few times a week and then definitely for the board meetings so the board meetings so we get it so at the beginning of the year we do it daily um and then once we hit early october we tail off to just the board meeting it's a little dry you know i mean it's kind of like a spreadsheet like some kind of some data but it's hard to like imagine no are we up are we
049down i mean you have to be really following it closely is there kind of like a slide or something we could put at the front like that that would be some sort of graphic or something that would sort of show sort of a general trend you know or anything like that that could color it up a little bit to make it more interesting to to read and maybe more telling or something like that i could work on some uh some drafts i don't mean to dump it on your plate and if the answer was no that's not really going to be very feasible without a lot of work forget it you know the problem is is when we look at um you know month-to-month trends we don't see drastic changes right at the beginning of
050the year we do see drastic changes because we enroll we show enrollment for every student that has enrolled with us rightfully so but then we have a significant number of no-shows and that's just the way enrollment works in a medium-sized school district yeah but generally month-to-month not much changes year to year that's where we really start to see look at trends generally so i'm going to make a recommendation that we pull this particular item since we're talking about it and then go back to our process but that said i would like to add to this that attendance is what drives our funding so it is crucial that we know it and that it's clearly understandable so if we need to do some things to spruce it up we can do that that's all i'm done
051on this i don't need to talk about it i have a question still though so if we let's yeah if you want to pull it let's consider that um 9.2.2 has been pulled for um additional discussion because i have some questions too thank you um are there any other um items under the consent calendar that you have another one that you'd like to follow 9.3.4 9.3.4 okay we'll pull that for later um any others board any comments from visitors on the consent calendar okay then do i have a motion um on the consent calendar i so move with the exception of 9.2 9.2.2 and 9.3.4 second thank you board um [Music] i'm going to do a uh roll call vote on that dolby eye robinson eye thank you board um okay we're back to 9.2.2
052uh monthly enrollment update do you have um any additional comments mr tennis uh who indicated they had yes caitlyn must alby so i i think mr tennis's points are are well taken and and just uh you know from a data perspective um a data point isn't very valuable without relative information and so the reason we have data points is to show trends whether the trend is a changing trend or a not changing trend both of those tell us something and so i think that it would be it would be useful to be able to see a you know a chart that has trends as we move through the year um i you know a table is is only data and it's what we do with that data that helps tell a story for for those
053of us who don't have our eyes on it every day mr garris i have experienced that at the semester change we do have a significant moth significant defined significant but there there is a a change in enrollment at that time both in and out we have early graduation and a lot of people that are moving want to have their students finish a particular grading period before so at that point especially it would be very relevant to be able to see what's happened as you know as our semesters change the other point where my experience is that we have some movement is is at the first grading notice of probable failure because we get we get students who will move to a a credit makeup credit assistance program so those those areas where significant movement occurs
054would would be lovely to include because i agree it's not very flashy thank you sir so i'm going to come to tim's defense here that um this i didn't mean to in any way uh this would i will actually enjoy sprucing it up a little bit so no worries okay okay and kelly had i'm sorry superintendent staley had started to mention that you know our our funds are generated by uh seat time you know where is the student in school and in in their seat not just enrolled so all of those things that make it very important for why these these reports are significant 9.3.4 who did you pull that as well should we vote on 9.2.2 um we can or we can take them both at once what's your pleasure board you want to
055do i have a motion on i i i think yeah we'll just approve it as is i move that we approve it as in accordance with the staff recommendation that was on the agenda well we we've actually i believe superintendent staley asked that it be uh no let we we'll approve it we don't we'll we'll prove do i have a motion on just approving 9.2 points second okay we have a motion in a second um all those in favor of approving 2.2.2 as submitted thank you board um the second item that was pulled is 9.3.4 yeah i i meant to give you madam superintendent a little heads up that i was going to just be asking about this and i apologize that i didn't but just what what is becoming of the this is the
056furniture that we replaced this is the desks and tables that we replaced recently yes this is the furniture i met our elementary schools that we replaced so last march the board approved using coveted relief dollars to purchase new elementary tables and chairs in order at the time to adhere to the six foot distancing piece all those tables and chairs were delivered to our school sites and implemented before the first day of school if i can have julie come up real quick she can speak to the next steps regarding the tables and chairs thank you you can keep it really short julie i'm just curious as to what because we're talking about hundreds and hundreds of tables and chairs many of which were in thousands yeah we're in very very good shape and so i assume
057we have some kind of good plan for that or something yes we have developed a flyer that will go out to all first off all public agencies to put that equipment up for donation to public agencies and then after that period of time has lapsed then it'll be open to the public and there there are some pieces that just simply need to be dismantled and recycled and then we will see what uh what we have left after that based on your experience with this kind of thing what what do you anticipate is probably going to happen with this furniture well um we've been fortunate that we through our master plan have tackled several of our elementary schools in the last eight years and that furniture was put out for surplus and the local schools were
058able to come and shop and get what they needed and wanted so i have a feeling that we're not going to get a lot of takers because they already have what they need and it's the same furniture so it is likely that a lot of the furniture will be dismantled and recycled ms dalby how how far out are you casting the net of letting people know that i mean there may be schools that are further out more rural schools that may think that it's worth the trip to chico to pick up furniture surplus furniture especially in the areas that really are at a disadvantage for being in a rural area it's our goal that we're going to all of butte county and all of our surrounding counties to start with okay and then how long
059are you are you planning on giving the process before it's time to like put them on the chopping board well it's not going anywhere there's no real reason to rush other than it is out in the weather and it won't it takes up quite a substantial uh space as you might imagine yeah it's not possible to store it indoors and they're going to the corporate yard there in the courtyard at the yard is that also where we have um the buildings that can move thank you portables yes it is and i'm assuming those portables aren't necessarily empty or available to at least store some things so they're not out in the weather i don't want to see things go to the landfill personally i understood we don't we don't either the portables are what you
060call weatherized so only one half of them is accessible by the doorway and they really will not store anywhere near this much furniture it takes up quite a bit is it an option for after the first wave of furniture gets possible before we get into the depths of winter yes okay thanks julie you know you know where my heart is thank you thanks okay do i have a motion on um 9.3.4 so moved i have a motion and a second uh to approve 9.3.4 all those in favor signify by saying i i thank you board um that was a four nothing yes vote okay next we're on to item 10 our discussion action calendar information kelly staley thank you so much superintendent staley for president robinson members of the board we are uh thrilled to
061be back here tonight to share with you your draft trustee area maps that we have been working hard to prepare i have rob murray here with me he is our director of demographics and planning and we've been working on this together for you i'll go over quickly kind of the agenda what we're going to talk about the timeline and kind of where we're at and then i'll hand it over to rob and he's going to go over the criteria with you answer some questions and then present the draft maps with the data and the analysis um is this move the presentation along okay i should have known that i'm like why isn't the slide moving uh so um again we're going to review the trusty area creation timeline you do have some time you did
062start this process early so we are not in a huge rush but we do need to be done by march we're going to review again the criteria this criteria we've been collecting at board meetings and through public input through the district website since the process started all the way back in april of 2020 actually we're going to present your initial draft trustee area maps these maps can and will likely change and we're going to review the criteria data for each map because there's quite a wealth of data and then we're going to talk about some next steps um so a quick review of the timeline and then i'm going to hand it over to rob this process really started back pre-pandemic and then because of the governor's orders and coveted the inability to really reach
063out to the public during a global pandemic the pause button was pushed and then the process started again just this year so we have had two public outreach meetings already on september 1st and september 15th it's not really typical to get a lot of public outreach until the maps are published it's pretty common that that's kind of when once could the community start seeing the initial draft maps starts to understand how it might impact them and their family and their representation that we start getting more community feedback so there's still the opportunity to continue to collect that as the process moves forward so that's important to note we're here tonight it's october 20th to present these draft maps november 3rd we'll have a public hearing and to gain more input on those draft maps november
06417th have a second hearing on that after incorporating from feedback and then maybe by november 24th we'll have a final map option maybe we'll need more public hearings more map edits i can let rob speak to that and then you know the timeline currently is december 15th the board to adopt the map and then some to be determined dates uh following that so i'm going to hand it over to rob he's going to go over kind of the legal requirements of things that we have to consider when we're drawing these these are not you know optional and then he's going to go over the criteria that was compiled when it was compiled who it came from for the criteria that we've used thus far to develop the draft scenario map so i'll hand it over
065to rob murray thank you thank you jamie absolutely all right so thanks for that intro and then like jamie said we're going to first look at when we talk about some of the criteria that the legal requirements and there's really two primary ones that we're looking at here that is making sure that if there is a geographic concentration of a protected class mostly looking at this by race and ethnicity that we are acknowledging that and then of course each of these trustee areas to preserve relatively equal voting power between all the people living in your district need to represent about the same number of people and so a quick background for those of you who have not really worked with the nitty gritty census data before you see a map here this is zoomed in
066kind of on the more central area of chico just so that you can see some of these blocks but we have various levels and we're using the the smallest finest level of census data which is the census block and you would think hearing that that these might be you know try to make them all about the same size try to make them all about the same number of people and that's not really how it works we're doing a jigsaw puzzle here with pieces of very different shapes and sizes and numbers of people in them but all in all we have census blocks right that some of them don't have any people in them it's just an area where we know no people are and then your largest block by population has more than 1400 people
067living in it so those are kind of the blocks that we're working in and you see this is just a density map that just shows blocks and shows how many people are in them uh this map even here can be you have to keep in mind how big physically the block is because the bigger it is the easier it is to have a lot of people in it but that is a discrete piece that we can't really break down any finer at that point but these are the the pieces that we're working with to piece together trustee areas that all have about the same number of people so uh big changes since 2010 when we start started this process the first time around in spring of 2020 the 2020 census had not even been conducted
068much less had data released so we were still obligated to use the 2010 census numbers so since that time the total population recorded has increased from just over 107 000 people to now just over 120 000 people we have also seen that especially when looking at the hispanic or latino population that the district is growing more ethnically diverse uh going from just under 15 percent to now just under 20 percent of the population identifying as hispanic or latino and interestingly uh comparing some of the maps that were put together for the last presentation that population of people identifying as hispanic or latino has become more evenly distributed around the district we're not seeing as much of a single large concentration so looking at this map these are all those census blocks again and now the
069ones that are in the darker shade are the ones that are more than 50 hispanic or latino and what might catch your eye are those two big blocks at the top and that's where we have to keep in mind uh that we still have to look at how many people are in them because between those two blocks we're talking about 11 people all told so a small block of ten people that is a hundred percent hispanic or latino is less significant in terms of a concentrated population of that class than several blocks that are all 50 to 60 to 70 percent that have higher population uh in the dozens or the hundreds and that are closer together and so i've really just looked at that one circled area where you have multiple blocks that are
