001All right, welcome welcome to the regular board meeting of the Escanido Union High School District for August 5th, 2025. It's nice to see so many people in the audience tonight. And um let me start out with uh prepared words here. Good evening everyone. I am reconvening the regular board meeting. I would like to extend my sincere welcome to everyone attending our meeting this evening. Some of you may have heard the sad news that we lost one of our employees this summer. Monica Beltran, the student attendance technician at Escanido High School tragically passed away due to an accident while traveling in Mexico. On behalf of the board of trustees, I would like to express our deepest condolences to her family and friends. Monica was a cherished member of the Escandido High School community and touched the
002lives of many with her kindness and dedication. Monica leaves behind her loving husband, three children, ages 4, 15, and 18, and other family members who will cherish her memory. I'd like to begin this meeting with a moment of silence to honor her memory. Thank you. Yes, we can. As you can all see, tonight we have a brand new boardroom with a brand new deis and everything like that. And it's not just to make us look more important. It was so that we could actually see each other. The other day, the ark didn't allow us to see each other as well. So um John after doing a lot of research and his staff he found this uh deis which is movable and so we're very excited and I just wanted to thank a number of people
003that went and put all the effort in here uh the the deis and the entire room and that uh would be Miss uh Phillips and her entire team of business assistant superintendent of business services. So, thank you Amanda and Marie. I know that you coordinated a lot with everybody involved here. And of course, we have Mike Buyers and Marco uh who sit in the back there who have done a lot of work on that. So, I just want to thank those people. And especially the IT guys over there in the corner. That's Eric. He doesn't even get a name badge, but he keeps this whole place running. He could shut me down at any time. Um, and the reason why I came out front tonight to speak is because we have a lot of people
004here tonight that want to talk. And I know that I love Escandido and I know everybody in this room loves Escandido as well. And it's very important for board members when somebody is speaking to let that person finish speaking. I know that there's a lot of emotions one way or another on things, but if there is a lot of clapping and cheering or booing and hollering, it makes it extremely difficult, the board members, to hear you. We're going to give people enough time to talk. We're all Escandidans. We're all Americans, and it's an honor to have you all here tonight. That's the thing I love about this country that I'm not, you know, I'm I came out to speak to you tonight as just part of the community, not some guy that sits behind a
005deis. I really care about all the people that are here tonight. I just want to say please give us the courtesy to finish whatever we're saying or whatever anybody else wants to say tonight. It's really important. So, with that said, I'm going to go back and I'm going to call establish a quorum. All right, we're now going to establish a quorum for tonight's evening through a roll call. Trusty Knight, >> present. >> Trusty Vincent, >> present. >> Trusty Durnney. >> Good evening. I was elected to this board in November 2014 as Bill Dernney and reelected in 2018 and 2022. This year I have come out as a transgender woman and I have changed my name to Carol Durnney. I will share my story after the meeting and answer any questions. With that as Carol Durnney
006present. >> Trustee Williams is absent. Trusty Weller present. We have a quorum as four members are present this evening. I also want to thank Janet Lopez, excuse me, Janet Lopez will serve as a Spanish interpreter for this meeting. Thank you. Janet sits in the back there. Meeting attendees who would like to listen um to the Spanish interpretation of the proceedings may pick up headphones from the table located at the back of the room. And now I invite Janet to repeat this announcement in Spanish. When I start this interpret um I would like to remind everyone that this meeting is being webcast live and recorded. The recording or webcast may capture images and sounds of those attending this meeting. I would also like to mention that the district is changing board agenda platforms tonight. Um, we're
007going from board docs to the diligent platform. The new platform offers more robust features, but I would beg for everybody's patience as we make this change in case we encounter any technical glitches in managing tonight's meeting or my ability to find where I'm supposed to be in the agenda. With that said, I invite Trustee Vincent to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. working with the new system here. So, thanks for your patience. All right. So, we did the pledge of allegiance and now we can move on to uh the report taken in close action which will be reported out by board member Knight. >> Thank you. The report of action taken in close session for Tuesday, August 5th, 2025. Um this evening in close session on motion by board member Durnney, second by board
008member Knight, the board of education voted to approve physical education waiverss cases number one through 38 for the 202526 school year by a four I zero nay, one absent, zero abstain vote. And that would conclude my report of action taken in close session. >> Thank you, Trusty Knight. Also, very nice to see you. A direct line of sight. In the past, there was like we're pretty much in a straight line. All right. Uh now, we're going to approve the board meeting minutes of June 17, 2025. Can I get a motion and second, please? >> So moved. >> Second. All in favor of approving the minutes say I. >> I. >> Good. And then uh let's So, and then we're going to approve the agenda now. Any additions, deletions, or corrections? There are none. So, we
009do not need to. So, we can just approve the agenda. Can I get a a motion and a second, please? >> Move to approve the agenda as posted. >> Thank you. >> Second. >> All in favor say I. I >> um consent the consent calendar. Items on the consent marked with an asterk. All matters listed under the consent agenda are considered to be routine or sufficiently supported by prior or accompanying reference materials and information as to not require additional discussion. A motion will enact all consent agenda items. There will be no separate discussion of these items prior to the time the of time the board of trustees votes on the motion unless members of the board, staff or public request specific items to be discussed or moved from the consent agenda or separate action. The
010district administration recommends approval of the following uh consent agenda items. Because we do have 18 speaker cards in the full audience and a number of items on the consent calendar. I'm just going to leave the items which is basically F1 through 8, G1 and two and H1 through8. On the consent calendar, you can take a look at them um online. And so I need a motion to approve the consent calendar. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor say I. I. I. That passes. For those of you that have come to the meeting for the first time, this is pretty fun, huh? Um, now we come to the fun part, recognition and presentations. And so we have uh a um presentation recognition from the Escandido Adult School by Principal Stacy Adam and an annual
011update on Escandido Adult School student achievement and programs. So, Principal Adame, would you let there you are? >> Thank you. Good evening, board members, uh, board president Bob Weller, members of the board, Superintendent Peterson, and members of the cabinet. I'm delighted to be here tonight highlight the exceptional work that Escanido Adult School has done for our students and our community this past school year. I think I have some slides. Great job with the projector, Manda. Those are bright. It's very nice. >> Beautiful. Thank you, Eric. But we have adopted the district's instructional focus because we hold our adult learners to the highest standards. And at EAS, we believe that this focus will prepare our students to meet their educational and professional goals. Next slide, please. I'd like to start by discussing adult secondary education or
012AS. This uh title refers to students in our high school diploma program and also in our English and Spanish highet programs. Last year we small saw a small decrease in our enrollment and in our pre and post tests but our students achievement in every other metric was higher when compared to the 2324 school year. As you can see on this chart, for instance, our ASC students showed a 4% gain in educational functioning levels, indicating that they moved an entire grade level over the course of the school year as measured by their CASUS pre and post tests in both English and math. Now, in this in this content, Casus does not refer to Dr. Casus. It refers to the National Comprehensive Adult School Assessment System, which is used throughout California to measure academic achievement. In our
013exit surveys, 11% more ASSE students reported that they met their postsecary goals such as starting college, uh, going into a trade school, earning a CTE certificate, and getting a job or a promotion. In addition, 22% more ASC students met other literacy gains this year as compared to last year, meaning that they completed civics, health, or digital literacy competencies as they studied for their high school diplomas. And finally, I'm very proud to report that we increased our graduation rate by 3% this year with 151 students graduating in the class of 2025. Thank you. Next slide, please. And English as a secondary language or ESL achievement. Although our enrollment was slightly lower this year, our ESL students overall achievement percentages were higher in two key categories. Our ESL students increased the percentage of their completed pre and
014post tests by 2% as compared to last year. This is tied to funding. So it is very important that we get both of these tests from our students. In addition, there was a 17% increase in the percentage of other literacy gains which were achieved in part by our students strong performance on their co-ops. Co-op stands for the civic objectives and additional assessment plans. These plans are a core component of California EL civics programs and they offer literacy gains beyond just basic reading and writing. So what they include again are family literacy, digital literacy, civics education, and health literacy. And these programs definitely enhance uh our students uh ability to be prepared for the workforce. They increase labor market participation and improve overall quality of life. So our students excelled in other literacy gains due to
015three key factors. Number one, we piloted two digital literacy courses last year that were extremely successful. We had these courses in the morning and also in the evening. Number two, we increased the enrollment in our citizenship classes and we piloted an online citizenship class this year as well, which was very, very popular. And number three, we had an 83% co-op pass rate, which is quite good. Despite these gains, our past immigration integration or our I3 exam numbers were down by 2% last year. Passing all three of these exams requires consistent attendance and five to six weeks of study for each exam. So, our slightly lower enrollment affected our performance on this metric this year. Our ESL students EFLs or educational functioning levels were also slightly down this year by 2%. As compared to 2324 these
016levels are used to categorize adult learners based on their literacy and English language proficiency. And as I discussed earlier, um an EFL level gain is like going from 9th grade to 10th grade in one calendar year. And this is often very difficult for an adult ESL student to do in one year of study. So, um, down slightly, but hopefully we'll get those back up next year. >> Yeah. Any question? Yeah. Oh. Um, so the ESL classes, are these classes um in online in person? What is what are those? >> We teach all of our ESL classes in a hybrid model. >> Okay. So depending on the level, it would be one or two days online and two days in person. >> Okay. >> Based on student student uh surveys that we've done over the past
017three years. >> And they do like that because I would just be curious if the in more of an in-person model would lend to >> better. I mean, it's good obviously, but >> yeah, the in-person part is important for our pre and post tests because they need to be in person for us to administer them. And the co-ops are often done in person because they're applied knowledge. So, they have to demonstrate the skill such as I have to demonstrate that I know how to do an interview appropriately using the appropriate language. So the in-person part is very critical, but our students have very busy lives outside and so oftentimes having that option not to have to come in four days a week for three hours a class session really does help them. >> Child care
018etc >> which I we we provide to >> resource. Thank you. >> For the audience going by the adult school is extremely moving. seeing adults at 7:30, 8:30, 9 o'clock at night working on whatever subject that they're working on, whether it's a nursing, pre- n nursing, or just getting their GED or what it is, it really inspires you. It's also our one high school in the district that is performance-based. If they don't reach certain metrics, they don't get funding. And so there's a great So, Principal Adame does a great job making sure that the teachers and are really helping the students to perform It's really awesome to see over there. So, I just wanted to give a shout out on that. >> Thank you very much, President Wheeler. Hey, for CTE, in CTE last year,
019which is career and technical education, we had a 15% increase in enrollment due in part to the generous gen generous scholarship of the Palomar Health Foundation and or the sponsorship, I'm sorry, of the Palomar Health Foundation and their scholarships. This foundation supported 79 students who may not have been able to afford the medical assistant, pharmacy tech, and phabbotomy classes that they completed last year if it were not for the Palomar Health Pathway program. In addition to our medical classes, we also offer CTE certificates in welding, vet assisting tech, AutoCAD, and Microsoft Office. This year we are also offering a beginning finance course as well as expanding our CTE medical offerings which we anticipate will will increase our CTE certifications next year. And as you can see on this chart, we are still working to rebuild
