001good evening I'd like to call the April 21st Chico Unified School District Board of Education meeting to order and announce that we are going in to close session and ask if there is any comment on closed session from the public okay with none indicated um we'll go into closed session Unified School District Board of Education meeting for April 21st the board has been in closed session and there was uh no action taken so we'll move to the flag salute please 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 [Music] you um after uh well let's see uh superintendent Staley um I believe that you have some student reports today we do now
002that we are back in person it's really exciting to have our student reports back and uh we have students today we're going to f Fus on the high schools and we have some students from Pleasant Valley high school and a student from Chico high school so I'm going to call up Elise Miller and Emma Divine from PV to start us off and then summer you're on Deck hi my name is Elise Miller and we're here on behalf of Pleasant Valley student government this is my fourth and final year within the class and this year I've had the opportunity of being ASB president hi I'm CLA Jacobson I'm filling in for Emma today and this is also my fourth year in student government and the position I have this year as ASB secretary although this year
003has been unusual student government has done its very best to keep our students connected and involved despite the distance we are here today to highlight all the events that student government has put on throughout this year I would just like to preface with the fact that all the events that will be mentioned have followed all social distancing and safety protocols to our best efforts to start last semester when we were doing school virtually we were able to put on a senior breakfast drive-thru in hopes of creating a similar experience to senior Sunrise we had teachers in the drivethru to greet students whom they had not seen in person all year with snacks and posters showing their love for our senior class next in honor of our incoming freshman a freshman welcome drive-through was planned in
004coordination with link crew in order to make our freshman feel like a part of PB its staff and campus this included calling each student individually to invite them to this event they received PB swag a bag of popcorn and greeting from staff lastly while virtual a welcome back spirit week which was inclusive to all students on campus and was a way to add some normal SE to the situation at hand this gave students the chance to show some school spirit while at home the first thing student government did while back in person was decate our school to welcome students back this was an association with a spirit week to connect everyone on campus and was even inclusive to students still doing Zoom next we felt it was time to appreciate our wonderful staff which we
005did through a poster for each teacher's classroom and a succulent to show how much they do for our students to finish out the end of the semester there was finished goodie bags with snacks and spirit beads once back for second semester we found it important to put on a kindness week in which we decorate the school with streamers posters and balloons to kick off the week we we also chalked the school with s with sayings of encouragement and kindness not only that but there is a spirit week in class competitions to find hidden Ducks around campus during this week there are kindness grams available for parents to send to their students or friends on campus to send to each other which include candy and flowers if wanted lastly Student Government placed a note on every
006car in the parking lot to send a message about kindness to our students individually next in order to simulate a homecoming Court we did a quarantine king and queen for am for the AM and PM cohorts which was inclusive to all and had the band surprise to senior winners in their classes next we did a movie night fundraiser in association with Miriam Park and also an esack goodie bags to all the Juniors which included snacks and encouraging note for their testing currently we've been working on Sports appreciation and player posters each player on every sports team these past few months has had a player poster made for them individually by someone in student government not only that but we've decorated the stadium with streamers and posters for football field hockey and many other countless Sports
007and games lastly for sports appreciation we decorated the houses of all senior athletes band color guard and choir members to show that we are proud of them and recognize their hard work upcoming next week there will be a class competition spring week in which we will decorate campus and have a spirit week there will be fake hidden chickens to find around campus and socially distance outdoor games throughout this week such as cornhole and many others similar to pastels in the quad there will be a supervised chalking competition around campus the goal of this week is to bring students together and create lasting memories next up is the celebration of our senior class as graduation is approaching quickly through events such as senior sunsets and many others as for the rest of the semester we have
008many other events in the works and plan on ending the semester on a positive note although this year has proved challenging what we've learned most is the importance of community despite how frustrating this year has been our student government class along with the rest of our school has made the best of every situation although as seniors we've missed out on a lot of exciting we feel grateful to have witnessed the true care love and compassion our teachers and faculty have for us and the sacrifices they have made thank you all so much for listening we appreciate your time have a great yester your day wait wait wait wait don't run so uh I had the privilege of going to the first PB and Chico High football game and I was sitting with Chico High parents
009but um it was senior night and it was just a really really POS positive experience and a lot of uh very um good sportsmanship going on and it was one of the most tense football games I've ever been at it was two overtimes I mean woo so uh you guys really did a great job and I I know all all the parents appreciated certainly the students and Shephard here has a senior athlete and he'll be running out of here as soon as he can thank you you all right uh thank you Alisa and Emma and next we have summerson from Chico High School Sumer here okay so you know what we can do is um when summer gets here we can swing back around because Summer was going to share about some of the advocacy
010work going on at Chico high school and I'll just go ahead and transition right into the uh superintendent recognition portion of our program uh as we're all painfully aware we had to make a very quick transition last year from meeting in person person uh to online and the school board meetings were no exception to that uh transparency and government is really important to all of us and so we wanted to make sure that our board meetings were still accessible by our community but there were challenges um we got right off to our two weeks into the pandemic we had our first board meeting and it was zoom and we did have a lot of lag time that was going on it was hard to hear here then we kind of got that ironed out and
011we had some really techy techsavvy students that Zoom bombed a meeting so we were constantly having to uh make changes and upgrade as we went along uh but we did it I mean and we still are doing it we have access to our board meetings and that would not have happened without four people and I want to recognize those poor people and thank them this evening for helping us continue to have transparency in government and so those people are Erica Smith John Vincent Phil Morgan and Patrick bti and if you guys can just come up [Applause] here got it ser so once again thank you to the four of you for keeping us going even with all the curve balls that got thrown your way and that concludes the superintendent's portion and I'll turn it
012back over to you president Robinson thank you Kelly um okay I next is item number six announce an MS um does anyone have any announcements oh miss Doby thanks um I just wanted to uh let everybody know that on Saturday May 1st uh but environmental council is holding the annual endangered species Fair uh it's free virtual fund for all ages we're going to have presentations and workshops about um Regional efforts surrounding ecology and Wildlife um and safe biking and uh we even have a segment with Neil Bajaj um who is our student ambassador um and a chica unified student who will be presenting what he's doing in schools for um environmental advocacy so we're really excited about that um registrations online you can go to the but environmental Council website and check it out and
013um we're really excited to um be able to provide this even though things are still a little bit wonky due to co so yep that's all thanks thank you and good luck with that okay next is item number seven items from the floor do we have one person signed up to speak under items from the floor we do we have Jeffrey Hal is in person in person okay the um thank you and welcome uh during this segment uh there's a thre minute uh limit um Mr hanin has uh cards that will indicate 30 seconds to go or your time is up so kind of keep an eye on him and welcome good evening I my name is Jeff SLO I've given a million speeches in my day but I didn't want to give this one
014and I'm nervous a prosecutor told derck chauvin's jury that that their decision was easy because they could actually see everything everything I'm about to share has a document behind it written by your staff current and past and you can have a district attorney verify it I was once Relentless investigating a school district and doing battles for simple records all because of this document that you Kelly Staley and Scott Brown said didn't exist and the police said your staff would have been prosecuted criminally had we found this earlier I will share it in private with some of you it is Despicable but much worse was what was found of what your staff was willing to do to hire hi it Mike Walcott ironically wrote a column on Sunday about the murder of a reporter friend investigating
015a story I didn't want to ever be here again your top staff when we were searching for documents wrote this document this is your email Kelly and it discusses killing members of my family and others in this room who might share at a Schoolboard meeting what we found really Kelly this isn't locker room talk for any educator no educator circulates this what did you think would happen if this were found ask any student from Coline Sandy Hook Parkland what they think Jim I respectfully asked for the same extension you provided Grace Don's mom because her words outweighed the rest of your agenda your policy allows that it will only take a few minutes extra this folder is full of extensive documentation of deadly toxin issues in your schools that you hid from this community your
016decision to hide these documents had devastating consequences to countless victims my wife Sharon the finest teacher I ever knew taught in this district for 25 years in dilapidated classrooms teachers complained of year for years of leaks mold thank you Mr Sloan your time is up I lean no we have not extended the three minutes on other occasions we will not do so tonight okay negotiations update Mr hanlin okay so we have reached tenative agreement with cuta and they will be moving that forward to their eboard and for a vote from their members uh we are meeting with them again tomorrow and we will continue negotiations for the 2122 school year so we'll um continue on those with CSEA our classified unit we've also reached a tenative agreement they uh will vote and also go through
017the 610 process and um we will continue with them as well with negotiations for the 2122 school year our next meeting with them is April 29th so um if you recall we have did not reach agreement last year because of covid we stopped um negotiating so um the tenative agreement for for this year is the last two years so we're we're all caught up at this point and we should um we'll be moving on to the next year um immediately thank you okay on to item number nine the consent calendar um does the public wish to pull any of the consent calendar items does a board member wish to pull uh Dr Kaiser the Chica Unified District Career and Technical education that is pulled any other okay then we will um ask ask for a
018motion on approval of the consent calendar with the exception of 9.2.5 I move the consent caler I'll second that I have a motion and a second by um member landow any further discussion any comments from the audience okay thank you um we'll do this by Voice vote since it is our first of the evening um Miss Dolby Dolby I Kaiser I tennis I Lando I Robinson I thank you board okay Dr Kaiser you had the um need to pull five yes uh I pulled uh 9.2.5 because it is a five-year plan for our career in technical education and our success with Career and Technical Ed has been um extremely noteworthy um our teams have won uh in some cases National recognition certainly State recognition and this is a five-year plan that um is to help
019all students have a chance to explore various uh Pathways uh that not only would align with postsecondary institutions but uh also qualify them for many uh what we call industry certifications in other words industry recognizes this certification um and to have an electronic multi-year CTE academic planner for high school students so this is a a really critical uh plan um and I certainly hope that the parents of the uh new students coming in will take a to look at this there is a plan to extend this down into the junior highs an even mention of elementary school so I just thought for the audience what we have is at choh high a floral design ornamental horiculture welding sustainable Agricultural Science agricult architectural design engineering design software and systems development information support and services patient care
020and digital arts media what we have at Pleasant Valley is media arts graphic design Commercial Art architectural design engineering design Child Development education food service and Hospitality patient care Public Services welding and materials joining um I'm sure if you have had any experience with uh Medical Services in the community you realized how challenged they are uh very difficult to get into a specialist in any kind of timely way and um the students that are in the childhood uh program get to have experience actually doing that in a supervised setting so I just thought it was worthy of drawing people's attention to it because it is so significant and it is a fiveyear plan and with that I'd like to move 9.2.5 I'm sorry can I speak out a turn so you sit there and you
021telling me that you're going to do all this classroom work no no point of order please no I will go out of order and I don't care we are not in an open Forum you are not giving my child full child care education daily and then you sit there telling me that you're going to go and do all this and do that when you have am I I moved to approve I I moved to approve this agenda item explain this to you so you can move this um this there is a time for comments no um we're not going to do this and excuse me but it is my responsibility to conduct the meeting in an orderly fashion your M and I will do that I yes we'll take a five minute break and I
022mean don't so I'm sorry my taxpayer dollars pay for full child care education and you're not providing it whatsoever so I'm more ahead than we will be back in session and just reminder please that at the beig we're not on I'm gaving you us back into session after a five minute recess and just a reminder to the public that we have rules governing conduct at our meetings and we will follow them thank you board thank you public okay our um we were at the process where we were we had a motion and a second on 9.5 which huh 925 thank you Dr Kiser I think we had a motion but we have not had a second yes and I I did want to um inquire on that item earlier in the week I received a
023notice that we had competition of a CTE program from Chico high that was quite successful and I I cannot find my information um superintendent Staley if you have that please make the announcement so our um engineering class I believe it was at Chico High School won an award and it was one that I had not heard of before and they do not have it in front of me but they will be coming to a board meeting to share their success so we'll invite them to do that basically it was cyber security and a couple of of other issues connected with their Engineering in the the world of cyber security which we know all too well or need to know all too well okay um we're ready for the vote is there any uh comments from
024vors visitors on this item yes Tom was the second Mr Lando was the second okay see none where ready for the vote all those in favor signify by saying I I I I passes unanimously okay I number 10 discussion action calendar Educational Services this is uh the presentation of the reopening plan for school year 2122 Mr Marsha thank you president Robinson some background information on tonight's um presentation I just want to make um to put out there is to say that this to prepare for the start of the 2021 22 school year the information provided in this presentation will describe both at the district level and each individual site level the significant policies protocols and procedures related to the various options for returning to school these options include our Traditional School schedules Blended learning models
025and models reflecting Poss possible social distancing mandated from the state and local agencies to prepare for the start of the 2122 school year Chico Unified School District and staff have developed policies protocols and procedures to safely and effectively return to full-time instruction the operational information included in the plans will support the education development of all students including academic achievement and social emotional Wellness so to start with I just want to back up can we go to the table of contents it's right there good thank you up propose instructional models full-time inperson instructional model School site reopening plans Oakbridge Academy instructional model hybrid or amm in person instructional model distance learning instructional model and online resources okay let's go on up thank you one of the highlights I want to say is chica unified PLS returns
026to school in the fall in a full day inperson instructional model knowing this may not um meet the needs of all of our community members we will continue to offer our families the opportunity to participate in the Oakbridge Academy online independent study instructional model I just want to make sure that everybody understands that we still all have a distance learning online option available for families in the fall while we hope to return it to and remain in a full-time in-person instructional model for all 2122 year we are making consistency plans to ensure a smooth transition should changes to the school day be mandated by the state and we'll kind of go over all those different models in here tonight okay full-time person instruction again at any any point if you guys need to stop me
027I'm just going to kind of briefly go over this because um this is a public document and I'm H most of us gone through it but we're gonna kind of go through this for you can can I just ask a question really quick um is there anything in this document about Oakbridge particularly okay sorry yeah it's towards the yeah we'll we'll talk about it's at the end of the conation all right schools are back in full-time instructional models similar to the school day prior to covid-19 pandemic again and um we'll be looking at the state and our Public Health Department to give in these guidelines for safety considerations for facial covering social distancing and cleaning General General districtwide guidelines are in there to ensure a safe and welcoming start to the school year okay Mr
028M I've got a question for you um can you back up to that last little slide facial cover coverings as mandated by cdph I don't know if this that's kind of a more general statement and there are some more specific things in there do we have an independent masking policy for the fall here at Chico UniFi or is is what's written in this document and this plan purely an expression of regulations that are being imposed on us and the minute those regulations go away or reprieved our masking requirements here will also go away correct so we have no masking policy at Chico Unified that will need to be rescinded by an action of this board once those regulations are are withdrawn by by higher authorities such as the state and the county health department so
029this board will need to approve this plan and in this plan as written it does say that when the masking regulations are lifted Chico Unified will lift the mask regulations as well so there's a mechanism in this plan correct that when get the higher Powers the health department and the state remove the masking requirements it'll automatically go away and we will not have to have an independent vote that's correct if this plan is adopted thank you my question is about the with the athletes I know we have a separate organization that has set some specific requirements CIF so would would they automatically follow what the state's doing correct the cif's only responsibilities are eligibility and play everything else is under the cdph and and just to go back Mr tennis right there in the Bold
030it does say please note that these protocols will change in accordance with changes made by California Department of Public Health and bu County Public Health sorry that's not highly specific but but as long as we're all clear here that any changes from those higher authorities will trigger an instantaneous say withdrawal or or or Sunset of the masking here in a district that's what I'm getting at so thank you okay social distancing we went on Ingress egress but that's two and from to school and away from school each you'll see uh as we go through the document each campus has developed their own Ingress and egress um plans also I want to go with the social distancing in the classroom and meeting spaces as you can see as of right now the cdb says it's a
0313-foot distancing in the classroom and you can see a uh a drawing of what the classrooms will look like at a three-foot and how many students we can fit in those classrooms we believe at this time that we can meet the needs of our of our students at the with that guidelines all right facial coverings requirements is what we just talked about what the state is telling us um the students again will need to have the mask on um unless they are eating if they're eating then the distancing goes to six feet if they're not eating then they can have them at the 3-foot Mark that's where our C cafeteria res recess protocols Co and extracurricular activities sorry jay can I just interrupt really quick um just to clarify Mr tennis's concerns uh on this
032page or the page that that Mr marant was just reading from page six bullet number two specifically says until the facial covering requirement is lifted by the state all staff must use face coverings in accordance with cdph guidelines so that would in that would that would definitely demonstrate that we are following the guidelines as mandated by the state so just so that everybody knows where it's at in the document and it's very clear that it's already in there I have a question what are the requirements for um children during recess for masking in particular I'm thinking of younger children it's right there under cafeteria and recess protocols students will maintain a six- foot of distancing when mask are removed for the purpose of eating and drinking where feasible multiple serving stations will be set up
033workers and other person's handling or serving food must be in gloves while wearing a facial covering students must maintain a three-foot distance during lunch and recess breaks okay Co and extracurricular activities John you want to step in on John's been doing the heavy lifting on this one sure so we should be familiar with these with the guidance here this guidance is uh should continue into the fall semester unless the bcph or the cdph decide differently and if they do we'll adapt uh to their guidance and mandates this is the same guidance that we're operating from uh currently Transportation School Bus guidelines are on there students must will maintain a six foot distance from the driver students will be socially distanced from other students to the extent possible within the confines of the bus bus windows
034will remain open to the greatest extent possible noting weather conditions base covering policies apply on the school bus and any vehicle affiliated with a district used to transport students each bus will be equipped with an extra unused face coverings for students may have inadvertently failed to bring one buses are disinfection disinfected after each bus route is completed the next is air quality and disinfection um air circulation AAC the district will utilize Merve 11 filters and all HVAC systems HVAC systems will filters will be replaced quarterly classrooms and work places not connected to the MV 11 HVAC system filter system will be quick with a low noise hea air filter device if you guys have any questions on that you're going to have to miss Mr boltim on that because I'm very limited on my HVAC
035Yeah clean and disinfecting daily clean and disinfecting of our schools shall be done by train custodial Personnel classrooms will be supplied with with our new water microfiber cloth and hand sanitizer sharing of equipment and materials shared equipment will be cleans cleaned on a regular basis with the new water again as you go down I'm not going to click but every one of our John if you could there you go all of our elementary schools our middle schools and our high schools have individual plans that they developed that follow these guidelines but are a little bit different on each one of their sites and Miss Doby you asked about Oakbridge Academy instructional model Oakbridge Academy will continue to be our dedicated online independent study school secondary students grades 6 or 12 will utilize genuity Elementary students