070all majority hispanic or latino identifying population and so that is an area that we want to make sure is not getting split apart and diluting that vote between multiple trustee areas yeah question for you sir one of the many things that flashed across my consciousness as i was going over all this material did i see that at least one of the map options that has a district that actually has more hispanics in it that does not encompass this neighborhood you may not know the answer to this question yeah i i will have to look at that when we bring those numbers i apologize i don't have it oh no and that's no and that's a great insight if that's the case because again this area while it has the most uh concentration uh does not
071mean that that is you know there are more hispanic and latino people living all other periods of the district than there like i said it really is what really popped out with this is how much more evenly distributed uh this population is compared to in 2010 where you you really had more of a sense uh and and again that was where we had scaled back we were really only looking at 30 as a threshold now we're at least able to start looking at the areas that are legitimately majority minority in that sense uh but that you aren't seeing uh a very large concentration all built up this but this was the most significant one that i could identify yeah i did kind of find it and it's the purple map there's actually two districts okay
072proposed that don't encompass the hispanic neighborhood if i may that have 24 more than 24 000 people um or 24 of the people being hispanic or latino yeah the second the second district has 24.8 yeah and i think mr tennis i i was also interested in that same issue why don't we hold off until we get to actually looking at blue versus green versus purple and then take a deep dive into um you know your your specific question yeah that sounds good i i think i have some ideas that can help speak to that when we get there so but so carrying on uh so yeah i think that covers that and so now we have uh aside from those two mandatory criteria that we came into this process knowing that we were going to
073be looking at we have some additional criteria discussed in public meetings and to be clear at our first public hearing earlier this year on september 1st we did review the process that occurred in 2020 up to again when that pause button was hit uh but that we had developed criteria at that time and so in reviewing those uh we kind of received some affirmation that we would continue to use the criteria developed the first go around and then we had some additional input and so i'll kind of cover what happened this year and then we'll back into the origin of some of those original criteria from 2020. so at that september first meeting we did receive uh largely board discussion uh which is perfectly permissible and as jamie said really more typical at this stage
074it is rather abstract for a lot of people and it is much easier to really engage and start pointing out specific things that you feel are working well or more likely not working as well as they could be once you can see a map and that's where we expect at the public hearing following this meeting to hear a lot more from the public and crucially that was exactly the stage where we were about to get to the first go-around when we had to pause the process but uh that was where we did hear uh the criterion that is number six there of interest in seeing the proportion of owners and renters we did uh put that data in that was not shown in the 2020 version and that was due to some of the discussion
075at that september first meeting and then on september 15th we did have a member of the community express explicitly that basing those trusty areas around the elementary boundaries is that most foundational element would be important and so we do have i mean for all the map options we're showing how that works for one of them i went into it using that as the primary guiding principle but for even one of the other maps i still use that as a secondary principle and was able to achieve a good degree of alignment on those just a point of clarification would it be accurate to say that that was the only public comment that we received that was not did not originate from the board in yes and in this iteration this year yes so going back to
076some of those original criteria that we came into this process with from last year some of those did also originate with public comments most prominently there was the inclusion of those named neighborhoods of south campus barber and chapmantown we did have a public speaker at the public hearings in this process last year who encouraged us to not just look at schools but to look at those neighborhoods as communities of interest and help identify what the boundaries of those should be could you send me the links to those or give me some some time stamps or something yeah our first board meeting in public hearing was on march 4th of 2020 and then the second was on march 11th and that it was at that march 11 2020 meeting where that comment was received oh yes
077and yeah and we can send you the timestamps on that thank you very very much appreciate that um i believe that at at our last in our september 15th meeting this year um we also had uh input where we wanted to be sure and take a look at the socioeconomic breakdown within the the maps and we were referring i believe uh dr kaiser we went we went back and looked at what we had already developed as possible maps before and there was a couple of areas where there was a significant socioeconomic difference and if i am not mistaken that has oh excuse me that too has changed with the latest census and maps if if i if i read it correctly uh correct then i don't have a side-by-side comparison because we've already moved beyond
078the 2010 data but yes there uh we that was information that we were looking at in the previous process and we definitely received that input to continue looking at that alongside other elements and another and again just i think wanting to mainly reiterate how very normal and common this is for again uh we often have our initial discussions with the board who bring up some points of interest and then we really want to hear from the community and we provide those opportunities both before the maps are drawn and then i think crucially going forward after the maps are drawn as jamie said i i personally would be shocked if one of these three initial options exactly as it is right now is what comes through to the end of the process we anticipate that we
079will be hearing increasingly more from members of the community and even an entirely new map option can potentially come into play here if we hear about something that none of these three options uh really seems to address that the community identifies as being really a crucial piece of this that hasn't uh really been covered uh and just so and as jamie also mentioned while we have this proposed timeline that we've thrown out and that's our goal uh should we need to hear from the community should we get the feeling that voices are beginning to enter who need some space to get some ideas out we do have some schedule where we can absorb that into the process i can't see behind you as our 13th district pta representative here there she is just making sure
080that you know that our that our interest and commitment to having input from 13th district pta is is working for you as far as getting reports and information if there are more details or more information that you feel you need to to carry back to your reports to 13th district please let us know so that we can get that information to you um good good thank you okay and so again just uh not to uh just keep uh belaboring on this one but just a quick review so kind of those top three criteria are the ones that i think are driving the map options you'll see we'll review these again when we get into the maps but looking at school boundaries and as a school district that makes sense that that is one of the
081most common things that we heard about but particularly in a district like chico where you have two main high schools with a boundary that you have a chico high and a pleasant valley high parts of the district i've kind of two different ways you can approach that and some interest in seeing both how it would look with trustee areas that are each essentially representing one high school or the other or inversely making sure that every trustee area has territory in both high schools and then of course hearing that input that perhaps the elementary schools really ought to be where we're showing our focus and then of course we'll be looking at how the neighborhoods that were identified stack out across those maps we'll be looking at the social economic information that we have and we'll
082be looking at that information that we have on the proportion of owners and renters so just a quick review of the elementary boundaries so again zooming in so that you can see the detail in the central part of chico and then you have the nsat where you can see how those boundaries extend out to the edges of the district which of course is much larger but just so that when i put these lines over the maps later this is just a good reference for you so that you can see which schools these are and be able to pick them out a little more easily here and then your high school boundaries that single dividing line between the two high school boundaries and where that runs through central chico and again the end set showing how
083that extends to the edges of the district and then lastly these are the identified neighborhoods that we are showing here and these are the boundaries that for this analysis have been used to define those neighborhoods again that can certainly be part of that public input to add additional neighborhoods or to clarify uh what should be or should not be included as some of these neighborhood identifications but for the purposes of what you'll be seeing tonight this is the map that identifies what those neighborhoods are and what territory they are encompassing so now we'll get into those draft trustee maps so this is just a quick overall summary so where you're calling them the blue green and purple maps and so just kind of in order at this top line level so the blue map is
084the one that is really creating uh the way the population works out you can have two trustee areas that are pretty much entirely within the pv boundary and three trustee areas that are pretty much entirely within the chico high boundary the green map option has every single trustee area covering territory in both high school boundaries and then that purple map option is really looking at the elementary boundaries to help as much as possible of course there's not a perfect match but as much as possible to delineate those trusty area boundaries and then for those other areas i will get kind of into all of this but they all meet the population balancing requirements and then you just see the kind of range of the hispanic latino population as just it works out as you go
085from blue to green to purple you do get the trustee areas with the most and least concentrated amounts of that population you start off in blue with the most balanced in terms of socio-economic indicators going to more disparity as you go to from green to purple and then we'll have a breakdown of how the neighborhoods are either all contained or split between trustee areas so we'll start with our blue option and so again just showing the trustee areas here with nothing else on them so just numbered one in yellow two in red three in green four in blue and five in purple and you can just see how those shapes look and i think when we put the high school boundary on here that's where you can really see how this was our guiding principle
086here with areas one and two in pv three four and five and chico high and a very very close fit uh again just some of that area between uh one and three just the shapes of the census blocks didn't allow us to keep a perfect match there but overall and most crucially that population requirement actually does work uh keeping those areas close enough in population to each other to allow you to take this uh way of looking at the trustee areas then we can also yes um this is actually probably a question for a staff but um not that this is would be an ideal situation but would it be feasible in a hypothetical situation if something like this was adopted where we were really trying to match up those boundaries with the high school
087boundary to shift our boundaries just slightly too so that those lined up does that make sense to move it over a block or two we'd really have to look at the population within that because we've worked real hard to keep our high school populations the same yeah i totally get that like i know it'd be a huge undertaking but i mean that would be something that we could look at later on kind of thing down there probably turn that right back over to rob and jamie to find out for us yeah the um thank you caitlin for for bringing that up because that we have seen actually some shift in the two senior high school populations um not being in balance so we might be able to um you know tackle that issue as as
088well as the um trustee though my experience is changing a school's boundary is much more difficult than change oh yes than changing a uh you know a representational boundary for voting districts i've lived through a couple of school boundary changes oh my goodness so if that's the case how at what point does the scale tip to where we're like okay we really need to adjust our our school boundaries and how close to that are we so that actually happened when we couldn't fit all of the population of shasta into shasta school so we had to go back out and look at changing the boundaries we had community input and we did end up taking a portion that then moved to neil dow but you know the short answer is because people grow up in neighborhoods
089and there is a lot of transfer between schools in chico so it's you know people still end up getting to go to the schools they want to but people get attached to communities and those boundaries are something we really try not to change yeah and so that was my other question that's been my burning question um is uh i because i can't remember off the top of my head i know i've asked this a few times but what is the rough percentage of students who form 10 and don't go to the school that they do where their home is in the district country have that data and presented it yeah i just uh these are all great questions um we actually have that in your previous uh demographic and student housing report from last year
090that we did we do a whole matrix that shows across the top the school of attendance and across the left-hand side the school of residence so you can actually see the exact number of students that are living in a boundary but going to another school um or we can we can send that out to the board absolutely yeah i mean i would i would think that you know if we're if we're seeing 25 percent or more of our students form ten tenning it almost doesn't make sense to even worry about school boundaries or anything like that because they're they're kind of all over the place anyway and really how does districting even change how i don't it just you know if folks are living in a place where they're voting on somebody who's going to
091be you know making decisions with weight for particular schools if that because that's what we're saying here but their students aren't actually going to those schools because they're form tenning like it just doesn't make sense to district at all well you don't have an option not to district i mean the district thing has to happen that still is the case because i thought that that was there was some there was some i don't know um push back or or i i just thought that you know the latest is that it's not necessarily as strict as it was prior to covet well that would be a question for your legal team it's my it's my understanding that it is not an option to not move to buy trustee areas because there's been a legal challenge so