020our pre-COVID externship programs and have recently re established a partnership with Sharp Reeleely to increase the number of externships we offer our phabbotomy students. We are also reestablishing our Palomar Health Group and our neighborhood healthc care medical assistant externships for the 2526 school year. In addition, we have reestablished our partnership with Redwood Terrace for our incoming CNA students who will begin their practicum experience this August. And we'll be offering two sections this year of CNA which is great. >> Thank you for your efforts on that. Um, >> yes, >> because you know how I like to discover things and then bring them to light for people that aren't aware of these kinds of things. Um, >> unfortunately we have a harder time capturing externships because schools um other career focused schools out there that charge
021a lot more for their programs, I've come to learn can pay for these in externship spots out in the community. and we have an incredibly affordable program and as a district we can't necessarily compete with those larger >> uh wellfunded schools to get those spots. So my challenge to any entity out there would be to for every spot that you take a paying student, please offer a spot for a student from our adult adult school or somebody that is not um going to a school with those kinds of resources. So that's just my uh sharing with those, but thank you for that effort because it's hard. >> Yeah. And thank you for all of your help with this, too. It's been a game changer. It's 80 students who would not have those certificates if it
022weren't. >> And I would really like to acknowledge that um the funding came from the Prebus Foundation, which is an incredible organization here in San Diego County doing um great work for um youth. And this this grant was f focused on emerging youth. So youth about 18 to 26. So um but that funding is a private grant um that came through the Palmer Health Foundation and was really really intended to really come go to work here in Escandido so that the >> that our students here can can care for our community right in our hospital and in our health care system right here. >> Did you write that grant? >> I did luckily. >> You did? >> Yes. So >> when we talk about these grants, Christiey's not going to say it and but she
023wrote the grants. So thank you Christie. You've done an excellent job. >> Absolutely. Thank you. It's been >> Bob and I went for a term. We were watching them in action. So it was very impressive. Right. >> If you want to give blood, phabbotomy students will take you. >> That's why for them to practice. >> That was the reason why I was in the back. >> No promises. >> We saw the way they looked at us when we walked in the door. Yeah, it was that fresh meat coming in. >> Exactly. Sit right down here. Okay. Oh, next slide, please. >> So, e um e civics achievement this year as compared to 23 24 our students show growth in nearly every metric in EL civics. We increased the number of students participating in civics units
024by 5% last year. This was gained or this gain was achieved by the government and law unit that we taught in all of our ESL classes as well as a 137% jump in enrollment in our citizenship preparation classes. We had more teachers, we would offer more of these classes. And this is great that folks continue to come to these classes and we are um going to add an additional section of citizenship prep next year to meet this need. In addition, our LCE or integrated English literacy and civics education number grew by 22%. This number represents our ESL basic caregiver class that was designed to help English language learners improve their English proficiency while also becoming workforce ready. More than half of the 11 students who took this course have already been hired as caregivers. The
025interview process is actually embedded in the curriculum, so they're interviewed while they're still in class. and some of the employers want to take them before we're even we've even had them complete the course. >> Can you repeat that number again? How many were taken? >> We had 11 students take that class. It's capped at 15 because it's paid for by the fed federal government. >> So, um they pay for everything for the for the students and it's taught with a content teacher teaching the nursing part of it and an English teacher teaching the English part of it. I work in the senior space and that is so necessary. It is like >> any it's just such an an important field to get people into. So it's great news. >> Absolutely. Absolutely. >> And although our
026payment points were slightly lower this year, we still earned more points than Vista, who is really our the school that we're most closely aligned with. San Marcos and Ramona. These are all schools that are in our consortium and we beat them. Again, these points directly affect the funding we receive from the federal government under WEOA 2, the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act. That's a testament to our teachers and our students who worked tirelessly to make sure that students were pre and post tested and that they were able to do their co-ops on time. >> Okay, next slide. Okay, here's our improvement plan. Our first um centers on math. Our PLC uh team in our um ASSE department is continuing to work on their math cohorts. Last year they bested their um number of students
027who pass their math highet test on the first try by 14%. And we will continue to offer our math cohorts with small groupoup instruction in both English and Spanish next year to meet the goal of increasing this gain by 5% in the 2526 school year. We're going to hopefully continue to have that number grow. We're finding that those small small cohorts really are helping our students pass that test first. Next slide. In CTE, we are planning to increase the number of students who enroll in our classes and who subsequently earn a CTE cert uh certificate. We'd like to do this by 15% in the 2526 school year. To meet this lofty goal, we plan to increase the number of sections we offer of medical administrative assistant medical billing and coding and reestablish our CNA classes.
028In addition, we plan to create a new pharmacy tech pathway by offering an advanced pharmacy tech class in uh January of 2026. You can see the actual numbers here. So, we think we're going to meet this goal. And in order to talk about this new pathway, it is my great pleasure to introduce you to our pharmacy tech instructor, Lisa Provincial. Introduce you first. So Lisa has has led our pharmacy tech program for the past four years. Prior to that, she was um an assistant to our former teacher. She taught at Boston Reed College as a pharmacy technician instructor and she also has served as a pharmacy technician at UCSD's health and medical center. She is currently u putting together the advanced pharmacy class that we just discussed and she's going to tell you a little
029bit she's going to tell you a little bit more about that. If you could change the side, Eric. Sorry. Change it twice. As you see mentioned, I'm Lisa Provenio. I'm the pharmacy technician instructor and we I've been leading the class for four years. And prior to that, I assisted with the previous Belinda. and my experience as a pharmacy technician. I've been a technician for over 30 years. I have taught with as well as Boston and I really and love what I do and we are now in the process of developing advanced pharmacy. Super excited to do this and we are anticipating it to start in spring of who are already in the of it. Um and this is not only just for you know open community but uh previous pharmacy currently work in the retail
030pharmacy which is probably very high number of students that graduate from school are in the retail pharmacy by offering these advanced pharmacy real quick. Um, Eric, I'm hearing that from the web that it's the volume's a little low. I don't know if you can boost that to the outgoing signal. Thank you. So to u highlight the program the we're offering the pharmacy technician pathway which we're currently are offering this uh pharmacy tech class three times a year of it um for spring and fall and we have an accelerated pharmacy technition is over a period of weeks. So this is my second year now of us doing this. It's been we just completed our current course August last our last class. So the advanced pharmacy technician course will be launching in spring of 2025 and this
031offers a second tier credentiing for pathway completers that are increasing. It will increase the progression. Next slide. Oh, on the externship, we've added CVS to our externship rotation for fall of 2025. So, we're excited to what this is about. And we continued 12 active pharmacy externship sites, including Walgreens, Savon, Walmart, Advanced Care. as students will uh graduate ready to sit for the PTC pharmacy technician licensing. And >> thank you. >> I've watched It's a Wonderful Life, so I'm glad they're training. It's a reference to the beginning of the movie if you haven't seen it. >> Oh. That's it. Okay. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> All right. We move on to the public comment section and uh we're going to begin with a report from the California School Employees Association, Escandido Chapter 219
032if anybody's here. Okay. And then they are not. So we'll report from the Escandido Secondary Teachers Association. Like nobody's here from there as well. So I get more things to read here. So bear with me. So, now we're going to move on to public comments. Uh, comments from the public on non-aggendaized topics that lie within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board. General public comment on any school related topic not on the agenda may be heard at this time. If you have public comment on an item listed on tonight's agenda, there will be an opportunity for you. Bear with me as I work the system here. an opportunity for you to share your comments at the time the item comes up for discussion by the by the board. I'll read some um ground rules that
033we have. The board shall limit the total time for public input on each non agenda topic to 20 minutes. Generally, each person may speak up to three minutes at board discretion order in order allow all persons an opportunity to participate if desired. The board may reduce the amount of time per speaker when necessary. Before everybody it's up in arms, we're going to give you time to speak. Upon conclusion of all public comments or 30 minutes, the board will continue onto the next item of business on the agenda in order to ensure the board can effectively and efficiently conduct the district's business in public at this meeting. In the event more time is needed for public comment on non-aggendentized items, ensure all those wishing to address the board have an opportunity to do so. The remaining
034public comments will be heard on agenda item J1. However, I'm going to talk to the superintendent about this in a second that I think I may want to just talk um at this point in the meeting. The board of education is prohibited by law from taking action on matters discussed that are not on the agenda. The board looks forward to and encourages your participation. We have received cards from is this nine? Nine people who wish to make public comments during this meeting. This is nine from the non-aggenda, right? Okay. And then you have nine more from agenda. >> An agenda topic. Okay. Great. Okay, great. So, the fact that um I have nine, we're giving three 27 minutes. If you're on Good Honor and at the end of three, you're going to get beeped, right,
035Marie? At two and a half minutes, correct? Say that again. Oh, we have a timer on the screen now. I don't have to throw stuff at the speakers anymore like I used to. Um so um we will call the first speaker now. Um looks like Drain Reese and please forgive me. >> Thank you members of the board. I appreciate it. Um Mr. journey as a biological woman. I'm offended that you want to pretend to be one. You are a man by birth. You need to stay in your lane. Man, you step down now from this board. You have psychological and mental issues when you want to pretend to be something that you will never be. You are a man, and I'm sure a fine one, but this is an abomination. You need to stay in
036your lane, a man, and step down now from this board. This is a fascination with dress up. I urge you to consider that that was a game played by children. Should we not have all matured into upstanding citizens that children can role model? What you have in this room? Is this what you want to role model to children, to the school, and to all of us, and to society? You will be judged and not well for this decision. more so you will be judged by God and it's a terrible thing to fall into the hands of a living God. You are toying with delusional thinking and yet I feel for you that you're even considering this. No one makes this decision except for something that traumatic that has happened in their lives. So much as
037you might have been an object of rape yourself by another man or some unresolved trauma that occurred in your life and I'm sorry for that. But you don't need to do this. Please stay in your lane. remain a man. But please step down from the board now. And and do yourself a favor. Remind yourself that you are a man. You will always be a man. And no amount of pretending will make you anything but a man. And I suggest that you get undressed, take a look in the mirror, and if you have an appendage where women do not, it'd be an epiphany for you that God made you perfect exactly as you are. But please don't cut it off because you're going to wind up with more mental trauma and you will still after all
038of that be a man. Either way, sir, you have no right to make this public statement as a member of this school board where innocent children will be exposed to this bizarre choice. Need to stay in your lane, remain a man, but for the sake of all of us, step down now. Thank you kindly. All right, the next speaker is Carrie uh Nicolas. Feel free to always correct me again. Thank you. Good evening everyone. I'm here to um represent the children that everyone here believe has gone to school for because I myself am a teacher. I just haven't applied in California. And a little scripture here Lord. Great. I'm talking to Bill Die and anyone else on this board who doesn't know the Lord or anybody in the audience. The spirit of the Lord is
039upon me because he has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor. He has sent me to announce release, pardon, forgiveness to the captives and recover of sight to the blind to set free those who are oppressed, downtrodden, bruised, crushed by tragedy, to proclaim the favorable year of the Lord, the day when salvation and the favor of God abound greatly. I would like to talk to Bill Die. Um, the Lord wants to help you and open your eyes and anyone else who's not saved and needs deliverance because I myself love children and so does the Lord. And even though we're all comfortable here right now, there is coming a day and none of us want to be what Mark 9 says. Mark 9:42. But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe
