8/19/2020 Board of Education Meeting

001i [Music] no there's no public comments okay all righty we're ready i'm going to start okay i would like to call to order the meeting uh the regular board meeting of the chico unified school district board of trustees it is august 19th 2020 and i would like to report out that we were in closed session prior to starting this meeting we had one decision that was made the board unanimously voted to ratify a settlement agreement to resolve a special education due process complaint filed against the district pursuant to the agreement the district will establish a compensatory compensatory excuse me education fund in the amount of twenty eight thousand two hundred fifty dollars for use by student for educational services additionally the district will provide reimbursement for attorney fees related to oah case number two zero

002two zero zero five zero six six two in the total sum of ten thousand dollars under the express terms of the agreement the board's ratification of agreement does not constitute an admission of liability by the district okay that was the only item that was uh voted on in closed session if you would please rise and join me in the flag salute i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay as we start the meeting i would like to ask everyone present to please look at your cell phone and silence it so that we don't hear phones going off in the middle of our meeting okay and before we actually begin discussing items

003on our agenda i want to make sure everyone is clear about the process that we are going to be using during today's meeting because of the covid situation we do have some special rules that are in place and prior to the meeting a google survey sign up was opened up to members of the public up until 30 minutes prior to the meeting and we took names for people who were then put on a speaker list so we have those those people will be allowed to speak when it is time for speakers to address the board their name will be called and the microphone on their zoom account will be activated speakers should rename their zoom profile names to match the name on their speakers cards to expedite this process after the comment has been given

004the microphone for that speaker zoom profile will be muted anyone wishing to address the board on an agenda item may do so individual speakers will be limited to three minutes total input on any one subject or slash agenda item will be limited to 10 minutes however the board may extend that period at its discretion comments on an agenda item will be taken when the agenda item is discussed by the board speaker priority will be given to those who have submitted a speaker's card if there is still time remaining within the designate designated time allotted then the board will provide an opportunity for members attending the zoom meeting to raise their hand and speak for a maximum of three minutes speaker priority will be given to speakers who have not yet addressed the board if time

005remains within the designated time allotment then a public participant may speak more than once and it has instructions to please use alt plus y to utilize the raise lower hand feature option plus y on a mac in case of numerous requests to address the same item the board may select representatives to speak on each side of the item another very important rule that needs to be understood is that when we have an item that is a item from the floor item only items that are not on the current agenda can be brought up during those items from the floor the board is required to strictly listen they cannot ask questions they cannot participate in an interaction with the person who is speaking so that must be kept in mind okay with that said we will

006go ahead and have announcements anyone have an announcement yes dr kaiser so i wanted to let the public know that today the legal women voters of butte county started a census phone bank they will be calling every number that they've been given by the census to acknowledge whether that person has already done the census still hasn't done it encourage them to do it and those that information will be turned into the census people working in butte county the concern is rather large right now the state of california is over 60 percent in census response but butte county is in the 50 percentile and the amount of time that was originally given because of the covet pandemic extended into october has now been taken back to the end of september there is a court case on

007this issue but we feel very very strongly that we need to encourage everyone to do the census this is not a citizenship question there is no information that goes to any legal agency other than how many humans were here in butte county on april the first so this is worth ten thousand dollars ahead over the 10 years in federal and state money and also in political representation so again the legal women voters they're not census takers they're just going to be calling to encourage people find out if they've already done it and then get that information to the census people that may allow then them to not knock on your door so started today and hopefully everybody will get a call and say i already did it thank you okay thank you do any others

008have any announcements i do not okay i see none so we will move to the next item which is items from the floor uh we did not receive any speaker cards for the period for items from the floor so we would go ahead and enable people to raise their hands if they are viewing this via zoom if you would like to make a comment on an item that is not on the current agenda okay do our i.t people or people who are tracking this see any hands matt tennis would you please raise your hand on the zoom also james bishop and amanda moncado and we will unmute you um excuse me but let me just mention one thing items number 8.1.1 which has to do with our school's opening for the 2020-2021 school year is

009an item on the agenda so any comments that are have to be made with regards to that it will be appropriate to make those comments when that agenda item is discussed likewise item 8.1.2 about the school waiver is an item that is on our current agenda so if there are any comments to be made about that item that is appropriate to be made when that item is discussed when it comes up so if any of those people i noticed that the names um are the same for those people that are on the speaker cards so please keep in mind that if your comments do not pertain to an item that is not on that agenda that comment will not be allowed at this time thank you so just a note um i jumped the gun

010there and i asked those folks to raise their hand there for later in the agenda so um just be patient um and we will get to you later oh okay so those people did not raise their hands no they they did they they're for later in the agenda i'm sorry and i asked them to raise their hand so they could come to the front of the uh the queue and we're gonna just put them off until the right time of the meeting i apologize great okay then we will look forward to hearing from them a little later on okay so we will come up to our next item which is a negotiations update and that would be mr hanlon okay so we have reached agreement with both employee groups cuta and csea for the startup

011for the school year this was focused on the issue of online education we will be meeting we have scheduled meetings with cta for is september 10th and then again on the 23rd to talk about the hybrid schedule that will be coming up as we move into stage two so like i said we have reached agreement with both groups uh the final um 610 process for csea is being taken care of now but the mou is in effect so um things are running smoothly good constructive negotiations that's great okay so uh i was just wondering so when is the next date did you say uh with cuta it's september 10th we have not set up our next meeting time with cca okay we had just finished meeting with them literally on um everything came into effect

012on august 17th just a few days ago so we have not set up new dates for them yet so you will actually be meeting with them before our next meeting that is our hope we will be with cta for sure and we hope to with csca all righty and uh you will be moving forward with talking about the next phase and what that might look like as far as uh our teachers and our and our uh negotiations yes that is correct and hopefully we'll have um something to report at that point too okay great alrighty thank you jim uh our next item is going to be our consent calendar yes dr kaiser i wish to pull 3.4 liz i would like to pull 3.1 okay are there any others that would like to be pulled

013okay with that being said do i have a motion for the remainder of the consent calendar i move the consent calendar with the exception of 3.1 and 3.4 okay i have a motion by dr kaiser a second by eileen robinson this is for all items except 3.1 and 3.4 we will take a roll call vote linda heavy what is your vote hovie i lando lando i griffin i robinson i that passes unanimously okay we'll go back to item 3.1 linda all righty um this i pulled it's the account payable warrants and i had pulled this because i had had a couple of questions that were previously answered regarding two warrants written to norcal pump and well drilling and i just wanted to follow up i don't know if ms kissel is with us today or

014if mr baltimore can answer this question but i know the uh well at nord country school um just didn't it died and so we needed to repair that well when we were discussing this we had talked about getting some reimbursement from several different sources and i'm curious if we have gotten any reimbursement for this or if we are anticipating any because it's over a hundred and eighty thousand dollars anyone uh julie are you available online yes can you hear me yes yes uh you are correct we are pursuing state funding in in two different uh groups of state funding one is the state facilities program rehabilitation funds which is a 60 40 split so we would get 60 reimbursement from the state that one i'm pretty sure that we will be getting we are also

015pursuing a grant from the state water board and that's a hundred percent grant however um they don't have the funding available to to the agency right now so that could be a long time coming okay well thank you for that clarification i was just curious if we were still pursuing it i was pretty sure we were but i wanted to check the status so thank you and if there's no other discussion with that i'd like to move approval of 3.1 i'll second that okay because i know what kind of vote it's going to be i'm going to abstain from this vote just for the record i'm sorry tom i didn't hear what you said just letting you know that i will be abstaining from the records when you hear a bunch of eyes oh i

016see okay i see okay well in that case we're going to do a roll call vote so um this is just for item 3.1 and we'll roll call this linda how do you vote harvey i okay kaiser griffin i robbins and i okay so that passes with four and one abstention by mr lando next up is 3.4 dr kaiser yes i had the privilege of going with julie kissel and maria today to the emma wilson elementary school new construction project it's really sad that we've done such an incredible job in constructing new facilities and because of the pandemic and the shutdown almost none of us have gotten to see them so i felt very strongly that i should go and it's amazing building there is a room at one end that's for labeled consultation but

017it's really to provide special additional space for special ed and i met with the speech teacher who had helped my grandson and then um there's two kindergarten classrooms just beautiful gorgeous very large rooms new furniture and then uh and storage space and then there's a tk room uh again with uh quite a bit of storage space um it's just for somebody who always had to get a chair out for the kid to wash their hands it's just impressive that these are actually at kindergarten level and the kids don't have any problems using them so beautiful facilities really really looking forward to when we can have the kids in those rooms and with that i move uh four points no 3.4 i'll second that motion alrighty we have a motion by dr kaiser we have a

018second by eileen robinson this is item 3.4 because we took a rolled call last time and it's changed again we will take a roll call again so uh linda how do you vote on this avi i mr lando lando i dr kaiser griffin i province and i okay that passes unanimously yeah that's a beautiful school site with the improvements all right so we have finished the consent calendar and our next item of business is going to be item number eight which is um a discussion action item it has to do with the 2020 2021 school year opening under the covid restrictions and this will be a presentation by our educational services team yes um madam president i believe on the agenda uh eight one one is an information only item yes okay it is it

019is there is nothing that we are going to be voting on with this item action and i i just was oh okay yeah right yes this is um strictly uh for us to gain information about um how things went how things are going thank you again president griffin we're going to kind of go over what led us to our stage one opening with uh to the code response for school and then we will be sharing some of the things that have been going on the last three days on our school okay first if i can get mr baltimore to explain on slide number one sure we ordered very early in the process large amounts of personal protective equipment face masks face shields and most almost all that had been delivered early enough that on the

020friday before school started we had created a google doc that all school sites were able to put in their requests and we provided all of that info material on friday we were delayed in our plexiglas or sneeze barriers as those were back ordered but i am happy to report that all of the sneeze barriers all 700 should be delivered this week so those are just rolling out the next few days we ordered early all the no touch thermometers and those were distributed as well and the only delay we had reported earlier that we had the sanitizing stations in every classroom actually the vendor was delayed in getting those four five of our schools but we did still provide hand sanitizer as individual units and as soon as those dispensers are available we'll be installing those

021but all the rest of the schools had those i will say our custodial staff did a really nice job of having schools i think clean and disinfected and ready for teachers coming back it's amazing what schools look like when we don't have kids on them and i will say our nutrition service staff just did a stellar job at the end of last year and have just continued that um really they according to vince said it's the best opening they've had as a team very positive excited to see kids and continue to provide a lot of meals at the sites that we've already mentioned here kevin i don't know how many people realize that they can get meals for their kids at the school sites and yes it was very positive yeah i had a question

022about that could we just answer a question real quick uh so there's are there there's a total of eight sites that they can get their meals at and do they have to present some sort of identification or a number or anything no they do not and do they have to go to the to the site that they're going to school or can they go to other sites no they can come to any of those sites okay already you could kidnap a kid and get a free lunch okay at the same time i just want to mention the board there have been some challenges and we're still working those out one of the issues is although we delivered a lot of the items to school sites um getting those from an office location out to every

023teacher and every support staff location hasn't been seamless i'll just say that and then also just the restocking so we're starting that process of how do we allow the school sites to communicate into our warehouse area and get those delivered on a timely basis so that is still we're communicating and trying to get that a little more seamless as we go and then the other piece is just with our classified staff a lot of those and i'll use bus drivers as an example we're not transporting students right now so according to the memorandum of understanding we negotiated with our classified group a lot of those people are still supporting and working on our schools in just different capacities so we very much appreciate their flexibility but we're working through those schedules and working with staff

024so that they feel comfortable and still providing a service that's a benefit to our schools overall yeah how do they determine how much food to make when it's going to be changeable like that well they do kind of take a look at the trends the meals right now are uh bag meals so we're not serving hot meals so there's a lot of flexibility and our ability to put those together in a very quick and timely basis and again i'll give our new nutrition service leadership some credit they've gone out and looked for other items that are in a individually wrapped that are a little more exciting to eat and providing opportunities to kids so it's really just the ability to be flexible and put together more meals as needed as more kids come into those

025spaces so they've really set up a good system to do it and they're able to meet the need right now wow that's really amazing all right the next slide is work day child supervision before i hand it off to tina king i want to be able to thank all the hard people that really worked hard to get this done tina keene ted sullivan callum quack who's our after-school program coordinator worked extensively also with barbara akamoto the great job that jim hanlon and david cole and kevin did with getting the csca agreement done in order to have this happen they spent many hours making sure that we had our students our staff students place a different site so it was an unbelievable thing to watch over a five-period day and all the questions that they had

026to handle so i can't thank them enough to make sure for them to know how much we appreciate that okay tina thank you jay good evening the workday child supervision came into play to support our staff as they were all coming back to sites to work it will grow and i will talk about that in a moment we do have several successes as jay mentioned we had a lot of people working in a five-day period to make this happen starting this past monday so it was a big effort but it was incredibly exciting as well successes we do have 15 sites across our districts providing the workday child supervision program in total there are 254 students and slash families some are siblings being served all the sites are following the social distance guidelines we have