092mr gant are you still available i am available i did not even know paul was here rob and company have been doing a great job so i've been sitting in the background um but no i it would be a significant issue at this point to change tracks and to uh attempt if if there was a move to withdraw the resolution to um make the change to the trustee areas we would be back in litigation and then of course the safe harbor that would apply prior to covet when the board did agree to move toward district area elections that safe harbor would be eliminated and then the caps on attorney fees and costs for a potential challenge would be lifted as well and you'd be looking at a very high legal cost associated with that process
093if you were to to go a different direction and and i think a court would look on it very with with great concern um unless there had been some really substantial change that would justify a change in direction that i'm not aware of one that would be um that would be in favor of the district in that scenario so paul our uh data has not changed significantly that would not if if we were to go back and look at this we would still fall under the requirement of needing to redistrict the issue that drives this is mostly historical or at least was and and remains the issue of a history of racially or ethnically polarized voting and and those facts on the ground as i think rob can attest are have not changed the history
094is still there that would support the demand and then if anything the current facts on the ground in terms of increased population in target groups such as the hispanic population increase would drive um would drive the analysis as well so um while i don't generally give an illegal advice in public meetings i would say it would it would significant it would present significant concerns to change tracks at this point my concern continues to be that this is not going to do what it's meant to do and it could actually hurt our representation for some of these targeted populations by moving to districting so i like i just don't feel like the evidence is prevalent enough especially in this area that that doing this big move is going to to accomplish what these uh these litigation
095threats set out for us to have to do the legal test was one of whether there is a substantial or significant history of racially polarized voting within the jurisdiction under the law and we can we can always debate the wisdom of the law that triggers the obligation to move to district area elections um that was the intent of the legislature and um you know absent a change in law we would be driven by that analysis right so what happens i mean i guess this would just have to it's just a big experiment really because what happens if we'd make these changes and then see that it actually doesn't do what it's intended to do but actually does the opposite or or nil um paul this is eileen i'm going to jump in here with some
096remembering of what we went through when we were initially confronted with the evidence that we needed to comply with what what the voting rights act said and um one of the things that i think we concluded at that point was that we have a situation here in chica unified where we allow a considerable amount of choice movement so that our families and parents are free to um you know if if there's room to move um uh not physically but by enrollment and our form tens from school to school within the district and that even though the historical voting pattern did make us make us qualify for needing to comply with what the law says one of the things we saw was that like caitlyn just mentioned you don't make a significant change in what you
097know what what the law thought it was going to accomplish but with the new data from the the 2020 census one of the things that it seems to show is that our community has in fact spread itself out and the concentration isn't as significant and and therefore that balance that we have to look at to make sure we don't balance a population to the point where they no longer have a significant impact in a particular voting area which is which is the problem you want to make sure that they have enough numbers within that district so that they can have sway over the results of that particular area's representative so i that's what i'm looking for when we're looking at these maps is that we don't dilute the voting power of an identified group and
098something else i just thought of and i'm going to cut in because it goes right along with what both eileen and i are saying this is caitlyn again paul um that we do have certain schools in our district that are very specialized to certain populations of students who i would say are are you know targeted uh populations that need special um services and they come from all over the district and so that's another concern is that you know then they are being represented by again if we're if we're going to districting that that those those schools won't be under representation by the people that that are they're voting for um i just at this at this micro scale of districting i just am not convinced that that it actually will accomplish what it is intended
099to even though it's the law and yes we could debate the law all day long but here we are well i i do want to i do draw a distinction between how you determine um attendance at your various schools and the uh the intent of the voting rights act and what we're doing with redistricting in terms of of the strength of voters you're not required to focus solely on attendance areas in forming maps that's just one option and you may decide that there's there's other ways that you want to do it and and i'm sure rob can talk about that and we could even probably generate more maps to look at that um and and the uh the districting for for purposes of voting does not impact on your ability to move students from place
100to place in any way um so i'm not sure that those factors really are are going to impact on the decision about how to develop the districts and the other thing i would point out though is that the decision to move to district area elections has been made the board voted in and that is currently if you will the law of the district if there were an interest or desire to revisit that it would have to take place through a reconsideration or a revisiting of that original vote and um that that could happen i suppose in parallel to moving forward to developing your plan but i would strongly suggest it would need to be it would need to be agendized i don't think the member of the public members of the public tonight would believe
101that the board was revisiting that fundamental decision because i don't think that's on the agenda you would have to really go back and agendize that and i would strongly recommend a closed session agenda item to look at anticipated litigation because you would almost certainly be facing a very high likelihood of a legal challenge and that would put us in jeopardy of losing our safe harbor status in in how we got to out of the litigation situation that we were in before that's is that something that we would have to cover enclosed paul or i really those are those are highly sensitive communications between attorney and client the board's my client that i wouldn't want to initiate that conversation here tonight particularly it's not even on the agenda i agree paul this is caitlin again i
102just want to um say that i appreciate you um there's four of us sitting up here on the board today and two of us are new this year and so um some of some of these concepts are really important for us to revisit especially after the census has come out and especially after we've already seen some of the early uh results of the 2020 election as well so i appreciate your input thank you well i absolutely agree and i am i am conscious of the changes on board given the lengthy the delay in picking the process back up i will say that part of part of our charge as we look at developing these district areas is to not develop a plan that would cut against the fundamental purpose of the law which i understand
103to be to um to strengthen the opportunity of the targeted groups of you know racial ethnic minority groups that may exist in the district to have a increased chance of electing at least one member uh of their preference which isn't necessarily a a candidate from their ethnic group but it may be it often is but it could also be simply the favored candidate um relatively speaking of a particular minority group so the the intent of the law is not to dilute but to to strengthen that that opportunity and i think that that as you look at your maps you're going to want to look at that very closely and kind of leave rob to crunch the numbers and talk about what each of the options is likely to do in that regard one of the
104things that we have available to us in what has already been developed is we have not only the neighborhood identifications the attendance boundaries for our different schools but we also have identified those schools that are we have one that's a magnet school uh at the elementary level and so so we have a lot of information um presented to us and outlined in the overview of the three currently proposed maps and you know we we can change our criteria move things around in the maps but we we have all of those elements pretty much before us and one thing that we did prepare for you in the previous go around because it was happening in the spring after we'd done that year is demographic analysis and student housing report your dasher was that detailed breakdown of
105the current years students by the attendance matrix we have uh we're you know we're past your census day we have your student list we can go ahead and do that same breakdown so that and what really jumped out with that process last time of course was that really with the choice that you have every single trustee area pretty much had uh families living in it who were sending kids to every single school in the district but one thing that does jump out is that one of the schools that does retain usually more of its resident population is chapman which also coincides with one of those areas that we've looked at with that concentrated uh hispanic and latino population so that you know some of this does dovetail a little bit but if it would be
106helpful uh we can certainly go ahead and prepare that information uh since we may be doing it for uh this year's demographic analysis uh we can just have that uh those numbers available a little bit sooner instead of waiting until we usually uh do a kind of after the winter break to present your dasher to you ford what's your pleasure would you like to have that at the next overview meeting i think that would be fine but i really think that rob hasn't been able to finish his presentation and uh that we should move with that yeah so yeah let's just go ahead and yeah we have two more options so you've seen this one uh just a really quick look there we go uh and then just putting those elementary boundaries on and again
107uh you can just see up there on the inside uh just keeping between the now shasta and northern part of the neo dao boundary keeping that as the main line between areas one and two and just in the south uh again between emma and chapman there uh being able to uh kind of carve out again where emma and citrus come together but just using those elementary boundaries as a logical place to look for where you can form some of these trusty areas so now on to your green option so again very different looking shapes we still have numbers one two three four and five but now as we put our high school boundary on uh looking both in the nsat and in the close-up portion here you can see that each area covers territory in
108both high schools and this does lead this is very similar to a map that we had last time around where you have the two areas on the sides of the district that really cover that north south span and then three more concentrated areas that are in the middle of the district but achieves that first goal this one does make it quite a bit harder to line up with the elementary boundaries so i wanted to include that map just to see that once you are straddling the high school boundary you're by nature also straddling a lot of the elementary boundaries but we still to the extent we can and to the extent of looking at the neighborhoods trying to keep those in mind as we're drawing boundaries but with a main purpose that's driven by the
109high school boundaries and now our purple map the third one presented tonight as an initial option and again that emphasis these initial options are just the beginning of a conversation we'll have our first public hearing about these maps next month early and then as we get feedback we will refine we will add we will do everything we can to come up with a map that checks as many boxes as we can for all of the stakeholders in this process but so for this start here in the purple map again you have your numbered areas so this time the high school boundary isn't done with as much relevance but now looking at the elementary boundaries and again just with the number of elementary school boundaries the way the populations are dispersed in your district very hard
110to get a perfect match but again able to put for example chapman and little chico creek together able to put a large part of shasta and with emma wilson citrus actually just because of the overall population in that boundary particularly with the campus at csu and with downtown uh winds up being most of its own boundary and then looking at the southern part of neo-dao with sierra view and marigold so there is a lot of correlation in this one that is again maybe some different groupings than what you saw with the blue option so we're not going to just go through every number point on this again we're happy to answer some questions about this this is just more looking at what is made available so that you have the information to just do some
111comparisons so first off with the 2020 census data we have two ways of breaking that population down the first is the total population and then second is the population that is 18 and over or your current voting age population and so what you tend to see is that the percent of latino and hispanic population is higher in the total population which makes sense demographically that is you already saw the increase overall from 2010 to 2020 that is the population that is increasing in the younger demographics and so as more of that population ages into voting age then you'll see you're almost kind of seeing a preview of you know by the next 10 years from now uh what that voting age population might then also look like but as we said we have the uh
112for any race or ethnic category that makes up at least one percent of the total district population we are providing the percentages by each trustee area you have at the top just the total district population so you can see it is the percent hispanic or latino percent white percent asian percent black or african-american that are all provided individually any other single race that was identified uh by itself was less than one percent of the total population so we for this analysis are grouping those together if there was interest in seeing that fully broken out we can certainly supply that and then also uh this was a question that came up in one of our early conversations about that percent of two or more races in this case i wanted all of the totals to add
113up to those hundreds but it is common practice to uh just for instance if someone had identified as both black and asian that you could add that population to both of those totals and so you will have totals that exceed 100 percent but again with the percentage of people identifying as any combination of two or more races uh it is still not going to bump any one category aside from the white population above uh 50 overall so for this initial analysis we're keeping that as its own group and so again it is really just if we hear input that it would be valuable to really break that down we are happy to continue supplying greater and greater detail but this lets you see across the blue green and purple maps the proportion of the population