040and trust in me to stumble, that is to sin or lose faith, it would be better for him if a heavy millstone, one requiring a donkey strength to turn it, were hung around his neck and thrown into the sea. So I ask Bill Durnney, please step down and get deliverance in the name of Jesus and put the Ten Commandments back in or you vote for it. Thank you. Um, couple things. So, is the timer come up? Is it in front of them, Marie, or is it supposed to be up? Oh, it's not showing. Okay. Are you timing on your screen? Okay, cool. Thanks. Also, um, Eric, was there any help on the sound out to the like were you able to turn it up at all? Okay. So, it's something we'll just have to work
041on as long as they turn it up. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. All right. Um the next speaker card I have is um Maria Mandano Logan. Log Longton. Maria. L O N G T O N. Thank you. Longton I am a retired teacher librarian and uh this really is a nice beautiful it is nice to be able to see faces and when I looked about the audience I couldn't see here I thought gosh we need another woman on the board and I didn't know. Well, any rate, I guess I'm here to talk to you. I'm sorry to point at me. I didn't know what to call you. I didn't know you were or Carol. And um at any rate, I was going to talk to Bill, but um I just uh feel a bit like you've
042done a bait and switch on us when You know, we expected there to be a woman on the board that we would like, but you got elected, but you're not a woman. It makes things very difficult. There's another concern that I have too for you. Um, Bernie is when I was um newly divorced and I had four children and I could not get a job because the school district, the daycare centers, they told me, "You're fresh out of a divorce. We're not going to take a chance on you. You work out your problems before we give you a job. I'm sorry about the loss of your wife, but coming trying to become a woman is not going to bring her back. There are many other ways that you can honor her and and I don't
043want to get concerned about you. It's I'm here for the children as you can tell my confusion. I I wanted to address you lightly. Wasn't how to do that because it goes against like another lady said, "You're made a man or a woman." One time when I was teaching school and there was talk about um a people, I had a little boy come up to me, I was in a second and third grade combination, and he said, "Teacher, don't you ever look at your bottom? Don't you know that we're different?" And it's just a very thing but kind of a betrayal of letting you know you're not anymore or that's your plan. It is my my request that you be removed from the board and we get someone that can uh process things and the
044needs of our children, not cause conflict in a and in a school district. Really horrendous. [Applause] Thank you. Okay, then we have uh Rosie. Hi G N D. Hello members of the board. I am Rosie Higgera. I'm president of North County Republican Assembly and I'm here to address you, Bill Die. The voters voted for you as a man and now you have become a fraud trying to become something that you are not. God made you in his image. In Genesis it says he made them male and female biologically to the cellular level. You will always be a man. I want you to uh read the Bible and see that your identity comes from Christ and Christ alone. And any other mental delusion that Satan is trying to tell you that you can be something that
045you're not is a lie. And you have God, the creator of the universe, loves you so much. He sent so many people here to tell you the truth. The Bible says you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. So there is a standard when it comes to teaching. I am a former teacher and director. I've worked with children since I've been tw since I was 12 years old. They are the most precious little angels and we need to protect them as adults. We should not exploit them. We should not confuse them. The National Education Alliance, the largest teachers union in California, is seeking to put all this LGBT agenda, take parental rights away from parents, and force an ideology and a delusion on innocent children and take their innocence. You all
046are in a critical point of history where you can make a difference for all children. It's like abortion is baby murder. It's legal, but it's wrong. So, you guys have a brain that God gave you, and you could choose to do the right thing. You don't need anybody's permission to not sexualize a child. You don't need anybody's permission to protect girls from confused boys and men that think that they can go into girls bathrooms or take or go into sports. You guys there, you're a maledominated board. God created you strong and powerful to be the providers and the protectors of women and children. Have the moral courage to do the right thing. So, I'm asking you, Bill, to please step down. Do the honorable thing and let someone else take your place that's going to
047actually provide and protect a safe learning environment that's about academics, reading, writing, and math. It's not about sexual identity. It's not about any of these political agendas. It should be about preparing little children that are impressionable. Their brains don't even form till they're 25 years old. It's about teaching them how to compete in a global society and be critical thinkers and all this other garbage needs to go out the window. So God has tasked each and every one of you to do the right thing. And I hope and I pray that you all do that. And Bill, please step down. That would be the kindest thing to do. And start reading the Bible. God loves you. He has an incredible plan and a purpose for your life. And you're a man. Be proud of it.
048Be proud of it. Embrace that. Thank you. [Applause] >> All right. Michael Davis. Evening board. Thank you for allowing me to come. Normally I come about this time just before the school year starts. how I advocate as a faith leader for our LGBTQI plus students. It is complete happen stance the information that I'm receiving tonight and I'm really blessed that I decided to come tonight because I really want to challenge you. No matter the amount of fear that you hear from the voices that you hear speak tonight, fear over things over things that they cannot contextualize into a box. That fear can drive people to do things that actually becomes harmful for other people. I've heard words this from scripture and I do want to share one bit of the scripture that I heard this
049evening is that whatever that we do to harm children, we need to be aware of that. I want to share this evening his journey. Your existence does not harm children. Your existence opens a door of opportunity for young people who are growing into themselves to see they have a future p possibility within their lives. So, thank you for the bravery that you shared this evening. I would like the rest of the board to understand one very important thing. Throughout this time, you will get a lot of fearfilled statements and fear is against God. I do not want you to succumb to fear. I do not want you to succumb to misunderstanding. I want you to be willing to be able to be in a place of conversation. The only time that I made a direct
050statement this evening was a moment of a compliment. Every time that you hear a direct statement that is an attack, that is a moment of fear. And you as a board have to process through that fear so that you can actually do what our students need to do. You can actually care for them. You can actually do what our students need done. So please, this year, as you process your thoughts, as you process the work that you need to do to create educational environments that are affirming to all students, especially our LGBTQIA plus students, please make sure that you set aside my fear, other people's fear, your fear, so that our children actually have a chance to thrive. Thank you for allowing me to speak. Next speaker is Carol Marie Sedenberg. Finally got one. >>
051Hi, my name is Carol Marie Sedenberg. Thank you, Bob, for for correctly pronouncing my name as a rarity. Bill, I'm here to speak to you. I'm so sorry for what you're going through. This is not the thing, the example we need for our children. It really isn't. And I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid of Bill. I'm not afraid of what's going on. I'm afraid of the judgment of God. Judgment of God. You're a man. Human beings were made in the image and likeness of God in a binary manner. Either man or woman, not in between, not changeable. Every cell in my body speaks to my gender. As a biochemist, I know that my cells either have a Y chromosome or two X chromosomes. You can't change that. No amount of surgery, no number of hormones
052will change who you are. I'm really sorry for whatever it is that caused you to come to this decision. I really am. And I hope that you can find peace. Please step down from the board while you go through this difficult time. Please don't bring this to the children. We don't need this a kind of an example. Thank you. Well, the next speaker will be Scott Herman. Uh good evening. Um, I've lived in Escanido since 1985. I love this city. Uh, I'd like to just briefly, one of the reasons I love this city is going all the way back to the founding of the city in 1888. The city granted seven churches, free land, free bricks. And that was that was the mind of the founders of this city. This was a Christian city. And
053it's it still remains that very much that. And you you can't deny that. All you have to do is drive around this city and see the number, the great number of churches that still flourish in this city. And Bill, um, I I ask you to consider the gravity of what you're doing. This is not a minor thing that you're up to. This is in in in the eyes of God that I I just ask you to reconsider what you're doing. It's not about you. It's about the children. This is an incredibly self centered thing that you are undertaking. Now, Bill, do you have a fear of the Lord? >> Although you're asking him questions, it's our bylaws. He cannot respond. >> Okay. The Bible says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
054Now, Bill, do you do you believe there is a real heaven and hell, or is that just a fairy tale for you? As I would say to you, even if there's only one in a million chance that there is a real heaven and hell, do you want to live as do you want to take that chance? Because you may have just a mere 80 years on this earth, but there eternity will be either in heaven or hell. So again, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. I ask you to reconsider the gravity of what you're doing. This is no small thing. You are you you are defrauding the public. You ran as a man. You should, if you have any balls, you would resign and reapply to to run for the board
055as a woman and not defraud the public as you are doing right now. >> Sorry. Um, the timer is you're at your three minutes. Thank you. I do want to thank the audience. You guys have been very uh respectful to all speakers. So I want to thank you for that. We have uh three more speakers to go. Uh Paul Hanush looks like a speaker. Honorable board members, I stand before you today respectfully request the resignation of Mr. Durn. I understand you're going through a mental crisis and I have huge compassion for you. As a former school board member, as a veteran, as a father of a daughter who attends school here in Escandido, my concern stems from the decision belief that a school board member's personal choices specifically for transgender identity may conflict with the
056values and expectations of our community. I urge you to step down and allow new leadership to better reflect our shared priorities. Many hospitals have banned their transgender programs because the science shows this has been harmful. This kind of appropriation of women's gender constitutes a war against science, truth, and against women. It needs to end. Please be respectful of the women and girls in our community. Don't do this. Research those who have dransition and the horrors they have gone through. Someone commanded to love his neighbor caution you to repent. God doesn't make mistakes. You were wonderfully made as a man. You are not a God who can choose your gender. Board members need to set a good example for our students, not lead little children astray. If you are not happy with the body that you
057were born in, I being born again. Thank you for your time, Lisa Richards. I will respectfully virtue feel called be surrounded by Britanical bizarre. I mean it's it's going back centuries. It's amazing. These are not small children. These are people coming into their adulthood who should know what people are like. Not just Christians. We're not just a Christian city. Shocking, I know. Oh, there's Jews. Muslims. There's people who don't believe in God. All of these of church and state I think really needs to be seen here because damn this I I'm shaking. I am so appalled. I am so I worry for our children not for these reasons but for what we're teaching them about intolerance and the reality of what people are [Applause] Gary Cass board staff. Thank you for allowing us to address
058you tonight. A lot of things on my mind, but I'll try to be succinct. Trinity found uh Trinity decision does uh announce that we are a Christian nation. So we can without apology invoke our Christian heritage. A lot of people think it's unloving to confront people when they're doing things that are wrong. Let me give you some biblical training. And by the way, I'm Pastor Gary Cass. I pastor a church here in town. Here's the great love chapter. Everybody loves it, right? Love suffers long and is kind. Love does not envy. Love does not parade itself, is not puffed up, does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil, does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth. Tonight, we have to deal with what is truly
059loving and what is really truthful. And of the good news is that question has also been answered for us by the Lord Jesus Christ who in John 17 as he was praying for his church said father sanctify them with thy truth. Thy word is truth. So tonight we have a conundrum. We're a Christian nation. We affirm Christ. And Christ affirmed every detail of the Bible. every jot and tit including the creation account of man and woman being created in God's image. The same holy God tells us that it's an abom it is an abomination for a man to lie with a man and a woman to lie with a woman and for a man to dress as a man or a man to dress as a woman. So gender fluidity is not new. This has
060been dealt with over the millennia and it all boils down to this rebellion against your creator. The warning of Christ has already been issued tonight, but it bears repeating that it's better for you to have a millstone tied around your neck than to cause any of these little ones to stumble. I was on the school board. That put the fear of God in me as a school board member. By abusing your office, you are making Christ your enemy. Why would you do that? By abusing your office, you're betraying the people who did not vote for a transsexual. You didn't run as a transsexual. You've defrauded the people. In the end, this is a moral, emotional, and spiritual act of abuse. You need to resign. I'm not sure what caused you to lose your way, Bill.