036K through 5 will utilize a combination of pathblazer and direct instruction online with an Oakbridge Academy teacher Oakbridge Academy offers Innovative personalized education form online learning grades 6 through2 and independent study grades K through five uh so my question about Oakbridge was just if um there had been any more consideration given to um looking at expanding that program to be Beyond just independent study um maybe to encourage uh flexx scheduling for students or families who might need it I think students are really finding some value right now and having a more flexible schedule to be able to work or do their extracurriculars and if possibly they could have some classes that were Flex through Oakbridge and some that were you know on campus um if we could provide more flexible options I don't know where
037we at in that conversation so miss go you you want Miss sty and I met with the staff and I'll talked to a little bit about we still will offer where students can take classes at the Junior highs um and the high schools and Oakbridge so they can take four at one and two the other um or five in one one in five at the high schools and Junior High so they can be flexible and still be able to play their Sports be pan be part of band choir and the things that we have right now but when we also met with the staff we talked about they're they're wanting to increase um in person like for tutoring and offerings on their campuses for for all the um core subjects um we have some highly
038qualified teachers at the secondary level that are able to do that with math and English and um science so we are um happy that they're willing and wanting to meet with kids um on different times that they'll be setting up tutorial hours and of course one of the best things that they like about is the flexible times that they have with their families that they talk to they will tell you it's more than just the set time that they work during the school day that they're constantly uh meeting with their families at night talking to them and they use Google Voice quite a bit with them to to meet with them and to go over modules that they might need some more support on Miss da I missing anything you pretty much covered it but
039yes we do provide that flexibility where students can take some classes at Oakbridge other classes um at the Comprehensive High School or junior high school campuses and then in addition at the elementary level Mr Sullivan is working with Oakbridge so that it does not have to be a program like a genuity on the elementary level the uh Pathfinder um that it can be we can offer some inperson instruction online know that doesn't but where the teacher is delivering the instruction um online to the students that maybe want more engagement than a A can program we also have the uh the Viking Academy at py and the panther Academy at Chico high and students um can do online courses only or they can do um online mixed with some um mixture of inperson classes and they
040that predates even covid and even Oakbridge so that's been available for gosh what how long john the last eight or nine years on on both those campuses ask a question about those programs you just mentioned thank you um what exactly is the the instructional delivery model for the Panther Academy Viking Academy is it um engineer like synchronous like Zoom style learning or is it no they actually have to attend um in normal times they have to attend um weekly or bi-weekly every twice a week um one to two times a week we it can be uity or it can be um bookwork um there's two different programs um some students do better in in one or the other but they there is an option um at the sites and then um we have had kids
041like take band in the morning first thing and then do the rest of their classes online you know that's an example but um they can mix and match classes as they see fit to accommodate often work schedules um when they then that income is important to the family those types of things or could just be other family issues issues I I do want to recognize too that we have students who accelerate using the Oakbridge program who are enrolled in classes all day and they also accelerate through Oakbridge so it's a viable opportunity all the way down into uh sixth grade we believe right now um you know right now we're sitting a little over 500 at Oakbridge and before um we went into the covid online we were about 100 students at that time we
042believe that we'll be hovering right around the 300 um student Mark at Oakbridge when we start school year through the conversations that our Oakbridge um staff has had with their families that's K12 yes i' I'd like to if you're if you're kind of ready to wrap up that slide I'd like to go back to the site specific um I still had one question about the oak Bridge go ahead thank you um so I guess my question uh just to kind of cap this discussion off about um Oakbridge and our asynchronous and Independent Learning um uh opportunities uh is just do we have or or do we know if our asynchronous opportunities have the capacity to help keep our in-person class sizes um a little bit smaller so in other words if we have a big
043enough capacity for this more Flex scheduling um could that help mitigate larger class sizes on campuses well we still have to hire the teachers for Oakbridge and there is amount of students that each Oakbridge can take um on um for Oakbridge um right now when it comes to the federal and state dollars we're hoping that's going to be at this time make our class size smaller but we still have to be able to that student that's one of the reason you go 42 or 51 because we have to claim Ada for that student at one of our campuses and so that still we still have to follow the Staffing guidelines that Mr bolma in our business department says that we need to do to make sure that we're physically responsible and so I just that's
044the way that we we look at that there's still still one student just a matter if we're claiming them at the school that they're taking their four periods out I but we're still going to schedule our class sizes because we know ahead of time when those kids are going to Oakbridge so we know that the other teachers can take on more students sorry Mr Ten um yeah if I may just back up a little bit to the site specific plans um there's some things in some of those that um concern me a little bit and that they seem to carry over a lot of the the protocols that we had when we were in the thick of the the pandemic if you will um such as um closing campuses um visitors on campus uh comes
045up in a couple of the site specific plans U maragold says for example that there are none allowed others don't mention one way or another I happen to know from personal experience that some campuses are in fact closed to visitors uh I've heard complaints from some constituents along these lines as well um do those rules that are in place right now apply next year and um what what's written in these site specific plans will that indeed apply in the fall the short answer is no we will be accepting visitors um however individual teachers and this is this has been long standing practice if individual teachers choose not to have a visitor in their room for example a or something they can choose not to um but that has been the case um whether or not
046um we had Co or not now if a parent wants to uh visit for the day they have a right certainly have a right to do that as long as they don't disturb the class can you can you repeat that a little louder please Mr hanlin what's that can you repeat that a little straighten the microphone please so the short answer is yes we will have visitors on campus we will have non-school Personnel folks on campus for example cave volunteers um teachers will have the individual choice of whether or not to have volunteers in their classroom um but that's been the case preco um they will um they of course if a parent chooses to visit their their child's classroom for the day they have a right to do that and we'll make arrangements for
047that but as far as volunteers um most teachers would like to have that they've been asking to have have volunteers in the classroom to to help with um the groups of children especially given the the learning loss and that type of thing but but the individual teacher could on some circumstances choose not to have volunteers in the classroom will parents be allowed to come to the office because right now there are a number of campuses that I'm personally aware of that that they can't I mean unless you have a cell phone to call in you can't get access to the so my understanding is they will be allowed um next year um as long as they follow the guidelines of social distancing and masking that were required to by the health department mhm um so
048mold's current plan list that there's no visitors allowed will that just as a matter of so that'll have to be corrected then that'll be corrected okay thank you um field trips and assemblies um some schools say virtual Andor with safety guidelines and other Neil da for example say that field trips will just be virtual um is this something that that's going to carry over into the fall or will that be corrected to we did talk about that in some uh meetings um with um with the different School sites so it depends um if it involves transportation we have toi abide by the distancing with Transportation which can be a little bit tricky but there's also a lot of walking field trips um for example um near schools um we have them on the University some
049of our Parks so uh obviously those are much more um easy to be flexible with so um those it just depends okay um masking during PE does that in any case qualify as a as an athl a letic event or or are we going to have our kids masked during PE we believe that they're continuing to do the social distancing as a plans in with the three feet um or past the six feet that they can take their mask off I don't know if we're going to be we're going to look to see I guess that's a great question for us to ask be County Health Department about PE if we're following the same guidelines as our athletic sports about because right now our at the time a lot of our Sports were happen sports
050players were happen to be tested um so we're going to need to continue visit that with PE I mean I guess I personally feel that we should op Pine to to the county um in the state of necessary that that we'd like students to be able to engage in a rigorous physical activity without masks um okay and then um the lunches the grab and go lunches I don't know who's the right person to ask a question about that too um but um these some of this stuff the prepackaged single-use plastic um you know is is wasteful but it's also pretty unhealthy um for example the uncrustable sandwiches have um 50% of a child's daily allotted sugar in one sandwich and um uh these are the Smuckers Uncrustables 40% of their fat for the day daily
051intake so not a healthy item um do we need to keep doing those grabbing go lunches and is there anything that could be done to make them more healthy and we do have uh Vince and Saro our director for nutrition services is on the zoom so Vince do you want to go ahead and tackle that one yeah absolutely um so right now we are doing basically what what Co guidelines are allowing us to do as far as grabbing go um we definitely would like to do more and when that opportunity comes available to us we will absolutely be jumping on that as far as the Uncrustables and the items that are being served right now every single School District in the United States is biting for all those same exact products and we are struggling
052to even get enough products in to be able to serve the students that we have and that's kind of a common problem across the United States right now because there are so few items that qualify that we can use um so we are waiting for the opportunity to cook again and do normal food again and the reason you can't is because of protocols that are being imposed upon you Vince by um Health Department mainly Health Department stuff as far as like things have to be pre-wrapped everything has to be pre wrapped so that limits us so much on what we can do as far as making hot food they don't get to eat at school they have to take food home so we have to make sure that things are temperature appropriate when they leave
053campus um and so it just gets really complicated from a standpoint that I don't know if you're going home with that food or you're going to the grocery store so we have to take items that can tolerate time out of the refrigerator also um when they're in when they're on campus absolutely we know exactly what they're doing they're not allowed to Le food leave leave campus with food so we know where that food is going um we know it's going to be consumed on campus and that's safe um but when we get into these situations where we have to take food off a campus it really puts us in a in a kind of a a safety protocol Hazard there well thank you very much for being on the call Vince I didn't even know
054you were you were on so I'm glad that you are and and I think I hear you saying that that if indeed we go back in the fall we're going to migrate as quickly as possible toward more prepared food and less of this stuff so we're not going to migrate we're going to Sprint okay my folks my folks are 100% ready to go um and excited excited when the time comes so my folks are are are ready to roll is thank you thank you very much Vince really really appreciate it um is there a role for Esser dollars in and possibly facilitating you know um some some of this this this stuff the food related things because we have a lot of Sr dollars as we've discussed we do and the board has already allocated
055$600,000 for some additional infrastructure that Vince has already put in place so that he can have more feeding locations on school sites that may allow them to do less of the packaging more of the producing and the Distributing at different locations because the challenge still is 6 feet um during meal time so we're not going to be able to serve all students in a multi-purpose setting we're going to find other locations on campuses to meet that requirement so Vince is right our staff is ready to go we really do want to be serving hot meals um and some of the money already allocated out of Esser is going towards that absolutely the board has the authority to um allocate more if you feel that that would be um um needed but I'd also think we
056would also want to come back to you what would we purchase with those dollars that might meet your your desire yeah so let me can I can I jump in really quick Yes again you can Sprint sorry so let me tell you the $600,000 thank you guys so much for approving that number one number two uh what we are using that for is right now a lot of our kitchens except for the new ones that we've had done are super Antiquated our equipment is old um doesn't come up to temperature doesn't keep things temperature the temperatures correctly and so that money is going to go to updating every single one of the kitchens that's not already had a new kitchen in the last four or five years they're going to get new all pretty much
057new equipment serving equipment so when we do go back to hot food we do have the ability to keep things hot and cold longer periods of time and if we did have to keep some of those things pre-wrap and those things we do have the ability to keep those warm so we'll still be able to cook and keep those things going so we've been meeting with contractors stainless steel contractors and we're ready to cut the POS and they're going to be doing the work over the summertime and we've been told that it'll all be ready to go by the start of school thank you very much Vince and Madam president and board yep and then the other piece to the puzzle is is some of that money is going to uh extra time for the
058staff this summer so that we can man all the schools Thank You Vince yep you bet if you have any other questions just let me know well I I'm gonna call on U Miss Dolby let's see what her question is yeah it's a just a hi Vince it's just a quick follow-up question um and maybe for you or Kevin um uh do we have a timeline of when we where there may be um regulations lifted um at all like do we have any kind of idea when that might happen or if might happen sooner than later yes I don't personally I have not heard anything it's nothing every it seems to be an a stalling pattern to be honest with you right now the information that I'm getting and so my I guess my question
059around that is if it happened tomorrow would we be transitioning into serving hot food as soon as possible is that what I'm hearing yes absolutely so the thing that with the biggest thing that would hold us up is is if we said Friday we're ready to go back to normal food we would need a few days obviously to get product back in I would say we would be at the most 7 to 10 days from going back to what we would say preco serving okay great and then my follow-up question on another comment that was made um is just about the food sourcing um and so this this these prepackaged uh sandwiches that Mr tennis uh mentioned um are are these items that we're purchasing um are we restricted to certain contracts with um uh
060with um food sorry we are we are on yeah we do go out to bid every single year um and we are contracted on the on some items but this year because most of those items I mean we do serve peanut butter and jellies in our program year round um but when when Co hit most of the stuff that we buy because we do cook a lot of stuff from scratch we have to Pivot and go to those prepackaged items um and so there are limitations on what's even available so I mean we we were lifted we could serve any any peanut butter and jelly sandwich let's say so if it was white bread before we were allowed to serve wheat bread now we can serve white bread only because they don't have enough wheat
061bread for us to meet the needs of all the kids um so they're just like all the manufacturers are just way backed up on production um so we can't wait till we can go back to cooking to be honest with you so so this so this is We'll order we'll order two pallets of something to come in for next week and we'll get one pallet but we don't know we're getting one palet till the day it shows up so we're constantly having to Resource new products and it's it's um it's a challenge for everybody so this issue so this issue of of selection um isn't just from this this current vendor it would be any vendor that we would be contracted with most likely yes I mean there are healthier foods out there that are
062prepackaged so I'm just kind of curious where we would be at in in that discussion um when when the time comes no but so that would go back to those Esra dollars so let me when we buy food we have we get a reimbursement rate from the from the federal government and from the state for every single meal that comes in and when we back out labor and we back out our cost we have about a11 12 to spend on a meal so that means the entree the milk the juice the fruit the the vegetables the tray the fork the milk if I already said milk I apologize any of those things that go on there we have about a dollar anywhere from a do5 to a15 to spend on that complete meal the rest
063of it goes into labor um so yes there absolutely are products out there that cost three and $4 for an entree but that just tripled my budget and I haven't even bought any of the other items that we have to search great thanks for clarifying that Vince I really appreciate it yeah absolutely and I don't know if we've mentioned in a I'm sorry I didn't know if we mentioned in a previous one of our board meetings but um Kevin and Julie kissell Kevin boltimore continue to look at adding shade structures also to our our campuses so again we can increase the amount of areas for our students to eat outside so that's another thing that we're looking at for our food service like Shad Ro entries all right we're going to move down our presentation
064okay one one one more thing here um are you done talking about Oakbridge because I that did jog to mind um the subject of uity which plays a significant role in Oakbridge um there are secondary classrooms here where kids get uity in person when they go to class um this is because of our Am Pm schedule or something like that um but is that going away in the fall because there are some secondary classes that play uity and I want to make sure that for in-person school we don't get uity at Chico Unified in the fall I can tell you if we have no a secret this time we will be using our normal um I'm guessing we're talking about math that we'll be using our normal math curriculum that we use our CPM math
065curriculum in all of our secondary classes we will be using Edgenuity at Oakbridge right um because that is our online independent study program and for those people that choose independent study uity they have not had issues with it it was when we put it in in place of in person that there were issues and there were issues so thanks just at Oak Bridge yes okay the hybrid or amm instructional model remember the hybridm model will only be utilized if we required to meet State mandates and we'll be using the same a amm model um unless Mr hanlin is telling me any different but one change to our amm model that I will be telling you is if a family chooses to do distance learning or online learning they will be doing it o Oakbridge and
066not on one of our um Elementary sites so if we do have to go to the amm and the family again I just want to make sure we're clear on this we will not be operating it on our elementary sites as we do now they will need to to attend um Oakbridge and we will make sure that we have teachers available for that I have a question about that Miss Doby thank you um so the only like red flag I can think about right now with that statement is just um for our students who have form T um I know that there's a concern when they if they have to go to Oakbridge let's just this is we're going to play worst case scenario things get bad again with Co the state shuts stuff down
067again we we are forced to go into the am PM model which sounds awful that's literally the worst case scenario um and there are families who don't want to have their kids in the classroom and they're form 10 so they are going to have to pull their student from that school put them at Oakbridge so that they're online Learners um I know there are parents who are concerned about that scenario because they don't want to lose their form 10 status when schools open back up I think we can easily work with that especially in an emergency situation we go ahead sorry k Mr Sullivan oh I'm sorry cutting you guys off I apologize we we have the ability to um create some flow in or out of schools by approving or not approving form tens
068so we definitely have the ability to kind of hold spaces at those sites if they have to go over to oakd for some reason and allow them to come back when it when it's safe for them to do those kinds of things or we change models yeah I'd like to see that be like a a definite yes we will hold the spot it doesn't matter if you're if you're form 10 you're not going to be giving up that form intend to go to an independent learning model during amm scheduling that yep that's what we've been doing currently and I don't see us changing that going forward from here at all either okay one of the reasons why we're making this statement is because if we needed to go back to the state mandat is but
069if they all of a sudden they open it back up and we can go back full-time it's a much easier transition for us to go back fulltime instead of having teachers half the day they're doing in person half the day they're doing online which we run into now where we have over 11 00 students doing that so that that's one of the major reasons we want to be we want to be able to be quickly to be able to go back and get our kids back on their campuses without um having to switch a bunch of teachers and then um as we go down again it's um we're just showing your schedules again what will we have already in place and what there will be next year if we have to go inm if the
070state mandates and then again our distance learning model you can scroll down and there'll be some schedules for all grades again perfect okay is there any questions go ahead Mr tennis Am Pm is a nightmare for my family and I know for a lot of other families um I don't know how practical it is but um I'd like to pour gasoline on the amm bridge and and light it on fire and and and and say that we're never going back that way [Applause] um um is it worth talking about um maybe doing that and um you know I I recognize that that you know people are talking about worst case scenarios and and things like that but uh um is there a way that we can not go back to AM PM under any circumstances
071is it worth talking about an AB plan or something that that could be maybe a better alternative if it's things did come to that so we do state here that the hybridm model will only be utilized if required to meet St State mandates so I don't think any of us ever want to be back in a hybrid model or a you know God forbid a a online learning model but we do have to learn from our past experience and one of the things which is why Jay mentioned we weren't going to do the site based online instruction we need to learn from the mistakes that were made this year and we did not have flexibility um when we went when we offered the site based online that really prohibited the flexibility in the movement from
072plan to plan but I don't know that we want to say um we're I don't know how much time we want to go back into renegotiating a model uh spending the time and money in that that we may never have to use hopefully never have to use um but if that is the direction of the board we can certainly do that I would rather put our focus on the full inperson full day reopening that will come in August but if there is direction from the board to look at alternative models if we have to socially distance again we can certainly do that yeah I think if we go back to AM PM and if the districts around us continue to be open as they are right now and if the private schools and religious schools
073continue to be open open as they are right now I think that our name is is really mud around here and um we should try to send as powerful a message as possible through tonight's vote that we're not going back so again I'll point out that it's only if it's required to meet a state mandate and if it's a state mandate then all of the schools um would be required to either socially distance or be online as was the case U with the stay-at-home orders Miss Doby um so when the discussion for a hybrid model was discussed prior to my time on the board um last summer I think what is it April now um there was a lot of discussion surrounding Am Pm versus an ADB Day schedule and the ad bday schedule actually