114that would be in each trustee area as looked at through the 2020 census data on race and ethnic identity so i'll just go kind of go through these and just explain what they are and what the numbers you're looking at mean and then as you have questions we can go back and revisit some of them so socioeconomic and tenure data so socioeconomic we looked at two things the median household income now this is not data that is supplied from the 2020 census state yet it will come out but for the redistricting really what we have are population by race and ethnicity and a couple of other more specialized uh things like group quarters since you don't have a large prison in your district we're not as concerned uh with with kind of mitigating how that
115population should interface with everyone else so in this case we are looking at the american community survey which is the most recent snapshot we have from census data this is available also in the census block group level so we are still able to correlate this as closely as possible to get a average median household income for each of these trustee areas and then you can just see i've just rounded those to the nearest thousand and then you see how those can compare and contrast across the different trustee areas more precisely we have from your current student list uh one field that is provided is if that student is listed as qualifying for the free or reduced price meals program frpm and so we're seeing those side by side you see there is a fair amount
116of correlation between those but we're just presenting them both to you so that you can see how those compare across the district and then interestingly i actually thought it was really fascinating that looking at that 10-year data the owners and renters it is almost exactly district-wide 50-50 in terms of the households that own versus rent where they're living and so given that as your baseline that you're comparing everything to you can really see uh you know how which uh options are relatively more balanced or relatively deviated and again it's not that one is good or one is bad uh there might be some benefits to uh having a trustee area that has a more emphasis on one or the other but this just lets you see which ones are more or less balanced and which
117areas and particularly stand out and then finally we have that neighborhood analysis so what we've just done here is again that map to remind you of for this purpose what we're considering those neighborhoods to be and then under the blue green and purple options we have your trustee areas one two three four five and we've just checked off so in the blue map for example every neighborhood is entirely contained within a single trustee area you see just each column has just one x in it under the green option uh the avenues is actually split between three different trustee areas and again for some that might it's not that that is inherently good or bad it just depends on how that's approached but this is that you see how well the neighborhoods are either contained within
118or split between different trustee areas under these options and so i'll pause here because if we have any questions about this data i'm happy to speak to those before we move on to uh just a reminder of what our next steps look like ms dalby um yeah thank you and this is um probably more of a question for paul um for clarification and using this sort of as an example um so the some one of the last things that you said paul was um that the intent of the law if i was hearing this right and please please please obviously correct me if i'm wrong the intent of the law is to create districts in such a way that our um uh the what the protected class population uh in in our case um the
119hispanic voting population um has maybe more representation within one district um rather than being evenly split amongst the other districts is did i hear you explain that correctly well i don't know i don't know why i would define the the intent of the entire law i would say that the law is intended to do that if it increases the opportunity for minority group to elect a candidate of its choice whether uh whether that is um you know that the primary intent of the law is to increase the opportunity for uh those populations that that are a substantial minority within within the district uh to have an opportunity to elect candidates where they or or um candidates where they have not been able to in the past um and at least the legislation was written so
120that if that result can be obtained or at least promoted by concentrating a higher number of the target population into one of several districts that that is uh to be encouraged i again i i want to emphasize that the issue of whether to in initially pursue a movement to the uh trustee areas from at large voting is different issue than how to divide up those districts and if there is a desire by one or board member one or more board members to revisit the fundamental question that i believe is within your jurisdiction to go back and look at that but i would strongly recommend that it be brought forward as a new agenda item at a different meeting when it's on the agenda and that it also uh be recognized that that it will it
121we we got here by way of a demand letter and a resolution uh of litigation so we would be back in in the pos strong likelihood of litigation and the board would want to get legal advice uh before setting forth a record in public you know of your positions and and um and a debate on a topic that's not on the agenda sure the the reason for my my question is is strictly talking about the district again not whether two district or not um so um yeah so in terms of what you're saying um and i think rob can speak to this there are some scenarios that even in what we're seeing so far that would strengthen uh the hispanic minority in at least one or two um areas um but again it would lower
122their strength perhaps in other in other proposed district areas right yes i think that's a good summary and and that's kind of what i was getting to um so for example if we were just going to say we're going to vote on these three you know i know that we're definitely still the drawing board but for for the sake of examples um the purple map option shows that um the highest percentage of all three options is for district two um at 23.8 percent um hispanic voters in that in that option so if that was the goal we would say okay this we're going with the purple map with the anticipation that they have more representation for that district but what are we doing to the hispanic vote in the other four districts and that's you
123know a concern and something to maybe be taking into consideration especially with public comment and things like that um but i think thank you that clarifies and i think that that no i think that's a great point and i will be very curious what again as we i anticipate a steady increase in public engagement with this now that we have maps it's much easier to look at something and point out your concerns about it and i just say you meaning just a general person who comes into this process and might just be seeing some of this and really kind of having the light bulb click and say okay i have some now i have some opinions and now i'm going to come tell them about it at the next opportunity and that's what we've seen
124a lot talking to other demographers because we do hang out and talk to each other why am i not surprised yeah but who are doing this work that's it's very very common that it's very quiet in the early stages of this you you put and you kind of just need to put something out to just get the conversation really rolling and i think that's obviously we're already doing a lot of that tonight and then we'll uh really look forward to uh how many more voices we start hearing from from the general community at our official public hearing which will again no changes will be made to the maps between now and then uh again we're just making sure that we've presented the maps that everyone understands the data and what the maps are showing and
125then we can really talk about them as much as people want to at the public hearing rob it would be um permissible for any board member to ask for additional information to be presented at the next meeting correct we did that last time around right i i just clarifying again because we did have uh uh matt was not present at that last meeting and i know that that was one of the issues that um was mentioned for a bit tonight have had do you have anything that you've been able to i'm for those that are watching on uh zoom mr tennis is there anything that you would like rob to have available to present at the next meeting when we come back for more discussion just the information that we but i'm going to get
126it between now and i'm going to get it tomorrow so so um not really no no i wonder what the basis upon which are moving forward will be i guess community input and everything that you already addressed i just i'm just curious and intrigued as to what the little baby steps will look like of us actually moving toward one one map or another um frankly yeah and i can speak to that with a moment if you'd like me to um i something you said raised question for me because we are we are supposed to make sure that any information that's given to one board member that all board members have access to that same information and i'd be interested in making sure that if you if you do have information you'd like presented that it
127it come to the next board meeting am am i am i off base superintendent staley and wanting to make sure that we all have the same information available to us we can certainly bring it to the next board meeting we can also take this information and make sure any information given to the board is also posted on the website and we don't necessarily have to forget that website like if we go and and get the information that mr tennis is asking for and it comes back to staff tomorrow it can be emailed out to the full board as soon as it's available we just have to make sure we make it available to the public as well yeah that that was my concern was that we all have you know the information that we think
128about and request available okay that i i keep forgetting that we're in 2021 and we do have things like websites and actually the mention of the website does bring one more thing to mind uh in that the there is a dedicated page for this process on the website and the community input that has been received thus far is all available there so that everyone can look back at again the input received at our two public input uh meetings thus far and that will be a live living uh page that i expect to become much more prolific again as we move ahead and i think addressing mr tennis's point the i think really what we'll begin to see is uh requests for again maybe some additional information and then once that information comes in uh suggestions
129on sometimes it really does just get down to can we just move these couple of blocks like out of this one into this one and what would that look like uh it might just be hey none of these are really working for me uh based on x y or z let's see a new map and so again it's this initial process that we proposed is kind of assuming that we might introduce a [Music] new map early on in that process and then it could kind of gain some traction to obviously have everyone comfortable to say this one seems to be the one that has the most support behind it one tool that i've seen some other districts use is once we get to those final map options having them on the district web page with
130some kind of voting mechanism just so that you can gauge if there is uh you know disproportionate public support for one particular option over over the other two or three or however many we have by that point but really it will be that kind of iterative process where ideally these three maps will still be in it but can be tweaked and then if again it comes out that really a fourth or even a fifth or however many map options are needed to show people what they think represents a good system which ultimately is accomplishing the goal of having each member of the board representing an area and for future candidates to only need to campaign to the electorate in that area i think that's the other side of that equation that hasn't been discussed directly
131tonight and that it's hard to quantify but has that impact of who would run in the future that might not have bothered running in the past when you had to campaign to the entire district in that election so just some thoughts to keep in mind but i will uh again be at your pleasure here to just answer any further questions ms dalby i think this is my last one for tonight um because i i do remember last time we spoke up here that i had asked if we might be able to see if there's any preliminary data coming out of the 2020 election for chico city council because this was the first election with newly drawn districts at that small of a local level right here in chico um and i don't know if any
132of that data is accessible or you know if it if or how it would be useful but it would be something that i would be interested to see if it is available because it may tell us a little bit more about how districting is affecting the the voting turnout and and you know if it's if if it in chico for the city of chico if it if it does seem that it's doing what it's intended to do um if that makes sense we are so much bigger than the city of chico's 588 square miles but we overlap so i think it's important because the demographics are very similar minus cohasset and forest ranch and and nord yeah since we encompass the city of chico and then extend a little bit the data should be pretty
133similar right now i will see what i can rustle up if i look at you would probably be the butte county office of elections and again to the extent that there might be some data i'm happy to bring what is available and again to the extent that we uh again caveat anything that is the city election that this is as we just clarified just a subset of the area that we're looking at for chico unified school district it's it's it's funny someone did ask a very similar question um after the the city went through the process and what was discovered was that because um they are just in the city they have seven seats instead of five chapman had not yet been annexed and there was another another area that had not yet been annexed
134to the city it was hard to compare uh you know what what we're trying to do in our balance issues and what they went through it was amazing how they they just didn't it was worse than apples and oranges it was like throwing in a pomegranate in the middle of it a question yes unless you wanted to respond to her oh no i was i wasn't expecting a response i was just do you have socioeconomic and tenure data uh and for that matter i mean the total population by rather than race and ethnicity but um for elementary school um territory territories what do you call those districts what do you call it oh no yes so yeah so certainly uh the for the student freedom reduced lunch data that that is very easily provided the
135it would be a matter of it would definitely be an estimation using the census median household income data just because at the larger geographic units that those are provided by uh less likely that they'll line up as evenly with the elementary boundaries but we could give you at least an approximation but the student free and reduced lunch percentages would be quite precise to those elements to any school boundaries you have and so i if that is some i can certainly include i'd be interested in a summary of that i i lean toward the position that the um that the elementary boundaries are valuable because there's so many of them you know i mean we're trying to draw these nuanced you know district lines and and it just kind of we're familiar with them we know