061I've prayed for you if you only knew. But I do know the way back because it's the same way I had to take when I was lost, when I was at war with God. May God grant you repentance, saving faith in Christ. And may our loving Lord forgive you and do what he has promised to do, >> Pastor Cass, >> to heal your broken heart and heal your broken mind. >> Thank you. All right, thank you all for who came to speak tonight. Uh we are going to continue on with board business in section F, educational services. The first eight items were approved uh on the um consent vote. Thank you. And so we're going to move to F9, the approval of course pilots. So, um, Dr. Casus, did you want to, um, go over
062some things >> or we just, >> uh, there was no changes since the last time we met in June. >> So then, um, curriculum pilot proposals. We would like to pilot the following year-long courses for the 2025206 school year at S Pasqual High School. Biology AB project-based learning pilot is written to provide students with the requisite skills necessary to meet the next generation standards NGSS grades 9 and 10 and the learning outcomes expressed in the college and career readiness statements. Um there's quite a bit more read on this, but we have presented this before. So um there's also a robotics pilot, which I know David is over there very happy that there's a robotics pilot provides students with the opportunity to work in engineering teams and design, build and test increasingly complex robots. The course
063will illustrate the engineering design, the importance of integrating scene uh sensors, aectors and control and briefly discuss robot learning and multi-root systems. There is no fiscal impact on this. Um so I guess if we're looking only at F9, need a motion to approve and a second, please. >> I move to approve. Thank you. A second. >> Second. >> All in favor say I. >> I. that motion for the new um classes. Thank you, Dr. Kasus, for your team and your time putting those together. Um we'll move on to F10, approve tech textbook adoption. Um is there anything new regarding the textbook? >> No changes since the last time we met. Uh we did provide a copy in the front desk of every school and our district office since the last board meeting. Just a reminder,
064college board does require updated textbook every 10 years. This is an updated edition of the textbook that all of our campuses act currently teach in AP psychology across the district. Thank you. So, um the new textbook is it's on the board there for you to see. AP psychology, meer psychology for the AP course, fourth edition by David G. Meyers. Um all in can I get a motion please to approve that? Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Thank you. All in favor say I. >> I. That passes. Um, let's see. Action upon recommendation. Okay. So, this is is there specific reading for number 11 or can I just read out action upon recommended expulsion of the accused student? I guess we need to do a roll call vote. >> I'll make a motion. So, I'll move
065to accept and approve the recommended expulsion of the accused student for case number one from August 5th, 2025 or at least August 5th, 2026 and to accept and approve the stipulated expulsion. >> All right, this is a roll call vote. >> We'll need a second. >> Oh, second. >> Second. >> Thank you. So, roll call vote. Um, Trusty Knight >> I. >> Trusty Vincent >> I. Trusty Durnney >> I. and trusty Weller I. So that motion passes. We don't like expelling students, but for the safety and other things, we do things like this. Uh item number 12, agricultural program at San Pasqual High School. Discussion regarding the future of the agricultural program at San Pasqual High School. It's not an action item. This is a discussion item only. >> Yeah. that. So, um, everybody did
066pretty good on the three minutes. Um, sadly the clock isn't up there, so I have to pull this out again and start throwing it. But you guys are a students, so you could probably catch it and throw it back. Um, with that said, the first speaker on this topic will be Angelina and Good evening. I'm Angelina and my daughter is the incoming FFA president at Sasqual High School. Thank you for adding the SP a program to your agenda this here tonight in hopes to get an accurate evaluation of the Agon and FFA program high school. I believe the program is unfairly getting dismantled based off of manufactured data. We're not witnessing an organic decline in enrollment. We are seeing an administrative field decline. Three years now, AD classes were omitted on the course selection handouts
067to enrolling students to choose their classes where students are supposed to get information and support in the counseling office. They were actively being discouraged to enroll in AD. When my daughter enrolled at SP, her counselor advised her to enroll in another school for their AD. They were actively discouraging passionate and motivated students and instead filling the courses with underperforming or failing students as a last resort. There are many other students with stories of being discouraged from joining a or students not knowing the program is available. Actions like this only damage the integrity of the program, but it also manufactures data to justify the elimination of the program. It's not a reflection of student interest. This is a reflection of administrative interference. While the enrollment in the program may appear to plateau or be dipping nationwide
068FFA memberships has actually been climbing with over 1 million members, California accounting for over 104,000 members. California's agricultural industry is $60 billion with San Diego contributing $2 million billion dollars. These students are the future of California, especially since we are the number one a producing state in the country. Our FFA and AD program aren't failing, they're evolving. When pal When cowboy culture and country music are becoming popular, rodeos and ranch life are booming. Student students want hands-on real life skills that lead into this vibrant lifestyle. A and FFA make this connection, but only with proper support and exposure. This point, I believe an audit rather than a program closure is essential. I believe there is an intentional effort to shut down the program. Counselors discourage students ad classes dramatically lower enrollment. Some students stated they
069were told courses didn't count towards science credits and other courses weren't fine art credit intentional misguided information produce a low also the program is not being mentioned at all without proper promotion from administration how can a program I'm sure they're not discouraging students from trying out for not every fits into the jersey or is it on the field data shows that FFA students frequently transition into related careers these industries are growing and in high demand. They are careers that are deeply relevant. This program is our future. 92% of FFA members pursue college educations. Students in a pro programs have higher graduation rates and lower dropout rates. A offers real world hands-on learning from animal science to business. Students gain leadership skills, public speaking roles, career readiness certifications, and prepare students on both college or college
070and the workforce. >> 15 seconds. The elimination of this program isn't equitable. Sasqual is supporting the sports or supporting sports teams with only seven participants and other teams with only 12. But we don't see an elimination. And of those students on both teams, only 1.3 will go on to compete or play in college. An ad class of only 20 will send nine students off college. >> Thank you for keeping it to three minutes. >> Thank you. Next speaker will be Jason Schaefer. My name is I'm going to continue where uh my wife left off. Um even with a small program, even with a small program, it is successful. But I believe that a strong administration and teacher support and an and add in the passionate students, we can and will have a large thriving department.
071Again, we hope the district and administration sees value in the program, which creates rich leadership, career development, and academic potential. We hope it is receiving the same support as other sports and CTE programs. We look forward to keeping Sam Hall a fair and equitable campus with opportunities for all students, not just what administration deems popular and mainstream. We have created an audit checklist which could be beneficial to make a more educated and informed decision instead of based on decisions of manufactured data. We as families and students would also be excited to have the opportunity to help promote, recruit and create a successful A and FFA program with support from our academic leaders. But our success would only come with proper administrative support. We look forward to your continued support and guidance on how students, staff,
072and community leaders and family can work together for a solution and create a successful program. Thank you for your time. I appreciate it. >> Thank you. Like your hat, too. >> Uh, next speaker, Giovana Schaefer. >> Good evening. My name is Javana Schaefer and I'm honored to be the incoming vice president of the SASU FFA program. I stand before you not only as a leader, but as a proud and active member of a program that has given me countless opportunities. Through FFA, I've attended leadership conferences, raised animals, and created lifelong memories. And soon, I hope to earn scholarship opportunities. The truth is, if this program is taking away, I lose much more than experiences. I risk losing opportunities that could shape my future, especially when it comes to college. I plan to pursue a career
073in agriculture, but how can I stand up to a based universities like Calpali, UC Davis, or Texas A&M if I can't show them I am a part of a nationally rec recognized agricultural program. Without FFA, my college applications lose a vital foundation. It's not about lacking motivation or potential. It's about losing the very platform that helps me showcase both, taking away future opportunities. If our district removes the program, it puts students at me at a students like me at a disadvantage. We lose access to scholarships. We lose the ability to list FFA experiences on college applications. And that's not sensible or fair. That's why tonight I'm excited to share recruitment plan that I have put together. This plan is designed to show how much we love this program and how successful it can be with
074the right support from administration, staff, and fellow students. Together, we can build a strong ACT program. Our goal is simple. create a successful ACT program. To reach this goal, we plan to show incoming students that FFA is more than just raising animals. It's plants, technology, science, business, and so much more. We want to visit middle schools to give student led presentations, distribute flyers, and explain why F what FFA offers, exciting projects, leadership opportunities, and community service hours that can prepare students for college and beyond. Another part of our plan is to host a shadow day where students can join an FFA class period and experience the program firsthand. Whether it's caring for animals, working with plants, or developing their supervised agricultural experience, which is an SAPE project. To make this plan succeed, we need support
075from our counselors, teachers, and school staff. We need your help to we need your help to promote this program, share our flyers, and answer students questions. With your support, we can continue to grow FFA at SAS school and keep building a future where students like me don't have to fight to keep their dreams alive. I'm attaching a more detailed recruitment plan for you to review. Also, after hearing the looming closure and with the short amount of time, our FFA team began to create a student signed petition for saving the program. I will also be including this petition with the recruitment plan. And as always, Mr. Gregory says, "United, we are samp." Thank you. [Applause] >> I have to say that I'm always super impressed by the FFA uh students. They wear their clothes and uniforms
076so nicely. They're well prepared to have a recruitment plan like that come from a student. I look forward and the board I know looks forward very much previewing that plan and if there's any way that we can uh make things work out, we're going to make an effort on that. So the next speaker will be Ryan Ross. Hello G uh members of the board. Um, I am the incoming uh FFA president at S Pasqual. Uh, the incoming president at S Pasqual. I'm going to read something I put into a newsletter recently when I first um in a recent speech, I was deeply moved when when one of my fellow FFA members uh officers said that we were like a second family, another place to call home. On a personal level, I know this program has
077changed my high school experience for the better. Even my future goals of leadership and responsibility have been expanded on. This is more than a class or a club. When I moved here from Oklahoma, I didn't have many people I could call friends or I was moving around from group to group. I didn't have a place I could call a home, a family. And when I went into the FFA classroom, I saw a group of people who were connected in a family and I became a part of that family. At this point, I know it's not just about agriculture. It is future bonds, memories, relationships at risk of never even happening. There are people like me not going to be able to make those lasting memories. I'm glad I could relate these interests with you and
078uh thank you very much for your time. Thank you, son. [Applause] Your uniform looks very sharp. Next speaker is Jennifer Ryan. You're fine. Take your time. >> Good evening, Superintendent, Assistant Superintendent, and esteemed board members. Thank you so much for allowing me to talk. I talked at the last meeting and I tried to think about what I would want to talk to you about and I would like to talk to you guys about the commitment. These students in the A pro program show commitment in everything that they do. They have wanted to succeed from their freshman year to their high school year. And unfortunately, that is not going to happen if the school has their way at getting rid of the agricultural department. Um, a has a place in the school and students really gravitate
079towards it and find that they have the skills that they need to succeed. Um, my son talked about going to college because of the FFA scholarships that he could earn and also being included in the program. It would be a shame to disband the program. As a mom, I see my son thriving and finding a home outside of the house. And so I think that is so important to have your school um become your family. And so I thank the FFA program for instilling that feeling of family. And so I'm sorry if I'm not very versed right now, but thank you so much for listening and I really implore you to keep this act program um at S. >> Thank you very much, [Applause] >> Barry Ryan. would be Terry Ryan. Good evening, board members,
080president of the board, and superintendent. I'm glad I have the opportunity to speak to you. My grandson is Ryan Ross, and I've watched him flourish and grow and feel a sense of worth, belonging, and importance. He has goals. He has visions. He has determination. And this is all through the FAA program. I'd like to read the Escandido Union High School District Commission statement. Empowering every student to graduate, preparing for college, career, and life through excellence in learning. Offering more than 180 courses. This is your mission statement to each student. It reaches out with great importance, value, and commitment from our school board down to the teachers, down to people that make lunches at the school. I implore you follow that mission statement and give FAA an opportunity to flourish to welcome students and to continue