027included some photos for you to see how this setup at a couple of our sites you will notice that one picture does have two siblings sitting together we did encourage even if ages were a little different we do encourage the siblings to be together to limit the amount of people are in that in that group or pod as we call it per social guidelines and we have been working with our chico unified nurses who have been amazing with health guidelines as well as the butte county public health and following their guidelines to address health concerns and the protocols that come to play i've been learning a lot about the protocols on a very hands-on basis i've been very impressed with the direction that the nurses in public health have have put together over the summer

028and to see it and play and working is pretty exciting the challenges are we are going to move this on ensuring access for foster and homeless youth as well as other at-risk youth in our community that need a safe place to be during the day we also will be growing supervision for essential workers of our community for their children that also need a spot to be at i do want to point out this is not in instruction as far as these are not teachers that are working in this program they are csca members from our own chico unified who are providing supervision to the students so the students typically will come in there's a set schedule that the team has put together a daily schedule of events that happen basically and school work is done

029students are there with their chromebooks and working on their school work and then it will move into lunch a break all very much following and adhering to the social distancing guidelines and safety one of the biggest pieces it's been understanding the senate bill 98 regulations with this this last spring when when we went into the coveted pandemic and our sites were closed the governor at that time said even though sites are closed schools can provide and should provide supervision again this is different than school and it's a very difficult thing to understand because it's it's kind of two-fold so really getting the word out of what that is uh senate bill 98 followed up with his his request last spring and it is in that trailer bill that districts like us who receive money for

030our aces program our after-school programs can wave at the hour times and able to offer supervision for kids so that's where this was really born from it has helped our workers from our own our own chico unified get back to work and we'll continue to grow it yes kathy so i know that a number of the emails that we received from parents they would self-identify as somebody in the household being an essential worker so how does a family that has one or two uh parents acting as essential workers how do they connect with this last friday uh when superintendent staley put out her her weekly update there was a link in there under child care there was a section that talked about i forget the title of it right now i can't think of what

031it was but it was talking about child care needing needing child care or supervision during the work day and there was a link in there we do have about 35 people from the community that have access that and we'll be talking with them as as we get this going the numbers are still kind of morphing and changing as as families find out what is working for them a lot of our older kids when parents thought they might be involved in this program that didn't quite work out the way that they all thought so there are things that are are morphing this week and we knew that so once the numbers get a little more solidified on that end and we know what we have because we have a limited amount of space again in order

032to follow the safety guidelines we want to make sure we have that space to get those numbers but i am pleased to say the community members are responding and our targeted case managers and our foster youth liaison will be working with our foster and homeless families to make sure they understand what this this offering is and how they can participate so this is no affront to kelly's weekly whatever but i'm concerned that some of these parents feeling under great duress might not have looked at that they're looking for some flashing yellow light that says you know come here or stop and read so i didn't know and you know i don't know what we do if somebody's at the caseload uh exceeds our capacity but i know that we have a lot of healthcare workers

033and people you know in critical areas that uh i think when we had to close down totally we had at least one family where both people were medical and so you know just absolutely really really difficult we'll continue to look for ways to get that out and to answer the question about the if we exceed the number that we have space for because we're very tight with that number we um we'll create a waiting list i did think about that okay because again those numbers they change and flow and we've already put some kids in with different weight things at different sites so a wait list would be offered i think that's wonderful and i think this is something in my interaction with members of the community they have the least understanding about so the

034more clarification we could that would be really helpful thank you yeah so tina the ages of the this is available too what are what are the ages they're school-aged children so tk through 12th grade oh all the way from tk we don't have just looking we don't have a lot of tk and we don't have a lot of 12th grade that is the range okay but it is it does start at that though and when you talk about essential workers uh i guess most of us think of you know the medical workers or what even the grocery workers even the what about teachers from other districts that don't have this i think most people who are working outside of their home who have to work outside of their home would be considered essential workers i

035talked to a gentleman who is a mechanic who who is waiting as we open this up and i would consider that an essential worker so when talking with people with that very question how do you determine that working outside of your home if you're if you have to do that in in my eyes and others would mean essential workers in that regard as far as care i know that is it um it's hard to quantify essential because they're you know we we all work and work is important but it's that leaving the house piece i think right on that note a radical idea for increasing the amount of space we have in this program we've talked about granting some leeway for teachers who are working on site i would certainly ask that we consider looking

036at that leeway as quickly as we can and potentially allowing some of those teachers who have school-aged children to begin working from home if we think they can handle it that both opens up space and it meets what many teachers see as a need for them one other thing to add to this is um we just ordered um earbuds with mics for all these programs for their schools so as you can see if kids are working on their classworks in these roads and they're working with different teachers it could get a little distracted so we ordered those for that and plus we ordered enough for to have 200 on each school site for our elementary just in case we have families with multiple students and they need support with those because if they're working in

037their house on multiple chromebooks and they're all talking we want to make sure that we can provide for those if they cannot so we ordered we ordered 3 600 of them today and again i want to have a shout out to marcus france she's done an amazing job in our purchasing department finding these things for us so they should be in within a week okay and one last question gina i forgot to ask this one so what is the time when is this supervision available so it's 7 30 to 2 45. okay well i'm glad that we had the opportunity to hear about this in greater depth because i think we heard a little bit about it but it wasn't you know it wasn't real solid at that point so thank you you're welcome i'm

038going to call on john vincent here on the zoom but this the technology slide again that's another important piece obviously if you're going to go to online learning and how everything was rolled out so i'm going to kind of have him talk about his successes and challenges that he had with our technology john good evening um yes i um i want to talk a little bit first about our comcast so we found out that comcast has a new program that offers you know they offer two months for free under normal circumstances for families that qualify for this internet essentials program but what they offer now is the ability for the school district to cover um the additional four months to get six months of free for those families this is a great opportunity for our

039families who don't have the ability to pay for comcast to get down to that program be able to have six months of free internet access from their home so we signed that contract um today and sent that off and we're just now waiting for the codes to come in for those families john that's phenomenal that's great something that's really neat about this program that is that it covers all the families that are 40 or higher schools which is almost all of our schools so all those families qualify the one thing that doesn't qualify is if you've had comcast some anytime the last 90 days so if you've had comcast in the last three months you don't qualify but other than that you do and um they even have a debt forgiveness an amnesty program too

040so if you have outstanding debt with comcast they will forgive that um so they can get on the internet essentials and get your kids online using that we also have we had 146 t-mobile hotspots that were part of a grant that we were working on in the spring through the cde uh the cd was not able to get those two ways before school ended but it worked out okay because we have those now and so we also purchased an additional 100 of those t-mobile hotspots people was normally when you have a hotspot you you get so much data on it and then it throttles down and you can't really use it anymore after 10 gigs or 25 gigs it it gets really slow but these are actually truly unlimited um and so these are set

041aside for those families that we have that are not in the comcast service area and they're our most needy families so we're trying to hold back those 246 hot spots for those who just who cannot get the comcast deal and so we actually will be chris winkle's been working with the targeted case managers and they we will be sending out the first batch of those hot spots to our school sites tomorrow as far as our teacher laptops go we purchased 800 hp their x360 laptops what those are is a a windows laptop that flips over into a tablet so allows our teachers to write on that and be able to have that display and zoom for our kids on the screen those were ordered back in july july 31st uh hoping those will come in

042sometime in mid late september right now supply lines are really delayed so it's taking a long time for things to come in in the meantime though we ordered some webcams 800 webcams and those actually were um those were in stock and so those should arrive hopefully in two weeks they're supposed to ship on august 28th and then our teachers then use those in their desktop machines that they currently have and be able to utilize that with their desktops to be able to do zoom i know they're having issues right now with chromebooks trying to run zoom meetings so this should resolve that problem another big thing that happened to you is we had 350 viewsonic touchscreen tvs that come in with an embedded windows 10 pc in them that arrived on monday so those are

043in stock they're in our warehouse here at the computer classrooms warehouse and their meet is distributed to school sites you know as we speak this week the installation of those starts uh this weekend um the contractor estimates he can do 30 to 40 of those per week so we will be seeing those going out starting this weekend and getting installed in our classrooms this has really been a team effort on this um phil morgan in the facilities department has taken lead on this um computers are classrooms they were using uh we're utilizing their warehouse space um nutrition services they brought their trucks over and use those to be able to distribute the tv to the school sites that our bus drivers put together the carts um our warehouse staff and um have all been working

044together with it to make this happen as quickly as possible and so i'm just really excited to see these tvs going into our classrooms starting this weekend on the challenges side probably the biggest challenge we have is getting internet access to those outlying areas that we have some of those can be serviced with our t-mobile hotspots um we also have a lot of the comcast hotspots that were open last year are still available so um when families come into town or go someplace where there's comcast they can log into a comcast open hot spot and be able to utilize that we also are of course our school parking lots um and then something that came that really will help our families up in cohasset and enforce ranch is that there's wi-fi available of their high-speed

045wi-fi at the um the cohasset community center and then the forest ranch charter school so both of those locations have wi-fi that our families can hook onto and be able to utilize and then the last thing on our list here is the programs implementing new programs i gotta see there's a slew of new programs and the programs that are expanding during this time that need to be attached to our current systems so um things like um keyboarding without tears hair deck screencastify zoom so zoom we we had free licenses those expire september 1st and so we purchased education licenses for that so we're working with zoom right now to get those integrated in using a program called clever um and then um i gotta mention too so like working with zoom they are just really

046swamped right now their support department so it's been a challenge to getting support on some of these programs so i know it's hard for our staff to wait on some of these and working hard to try to get these in places as quickly as they can but these these programs are really swamped and then kind of bring up another one to ingenuity so edge nudity was one of those programs it's a one of our curriculum programs that had issues with trying to integrate into our systems and we've been working with them for a week trying to get that resolved and finally today uh tim karis was able to get through and get an engineer on the phone and work with michael ruffner and able to get that resolved today so big kudos out to tim

047harris and michael ruffner if you're taking care of that and getting us online with that so um all of our systems worked well we didn't have any big outages or anything when school started so um things look really good this year any questions anytime no but thank you that's a tremendous effort that's thank you thank you guys i'd just like to add on most of those um the laptops and the viewsonics and everything that we've been purchasing uh it's been through the karazak dollars i'm not correct on that mr baltimore i just want to say as a grandparent who's been observing the interaction with watching a kid start second grade or kindergarten that there's a lot of effort being put in by the teachers and the family members to get this moving and smoothing it

048out so i multiple teachers go well i'm just making a mistake or we're just getting to this part or whatever but that's normal and i just think we have to really give each other the space to let learning happen at all levels because this is a learning process so thank you john okay the question again to mr baltimore was well there we'll talk about this a little bit in the budget update but um as a reminder we did receive one-time karazak dollars and the cash is coming we may not actually have the cash in the door yet but we have the apportionment schedules and letters so we have about 7.3 million dollars that we have to spend right now with the deadline of december 31st of 2020 and um that needs to be learning loss

049mitigation offset those dollars have to be used in that vein but the things that were described here are being paid out of those dollars so that we can make sure that we provide what's needed for students what's needed for educators and we have the resources to do that so we're very fortunate that we have good reserves because we're able to do that now and then expect to be paid in september for those those care act dollars right so um i had a question uh just to back up a little bit before you start talking about oak bridge so if parents are having difficulties with technology how okay you have a parent tech line um what about like i know you you can't have your teachers in contact with tech people all the time we don't

050have enough tech people i don't think for them to be how is how how is that being handled i know on the when i was on with my grandson the sound for the teacher's voice got all weird and vibrity-like it was really strange and it went on for a while and i don't know what happened to fix it but it did get fixed and i just wondered how did that happen was there somebody there who came or how do you fix those things that are happening right in the middle of a lesson that's a great question um right now we have four hour tech aides on every campus but they're also working the hotlines so we know that we have people overseeing them that to support them so we all have a parent line and

051also a staff line so a lot of times they quickly so they're just one number off two seven one five and two seven one six so we've had a lot of support coming that people have been asking for that support and we've been able to very good just because we learned our um not i don't honestly learned our lesson but we knew that the support that we needed coming back from march and april when people were having all the problems so our tech people were ready and they had schedules and who's running those hotlines all day and i think that's really helped our families and our teachers get the information that they needed to make sure also some those new laptops will be getting the new hp laptops will be much more effective in the

052zoom for our teachers that they'll improve over the chromebooks that they're using now and we will we are looking forward to having those and to get them done okay thank you i'd like to mention too if i could um our our ia computer folks who do the the parent line the current support line they took 215 calls on monday um and for our four hour blocks so they did a fantastic job of helping our parents and helping our kids to resolve some of their issues so great job that they did yeah one last question for you uh john who are the people on the web crew what is that the people on the web crew to help manage the the network i'm just looking at all these people's pictures up here john john vincent i

053can answer that so that is a screenshot all approved a screenshot of students welcoming the sixth grade class at marsh so they spent a couple of days welcoming those sixth graders in just trying to make them feel as comfortable as possible so you see some some zany teachers and some eighth grade leaders and some incoming sixth graders oh okay thank you another great thing is what this actually looks like is um ms staley and i mike and john and ted um were able to go into some classrooms that were on the first few days of the teachers sent their zoom links to us it was unbelievable we watched high schools which had 38 students in them we watched junior highs that had 34 and 36 students in them and then the most enjoyable ones are