136them they they are respective of neighborhood it's sort of like it's building on work that we've already got in place yeah i i agree and what fascinated me was that with some of the plans there were only two elementary schools within the the proposed district and another one had five elementaries in one district in order to you know balance and i think it's because our student population is so mobile between schools and no that is part of it and then as i mentioned in one of the maps when especially if you're looking at just that citrus boundary you are also keeping in mind that you have the resident csu chico population that is technically inside of that boundary and uh that your general population especially the parts where you have more of that aging population
137that don't currently have school-age children in the district but are still voters who live in your district that uh the the heat map of kind of that density is probably different from the density of families with kids right now so yeah we do have a few different things that we're all looking at and just trying to come down to easily digestible sets of numbers that we can look at without making this you know a three inch thick binder full of numbers uh but we'll certainly uh continue to just as information will be useful and move the conversation forward and help clarify uh a good outcome we'll certainly keep i mean you have to usually ask me to quit giving you numbers so yeah but yeah i can't imagine what that's like when all the demographers
138get together to talk about cvra it's like a rocking good time you guys right we're cool you are very cool yes uh they were so excited about the census data um you have a significantly high degree of what we call you know uh intra district transfers so you know somewhere some are up to 54 and a half percent of the students that are transferring into a elementary school boundary or out of that boundary and attending another school so i think to your point um it might be helpful to to provide that tomorrow as a data point with the other data that we're providing so you have that to look at um and to consider as part of this process so we're happy to provide just just that matrix we can provide it on its own
139so you're not digging through this study until you're just whatever that will be from the 2020-21 matrix though and then as we are able to prepare the matrix from the current year then we'll update that but yes we can uh just so that everyone has that as a refresher uh just to be able to see precisely uh you know which school boundaries uh had those interesting shifts and also which couple of them don't as much yeah that uh those particular details were what was um most interesting to me when we started this process two years ago was the um like you just said some schools had a 50 percent lived in the district but didn't attend in that elementary district it was that was huge right anything else board are we i'll just uh want
140just the last part of the presentation well so again i've actually kind of touched on this already but just to make sure it's very clear so uh the maps will not change i will bring some additional data on some of that student enrollment detail uh summaries of free and reduced launch by elementary boundary to the extent that there might be some city council election data that we can just show at the next meeting but otherwise we'll be looking at these same maps but we will have a public hearing and invite all interested members of the community to tell us what's working what's not working what else we can be looking at in regards to these maps or the potential for new map options and then again within incorporating that feedback we'll come back again on
141november 17th uh with uh potentially at that point revised map options and then continue to hear feedback uh and then this is just a kind of the default proposed timeline and i think really before we get too far much much further ahead of that we just want to see how these next couple of public hearings go and where we're standing after the 17th and we'll just continue to uh look forward on a proposed timeline that again is fairly flexible at this point you did well when starting the process early enough to build in some flexibility while at the same time that if we can reach a conclusion that is satisfactory and meets enough of the requirements that every you know people feel comfortable with that we can also move that forward sooner rather than later
142okay but that no that's all folks huh yeah thank you um yes yep i do want to point out that the only person that really related to tim's the limit were you two okay this is informational only as we've commented several times and we'll be back on november 3rd for more discussion and to continue to check information on our website even though the maps won't change you'll be able to look at comments and things that have been submitted and possibly submit some of your own okay um is it 10 to yes 10.2 yes are we uh are you closing the hearing at this time our our hearing is closed thank you paul that's okay just have a good evening everyone and i'm going to check out unless someone anticipates needing me for the rest thank
143you thank you paul i appreciate it it's been very it's been a very interesting meeting and and um i look forward to continuing the process and technically paul we we did not have a a hearing at this meeting it was an informational only item it was informational item only i apologize not my mistake that's okay i don't mind um being able to use this gorgeous um mallet [Laughter] goodnight paul have a good evening thank you yes so at our last board meeting we had the first reading of two board policies uh tina is bringing forward the uniform complaint procedures and marie is here if there are any questions regarding the conflict of interest board policy but this is the second reading and we're requesting approval for the changes in these board policies that is correct
144i don't have too much more to add to what kelly had said board do we have um any questions on uh either well let's let's take them one at a time the first submission is the nine two yes the conflict of interest and the major change on that is actually nearly at the bottom of uh that that involves a disciplinary action which tina of course you are yeah the conflict of interest is actually under marie oh okay any questions on on that uh provision i'm move approval thank you do i have a second do we have any public comment there is no public comment thank you oh we have excuse me i need to turn the page um the first one was i my computer does not want to it's 9270 yes okay i i
145know mr tennis uh you moved was there a second dr kaiser seconded there was no public comment so all those in favor signify by saying aye aye thank you board that's four yes the the motion passes the next one is the um there's a a lot of additional um this one is board policy 13 12.3 uniform complaint procedure which is it's still item 10.1.2 i'm sorry it would still be item 10.1.2 um so yes it is but it's it's the second one 1312.3 yes and and there's uh significant change in well not not a change but there's a lot of language that was deleted and the red language is the newly proposed language that is correct and that actually came from our reviewer for uniform complaints from the department of education so it's the most
146updated language okay board do you have any questions of ms keene on what's in these um uh was was the significant uh addition of the um parenting issues and the um homeless and foster child stuff was was that what that was some and but there was additional on preschool as well toward the end you see quite a bit of um preschool there and we do have some state group schools at our sites yep members okay i have a motion to approve by member tennis do i have a second i'll second the motion thank you i'll second the motion do we have any um there's no public comment no public comment thank you okay board i'll call for the vote all those in favor signify by saying aye aye thank you that passes for nothing uh
147just noting um that thank you tina and marie thank you yes um really quick point of order i just want to remind uh the board that we should make sure we just follow our steps appropriately and wait for doc for um president robinson to call for a motion so that we are going through our steps in order and not asking for public comment after we've already put a motion on the floor i know we all want to move through these items that aren't so controversial and kind of catch up with our agenda for the night um but yeah let's just please be cognizant of um of um president robinson's uh steps of order so we can't move approval until she specifically calls she should be calling for it it's in our yes our format that's
148recommended through the procedures that we have approved to to um okay the other thing that i thought i saw was that board discussion was out of order on my um no it's thank you caitlin i thought i was following it um anyone want to do a quick stand up and stretch or are we good and just move on board oh good i'm good to move on but i um i'm totally okay with a stretch as well i would vote that we power through as quickly as possible on these non-controversial items okay okay our educational services presentation by christian lauer oh wait um first we need to set the annual organizational meeting 10.1.3 well i know it's in here i just i didn't see it before i turned the oh yeah the uh december or uh
149organizational meeting um setting a date for the annual organizational meeting it usually is tied to when um the election occurs that that's uh not what we're basing our thing on because we have no new members that would be seated so um we do do you have do you have anything additional to add in the way of presentation miss daily no um we do need to set the date and we have to send this to the county office right and at our organizational meeting we're proposing we do that on december 15th that's where we will elect officers of the board and uh set our calendar for the following year as well as make any changes to our agenda the agenda says december 9th you just said my attachment here says december 15th i am let me
150open my december 15th okay it's just clarifying to make sure which one was accurate yep it's on the resolution it does say december 15th is there um any question or anything from any board member is there any public comment there is no public comment i was just going to say that i was i'm really hoping to actually be on vacation that week um i'm not kidding but i guess i'll have to change my plans i'm sorry i'm sobby i can't i said i was wanting to be on vacation that week and actually get again i haven't had a break in a religious game yeah when you're when you're not a teacher anymore you don't get to plan your vacations accordingly so anyway that's my only opposition is just that that was the time that i
151thought i'd be able to get out of the state but i can try to just not do that okay um if there's no public comment and it's been indicated that there is not does the board have any motions associated with this agenda item i've got a question is there an option for having it on a um so the board adopted calendar had the meeting on december 15th the board always has the right to change a date um you just have to act on it as a board i think the only issue is that we're coming we're going to be for the csba in san diego on the first which is our other board meeting but i don't i mean people need vacations [Music] so i guess that becomes the issue of it would be finals
152week if we postponed it a week it would be let me just check something very yeah how do we have a board meeting on the first which is what i'm showing when we have csba yeah that's true we don't have one on the first one we don't have we don't okay i don't show one on the okay well then i would say especially because that's the same meeting that we're supposed to be adopting the map um this december 15th meeting um just seems like a pretty big date so i will just not go on vacation write us a letter or what you think we ought to do during that and then we'll take that into consideration i'll make it into a resolution so what about wednesday the 8th is that not feasible or quite i
153don't believe we can get the um we don't get back from csba in time to get stuff submitted for the agenda oh okay well woman you just got sunk all right okay we we've i'm sorry we've set december 15th as our regular board meeting when we scheduled these last december and i don't see any option for changing that that doesn't appear with interfere with finals week so we're december 15th was there already a motion made huh was there already a motion made no nothing no we um do we have any public comment madam superintendent there is no public comment does the board have an emotion okay second second by dr kaiser no further discussion okay all those in favor of the organizational meeting being set for december 15th signify by saying i i thank you
154board motion passes with four eyes okay next is ed service's multi-year competition grant overview for um and this is christian i'm kristen so this is going to be quick and positive the purpose of this is three things to introduce myself one there's my slide up there that's tiny um to introduce myself to give you a snapshot of chico unified's grants and then just to tell you how we go about grants procurement and chico unified so i'm kristen lauer and i've been with chico unified for 20 years most of my time has been teaching english and for the last five years i've been managing chico unified's larger grants and writing grants with our previous grants coordinator liz metzger who is retired so this is me that's my contact up there you're welcome to reach out to
155me at any moment i write and coordinate our grants and uh you you can't see up on the slide there but we we have 25 active grants right now and three are pending and that's pretty normal that's a pretty normal amount for us the grant search on that slide there's four items mentioned there grant watch is a grant aggregator that basically you plug in your criteria and it kicks me stuff that i then share with ed services and then we've got some um you know stalwarts up there grants.gov for federal grants grants california.gov for california grants and then of course the north valley community foundation and there are actually many others but i was just trying to give you a snapshot and so how this works is if anybody is interested in a grant um
156superintendent kelly staley gets a lot of notifications probably more than any of us about opportunities they come to me and then i prepare a grant snapshot for ed services which i attend every week actually two times a week we'll have a new grant snapshot tomorrow morning at ed services and then we sort of look at our capacity um our need and our capacity to manage the grant because that's that's the other part of it um could you where is this a clicker for the slides look at that okay so you can't see the colors very well or the key you can't see the key very well okay okay so you can but they can't so anyway i'll just just uh a summary here this is these this is funding by the millions and it goes
157up in increments of 2.5 million so you can you're probably your first question is probably oh well why is there a drop in 2122 and i just wanted to point out that in um so the green and the orange bars from 2019 to 2021 was the year that we had all of our cte we wrote our cte facilities grants which had caps of three million so there was just a lot of funding in those years and a lot of that is actually in the works right now um anyway so these again are just our competitive grants we have other grant funding that's more formula grant but these are our competitive grant competitions and lastly how am i doing on time five minutes i've been told not to go longer than that um good just use