081with its courses. The students deserve that empowerment in their lives. Thank you very much. [Applause] The next speaker is John Ryan. No, you have a difficult decision to make. doesn't come easy. You heard one side previously led to the decision terminate the program the end of one year. Now heard parents themselves value FFA program not just incidental club something that is there for public make things look good as a very real character as young men young Women for putting up their time and effort learning about ificent part of our economy, agriculture, business, something very very important. Escandido was founded on agriculture. something that we have to hold very very important. Just dismissing the FFA program Zampus 12 not serve them. If you want to know more about the character of the program at Sampaswell, then
082do an audit. I implore you. Please extend this program three years. Review carefully value the students have a squad. [Applause] that you can do. I think it's very important because you've got kids who have given themselves that purpose there at SAS school who if one year program ends not be able to fulfill commitment diet spirit FFA programities serve them. >> I had a quick clarification question for you. When you say audit, what type of audit are you talking about? >> Was mentioned earlier about an audit? Audit is uh >> well, I know what an audit is, but I didn't know. would be an independent entity come in and review how the program has been handled the staff has been and so forth. >> I got it. So third party. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] >>
083Emily Ryan. I was hoping I had a Jack Ryan because of the movies, but Uh today I am reading this on behalf of Luciana Tjo who unfortunately could not be here today. Hello everyone at today's board meeting. I am Luciana Tjo the vice president of S Pasqual FFA the years 2024 to 2025. I am a rising senior in the coming years of 2025 through 2026. My offer my office position could have been longer, but due to the district taking away the A program, I am no longer able to be an FFA. I have been in FFA for three years. I really hope to finish off my high school career with all four years of A finished. I was signed up to do floral design for my final A class, but sadly it was taken away
084from me. FFA has changed me for the better as a student and as a person. My dream is to become a veterinarian. The best part of Ag was that there was a class for students just like me who have passion for a career in agriculture. With the class of vet science, I was able to have more knowledge on a career I've been dreaming of for my whole life. Not only have I dreamt of becoming a vet, but I've also dreamed of being an FFA. A short anecdote for you all. I was in kindergarten when my classroom visited SAS school FFA and I got to tour the farm and the class. I had a photo taken of me holding a baby chick. And ever since that day, I have always looked forward to attending Sasqual High
085School to join their FFA program. With the program getting taken away from me in my final year, I feel like my in my inner child is hurt more than anything, I have wanted to be in this program. FFA has opened my soul up to new adventures and memories with new friends. I was able to make bonds with my officer team and other members from other parts of California. I was wishing to go back to the ALA conference and other events, but sadly those wishes have been put to rest. Not only did FFA help me socially, but it was going to help me financially. Seniors in the FFA program had a gateway to even more scholarships and chances to get money for college. With the program being taken from me, I feel like I have been
086blocked off from financial help for college. Not only was this opportunity for me, but for others in the FFA, many other students in need of financial help are pushed away from getting the help they need. I have met so many amazing students and members who have all dreams similar to mine. Why should the district take away these dreams from us? Isn't the entire point of FFA to have a brother and sisterhood for all? Isn't FFA known for being Isn't FFA known for being National Future Farmers of America? If we take away this program, we are taking away more future agriculture workers, more people able able to make a difference. So please board members and everyone here in this piece, let Sasqual keep their program. Not for me, but for everyone who dreams of making a
087difference in this country. Because without farmers, who will be there to build up America? [Applause] Thank you. Your friend will be very proud the way you delivered that speech. I would like to pass on to the um superintendent and Dr. Casus. Um kind of like to find out like what scholarships they may have been entitled to that they did not receive. See if there's any way we could help find some money for those scholarships. That'd be something that I'd be interested in finding out more about. Our last speaker on this topic will be Steve Jacobs. Hello and uh thank you to the board for allowing me to speak. I'm an Escanido native. My name is Steve Jacobs and I was fortunate enough to be high school student at Sam Squall in the FFA program. Uh,
088I always had a real interest in working with my hands and was kind of a struggling student all through grade school, not a very stellar student. But once I got into the FFA program, uh, things really changed. I really felt uh, it was a place where I belonged and I I learned what my passion was. I wasn't bound for college. None of my uh instructors or uh anybody at the high school talked to me about college. Didn't really have the grades for it. Once um I got into the program of FFA and I took several other vocational ed classes, my GPA definitely went in the right direction. I ended up um graduating at Sam Squall and then I uh transferred eventually to Calpaly Pomona and got my degree in ornamental horiculture. started a business. I
089employ 55 people and uh from compensation going from 43,000 to $240,000. So there's a lot of potential here for uh students to understand and and learn about horiculture, agriculture in general. And not everybody's bound for the the standard curriculum in school. And I think super valuable program. I know it is because I am a direct effect of that that I saw something that I had passion for that I really got me going and and made me interested in school and uh I I have uh I hire many people from Escandido. I live in the city of Escandido and I have several employees that that live here as well. I also became an instructor. I teach at Quea College in the horiculture program. Have a real passion for education. We have a real strong need people
090in our industry that are trained and have a passion for what they do. It's a real struggle for me as an employer to find really good qualified staff that have an work that we do. I'm a landscape contractor. Uh I'm a licensed contractor. I I've been on the board for the CLCA, California Landscape Contractors Association. I was past president of the state. We have several thousand members. It's a really a great experience for these students to be able to uh work with their hands, get a sense of accomplishment. They're all, as you know, you're all in education. You all understand how important this is. I had this opportunity. >> Thank you very much. Thank you very much. [Applause] Yes, I too won a fourth grade flower competition and as a boy in fourth grade, it
091was embarrassing, but I was very happy to have won it. So, I get that. Um, with that said, we're going to take a about a five to eight minute break right now before we move on to section G human. >> Just make a couple of comments really quickly. I would >> Yes, please. because of my time here on the board, I have seen um instances where class um enrollments have dropped and we've had a room full of um students and families begging us to keep classes alive and so um we've had to make difficult decisions over the years and I know um staff and I um it's hard for me to hear that perhaps there was something going on internally. So, I do struggle with that and I do want to um while I don't
092know what an audit would entail, um you know, I want to be cautious of um staff making recommendations like, "Oh, maybe you shouldn't take that class." So, I want to publicly say that. I know it's not easy to be a counselor and help students pick these classes, but I want to be very cautious of whenever we're we're recommending students away from anything. um that really concerns me. Um and then I have also seen where we were about to eliminate a class and perhaps we did and the teacher because of the passion that she had for this class and it I remember it clearly. It was Jessica Young and that her her attempt to keep the um newspaper and the uh journalism alive at at Orange Glenn. and she turned that class around. And um there
093are times when that that that effort may have to come from um not from us, you know, from it may have to come from teachers and students that really care about this. So when I hear things about like a perhaps a plan for enrollment, I want to let's take a look at this next year. I mean before um before future plans are made across our district for facilities and things like that. I think it's important that we um re-evaluate this if there if if there is an effort made on behalf of students and others. So um with I don't know what kind of direction necessarily staff needs to be given um for um keeping this uh an option and for again look the opportunity for students to um make a make an effort to increase
094enrollment. So if there's a chance for us to receive an update on that and again re-evaluate things. >> Dr. Casus. >> Yes. Uh just to address the comments from member Knight. Uh staff can be directed to simply put it back on the course request schedule. Um it is an elective of nature. So specify more. It is not a graduation requirement for the state of California, nor is it required to meet the requirements for UC or CSU admission. Say that because students and parents do have choice to fulfill those credits that they need to fulfill with electives. Um, and with that, uh, certain allocations go to the courses that students and parents select the most. Um, so staff could be directed just put it back on the menu. uh given back to the uh March board
095meeting when the board adopted the resolution to reduce the staffing by 6. That's why it was taken off the board request sheet, but it could easily be put back on. It doesn't require like any formal board action or anything like that. It could be as simple as that. And then we could work with the staff with recruitment plan. So very easy to do. In other words, long way to say we can do it. Okay. Thank you, Dr. Kasus. All right. And I do see in the audience our uh San Francisco School High School FFA uh teacher. So, I just want to acknowledge her. [Applause] And full disclosure, the eight tomato plants that my wife and I picked up so they wouldn't die were delicious. I hate tomatoes and they were really good. So, uh, just
096saying. Um, uh, sure. Keep it to three minutes, but you're going to have to come to the microphone, please. So, I'm Arie Wallace. I'm the Sampasqual FFA adviser. This will be my 21st year in the district as an agriculture teacher. And I've taught all these different classes and done all this with the students that they're talking about. And it's true what they said about them being misdirected. And you know, it's not a fine art. You can't take floral. You can't go to college if you take agg. I think these kids were cut off at the knees with the program being cut without phasing it out if that's the direction it's going to be. But when you take all the equipment out of the A building, give it to other schools. It's really hard to start
097the program back up. They've moved me out of the A building into a regular classroom, but I'm still in charge of the egg area and all the animals. I'm still going to fair. I'm still going to field days. were we had a first place judging team. Kids were doing fabulous. And I thought that kids could have got more support with the counselors than the admin that the program would just take off because even though the numbers have gone down since the um COVID, the interest and the commitment of the animals and the activities that they do and the speaking engagements and the conferences that we go to, we travel all that. There's so many kids that have this niche of being um important for their career. Just as Emily said, she she um was reading
098for my vice president's um speech. That student would have been in a for four years. She's not an active member now. now she can apply for her FFA scholarship college and she's been dreaming and working for four years for for this opportunity and didn't get that chance and I think it's it's a shame. So if there is an opportunity for us to maybe do an audit, >> is there a way to explore for the students then to have memberships still the other um after that we have so that those opportunities are not needed if however we can get creative because that to hear that those options have been eliminated. >> I'd have to speak with Mia Funk about the particular scholarship. I know FFA has particular requirements of number of years enrolled and what courses
099enrolled. You have to be an active member in order to apply. >> And that's where I'm we can get creative with membership for the district. >> We can look into it. Yeah. >> And it's so hard for a senior who's been, you know, ever since she was a little kid and these kids working for three and four years to have to, you know, leave their friends, leave their teachers, go to a different school. Like, oh, why don't you just transfer to Escandido? Well, sure they could, but it it would What would your kid do? You know, it's it's a shame. >> May I ask a question? >> If this wasn't done better, it was it should have been phased out. So, these kids didn't get cut off at the knees and not able to do,
100you know, their scholarships and and have their um work experience. You know, there's a big gap now that they are going to have to fill other places. >> Can I ask you a question? >> Sure. >> Okay. Um you mentioned um someone mentioned recruiting >> with a program. You're going to put a plan in place. >> Is there a possibility? Is that plan in one of these packages? >> You know, I used to go to the middle schools. We used to take animals and go actually talk to the biology teachers and meet with the students. And in the past years, we haven't been able to do that. They'll send a couple of kids to stand on stage, but there's no recruiting going on. >> Okay. I thought they mentioned uh briefly >> have this. We
101do have this packet right now. >> Absolutely. >> Oh, and the yellow one. >> Okay. >> They've got big plans to make this make this happen. >> Is this what you have right here? Is this the one? >> Yeah, I got I got the packet. Oh, it's a yellow one. >> Okay, thank you. >> Right, Marney. Thanks. >> I was reading this one. Okay, great. Okay. Thank you. Appreciate that. >> Okay. Thank you for your time. Thank you very much. [Applause] >> All right. We're going to adjourn for a little over five minutes and then we'll call back to order. Oh, John. All righty. Going to call the meeting back to order now. And if I could have your guys' attention, we are in the human resources division now. And the reason why I wanted
102your attention more than anything is to introduce our new assistant superintendent, Chiron Kpal Kpalani. Help me close. Uh Kerolani. Thank you. >> Thanks, Kerolani. So, we're very happy that you've joined our district and uh this is your section. So, but I do have some things to start out with. First uh in the consent calendar earlier we did already um move to the consent approved classifi or items number G1 two and then we need to talk about the um approved recommendations of the committee on assignment for elective subjects appropriate after what we just listened to. Um do you have anything to say on uh this uh item? >> Thank you President Weller. Yes. Uh this is an annual topic that is brought to the board every summer or early fall, possibly again in January when there's