054the kindergarten classes that we were watching i saw an um classroom and i believe we watched another one with 24 and it's amazing work that our teachers are doing and the kids it's unbelievable how they're ready to go with their headsets on and and how active they were okay so we we another thing was which was really good about it we didn't just say start the curriculum so most of those first few days that we've had is more of the seo the social emotional stuff getting to know the students how was your summer what's your favorite things and our teachers did a fabulous job all the way through k through 12 on having those conversations with their students yeah i'll jump in it was a real treat to be able to see our teachers in

055action and see the students engaging and how they really reached out to get the students engaged so kudos to all of our teachers as always so next we just want to make a couple quick notes about oak bridge this is not the way we wanted to increase their enrollment however it has shot from roughly 100 last year to over 600 this year with multiple platforms the elementary platform has shifted from oak bridge packets to an asellus more rigorous online platform and obviously with that kind of growth we need to look at hiring and voluntarily transferring teachers over to oak bridge so the hr department's been working hard to be sure that people feel comfortable shifting to that to that environment we are in the process right now at oak bridge of hiring some registrar counselor

056and targeted case manager support those roles have been filled in various ways by staff with the smaller numbers that we've had and now they'll be more concrete responsibilities for folks who are going to be hiring and there is always a silver lining in these kinds of situations and after talking with rhonda odom the the administrator of oakbridge she's appreciating a larger focus on cte and ap coursework that hasn't been a major focus for oakbridge in the past and it is a silver lining as a result of the increase in enrollment as a result of the the increased staffing of course we're gonna have to try to find some places for those folks to fit so our m o department and our own patrick bassetti are working on technology drops and making sure the furniture is

057socially distanced and they're uh they're where they need to be and as you're going to hear i think in the elementary and secondary slides you know this kind of significantly swift shift to a different learning platform there's always going to be some professional development learning curve so just like general ed like the other schools our our teachers that moved over are quickly learning how to how to manage edge annuity and aselus and all the things that come with being an oakbridge teacher i can again thank um the workers that we had over at oakbridge ronda olympu took over last year she was a .2 administrator now she is a full-time administrator over there and getting all her teachers trained in such a quick manner also with the help of rachel love helping them teach the

058ingenuity curriculum to them it was an amazing transition that they were ready to go on the first day of school from going again um up to about 100 last year to about 600 this year and so they've done a wonderful job of getting that ready so i really wanted to thank them publicly all right next is going to be the elementary curriculum mr sullivan will talk about that yeah great thank you we're we're happy to be back a lot of excited faces on that first day via zoom um some of the things that i heard nice compliments about from mix of folks uh is kelly and jay shared we got a chance to zoom in with a bunch of classes they returned and you could just feel teachers are just thrilled to be reconnecting with

059their students and how and doing it via zoom i know they'd rather be doing it in person but there was just a real positive ambiance as they were connecting with their students again and having a nice solid interaction and as jay shared too really the first couple days are all about reconnecting building some relationships helping students feel welcomed back again with those kinds of things like that so that was just a great experience to watch those things happening i heard lots of comments from parents they're just very appreciative of that things are very organized as their sense they appreciate having a daily schedule they really feel like they kind of know what's happening and what to expect for their child this year so teachers did a really good job helping organize all that put that

060together for it and be able to share that with families as well uh we did a big push as jay said we we had a lot of pd going on and mr shepard reckon acknowledged it also we had a lot of pd the weeks right before also um so we did everything from a lot of curriculum overview and practice with it to really zooming through like what does your online day look like as a teacher and as a student so we had several days worth of pd that was available to people walking through all those kind of components and i want to throw a shout out also we had four teachers that really did a lot to help us organize us christy bankston carol sylvester stephanie kniff and sarah pardini were real instrumental in helping

061organize those pd sessions and put them out for staff to walk through with all those things so lots of comments from teachers in particular also just very appreciative i think a lot of them said it was really hard to wrap their brain around what does it look like you know 8 30 on monday when i log into that first zoom session what is that actually going to look like and they really did a good job walking through and kind of like this is how your day is going to look as you do these things so they really walk them through the life of a teacher in a zoom world with those kinds of things from opening to instructing to work with student work time with those kinds of things also with it so did a

062great job we really talked a lot it sounds funny but it's almost like everybody is a first year teacher all over again right now so it's just a whole different world and a lot of people that are very veteran experienced fabulous teachers are really nervous in ways that they've never been nervous before and feeling uncomfortable around it so we just talked about i think you said it kathy you're giving yourself permission that you this is new to all of us and we're walking through it together not just the students but the staff is all walking through it together also and they're feeling it but they're excited to be back and excited to be trying it out and kind of getting getting going with it also at that point some of the things that have come

063up uh and this is no different than when they're there in person either but student stamina the first couple days back and in particular five six-year-olds coming back and trying to have stamina it's just a different kind of stamina now of being able to be in zoom or in and out of zoom and spending time in that world is a different kind of stamina with it i know kids are always pretty gassed the first couple weeks when they come back anyway but it's just a different version of that and just kind of us adjusting to how do we respond to that and recognize it and what do we do with it also with those kinds of things mr vincent acknowledged one of the other things that has kind of perked up a little bit some

064issues with zoom and chromebooks and kind of some of the sound quality that you talked about um with some of those things but like as jay mentioned the feedback we got was that the um the earbuds would help immensely so we've already ordered a whole bunch of those to have those accessible and i know john vince has already got a zoom upgrade in process for us with it also that'll work much better when we get the actual new laptops in place with it as well so hopefully in the near future we'll have those areas addressed also so we're not getting that kind of fuzzy in and out conversation with it one of the other yes i also was surprised but i guess i shouldn't have been that in my grandson's classroom there were students that

065weren't with their parents in their family homes they were with other relatives or they were in transition or didn't have their chromebooks yet so they were we were hearing them i mean they were there but they weren't on the equipment and then they were also i don't know about you but issues with dealing with the chromebooks was not smooth but everybody i that i interacted with was giving themselves permission and the kids permission would just we keep on going we keep on working and you know that was positive very positive good forgive me uh i need a refresher here for those five and six year old kids how long are we asking them to be on zoom at a stretch so we have uh we have three hours set aside tom but and i say

066that loosely because we're still having conversations does that mean that we want students to be on zoom for three solid hours absolutely not we kind of told teachers give yourselves permission give the students permission if you're six years old and you're doing some introduction things for 10 or 15 minutes it's okay to stop and let them take a break for a while and say come on back in 45 minutes or whatever that may be and that's just back to that everybody's a first-year teacher again and what's reasonable and how long can kids you know what what's a reasonable amount of time to do those things and i think everybody's kind of testing the waters and getting a sense of how that works and what's reasonable and how long can we do those kinds of things

067all these teachers have some you know when you're in your classroom you're not up having a full-blown conversation for three solid hours of students there's a mix of instructional time there's a mix of independent work time there's a mix of small group work support happening there's a mix of recess time and breaks built into that so really we want to see that same kind of mix happening during that three hours of synchronous instruction so definitely i wouldn't want to be on zoom for three solid hours or somebody so we have the same expectation for our students and staff also to kind of mix those things in place i hear you about stamina about students returning but i think and that language just concerns me a little bit because we certainly don't i think it is

068different and we don't want to be training our students to be staring at screens for an hour at a time let me just chime in here a little bit because i've been doing this for the last few days and i'm kind of an expert at it now um you know i have a kindergartener and uh it he starts at 8 30 in the morning and he has a half hour lesson and that incorporates singing it incorporates body movement you know he's not just sitting there looking at something they're singing songs they're drawing pictures they're getting up and moving um they're having books and everything and then he takes a break for an hour and then he comes he actually comes back at 10 o'clock and then he has another session for a half hour and

069then after that the teacher gives some work to be done and he does that afterwards but it doesn't take very long for him to do that work on his own probably takes him you know 15 minutes at the most so and that's a that's a really good balance because um you know when he sits there um especially you know early in the morning i mean you know those kids and i'm looking at all their pictures on the screen you know they're yawning and you know they're just kind of waking up and you know and and so the teacher you know kind of goes with the flow and she's very good at you know giving them as much as they need to keep them occupied but not overloading them and being very clear about what the

070expectations are and you know this is what we do and this is how this works um and and so i've been really impressed with uh with the the way it's been done and and just really surprised because there are 24 kids there are 24 kids that are participating in this and she's able to go to all of them and contact you know make you know verbal contact with them and have them show pictures and do different things so um i'm really surprised because i've been in kindergarten classrooms and i've worked in kindergarten classrooms and i've been you know with various programs for first five where i've dealt a lot with kindergarteners and i know what kindergarten teachers have to do and most of them have all these numerous stations and kids are moving around to

071the stations all the time and you never are having to keep their attention for that long a period of time and so seeing how they were able to move from different things you know kind of like moving from different stations even though they were in one place was was really uh pretty fantastic so um i have to you know give my uh kudos to them because uh i think they are doing a great job and you know if it looks like that in the other classrooms and i'm sure it does um you know as far as this building students stamina i think just coming back from a break you know everybody is going to be like you know i need to build my stamina you know with doing this isn't it the parents are the

072ones that are continuing that continuing what the parents are the ones that are having to continue with what's going on outside of the timing that the teachers are putting in right well i mean it's like you know it's a from when the when you get done at 10 30 the child is expected to continue doing something afterwards so for a kindergartner 15 minutes of so-called homework is about as much as you know they're expected to do which is appropriate but what you're describing was is exactly what we hope to see happening kind of that mix of different experiences for them so it's not three hours of just straight zoom time right and you know a lot of the criticisms that have been voiced are oh these kids are sitting in front of desks or sitting

073in front of computers for six hours straight and that was never the intention and that was never the plan and that certainly is no but they are expected to keep their computers on for three hours at a time to meet the time allotted teacher and just to sum up i have absolute faith ted and our teachers i just want to make sure that we're giving them the leeway they need and the professionals they definitely have latitude to zoom in and out and do those kinds of things also just like what you're talking about so last thing on there it's a compliment to our staff again i think the most questions i've received from elementary teachers is they're worried about what kind of assessments we want to give to start worrying about reading groups in particular

074so actually our district leadership council group is going to start meeting this friday and that's our first topic is to start going through those things so we can start sharing information with staff of you know here's what we think would be a priority and here's what we think may be reasonable to be doing on zoom with looking at reading skills and how you can focus on those kinds of things and how to provide some instruction and that are also professional development as mr shepard mentioned has already come up a whole bunch also so we're going to be looking for feedback from dlc to talk about what kinds of things can be providing more support for you so you feel more comfortable kind of doing those things in the online world like that also and you

075know uh it was mentioned about you know um and this this is a concern is uh parents are expected or whoever is uh going to be working with the child is is going to have to oversee you know and and i can understand where you know certain parents who may not have the background in and that and i'm wondering how we can support parents better with that you know i was part of this parents teachers program and that really focused on on preschoolers and parents of preschoolers and kindergartners learning that they are the ones that are the first teachers in their child's lives and and so this would carry that even further with how do you help parents do the same kind of things that teachers do as far as helping to motivate children helping

076to keep them on track those type of things so i would hope that we would provide you know in the future maybe investigate if parents are having difficulty with that how can we support them better i think exactly what we did with our el lessons last year with our tcms connecting with families helping them get on zoom helping them talk about what does it look like being a good student with their child i think we could certainly roll that over and start providing some of those kinds of supports to non-el students also with our tcms and being provided that for them yeah okay john can we go over secondary please okay just want to go through some successes here and as we have been discussing you know the shift happened relatively quickly yet there are

077always things that are encouraged encouraging as we're coming out of these and one of the most beneficial processes we developed over the summer was trying to get as much teacher counselor psychologist admin input into our process and our planning as we could and those meetings are continuing we know we have district leadership council in place however over the summer with so many folks doing so many different things we needed to try to encourage an even wider band of input so we were able to do that and as i said those meetings are ongoing most of our classes have aligned with edge annuity obviously not all of them will because we have such a rich range of of classes available in the secondary level so we're working with other platforms uc scout icve for cte so

078just ensuring that we may not align something perfectly but we are trying to match it the best we can and as was mentioned before you know coming into this school year regardless of how we started we knew we were going to have to spend some time getting students and staff and parents back into the swing of things more than we've ever had before and i think it's not just the the spring summer early fall conundrum but it's also going back to november of 2018 and trying to get kids into this stable learning environment and so we've been spending all week working on that and we've received some pretty positive feedback i know there are some parents and kids who are just chomping at the bit to get to that deep you know critical thinking that

079they've been waiting for and and we promised them we'll we'll get there john what's seo social emotional learning yes thank you so what we've also found is we have an increased amount of aries communication and also broadening our staff strengths when um they're trying to communicate communicate through zoom and google now as mentioned before there are some challenges you know as a as a parent myself with multiple platforms and now at the secondary level where they could be using not just edge annuity but possibly using uc scout that there is an increase in communication and multiply that times six and obviously you know it could be an overload and so just being sure that we have very concrete structure for communication for example we're going to use aries communication for grade reporting general announcements we're

080going to use google classroom for day-to-day instruction we could use edge annuity if we decide for weekly progress reports that go out to parents right but being very structured in that communication because one of the things we heard last spring was that folks were overloaded so we're going to work on that and as we mentioned it is a steep learning curve i said this a few times in our during our pd introductions though we have fantastic staff who have accessed these platforms before and we relied on them on august 5th 6th 12th and 13th to teach their peers rather than bringing in people from outside who don't really know our audience and don't know our system and don't know our needs we had our own our own teaching our own and it was it was