158the cards if you want to put the red card up on me you can do that i've created a grant support hub on our website and it's basically for teachers to let us know hey if they're interested in applying for a grant i can offer support we can offer support it's definitely not just a you know an effort by myself i love it i need that um i'm thankful for tim karis and his spicy data because oh is he gone i was giving oh there you are i couldn't do this job without his data so i'm so um appreciative of that anyway so there's support on our website we support individual teachers that might want to you know apply for a little grants on their own and then um i handle the the bigger ones
159in house with this team that i love working with questions thanks i miss her we we appreciate the over the years grants have kept us alive thank you i have a question kristen actually because that um the online help for teachers for those little grants that are out there how long has that been a thing so um that's a good question it it it's been a thing for a while but when i say it i've changed it so that it's a lot fewer words now basically and there's a button on the website now that they click and it goes to a google form and then it kicks me an email that shows me that somebody's interested in the grant and then i you know reach out to them um so it's been a thing for
160a while i would say probably for the last eight years but it hasn't taken the shape of a hub a support hub that's just brand new in fact it's not totally done i'm working on it right now gotcha um i guess just because in my current role i'm like deeply involved in the grant writing world now um and i come across those little grants all the time like oh if i was a teacher and i had the time and the energy i would have wanted to apply for that um and you know as a teacher when you're busy and you do occasionally like maybe once a year come across something like that you're like i have no time or energy i know this and i didn't know that even there was any kind of resource
161um available to help with so yep and we are we're as it's being built there's a tab now on the site where because i have a grant aggregator where i if i see little things that teachers might be interested in i i pop them onto the site and then we depend on director of secondary education and and the directive of elementary education to to push that out to get that out to the sites but that's that's sort of something that's up and coming because there are so many grants and i certainly couldn't write them all so just like you said right yeah cool i hope that you know teachers start to really know that that's there and and you get to take advantage of it that's the goal yeah okay thank you this is informational
162only board we don't need any motion next up is mr hanlon with 10.3.1 information and update on the covid employee testing yes thank you so um governor newsom declared that october starting october 15th our employees and staff on our campuses had to either be vaccinated or we had to test them weekly we're in our first week of testing and michelle bunch is going to give us an update on where we are we're literally on day three right now so um we're just taking our baby steps so michelle yeah that's has some good information for us good evening i'm michelle bunch coveted lead for chico unified and i wanted to just give you an update on how many people we tested last week last week was our first week and we tested employees through our screening
163program during that time we had two positive employees and this week we anticipate testing around 365 staff so you might be asking why so many more um we started last week knowing that the mandate began on friday and have been in the process of collecting vaccination cards and through our digital system as of today we've collected 1404 vaccine cards that have been uploaded by staff and that includes staff substitutes and coaches as well as student teachers when you look at regular employees that are not temps or long-term subs or substitutes the estimate was 1582. so you can see we've we're getting close to our regular employee number there when i originally took numbers on the regular staff that needed to be tested weekly we thought it'd be around 350 and we are really close to
164that target i just did a recount today on cards collected for all of our testing sites and we're at 365. right now with cards still coming in and vaccinations still happening any questions about any of that mr tennis um i don't know if this is too far off topic but it's my understanding that we have um a policy on volunteers who want to come volunteer and help out at school is that and and that policy can you repeat that please let me jump in and take that one so uh the mandate does require that all adults on a school campus be either vaccinated or test weekly and we are currently putting our focus on getting all of our tests done with our staff ideally what our goal is is that we want to be able
165to test as mandated all of our staff we want to be able to offer testing to our students because if our students are a close contact and they can test twice weekly in their case then they can come to school and they don't lose class time if they cannot test or do not test then they're out for ten days that's a student that's the student with the parent our next group would be our parent volunteers and frankly we'd like to be able to have it open to our entire community we would like to be able to test so that then they have the ability to come in and test and go into and work in our schools currently we're really tapped on capacity we are working with california department of public health they are providing
166the employees to do the testing that's who we've contracted with we were promised nine we currently have three hopefully four tomorrow but we're way understaffed and in addition our tests we don't have enough tests to go to that amount yet so our goal is to phase this in as was mentioned were on day three so as we get this routine with our staff then our next step will be able to offer to students that desire to test so that they can do the modified quarantine and then open it up so any parents that are coming in wanting to volunteer in our schools would be able to test if i can just add a little bit to that one of the speakers earlier in the night and i wasn't able to respond because of the just
167the structure of the meeting but perhaps our district 13 folks can pass this on to parents and and we'll certainly try to communicate it on our end but she mentioned that achieve has interpreted the rules differently than we have that's really not the case it's just that a chief has a few hundred kids we have twelve thousand and um the logistics of tracking um potentially up to twenty four thousand parents um is is just a massive task um we're barely able to um track our staff right now um we're like i said we're in our first week fortunately we have michelle working full-time plus hours um just to track our staff and get those in a way that we can week by week know that all of our staff and our and our coaches and
168our student teachers and now our substitutes are either tested or vaccinated so so to add the parents on top of that would just be when they're not there daily there they come and go um it's not predictable um is it's just a task we're not prepared to take at this point there's no way we can we can and we're just worth repeating i think that the what we're talking about is a q-tip up the nose it's not that's a shallow it's not the brain scrape i actually wanted to bring a q-tip here to demonstrate for you all what it would kind of look like so um now cost of the tests versus availability of somebody to administer the test are those kind of co-equal problems in the in this situation or is one a bigger
169deal than the other well the tests are currently uh provided by the state so we get those for free so availability but it's getting them that's that's the key we have to we have to order them well in advance and um and then because like every um district in the state is is under the same requirement now so the availability is a is a challenge so why can't oh i just want to let you know the two biggest challenges are staffing and availability of the tests when we put in our orders originally it was a 14-day estimate and now they've pushed it to four weeks for delivery so we have to plan well in advance to order the tests and the staff that is covering our testing this week only two are permanent one actually
170is staying in the area in a hotel covering until they can hire and they really were optimistic they could hire nine employees and it's proved to be very challenging in butte county i mean we can't be the only school district that's dealing with this right no i mean um i'm going to be raising this issue in items for consideration for a future agenda because i think we need to write a nasty gram just to to the powers that be similar maybe to the one that we did about masks um can you we now education's important too now i understand these these these rules and everything or oh gosh they're so so important but you know we've got a job to do here and um one of our speakers earlier tonight during items from the floor
171i think i heard her say that you know can you have another test that would fulfill the same thing i mean we had a we got a little sniffle in my family the other day uh and so we went down to go get tested over on mangrove avenue and i mean you know there was no line at all i mean it was just like there's a whole room full of staff over there they're administering these tests and you find out i guess two days later i'm not an expert on testing and how long it takes and how good it is can people go get themselves one of those tests or something like that you know that was totally free and and um and is that not sufficient well so here's what we do need to
172do and i think it's something that we need to work on a policy to bring back to the board but there are only certain tests that qualify under this so it's very specific into which tests that we can use i do not know but we can certainly find out which facilities offer that test it is not going to be an over-the-counter test that you buy at cvs but it is very likely that perhaps um i i would assume that the optum serve or now it's called what is it lhi yeah now um that those tests do check identification and they do provide a date if that is the case then we can put together you know here are testing sites where you can provide us a positive test we will then need to look at
173how we process parents coming through because that will have an impact on offices office staff and again that's back to the staffing piece i think that we can put some things in place and hopefully we can bring them back by our next board meeting that would be the goal because we do want our parents on campus that's that's what we shoot for all the time we're always asking for parents volunteers volunteer at your school know what's going on so this is kind of a barrier to what our ultimate goal is but it is also a legal mandate so we need to find the ways to work within that and i will just to defend michelle she has been working more hours than you can know to just get our schools up and running to now
174add the task of parents when we haven't even gotten to the point where we're going to do our students yet is would be much much to ask of her at this point because we're just trying to fine-tune um making sure that none of our staff slip through the cracks because we're we're required to have notebooks at each work site so in case osha comes in they can see exactly that what we've what we're doing what's our process who's being tested who's not being tested and if you're not being tested what's your proof so there's a lot of work that goes into to each of those sites and we have 22 of them so regarding the idea this is my last comment of this being a legal mandate and all this kind of thing there are
175other legal mandates too you know some are very general in nature um but sometimes those are the most important now i'm no lawyer just like i'm no doctor but i think we also have a responsibility to provide a certain level of education and i would just posit that there's probably a lawyer out there who's sitting down right about now to try to write a letter you know that would say something along the lines of hey what you're giving up by not having these people you know volunteering is outweighs whatever legal benefit you think you're getting from you know having only this certain kind of test and you know mandatory for any parent who wants to come in and volunteer in their kids school and i strongly encourage them to send that to the governor and
176the california department of public health because they are the ones that are mandating this of our schools ms dalby um so just so it's all clear and out on the table what are the options right now for adult volunteers on campuses they have to be vaccinated okay that's that's the option right now we just don't have a system in place to track all the potential parents that want to come on campus if they're going to volunteer now we've gotten some other guidance from the department of health just within days ago kelly actually actually sat in on that and got some new information so we did get clarification um yesterday and we had a parent contact us and ask for the differentiation between a volunteer and an observer or a spectator and i think mrs lindstrom
177for asking this question and so we did contact butte county public health butte county public health did say that if we are having an outdoor event if there is separation between the students and staff and the observers likely parents and if there was no interaction between the two groups the parents and the student teachers then they could come in and we don't have to check vaccination status but it does have to be outdoors so that does allow for parents to be able to attend things such as jog-a-thons um halloween parades i think is a big one that's coming up but it does not allow for any indoor performances so you know that does give some leeway to some events and these are different than the high school games because they're during the school day where
178football games and field hockey and soccer is outdoors and it's after hours so it's work rules essentially during the work day so at this point especially for michelle's task order or the progression of how this is going phase one is to get this dialed in for staff phase two is to dial it in for students so we don't have students missing class time we want to keep our students in our classrooms and having testing on site for them is essential to do that and as capacity builds out then we would be able to offer that test on site for for parent volunteers or adult volunteers which i think you know makes sense in that progression because we can't just do it all at the same time because of the restrictions and limitations that you outlined
179and then so parallel to that at the same time or in the next couple of weeks it sounds like staff will be exploring options other options for adult volunteers on campuses during school hours to possibly have another alternative to provide a testing result other than what we would be providing if we could provide that test to to those folks correct i can reach out to beat county public health and ask them what facilities in our area can do the testing in the manner in which that would be submitted to the school district that meets the requirements of the mandate and would that be i um it might be written in the mandate is it once a week yes okay it's weekly during the week that they volunteer okay during the week that they're volunteering and