074came onto the scene a little bit later than the AM PM idea did it didn't get quite as much of a cooking so to speak um as the amm model did and there was a survey that went out to staff about the modeling but that survey was flawed it the questions were not well written it was confusing and it split the vote in a way that made it look like teachers preferred the amm model however if the data was disaggregated properly it actually would have showed that teachers would have preferred by very very very slim not statistically significant margin the amm model model and so I just wanted to give a little context about that because I do agree with Mr tennis that the ammm model is the least ideal for family schedules um it
075has worked out for some of our older students for jobs which is great um but but the part-time either in the morning or in the afternoon and for our staff who have kids who have to go pick up their kids and drop off their kids and get back to school to teach and it's it is a nightmare it is is a nightmare and um I I support the idea um of having a plane in place or at least um having the this the framework of a plan to be able to implement an ad day bday model rather than an amm model should we be mandated to go back to a a distanced learning or a socially distant learning smaller class siiz situation under worst case scenario of the covid pandemic so I think Mr mored
076has his hand up to address that because some of this was um keeping it as simple as possible in doing what we already know and have already negotiated uh in the great hope we never have to be there again so Mr Moretti thank you so there there's two one when when the um the amm model and versus the ad b day when we looked at that before the state mandate but you had have daily contact and so part of our conversation was how we were going how would we do that when you weren't seeing the kids every day and we had you know solutions that we thought might or might not work where the kids zoom in for 30 minutes and you check in with them and then the conversation went through how do you
077get a kid to zoom in for 30 minutes on their off day when there's no incentive for them and and that's how how that we ended up in the AM PM and I'm going to reiterate what Staley just said which is we know how this work we know we hate it everybody hates it but we know how it works for us to negotiate the a day b day and try to anticipate if we went there and what the state might require and what would we have to do then seems like a lot of work with given with things we don't know yet I also want to point out in the ad B in the I'm sorry that Jay just showed it show showed the 2hour um block we are still negotiating that there's been a
078lot of feedback that so that I I didn't want me think that set in stone we're still negotiating that that um that time period that teaching time period so that's I don't know where we're going to end up but I know that teachers and everybody wants it to be longer we just have to figure out some other things of regarding supervision and prep time of how to make that longer yeah thank you Mr Brady I really didn't want to bring up your guys' negotiations so I didn't know I didn't want to step on anybody's toes on that but thank you for bringing that up so do I understand people are negotiating the amm schedule right now yeah so we negotiated it for this year and uh we're doing contingency plans for next year again so
079we had negotiated an online mou a hybrid mou and a full dayou for this year we're doing the same for next year with some modifications um obviously the social distancing rules have changed um we know that the um the uh twice a day cleaning has extremely little impact so um and it interferes um as Mr mdy said with that big time in the middle of the day where we can't have kids in the classroom so we were looking at extending that instructional time we're running into some challenges so but anyway we are negotiating all three of those models currently so that regardless of what situation we're in in the fall we have um a negotiated way to do that to implement that whether it's the will of the board or if it's mandated by the
080state we can go into any model that comes up does that answer the question it's not what I want to hear because it sounds like we're negotiating for Am Pm in the fall and I don't that doesn't no we're negotiating we finished planning yeah we we're just planning for every contingency so we have already finished negotiations on the full day um it has to be voted on by the members but um it's very similar to the other one um it's modified from this year but it's very similar a lot of similarities we're still negotiating on a hybrid and an online so that um regardless of what situation we find oursel in we'll have a plan Miss Doby thank you um I have two kind of unrelated questions the first one I think is probably for
081Kelly um hypothetically speaking as a board if we were to decide to go against the law and it were to be mandated that we need to cut our our class sizes and go to six feet of distancing or whatever it might be and we say nah we're not going to do that we're not going to listen to the state we don't like what you're saying we're just going to keep our classrooms open full-time I want to know what what the consequences could be I can tell you because it happened last year it happened in the fall a private religious school can can that suit so thank you we put ourselves at uh great liability risk and we put ourselves at risk of C oia coming in it is very clear in the guidelines I was
082reading those again today that if we do not follow the directions that from Cal oia and from the California State Department of Health Cal Ela can come in and find us if uh a individual were to contract covid and uh we were not following the guidelines we're liable for that we can get sued for that so there's lots of risk involved in not going there especially as a as a public entity again um all of the things that we're hearing right now the state and the federal government really want us back in school they want kids in classes um we are being directed that uh we have to start looking at instructional minutes again to ensure that we're meeting the inperson instructional minutes and this plan is very much focused on coming back to school
083in a full day in-person model um similar to we had prior to covid and these are the contingency plans are exactly that only if we are mandated by the state and that would be true for all of the schools in the state everyone would be mandated to do that so I don't want us to get sidetracked um by them those I think that um you know my great hope is that we don't even have to ever look at amm or online only against anybody's will again um the focus really should be on the reopening plan but I also think that we have to learn from our mistakes and should something happen uh and we have to do that we need something that we can use for the period of time that it's mandated and then
084quickly transition out of when those mandates are listed lifted we did a sorry sorry I might have over anwered no you're good actually I just had a thought we we actually did a day b day this year um when we were online I just had that thought um it wasn't full class periods but yeah we we've done the ad day bday schedule just was when we were virtual and not on campus so that that exists um my other question was um thank you for answering that Kelly actually that was really good um that's what I I needed to hear and expected to hear I think um and uh I I had another comment but I forget what it is but the other question I had was just um how how we are supposed to vote
085on this document If part of it is still being negotiated so the details of the amm aren't in this um document it is the amm schedule if it changes any negotiation items that come forward do come forward back to the board yeah our our negotiations really mirror this um and there isn't a lot of um I'm speaking for cuta so jump in here Kevin there there it's they've been very amicable and positive we've been moving through it fairly um constructively so I don't see anything you know randomly coming up that is going to be um so far out of this plan that we have to come back to the board for something we're trying to work within these parameters um and U they're they're very similar to the parameters we were in this year so
086we'll I'm confident that we'll have a plan regardless of what situation we find ourselves in but like I said we concentrated first on the full day because we fully expect to be in full day in in there and that's where we started in negotiations and and we've completed that plan already thatou already okay I I don't want anybody to be under the assumption or take take my concern about Am Pm versus aday bday as as some sign that that's where I think we should be I I fully support being open full-time um I I'm 100% behind you all for your planning that and um I really appreciate all that's going into that um I just I know what it it's like to be on the receiving end in the trenches as decisions are being made
087last minute um for not having plans in place um and so um I'm just pretty passionate about making sure that we have our backup plans really dialed in for worst case scenario so that everybody knows what to expect should you know what hit the fan I appreciate that I would not be doing my job if we didn't have a negotiated plan for all any contingencies for the board to um to act upon depending on the situation in the fall so um I we just have to have every contingency um planned for and Mr Moret has his hand up again yeah I just want to agree with Jim we've we've everything that's been presented we've already agreed to in Theus we're just still trying to figure out that one 1 a. PM schedule and how to
088do that and I think uh uh Mr Sullivan met with principls today to and and EAC to talk about that and they're going to bring that to negotiations tomorrow so what whatever we decide the only piece that you've been shown tonight that's up in the air is what that 2hour block looks like it might be 215 it might be 230 it might be something else but it's something that we will come to an agreement on so it it's it's going to be two hours regardless that's maybe I was misunderstanding that that you were saying that you were negotiating if it was going to be two hours so it's two hours currently and we we've been talking about increasing it because we're uncomfortable and the teachers have been telling us it's just not enough time so
089our our our goal is to increase that if any way we can we do have some challenges for example prep time and supervision issues and that's what we need to work through gotcha so I mean that's that's was my concern is that two that line that says two hours of inperson instruction per group daily was was my concern if it's still in negotiations um and but we that's something that we can revisit in a future and approve that's correct okay okay Mr Maran we're back with you yes and that's the end of my uh the going over the the uh the model for you guys so it's all on your guys's court at this time he um board do you have any additional question before I open for comments from the public okay we're to
090the point now where we're going to um ask for public comments and I believe we have five registered for comment um Bill do you have do you have the list yes I do um in person we have Samantha she is a student and she can come up to the microphone Samantha are you here yay that's blinding um my name is Samantha sko and you need yeah help with the there we go is that good okay there we go um my name is Samantha skeo and I'm a seventh grader at just a little okay I am a seventh grader at Marsh junior high school and the reason why I'm here is because online learning in my opinion and I know I'm not the only one is not really good for Learning and many people including me
091don't like it even including me um also in the last meeting you want to hear from other from the students in the crowd that inspire me to do this and you want to hear from students so you're going to hear and so you're going to hear it um first off I did not learn very good with screens in my face telling me information my grades were bad the oh and also welcome to the second year anniversary of a 3 we lockdown and you're basically telling everyone that you want to wait until next year basically next semester to go in person fulltime no you need to let us go fulltime now it's near the end of the year and almost everyone that has been online had having bad grades they've been working really hard and I
092have been one of them and at my last school um we only got to go in person 2 days a week for only a few hours distance R was very rough for me I was depressed and my mom had my mom and dad had to change school for me during winter break just so that I could go in person five days a week every week and this change helps me with my grades and I am not as depressed but it still isn't as good as fulltime in person I am very upset and sad that school is almost done and I'll be stuck at home all summer long on wondering if I can even go back fulltime next semester at the last meeting um we hoped that you would vote fulltime in school in personis but
093you didn't you didn't even vote quote unquote you said that it was inappropriate the whole reason why you were there was to just vote I I feel like this subject was not even given enough discussion at all and let's just say I was very upset as a school board you should do what is best for students and this schedule is not what's best for students I want you to consider our thoughts and our feelings like in your perspective what you think it' be like for us like what that's 30 continue you still have 30 seconds like think of our perspective like we go to school and all of a sudden like people decide for us that we're going home at first it was fine then it started going downhill and then it went even more
094downhill and so I want you to consider consider even just going back in person fulltime just normally cuz why not normal why can't we just have normal stuff thank you your time is up and thank you for coming and addressing us very well [Applause] done next all right Bo I'm going to be calling Scott Baldwin um you are very faint can you get a little closer to your microphone I can hear you now is this Scott hi Scott oh Scott just a moment Scott can you hear me I'm gonna go ahead and yes um you're gonna have three minutes when you hear a bell you have 30 seconds remaining I'm G to put you on a speaker phone you can address the board in just one moment okay sounds good all right M Bal go
095ahead great thank you for your time my name is Scott Baldwin and I am born and raised in Chico I'm a local entrepreneur and I have a wife who's a teacher and she's working full-time in Durham I'm also a proud parent to eight-year-old twins at the ofie elementary in my life I found that if there is a will there's a way and I'm suggesting that reopening now will alleviate stressors uh that lead to Medicated children childhood suicide divorce tangible consequences is of stress so when we hear it's just a month and a half until school is finished it sounds like a doctor telling a gunshot victim I'll be with you after my lunch the mental health aspect of this crisis speaks to urgency when we talk about the quality of education and the quantity we
096observe our children receiving 35% of the in-classroom education they should while we complete the other 65% after a long day of work and scheduled activities for our kids we observe our children's resistance to packet work at home where it is difficult to achieve Focus outside of a school setting for the duration being asked of our students when we hear about summer tutoring programs we are thinking the way back to normaly is to go back to the education model that is proven to work not to continue with a flawed education model then execute summer repairs through tutoring waivers for are we're appreciative of waivers but waivers for the option to return to in-person school normaly are not enough as an employer I've observed that when pandemic benefits were too great I had difficulty hiring if I
097did not Implement security measures I experience theft when given the option between two scenarios too often human nature is to take the easier self-serving path doing what's right is not often easy in the words of MLK the time is always right to do what's right and it's time to put our kids in school full-time right now thank you for your time thank you um next we have in person uh Jordan Colby if Jordan is here can you walk up to the microphone [Music] please I'm Jordan Colby you guys have heard from me before so that's enough well Madame President it looks like you guys have made some people really mad this year last March when we didn't know a lot about covid uh we panicked and we completely removed an important structure to our society
098public schools are fundamental to Child and Adolescent development and well-being and as we can see families rely on schools to provide a stimulating place for children to learn so last summer many schools started putting mitigation measures in place and preparing to get kids back to school full-time before the start of the school year because of how important that work is but Chico UniFi didn't put full effort into that many of us thought that when organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics came out to Advocate that policy considerations should start with a goal of having students physically present that would hold some sway we thought that once it was apparent that our local Health Care System would not collapse under the strain of covid then Chico Unified would progress forward we thought that uh once
099teachers had a chance to be vaccinated we wouldn't be having this conversation and we thought that once we had the financial backing of the state and federal government which has now poured $50 million into Chico Unified as well as the revision of CDC spacing guidelines that that would help overcome some of the logistical hurdles now I know the Hybrid wle Works for some families I've talked to them and a lot of high schoolers like the schedule you could have chosen to split the decision last two weeks ago and vote on primary and secondary but you chose not to conduct a vote because there wasn't enough time left in the semester and the need to conduct testing well we did the math on that and the students would have received more in-person instruction during the remainder
100of the semester than they have so far this year and nobody here on April 7th mentioned that they were considering eliminating a large portion of the testing which raises a lot of questions in my mind so forgive me if I'm a little skeptical that there won't be new reasons for contingencies as this school year approaches I'm certain we'll hear these reasons in August and none of them will be enough to justify continuing to hinder the education of the students in this District I request a clear commitment for a full-time return without stipulations and unnecessary burdens I would like to see a removal of the hybrid model from the contingency plan so we don't end up in a situation where families with resources can move their kids to schools that offer full-time instruction families who have
101the luxury of working from home or staying or a stay-at-home parent can adapt and the Working Families and single parent households just suffer through it and the education and well-being of those children are sacrificed that's who I'm here to speak for the people who can't come to this meeting because they're still at work or they're at home trying to help their kids with their school work right now or they didn't come because they knew it wouldn't make any difference we just fall on De ears so we need a crystal clear commitment to full-time inperson Learning Without big contingency plans thank you sir thank you yeah Bo president I'm going to be calling Kimberly casor there was a message I will try back we have one more yes we do uh it's listed here is Jeffrey
102hail just a reminder that your comments must be on topic let me just start my time I'm incredulous that I came earlier to talk about school safety I started to tell you that my wife had cancer and you said time it not on topic let me speak no sir I'm sorry but I am going to call you out of order um and you will not be allowed to speak do we have any more speakers for tonight I'm going to try to call Kimberly back thank you message okay um board we're to the point now where I'm open for a motion on the item before us I move the passage of uh 10.1.1 the Chico Unified District reopening plan for the fall 20 I mean for the 2122 school year is there a second I'd like
103to second with a friendly Amendment thank you Mr tennis your Amendment uh I move that we remove all uh stipulations associated with amm I'm uh and and and exclusively online in this in this that's not this initiative M sorry what did you say I said it's not friendly yeah Mr tennis um a a friendly amendment that completely modifies the point of the action that's being moved um to to make it something different is is not in order it your motion would not um accomplish the plan that that reopening um needs to have in place to be able to reopen with the contingencies for state and federal um uh requirements that are in the plan if we remove those we are no longer in compliance and so my ruling is that that is out of order
104that it would need to be a separate motion to V violate the law to violate the law well we would only be violating the law if we if if events transpired where where we were violating the law it wouldn't be a violation of the law to to not Institute that for for fall point of order yes Mr Orlando since it is clear this is not going to be considered a friendly Amendment let's the correct thing to do would be to Simply take the vote if we find a second and then you can offer an amendment to the motion second and we can have this discussion at the proper time okay um while I intended to vote I I I do intend to vote for this this motion um but I'd like to withdraw my second
105I don't know what else to to do I'm trying to come up with the way to express my indignation over the fact that we're negotiating and planning for amm in the future when it's clear that that a majority of the people in our community don't want it so uh I I do plan to vote for uh the motion but I'll withdraw my second do we have another member that would like to um second Dr Kaiser's motion I will second this we have a motion and a second to approve the reopening um plan uh that is 10.1.1 um um am I correct with the 10.1 point one yes okay is there um any further discussion um I'm I I have to ask a question if that's okay I have a question of order um I would
106like to make an amendment but I can't remember if that's okay before if it has to happen after the second you you can well that's my question if it's it's been seconded is it too late to to add an amendment point of order uh yes Mr landow so uh this would be the time for amendments we have a motion in a second then the Motions on the floor open for debate at that point motions to amend can be accepted thank you it's been a while since we've been corre this mode um so my amendment is that where we're at yes we are um I would like to um amend the motion to consider adding or changing the AM PM to an ad b day to to I'm sorry restate that to to to add or
107change the amm to an ad bday model should we have to go to that um instructional model I don't believe we have an A A Day bday model to vote on it would be a hypothetical so I I don't I I don't see how that could be okay put forward to vote on when we don't actually have such a thing to vote on Mr Lando oh we've certainly voted on things without a plan to back it up before Why Stop Now yeah well if if if it's not the will of the board then nobody will second my motion uh I'll second it I I I think that hey you know why not uh let's let's let's give it a shot you know if uh amm is a drag and and I I would um I'd
108be willing to try something new and yes we would be adding a lot of work onto our leadership I recognize that and I know that you guys have been doing a lot of hard work and negotiations and I'm sure Kevin M shaking his head at me right now because that means we would have to go through another mou process in the future if we went forward with this but I would still like to see the first steps taken and see what that looks like as a board get staff input and see if that would be a better alternative than an AM PM alternative and uh also hope to Heavens that we don't ever have to go there and that things just continue to get better Dr Kaiser I don't believe we ever had a a
109a discussion or a study of this for the elementary level um now you're talking about uh kids being alone every other day completely uh and I do think the Mandate of counting minutes uh which we have to do in order to uh satisfy the state um that becomes really uh credulous incredulous in terms of doing that in this model um they a lot of effort has been put in to devel veloping everything points to All Day School uh certainly for my kids I hope so um and if we were to get some kind of signal from the state that that can't happen due to health issues then um I I think uh not having had any study or any relevance of this applied to Elementary would be extremely dangerous I don't know how we could
110do it I think it's interesting to uh I think it's interesting to consider that we're the only ones that had this idea this this ad bday model has been done across the country successfully in other districts I think that there's enough information out there to be able to pull it together and and comply with whatever restrictions or guidelines we would think that we would be under for minutes and and daily check-ins and and things like that we're all highly professional educat people here I know we can problem solve it I just and and maybe I'm way off base and teachers out there are shaking their head at me saying no we don't want ad bday but um from my perspective as an educator when this all happened there was a lot of talk about the
111ad bday model because of the the things I stated earlier um and that would be full day instruction just every other day Mr Lando um in order to seek some clarity I would would like to hear from Mr berning Mr handling in regard how much extra work are we putting on you to develop anou for an ad day bday the schedule is a um relatively small portion of the entire mou so it's just a matter of developing the um the schedule we have had um other models that we had looked at previously so um while it would be some work it wouldn't be something that's overwhelming and as I said before I negotiate um at the will for the will of the board so if that's the direction um certainly I'm I'm open to doing