081fantastically done but it's you know it needs to be continuing we did include as a challenge you know there are a lot of kids who who come to school for the academic level of learning and there are quite a few kids who come to school for other reasons as well and we need to continue to provide hope for those kids that there are ways to connect there are ways to communicate superintendent staley and assistant superintendent marchand received a fantastic idea from a student today to create a student group to work with each other advised by one of our staff members to support their own online learning and that came from a kid so if we can do more of that i think we'll continue to provide provide hope for kids i think you know maybe

082at this point we should maybe let that person speak since you've pretty much introduced the topic we have summer who is who had turned in a card to speak and i wondered if she was available to maybe she was the only one who turned in a card to speak if she would want to speak about that right now since you introduced the topic is this you summer yeah this is me can everybody hear me i was having audio troubles like earlier but is it okay now yes we can hear you okay perfect okay so for those of you who don't know me um i am a sophomore at chico high school and i'm enrolled um not at oak ridge i'm enrolled at chico high through their distance learning program and basically my idea um as

083i've said i've already actually like discussed it with mr marchant as well as ms leblanc who was kind enough to send me a video about some information she's the wellness counselor at both pv and chico high so pretty much the idea um is to get a group of students together um making sure that it's a holistic review of uh like a really comprehensive review of all the students who go to um this school like for example just take chico high as as an example and um when i say holistic i truly mean holistic like from underrepresented groups um people of color to um like people who have been on varsity football for like three years or to people who are like in theater like every student from every walk of life walk of life should

084get a say and should have a voice and when we support each other through this way it definitely makes students lives easier because they know that their voice their opinion is going to be heard and it definitely just creates like a safe warm kind of like feeling to know that somebody hears you and your voice is really important which obviously is true for everyone and i've actually uh set up a meeting with miss leblanc who again is the wellness counselor with the high schools and i'm actually meeting with her on friday to uh discuss like future steps to be taken but if you guys have like any questions i know like this may seem like a little confusing but if you guys have any questions i would um i'll be happy to answer them okay

085uh do any of the board members have questions i'm i'm sorry we can't hear you tom my understandings are not supposed to engage with speakers during this portion no this is not during um uh that's that's not the session that we're in we're not in items from the floor we are on a particular um agenda item so you can i just want to add that um miss sun has been a a wonderful asset to our district in the past she was our chinese translator every time we had chinese students come on to our campuses um so she is very she's fluent in chinese and her uh family is very supportive of that program for us so she's been amazing on our campuses with that too so she's being very humble very right now but she

086is an amazing young lady well i think this opens the door for uh other you know i i think one of the biggest things that we can do is form these type of groups on campuses you know there is going to be this sense of isolation and disconnect because students are not going to be able to be together as much as they would like and uh so we need to have a way to find out you know how what's going on how how this is all working for them that was one of our our main objectives that we identified at our last meeting is that we want to find out socially emotionally how kids are being affected by this new type of learning we're hoping that it's not going to last very long but while

087we do have it we want to you know make sure that we're doing all that we can and it sounds like uh summer you've come up with a really great idea that we would like to see so i'm glad that you've connected with mr marchant and mr shepherd and i hope that mr williams is brought into this too correct and um yep chico hi admins aware they're involved in an email string today and just to reinforce that we do have a process it was it was described to kids during web and link crew they're getting so much information you know it may have gone right past them yeah but the activities directors will make sure kids know they can still form groups they just need an advisor and a few kids and they're off and

088running okay and we want to have feedback about how students are feeling about all of this that's going on and how it can be improved because they're experiencing it and we want to know you know we want to do all that we can i also um it's interesting there was a few interviews in the paper today of the students who are coming to chico state even though the classes are online and even though they only can have one person in a room and what was stated was they wanted to have that experience in this case of leaving home and coming to college but we're trying to help students recreate the experience they would have normally had in high school as much as we can so i just really am very thankful for her communication with

089us but also that admin is openly and actively looking at this as a process so thank you and summer is definitely not an example of the last bullet maintaining an awareness of slow acclimatization she's ready to rock and roll right now but we do have some kids that are still trying to figure out you know what school is all about and definitely being aware of the length of our our structured elements you know our zoom sessions the overall day when edge annuity academic type of curriculum kicks in next week to be aware that there's an additional load not only academic load but technological load for those kids and to be aware of that as well it's not just going to be opening up a textbook and you know anywhere they are there's going to be

090some significant impacts we need to be sure we're aware of that and be ready for that okay our last slide thank you for being patient as we go through this is our targeted stupid student population group and for chico unified that's our foster and homeless our special education and our african-american students so i'm going to have ms diane olson talk about the first three bullets about special education then i'm going to pass it off to john diane are you available oh wait a minute mr hanlon's on it there you go i'm unmuted now sorry about that takes a second for that to happen can you hear me okay yes yes okay so um in special ed um this has been quite a little ride for us right now we are in the process of taking

091and identifying students that would qualify for appointment-based um services um based on the guidance that pewte county behave for public health and the cde is putting out and as we approve the students that cannot access online due to their disability we are going to be starting appointment-based services as soon as we have all those approvals and we expect those approvals to come through this week however we have been told that a couple times so that may be um hopeful thinking but i really think we have everything in place to start that pretty quickly here we also have some appointment based assessments and online assessment and therapy have been in stamps so that students have better access to their providers in the online model these are online therapy models that have been in existence for quite

092a while we never had to access them in the past but during this coveted time i have gotten connections with companies that have done this for a long time you and utilizing their platforms for our occupational therapists our speech therapists our psychologists those that have a therapy type a therapeutic type model of delivery in doing this and making this happen i've worked closely with our nurses in fact we have another meeting tomorrow to make sure that we have all the safety precautions and all of the personal protection equipment in place so that it is safe for those parents who would like to access this service i have just as many parents that would like to access the service as those that are saying no i'm just going to stay online for now because online they

093are really protecting themselves from exposure to covid so for all of those things we are moving ahead and making sure we have all the compliance issues in place thank you diane john yeah so just like to talk really quickly to the board the community we have not lost sight of a major focus for us this year on equity and bias and racism in the chico unified school district so while we've had our hands full with other things a focus on those three has not dissipated and an example of that is an equity alliance model pilot that's happening at bidwell matter of fact they're meeting tonight administration is meeting with some parents and students to develop basically a road map to address equitable alliances within their own school and if you remember back a few board

094meetings ago we talked about the students of color programs at chico state and how we're trying to develop a cascading mentoring program from the college to the high school and we really wanted to get all the way down to middle school and elementary and the next step has taken place principal mckay is working with chico state to develop the next cascade the mentoring between the high school kids and the middle school kids one product of the pilot will be and i'm speaking probably way too soon but they're wrapping their mind around the development of a our story video project that will be directed and produced by the pv house of blue to document students of color within the chico unified school district so we'll be we hope we'll be able to bring that back to

095the board at a future meeting we do want to reinforce that we are still planning to focus on bias during the district-wide staff development day on september 15th we'll have a panel of community members of color to openly and candidly discuss their their stories and their students stories so we'll be working on that on september 15th right now it's we realize that the social emotional capacity of our students is spread out over so many different things we felt like we needed to provide some support so we hired additional wellness counselors last year we only had those we only had them available to high school and now they're available to all the secondary schools we added some additional targeted case managers and i think as importantly we are directly connected through a liaison ritesh kanji to

096our foster and homeless youth ritesh is a long time chico unified employee he recently received his admin credential from chico state and he is ready to to support those targeted student populations so there are some challenges just to briefly go through those like with any other shift we the guidance that's been coming to us from different organizations we've been having to to dance around and figure out exactly what we're going to do but we feel like we have a pretty solid plan who knows what could happen tomorrow diane do you want to talk about iep services hi on the challenges for um special ed providing services we really have slow developing guidance from cde and from butte county public health and it's really from public health at the state level about the guidance on how

097to deliver services to targeted populations so this is an ongoing issue and i've been working closely with our own felpa and with our attorneys to make sure that we're following all guidance as it's delivered the other thing is iep services and online model are a challenge to not only to deliver but to set up the scheduling so that we aren't pointing students for the from the limited amount of hours of services and instruction they're getting with the general education staff our staff though saying that that's a challenge they've been amazing reaching out to the general ed teachers and to their site administration to make sure that services are delivered so that's all i have to do on that to go on to the next bullet all right thanks diane so the third bullet there's tons

098of research out there displaying a disproportionate struggle for students of color and especially students using online learning platforms so that ties right back up to one of our successes we do have a plan in place to get people together on september 15th but more importantly it's a plan in place to address what and the what right now is our students of color who could be disproportionately struggling academically that's definitely a purpose for that september 15th district-wide staff development day so we know we're going to be focusing on that and then lastly just ensuring that we have consistent communication with our targeted student populations and again that goes back through our foster and homeless our special ed and our african-american students and specifically we know we have kids who are cants they can't access the technology

099they have a they have a different level of ability or they don't have a stable environment so they can't we also have the won'ts they do have what they need and they just don't want to and so how do we address those students how do we ensure that or do our best to engage them give them reasons to zoom give them reasons to to come to school virtually every day so trying to address those different those two camps of kids very good that's the end of our presentation i just want to again thank um our directors have done an amazing job along with our teacher populations that have been working through us throughout the summer and our unions and the work of our working together to make sure that the school year started so it's

100been an amazing journey we had all the lightning and thunder the first day and then the third day we get um a lot of fires going on with with ash coming down everywhere so um we it's an amazing uh transition that we're going through right now on on getting our school started i'm just gonna jump in here and add we've heard a lot of the efforts that are going forth really hard work by people across the board but with that said i have to recognize that i think we all want to be back with students we know that this is far from ideal but it is where we legally are at the moment and so thank you to everyone in their efforts to make it work and as i'll go over in the next item

101under a fairly short time frame so all of this said we do know that there are holes okay so before we move on to that next item no not anybody that is not prium signed up already okay okay because we're going to we will shortly move on to the next item um just one other point that um i want to make and that is you know one of the the biggest issues is the isolation and the socialization and you know you were just talking about the high school students and you know we we we got some feedback um from summer but with the elementary students you know trying to find ways now i've heard about in other in other states uh and and this is something that the school administration did not do itself but

102parents have taken it upon themselves to form little learning groups which they've called pods and uh so say for example in the kindergarten um in which my grandson is there would be say three parents who feel comfortable uh where in you know they would have one week all three children would meet in one parent's house to have their lessons in the morning and then the next week they'd go to it another parent in the third week so they would rotate that sort of thing so that the the students can have that time together but then they also afterwards they can play and they can you know horse around and do whatever so you know enabling parents i think to make the connections with other parents what can we do to help make that happen so

103that kids are not isolated and you know maybe grand grandparents maybe who are you know doing this with their kids or maybe a different relative or whatever they can get together with others so i was just thinking how how can we make that happen that would be something that uh we could probably facilitate if if there was a way that say in the classrooms if people wanted to get connected we could share the names you know like if if i wanted to get connected i could say to the teacher i would like to find other people put me in touch you know you can share my name with other people who want to do it and then you could sort that out not that we're setting it up not that we take the responsibility or

104the liability that might happen from doing that but just to help those parents you know because like say in kindergarten you don't know any of those other parents usually and maybe in other classes it's the same thing teenagers at high schools they can do it themselves they sort themselves into their own group but you know for the younger kids just making that so that their socialization doesn't suffer from the isolation of mostly doing this kind of work at home individually we can also certainly reach out to our ptas or ptos and for them to start setting up they have especially on our elementary they have pretty strong groups that could possibly push something out through their facebook pages along that line yeah i think we should we should we should develop a process for doing

105that and uh to help enable the parents because it is something to reach out you know maybe maybe some people are connected but a lot of people aren't connected with other people and it's a whole new experience and just even going to the kindergarten little welcoming event that they had where each child came and saw the teacher for 10 minutes you know you could see in passing other parents but you couldn't really you know connect up and find a way to get together with them so you know finding some way to do that would really be helpful i think yeah eileen yes thank you liz along the same line i was contacted during this time leading up to the start of school by someone who does not themselves have students but has a background with

106education and teaching and said you know i have time how do i help and i ted getting connected with the the pta people to let them know that there may be volunteers out there if uh you know we have a way of siphoning them into the process because there are people who recognize as we all do that you know people need help yeah i just want to recognize mr orlando did bring the up the idea of the pods at our last board meeting and it is something that um certainly we are talking about there are some legal constraints in terms of uh the ability to give out parent information and definitely student information so it is something we're looking at doing but we want to make sure we do it safely the last thing you

107want to do is ever put a child in a situation where it may not be safe and we certainly hope that would never be the case within our community but we need to make sure that however that communication get shares it does go through a parent organization or a non-school organization right yeah and the other thing is um you know we've just to follow up with you said eileen we have had reading pals um on many of our campuses and those people you know that is evidence of how many people are out there willing to volunteer to help kids and they have pretty much been sidelined because of this i know they're they're trying to gear up and i'm not really sure how they're going to manage things this year but there are certainly a