180so um if it's happens to be a center that it's a three-day turnaround time if they at least know in advance you know i'm going to volunteer next wednesday in my kids class you know get your get your test on friday so that you have that that result by by the time good question i'm not sure that that would work we'd have to check well that's going to depend on what public health says it's going to be an acceptable form i'm just saying hypothetically and that's the other challenge the current tests we have now are rapid tests so you get your results within 15 minutes the ones that like optimum serve sometimes it's two days sometimes it's four or five days it just depends on how busy they are so in that case it would
181not work yeah so and i think to mr tennis's point we want to make sure that classes are running as efficiently as they can be under the constraints that we're experiencing so we want to test our staff so staff can be in classes and we want to test our students so students can be in classes and those parent or adult volunteers are very essential also and so hopefully we'll find some alternatives for them in the meantime while we build our capacity correct that's the essential like good summary the summary thank you okay board any more questions of mr hanlon or superintendent staley i just want to congratulate you for all the really really difficult work that you've been doing thank you and being on it so thank you we're getting it done okay again i
182know i i see people leaning against the wall in the back and we are hurrying this is um this is an informational only we'll move now to really good stuff miss oh okay mr hanlon if you could please the uh discussion action for approval of the california school employees association chico chapter number 110 tentative agreement okay so last board meeting um i brought to you the cuta agreement this is the same agreement csea the difference is the percentage that you probably see here is because cuta put a portion of it in their their salary structure in two different ways one to increase salaries but then they also readjusted their upper end of their salary schedule this just goes into all of the salary cells equally so the percentage is a little higher but the number
183the overall percentage is the same so it looks different than the other one so the total cost for csea is a little over 830 000 to implement this so i'm looking for approval of this and then we can implement it starting at the next board do you have any questions is any public comment there is no public comment thank you board do you have any motions connected with this item so moved i'd like to move uh the approval of the uh dr kaiser um mr tennis just beat you to it i withdraw my emotion she seems like she really wants i mean she's doing a really good job i'll second it then thank you i have a motion in a second from dr kaiser um all those in no further discussion all those in favor
184signify by saying i i thank you and thank you mr hanlon and the bargaining teams from both sides and um board you did get copies of the the letter from csea representatives that were on site and complemented the district on the appearance of our school sites as well as the cooperation between classified and administration in chico unified um we voted yes four to four to nothing the vote was approved mr hanlon next we have approval of chico union unified management association kuma okay so similar agreement um the percentage is a little higher on this one only because uh the kuma members almost unanimously approved not putting any on their health benefits and they put it all in the salary schedule overall the same same percentage no more no less it's just the way they distribute
185it so all three groups distributed their their colas differently kuma decided not to put anything on benefits and all on the salary schedule that's the only difference for a total of 329 board do you have any technical questions of mr hanlon i kuma stands for chico unified management association assistant principals um directors psychic psychologists um occupational therapists um what about the superintendents and assistant superintendents so so the superintendent and the assistant superintendent for business are on um contracts everyone else's is on a salary schedule and so are they represented by a union no no no no there's no union we negotiate directly with the board but the by by further those contracts like maybe this is off to topic highly but um they're pegged to the union agreements so aren't they correct they are just
186on a contract by contract basis right okay right now there's no negotiation really with with kuma thank you yeah kuma's not actually a union right they're not a union they don't bargain mr marshawn may have a comment on that he's the president of kuma wow that is a very impressive problem it is i put it on my resume um four years running two by the way he has no power and i have no more further comments that's the truest statement i've heard today i'm just kidding jay with the exception of the current president i would like to move the approval of the kuma salary increase agreement is there a second to the motion i'll take it got in there quick okay no further discussion are we ready to vote board i see no objection all
187those in favor signify by saying aye aye thank you passes for public disclosure documents business services yes off what um jim and the board just approved before this evening to start off as this is our financial disclosure i'm related to assembly bill 2756 um which basically shows the financial or fiscal impact of the ta that you just ratified so as jim alluded for csea it was just over 830 000 dollars for their compensation agreement so we're just asking for approval of the disclosure this evening any questions board seen that has there been any public comment there has not is there a motion associated with this agenda item i i take that wave as the second i'd like to second that thank you okay members of all those in favor signify by saying aye aye aye
188passes for nothing okay and the disclosure um uh pursuant to ab 2756 for the kuma agreement exactly so along the same lines we do have to do a financial disclosure um as ms dalby said even though kuma is not a bargaining unit there is a fiscal impact um to the district's budget so we do have to do the same disclosure that we do for cuta and csca so that's before you this evening about 330 000 to implement that and as jim alluded to it is just a salary schedule increase no increase to the health contribution on behalf of the district any questions board has there been any public comment there's no public comment do i have a motion related to this item i'll move to pass item uh yeah so second thank you motion by
189member dolby in a second by dr kaiser all those in favor aye was that an eye thank you that's for nothing the next item is resolution 1556-21 miss kissel this is regarding the um evaluating real property thank you so the previous board had directed staff to establish california department of education approval for the henshaw gwen site which is property that the district owns for a future elementary school the process for approval is a formidable one and we've now completed all of the documents and the steps necessary to submit that application to cde and so this resolution um needs to be approved by the board in order to do so any questions ford yes ms dalby i have a question that i noticed um in our consent calendar and i didn't have enough of a concern
190to make an issue then but about the exemption for sequa um can you like summarize that in like two sentences yes it is an exemption from sequa for the process of applying for cde approval so it's not an actual act not a construction project it doesn't have anything to do with the eventual construction of hanchukwen okay got it thank you okay exercise you guys any additional uh questions born any public comment no no public comment thank you are there any motions associated with this agenda item board i move passage okay and we have a motion in a second mr tennis move dr kaiser seconded all those in favor [Music] the item passes four to nothing okay miss kissel the um con construction of mcmanus new construction monetization project from the city of chico's um zoning
191ordinances yes thank you so the chico unified school district is under the purview of the division of the state architect state building officials that reviews and approves our plans for projects so it's customary that we exempt ourselves from the city of chica ordinances and that's what this resolution will accomplish for the mcmanus project any questions born i have a question um which is not for the mcmanus project but this reminds me when we had the discussion about the district site and possibly building onto the district office site and the parking issue and having to kind of fudge around the land a little bit because of our parking issue but that's a city ordinance so wouldn't we technically be able to do a resolution in that case as well no we cannot because it's not a
192school site okay got it thanks any other questions any comments from the thank you board do i have a motion associated with this item for a second mr tennis seconds dr kai is removed all those in favor aye thank you passes four zero okay next one miss kissel you're still up this is regarding the agreement with the city of chico regarding the public road easement deed of real property at the future canyon view high school site yes thank you so this is an exciting step in the process of eventually building the canyon view high school site the document has been reviewed and revised by our attorney and negotiated by district staff with the city of chico there's really three parts to the document there's right-of-way and utility easements for the widening of bruce road project
193where we would be providing an easement for the property on the frontage of the canyon view high school property that is on bruce road for curb gutter sidewalk utilities bike lane on our side of the road also an easement for a portion of the property where a storm drain will run across through our land we're actually the low point in elevation on the for the whole area down at the fremont street dead end so all water flows that direction so there will be a storm drain constructed on our property to allow that water to move off of the site and we're providing an easement for that for all time our master plan for the canyon view high school site works around that area so no buildings would be built over that area and they're not
194currently planned to be built over that area because we're looking ahead the district will be responsible for constructing those improvements on bruce road in the future when we build the high school so one of the things that we're getting out of the agreement is that the city will build those for us at no cost to us other than our land the easement for the land additionally the district will receive a discount on future storm drainage fees for our projects for inspire and for canyonview high school there is a change that i want to mention on page two the document you have says that we'll be receiving a hundred thousand dollar discount it's actually a twenty percent discount because we don't know when that will occur so we wanted it to be uh based on you
195know twenty percent of whatever the fees are at the time that we apply for them are there any questions any questions for ms dolby i just have um maybe more of like a comment or question but i do know that the city is right now in the process of of redeveloping their stormwater master plan um so i don't know if if that's all making sure that it all is an alignment or if that's something that is something that we need to have our eyes on but i do know that that's a process taking place currently um i think for the next month or so this is a i guess that's just a comment or yeah i don't know if that's anything of our concern as a district but um i do know that they're they're
196working on that right now so just one little thing that you know popped in my head while while we're talking about this so the the district um does have to comply with stormwater retention on our site slowing down storm water letting sediment settle out the the state and the country would really like all storm water to stay on particular property sometimes that's not possible but it's certainly a requirement to slow water down and the city is under those same obligations and this document does address that we will comply with those obligations any further questions ford okay do we have any public comment no public we have a motion so moved we have a motion by member tennis and a second by dr kaiser all those in favor aye aye aye unanimous for nothing thank you
197board okay unauthored actuals jacqueline yes so i'm going to bring marie to the podium she and i are going to do the unknotted actuals for last year but i also want to take this opportunity um to introduce the to the board my replacement the new director of fiscal services which is charisse bromley if you want to wait and stand up there welcome this is her first week on the job so i i didn't make her present tonight so she will be back at the december board meeting to help with first interim okay okay the slides were in the middle so i'm coming back okay this is the 2021 unaudited actuals presentation this represents actual revenues and expenditures for the year it's not a budget you guys are used to seeing budgets but this is our
198true financial performance of 2021 and these numbers are presented before our annual audit is complete the auditors were out on site on october 4th and we'll have the audit by the end of the year we'll be presenting it in january so our biggest income driver is average daily attendance ada our funded ada of 11846 is the same as the ada funded in prior year um if you look at 2021 it looks like we're missing a bar on the bar graph that's because we don't have actual ada for 2021 because the covid that requirement was waived the total revenue of the district you can see them oh the chart is missing its um percentages but it shouldn't be ours has it okay um so local control funding formula represents of our revenue um i looked at
199last year's slide because i was curious as to how much the federal kova dollars affected that last year local control funding formula was 75 percent so it just moved the marker a little bit is our income statement um if you look at the bottom the bot that's really the bottom line our change in fund balance unrestricted is 3.2 million 2.7 restricted so 6 million uh bottom line oh and there's no no percentages there either but anyway um for our expenditures restricted and unrestricted salaries and benefits make up 82 percent of our total expenses that's pretty typical for school district and then this one shows unrestricted expenditures plus the special education excess and when you add that in salaries and benefits are 91 of unrestricted expenditures so that's really where most of our money goes i
200have i have a quick question on the contribution to special ed is that a two percent increase from over the last time we saw this report it's it's 16 percent here i thought we were at 14 in the 1920s yes the 16 just represents that the dollars associated with the contribution is 16 of the total but not 16 of the program comes from unrestricted dollars it's actually closer to about 45 closer to 12. 45 of the dollars contributed special ed program come from the general fund i think you're you're talking about the identification rate and i believe that's around 12 or 13 i think i am left but yeah thank you okay um and in our sax formula we're asked to compute a calculation on our classroom expenses which is teachers and aides that are