112that hear that and I appreciate that you that you negotiate at the will of the board I just want to make get a sense from you whether you think it's it's a feasible thing absolutely it's not it's not something like I said it's it's a small portion um of the overall mou so it's a matter of just developing the schedule um and then getting some staff input on on how that might look um and that's that's you know so it will take some time but it's um we have between now and the end of the year that when we're working with cuta so I think that's something that's that's certainly possible thank you Mr I'm sorry I didn't see who was asking to be recognized Kevin oh thank you Kevin you are recognized thank you
113madam president I just want to say it it's the the only um roadblock would be anticipating what the state would require if if if they do decide to put us back into like a halftime of whatever we know what they required this year which was daily contact and that's why we want with the amm so we could easily I I think uh figuring out an ad day bday schedule would be super easy to do and then we would just have to adjust it once the state decided whatever those requirements were and then we would revote on the whole thing again thank you Kevin yeah we'd probably build in a daily contact of some kind and it'd be easy enough to take out if the state allowed us to do that um it's it's a it's
114not a good use of instructional time on those off days and hopefully the state would recognize that that was not a wise use of time um this year for those schools that adopted an AB schedule but they they may not make that decision so I think it would be wise for us to build that into any kind of ab schedule and then we have it and it's something that's very easy to take out board we have a a Amendment on the floor uh it has been moved and seconded to um if I might restate add the a day bday alternative to the options available am I correct in what you have asked for that was a much better way of saying it than I was able to with my poor tired brain tonight thank you
115I just like that clarification because that's not what I understood so this would be a a a second version of the hybrid is that correct okay okay are we ready to vote for I I would like some clarity that I heard another option and my understanding um and I don't mean to speak for Mr tennis was that he was looking for simply for a replacement when he seconded that is that correct yes but I could I could go along with the well I just want to make sure thatle so for now I don't I don't want to tie us into a corner with just ad day bday either and say we're not accepting the AM PM I would like to see a day b day uh next to AM PM and if we have to
116go that route they both options are are on the table for us to then go move forward with um so the only concern we may want to revisit that sooner rather than later because when in the past the past year when things changed we had to make that move quickly I don't know that we want to have to wait for a board meeting to make that decision I I don't want to use the sord um but I would feel better about making whichever decision after we do the research and have the in place to to know what our families and our staff would prefer but prior to coming back in the fall yes okay that makes sense okay I I have Clarity is there anyone still okay it looks like I'm seeing heads nodding so
117um board I'll uh call the question and ask for your vote on the amendment um to add the research into the a day bday alternative and that it be um worked on and and made available for Discovery to the board before school starts okay I'm seeing Mr Hanan yes Mr Moretti your hand is not up so I'm assuming you don't have anything additional to add so board I'll call for the vote all those in favor by name uh Miss Dolby Dolby I tennis I Lando I Robinson I thank you board okay huh oh I'm sorry Mr Lando has just um mandated the the uh board president pay attention to where we are in the process yes we now have a main motion as amended before us um so board um that main motion needs to
118be moved on and seconded again because it has now been amended I'll move it is there a second I'll second the motion is amended thank you Mr landel so Dr Kaiser has um moved approval that Mr Lando has seconded the amended motion um no further discussion I'll call for the vote all those in favor I I I it passes unanimously thank you board do we need a break do we need a break we are going to take a 10minute break and can we um I don't know if summer is here now but can we check to see if summer is sum either before or after our break yeah is summer here no she's not back yeah we'll we'll check again okay too because we do want to hear from her okay so board we are
11910 minutes we'll be back at okay we are we are ready Tina your equipment's all set up excuse me it was on there okay we are now on um um number two the uh of 10.1.2 discussing the application of a chief charter school and after your presentation I will open the public hearing yeah correct that's exactly right tonight we have a chief Charter School uh that is here to give a presentation and as uh the president just mentioned after that a public hearing will open in February aeve submitted a petition to Charter with in Chico Unified and the process works that we have a uh a presentation a public hearing at this meeting and then they will be back for um for board determination at our May general meeting so it's a chance for you
120to get to hear a little bit about their school their program get to know them a bit at this time I'm going to introduce uh and invite Casey Taylor the director of a chieve to come up along with Mary Tickle and Steve Wright and she will uh she will introduce her team a little bit more thoroughly than than I have and uh we welcome them come on up oh thank you so much thank you director Keane uh good evening president Robinson board member superintendent Staley and staff my name is Casey Taylor the executive director of achieve and it's really great to see you in person I've been watching you um and calling in and I'm really glad to be here thank you for the opportunity um I first I want to thank you for your
121thoughtful consideration of our Charter petition it's been a pleasure working with your staff and I appreciate the partnership that we've developed in the last couple of years we have so much respect for Chico Unified School District your leadership superintendent daily your programs and what you're doing for students it would be an honor for us to be an official part of Chico UniFi school district and I have to say again that we would not be here without your hospitality and I actually speak on behalf of every educator and student from Paradise chicao really opened up their arms to all of us and gave us a place to land and serve our students and and we wouldn't have been able to heal like we did without you all it actually really goes to show the heart of
122this district and Leadership that you're here for all kids in our County um I would like to introduce our board who actually we have one board member here the rest are watching tonight um and and we're coming in remotely Mike Welden Dave Dixon Kim gazet Christy Leo and then we have Whit mtic in the um audience with us we have a whole bunch of staff and students and parents who've joined us and so thank you for being in person here with us tonight Mr marshan has asked that we sing a song so we could do that later if you'd like to we have but we did bring a whole bunch of happy people so um we're we're happy and smiling underneath our masks I do want to introduce Corin babber our CBO and she can
123wave over there I think some of you know her Steve Wright our school principal and Mary Tickle is our special ed coordinator and mental health coordinator she's also our school psychologist and also we have Janelle ruy our legal counsel from Young mini and core up here joining us tonight too I do want to point out the majority of our staff have been with acheve for at least 10 years of the 15 years that we've been in operation five of our original n that we started with in 2005 are still on staff with us um I was the founding principal actually in 2005 Steve was our second grade teacher Corin and Mary were both founding families we call um achieve a familyowned and operated institution tonight Stephen Mary and I will talk about our program how
124we got to where we are now a little more about our facility our trauma recovery program current demographics our plan to recruit a population that Mir Chico Unified and then answer any questions and then you're also going to hear from two students that are going to just warm your heart three three um parents our trauma recovery specialist and one somebody from our support organization and then I think you also got some letters from our parents yes great okay so let's get started here's a Chief's Mission and we've been really true to this Mission over our 15 years we've Revisited a couple of times s looking to see if we needed to change it and we really haven't uh we are really focused on creating students to be positive contributors to society in the last two
125years we did add focus on building resilience because that was a place that we are at but I'm really proud of our vision actually so our vision is to change lives and communities by addressing cycles of poverty and addiction and really focusing on building resilience and mental health strategies so North Star achieve oh there we go has always been to close the achievement gap of our low-income students we've always had a priority in our lottery for low-income students and we've done a really good job with that actually being recognized as a California distinguish School twice for closing the achievement Gap we do believe in creating Community where every student has a sense of belonging that they feel like they belong to something bigger than themselves and something that they're proud of we aim to help
126our students build their identity and see themselves as an important part of their school community and their broader Community our staff also works really hard to have high expectations for every student and provide individualized support so that students can reach their goals and expectations and then we've created this culture of goal setting and personal accountability so I'm going to hand it over to Steve Wright our principal to talk about some of the program elements that help us achieve this vision still thanks Casey good evening president Robinson board members superintendent Staley and staff my name is Steve Wright and I'm the Pres uh the principal I'm not the president of anything I'm the principal of a chieve charter school and I plan to stay in Chico as the principal of our Chico site um as you
127can see on the screen um achieve is a small school by Design This is not the best fit for every student in the world but for students who need a small school and that specializ support it's lifechanging achiev is such a special place to be so talking about programs sometimes leads to curriculums and schedules and that's part of it but our program also really Embraces our philosophies and how we teach and how we learn and how we live our life without fail when we have people come on our campus for events or tours they always comment on the feel of our campus um it's such a hard thing to capture our program in a few words and we only have a few minutes here tonight so I want to take you on a little journey
128in what a day in the life of a student at achieve might look like we start the day every day for the last 16 years with morning assembly where we bring all of our students and staff together this is where we connect talk about life the virtues habits of success we celebrate learning and other events we do sing at those often so if you really want a song tonight our staff would probably do that just saying um when students head to class after morning assembly you see each of these program elements on the screen in action students know their goal and their plan for meeting their goal staff knows the students goals we're a full inclusion school and our students with IEPs learn in the General Ed setting almost exclusively General ed students are pulled
129out of the classroom at approximately the same rate as students with IEPs we've been working on our multiple tiered system of support for the last four years and some of the highlights of that process is that every student in our whole school has access to tier one two or three interventions as needed and that often changes throughout the year we've noted two new truths as we have become more trauma responsive in the last few years number one the more interventions that we can push to tier one and offer to everyone the better our students all receive training and strategies for self-regulation for example and that's done with our counselor and some of our mental health professionals some of our reading interventions from 10 years ago are now given to all second and third grade students
130the number two thing we have learned about being trauma responsive is that because all of our students have been through trauma they often move between the tears of concern sometimes they need a certain support for just a couple of weeks or months this happens frequently with students who have been through trauma it also happens to work great to allow that flexibility to all students because of this approach which is based on meeting the needs of students where they're at most times in our classrooms it's extremely difficult to tell which students have an IEP or which students are language Learners or had a bad day or having the best day of their academic career you would see successful students all day long in every class another signature practice that achieve is what we call plps it's
131on the screen and one of our students is going to mention it too before each school year begins and at least twice more throughout the year the student participates in a personalized learning plan conference or PLP during these plps teachers parents students together review progress set academic goals set social and emotional goals in grades four through eight students are assigned a mentor that they meet with weekly to discuss goals and the habits of success these PLP goals and follow through are fundamental to the success of our students um another focus of achieve is our um desire to always Implement research-based practices this has led to the implementation of summit a new curriculum that we started this year in grades four through eight a robust Esports program our orts lead teacher is here tonight which that
132includes extracurriculars and elective courses around Esports we have a focused on Project based learning and Mastery learning in all grades K through 8 we've worked hard to avoid the pendulum swings that often come with education and be able to do new and creative and Powerful things like Project based learning and still keep those practices that our teachers have known that work forever um our staff constantly has conversations during staff meetings evaluating the effectiveness of our curriculum and practices using data to guide the decision- making mostly we believe that learning best occurs when relationships are at the Forefront achieve operates like a family it gets messy sometimes because people really know each other but we've made the choice to really know each other and our students at a deep level and to do life together that's
133a huge part of our secret sauce achieve feels different when you walk on campus the first time because it's evident that students and staff know each other deeply um thank you for your time tonight and your thoughtful consideration we look forward to answering any questions that you have thanks Steve appreciate and uh so we'll just briefly go through how we got here uh Chie was founded in 2005 by community members staff and parents um actually our founding board member is was the late Jean even who was a former bcoe superintendent and Paradise Unified School District superintendent and we all had this vision for changing students lives and affecting our community of paradise we spent 12 years in Paradise um realizing our mission and vision closing the achievement gap for students helping our students set and
134Achieve goals and impact their lives this is um daily life at achieve in paradise and then this happened um and this is where everybody in bu County came together to support students um this is where superintendent Staley really took a leadership role in the county um providing resources and support for schools providing places to land she was was constantly reaching out to me to see if we were okay if we needed help with storage or professional development mental health support um on behalf of all the schools in Paradise we'll always be eternally grateful that Cho unified also the faith community in Paradise really stepped up they uh housed all six charter schools that were coming out of paradise we ended up at Life Church which is directly across the street over here behind behind us
135they loaned us their sanctuary their multi-purpose room their Sunday School classrooms and then they had a 2 acre Field behind them I'll have to mention that more than 90% of our students returned back to school that December 3rd and a lot of them coming from two hours away farther than reading farther than Sacramento driving every day because they needed to be with their school Community uh this day we lost our community my hometown the majority of my staff grew up in Paradise actually all 236 students of our students lost their homes 43 out of our 46 staff lost their homes this when Steve talks about we live trauma recovery we were working really hard to develop trauma informed practices at our school in Paradise um and now we are we lived it so um interesting
136about being at Life Church we didn't know how long we were going to be there we were thinking maybe just through the end of the year and then we'd all be able to go back up to Paradise um I have no construction knowledge at all and I'm a kindergarten teacher by trade so I'm thinking well they've got this beautiful field out here surely we can just dump a couple of Portables out there over winter break and then we can just work out of this this uh portable school and then we'll go back up to Paradise well um it actually uh took developers Architects Engineers PG cowat construction teams mobile modular bcoe it department the city of Chico our insurance companies and others to drop everything they were working on and help build us a School
137site in six months uh I will say that superintendent Staley did warn me she said it's going to take you longer to get this temporary facility that's already built into permanent status than it took you to actually build it uh and you right yep things are moving along though we're going to get it there but yeah it's taking a long time uh so here uh is the field and our students there here's some pictures of our students returning actually in the sanctuary one of the morning assemblies Mr Wright was talking about there's camera crews in that picture there were cameras on our site all that year and even last year a lot we did use every single ounce of the facility this is our math class in the sanctuary in the corner music class outside
138an intervention pullout class in the corner of the hallway our Littles were in the church nursery our second graders are rolling out their fold up tables and chairs uh they're they're working along cribs and um hi chairs they said Mrs Taylor can we take that sign down that says welcome Toddlers and babies I'm like no you can't this is their room you're borrowing it but they were just so glad to be back together our third grade literally in a storage closet um on folding tables and chairs but we really were just so thankful to be back to school we're using portapotty those stairs were an absolute Nightmare and then this was our playground the parking lot that broken down truck was basically the jungle gym a ton of of my uh my yard duties were
139like we got to get that truck out of there I'm like no they don't have anything to to climb on that's it so um I don't I think everybody was in trauma and just glad to be together somewhere that we didn't actually when we go back and look at this it's like that was insane but we were watching this building project go up behind us really thinking that it was going to be temporary but when it was created it was so magical so this is the day that we had our ribbon cutting I love this picture because of all of the logos that are on the back there of all the organizations and businesses that helped us get to this point including Chico Unified superintendent Staley was there on that day it was a super
140emotional day for all of us this is the celebration and this is part of our playground that whole summer as families were coming on campus to turn in paperwork they were walking into our office just with tears because it was this beautiful real school that we were going to this is a second grade classroom our kindergarten classroom was just absolutely lovely and we're just so grateful so this is the map the aerial view that's at the city right now for approval um we have gone through a traffic study we've done a landscaping review um we have just purchased the 19 Portables through mobile modul modular that are on this campus I think I mentioned to you that this was a $6 million building project um we currently have our application in with the county use
141department and then it will go to the city of Chico we have included in our Charter petition that we will not ask for prop 39 we do not need facility space uh we actually are entering into a 20-year lease with Life church so while this facility has offered us a place to heal and a wonderful place to call home our students and staff have a long way to go with full trauma recovery last year's Fire season was really rough and it hit our staff pretty hard and we had to dig deep into our resiliency toolbox but luckily because of our programs that we have we actually had resiliency tools in the toolbox to pull out and we didn't get stuck in post-traumatic stress we were able to bounce back out and keep functioning so while
142our students have more healing to do we are seeing growth as a result of our programs we've been tracking survey results from our fourth through eighth graders personally and then kindergarten through third grade with parent surveys over the past 3 years on concerns such as having nightmares having upsetting memories about the campfire um having difficulty with school assignments troubl starting activities they need to or even want to do for fun having difficulty sleeping having difficulty concentrating or getting along with peers you can imagine that pretty much any student in America right now takes this and probably marks yes it was our our statistics were really dismal when we took this the year of the fire we took it in November of last school year and we're seeing some wonderful improvements we took it again at
143the beginning of this year and saw some dips in the some of these areas again we're taking it at the end of this year again and we are hopeful that we're going to see some improvement because thankfully we were able to get students back on campus for most of the day starting in October which made a huge difference for these students that were already in trauma um so I'm going to turn it over to our mental health coordinator Mary Tickle to share about how we're serving students with emotional or social emotional learning and our trauma supports thank you Casey I'd like to share a little bit about my own story before I talk about the uh trauma recovery program just because these issues are very close to my heart um I also lost my home
144along with the 95% of our staff and students in the campfire and you might ask yourselves how do you move on how do you move on after you've lost everything and we asked ourselves that question too but we realized because of the family atmosphere at achieve that's how you move on you do it together the research on trauma indicates that we can heal with the help of a of a supportive network of people and Achieve is that Network for me and for many others at our school it's my anchor when things are in chaos at the time of the fire I was working part-time with a cheve and part-time with the Glen County Office of Education I was serving five different schools I couldn't even think clearly after the fire and so I had to
145take a leave of absence from gcoe just to get my head together to try to get my life together but instead of taking time off I kept finding myself at acheve even on the days when I wasn't scheduled to work I needed to be with my people with the people who had a shared experience with me and in the M midst of the chaos it was very comforting to be there with those going through the same things that first year we had to shift our Focus to the emotional needs of our students with the help of many individuals that Casey's been mentioning um we provided different things counseling art activities for self-expression downtime built into our school day reduced academic pressure Brain Breaks mindfulness relaxation activities time in nature things like that so we're rising
146from the ashes we're overcoming our own trauma to become a trauma-informed school we know how to help kids learn despite their circumstances and now it's our turn to give back we're showing post-traumatic growth we're better than before and even covid hasn't derailed us because we know how to bounce back so how are we doing that what do our programs look like as Steve mentioned our staff has been trained in trauma responsive teaching behavior management our staff also needed some support themselves so we participated in circles of support through the but County Office of Education we've participated in different trainings by uh experts Ricky Robertson Laura Vander lipsky Bruce Perry David shonfeld so we've learned a lot about how to respond to trauma we've participated in trauma responsive systems training through bcoe and we're working on