103a change of semester and teaching assignments may change. Uh these teachers meet qualifications for these assignments and meeting one or more of the following criteria such as successful prior teaching experience of the subject, completion of professional development in the subject to be taught or successful completion of college last university coursework in the subject. I recommend the approval of the teachers listed on the agenda to teach in an elective course falls outside of their credential area. >> Got it. Um any uh comments or anything before we get a motion to uh approve this? >> I'll make a motion to approve. >> A second. >> Second. >> All right. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Motion is approved. Thank you. Um, and then item number four, adopt resolution R2025 in 2026 one. What does that
104mean? The slash one first semester. >> I believe it's the first resolution of the year for us. >> Okay. Thank you. Only took me two and a half years to ask that question. Adopt this resolution assigning teachers to teach outside their designation on their teaching credentials. We need a motion to adopt this resolution. >> Thank you. >> Second. >> Thank you. >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> Very good. Thank you >> for the audience. This gives us more flexibility in moving teachers around and having subjects covered. Did you have anything to say on that? Uhi. Is it doctor or mister? >> No, I'll go by mister today. >> Mister. >> Uh yeah, this is a uh an annual item as well. Well, it's very similar to the last agenda item and as
105you spoke, uh it's really allowing the the teachers to teach outside of their teaching credential. Uh and so the teachers listed on the agenda item or who we who you have made the motion for. >> Okay. Thank you. Also, thank you for uh being flexible on working through who's talking right now because I'm working off of a different agenda um format than we did last year. So, I appreciate your patience on that. Um, item number five, initial proposal from the Escandido Union High School District to the Escanido Secondary Teachers Association for successor agreement. Would you like to address that, please? >> Uh, yes. Thank you again. So, this is an information item that's being presented to the board and the public. This is the district's initial pro proposal. It's also known as a sunshine proposal
106to the Escanido Secondary Teachers Association or ESTA for successor negotiations for the 2526 school year. >> Very good. Um, do you have one of those blue sheets? Because I wanted to read um the items that were on that sunshine provision. As you know, we have a union and we need to negotiate with them every year. You don't have to negotiate every year. You can have longer contracts, but they choose to do it every year. And the items that we're um sunshining, and please, if I say anything incorrect, please let me know. um are article one general provisions of the contract, article two, class size and staffing ratios, article three evaluation procedures, article five, hours of employment, article 8, salaries, article nine, employee benefits, article 11, association rights, and article 12 negotiations. I know that one
107of the important things for the board members is that we really start evaluating student outcomes uh in these contracts um evaluation procedures mostly look at evaluation of the teachers but I want to know the outcomes of students. So I know you're new to the position here. You've had this position or at least like positions in other districts. So, I look forward to having you educate us on this and help us on this. Um, so this is just an initial proposal. So, there's no vote on this tonight. Is that correct? Very good. Um, any comments from board members? I'll take that as a no. All right. Item number six. Item number six, public hearing on the initial proposal from Escandido Secondary Teachers Association to Escanido Union High School District 426 negotiations. >> Uh yes, thank you.
108Uh so we will need to have a public hearing on the proposal that was uh provided by or presented to the district at the last June board meeting. Uh this is the opportunity to do that. This is a requirement uh of the EER. So there are two lines here where I get to open the public hearing. Let me get a time on my computer here. Bear with me to click out of a few screens. Okay. So um and superintendent, please help me if I mispronounce anything here. But we would like to open the public hearing on the initial proposal from the Escanido Secondary Teachers Association, Escandido Union High School District for 2025 negotiations. We'd like to open that >> at 7:59. Um, do I ask for comments at this point? >> If anybody would like
109to comment on the ESTA sunshine proposal, you may podium now. >> All right. Looks showing that no one did. We are going to finish at 7:59 as well. So, we accomplished that part of the public hearing. Uh, number seven, uh, received the Williams report for fourth quarter. Um, I don't remember if that's Mrs. Phillips or Mr. Kurpalani on the Phillips report. Oh, back to you. Yeah, >> thank you, President Waller. On a quarterly basis, school districts are required to submit a Williams report to the San Diego County Office of Education and to our board. So, this report is designed to identify any complaints under the Williams settlement regarding instructional materials, facilities, teacher vacancy, and misassignment. Happy to report we did not receive any complaints, so we have nothing to report. >> Very good. Thank you.
110That is the end of your requirement tonight. So, welcome. We kept it harmless. we're outside of me butchering your name. So, thank you for for allowing me to do that. Um, we're going to move to section H now, business services division with Mrs. Phillips. Here again, item one and two and three, four, five were approved. That's a few more were approved on consent. So, one through eight were approved on consent. So, this brings us to the uh potential to approve the facilities master plan. Um, I'll read this. Actually, I'll hand it off to Miss Phillip, Mrs. Phillips to uh read what we're doing. >> Thank you, President Weller. Tonight, we're presenting to the board the facilities master plan that has been under developed since December. Um, and so we have here tonight who is part
111of the amazing team that we have been working with for the last eight months. um and she'll present the plan and its components to the board tonight. I will let her >> Hello and good evening everyone. Um this is my final presentation for the facilities master plan. I've had the pleasure of presenting to you several times now. Um and so what we're going to be talking about tonight um is essentially a summation of all of the work that we've done so far and that we have reviewed with you. Um, and just to show that to the public as well, >> really quickly too for board members, you have it in a packet here. >> And so the purpose of today's update is to review the master plan project process, summarize our findings, review the website
112and dashboard. So those are the deliverables of the plan and then for you to formally adopt. Just to review the master plan phasing, we began with data collection. So that is a collection of existing data as it relates to your facilities and any information that has an impact on your facilities. We reviewed and analyzed all that information to give us an understanding of our existing context. Then we completed facility assessments. So, we had assessment teams go out and walk all of your uh facilities and give an assessment of the existing condition or functional um life cycle of all of your building systems. We then facilitated visioning sessions with district leadership to get an understanding of your long-term vision for educational goals and how your facility should align. We also uh facilitated community engagement um both
113with your sites and school site councils as well as a community survey. And then we completed the master planning process which was development of the scopes of work and related costs to reflect uh all of those elements. Right? We're looking at what are the needs of your facilities based on their condition. What are the needs of your facilities based on your um you know context for enrollment or capacity? What are the needs for your facilities based on your long-term vision for educational programs all gets rolled up into a master plan work scopes and costs? Implementation plan is the alignment of priorities, costs and funding. Um and so what we have presented in the plan so far is a an initial idea of what that implementation could be. Um I want to make sure we emphasize
114here that a facility master plan is intended to be a living document. This plan shows you the feasibility of projects across sites um and those related costs. As you determine your resources available to implement projects, should you have them um and how you want to roll things out, that plan will change and reflect any changes in priorities, any changes in your context, things like that. So, please don't consider this as static in one time. It is meant to be ongoing which is also why we've developed um a deliverable that is dynamic and can be updated as projects are completed or changed. Just to review kind of everything that we went through um in our data collection phase really what we're getting an understanding of is your existing context. This summarizes your capacity and utilization looking
115at your enrollment versus capacity. Do you want to note that your enrollment has been declining? Um, we look at that in terms of what is your overall capacity, but also what's your capacity as as it is compared for permanent construction versus portable construction. Um, and so while you do have a high level of capacity, um, we have some what we like to call um, freebies that we can do to kind of um, help rightsize some of your campuses. Portables are intended for short shortterm responses to enrollment growth. there's an opportunity to remove your portables. Um, and so then that reduces that excess capacity and then we can look at space typology uh reconfiguration and so you'll see some of that reflected in the plan. When we looked at facility assessments um in general your facilities
116are wellmaintained, they are functioning and that is what the facility assessment looks at. They're not necessarily looking at um you know maybe aesthetically does it look you know the way you want it to for 2025. Um they're really looking at does it function. Um we anticipate that in the next three, five and 10 years you will see more needs as it relates to infrastructure. Um one of the big items on your facility assessment were roots. some of the key findings from the stakeholder engagement. Um again we met with visioning groups, we met with site leadership, we met with students, we um conducted a community survey and some of the key findings or the consensus that we heard from all those groups, safe, secure and welcoming campuses, modern flexible learning environments, student support spaces, ET opportunities,
117arts opportunities, integrated technology, social spaces, facilities that in general reflect school pride and purpose. Okay, so moving on to the master plan. So this is talking about, you know, once we have an understanding of all of that existing information and your future goals for facilities, how can we um develop feasibility studies for what that looks like on some of your school sites? So we've done that across each of the sites. Um all of these sites include a proposed plan for buildings and then we've broken out elements. I won't go through everything otherwise we'll be here for quite a while. Um but some key items for example um uh across all sites we did we wanted to make sure we were highlighting things like athletic lighting upgrades right making sure um that there was parody across
118sites but that there's also an opportunity to extend the life of the use of those fields across each sites. Um another thing that you'll see is CTE expansion across your sites. um opportunities to expand programs or enhance the facilities that those programs are. Um a couple of key projects that you'll see on a couple of the sites. Um we did look at what the potential impact of aquatics facilities would be on site. Again, that's something that we heard from your stakeholders. So, we wanted to show what that impact would be across those sites. Another item at uh Escandido specifically, out what would happen if we were able to move the start program um over to that site using some existing space on the high to house your start program which is your adult transition. >>
119Can you remind us where that's currently housed? Here. >> Right here. Okay. That's what I thought. Okay. >> And in some portable buildings and whatnot. So it would be relocating >> to a permanent structure permanent their own campus. Um there's some excess land on Escanido just the way that that's configured. So there was an opportunity what would give them some okay um for Sam Pascal again what you're seeing is um you know that CTE we also looked at um field reconfiguration one of the things I do want to point out in addition to the lighting we did identify um a turf a practice field at each of the sites we wanted to identify where that could live and again we were focusing on par there and also extending um the lifespan or the usability of
120those sites. Um at Orange Glenn um looking at some parking reconfiguration there as well as some field reconfiguration um in addition to several um CT expansion space. One of the other uh spaces I did want to mention is um one of the things that we heard was a desire to create um shared space for students that it also serves as resource space, collaboration space, um a student hub. Um and so you'll see that project across several sites where a student center kind of library space there. And then for Valley High School, um CT expansion space, managed student support, they had some specific needs as it related to their weight room, then hardc court upgrades and outdoor um Delago. Um the needs were minimal there. Um but we did look at um some athletic fields and
121court upgrades, some site signage for safety and navigation there, and then um the reconfigured of the ad administration and um and security that single point of entry >> and then for the adult school general modernization and then looking at future parking >> so >> can I ask a question we discussed briefly and I don't know if you considered of relocating that facility you remember >> yes we did we discussed it we didn't do the full feasibility of costing it out and things like that there would be a lot of to that. But >> okay, >> if you want to direct us specifically to do that, then we would have take that on as additional scope for the project. >> Um, so key findings just to summarize, we prioritize projects to support revenue generation. So again,
122looking at things like lighting and field upgrades, anything that might be uh potential to generate funds for the district. Prioritize curb appeal, safety, and welcoming environments projects. We looked at life cycle replacement by year, so a yearby-year basis, and then long-term program or in a later priority. Um, and so we broke it down, let me go back. We did break it down by site and then priority and then we also broke it down by site and then um some of the different categories. So you can see how some of there >> just real quick on the site by priority is that on the implementation planning, I'm looking for the colum that might a priority or where would I find or that back on this one here? >> Yes, this side. This slide. >> Okay. >>
123I'm sorry that I I'm sorry that I wore my contacts. >> It's okay. I know. And and I'm summarizing a lot of data in a presentation. Um and so you know you know we can break it up and um uh slice into all kinds of ways which is why we have a dashboard. Um and so uh the key component of the master plan is that we wanted to create something that was live and that was dynamic for your team. Um so there is a master plan website that explains the master plan process, goes over enrollment capacity dashboard, summary of our visioning and community engagement and then also has the project dashboard with all of the cost information in there. Um and you can sort and filter and look at it all kinds of different ways.