201actually in the classroom uh unified school districts need to spend at least 55 percent on that and we are at 58.74 somebody's really shooting close i tell you impressive all right so this slide here has a lot of numbers on it but essentially what we want to show is the comparison between estimated actuals that was presented in june compared to where we actually ended so on the revenue side we were very very close less than 200 000 variants on the expenditure side we were a little too conservative at estimated actuals by about 3.3 million so if you go to the next slide essentially here's why so on the salaries and wages and benefits portion the estimation of the one-time money that we gave staff in may was too conservative and we had too much money
202budgeted there and then on the supplies and services what we saw is we had this large influx of covered relief dollars that came in that have a very restricted purpose and a timeline and as an agency we always want to spend our most restricted dollars first especially if they have a timeline so what resulted is in our sites and as the district as a whole utilizing those coveted relief dollars instead of using their site discretionary to buy a lot of items for the classroom and then our contributions and transfers we did have a lower contribution to special ed than we anticipated largely due to esy we didn't have as many permanent teachers we had a lot of subs and we reduced the number of aids that we used as well so speaking to your point
203ms robinson regarding the contributions to our restricted programs this year this year being 2021 which is really last year our special education program received just over 15 million dollars in the contribution um and to put that in perspective actually in 1920 we had it was a 16.6 million dollar contribution um the difference being we received a million dollars more through the ab602 calculation through ourselves passed through dollars and then we had about 500 thousand dollars less in expenditures thank you and then our routine restricted maintenance they always receive and this is per a code um three percent of our total general fund expenditures so there's 4.2 million dollars we did have transfers in from other funds of just over 3.5 million and you'll see that there was 112 000 related to an admin fee from
204our developer fee collections we had amazing developer fee collections last year about 3.6 million we typically budget around two and a half or so it's usually where we start out that's pretty consistent year over year but as you're all aware the housing both on the residential and the commercial side is booming in chico so we definitely saw that impact this last year the other piece we want to look at is our ending fund balance it's essentially a one-time savings account but we want to make sure it's healthy we did see another increase to that this year and that's largely related to the fact that we're still being funded off 1920 ada and so we have less students and less staff but we still have that hold harmless provision of being funded off of 1920. and
205so per the board's directive in prior years they've asked for a breakdown of on the restricted side of 6.3 million is our ending fund balance there and that is largely due to the state cova 19 response funds so on the state side we received a large chunk of our money up front and then spend it down according to the restricted purpose versus on the federal side it's reimbursement based and then our cash cash is always important we did have this last year february through may we had deferrals so we very actively managed our cash the good news is with the adoption of the 21 22 budget all of those deferrals have been eliminated so we anticipate we don't anticipate a cash issue going forward and this is pretty much the trend of the district we
206start out high in july we get dipped down we have our first payroll in august we get some federal dollars in september we dip down november gets a little close from my perspective and then we get property taxes in december and april and that really funds us through the remainder of the school year so in conclusion um again i just want to reiterate that we did surplus this year and that is that is due to being funded on our 1920 um dollars additionally we spent less local unrestricted dollars because of the large influx in our coven 19 so we will use those coven 19 for multiple years going into the future related to learning recovery and social emotional supports and as marie alluded to we are in the middle of our audit um on the
207compliance and fiscal side and they will be wrapping that up before christmas and then we will bring that back to the board in january for approval and if there's any adjustments we will certainly identify those to the board are there any questions do we know the um the s or three dollars amounts that because we've got two more years of the emergency or or whatever the federal government called the um support plan and that's so we got three rounds of money sr1 sr2 and sr3 from the federal government so we've seen esther three okay and that actually that will be tina and i will be talking about that in just just a moment on that and we'll elaborate okay all right so barry no questions we'd ask for your approval this evening and then i
208will send our documentation over to the county office bed tomorrow board any questions yes uh mr tennis i have some comments um on something we've communicated about this week um miss krueger particularly with respect to our memberships of the various associations and i don't want to do anything rash tonight um like vote against the whole budget because of these various memberships but um i've been doing some personal research on some of the things that they are advocating and that i don't necessarily agree with now i know that a lot of these associations um csba the superintendent's association um you know there have been some high profile actions that some of these groups i assume that the california association of administrators is is affiliated with the national association of administrators which recently um you know convinced
209attorney general merrick garland to treat some parents as domestic terrorists and so forth um not that we need to get all into it but but i'm i'm on i'm on the lookout for for things that these groups are advocating for that i don't agree with and um in the future you know i would be willing to oppose our membership in these associations if it means that we are contributing to some advocacy on the state or national level that that that i or we don't agree with um i'm going to comment on that part of what taking a look at something like that i believe needs to also take a look at benefit for our being associated by our i mean the the appropriate candidate being associated with a broader um spectrum of what those offices
210do in the state of california and nationally because there's usually a national component of most professional organizations so if we're going to look at at that part of it i would also want to look at what are the benefits of belonging to those organizations just an fyi yeah totally i mean um life is a complex thing sometimes and um you we have to make difficult judgment calls yeah no i i agree and i i've been through that when an organization that i was uh involved with wanted to join uh an international organization and that was the biggest problem was taking a look at what does how do we benefit from joining a an international group so it was an interesting process it was put part it was part of what needed to happen in order
211for everyone to feel well not everybody didn't feel good about what we did but it was enlightening thank you uh that is okay do we have any public comment there's no public comment board do you have any other additional questions do i have a motion regarding this item i moved the pass of the 20 20 21 on audited actuals is there a second a second thank you i have a motion from dr kaiser in a second from member dalby if there's no further discussion all those in favor aye aye any opposed okay thank you board we've approved all that work and thank you thank you for making it well at least for this board member understandable i know we struggled for a few years but you've really helped to um to make it so that
212we can understand and then question okay next is the gan appropriations limit [Music] this is jacqueline yes so every year subsequent to passage of the unknotted actuals we do have this pro forma formula that has to be approved by the board and sent to the state related began appropriations um it talks about linking of year to year expenditure changes it's really a formality at this point and would need board approval this evening you board do you have any technical questions and there's no public comment thank you do we have a motion associated with this agenda item i moved to pass the gans appropriation limit thank thank you dr kaiser do we have a second i'll say again thank you member dobby we have a motion in a second no further discussion all those in favor
213aye aye thank you board those four i vote oh speaking of esther iii plan thank you jacqueline so good evening as was mentioned a little bit earlier jaclyn and i are here to seek approval for the sr3 expenditure plan which all districts have to submit to their county offices by october 29th and then it moves on to the state but this sr-3 funding was 22.6 million dollars and it was this plan encapsulates all of the expenditures that the board approved last spring over a course of about three meetings in march and april when we um had brought with lots of input and and thoughts going forward about how to spend this money for our students it is really geared for and specific to addressing students academic social emotional and mental health needs as well as
214any opportunity gaps that existed before and were worsened by the covet 19 pandemic so it's very specific to that and like i said no other additions have been made other than what the board approved for expenditures last spring jacqueline you want to add anything no i would just reiterate what tina said we brought almost 45 million um to the board at two meetings in march an additional meeting in april and this plan here is just single singling out certain items that are funded specifically with us or three which is 22 million of the 45. the other items are related to coveted relief and learning recovery but are funded with either state dollars or s or two thank you board do you have any additional questions additional we haven't asked any yet so do we have
215any questions i do remember all of that agonizing over what to do just spend and prioritize thank you for taking care of what we thought was a good idea and as it turns out we did a good job my editorial comment um do we have any public comment we have an emotions associated with this item i'll move to pass item 10.4.8 for the sr3 plan second thank you ms dalby thank you dr kaiser any further discussion if not all those in favor aye aye any thank you board oh we're getting there i'm items from the floor do we have any additional items from the floor no additional items from the floor we have none okay item number 12. um any board members have topics they would like to bring forward for consideration at future as
216future agenda items yes yes yes um i would like us to write a letter to i guess it would be governor newsome um and and also um what is it the california department of public health or something like that there is a director of that department um asking for autonomy in how we manage uh covet vaccination and with respect to staff and students and volunteers and i'm willing to draft this letter i'm also open to having staff draft a letter maybe there could be multiple drafts we need us we need a second to approve moving forward with that um i'd like to second so that we can just discuss it for a moment i think it's worth maybe a quick discussion so i'm going to second it i'm not sure how i'm going to vote
217yet but i do want to just chat about i know it's it's to put it on on the agenda and maybe i don't know if that discussion would be appropriate but anyway i've seconded it so um so we'll have to vote anyway um is what you're seconding um [Music] a discussion on whether or not to draft a letter so it sounds like he's agendizing let me clarify right discussion slash action yeah discussion slash accident drafts to be provided you know prior to distribution of the um the agenda right so discussion action to have a drafted letter and then draft or drafts to be provided in on the on the agenda packet you know gotcha i i believe that it would be appropriate if you wanted to submit a draft to have that as part of
218the agenda in order to drive discussion am i correct superintendent staley so the board would need to vote to agendize this and then by all means we would have supporting documents when it if it does come back forward we would have supporting documents with that okay i don't think i've we have not yet approved it we have a motion in a second so it's on the floor uh if we approve bringing this topic forward with the would it be appropriate for member tennis to provide a draft document for us to discuss at the meeting yes we could have as he mentioned multiple drafts there could be there are some drafts that are out there on a state level already it would be appropriate for mr tennis or other board members we would just have to
219consider those they'd have to be part of the agenda and be considerate okay so there may be multiple drafts okay so would we also be able to have a public health representative um present to answer questions or um at that time i'm always happy to ask them to join us and actually they've been very good about it in most cases that's part of your request yeah answer okay yeah and they can they they are at their will so you know doesn't hurt to ask a professional on on on hand to ask questions to okay is it clear then what we're voting to agendize could be multiple drafts a expert to be available to answer questions as we discuss what if anything to draft and send okay we have a motion and a second and clarifying
220discussion as to what the agenda item's going to look like as it comes forward all those in favor aye opposed two opposed two eyes mohsen fails could i have a roll call vote i was looking in the wrong direction yes absolutely um robinson no i was confused too because i thought i had heard you say an eye i was confused too because i thought i had heard you say an i no i had voted no okay um [Music] where are we anyone any other board members have a topic that they'd wish to present um i'd like to um i'd like to agendize a discussion about creating a land acknowledgement i'm sorry creating a land acknowledgement um for our district to adopt um because we are on occupied machu territory and it's appropriate to um to
221acknowledge the original people of this land and so it's a i think a discussion worth having um as as the upcoming generations are working to dismantle some of the impacts of colonization on the folks that are originally lived here so my motion is to discuss creating a land acknowledgement for our district to adopt to incorporate in in you know official settings dr kaiser are you thinking of something along the lines of what chico state has done i'm not familiar with what chico state has done was this just for the machuta um it's to acknowledge that this university is on the lands of the tribe and so that gets acknowledged okay i believe that that it is the machupa tribe yeah okay is there a second oh okay i'm sorry dr geisler i misunder misunderstood but
222georgian is there further discussion hearing none are we ready for a vote we had a roll call vote on the last vote so we will continue with the roll call because we were not unanimous in the last vote um member dobby dalby dr kaiser tennis abstain um do you want to explain your abstention i just don't have enough information got it um robinson i okay so that passes with one abstention thank you for explaining that anything else okay members um it looks like we are at the adjournment point does it need a motion huh motion to adjust do you still have cake left [Laughter] oh phil