147implementing that as well as the uh seal community of practice through bocoe and they're offering ongoing trainings and support foral implementation Steve also mentioned our habits of success and virtues projects that are that are introduced in our morning assembly and then our teachers work throughout the week to integrate that in any moment that they can so that the children are internalizing those skills and then on Fridays we award the students who have been showing those virtues we also have an afterschool program designed by Jess Mercer our trauma recovery specialist also a local artist and many other skills that she has she's designed the balance brain project for trauma recovery our first grade teacher Sarah kevit has been piloting anal program called think social and so we've receed some grant funding to be able to purchase
148that curriculum for our K through 4 population it teaches relationship skills and self-regulation skills so we'll be implementing that in the coming years uh Casey mentioned the screener that we administer for mental health monitoring the self assessment for fourth through e8th and the parent assessment for kindergarten through third grade that helps us to Red Flag students to identify those in need or just to understand if we need to take some of our uh interventions and move them between the different tiers that Casey was referring to we've had to push some of our tier 2 interventions which would normally be for a small percentage of our school maybe 10 to 15% we've pushed that down into tier three an example of that is the bounce back curriculum that's typically used for small groups but Tina Smith
149our fire recovery counselor has taken it and adapted it for use with whole classrooms so she's gone in almost every classroom on our campus and taught strategies for calming self-regulation and Trauma recovery we also offer school-based counseling we've served 44 students on our campus this year nearly a quarter of our school population they've received at least one visit between either myself Tina Smith bu County Behavioral Health youth for change we also have a Chico State graduate student in school psychology who serves students we also have a crisis response team for suicide prevention and Intervention which includes suicide risk assessments training for staff students parents and we make referrals to outside agencies and then finally we have parent training where we've taught things like recognizing symptoms of anxiety and depression how to recognize when your child
150might need something further counseling and also strategies for managing behavior and academic supports and we have plans to carry that into the future uh school years as well thank you well thank you Mary I'm really proud of the work that our staff has [Music] done and um let me see here I might have just lost my next stack of notes okay well we'll just get going here so um who are these students that we're talking about this we do have 94% of our students um are campfire survivors we know that that's going to change in the coming years as as we go on but we have noticed as we've lost students who have moved out of state we have backfilled with families from Paradise we joke not really joke that we become a campfire refugee
151camp um but that is actually we felt like that's really what we're called to do and who we're called to serve right now in the chico Community is is students who need to be with Paradise folks for the time being again we know that this is going to change and so we do want to make sure that we are reaching out to the chico community so that our demographics will mirror the chico Community uh we have plans to hit churches the Spanish language radio grocery stores preschools health clinics bu County employment and Social Services in Spanish and English we would love to work with your staff on creating anou if you'd be interested in that on our Outreach plans timelines if there's other ethnicities or languages you'd like to us to reach out to we
152would be more than happy to do that so um we do want to turn it over to questions but I do also want to mention that you know achieves Vision to really focus on students in Trauma from low-income families and in addiction really came out of my own personal experience growing up in paradise and our staff really jumped and embraced that and I really feel like before the fire we were headed to be a really um successful trauma informed school and I believe now because our staff is actually living it every day with themselves and their students they are one of the most talented trauma informed staff I think in bu County and we would um really consider and an honor to be in Chico and share what we've learned and work in partnership with
153Chico Unified and maybe bring some kind of value to the community in the way that Chico has brought value to us over the years so with that um do board members have questions thank you um yes Dr Kaiser Casey you and I were at a panel a number of years ago and then I came to your opening and uh along with Kelly and uh it was a very joyful occasion the kids were so happy and the parents and all that but I think the fact that it's horrible to talk about this is good luck but the fact that you already were headed towards a trauma response framework and then incredible trauma happens to your entire community and then for us in bu county is continued to happen I mean we've had the North Community fires
154and uh many people many many people have been displaced uh and haven't known where to turn to so I really want to compliment you and your staff and your parents and students and teachers uh I think that um you're a model that other parents and uh teachers might want to come and just observe and participate in so they too will have that sense that as difficult as it's been for all of us uh I mean those in the midst of it certainly no question greater than anybody else but almost all of us know somebody who is now in our neighborhood as a refugee um and planning to live there but they're still I think you know affected by that Refugee framework of mind so uh just congratulate you and it was a very uh emotionally
155resilient presentation thank you well I appreciate that Dr Kaiser and I I thought um Steve was maybe going to mentioned he keeps saying oh my goodness all those things that we were practicing and implementing and training they actually work can I say something about that thanks Dr Kaiser we talked about that exact same thing that you just mentioned all the time and our first school initiative around trauma um was in 2017 so we do feel like we were very poised and obviously that was for a reason so yeah and we think and that was around Asus studies we were not prepared preparing for a fire trauma but we believe these strategies would work for any types of trauma so thanks for that I have I have a a question and and a thank you for
156your presentation and for the responses to some questions earlier um I did have um I noticed that your percentage of students with IEPs was at 9% which is which is low for you know the average as usually usually between 11 and 12 um any thought about um you know why your percentage with IEPs is is low is are they being accommodated without an i or yeah up a guess we've had a lot of conversations about that actually because our personalized learning plans that every student has is basically a student study team so every single student starts their achieve career with with a student study team tracking how they're doing and what supports they need and so we don't move to the IEP process until we feel like the supports that are put in place aren't
157working and they need that tier three level of support and so we feel like and because we've pushed so many interventions like Steve was talking about um and and Mary were talking about that would normally be in tier two we just push them all in tier one right off the bat we feel like we've actually caught uh learning disabilities that didn't have to be identified and we could work through those and give students the tools they needed to be successful that certainly makes sense and I'm uh you know thrilled to see that some of the things that I know we've tried to model in Chico Unified with um uh mainstreaming our our kiddos especially in the lower grades that your um process obviously is a um example of why that works and and we continue
158to head in that direction um you know as as much as we can with with our obviously we have a few more kids yeah which is which is what sometimes the barrier is but knowing that it works is what keeps us striving to head in that direction so thank you it takes a lot of staff and a lot of flexibility and and we are fortunate because we're so small we can do things quickly that take a big District like yourself a a lot of um time to move forward you you all I did I did want to mention I realized I didn't think that I had my next page of no but they're sitting right here in front of me um that the the diversity is a really huge issue for us coming out of
159paradise without not with not much diversity at all except for income levels in Chico we are really reaching out and trying to bring diverse perspectives and ethnic perspectives not only to our student body but also bring that onto our parent advisory Council onto our board as well we did just bring Kim gazet onto our board as a community member and she's just retired from bu County as the migrant Ed director and she brings a wealth of perspectives to us and connections and resources to really help our staff um serve a diverse population we also were very intentional in our hiring this year for our staff looking to expand our diversity and we're able to do that so we're really excited about that and I just wanted to make sure that you knew that that was
160a goal for us okay we are at the point in the agenda where I need to open a public hearing yes I we will continue after I I have now opened the public hearing um Miss Doby you had a comment during the public hearing um yeah I guess it is more of a comment and uh first of a a thank you for your presentation um my comment is that I really appreciate um your fully inclusive model um and everything else that's been said um is I I want to Echo and just um really commend you for for taking that deep dive into equity and inclusiveness when it comes to students and students who've been experiencing trauma um and uh in a very very small capacity I I empathize with with um The Fallout of the
161campfire um as a teacher having taken in 15 Paradise students you know coming back from Thanksgiving break and kind of going through that experience um it takes a big toolbox to um really come out of that and and the resiliency in those kids was it was awesome and it was emotional and I just think that what you're doing is amazing and so thank you for thank you for serving those kids and those families well thank you for saying that and I mean all the Kudos goes to this lovely happy group of folks right up here who've just been working literally day and night for the last three years to just take care of their babies in their community and so they're they're they're a remarkable group up there okay now that the public hearing is
162open we are open for public comment we have three no excuse me we have six signed up um Phil could we go with the first um that is correct they do have two students that want to speak so we wanted to have them go up first please just go ahead and state your name as you start for good evening board members and staff my name is James Martin and I am an eighth grader at achieve trear school I am excited to go to PV next year I am excited to start the new cooking program I made a list of things I would like to tell you about my experience at achieve number one I studied at achieve in sixth grade before achieve I struggled in school number two achieve is family number three teachers and
163staff know me and my family number four I achieve my goals that are set at my P l p the teachers and staff know where I struggle with my work they helped me set goals to fix the parts that I struggle with number five after the fire I didn't know where I belonged and a chief show me that where I belonged number six my kindergarten brother was afraid after the fire that he wouldn't see his friends and teachers uh he was sad that he Lo we lost our house number six I walked my little brother to his classroom to show him that his teacher and his his classmates were okay and that everything would be fine number eight after the fire the staff knew how I felt they knew I didn't feel like I belonged
164here but they show me I belonged at a cheve number nine after the fire I had a friend in reading and a friend in Orville my friends and I all made an effort to stay in school and Achieve our parents made a sacrifice to drive to Chico so we could stay at achieve number 10 I feel that the staff wants us to succeed at school and become World Changers thank you for letting me speak thank [Applause] [Music] you hello School Port hello school board members my name is aah Simmons and I a seventh grader at a chief charter school I have a been at I have been at a chief since kindergarten and I've been able to stay there because of a chief getting back together so quickly after the campfire and covid-19 I have
165a close relationship with my peers as I have gone to school with them my whole life when a Chie reopened after the fire I felt excited to go back and see my friends and feel a sense of normality my experiences at a chief have been very positive the teachers and staff work hard to make your day better the teachers make class engaging which improves the school day tremendously our teachers have safely extended the school day so kids can get back to school in the rhythm of school achieve has shaped me into the young adult I am today at morning assembly we talk about habits of success or virtues I know how to handle conflict teachers and counselors give great tips on how to ground and calm yourself which is very important for stress teens school
166is a safe environment for me one of the things that is most helpful for me is talking to my mentor a few times a month my mentor talks to me about strategies for how to complete my work as well as giving me advice about relationships and life in general without a chieve I wouldn't be where I am today thank you for your [Applause] consideration up next we have a Community member Jesse Mercer Jesse Mercer here good evening board thank you so much for having me tonight and I'm not sure how to follow that but I'm going to try 895 days that's how long it's been since we landed here my neighbors my friends and my family flew from their sanctuaries their homes their schools their businesses and some of us with our morning cofes without
167any notice we landed and were deeply embraced by our neighboring city of Chico at the height of our emotional and physical wounds and when we arrived we showed up tattered hungry scared and uncertain of the strength it would take to recover from the campfire yet flocking by the thousands has only led to deeper rooted sense of community we were offered shelter clothing love and empathy immediately with no questions asked families were taken in by their trust circles employees were redirected into local jobs to support themselves and profoundly schools were transplanted into various locations such as airport terminals abandoned schools and so many more like an ash building but it did not take long although uncomfortable at first to begin settling into these new routines the expectations that were there and allowing support to guide aspects
168of our resiliency we flew into the nest of our neighbors and supporters with little to provide in return and now with some of that time of passed our own nest have become more full full of a deeper understanding of community and what we are able to offer that Community full of supporting hundreds of thousand hundreds of families who now reside in Chico and Paradise area and those that plan to stay in their new found homes I wear a lot of hats in the community one of which was kindly mentioned before as being a community artist I like to think more of myself as a community advocate in the last three years of my life I suffered a stroke I've lost my hometown and yet I have created what I think is one of the most
169interesting programs to land into a school I started the balance brain project with one intention in mind I really wish that was for me when I was younger I wish that somebody took the time to understand that my academics didn't just come in a book that it also needed to be sprouted out of my imagination I needed someone to see me for The Unique diverse individual that I was that often did not fit the fabric of paradise but it has been since I have arrived at achieve bringing pieces to make a mural that was detachable with hopes that it would shift and continue to Blossom as they move forward and did 15 for schools including those in Chico and Durham along the way it has been a privilege and an honor to serve a cheve
170I hope to advocate for their stay and resiliency in this community and thank you so much for letting me do my part to stay and Tall with them thank you okay up next we have Deborah thank you good evening and thank you for allowing me to share with you tonight I am a parent I have a son Nathan who's 19 and I'm short and I attended uh he attended aeve from fourth to eighth grade I also have a daughter Rachel who's 13 and she's been in achieve since kindergarten she'll actually graduate from 8th grade here uh next month now during my son's time at aieve I was very impressed by how he developed relationships there aieve has always had a really amazing student population and Nathan has always been the kind of kid who was
171accepting of anybody if they were friendly and kind he would be their friend and this is something that his dad and I always encouraged it's something we've taught our children but having a child in a school that has that culture and that supports that value is so amazing now Nathan is a typical kid he went through all of the growth pains and maturity awkwardness that any kid goes through and because he's my first I was so grateful to have a chieve uh to support me and say Hey you know this is normal don't freak out don't worry all the kids are doing it I'm surprised we survived sixth grade now my daughter is a whole different story Rachel was diagnosed with autism just before her third birthday and we're so grateful to have a chieve
172um on our team throughout this journey Rachel's growth every year has been amazing she's changed from a timid shy little girl who would cover her eyes with bright lights or her ears to loud sounds to a young lady who advocates for herself she knows now how to ask for what she needs to be successful and manage her sensory needs um with accommodations Rachel has been able to stay and participate in a mainstream classroom for all of her education so far and achieve cheve has always gone out of their way to provide whatever resources were necessary for her to be successful in that classroom now we of course are a paradise campfire family and so you often hear from campfire survivors and you heard the term from uh Casey tonight about our resilience um our ability
173to cope and recover from crisis it's such a common word that Sierra Nevada has actually named a beer after it so a big part of that resilience for my family has been because of the support that a chief charter school has provided um the school especially has given Rachel but by extension my entire family a sense of balance and stability Rachel does not handle change well okay like at all so we're very grateful for their support thank you thank you okay um I'm going to be calling Laura Kerr voice message I will try again Laura hi my name is D Morgan I'm a chief Unified School District um you have a card you sent in to address the board okay um you'll have three minutes at the 30 second Mark I'll give you a a
174bill and you have 30 seconds left great okay go ahead I hung up on we're back I apologize okay thanks okay go ahead and address the board hi there my name is Laura Kerr and the chief program officer with the 360 accelerator education Partners I'm here here tonight in support of achieved Char School of course I'm calling in from Sacramento to provide an endorsement for Casey Taylor uh who is a passionate and experienced School leader both locally and Statewide she's a member of 360 accelerator where she connects with other school leaders to elevate her leadership to improve student outcomes for all she convenes the weekly but County Charter leaders meeting to solve problems and share best practices across the county she's also member of the California Charter Schools Association member Council where she monitors Trends
175in public education and Prov provides a voice for Charter leaders in the North State under her leadership uh we've heard and she has accomplished amazing things especially being named at California disor school twice and she's also been able to attract uh philanthropic support from outside of ute County uh from the Walton family foundation and the Gerard Foundation um bringing additional resources to kids here um who need it most Casey is a terrific leader and cheve is a great school and a great team uh I think they will continue to complement the work that's being done here at Chico Unified and I hope that you'll approve achieve when the petition's set for a vote next month thanks thank you okay we had one other one was a parent they did not list their name but um
176they did give me the last four numbers of their phone so if you're a parent present that submitted a card okay come on up sorry apparently I can't follow directions so um good evening everyone my name is Amber and I currently have two children enrolled at the amazing achieve charter school one in fourth grade and another in eighth grade about to be a high schooler which is very terrifying after losing our home in the campfire we had to relocate to Chico and we're lucky enough to have a chieve charter relocate with us a chieve charter has been so beneficial to my children both academically and emotionally my children's Graves have improved dramatic since transferring them their last year my son's emotional state since the campfire has changed for the better due to the support from
177the wonderful faculty had achieve those are his words not mine I was lucky enough to coach the Middle School boys basketball team last year which I missed terribly this year and look forward to being involved in coaching for my younger child in the years to come I love being involved at achieve for the enthusiasm from the staff to the students is in a class all their own all of the parents I've spoken to that have kids at aieve have all raved about how well their children are excelling they are definitely an asset to the community and the City of Chico short and sweet because I have a fear of public speaking so thank you thank you okay we're finished with the requests for public comment I'm going to uh close the public hearing okay board
178do you uh have a motion relative to this uh item so if I can interject really fast the yes Tina uh next month the motion will uh will come back for um a vote right that's my understanding T there's nothing to act on now okay my script is incorrect I'll fire Erica uh don't fire Erica okay um it is kind of a a multi-step process yes yes I'm I am normally aware of that okay um do you have any additional requests for presentation next next time anything I don't I just think uh they've done a wonderful job presenting and uh it will come up a vote on the 19th May 19th so um I just appreciate the thoroughness of the presentation I have an an inquiry um I know that they are doing a tremendous
179job with their trauma informed uh processing you know dealing with Aces and other things how are we able to share their experiences with with us for the things that are working that we might be able to do and our sharing with them um information about things that Innovative things that we may be trying that that they might um want to take a look at what's the sharing process like I would venture to say the sharing is very open you know we we are fortunate we have a very good relationship with our charters in Chico and uh with a cheve as well getting to know them and working together with all schools I think Chic unified is always very open to that I know I am and I always love to to look at new ideas
180and see how we can do our work better and vice versa with achieve I don't I have not known them long but I look forward to working with them and I appreciate their presentation tonight thank you to all the families that came out and the kids especially that spoke it is not easy to come up here and speak so thank you for being brave enough to do that and uh I I know it's late I'm so sorry but uh thank you for being here tonight yes thank you okay we will move on to um our next item which is the uh Business Services item one informational summer projects update maybe maybe we can let them leave and thank them since they have school tomorrow thanks guys oh yes we'll give them a minute while I
181pick up my thank you everyone we're ready to go so um just want to point out we bring this list to you as we typically do and these projects will be funded out of the routine restricted maintenance account resource 8150 uh we have to spend 3% of our Budget on Main maintaining our facilities and this um constitutes a portion of that expenditure so I'll turn that over to John Carver and Eric ger to go over the list and show you what we plan to get done this summer related to maintenance good evening board thank you for having us thank you Kevin for explaining the our Rama portion for us um I know everybody should have our spreadsheet and you have it up there on your screen yes um a lot of these um projects that
182we do in the summer is because we cannot do them during the normal school year which we haven't had this last school year but um we go through during the course of our work and identify some of the areas that need more attention for the rrma side versus just our regular work order system uh a couple of things I want to point out is on your first one under f-wing roofing for Chico high school if you look over all the way on to the right it'll say we'll bring the contract back to the board because we have to put that out to bid because it's over a certain dollar amount and that's going out to bid next week and we'll bring that back at the next board meeting and then down all the way at
183the bottom it is highlighted those are for Esser dollars that still needs to be discussed for outdoor drinking fountains um playground equipment HVAC filters and climate control is there anything on this list that you would like to know anything about specifically Mr tennis um this is a good time to talk about the drinking fountains yes um where I come from a half a million dollars is a lot of money um what is it about this drinking fountain program that is worth that so um what we propose with the drinking fountains is our concern is when the kids come back full-time in the fall keeping our kids hydrated right now our drinking fountains are currently closed kids cannot use them because of the very nature of a drinking fountain that goes from your mouth drips back