124Um and then one of the key elements of that is that we are able to generate reports for recordkeeping and accountability. So as things are updated and changed or you need to share it out um we can update that live data but also give you some reports so that you can review that >> on the master plan website. Where is that address on here that we could send people to? Or >> we haven't until you adopt. We haven't launched it. So that's what we need you for before we make it fully public. We want to make sure that you have adopted it um and that it reflects what you want to share with the community. >> Very good. I'm gonna ask a quick question. >> Did you say this is a living document? >> Yes.
125>> When when is it going to lock down? I I mean like what's the life expectancy for it to be a living document before it can be executed? Um, so when I say a living document, what I mean is that it can be updated in real time to reflect progress or changes, right? Um, typically in the past, what you might have for a master plan is something that is like a a printed document. It goes in a binder and it kind of lives on a shelf for 5 to 10 years, right? But if something changes, it's really hard to go back and and update that. And so we're trying to make something that's a little bit more dynamic using technology to do that. Now, um, from a state perspective, they want to see a master
126plan that's within five years if you're going after any funding for projects. And so, a refresh is re recommended every five years. Um, but in the meantime, what we would say is um, Mike and his team as projects are completed or anything changes, they can go into all of the data and update projects um, and say, you know, this project has been completed, give it a change in status. um they can change a priority. If you guys have determined you have some other projects that you want to move up in priority or move down in priority, you can change those priorities. So that's what we mean by living document. >> Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? Guess not. Um thank you so much. >> Um so I did look up Robert's rules of orders here
127just so that we can do this appropriately and um as it relates to discussion on this. So, what I need is I need a motion um to make a motion for this and then we get a motion, a second, and then we discuss it before we vote. And so, can I get a motion on this, please? >> I move to approve and a second, please. >> Second. >> Right. With that said, now um I'm not going to call the vote yet because I do know that there wants there's um some discussion that needs to be had on this. Um would any board members like to say anything? I was going to have a brief discussion on what my thoughts are on the master plan, but I think I might leave that towards the end unless
128it's necessary for me to speak upon it now. >> Well, since we have a motion in a second, we have to vote upon it. >> Okay. >> And so, if you have something, >> you know, I mean, there is the Brown Act. So that David and I have spoken about this but I have not spoken about this with any other board members just for the audience listen to. >> Okay. >> So why don't you um go into your details of what you think. >> Okay. Um so one of the key things I want to discuss um and I've may be a little lengthy but I think it's worth um for discussion and and maybe um inclusion in September 2025 for the board agenda meeting. But I'd like to declare an opportunity to establish a public
129trade school in Escanido. And reason being during my time on this on this board, I've spoken often about liberty, opportunity, justice, and accountability. Today, I rise to speak about something even more immediate to the daily lives of our students. California public school system is governed by a onesizefititall framework that pushes all students through a college prep pipeline regardless of their interests, strengths, or economical reality. And while college is a noble pathway, and I'm prodigy of that, um it's not the only one. Not every student is meant to go to a 4-year university or a two-year degree program, and that's okay. Uh what is not okay is when their system punish them or sidelines them, those who don't. Today, I propose we do something bold, necessary, and transform it. Converting one of our district high schools
130into a dedicated public grade school. Why a trade school and why now? Workforce demands is urgent. California and the US faces a critical shortage in skilled trade electricians, welders, certified nurse assistants, HVAC technicians, mechanic, carpenters, and plumbing plumbers are aging out and there are not enough trained young people to replace them. National security and public infrastructure depends on trades. From ship building docks to military bases to climate resilient billion buildings upgrades, America needs skilled labor more than ever. This is especially critical in defense related trades such as electricians, welder, pipe fitters, and diesel mechanic careers can begin in high school and contribute to the national direction of our security. Trade jobs are not less, they are essential and highpaying. The average salary of a certified HVAC technician in California is $63,000 a year. A licensed
131electrician can be anywhere from 74 or higher. A welder can earn between 50 to $85,000 a year dependent on their specialty. The job offers student zero debt and Iward upper mobility with many becoming business owners or union leaders. Aubi is persistent in California and education must be a part of the solution. Over 4.5 million Californians live in poverty. That's a shame for this state. We need to do something about it with youth from workingclass immigrants or undeserve under under served backgrounds of disproportionate impact of students. For many of our students, college debt is neither realistic nor helpful. But a trade certificate, that's a paycheck. That's rent. That's independence. This trade school will be a ladder out of poverty for kids who are often get ignored by the mainstream system. Immigration and under representative students deserve
132a real pathway to the American dream. We can align this program with legal residence and military pathway for those seeking US citizenship protect particularly in the I need it national defense and infrastructure trades. It's a good for Escandido. It's good for America. The initiative will benefit local unions and businesses. We can forge a public private partnership with trade unions, manufacturers, medical clinics, construction firms, and military contractors, ensuring our students get real world exposure and job placement pipelines. But I'm proposing I respectfully request this board to place this onto the next agenda. Begin a feasibility plan to convert one of our existing high school campuses into a fully accredited public trade and apprenticeship high school offering state certification programs and I demanding careers. Request waiverss or pursue legislation to bypass outdated educational code restrictions that limits
133our ability to implement vocational and trade focus curriculum tailored to real students and workforce needs. Engage local employers, unions, and trade organization to co-design the curriculum, internships, and certification programs to ensure relevance and job placements. partner with US military, Navy, and defense contractors to offer military alignment training tracks for students interested in skilled service and pay pathway to citizenship. Elevate this as a bipartisan communitywide cause, uniting conservative, liberals, business leaders, labors, unions, partners, and educators around the shared goal of creating real opportunity for our kids. Let's stop. Let us stop forcing every children to walk a path they didn't chose. Let's give them a road where they can build with their own ants and dignity that comes from earning an honest living. And that's all I have to say on that topic. But I do
134propose that we consider this for an agenda item. >> One second. Um, Trusty Durnney. So, um, we've got So, I want to come back to you. Trusty Durnney has something to say, but I want to come back to what you just said. Yes, sir. >> I I would very much like to follow up with what he said. Uh, you said the same thing only much better than I was going to. Uh, few weeks guys driving down from Riverside, I noticed the Riverside County of education has a school of career education and that gave me the idea that you know we big we're big on CTE here I would like to see one of the schools say hey you know maybe we switch over to a CTE school and then you come up with this stuff
135so you just said what I want do just better I'm sorry I took the win out of your >> Oh no thank you thank you just um I to add to that Thank you so much. Um, you know, right now, uh, our nuclear industry, especially our submarine, need 90,000 electricians. They're going to need in the next 10 years 500,000 more. So, there's there's a lot of needs for the trades in this state. And it's a a very um lucrative profession for people that are and on and don't go through the normal requirements that are necessary. They're not ready. Some kids are not built or or anything for uh you know a higher education other than their apprenticeship. That doesn't mean it's right or wrong, but what's important is that eventually, you know, they're going to
136need a living. And this is an opportunity from them just graduating from high school and that's it. Have nowhere to go. This gives them a pathway to making a real living and you know, maybe schools need to evolve a little. Thank you. Yes. A lot. >> And just for the sake of understanding, so we have a motion and a second for this item. which would be to approve the facilities master and from what I understand the scope of what you've been currently asked to do you have done tonight it's being presented and we need we would adopt that but out of this item and this discussion could further direction be given >> continue the process with this to look into feasibility of what What could that potentially look like? Because the whole facility's master plan,
137as far as I'm concerned, is a dream, right? So, this is a dream. Like, if we have this dream, what could that look like? And would this be the right opportunity to give further direction once this gets adopted to explore that >> be beyond the dream? It does tell us what we do need to work on. There are some priority items, which I really like that >> you saw a really big number at the end like 5 million or something like that. So >> again, that is if you were to do everything to bring everything up, right? Um should you decide that you want to change the program of one of your sites, um I would say form follows function. So we would want to understand what the vision for that program looks like and
138then we would be able to develop a feasibility kind of study for what that would look like on a particular campus. What would be the impact of it? what would be the cost of that and and fold that into your master plan. But when you asked about a dynamic plan, that is an example of why we have a dynamic plan because should you change your priorities as a district or your programming, you would want your facilities master plan to reflect that. So by adopting tonight, it by no means says that >> we couldn't like so we would adopt this and then potentially have an item on the agenda for future discussion that would continue this. >> We would have a plan that allows us an actionable plan that allows us to begin prioritizing and moving
139on some of these projects. But if there is a new vision that develops that we can come back to the plan and add modify etc. So um plan already encompasses a lot of CT priorities. Um what member Vincent is proposing is a rather radical change and I would think we would come back and amend master plan once that vision was better developed. Right now it's incoit but once it has firm ideas behind it. Um can definitely work revise the plan. The master's plan is not forever. >> It may be a radical year but it's not other parts of the world or other countries >> in other parts in other states. Okay. So this is a vision that I see is going to uplift and get some of these >> individuals that are under poverty into
140positions of helping them in the future. wasn't questioning the the validity of your plan just as it pertains to the master plan tonight. Um, you can approve master plan tonight and still work on the vision. >> Yeah. >> Well, because I realize there's going to be a change in curriculum and that's going to require waiverss. >> That's what I meant by radical. It's it it would require >> deep changes in the way we do education. And so it's not we could just postpone adoption of this master plan another month or two while we work out this new vision will be major undertaking if we wanted to go in that direction and we would go back and revisit master plan at that time. And they would want that information to understand whatever the school need first
141>> want to understand the needs of the school before you any sort of facility that >> I've been doing a lot of research. I think I can help in that way. It's going to require new curriculum to be developed by Martin. I hope you got your pencil sharpened up. I have a lot of respect for you and I think that you could velop something in a way that follows in the trades and the maths that's required as well as um the other aspects that are it is going to require some degree of a waiver that so here's the deal um as we know we always point to the LCAP as we also know and by the way you can feel free to take a seat um is that it's often referred to as uh you
142know just a compliance document but even the master plan um pointed to the LCAP. I do feel that one high school in our district in particular must be revamped radically. I think it is beyond saving and it does not conform to the future of education. Um AI probably going to replace 40% of all marketing and writing jobs out there. And yet, currently, right now today, there are 500,000 factory jobs open to people that are not trained to take those jobs. And so, although we have a motion in a second, I'm going to offer two different alternatives here. one. Um, we could withdraw the motion or we could vote on it. I am not going to vote in favor of approving this master plan tonight. I think that we definitely need to really put a hard