108lot of people who are willing to volunteer for that program actually liz they are communicating and we are going to be trying to do zoom reading pals very near future actually we're meeting with michelle and kind of starting to plan for that and try to put that in place yeah so there's people out there with this is a community that has a lot of retired teachers in there they're very helpful okay with that being said and if there are no people that are in the queue to be recognized with hands raised to address this item as said before this it was a information item only and so we're not going to take a vote on anything but we are going to certainly consider everything that was discussed and and work further to make the online

109learning be a successful experience okay so we are going to move to our next item which is 8.1.2 and this is a discussion possibly an action item for the butte county public health department's elementary school waiver application process and we will find out about that okay well i will kick off 8.1.2 which is the elementary waiver process and i will say this is definitely an area of high interest i have had a lot of emails covering almost every imaginable side of this waiver process so what mr sullivan and i would like to do is we would like to go through and tell you first of all just give some a background of all of the changes and the actions that unified school districts have faced since the school closures to give this some perspective and

110then mr sullivan will take you through the actual elementary waiver process and then we have put together some draft next steps that we would like to present to the board and get input from the board in our community on those draft next steps so if we could go to the um it's the timeline of events okay so i think we're all very well well aware of on march 19th was when the governor announced the closure of all in-person instruction for schools across the state then on uh we spent all summer thinking about okay how hopefully this is going to go away it's going to be life as normal we're going to have kids back in school and then we really saw a spike over the course of the summer and that made us take a

111step back and say all right we may not be able to go back to life as we knew it before the instruction that we've been trained to do what our parents know and um sure enough we you know we were in stage two and then uh on july 15th the board really looked at the the circumstances we were facing considered a lot of different situations a lot of different input and then made the decision to allow us to go to stage two which would be opening in person but um in an am pm model where we would really reduce the number of students on campus and in classes at any given time of course as luck would have it then on july 17th governor newsom announced that all counties on the covet 19 state monitoring

112list must begin the school year in a distance learning format and then on july 25th very shortly thereafter butte county was paid was placed on the cobin 19 monitoring list so we had to do a very quick pivot right that very next monday we started saying okay it's clear now we're not going to be able to open in a modified traditional manner we are going to have to focus on online learning recognizing we are now weeks away from school starting on august 3rd the california department of public health released the in-person waiver application and reopening plan which states that you have to go through your local health organization or the county on august 5th and actually it was the morning of august 6th we received the butte county health department their waiver application and reopening

113plan criteria and we are staring down right at the opening of school now on april 13th was the end of summer break for our certificated staff so we had a very short time period they were back on thursday and friday and then kids were back on monday so we spent two days of very intensive training making sure that our staff was ready to do online instruction that was our focus and we also added an additional day during the summer where teachers could be paid to come back and get additional training in online instruction on august 13th as you can see the hits just keep coming here the butte county health department held a press conference and stated that butte county had officially surpassed the 200 out of 100 citizens threshold they had 200 cases of

114identified coven out of 100 000 population in our county and so what that meant is that then there could be no waivers they would not approve any waivers in in that setting and then very quick turn around we have the first day of school for students which was three days ago on monday so there has been a lot packed in to the summer months that said we have taken a look at the waiver and ted's going to walk you through the waiver process kelly i'd like to point out in that timeline there that butte county did not get its official count corrected until basically this week and so uh even while we were being uh placed officially on the list and then passing the threshold that wasn't even an accurate count so that's also been

115a confounding part yes there's certainly been issues with data so to walk through some of the uh well these steps really with moving us towards a waiver if that's what we would like to do one of them is superintendent's daily shared we've had about two weeks to look at this and start kind of processing through it one of the first steps and we're on hold with this obviously with the condition of the county as superintendents daily shared but we can start looking at some of the other elements of the waiver process one of them for superintendents daily with board blessing to even get to the point of looking to submit a waiver one of the first things we have to start doing is getting community input from the school site level to kind of look

116and see what their interest is engaging that interest from school site level or district level as well so we've been talking about ways that we can survey and meet with different community groups at the site levels and how we might do that with them second step is actually working with employee groups and getting input from those employee groups as well same process we want to start surveying getting input from them initially but also having some meetings with them to talk about what that looks like and how that would work with those kinds of things i think one of the most complex parts of it would actually be putting a plan together developing that plan and in the application process there's a whole bunch of parts of what are the things that have to be included

117in that plan and it's everything from specific directions on how we clean and disinfect areas to how we cohort students and track some of those cohorts of students if something were to happen we have to talk about how we're going to address entrance egress and movement within the school and have actually have specific plans written for those things we address face coverings and other essential protective gear we have to talk about how we will perform health screenings with students and staff in that plan we have to talk about healthy hygiene practices and how we're going to have hand washing stations available some of those kinds of things as well we also have to address identification and tracing of contacts and this is something that we would be taking on also right now it's not set

118up for us to be doing it it's more of the county that does that this with us if we choose to apply for a plan that becomes something that we have a plan to do and to follow up on i'm sorry ted can you help me out with what is the backup here what document you're looking at i think it's a i'm sorry it's a link within the within it kevin yeah yeah this one right here one more sorry about that i was talking too fast thank you so those are all kevin scroll down there that's the actual what kevin just scrolled through was the actual application which is a very simple one-page overview and the pages he's scrolling through now those are actually the information we would provide as far as how we worked

119and consulted with different groups the parent groups and the employee groups and as kevin keeps going down this right here is what we're talking about this is the elements that have to be incorporated into that plan so i was talking before about cleaning disinfecting cohorting students plan for entrance and egress of it face coverings health screenings how we do those kinds of things healthy hygiene practices identification and tracing of contacts and as i mentioned this is right now this is something the county has taken on but if we choose to move forward with a waiver this is something that we have to have incorporated in our plan as far as how we will be addressing those things as well dr kaiser yes i know of a high school where they opened on monday as well

120and now they already have three students who are positive and they wouldn't have known if the grandparent hadn't posted on facebook apparently the family lawyer told them that they didn't have to tell the school so how can we do that when in fact they don't have to tell us how can we identify and trace student contracts yeah when they don't have to tell us the kids got it or somebody in the family has got right i think we we start facing if students are um having a fever or so he's displaying some of those um symptoms of it then that gives us that information that we need to start looking at that and talking with the family and and following up with some tracing also all right we're short of that i'm not sure how

121else are we noticing you can be notified of positive cases by butte county health department they share that so we also that was a that didn't happen in this case i mean the teachers didn't know they had a student in their class that was that in butte county was that in butte county so we would also have to have a plan in place for physical distancing with staff and students and the routines to make sure that's happening we certainly would want and need to have staff training and family education as far as what the plan includes and how it's going to be operating testing of students and staff i think is what maybe you're referring to dr kaiser a little bit of how do we kind of have a plan in place to keep track

122of some of that information if we need to part of the plan has to include a trigger to switch back to distance learning if certain conditions are happening with certain levels of positive testing and also how we're going to communicate that plan so i think for us to kind of go through all of those things that becomes part of almost like the negotiation process and that's what we would be not only just consulting but actually walking through with our employee groups to come up with something that both sides would feel that is going to be reasonable and work well for these situations i don't know if mr hanlon wants to address that at all i think that's a good segue for the consultation part so under the terms of the waiver um we're required to

123consult with our employee groups uh in regards to the issues that are outlined in the in the waiver um i checked with our legal and there's actually a definition for what consultation is because it's different than negotiations or meet uh meet and confer or those things that we're more commonly aware of so the definition is the employer must consider proposals but not bound to attempt in good faith to reach a negotiated settlement so it's an attempt to reach out to the employee groups get input from them work with them on an understanding and their viewpoints their concerns hear them out and and have those con conversations we would be required to consult with both groups um and part of that consultation might be the surveys that mr sullivan discussed earlier but also in-depth conversations about

124what concerns and that they may have on behalf of the their their members the next step then would of course be if a waiver were adopted by the school board we would have to enter it into negotiations with regards to the impact and effects on working conditions and those are always negotiable things like safety face mass sanitation things we have talked about before but under a waiver the conditions would be different than under an online learning model the daily schedule what would that look like start and end time how much time of instruction do we do am pm is it every other day it's kind of similar to the things we talked about earlier when we were talking about the hybrid model and then transfer rights would be another example what if not the whole

125staff did not want to work under this model what would be the transfer rights away from that school site and or and or back to that school site when we go back into stage four and we get under normal circumstances so there's things that we wouldn't we would be required to negotiate with with those union groups in order to determine those things yes kathy i understand also that this is these are um when we were talking about how fast things have changed for us when we look at this timeline but my understanding is any kind of agreement waiver can be changed by a 14-day event i.e we have enough students in a particular group or teachers or staff that have to be isolated or quarantined and so that you could be you could have a

126waiver have school start get positive cases and have to flip back to online learning this high school that i was talking about the teachers are already expecting i mean in three days they have three cases that they might be flipped back into online learning and so what happens when things are that potentially short-termed or or time controlled that is outside of our framework of reference that that kathy is actually one of the conditions in there they specifically talk about a trigger for switching back to distance learning and that will be incorporated as part of that plan so if that trigger gets hit you have to make that shift what's your plan to be able to do that and the health department also has the right to usurp that and um and trigger us back in

127because of conditions in the county right that may be outside the school that particular particular school site so there are things that can can reverse that quickly okay jim i think eileen has a question i do thank you of either ted or jim whichever one of you wants to tackle us because these last three boxes are where my questions are because of something that we just talked about in the the hipaa disclosure rules and the the lag time between testing and the test results coming back that period of you know one to five days where a student hasn't tested positive so they are not being restricted by the parent probably and are continuing to come and so on the testing of students and staff is what this is asking is that we determine um what

128we're going to do to ensure that the tests happen do does the school district set up those guidelines or are there guidelines that the county is putting in front of us to follow we've been very fortunate in we've had a very good cooperative relationship and developing guidelines by working with butte county public health however this is moving some of that onus onto us what are we going to do to ensure that those students get tested so if all of those conditions were able to be worked through ironed out and superintendents daily would be able to come back to the school board and share if that's something that was interested and with those conditions met we could be moving forward with a waiver at that point if that was the will of the board and superintendent's

129daily was supporting that so my question would be is it an all or nothing deal could you you know and i i don't know how this works for the union because in my mind i don't see how it would be possible for some schools to uh get a waiver and other schools not to because the union if you know how it i just don't know how that would work um jim do you know have you ever asked them about that if if a possibility of some schools if some schools wanted to pursue this because you know we have been hearing that maybe some teachers at some schools are amenable to going back and they would want one of these so so let me jump in here and um we do have kevin ready who is

130the president of the chico unified teachers association i've asked him to join the zoom so that he can answer some of the questions but what i would like to do first is we really thought about what would be some logical next steps that we could take in moving forward toward the waiver process and what we realized in going through that is that a lot of the steps that we would be taking are very similar to the steps that we're going to be taking as we get ready to negotiate and look forward to a stage two reopening so if you can open kevin uh the one that is next steps on the agenda there you go so step one and this is all a draft we're looking forward to input from both the board and the

131community on this but step one would be um we would the district office would assist each tk through five school site all of our elementary school sites in um doing a survey and that survey would need to go out to certificated staff classified staff parents and guardians and then it also has to go out to community groups operating on the campus and that would be your school site council your english language learner advisory council your pta's card if the school has a card program and reading pals and then we would bring those surveys back and share that information with the board at their september 16th board meeting we would be looking for trends within that and we would disaggregate this information obviously by school site our third step would actually be occurring and is occurring

132at the same time and that's where i'm going to ask mr hanlon and mr moretti to go ahead and go through that could you just go back to two because somehow i missed what two was two was sharing the survey data with bringing that back to our board and our community in a public setting okay so step three mr hanlon and mr muradi if you're available yeah so um i was um part of that is that we were talking about working conditions and those are going to be completely negotiable and those are going to those are going to be things that we're going to have to come to agreement with we have reached agreements with both units um as i've discussed before on august 7th with cuta and then as late as august 17th which

133was it went to effect the very first day of school with csea so we would have those conversations regarding work conditions conditions as i've talked about so we do have a negotiation set up with cuta starting on september 10th and then again on the 23rd we have yet to determine negotiation meetings with csea but i'm sure they're anxious to get back to the table also so i'm going to unmute mr moretti i am a muted you are you're in okay yes thank you very much so so the issues we would have to do i i think liz brought this up what if some teachers want to do and some teachers don't so let's say we're 50 50 like like the country is so we have half our schools open and half our schools have let

134me rephrase half our teachers want to do it and half don't we would we would want to negotiate language for transfer which jim mentioned earlier and i i would imagine parents would also be in that 50-50 split and would want to have their kids either in it or not in it so we would have to negotiate language of how that would work so how would half our teachers move to schools that were doing it and half stay in those kids so let's just we have 12 elementary schools let's pretend it goes in half and then we would have to negotiate language about how would would we go back if we went into stage two so would we go to the distance learning piece while we're in stage one for the half that want it and

135the half that don't and then rearrange everybody when we go into stage two in a distance learning and i i don't have an answer to that question but i know that has to be negotiated additionally are we going to be asked to negotiate what might happen if the county allows transfers before we negotiate what will happen when we go into stage two so it's a priority uh type of question that i don't have an answer to there's only so many days that we can negotiate um the the union's negotiating team are full-time teachers and so for them to negotiate they have to get substitutes and and move away from what they're doing right now and i imagine that the district's negotiating team is just as busy trying to get what's done so to to put