184onto the faucet so what we're proposing with this money is to switch out our current drinking fountains with bottle fillers that'll have the option of a drinking fountain that we can keep closed until the pandemic allows us to open it and it'll also have a bottle filler so students can bring bottles from home be able to fill those bottles up at the drinking fountains um our concern is basically just keeping kids hydrated the dollar amounts so high because we have a lot of drinking fountains and if you look at the condition of a majority of them especially in our elementary schools they're original to when the schools were built so most of them have not been upgraded they're in in pretty rough shape and we don't really have that many bottle fillers so if we're
185going to have students on campus full-time we have to find a way to hydrate them and I don't think plastic water bottles is a uh sustainable option and I would just add within this budget amount it also includes the possibility of running um water lines to different locations on campus and power because there is some electrical components to these bottle fillers um I'm sorry Mr I want to keep kind of keep going with the bottle fillers a little bit I have some more information I want to bring bring up but um go ahead we already have a lot of Bot bottle fillers I mean does anybody here no by a lot I mean in the campuses that I've been to I always see a bottle filler there um does Chico Jr have a bottle filler
186I don't see Mr Shephard here so to help kind of answer that most of our schools probably have at least one bottle filler usually on campus somewhere what we're looking at doing is replacing every drinking fountain um on especially focusing on the elementaries and that number it we had to come up with a number to present to the board so if we don't use all that money we just want to make sure we're covered and if you look at how many drinking fountains are out on the the grounds not very many of those are Bott bottle filler options and that's what we're trying to provide is where the kids are out during PE during recess um we want to make sure they have options to stay hydrated okay I I have some uh input questions
187back when legislation was passed a few years ago that required us to have drinking water free you know available to the students at a certain level if my memory serves me we were very deficient in being able to meet the requirement of how much free water was available to our students will this bring us more in compliance with that state mandate on how much water needs to be available to our students Eric I'm not aware of a mandate so I'm I'm sorry president Robinson I'm not aware of a specific State mandate on on volume of water to provide we could look into that for you yeah I am unaware of that mandate as well I do know that our uh kindergarten classrooms and the kindergarten areas in particular are always asking for more drinking fountain
188space um areas where the kids don't have to wait in line as long and have better access to drinking fountains so that's been a priority for us for a while to try to improve the amount of drinking fountains we have at the school sites you know I may be associating what I'm remembering with what needed to be made available at at lunchtime it may have been tied to to that issue but something out there said you got to give the kids a lot of water so thank you Eric you're welcome and I'm I know this is an important issue for the health of our kids and just to clarify um the the bottle filler good time to talk about it because we have some experts can answer the board's questions but that will come uh
189later on the Esser allocation piece because you note that this list has those items below related to Esser so any of the items currently for this agenda item are all the items above uh that total $866,000 um Dr Kaiser yes so uh most of you may be uh too young to have seen this kind of uh material but Typhoid Mary was a plague that was carried in part by an individual who had no overt symptoms but every place she went public water fountains kids adults put their mouths on it it was incredibly common and trying to keep a kid from sticking their mouth on a water fountain is very very difficult um they literally when they realized that she was the who was spreading it uh locked her up an institution I think for the
190rest of her life because they couldn't cure her but they also couldn't contain her spread so I think in this situation this is a perfect time for us to go and change out these really contaminating water fountains uh with something that we can control and that they can still get water so I think it's a excellent idea I uh Miss Doby yes but ju let me uh stick in one question before my old brain forgets it um when we go through lists like this for approval even though it doesn't say um uh not to exceed that my experience is as a board member that when we approved all it is that understanding that it's a not to exceed amount and that if it goes beyond what we've already approved you guys come back to us
191and say hey we're sorry but we're going to need another uh $50,000 to finish this that's correct and that's why I think John appropriately pointed out a construction project that has to go out to bid it's an allocation estimate at this point in time but we would bring that back to you if it was more than what the board approved thank you Miss Dolby I'm sorry for interrupting oh no that's fine um originally my question was going to be about um what the requirement is because I'm I was sure that there must be somewhere written per number of students there must be so many drinking fountains um so I looked it up and it's here uh on the cde.ca.gov website it's one drinking fountain per 150 students and I would add to that with the
192bottle fillers that that is going to be a much more efficient system than a drinking fountain that can contaminate and and pass germs but also um that tend to be misused a little bit more than the bottle fillers and bottle fillers go into a bottle and uh then the students have it for a longer period of time so I'm I'm in full support of bottle fillers across the board personally um but yeah that one one drinking fountain per 150 I don't know if that is the same if there's any kind of like adjustment for bottle fillers or if it's the same you know um thing I just wanted to to address that question that came up a moment ago yes Mr tennis bottle fillers are closed right now I know because I saw one today
193I I toured an elementary school and the bottle filler was closed um so I mean I I'm confused because they're it's so essential we have to have access to it but we've closed them all off right now I'm I'm if we really have this need then then why are we closing off The Fountains we already have yeah I can look into that the bottle filler station should be opened right now only the drinking fountain portion should be be closed off some of them might have a control that only allows you to shut off water in one location that shuts off both of them um in those situations generally what we've been doing is bagging those and wrapping the drinking fountain so if there is one closed off I'll look into that I'd probably add that
194um anything that's closed right now for covid restrictions aren't going to be closed forever and these decisions that we're making are going to be for long-term infrastructure so um probably notable that these onetime monies get spend on things that are going to last for a long time and like I said earlier if you look at the overall condition of our drinking fountains in general this is something that's been needed to be done so this is I think a good allocation of the money um I wanted to mention too when I was visiting at Chic Jr a couple of years ago actually now we were talking about the um moving to the kids being able to have their own bottles from home with them which was a change I mean for the longest time you couldn't
195bring stuff to school I considered anyway and one of the things that the teacher mentioned was that it was so nice once they allowed kids to bring their own bottles because they get thirsty during class and they weren't asking to go out to go get a drink they had the bottle right there with them on their desk and so it was much more um convenient for the teacher convenient for the student and you don't have to recycle a reusable bottle huh oh yes there we go oh my goodness now that is a water bottle so I just um would ask the board this time really the RMA is already budget line item in already allocated so really this is information only for the summer projects will be completed the bottle fillers specifically will come back
196at another agenda item so if there's a question about the summer work we'd be happy to answer that but again we aren't asking him for Action we're just providing some information um this is an information only item and uh do we have any requests for public comment I don't see any okay thank you then uh Eric and John you're done thank you thanks guys you do great work thank you very much yes thank you so much for all you're doing okay can't get the mouse to move yep it's this is the um housing plan and the pupil Grant grants for new construction funding of a cafeteria multi-use room at PV High School J Julie are you live yes I am can you hear me yes we can thank you good evening good evening uh thank
197you for having me tonight um this is a public hearing so I do need you to open the public hearing please I'll open the public hearing on this issue thank you so this issue is um the resolution is regarding a funding application for our project that's well underway at Pleasant Valley High School uh we are replacing the current balla Hall that is under sized for the student population at Pleasant Valley High School we're using a uh school facilities program called minimum essential facilities um which which we have to show that valhala is inadequate and that we needed a larger space to to feed the students in our population at Pleasant Valley High School um because we're funding a project that is a cafeteria and not a classroom the office of pool of public school construction
198requires that we pass a resolution where the board is acknowledging that they are utilizing These funds outside of housing students in a classroom environment and um Ty basically the um California Department of Ed loads a classroom at 27 pupils and so this would be saying that at Pleasant Valley High School we're going to be loading at 31 to1 which is uh below what our normal loading is uh for the funding of this project thank you Julie um board members do you have any questions of Miss kle regarding this uh request okay then I'm going to ask is there any public comment that's been and no public comment requested then I'm going to close the public hearing okay um I would like to move uh the passing of resolution number 15 33-21 in order to meet
199the state requirements um and the application of this funding for the cafeteria multi-use room pbhs you just answered my question do we have a second I'll second okay we have a motion by Dr Kaiser a second by member Doby you want to take a drink regarding passing resolution number 1533-1603 okay board we have no further discussion indicated all those in favor indicate by saying I I passes unanimously okay bid authorization for site work and installation of one relocatable building at Sherwood over by Chapman yes so this Project's been a in the works for quite some time it will occur on the property that is owned by Sherwood montauri School uh directly adjacent to Chapman Elementary School in Chapman town uh you might recall that that used to be County uh property there so we had
200gone through the building um approval process with the county and then had to restart and go through it with the city of Chico so it took quite some time time uh it did bid just the other day and we were very happy to receive five uh competitive bids um all of them local companies and the lowest responsive bidder was RNR horn for $225,500 which is well under our construction budget so we are thrilled um to bring forward to you tonight for bid approval to move move forward with contracts with RNR horn thank you okay board do I have a motion on this item so moved second I have a motion and a second um no public comment thank you so uh I call for the vote all those in favor signify by saying I I
201I I thank thank you passes unanimously okay charger School Julie um background information you want to present on why this is coming before us yes so the measure K charter school facility committee has met and approved a project to bring forward to you as board a project at Force Ranch Charter School to provide some outdoor lighting that will light the southern portion of their parking lot they've had some uh issues with um some unsavory folks hanging out um in the evenings and they would like to be able to light that parking lot up uh so when their staff is coming and going they're they feel safer so the project request is for $110,000 and like I said the charter facility committee already approved it and they do have enough funds that were allocated through measure
202K to cover the project thank you um board any questions of Miss kissell no public comment okay do I have a motion I'm move to approve this item I second I have a motion by board member Dolby a second by Dr Kaiser um any further discussion by the board okay I call for the vote all those in favor signify by saying I I thank you passes unanimously oh the free removals I'll bet you this is yours still miss Kissle it is thank you so you may remember uh about a month and a half ago we came to the board um requesting one tree to be removed in this area and mentioned that we would be bringing back another item for additional trees so that brings us to where we're at today um when we developed
203the stadium project at Chico high school we did remove um some large sycamore trees that were in line with these trees that you can see uh in the diagram provided um we we try to be very conservative when it comes to removing trees and um we I guess looking back we probably should have taken the entire row at the time time and we did not so now we are experiencing some issues uh pointed to with the arrows on the diagram the debris that lands on the track um you can see the track is clean now but when the leaves are falling and the pods from the tree are falling on the track they have stained uh the track in some places and it's become a maintenance issue um there's a number of other issues that
204have come into play with the trees that are discussed in the agenda lead sheet I do want to mention to you that we have assistant principal Brandon Kesler on the zoom he's been so patient um being with us tonight and he's here to also answer any questions um that you might have about the specifics of the site uh so I'll open it up to any questions that you might have Dr Kaiser well I wasn't familiar with this type of asht tree so I looked it up it's one of 10 trees that they say never ever plant in your yard um so my comment is simply I mean I think this is really critical uh having a track that got put in at Great expense be uh damaged by these trees but also I really do
205think think that um we need to be far more careful about the kind of trees we plant because I mean it was literally just put it in and it immediately came up don't plant this tree and uh for all the reasons that you cited here so Brandon fix it thank you Dr Kaiser Miss Doby uh yeah what's um what's our policy or our plan plan for replacing trees that are removed um just in general either nearby or on another campus or is there a replacement policy or or plan um and can we clarify that at this time kle we do not have a current policy for tree replacement but I as I did note in the lead sheet when we developed the stadium we we planted over 40 new trees when we removed only eight
206so as part of every construction project where we're doing uh Landscaping we're typically replacing over 200% of you know the trees that we're removing um we're only removing trees if they are a health and safety issue thank you Julie any other questions board this this seems more like a convenience issue than a health and safety issue in my opinion but I'm going to just leave it at that well actually um it is causing quite a bit of problem um on the baseball field which is on the other side of these photos to the left of the main photo in the center where they are shading the field so when the kids are playing out there they have a portion of the field that is in full sun and then they're transitioning into full shade and
207uh when they're playing their sport it is um it is a bit of a risk when they can't see a ball coming at them suddenly um so that is a safety issue as well as on the track um the PE the the pods that fall down from the tree um are slippery and the leaves are very slippery on the track as well and although our crews do a great job at trying to keep it cleaned up in the fall you know it's it's really hard to keep up with and I'll add on to what Julie was saying as well um every year these trees like Dr Kaiser was talking about they drop everything and they drop everything all at once um and and then begins to rain they drop on that track that whole corner
208you can kind of see it in that middle picture right there um that slight shadow in the corner um that's actual staining that is taking place on the track so my fear is um the excessive wear and tear on this track and in that just one location um that that could happen as a result of continual just dropping they sit um it's you know it's it's not as simple as hey they drop you go out there and you pick them up um we we have a phenomenal grounds keeper but he's one guy taking care of 40 acres and we have a beautiful campus um with with a lot of great trees that that like to drop a lot of leaves so um that that's my my big concern there um as well as that that
209small area um as you can see those trees and it was kind of discussed these trees were planted by a former baseball coach prior to this Stadium being built um prior to us having an all- weather track as well and like Julie said they extended um all the way down uh towards us in this the picture in the middle um as we're looking at it um so now that we have this Stadium we have this track we have this fencing all those leaves drop and they sit in that area um and create you know damage to to all the other uh infrastructure that's in there that those that baseball area behind those trees to the right of them in that Center picture um that's a batting cage for our baseball program um there's storage containers
210there um so that that's my main concern um as well as the limbs dropping uh you know we've had a lot of wind as of lately as well baseball starting up um in the springtime right now typically Springtime is baseball season um and a lot of Storms and winds and we're constantly going out there and and hoping that a limb you know doesn't fall during a game during a windy game um and like Dr Kaiser said they're they're they're not the best trees to plant right there yeah I agree with that assessment for sure I I I would definitely feel a lot more strongly about removing trees if it was a different species um however I my original question was um if there's a plan to plant any more trees uh triggered by the removal
211of these three trees or is that not something that we're going to follow this up with oh Kevin thank you I'd like to answer that we are happy to replace a one for one so if we take out a tree we're happy to find a better location I'd actually like to ask for a five to one just like was done for this project if it was 40 trees were planted for the eight that were removed it would be nice to see that continued as a 5: one as far as a grown tree and the carbon offset and the shade that it provides and etc etc the benefits of of having more tree would be better Miss Doby um along the back side of the bleachers there along Warner uh we wanted to plant large trees
212there where we had to take out some of the CER trees in order to build the the bleachers however there were overhead power lines there and P would only allow us to plant trees that were only going to grow very they were ornamental so they weren't going to grow really tall um I would suggest that we we take some time to have a look at that area back there and now that PG in the city of Chico and Chico State and Chico Unified are working together to underground those power lines we may be able to plant some some nice trees that will um replace these trees and become mature and large um and provide shade to the sidewalk along Warner and behind the bleachers that would be a really nice Improvement to the stadium thank
213you um do I have a a motion I move 10. 2.5 do I have a second to the motion second Mr 10 a seconds any further discussion no public comment um all those in favor signify by saying I I I I I passes unanimously thank you I just I didn't vote um oh oh I'm sorry it's okay um uh I'm gonna I'm gonna vote no okay we have one no vote for yes and just for comment sake I would vote Yes if there was a guarantee higher number of replacement trees that's just my that's just my philosophy thank you okay temporary borrowing between funds our annual annual resolution um good evening board so before you this evening is a resolution asking for the ability to temporarily borrow funds from the general fund into two other
214funds so chica unified runs two programs our state funded preschool program at Four elementary sites as well as our nutrition services program both of those programs are recorded outside of our general operating fund so as a result they have their own cash fund at the County Treasury there's government code that requires that these funds stay cash positive after the fourth Monday of April of every year so we bring forward this resolution to allow temporary borrowing of money from the general fund excuse me to make these other two funds cash positive these programs are reimbursement based so our preschool program is based on enrollment funded enrollment on reimbursement as well as our nutrition services on meals we have any questions from the board do I have a motion I would 102.6 do I have a second
215sure I'll second resolution 153 4-21 I have a motion from Dr Kaiser and a a second from um member landow um do we have any uh public comment I should have asked for that before okay I'm going to call for the vote um all those in favor I I I are we all eyes um I think this was supposed to be a roll call vote because we didn't all agree on the last right you are absolutely right yes thank you Miss Dolby Dolby I yeah tennis I Lando I Robinson I thank you it is it is unanimous it's is is uh it is what time oh my goodness it's 9:30 let's let's get quick here folks get quick um we on Julie are you aware that your microphone is on no thank [Laughter] you I
216didn't hear what she said okay we have discussion budget allocations for programs to address learning loss support and personal learning and further develop the multi-tiered system of supports mtss from Co Mr boltim I do believe okay we're bringing back the list that we showed you at the previous meeting where you authorized um all the items that we've highlighted in green that was 12831 million the rest of the list we brought forward um we've removed all the items that had a question mark about our ability to justify the use of the covid onetime dollars and that total now for all the items just in white is 20 million so you'll note that what's left it totals 41 million and there's a reminder if you look at the top we have 44 million so we're leaving some
217capacity for the things that we just don't know yet we also think that these are very conservative and um uh rough numbers so I think we'll see savings that we will also be bringing back to the board because we do have to spend all these dollars according to the timelines one correction and you'll see two attachments in your agenda is that under the 2.5 million uh right above whisper rooms and the first one that went out that description did not show up and in the updated one that 2.5 million is shade structures and picnic tables so just to clarify the whisper room allocation is 300,000 the shade structures and picnic tables is the 2.5 and we sent a corrected one along within the agenda thank you I I see that okay so okay do we
218have any questions just Mr tennis um the tutoring um $3 million if we're back in normal schedule what form will that take that's a great question we had this discussion when we went over this budget I believe if we go we're going back full-time U Mr tennis I don't believe that the $3 million will be needed um I believe the 1 million one what I talked to the business services about was if I was going to estimate what I believe if we're back fulltime would be both Summers and some of the after school Extended Learning ear that money we're going to need I thinking if I'm going to put a ball apart here I'm thinking we're going to need about a third of that can we you mentioned after school program can we create more
219slots for you know I know sometimes there's waiting list issues for the the um Tina Kean knows a lot about this yeah but the card that then but then there's the funded version of the card which is the yeah blast and I I they kind of run together in my head but I don't know just just a thought I mean can we yeah one of the programs we're looking at right now is cuz Marsh does not have a blast program and I know that um Miss Camp has been in conversations with Mr Bola and Mr Shepard about adding a blast like after school program at Marsh because they do not qualify for the blast program on their campus and that's one of the things um we're working with the after school program to develop that
220and what that looking they're looking at possibly a $200,000 cost I believe to run the same type of program at Marsh um next year so that is one of the things that we're looking at um summer school you know I don't I don't know I guess we're on for three two week sessions of summer school currently um I'd be supportive of an additional session um I know my kids and family would would like that and benefit from it um so if you think we're only going to use a third of that given that we seem pretty gung-ho around here that we're going back in the fall maybe there's room to talk about you know what we could do with the the gravy train of the what what's left of that and I believe that's what
221our conversations was because with Mr Bol is really we when we're looking at how much money that we will have left and want to keep and almost I don't want to say a savings account but we don't really know we want to be able to have some money to adjust if there's something that we need to add like you're saying that more after school programs or more Extended Learning or more summer school sessions as you're talking about we want to be be able to move money that through so I talked to Mr bolman actually m m Krueger about this about using those extra $2 million funds to keep into a bank where not a bank but in in in a fund where we know where we want to make adjustments to what we need for
222this learning loss because right now we we're stepping into something that is new to us even these three sessions that we're talking about right now and asking parents what they need we might clearly need more we might need a whole summer Worth next summer or those kinds of things we just want to have that money available um for that to have a case and I have no problem if we wanted to shift 2 million of that into into something else so we know we can come back to you guys later and say okay we see that we need more of this can we move this money into that am I explaining that well enough Kevin you're a lot more think that's fine this is the purview of the board to allocate um again we think
223we'll continually bring this back and report to you um but if the will of the board is to look at the 3 million for tutoring turn that into one and create a new line item for for $2 million for after school programs or additional student services we're happy to do that Dr Kaiser I have just in comments about from parents and again I think everybody's in flux you know nobody knows what's really going to happen and if travel opens up people but it seems like a lot of them are reluctant to commit right now to summer I mean those are the kind of comments I'm seeing so I am uh and we get to have this next summer as well right this money yeah and so I'm really comfortable with us laying out what we
224think is a reasonable you know aggressive support structure but I wouldn't want to have then next summer be an empty basket I'd want us to be able especially I think to be able to continue so that if we see things that are working and Achieve is very impressive with things that they come back to and continue for kids and families um so I think it's good for us to have a little bit to hold back that we know we can spend that we have to spend but we don't have to spend it right now that would be my headset I have a question regarding um overlap of scheduling if if we have three sessions now scheduled Mr Marshon um do we not have a early back um uh programs to do do we have time
225to to schedule another session well right now what we're planning is two weeks in June Mr Sullivan's coming up we're going to do a couple two weeks in July and one week of early back that's our plan for the three as of right now um we could look at those dates to see right now we want to go back out and send dates out for teachers and people to see if they're available to teaching those different times um right now we believe we have like a little over 70 teachers are willing to work during those three different sessions not all of them the same one I think we have 46 or so for the first one but right so we uh we certainly want to follow the direction of the board here we are hoping
226to send out a schedule to parents maybe Friday of this week with registration information coming out the very beginning of May for these summer sessions so if the board's looking at something different we're hoping to get information out sooner just so families can start planning accordingly also I'd like to just add one of the challeng es will be to recruit teachers that want to to teach during um the summer so we have a finite number of Staff willing to do that so even if there's money allotted we may be in a position where our veteran teachers are not interested in doing additional time during the summer so then then the decision is if we go outside the district to hire we may not be getting quality folks that that know our instructional models and our
227curriculum and everything so it's just a just something to consider Mr suin we currently have six or seven weeks planned out of the total 10 weeks of summer break we currently have five weeks planned like Mr marshan said we're going to do two in June two in July and there's a lot of discussion about coming back in August and it kind of became a schedule crunch of getting into classrooms where teachers are going to be prepping to start their school year so we are looking at doing a onewe kind of uh academic review in August an early back like what board president was sharing there so there's not three two we sessions there's two twoe sessions and one one week session at this moment in time do uh Mr tennis's question regarding uh adding do
228we have enough funds the way it sits right now to add if we if we see that we can yes I think it was pointed out by Mr tennis and and supported by Mr marant that we could not spend the $3 million for tutoring and we could apply any amount up to that 3,000 or 3 million as an additional Lem so yes there are available funds to do that and summer sessions would be considered tutoring that's what that's under the 3 million that that we're asking for it's under the summer session so even better we wouldn't even need a different allocation we would just need to follow the board's direction to utilize those tutoring dollars to provide additional summer sessions Mr tennis did you want to put that forward in the form of a motion
229um yes I think that we should make more funding available to um fully staff and increase summer summer programs um I got excited when superintendent Staley said that we had 10 sessions 10 10 weeks or eight weeks out ofs and you you you said maybe incorrectly that there were six or eight yeah anyway I I'd like to have more not less summer brecks and and I'd even be willing to um support you know increasing compensation to out of this pot in order to get staff there to run them because I think that's where our community is at right now I think that there might be a lot of interest out there for summer programs so I I will share not that we we certainly want to follow the direction of the board with this when
230we've done our surveys initially a lot of interest in June a lot of interest in August not as much interest in July from parents or staff so we've actually talked about not having at every site in July just because lack of not say lack of interest but less interest and kind of honing it down to about three or four schools and kind of collectively running the sessions out of those schools instead of one at everyone just because we've not had enough uh responses yet like I said we're going to send out information follow-ups this Friday was our hope and registration starting beginning of May which might give us different direction to go also I could support you know focusing and concentrating it in uh in June and August also because there you you're kind of
231carving up the middle of the summer yes Miss Doby uh so for the June session the two weeks in June right now as it's slated is that going to start the week after school gets out or will there be a one week pause it's slated for June 9th because we have a several uh PD sessions scheduled on the 7th and 8th and we know there's a lot of teacher interest and going to like a wonders training and amplify science training so we've got those scheduled for the Monday and Tuesday with this starting on Wednesday and it would go until the TW Wednesday the 23rd the 18th is what we're looking at right now oh yeah so I would be supportive of actually having a just a longer can we just do a longer June session
232instead of making it only eight days if that is the will of the board we can certainly move in that direction I think I'm just confused on what the what the thought process was I'm I'm losing my words right now well we ended up talking to our teachers about at different meetings and seeing what they you know coming right off i' get I get Summer coming off this past year or year and a half it's not just a summer break just about coming off of what we're coming from um what they thought comfortable um exhaustion Wives coming to teach and I think most of at the time I think our principls actually were talking about when they were talking to their staff that did two weeks right off to get-go that they were more favorable
233of than the three weeks we thought we could get more teachers to correct um want to be able to work the two weeks versus the three again we can clearly go out and ask our teachers again to see if they would to do the three weeks but we've talked to them about sharing those weeks and those types of things too we just want to make sure we can meet the needs and not pro put out something that we can't fulfill I understand so I think it's to me it feels a little misleading to say that they're going to be getting two weeks of of uh a twoe session because they're not getting a twoe session the teachers are going to be working for two weeks in June but the students would only be in their
234summer session for a week and a half so um I would be at least more supportive if if the summer session was actually pushed out to the week of the 14th um and ran to full weeks at the very least where that week after school gets out is a professional development and you know getting ready for the summer sessions and Etc um so I'm I I still am a little bit confused why this this was planned out as a two-e session when it's not a two-e session for students I I think there's a lot of discussion about ending on a Wednesday seemed very awkward to allow the teachers are going to be teaching I agree that's why I said push it out to the next Monday so not the week a right after school gets
235out but the Monday after that week so that the week of the 14th is is a full full week and a weekend after school gets out and do those two weeks okay does that make sense yes um just my just my thoughts then we would be offering at least two full weeks of summer session for students not not only eight days Mr Lando I was just going to say something very similar thank you that I think the 14th through the 25th gives the two weeks for advertising while also giving the teachers a little bit of a brain break those last you know 10th through the 13th I think that's a win-win for everybody if the teachers are on board with it which I would love to find out whether they are have we looked at
236that schedule already have we floated that by them we've shared it with Elementary DLC several times and that that's why it's kind of morphed a little bit with some of those things is kind of based on a lot of the feedback about like I said in August a lot of just interest on their part of being able to make sure they can get back in their classrooms and prep a lot of interest in being able to attend summer PD sessions those first two days back so that's why the schedule's been kind of pushed and pulled a little bit different directions Mr Tannis can I make a motion Associated yes with this um I don't think so if we're still discussing it uh okay we're still in the technical questions clarification I'll float a concept out
237there um and Signal my intent to make a motion at some point um I think that you're making good points and I agree with them so we got off school on a Wednesday is that right school no did I miss that Thursday right when was the brain break that you you thought of in any case we're suggesting a twow week summer session in June how do we feel about a longer more substantial early back in August clear out July for people to have Bonafide legit summer vacation but but make more you know um it's gonna will be closer to a full-time schedule in theory the um right okay that what what superintendent Staley shared was one of the uh big chunks of feedback we received from classroom teachers was they're going to have some like
238where we hold the summer sessions is really in classrooms when teachers are out so they have some desire to get back in their classroom typically a week or more before so us holding it closer to school like that kind of puts them off being able to get back in their classes and start preparing also with those things what's the what's the date set for the early back week August 2nd through 6th currently um the 12th and the 13th will be staff development days for all staff so you'd only have 9th 10th and 11th of that following week but I do think we might have gotten off the intent of the topic well I I I think again we're talking about allocating the rest of the budget I think there's dollars within the tutoring to do
239these things I think the details of what the board wants is important so that they can communicate out to parents but just as a reminder we are asking you to allocate an additional $2 million here for all these other things um so I just wanted to kind of work through and see if there were any other concerns about any other items as well I am concerned about the the drinking fountains um I I feel that there's already a lot of these bottle fillers in schools because I personally have seen them um somebody who wants to fill up a bottle can um I don't know it just sounds like a lot of money for for bottle filling drinking fountains these things cost um I looked it up on Amazon and I think they were like I
240thought they were 11,200 a pop on on Amazon this just you know I mean um I don't know that's just a lot of money I'm not comfortable with that line item Dr kaer I believe we've already approved that and I think what we're discussing here is simply not the absolute specifics of the date because it sounds like there's been quite a bit of discussion back and forth and you would have to go back and see if you could get teachers and stuff but but to me the message of this is that we do want to extend more funds to deal with these issues and uh I would rather not tie down things to exact dates but if the funding is approved in this then I think there's been enough discussion here where uh you could
241go back to both discussions with teachers but also potential hiring because this is going to be u a really big thing I know as uh somebody who you know taught summer sessions it's not something you want to dive into as you finished your last grade for your last student you you need a a break and a reset on what you're going to be teaching so I it just seems to me that we ought to I think there's been quite a bit of feedback about the interest in in more but um I don't think we ought to tie ourselves down to doing an exact date now um rather to say move with the money and then I think we've there's been a lot of communication of intent or desire perhaps I should say so do do
242we need to have the dates figured out out though if we want to be sending stuff out to parents Friday yes right I have taken your thoughts to Heart here and I will be talking with Christy bankson helping organize it and I will be talking to her bright and early tomorrow morning and looking at what we might be able to revise as far as dates and kind of expanding some of those opportunities too thanks Ted and if it if it seems like July is a wash um I I wouldn't say it's a wash there's definitely interest there was just a little bit less interest in July so like June and August we have enough interest where we're going to hold something at every site almost accommodating not quite every grade level but almost every grade
243level ju July there was just a little bit less interest so it looked like we could kind of squeeze them together and hold it at three or four sites throughout the district then what I was going to say is maybe we make the early back a two- week session and hold that the last week of July and the first week of August that that was our original discussion back a couple weeks ago so it's possible I'm sure you guys have had all the discussions I know that we're up here not the only idea makers at all so I'm sure we're spinning wheels at this point um the point is is we need to spend the money right Mr tennis if I could ask what was the line item that you were referencing the three million
244that I'm lost in finding it oh that's in the green that's already approved in the green the green section water bottles are the top of the second page the um drinking fountains no my concern is that that we accurately reflect in in what we approve what is the discussion that um that we we want the the monies allocated to the summer program yeah as much as possible as many as much as possible exactly you know and that falls under the tutoring category right yes okay yes so that's already the three million already goes towards the summer program I would be supportive of additional funding for teaching staff um especially if that is a necessary um need for recruitment um are they getting paid their daily rate at this point yeah because normally during the summer
245school we would ask for volunteers for they get paid $100 for their 4 hours of work but this time we were going to their hourly rate which considerably um increases the amount it will most likely double if I'm going to estimate what they would normally get yeah $100 for four hours of work isn't enough again that's why it was voluntary they didn't have I agree um so I I had another question if if that's okay yes ma'am um so there's the item for athletics um and it's $350,000 and I am a huge supporter of fans or fan of sports uh I was an athlete but um I was wondering if there is um any Equitable spending for other types of um Team or individual type uh extracurricular activities that are that are you know similar
246to sports but that maybe Athletic kids AR aren't interested in doing non-athletic kids aren't interested in doing you know what I'm trying to say climbing or something like that or music hiking This was um and correct me if I'm wrong here J but this was designed to offset the loss that they had in income this past year where we really don't get income from the other programs from otherr to pay for the officials well and everything else and plus the addition of Junior High m activities sports activities but again um Kayla we can also offer Extended Learning in band and we do have money set aside um for that too could be banned any EXT other extracurricular activities if a teacher came forward and say we want we need to um improve the learning lots
247that we've lost over time and those other things and we can clearly add those too I I would love to see you know whatever we can put towards those types of programs Arts the Arts essentially performing and um expressive Arts just because um those are part of our social emotional you know uh supports um so I I didn't really see anything specific to that on this list and I just wanted to address it and make sure that we're all cognizant of of supporting that as you know to the greatest extent possible yeah I know that was um one of the intents under the secondary summery was trying to get um some interest from teachers in those areas and and honestly I do not know uh if we've had people come for forward from the Arts
248I thought we did have art but yeah not much not yet we're continuing to work on that some of the things that we have added like U we know we have some rocket science rockety being taking a couple stem ones that are going to be coming up through Bidwell through sciencey so those things will be happening but we continue to reach out to see if people want to do things yes yeah and to extend that to our our after school programs and make sure all those are funded with the supplies and materials um that are available for students um for those types of activities okay okay Mr Mr marshan Mr B you've heard the discussion regarding the interest that the board wants to take in directing funds um so that that we accomplish do do
249we need to make any um line item changes in order to be able to accomplish what clearly the board's interest is I don't believe so so as it relates to any of the summer that's already covered under tutoring uh we've heard um trusty Doby's input on other than Athletics some other additional extracurricular um so Ed Services can work within an allocation already made in that space it really Mr tennis is not comfortable with the bottle fillers is the only line item that I've heard that may want to be adjusted at this time yeah I mean I would suggest maybe allocating $200,000 to bottle fillers I I I I don't like plastic water bottles I really don't I I I I hate them uh as a matter of fact and I think they're yeah I don't
250I don't understand didn't didn't we already pass the water no it's did this one no it was discussed but it wasn't it wasn't part of that agenda item it was included in the um summer work as a as a line item on the bottom as information and we noted that it would come back in this port of part of the conversation so but if it's uh excuse me I'm just trying to clarification if it's a uh amount not to be exceeded right correct they that yes I'm I'm just concerned about all this work has to be done in the summer and if they have to come back to us for a vote we won't NE we won't be necessarily you know having a meeting well it depends on the location of the replacement of the
251bottle filler there may be locations that we can actually do some of the installation during the school year so it wouldn't preclude us from doing that um obviously we won't do as many as we could we won't get to all the school sites and add more but um but we'll we'll fit within whatever the budget allocation is that the board makes whether it's 200,000 or 500,000 for bottle fillers I'd also like to point out that um it's 250 slated each year for the next two years so it's not 500 up front it's it's 250 this coming year and then 250 the following year so we could find that after the first year it's all good and done and we don't need anym or we might say oh good thing that we approved the full 500
252because here here we are we need a little bit more um the water bottle filling stations are typically used to fill clean canteen or steel water bottles not plastic water bottles yeah just speaking from experience as a classroom teacher with lots of of clean canteens left over in my classroom at the end of the year and IDs it aome Mr German if you between now and uh the next board meeting if you could just give us an a number of how many water stations we have out there that would yeah and and I just want to make it clear too that it's not just bottle fillers that we're going to be installing so most of these units are a combination unit the ones that we'll be doing so they'll have access to a bottle filler
253and a drinking fountain and in some locations it may just be a new drinking and replacing one if that location can't support a bottle filler so I I don't want the board under the impression that we're only strictly putting in Bottle fillers this will be upgrading most of our current drinking fountains um because of the the condition they're currently in as well as providing the baller bottle fillers and our intent is to help eliminate the plastic water bottles because without the option of the bottle fillers we're stuck with possibly the only option being plastic water bottles given out to kids throughout the day to keep them hydrated and we're trying to avoid that maybe we consider adding providing our students with refillable water bottles as part of this item just a thought yeah yeah one
254of the things that um you know that I observed in when I was uh doing campus supervision and stuff during the summer was the uh the drinking fountains don't put enough pressure out so that the student doesn't have to put their mouth on the drinking pountain that's the old problem and it was one of the reasons why so many students refused to even use those fountains was because you couldn't get a drink of water without putting your mouth on part of the appliance and so I'm you know after walking around and living with what's out there I'm so in favor of replacing those unsanitary not available um you know fountains we we don't need kids lined up five and 10 Deep to get their water and get on to class or on to you know
255in my opinion more is better well and I think this really helps us with facilitating getting our students back onto campus fulltime as well because you know hydration is is a uh key component in that and I think you know using these funds to help get our students back on campus full-time is I think everybody's goal so okay um I'm gonna call for a motion is there a motion from the board I move 10. 2.7 is there a second I'll second that I have a motion from Dr Kaiser a second from Mr landow any further discussion could I propose a amendment to to lowering the $500,000 to let's just say 250,000 the $500,000 isn't part of this oh it's motion I thought it was I thought it was Oh I thought it was on the
256summer work no it's on this one this is the spending on here oh okay it's on the second page so I is there a second I hear no second okay okay board are we now um we are on the main motion approval of what's been submitted um I'll call for the vote um we'll call call for a Miss Dolby Voice vote Dolby i r i tennis a Lando I Robinson I thank you board okay Redevelopment pass through dollars this should be Mr Baltimore it is I'm just going to try and provide a quick summary and then kind of get into really the three things we're asking from the board this evening um the district receives pass through Revenue dollars related to former Redevelopment agencies in but County there are seven Redevelopment agencies a number of
257them require and and flow through what we call fund 42 and these are dollars that must be spent really on facilities they are not available for really operating expenses expenses or salaries we have historically used these dollars for um construction type support projects hooking up to sewer systems um and and over the last few years have used it to help with our surveillance our security surveillance system we do and and have talked to the boards previously that in fund 42 we are expecting those past through dollars to be received to the district through 2037 and we expect over $17 million on a conservative estimate of Revenue stream at that time at the end of it those dollars will cease to come to the district and they will just flow as an offset in our local