136one step in front of the other i i have concerns about that because we we know we will go into stage two at some point and it would benefit us to have that language in the contract to to allow that to happen when it happens so it's a it's a carton horse deal as i look at it of what we're going to do first kevin my concern would be if we did something where we said we would move staff teachers staff and the 14-day thing hit us where we had to close again back to online that would appear to be a tremendous amount of change that could be going on for the rest of the school year i mean i hate to think of that but the context of concern you know scary it would

137be very disruptive one thing i want to add on what kevin said is about negotiations we we have um in the last several years have been negotiating two full days per month which if you look traditionally in in the district is um quite frequent um again like like kevin said is it's difficult to pull teachers out of the classroom for a full day and with a sub it has great impacts on on the on the students but at the same time we need to come to agreements on things too but two days a month is is fairly frequent um by traditional standard historical standards yes i'm sorry eileen yes thank you um on the same lines as dr kaiser was just talking as i'm looking at that issue that you and kevin have talked about

138um is that you know which which cart first and which horse first and it to me does not make sense to um to go with um trying to take a look at the waiver process that is in no way certain as we've said about as far as timeline and one of the major things that we discussed when we back on the 15th when we set up our am pm model and what to do about going into stage 2 was the importance of keeping the cohorts of these students together i mean we're already dealing with the social emotional impact of what's going on with the kids and to to keep them together with the same teacher and the same classmates even if it is zoom is important and if you're if if you're increasing the possibility

139of removing that cohort and separating them several times during the year from my perspective that is is just very opposite of what we're trying to do in establishing some stability for our students and our parents well and our teachers my goodness uh how do you suddenly have to get to know you know [Music] say you've got 23 kids and you've got half of them and then you suddenly don't have half of them but you have a different half you go through that process all over again i do not like that that is that is not appealing to me i do believe that we need to to prepare for going into stage two and continuing to hope to high heaven that this state keeps its masks on and its social distancing in place and we're able

140to get to a point where we can be moved off of the the um restricted list and get back to in person am pm model as we have already selected with some stability i do not like adding more uncertainty to what we're trying to prepare for our kids so so if i can let me go back through the or just go through finish going through the steps that we had outlined and then by all means we want to hear from our community we want to hear from our board as to whether or not that we're going in the right direction or if there's changes we need to make but we are legally obligated to negotiate working conditions and um you know there there is some symmetry here in that as we are negotiating for stage

141two some of that likely will have overlaps with potential waiver language or negotiations as well so then we would bring back to the board on september 16th as we do at every board meeting and a negotiations update how are we progressing uh in regards to our negotiations upon completion of the negotiations the district and the street school reopening plans would be presented to the board for approval upon approval by the board i would submit the waiver and the reopening plans to butte county public health and then butte county public health has up to 14 days to review the plan i do know that they are really looking through those very carefully and they have returned them to many of the ones that have already submitted and asked for clarification once they feel comfortable then they

142too are consulting with the california department of health as to whether to approve or deny the application so those were the steps that we came up with as a draft plan for our elementary waiver so with that i will turn it back over to the board for questions discussions and um comments from our public and i do believe we have speaker cards on this item yeah we do okay yes kathy so if we go back to those steps so five we complete negotiations and um then six you would submit the waiver application and the reopening plans um so that's a month from now basically and as you said there have already been some a very few but some elementary schools in the county who have submitted requests waiver requests is there any feedback loop so

143[Music] other school districts get information about why a particular waiver got sent back by the county health department or i mean are we going to have something to learn from in this month yes i do have copies in the and they are available to the public on the butte county public health website of the waivers that have been submitted so far with the exception of gridley um and i my understanding is they are still you know doing some back and forth on the information that they need uh gridley unified is the only unified school district that has submitted a waiver i am sure there will be more coming but at this point gridley is the only one that has the others are small private schools and charter schools that i have submitted has any been

144approved i do not know the answer to that i did ask for one that was a um you know a really good sample that we could look at and you know the one that we were given is obviously a much smaller it's a school of 36 students so that's going to be very different than what we would be doing for our elementary school population that has 6 000 students so in other words you're not getting feedback about what might cause a rejection at this point i will say that butte county public health has been very good to work with and i think you know if we ask questions we get phone calls you know immediately back so i i don't anticipate problems at all in working with them but i think like us and like

145the rest of the state they too are working through this process you know it's all very new yeah thank you so uh part of this was in and this was to my surprise i hadn't heard of this before was the responsibility for us to do tracking yes how how would that be possible how do you think that would be possible well i think those are things that we have to research and again you know we look at how other i have no problem looking with how how other districts up and down the state are handling these issues we would work with butte county public health we have a much more advanced document than many counties as was already mentioned in the uh tracing the information that butte county public health has put together the flow

146chart but it would it's obviously an area that we will have to address that's sort of just like not in our realm of expertise yeah it's not in our wheelhouse to have to do that so you know i mean who we'd have to hire some a whole new staff to do that sort of thing um i mean i'm just trying to envision how that would be how that would even be possible um okay uh board members did you did any of you have any more comments or at this point we we could open up the comments um we will open up the comments to the people who submitted comment cards and we will take them one by one and just to reiterate each person will have three minutes to speak and you will be warned

147when your time is coming close to ending so um we can proceed with that okay so we had um five people sign up with comment cards and four are online so the first one up is and then we have a couple other ones that have put their hands up okay but so we'll go through the ones that had pre-signed up the first one up is matt tennis matt if you're on cheer up hi there my name is matt tennis and uh i am the i guess creator and head of an organization called the chico parents for in-person learning started it up uh last sunday and as of monday we had 200 members uh by today that number has grown to 250. and um i guess i represent the people who don't think things are going

148that great in chico unified right now um uh remember lando i have kind of a special kinship with you because i know that you actually are a parent of a child at chico unified i myself am the parent of three children who are in the chico unified system and one who will be uh and they are with the exception of one who's in junior high they are all great school material and i'm here to tell you today that for a working family where both parents work i myself have an essential job and my wife owns her own business but for working parents who've got kids who are in elementary school um we are in meltdown mode right now and it's a horrible situation and the product that you're describing that this that you guys are

149all so excited about i'm here to tell you that we don't want that product the idea of sitting around at home with our kids um for hours and hours at a time it is several hours a day let us be completely clear by the time we add in the time they're expected to be on the zoom call and then the time that they are spending doing their assignments they are on the computer for several hours a day uh we have horror stories like crazy pouring into uh my mailbox uh one of my favorites is a child who participated in a zoom call from inside uh his father's pickup truck because they couldn't get child care for that day um how do you grade a child uh who's in that situation how do you give them

150a grade no i think it's a really bad situation you guys should get on this waiver thing as soon as possible thank you okay next up mr hanlon okay the next speaker is james bishop james are you on can you hear me okay i hurt myself yes we can okay i think things have become clear recently um and that mainly as a result of some very clear cdc guidelines that were released um they basically in their testimony before congress and in other formats have shown real quantifiable harm both physical and psychological that are being done to students that is going to accelerate dramatically quoting them if schools don't reopen in face for face-to-face education in the fall this is set up against a speculative harm that we're all familiar with it's i think we would

151all admit is extremely vague as to what it all means i want to make some of that a little more clear if i can first of all children are much less likely to to face any kind of actual physical risk i'm not talking about whether they test puzzle for code i'm talking about them getting sick or dying that is much less likely um surprisingly perhaps with covet than it has been with the seasonal flu this is not a controversial idea if you're shocked by it please type implore you please go and do your research and find out for yourself this is just a byproduct of the data there's no real argument with it so there's the other issue of whether children are vectors for disease for other people to get sick and in that regard

152there's also a lot of data and research that has been done one of one of the important sources of data is contact tracing and it has been stated many times and by different people the famous one i guess was the world health organization that said that they can't find um contract tracing data to support the idea that children are vectors for disease they describe children as being very rare they also describe asymptomatic cases being very rare and i suspect that the two are linked children are typically asymptomatic when they do get sick and for that reason it's not surprising that they aren't vectors or diseases but at any rate for whatever reason is that's what the data shows and it shouldn't really be surprising also because the whole coronavirus family is known to not be

153transmitted readily by asymptomatic people and so there's should you know how much data do we need to support something that we could have expected based on family history of the disease so it's kind of mind-boggling to me and i imagine it must be a lot of people if as you dig into the data it becomes more and more bizarre it's just you can't understand all of this everything you guys just been talking about all this bureaucracy and everything that we're gonna like and it's it's hard to understand what's going on but i would offer one possibility and that comes from the l.a county teachers union that said that they will not allow students to return to face-to-face learning no matter what harm they may be suffering they will not allow them unless we defund the

154police close all charter schools thank you mister thank you mr bishop thank you for contributing okay the next speaker is becky konkin becky you're up oh hang on my phone's having a meltdown is my mic open you might want to turn my mic off you turn it off yourself i don't think so i'm sure becky konkan are you are you on i don't know if you should attack the teacher's union becky where's the cave there hello i'm here okay we can hear you okay sorry um hi my name is becky konkin i'm the mom of four school age children i also work part-time as a pediatric nurse practitioner my intention in speaking this evening is really to stress the importance of our school district in applying for an elementary waiver for in-person learning on campus

155as it stands now our tax-funded public school classrooms are being inhabited by daycare organizations who are supervising mass squaring socially distanced children who are plugged into computers for distance learning this particular scenario has been deemed completely safe by our county health department while i fully understand the health and physical risk and implications of covid19 on school-aged children my purpose tonight is not to defend why i believe it is safe for kids to be on campus we already have a designated qualified health officer at our department of health that has the expertise to determine when the time is appropriate and safe to return to school but my driving motivation tonight is to respectfully urge the school board to get the ball rolling by preparing and submitting a waiver to provide elementary in-person learning to our health

156department so when that time is deemed con deemed the right time we'll be prepared and ready for that moment as a parent i'm advocating for the social emotional and mental wellbeing of my children along with the children of our community time is of the essence and quality education has to be our priority pretending that rigorous distance learning is an adequate substitution for in-person learning is absolute denial those families who have found it superior by all means can opt to continue their education from home but those who rely on it value and believe in the traditional classroom education system must rise up and fight to return to our campuses every single public service industry has had to create new systems had to adapt and learn how they'll coexist with a virus in midst of a pandemic

157teachers administrators school board i believe in your ability to really dig deep be creative and develop a plan to safely bring back our kids to school where only the best learning takes place thanks guys okay thank you we'll hear our next speaker did uh what happened to number three on the list she is not um she's not online oh okay okay i'll just cross that off so the next one is sallow londono you guys hear me yes hi all right awesome great hi i'm a parent of two one of which is currently a kindergarten student at neil dal i am a member of the chico parents for in-person learning and i believe i speak for a lot of parents when i say that i understand due county public sales position on this i may not

158agree with it uh the whole you know 200 cases per 100 000 or whatever i feel like that uh that standard that threshold is probably going to change with time anyway but i also see no reason why that their position at the county level should preclude the chico unified school board from instructing staff to send the application in immediately just like 10 other schools and districts in butte county have already done just because public health isn't accepting applications doesn't mean they're not receiving them and working with districts and schools to improve their reopening plans if the board waits until public health begins accepting applications in order to send hours we will be weeks if not a month behind the schedule it's a fact that the board has already had their reopening plan ready to go

159for weeks in fact the board voted to go back to partial school under those safety measures under the am pm plan so why wait apply now if the board doesn't move to apply now parents need to be asking the question why what's stopping the board from doing it if there's an issue with collective bargaining then we need to hear this parents deserve to know the truth as your attorney already mentioned a consultation is a good faith conversation no group has veto power over this process safety measures proposed for the am pm model were already approved and it was only when it was voted on by this board it's time to move forward with the waiver and negotiate with uh labor for stage two reopening while our kids are already learning in person uh nothing has

160changed since that vote for the ampm model other than the governor adding us to some kind of watch list and the government the governor's his office has also specifically urged districts to apply for this waiver because of what the scientific data says about kids in covet the negative consequences of these kids not going back if it's open i'm gonna send you okay thank you failing parents to wait telling parents to wait weeks or months for the district to survey sites and negotiate with labor when it's not required is really unacceptable it's a delay tactic and it's something that parents in chico will take note of the mental and emotional health of our children is at stake here guys what we've heard for the past hours are all the reasons why we can't do this it's

161too complicated thank you your time optimism and leadership on this is pretty depressing please our kids need it thank you for your comments okay do we have uh anyone else in the queue so we have three more okay um we have already gone past our time limit it's up to the board um as to whether they want to continue to listen to more comments yes jim is it possible to re-mute the people who've already spoken i think we're getting some i did okay thank you hopefully i can keep up with it but i think i really appreciate that thank you okay yes um eileen yes thank you madam president um i would support allowing the last three people in the queue to be heard the i think the importance of of the decision that not

162only we're facing but what they're facing in the way of uh you know supporting what has to happen or not in the district um i'd like to hear what the others have to say would you like to make a motion i i move that we extend the uh the time another um 12 minutes 12 no three times nine minutes excuse me i was not a math major um and allow the last three speakers in the queue to be heard okay then do we have a second yes okay tom uh has a second it so eileen made a motion to extend this for another three speakers which is almost equivalent to 10 minutes and it was a second by mr lando uh we will take a vote uh linda how do you say linda says yes