258control funding formula so we're bringing an idea there's actually three items that we would like the board to approve for us to move forward with and spend out of fund 42 with the idea that at the end of this we're going to have some assets to show for these dollars that will benefit we think the district for a long period of time um one of them is specifically related to um our Oakbridge program the Oakbridge program is renting space at the Chico Mall or the chico Marketplace and we point the cost out to you it's over7 $5,000 a year we believe we can buy a facility that would be better suited for this program which has grown over the last year in this Co environment that would benefit the program long term and get out
259of leasing or renting space that's one of the items we'd be asking for the board a second is voice over Internet Protocol as we've done new construction or modernization we have put in wiip systems these are telephone systems that don't require hard lines they are basically operating over the Internet there is a savings operating from them but there's an infrastructure cost to it so to complete all the schools and bring all schools up to VoIP there's over $1.1 million to do that this would standardize all of the Telecommunications across the district and really does provides a lot more flexibility in how telephone system systems are used to the point that they are connected to our email system you can then um through the technology actually be contacting people more directly uh and it does provide
260efficiency as well and then the third item that we would request you consider to be authorized out of fund 42 is the building of a second building at the district office and we've talked to the prior board about this and we receive authorization to move forward with the planning and Julie Kissle met with the city of Chico last week um and she can update you on that meeting and we have a couple diagrams we can show you what that would look like but we think the benefit here is that the district office has continued to grow we continue to provide more professional development and we don't have a board meeting space or a large meeting space in the district large enough like if you go to the district office what we call the large conference
261room is the old Universal travel building portable that we've certainly got a lot of use of years out of that building so we could build another building at the district office it would not come out of any operating funds and you as a board would finally have a place where you could have a dis set up and a place for the public to access these meetings I think in a um any more consistent and transparent environment because we have really been Nomads as it relates to our board meetings where we're Landing either at Marsh Junior High and all the setup and takedown of that or here at um the Performing Art Center and that does take staff time to do that and the sound often gets more difficult versus having just a place for you
262to have your regular meetings it would be a multi-use space so we have large meetings across the district and trainings as well but we think again the estimated cost to do that is 6.5 million and it would be a benefit to the district for a long period of time paid for out of these pass through dollars so that's my attempted summary of this item and what we're asking for is the board to consider approving all three of those to be designated out of fund 42 if I may um Madam yes president um a couple of elementary schools come to mind as we talk about this um this nice facility for the administ ministration and for the board um Chapman Elementary School which I had the pleasure of touring today and um Citrus elementary school which
263I haven't yet made it over to but I know that those schools could use some freshening up um how do we justify this expenditure over whatever plans may be I mean in any level is there anything planned for those schools that would set my mind at ease say for example in in approving this this nice little little Palace that we're putting together on on Seventh Street well we wouldn't want it to be a palace but I understand the concern that is a very good question um and what we have is a facility master plan for all of our school sites um that is being funded through the really the generosity of our community Through bond funds and the schools you mentioned Citrus and Chapman are included in Phase five of that plan the bond dollars
264that we have currently will get us through phase four so there's no additional Bond dollars to get us yet into phase five so we could use some of these fund $42 to be used for that school or those schools um however the total for for phase five in the facility master plan is $95 million so the 17 million that we have in fund 42 isn't going to do what really needs to be done according to the facility master plan in a large scale we could certainly use some of those dollars and do some of the things we're trying to do through our routine restricted maintenance account with upgrades to roofing systems painting um resealing parking lots but it's not enough money to spread across these schools and make the large scale improvements that they need
265so it's certainly a consideration the board could give us direction to use more towards School sites um but again we're looking towards the facility master plan and bond funds to do that in the future also leveraging additional State dollars which the local Bond dollars help us do that so that that's my that would be my answer to that thanks Julie kissell has your hands up hand up yes um Mr tennis I I'd like to address your last question as well um adding on to what Mr Boltz just said if you look at our facilities master plan phase one projects the phase one projects Were Meant to spread um M&M as Dr Kaiser would would have stated it to all of our campuses so Safety and Security projects lighting signage Americans with Disabilities act improvements cabling
266for internet infrastructure occurred across all of our schools in the district and then um there's also a funding source prop 39 uh Energy bill that allowed us to replace a lot of heating and air conditioning units and um also some Roofing projects that have been done with our maintenance dollars um add additional projects with maintenance dollars um really have gone toward painting and curb appeal Landscaping so a lot of work has occurred since we passed the bond um in you know years ago on all of our campuses granted it's not the major transformation you've seen at the schools we've been able to tackle so far in the master plan but uh with a new Bond we would hope to be able to do those kinds of Transformations at at all of our elementary schools thank
267you thank you okay do I have um do we have any public comment oh we do I'm sorry Miss Dolby or Kathy who was first I was just going to note that um right now um Oakbridge has uh expanded I think 250% um in number and we're using a facility that's it doesn't belong to us we're just renting it extremely temporary and uh but we're paying $78,000 a year for this so I would much rather see us put that program in something that we own that we can control better uh what's happening there because I don't in in the discussions I've seen nationally and in and locally is none of the universities and I don't think really K12 anticipates to leave internet education completely it seems to have become an absolute ongoing part of Education
268Services it's not desirable to have it be the entire thing for sure but um as we've noted we have students who are able to do uh Advance far more rapidly because they can access those resources um so I think being able to have that and something especially since we want to have more one-on-one teacher uh Consulting with those students available to them um the phone system is something we've already started and appears to be just what the future is and so really the the context of having something here to me is I drove here uh yesterday and um it was packed the parking lot was packed people are stuffed in all kinds of little rooms and what are we trying to do hire teachers it's not a very con vincing environment uh when teachers are
269shoved in little tiny rooms for their interviews and we're trying to get the very best we can so um I don't see it as elaborate I just see it as space so I would I would definitely support this mby um thanks uh so I agree with with what Dr Kaiser just said about Oakbridge um my question is um just a little bit about this facilities plan for the district office and my question is if this is this plan that's that we see here attached was something that's already approved and there's no changes that can be made to it now what you're seeing is the preliminary drawings that we worked with the architect on based on direction from the prior board um there are some challenges with the space Julie can mention those there's an easement
270that runs through the property so the location of a building on this site is is pretty specific yeah my only comment is that I would I would really like to see there be a little bit of green space left in the Eastern corner of the property um just generally for people who work there to have a space to go outside and enjoy being outdoors and get some fresh air and you know for Gatherings outside um having lunch and whatnot I think that I think that that's a healthy addition to that property or a healthy change to that property it would only take out about um I'm looking that so that Eastern corner is on this picture the bottom right hand corner Eastern on the map um which is uh just behind where the current uh
271portable is the large conference room um there's nice big trees back there I could see that square being just a really nice space for folks to be able to go and get out of their office for their break time and um I think that that would be a nice addition to this plan if it was something that uh the board was interested in pursuing or I don't know if that's something that needs to be board approved or not but just a just those are just my thoughts um Julie has her hand up Julie's gonna put me in my place well I think that the employees at the district office would certainly agree with you and thank you for advocating for them however uh in our attempt to um make our conceptual plan at least comply
272with the city of Chico requirements for parking um we have to we have to put in this much parking that's shown on this plan and it is not uh it is still not quite adequate so we would be asking for forgiveness that's why the parking spaces along the street are shown on this drawing to show that we do have some on street parking available that we've been using for many years um but you might notice just behind the existing building to the right of the proposed new building there's an outdoor Courtyard um that we have planned so that um people possibly waiting to go into a board meeting would have a place to sit outside as well as employees would be able to sit out there and have their lunch and enjoy the outdoors and
273we can do as much as we POS possibly can to um make that a green space it's currently over black top right now but it doesn't have to be because it won't be parking any longer um so perhaps there's something we can do to Green that area up to make it a more inviting and tranquil Place Mr Lando Caitlyn did you have a a followup just really quick um is the parking based off of uh square footage of the property that's on or the buildings that are on the property yes it is that's what I figured okay thank you so we could shrink the building I'm just kidding Mr Lando nope Julie got me oh Julie got you so I am going to say we don't have to approve all three of these together if
274there is a desire for more discussion on one um like it does seem like there might be on this particular building we can bring this back at a later time and this was uh this did come forward from a prior board so you know there may well be a desire for more discussion there on the uh discussion on on the board facility one of the things that um in the years of traveling with the board from the city council to Marsh to well we started at the original district office in Kevin balam's office was the boardroom yeah no serious uh actually it was Jim hanin and Kevin balam's offices combined that was the boardroom yes that's because I've been here longer but the the beauty of that um we were smaller obviously we had smaller
275board meetings but it was the intimacy it was the ability to look at and talk to the people that were there to speak and do presentations and things without the issue of um not being able to see their faces not being able to hear what they were saying that made that such a a lovely space then we moved to the city council chambers which was you know that's what it was it was set up to be a meeting space so it functioned very well as a meeting space until we um um decided we didn't want to pay their rent and so Marsh has not been good it's it's difficult to really have an feeling of intimacy with the people there in attendance this is terrible I hate this facility it works because of the media
276needs right now but I would love to have I would love to have back a a boardroom room that facilitated people coming and being able to sit and listen and address the board um in a a space that works and just to point out to the board we would still need to go through what we call programming where we're involving more people in the planning process and we would invite neighbors to have input because as a reminder when we talked about additional parking at the district office there were a few neighbors that had concerns we thought we were being helpful because we felt like there were too many cars being parked in the neighborhood but we also heard from others that felt like they didn't want anything to be developed at the district office so
277just note that this is not you take action tonight let's say and nothing else happens we do have to go through the programming process okay board what's your pleasure I'm open for a motion well I would move 102.8 um because I I believe that if we start I guess I shouldn't talk to it before I okay I move it in there somebody second so that I'll just I'll second your motion Dr Kaiser okay thank you so I was just going to say that I think the uh district office building is is a a step it's gotten a design but I believe that we'll find ourselves we're already dealing with the city and having to come back I I think this is just a a funding guarantee that we could get started uh and I the
278other two are just to me absolute critical needs that we need to get all of our school sites on the same phone system uh that's reliable and that is what the future is and Oakbridge so um if something happens with the planning uh of the potential addition uh I'm sure we're going to hear about it do we have any further discussion uh just for uh clarification a yes vote on this doesn't necessarily mean that we're fully approving the plan as drawn here just the funding allocation for it yes okay thank you okay board uh ready for a vote all those in favor of the uh what was the number again Dr Kaiser uh is 10.2.0 thank you 10.2.0 all those in favor I I I I I any opposed not voting not voting yeah okay
279we have a four eyes and one not voting okay next up is the where did we go city of Chico letter of support for high-speed Broadband so I'd like to think this is one of the agenda items that um I just it's good information so here's the bottom line the city um has been approached um through dougl mala's office um to look for projects that could benefit or be paid for through the infrastructure conversation that's happening um at the Congressional and um presidential level um the city called and approached CH unified that they would like to begin developing a broadband system internet Broadband across the entire city um and they have a long-term plan for that but specifically they would like to Target a smaller amount to be paid for by the federal government to
280implement Broadband within the Chapman mberry area they would provide it at a cheaper cost and it would be at a higher speed both up and down the pipe um what you can imagine is for our students and families that live in this neighborhood it' be a huge benefit so quite frankly what they're looking for from Chico Unified is a letter of support I do think is Josh Marquee still here from the city he is he's been extremely patient my gosh um and he can speak to any questions you have but really what we do and I think we included a a letter draft at the on the back that would show our support for this project does anyone have any questions of the city I don't have a question about this particular project but this
281concept of of infrastructure spending and partnership with the city and federal funding um is is there any discussion about also maybe um uh additional bike paths uh for schools um particularly on Nord um I know that there are some areas where there aren't really fully safe routes for schools um in that area um so I know that there's interest at the city um level about possibly doing those kinds of infrastructure projects and I don't know if there would be any kind of partnership with the district on that um or if this would be completely unrelated I know it's not broadband and I'm so sorry that it's 10:30 at night and I'm even asking this question but it is just a it seemed kind of related as its infrastructure sure thank you uh B members of
282the board my name is Josh Marquee I'm the information systems manager for the city of Chico unfortunately I don't know anything about bike paths um but uh if you do have any questions that's certainly something I can relay to City staff but if you have any questions about this plan or what the city's uh hoping to accomplish I'm more than happy to answer those I was reaching really hard to get a question for you just to make your time worth being here thank you so much for for staying this late with us pass it on to Brandon well Mr tennis I don't have any questions but I I I think that this is a really special initiative and um I think that it could be really great for Chapman toown okay is that a uh
283motion yes it is I moved yeah very good uh I I didn't look up and find to he who seconded me Dr Kaiser thank you a motion to approve by Mr tennis the second by Dr Kaiser any public comment has not been indicated all those in favor um we need a roll call vote because the last vote was not unanimous uh Dolby I kaer I tennis I Lando I Robinson I and thank you city of Chico for thank you board and staff yeah I certainly want to thank Josh also want to thank Scott Dow at the city of Chico who really reached out to us with this idea and approached us so um Scot's just a a really great asset for our c in their finance department yes great thank you did I report out
284the vote to you Erica yes okay thank you okay first reading of the revised updated new board policy this is just a first reading of a board policy that we're bringing forward for review and um we'll bring that back for adoption however I did want to let you know that this stemmed from a meeting that we had with a group of students at Chico High School um after the loss of a student and the students came forward and asked what our Memorial policy was and while we did have one it did cause us to go back and look at the policy and um bring it more in line with what we were hearing from the experts that were presenting to the students at Chico high and that's what you will see down um on the
285under memorials on this policy is that we recognize the loss but we don't put permanent uh structures in place so um with that I'll let the board read the policy and uh we can discuss it further when we bring it back for adoption yes the um process on policy we do introduce them first then you have a chance to read them and comment and bring back um any changes or additions you want to make and get them to Erica in time to get them on the next agenda so there's no action to be taken tonight unless you have a a question of clarification and if you think of something later because it is late now um just forward it um for clarification good night Dr Kaiser Dr Kaiser is leaving okay I think we are
286to items from the floor we have no items from the floor we had one signed up speaker but the person already spoke and I do not believe they're here anymore okay good night Eric okay we have no items from the floor present we have no one on the phone requesting so um we are then to board member request to agenda items Mr landow and I am sorry for keeping everybody just a couple minutes later um we have heard some talk in the community about uh frustration about lack of testing and I would just like to have it brought forward exactly what we're doing in terms of IND year testing and how we're going to report out uh the data to the public so we can be really clear about what our students have done during
287this year and uh therefore what adjustments we need to make in the future yeah um I'll answer that we um Mr car sent him home sorry um we will have local assessments for our elementary students which is we can't talk about it on the agenda I just want to talk about next time yeah Jay um we know bring it back in bring back sorry asking question Sor with Tim's report yeah I appreciate you wanting to help us but I just no I'm sorry so are you making are we making a motion here I'm sorry Caitlyn are we making a motion here yes yes we would to agendize a discussion about testing and the transmission of testing data to the public uh I'm going to second that motion um and I want to I want to
288comment about it briefly um so I I support um hearing a report from Ed Services about um just tracking student learning um and what our plan is for that and I'm sure it's part of the elcap process um and I I want to clarify and maybe have um uh superintendent Staley clarify the timeline of testing um of the the re um requirements that have changed in the last few weeks even um even since the last board meeting um and and all of that went behind that it's it's been very unclear to the public and it makes it seem like it's not transparent to them but I don't think that the public maybe realizes how out of our hands a lot of these decisions have been and I don't quite understand the entire scope of it
289as well so I think it would be really nice to know you know what what is being required of us from the top down as well as what we're doing to to track that and be transparent about it so I I support this motion to have a report about what we're doing to assess student learning and learning loss um between now and the next meeting uh superintendent Staley if you could make sure that all of the board members get a copy of Tim kris's um oh you did you got it oh okay yeah I think my my my reasoning a better understanding is good but also for the public to hear and see the discussion behind it there seems to be a a big piece of misinformation circling in the public that that we made
290a decision about testing and we made no such uh decisions about testing so I want to make sure that we're on full display and and very trans parent about I think you're not you're you're muted yeah thank you we can clarify the ongoing conversations and state waivers between state and federal government yeah thank you we we have a motion and a second do we need any further discussion I'm going to call for the vote all those in favor of reporting out the uh the issue outlined by member Doby um signify we saying I I I okay it's four with um one absent are there any others Miss Doby um I don't know if this is supposed to be a motion uh I would like to request that um it doesn't have to be next meeting
291either but that we get a presentation from Inspire High School um about their advisory program um and um consider what that might look like um at our Secondary School level uh sorry wow it's 10:30 at our Secondary School sites um uh just to maybe consider um also what a cheve is doing with um the plps and how that might all come into play with our social emotional learning and our learning loss and our relationship building on campuses Etc um so if that's something that needs to be board directed I make a motion for it and anybody correct me if I'm wrong on that I'm still a little shaky on like procedures so it's fragmented I'm sorry Ka it's fragmented to the point where I'm not sure that the I think it's because I just don't
292know if it's supposed to be something that should be a a motion for an agenda item so it would be informational and we can direct we we have I'm sorry I didn't mean to step on you I was just going to ask if we still have one unscheduled board Workshop uh title No we're we're all scheduled because that's the type of thing um that historically we have done through the board Workshop process MH um and I still think that's where because it it allows for each institution party what to to come and and do presentations in a room where where we're you know the large conference room is where those are usually held where there's interaction a way of exchanging information at a very intimate level and um I think the the topics that you've
293requested that would be well served in that kind of an atmosphere um if you wouldn't mind waiting until we schedule the workshops for next year and bring it up then I'm thinking through the agendas between you know now and September October too and I'm wondering because that would be a 90minut presentation um I I guess I wasn't under the impression that it would be that long of a presentation so yeah workshops are 90 minutes well I wasn't asking for a workshop so right but historically looking at how those presentations work 90 minutes is pretty much what you need um there's a motion but no second not entirely sure still what we're asking for soqu was a presentation from Inspire regarding advisory programs uh with the intent of how we could Implement that within Chico Unified
294thank you for saying it so much better than I could at time I said exactly what you said okay sounded good better coming out of your mouth I mean I get the intent but we can't also tell Inspire to come and talk to us so knowing Inspire I think they would be more than happy to come and share what they're doing but I'm also wondering if that's not maybe better handled in a DLC type meeting and um invite board members to attend that and then if there's a need for further discussion um bring that forward to the board there there's a multitude of ways to do it but I think we had a request for an agenda item and motion to do that so the um I like the idea of the DLC presentation Caitlyn
295because I've seen I've been through the presentation from Inspire before because I used to sit on their board and a DLC presentation would be a good place to have something like that expand that out invite more expanded out yeah can we work on that would that meet your needs okay okay any others okay hearing none board I think we are adjourned