163eileen obviously you made the motion so yes robinson i okay griffin aye when do i all righty so we will hear the last three speakers um go ahead mr hamlin okay the next speaker is crosby crosby europe okay can you guys hear me now yes we can okay perfect appreciate the opportunity to speak and if you guys uh opening that up um so uh my name is ryan crosby i'm a dad i have three kids uh school-age kids currently in the chico system i'm i'm a member of the chico parents for in-person learning and really i i want to just express my interest in moving forward with the waiver um and i think it's something that we need to do we need to get in front of we need to get this in front of

164the county health board so that they can take a look at it we can always create issues and we can we can really kind of think out and and view into the future and see like these are the things we're going to face but reality is is we don't know what those are until we get to that space and so a couple of things that i wanted to address that i've heard already is you know the keeping the cohort together right and i got to tell you there is no community on zoom the experience i had today with one of my sons he was in a class um and the and the kids realized that they could uh all jump on the mic at once and start to yell into the mic and the teacher

165had no recourse maybe she didn't realize how to use zoom or or whatever but in the end what happened was is they just they just she just shut down the whole program so the class just ended and i asked him i said what are you doing and uh he said well the class just ended because all the kids were screaming into the mic um and so the teacher just left right and so the reality of it is is there is no community there's nev there's nothing to keep together there's no core vote to keep together uh earlier we heard one of the members talk about you know some of the teachers may not want to come to in-person learning um and and some of the teachers would want to it's about 50 50 and they

166and you guys were assuming that maybe the the public would be at the same space well that actually works out perfectly right why don't we put those teachers that want to stay in the virtual environment and those kids and students who want to stay into that in that virtual environment together and then and then have the teachers that are willing to come and do the in-person learning and those students that are willing to come and do the in-person learning be in a class together as well i think i think ultimately if that's the way it works out it actually works out really really well so ultimately what our objective is is to educate our kids uh that's the whole reason why the schools exist it's not for supervision it's not for food programs i know

167that we've it's it's it's expanded into those areas but the primary objective of the school is to educate our kids and frankly the way it's being done isn't working right um and so i move i i implore you guys uh to let's get this waiver going let's get it in front of people and let's not belabor this uh let's just start putting one foot in front of the others and moving forward appreciate your time thank you so much okay thank you we'll hear our next speaker okay the next speaker is paddy l patty l you're on patty you should be unmuted mute now okay can you hear me we can okay awesome so my number one thing is um i know it's a struggle what we're going through i have an 18 year employee with

168chico unified and i have nine grand grandchildren right now in chicago unified so well actually two of them are in italy one of the highest um in any way so um my concern is several things number one connectivity 5.3 billion dollars that gavin newsom has designated to um connectivity for our students and our chico unified district voted for [Music] computers for all of our teachers which i admit they need definitely but when our parents are asked to provide extra connectivity for our students i think um some of that 5.3 billion dollars needs to go to those parents who need those that extra connectivity um the one number two the um i worked in special ed for several years and um i agree that they need that extra help african americans three of my grandchildren are

169afric african-american and of color how does that apply to um the application of what we need to apply to every one of our students um i just want to applaud this community to um acknowledge the frustrations of everyone our our parents our working parents who are trying to struggle to figure out how to [Music] make this all happen um lack of communication that has transpired uh why you know we had we as a an employee got our all of our parents who had to um comply with online learning in a district in 24 hours and why has it taken three months for our school district to make this happen patty i'm sorry but your time has elapsed thank you for participating i i do want to make sure jim that we don't have amanda moncado

170because she did submit a speaker card i will check again she has not been she has not been on to this point but let me check no she's still not online amanda moncado moncada did submit a speaker card so i would want to make sure we heard from someone that submitted a speaker card so the next one i had the last one that had their hand up was lisa vargas lisa vargas hello can you hear me yes um thank you all for giving me the opportunity to speak um i am a parent of two children at little chico creek who attends special day class i really just wanted to convey to the group that my children and children of special needs across the group that i'm part of the um autism group of butte county

171um i'm not sure if it's for everyone but in my particular case my children would definitely benefit from in-person instruction considering that they utilize not just special day class but occupational therapy speech therapy services the multiple therapeutic services that are provided by the school during this time while we've been doing online instruction my children have not been able to attend to any of the process it's been incredibly difficult a complete struggle and very frustrating for my husband and i to try to take on the role as teachers when neither one of us are during this time both of my children have had to go through multiple medications to help and sort of ward off some of the some of the things that have sort of happened over time from them not attending school my boys

172love going to school and just the process of waiting for the school bus to arrive in the morning to getting to school and getting on the school bus to go home every day was of pure joy for them that's something that no longer exists in their daily life and that has taken an immense toll on their mental health capacities one of my children in particular he engages in self-injurious behavior which has increased exponentially by not having the opportunity to be in school meeting with the teachers on monday for our meet and greet was rather solemn getting to spend less than 10 minutes and watching my son eyes while he looked completely excited to see his teacher after so long but not being allowed to roam around the classroom not understanding why his para educators were

173keeping him from even walking into the classroom he was only allowed to stand within the front door of that classroom was heartbreaking this whole process has been heartbreaking for our family my boys really would benefit mostly from being in school they need to be in school and their mental health has been affected immensely we do have to see a psychiatrist on a regular basis now because of the inability to control their behaviors we also see it out in the community because of the lack of education that they're receiving um i basically just wanted to to mention lastly um to keep this short that the request that we were given by his special education day teacher by both um education day teachers was to log on every day keep the computer on and even if they

174weren't attending make sure that the computer stayed on for the allotted time that my boys were supposed to be attending to the computer which again is another heartbreaking situation because both of them do suffer from adhd at least which doesn't help lisa i'm sorry i have to stop you because your time has elapsed but thank you thank you for contributing we appreciate your you're calling in and and waiting to uh share your views we appreciate that thank you president griffin um cuta president kevin brady is requesting the last word all righty okay kevin brady you're up are you there kevin oh there we go i'm sorry it wouldn't let me unmute jim i i just wanted to re iterate to some of the folks that we are negotiating what the hybrid model would look like

175and it comes back to it's really repeating what i've said before so people said you know if you need to negotiate this negotiate this now well what do we negotiate first do we negotiate what it looks like in a hybrid model or do we negotiate what it looks like with a waiver when the county isn't approving waivers and and to address some of the issues that many of the parents have brought up which are totally reasonable it's not working for lisa vargas it's not working for your kids as good as in in school education would and no one is arguing that with you no one is saying that this for the if if online education worked best for you you'd already be in it the people that are not in it prior to this situation

176that was for a reason this isn't something that teachers are picking they want to be back in school but it comes back to i think it was saul who said well let's just do half and half half the schools do it half don't well half the parents don't want to do it and they're all mixed up in those half of the other schools so you're gonna it's gonna create an incredible situation that we would have to deal with that that we can but is that what you want to do first and and i will end with that thank you okay thank you very much uh kevin okay so at this point we need to talk about if we want to go through the next steps the next steps have been laid out here possibly take

177the first step which would be finding out you know is this we we've heard from a few parents tonight we've certainly heard from numerous parents through emails um but you know this is an item that uh we can choose to take an action or not take an action um it doesn't necessarily have to be going forward with the waiver but it could be taking a step that is necessary in that process so yes kathy so i would have to say that people listening and and maybe looking at this or are already in an emotional situation and stress which i think any of us who are dealing with kids or are very aware of that ourselves but the framework of it is that we can't just skip over the steps we have to do them all

178or it won't even be it would just be a waste of paper so i do think the way it was laid out by our administration is that there is a structure here that we can utilize that would be preparing for the waiver and at the same time preparing to be able to go to the am pm model that we voted for when we come off the monitoring list so i i saw that as it is two processes but they seem to be melded together for much of the time i do though want very strongly for people to realize that you can't jump through time in this process [Music] the surveys will have to be designed and take time to both pass out and get the information back and handle the statistics the negotiations with staff

179and teachers will be the same it will take time to consider that so really nobody's talking i hope about someone thinking that we can send it off next week the timeline i saw looked like maybe in a month we could have it all put together and that was going to take a lot of effort from everyone to get that done [Music] i see literally no advantage to trying to short change this because that will get us rejected out of hand so anyway that's my input thank you okay tom uh excuse me two comments i'd like to make one um that i hear many of the parents just saying that they wish that we would acknowledge how frustrating this i hope i think kevin did that and i think i would just like to on behalf

180of the board if i'm not being too forward let those listeners know that we do we understand this is not perfect and we are continually trying to improve the way that we deliver services to kids this conversation is certainly a part of that but we know this is not perfect and we are doing everything we can to increase the way we reach and teach and serve these students secondly because it is such a laborious process i think several of these speakers had a very good point i will come right out and say that i understand we are over that 200 per 100 000 limit and we're not going to get a waiver right now given the amount of time it takes i think that beginning the process of applying for the waiver immediately just that

181we have it in our in our back pocket step six is it comes back to us for approval before kelly said miss daly sends it off i see absolutely no downside to beginning the process as quickly as possible and if it comes to the point where it's ready and we decide it's not a good idea we still have that option but i would advocate for giving ourselves more choices rather than less by beginning the process as quickly as possible okay yes eileen thank you madam president a question of mr hanlon jim right now in our negotiations process with our labor groups we are negotiating the impacts of the am pm model correct we will be on our next meeting yes that's correct okay so we have we have begun um uh to move forward as

182quickly as possible given the scheduling and how that stuff works out to make sure that when we do get below the guidelines we've got the 14 days below the guidelines and the department has said okay you can move back into in-person schooling we have been working on the best model for doing that which is what we've approved pending negotiations is the am pm model which gives everybody what they want which is to get their kids back in front of their teachers and for the teachers to be in front of their kids to interrupt that process and you know cut it its attention by starting on a waiver process that we have no idea if we would even be eligible for the waiver process say two weeks before we become eligible for the am pm in-person

183process so i support keeping our focus on making sure that when we get cleared for in-person schooling that it's the plan we hope to be able to at least go through the whole first semester of school if we have to do the whole school year ugly don't want to do that but at least we have the best possible choice for in person in place and and to me to divert our attention with trying to meet all the conditions of the waiver and decide how we're going to do tracing and tracking and my goodness all the other stuff that we would be required to do in order to fulfill the requirements of getting a waiver that's an awful lot of resource [Music] expenditure when where we need to rehab had to have our resources and our

184attention is making the best of the one thing that we have approved wanting to do which is the am pm model with all but the 600 families and kids that have gone to oak bridge already in place so that if it's november 1st or you know december 1st we've got the plan to have the county clear us to do a waiver before then doesn't seem reasonable if you look at all of the things that we would be required to develop because we don't have this stuff in place i think we're i think we're we're doing our program a disservice because what we want more than anything is to get all of those families and all of those kids that have said we want in person to get them in person and so i don't support

185going after the waiver i say charge ahead to get everybody into in person as quickly as we get cleared okay linda would you like to speak hold on i'm working on it thank you i've been silenced here from afar i'm so sorry we didn't know that that's okay um eileen i understand what you're you're saying uh you know there is a lot to do to apply for this waiver but i have to actually agree with tom and i support going forward and going through the steps as outlined especially that parent survey i was kind of surprised to hear i was hoping i would hear from our speakers but i'm sure we'll get this information from the surveys for the parents you know what if as kevin moretti's example put out we have six of our

186twelve schools that open and say my children go to citrus but citrus is not one of the six am i going to be willing to pull my third grader and send him to little chico creek so there's so many logistics there's so many different things and i think we need to cross those bridges when we get there in the meantime i really encourage my colleagues to consider going forward with the steps that were outlined by our administration and getting this waiver process started that's my comment thank you linda okay so the way i feel about it is that um i think this was laid out really well because it's very logical and you have step one which is really surveying to see how people feel you know if you don't have enough support then you

187know that means you just continue we continue with negotiations with our labor groups and we plan for the future of reopening which will occur in natural course however if we see a huge upsurge in people wanting to do this both on the end of teachers and the community and you know parents then we are at step two and we as a board can then examine those results and make a determination do we want to move forward i agree with you though eileen in that we don't want to step you know part of the step is step three is really getting set up for school period i mean you know how is it what's it going to look like and it's going to be the model that we already decided on so we we absolutely have

188to get that negotiated first because we won't be able to put on school at all until we get that negotiated so if that follows uh you know from after step two then we cannot though get off track so that is why that is number three and that those other things come later as far as you know determining all that other requirements of applying for the waiver so i would agree to starting the process knowing that when we get to step two we will have another opportunity to look this over again and see how things are because this situation always is changing in time and we know that we don't know where we're going to be at that point you know if we still have over 200 per hundred thousand you know it's going to look

189a little bit differently than it would if our numbers drop and we have significant uh proof that hey things are on the downturns downswing and and we can we can better plan so i would also support going through this next step process um with the knowledge that it is coming back to us after step one and we have some feedback from our community that we can rely on yes kathy there's another advantage to um to doing step one which is [Music] you know we get emails or people make comments to us or whatever but the context of the survey since they're site specific may indicate to us that there are some groups that are more united in their um assessment opinion of what they want and um and i'm not generating the issue that people

190would try to move their kids because we don't even know what and where i think the survey would give us a landscape and that's always a critical function uh i mean we've heard from i think we let eight people speak but the we have 12 000 kids and potentially you know i don't know nine thousand eight thousand households and who says parents agree i mean one parent may differ with another so to me getting surveys is like giving us a very very valuable mapping context in which we would better understand and our teachers and our staff one question i did have though because i was a little bit concerned about this we say we're going to get community groups and you can see the list right there school site english learner parent teacher card reading

191pals i don't know how many of those are literally active right now at our school sites it and and so you know even the survey may be a way we talk about well maybe parents can set up pods but doing the survey might be a way for them to connect with one another like oh now we have something real to do that might let us connect and bind with each other about what kinds of issues we see and what kind of resources we might be able to bring so to me that's that's a a potential side effect that could be very valuable okay so are we at a point now where we want to vote on whether we're going to [Music] go forward with the next steps yes eileen oh thank you mr president um

192hearing from my fellow board members is always a good thing some um exceptional points were made and i'm convinced that going forward with steps one leading to step two is absolutely what we need to do tending to be a bit of a pessimist with what how i've seen the this um pandemic deteriorate in butte county and the the uh different thing made me look more at the implementation of the insteps than what you fellow board members were focused on which was the beginning of the beginning steps and so i i too am in support of beginning the process with step one okay so that being the case do i have a motion i would move to direct staff to begin stage one or step one of the waiver process yes i'll second okay kathy um

193seemed to get there first so okay you got it um all right so tom is uh has made the motion and linda has seconded and this motion is to proceed with the first steps of the chico unified elementary waiver but process but i believe that it needs to be understood that what we are doing is following a very concrete plan that was created by the district and it does have seven steps and we would begin first with a step that involves surveying our constituents meaning the staff the parents the community groups to see how they feel about returning back to school under the waiver process and have in conveying to them what the waiver process actually is and what the ramifications of the waiver process would be because we would have to assume that they

194may not be fully knowledgeable about that yes eileen madam president thank you just to not correct just mention that you stated that the um one through seven process was um the district's creation it was but it's a creation to follow the steps that are mandated by butte county public health so i did want to make that distinction that what we're saying we're going to follow is not something we created it's what we said it's what we identified as the process as outlined by butte county right yes but yeah just just so people know though that this is this is our own document and what we're agreeing to here is following this plan yes okay yes kelly yeah i do want to clarify that uh step three would be simultaneous with the step one uh jim

195already has negotiation dates scheduled so it you know it's not necessarily step one step two then we start to step three step three will be ongoing and um our elementary school reopening plans as outlined by butte county public health largely will be determined by the negotiations that happen because those are working conditions that are described and we legally have to negotiate working conditions so that we want to get a jump on and get going on and and we have those dates set to do that right and that that has already started so that's that's correct and that's a good clarification yeah the other thing too is there's a number of things we need to negotiate for the hybrid stage two model which is the the am pm model and then there's a number with regards

196to working conditions and then there's a number of issues we have to um negotiate for the waiver and there's a lot of overlap between those two not not 100 but so a lot of those issues if they're resolved in the the uh the negotiations to move into stage two are going to also apply to to a waiver um some of those things have to be discussed out um but unless we are planning in a way we're going back to normal which i don't think is possible under these conditions right now there's going to be a lot of crossover between the two to two models right and i and i took from kevin's statements that kevin moretti's that it was these weren't mutually exclusive you know that doing one is basically working towards the other so

197that would be the understanding because um as eileen mentioned we wouldn't want to get diverted off of the planning for the reopening as we had envisioned to begin with so um okay so we have a motion we have a second and i guess it's time to vote unless there's further any further discussion and okay so um all those in favor linda do you how do you vote hi hi tom hi kathy [Music] i vote i robinson i okay so we are going to move forward with uh the next steps and um i'm sure that probably this will go on our website somewhere and that way the public will be aware of what process we are following and as it as it does progress okay thank you everybody for working through that and thank you for

198all the people who participated in the discussion on the zoom okay we do have a few more items left on our agenda the next one happens to be business services and it is the approval of butte county air quality management district and carl moyer program funding for bus replacement yes we brought these to you previously we've purchased two electric vehicle buses at this point this is actually for a type 2 bus for our special needs students so it is a four over a four hundred thousand dollar bus the grant will pay four hundred thousand dollars of it so we estimate the cost of the district to be about fifteen thousand dollars we believe we can pay for that within the current transportation budget um and so our recommendation is that the board would give us

199approval to move forward with this grant application i did the math on this it's like we're paying 3.7 percent so i move approval of the bus purchase thank you alrighty a motion by dr kaiser a second by eileen robinson um any further discussion about that any questions okay we'll take it i'm actually in support of this i'm just hoping we'll be able to use it for our children sooner than later yeah exactly exactly all right all those in favor then linda aye tom aye cathy i vote i eileen robbins and i okay it is unanimous then we did approve that item yeah okay next up is a discussion action item with regards to approval of a 45-day budget revision for the 2020-21 school year mr baltimore so typically we have not done a 45-day revised

200budget to the board in a number of years and frankly that's because the budget that was adopted by the state was very similar and did not really present any material differences in the budget that the school district adopted mainly because the governor had a lot of authority and power and the budget he put forward was largely supported at the legislative level however we find ourselves in a different position and we do have some very large material differences so this is the timeline for budget development you are very much aware that that process starts early in january and we've just added that now we have this additional 45-day budget revision that we're bringing to you i would also take this opportunity to let the board know this is a much different format than you've seen historically

201for our budgets previously we run those budgets through the standardized accounting code structure software but the 45-day budget revision does not require that the budget be presented in the sac software and this template that we provided the budget report in is from butte county office of education is used county wide so we're going to this is only six slides so i'm not going to walk you through our typical you know 15 almost 20. this is very quick but bottom line is this is what the budget looked like in may and really the major piece of this is that we had a ten percent cut to our funding which was over nine million dollars of lost revenue ongoing and then you cut to really what was adopted um we didn't get the cost of living adjustments

202we didn't get an increase but the state budget promised us to receive the same amount we received in the prior year based on the base grant amounts now the percentage of the unduplicated students or targeted students has changed somewhat so it may move up or down slightly but not significantly by any means and we'll talk more about this at the end but cash deferrals is a major instrument the state is attempting to use to balance the budget at their level so here's the picture of what our multi-year projection looked like at original budget and as a reminder we knew this was bad when we adopted it because of the timing in which we had to take action at the local level and knowing the state budget was adopted shortly after and frankly it was a

203car wreck right i mean you lose 9.6 million dollars year every year ongoing you find that we're basically upside down over 18 million dollars and reminder we did have a budget for the public we did have a budget that had um projected uh cuts to our budget um and other spending freezes and things that we could do to get at least more in line but frankly really impossible to take that kind of a cut and still operate a school district so this is the same budget based on a 45 day and you can see and i just want the board to focus in on the net increase decrease we still have a deficit that is flowing through this budget but is more that is more representative of our operating deficit than really anything caused by

204a loss in the revenue per se okay what also changes is all the revenue amounts in reserve i mean all right revenue all the fund balance reserve amounts are intact so we're able to maintain the three percent requirement from the state your two percent board reserve the additional one-time board reserve dollars from 2018-19 we have the one-time dollars from 1718 1920 and then the reserves for stores and cash and those types of things that are non-spendable so even after three years with this budget of being flat we still have a positive change in the third year but it's only 687 000 and the only other thing i'll say is in a situation we have flat funding we will run a deficit because of the cost of in this case pers and stirs even though they

205were reduced in the current year they increase in that third year and just to keep the lights on pg e fuel and costs like that we're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars of increase to a budget that's one you know 150 million dollars so in a situation where we have flat funding we're going to drive deficits that's why these reserve amounts you can see at um estimated actual for the 1920 year at 25 million is so important because it allows us to basically deal with this and it's not like we're going to sit back and just not do anything but it gives us a little bit of time okay so this is an important slide i think and you're going to start seeing this again some of you that were on the board back in

2062008 and 2009 you knew that we watched cash very closely we moved into a position where a lot of our budget reports were all about cash because basically it's once you run out of cash you become fiscally insolvent so this is a really over the last five years one two three four well four years um this is our cash by month and you can see that we usually start in july with a fairly high dollar amount and then we burn those those cash dollars over the first part of the year and then we see this very large increase in december well that's because that's when we receive property taxes so all the cash gets put back into the treasury through property taxes and then we start spending those dollars down again and if you're like

207me you wonder how come my ending balance from one year didn't become my beginning cash balance in the next year well that's because you're talking about june 30th and then july 30th so there's 30 days between those numbers so they're not perfectly ending balanced beginning balance type number okay that's really the report and it's a very simplified report you'll notice from the template that's been provided we did a also include some reports directly out of our financial system which is i think for you as a board would know that we can generate financial reports very quickly and at a high level of accuracy and the really support documents for butte county office of education with that said i would request the board's approval to submit this to butte county office of education okay thank you

208kevin do you have any questions for kevin linda do you have any questions no i don't have any questions but i want to um just again commend our fiscal services team for staying on top of things this budget looks a lot better than what we had seen earlier so yeah thank you and i would like to move approval if there's no further discussion okay i'll second that but i'll also point out that currently there is a coin shortage across the united states so maybe we should get out on the street and see if we can get some quarters okay i have a motion by linda hubby i have a second by i mean a second by dr kaiser um are there any other questions or comments from people before we vote okay um all those

209in favor linda aye tom aye cathy griffin i robbins and i all right that is uh unanimously approved okay next on our agenda is human resources and that would be mr hamlin okay this should be quick um so as you know i intermittently bring to you positions that are no longer needed and to eliminate these are not layoffs even though the title says so there is no one in these positions but we have two positions that we would like to eliminate one at parkview and one at pv that's through resolution 1527-20. okay motion by dr kaiser second by eileen robinson anything further to talk about here all those in favor please say i i i okay that's unanimous okay and then the next one is resolution 28-20 these are parent classroom aids both at little

210chico creek they they these positions are not currently filled they want to use the funds for school aids yard yard supervision so they're just transferring the funds and opening at a different position so again no one is laid off these are empty positions okay someone want to make a motion yard supervision that's a good question these will not be filled until kids are back but they want to have them filled and ready to go they're typically parents of children at the well they are they're they have children at the school site so they'll return when their kids return thank you good question all right okay so i'm sorry we had a motion by dr kaiser we had a second violin robinson all those in favor please say i i i okay that passes unanimously as

211well next up is another opportunity for items from the floor this is items not currently on this agenda tonight are there any hands in the audience so it is it's a speaker that has already spoken so do they understand it cannot be about something that we've already discussed okay um i see that patty you have your hand up just to remind you that items from the floor are have to pertain to items that are not on the agenda so if you'd like to bring something up that isn't on the agenda you may have three minutes uh okay can you hear me yes okay so i'm just curious about the agenda on the campuses um how does that relate to anything that's going on right now i'm what agenda on the campuses i'm not following you

212the agendas of having students is on campuses and all of that uh could you elaborate on that a little bit questions though you're just talking about um right like two minutes before that um how did how does that apply what mr lando was talking about was we had a uh human resource action on the agenda which was there was a there were two positions at one of our schools where it was a parent aid position and the school chose to not have that be parent aid positions those were no longer needed so they wanted to switch over and use the funding to have campus supervision i think it is for play for the playground and so they're allowed to do that but mr lando's question is who are they going to supervise because nobody is

213on campus right now well there is people on campus there's staff students and there's card students on campus and there is um teachers who only need to be on um campus for three hours a day which is understandable and then um their um classified staff who are with them are as supposed to if there's no um work for them while they're on campus go to other campuses to find out what's uh where they are needed and that's not transpiring because teachers are going home not every teacher some teachers are working immense hours a day and other teachers are going home at three hours a day and possibly carrying on their extra hours that they're supposed to be completing but the classified staff are going home and not completing their duties while other classified staff are

214working their full hours so i'm just trying to understand why those classified staff aren't being utilized to uh accommodate the uh programs are going on at the campuses right now okay i think you might have misunderstood what this item was about each year we review the staffing at our sites and sometimes there are staff that are no longer necessary because they might be specific to certain pupils where there might be aids instructional aids or whatever and if those students are no longer there they no longer need those aids we don't have a reason to have that position any longer and so it'll come before the board to eliminate that position in this case this the school decided that they wanted to utilize instead of having an aid they wanted to utilize a person on the

215campus who was going to watch the kids and supervise them when they had their play periods when they have recess so that had this has nothing to do with supervision of employees or what employees are doing or where they're going or how long they're staying it didn't have anything to do with that so um anyhow that's that's that's really confusing what you just said because i totally understand the cl the the staff classification and where people are being employed because classified staff okay i'm sorry you know what this what this whole disc this um this whole discussion this whole discussion is actually inappropriate because for one thing why is it inappropriate because because it's an agenda being chosen it was an agenda item it was an agenda item and this is items from the floor

216which pertains to things which are not agenda items and i'm not even supposed to be having a discussion with you on items from the floor so i'm muted patty if you want to give classified hr a call tomorrow we'd be more than happy to walk you through this okay okay well um that was um the last item on our agenda other than if there are any further announcements linda did you have your hand up no i do not have you do not okay all right well if that's the case then i think we've come to the end of our meeting and i will call it adjourned