143stop look at what our district is doing. Our the number of students we have is down 30% in a decade. Our entire district is below math and English standards. And I think that we really need to put like an emergency plan in place. And if we just go ahead and approve one more >> boxes, sure they bring you stuff, but they can't make a pool day more fun. >> Maria though, who sold you her loungers on offer up just throw in a cooler for free. discover life outside the >> just get folded into probably San Diego Unified or something. We'll have so few students and I think what David is trying to do with this quite frankly is save the district and build um you know student enrollment. So I'm going to put forward to
144the board that we can either vote on this and you know how I'm going to stand or we can pull the motion and bring it up at another meeting. Well, since we've already got the motion and everything, we should vote. Uh, >> well, should and have to are two different things. We do not have to vote. The motion can be pulled >> and then we don't have to vote on it. >> Can I ask some further clarifying questions? um everything that was presented in this master plan, does it need this approval tonight to move forward? If there's projects that were already on the horizon for these next the next month, two months, three months, what what do we >> specific project that was already in the works wouldn't necessarily be tied specifically to the master
145plan, but any funding that we wanted to try to get either through proposition two. Um, we wouldn't be able to apply for because you specifically need a facilities master plan >> to apply for. So, because the I'm very familiar with Prop 2 because the uh Palomar Health was awarded a $50 million grant from Prop 2 to build the behavioral health hospital. So, that money um I never refer to anything as free money. I've heard people I've heard elected officials refer to things as free money and like there's no such thing, but there is money out there for intended purposes to go to school facilities. and we are an incredibly um qualified district to receive some of this funding. So, I would really have a hard time missing out on taxpayer dollars that are intended to
146go to the incredible programs and we are one of those worthy school districts that would qualify for this funding for. And um so while I understand that there are some really big discussions we want to have and all of us want to have that those discussions, I do not want to hold up something like this that could leverage some important dollars out there. And because I I write grants, I know time is of the essence. And sometimes you have to have these things approved to move forward or board resolutions, different things that in the past I've missed out on grants because the board wasn't meeting that month and I couldn't get a resolution. And I'm not trying to minimize what's happening here. I just want you to understand that what we could miss out on
147by um not understanding that we can separate like if we not we're not really all clear that we can separate this that discussion from tonight's motion and still have a very robust and conversation that can direct staff to explore this and do stuff but without missing the mark. Um my thing is I I see some big numbers in there this plan. What's our odds of getting all that money for all these changes? I mean there's a lot of uh like >> Yeah. So I would say to give some context when we look at a facility's master plan there I work with districts throughout the state. There's not a single district where their master plan, their final dollar amount that reflects their need where any district has the resources to complete that. But we do look
148further out and say if you were to do every single thing you wanted to do, what would that number be? But that's why we have an implementation plan and we start to prioritize and break that up and see what can we accomplish. Now your eligibility for your funding is established based on the age of your facilities based on the number of pupils that are served by those age of your facilities. You guys have not been overly active in the program. So you have actually quite a bit of older eligibility that you can use. What we always recommend is that you get in line. Um I do want to point out too when it comes to Proposition 2, we have been waiting for this bond for probably 10 years now. Um and uh there is already
149a line and there is there are workload lists, there are unfunded lists, there are hundreds of districts that are already in line waiting for funding. Um, and so what we encourage districts is no matter what, get in line, recover your eligibility even for projects you've already completed, get your money and that can extend whatever facilities projects you want to work on in the future. >> Okay, >> that makes sense in line without a facilities master plan adopted, >> right? But do we have like So I'm going to say something that's going to sound rough, but it's not meant to be. So, can you by chance put the screen back up with the circle, the one that showed the priority projects? >> Hopefully, there's safety. Yeah, >> that one. >> So, let me get >> not
150sure if it's on this screen. >> Hold on a second. >> The matrix also shows. So, for example, if you did fire, life safety, that's $7 million >> we've estimated. Right. >> Right. So, do we have we identified specific That's so weird. Oh, >> projects. >> That's okay. Oh, here it is. Um, have we identified very detailed specific projects that we want money for? >> Yes. >> Like could you name maybe the top three because I can't read this. >> So, yes. So, it most of that is in the dashboard. So, specific projects and again we've grouped things because we have >> tease you that that dashboard is not published. That's why I can't look at it. You said it's not up yet, right? >> Yes, but we did provide it to the board, >>
151right? I'm still trying to understand it, so keep going. >> Okay, no problem. Um, so we have identified line items and groups of uh scopes of work. Now, it hasn't been identified in terms of specific projects that you're going to implement because you are not at that stage yet. We've prioritized and grouped those things. So, for example, fire life safety, those projects have been included in priority one. So, if you wanted to do fire life safety projects, you could do that at all of your sites. You could do that at a select number of sites. Um, you could >> Is that a safety related thing or is that related to being like a fireman or something like that? >> No. So, when we say fire life safety, that has to do with things that are
152um like your fire alarm systems. >> Okay. Thank you. >> And anything to do with Go ahead. sprinkler systems, fire. >> Yes, exactly. Also, um some things to understand in terms of context of building schools. Anytime you go in and you address a facilities project, most of those facilities projects have to be approved by the division of the state architect, they have requirements. If you go in and you want to do say um you know, a classroom upgrade, let's say you want to just upgrade your carpet or things like that, you're still going to have to do a DSA review. If you have any outstanding issues for things like um path of travel, like your ADA requirements, they're going to make you fix those things. >> Okay, that's fine. So, one of them is like
153fire life safety. Was there one other one that you got a sense from our group of what we really want to get money on next? >> So, the uh lighting upgrades were also included in >> So, the fields for the athletics. >> Okay. >> Fields and the lighting. So, David, I guess this goes to you and Christie. I mean, I'm not confident that we'll follow up on this. I'm I I feel like we'll just keep going down the same path. And sure, we need to get in line to get some money, but I feel like we need to hold like hold the money back until we get a really strong plan on what you just proposed, trusting. Um, that's it. >> If we hold the money back, we're only hurting ourselves. Bob, >> that's your
154def. Well, I I agree to disagree with you on that, but that's fine. >> So, that's why wait, I want to hear from V Trusty Vincent real quick and then you build. >> I don't want to >> these are some of these safety issues because we discussed the HVAC system is aging in one of the buildings and that correct? >> So, that's going to have an adverse effect on the students. So, I don't want to impact anything um that's going to hurt the the students in any way or form from a safety perspective. I still think we need to put this on the agenda for the next meeting and do a deep dive in discussion. I don't know um if we decide to do this from a cost perspective. You just said, "Yeah, you can
155update plan accordingly." Correct. >> Yes. This is not a commitment to spend. >> Okay? >> This is not anything like that. It's just a documentation of your need. And the state is now requiring that districts go through this exercise to document their need partially so that the state has a better understanding of facility needs across school district. >> And I can under appreciate where Bob's coming from um president um because we seem to rubber stamp things and we don't have time to really go into the details we need to understand. I know we've had meetings on it. Um but I feel that when we're putting these plans together really to me is what are the major priorities uh to me cosmetics of a building and that is not a priority to me. What's important is
156the programs and and the construction of labs, um, things like that. To me, the cosmetics is lower down on priority because it's not a risk in that it's going to draw enrollment is having a state-of-the-art program that sets us above all other districts and that and encourages enrollment and increases enrollment in that. There's a reason why we're seeing a decrease in enrollment because some of the programs that we are offering, there's no gateway for students to be able to go into the trades and that and that's what I'm trying to do. And I'm hopefully it sounds like some of the boards members are with me in that and that's an important thing, but I can't make a decision for them. But I I will be willing to consider approving this plan if we're able to
157uh update it accordingly to put this in because there we have to do some discovery first and then figure out the legalities of what we propose to do um and how that's going to the uh district itself. Uh I'm very highly confident it will make a difference, a paradigm change in this district be setting a trend that may become statewide and that because it's much needed because we have too many kids in poverty that has no pathway to future. Like you mentioned before, there's half a million factory jobs. They need skilled mechanics. They need electricians. They need factory workers. All those things. >> And maybe let me chime in. I think um and maybe I'm not seeing something right, but I I don't think that the the plan that you're talking about for for the
158school um necessarily has to be tied to this adoption tonight. >> Um like you said, it can be >> it can be a future revision. it can be a future um and when you mentioned that if you you know want to hold on to the money um the money is not coming tomorrow by any means if we got in line tomorrow which we wouldn't get in line tomorrow even with an adoption tonight um there's a lengthy process for Proposition many plans I mean it has to do with the wait list right we're encou we always encourage districts to get in line for that funing because there's already already years long waiting list. Um, and typically the cycle on that is a year to two years, right, for you to even access that money. But you
159have to submit first and and that's based on your previous eligibility. This isn't even moving forward on these projects. This is taking advantage of getting money for projects you've already completed, right? So, it's getting that reimbursement that you are already owed. But in order to get that reimbursement, you do have to have >> Mrs. Do you know how much we are owed? >> We have $42 million right now of eligibility that exists today. >> And if we don't apply for it, we don't get it. >> Correct. >> If we do apply for it, we may get it. >> You will get it someday when it is our turn. >> Yes. So once you get in line, as long as you get in line and that money is not already encumbered, right? So it is a
160first come first serve basis, >> right? So you have to get in line in order to access it. But once that funding disappears, and that's what has happened over the last 10 years, and that's why there's such a long line because there's projects that have been waiting. >> Trusty Dy, you were going to say something and I was interrupting. >> Uh, basically, I'm seeing this as a road map of what our needs are and what they could be. Uh, anytime we want, we can take a detour off the road map. We can change the map anytime we want. And we don't have to pay for the thing at the destination because we may not get there. So, I mean, I'm looking at this as the staff can use this to prioritize what needs to be
161done and then come up with other projects for us which we then still have to approve the money for. This isn't doing anything for money approval. That will still come later when we come up with projects that this shows us what we need to do. >> Correct. I wanted to chime in with that too that anything this large that is in this scope that would be in this plan. Some of these buildings um would be awarded by a bid would probably have architect designs um all of that would come through the board um for approval prior to it even happening. So if there was a project that the board thought wasn't in line with the vision or we were still trying to change the the focus or the vision of a campus and thought perhaps
162we were getting too far ahead would see those plans coming to you prior to them even happening. >> This is a blueprint for the board. All the projects still get approved on a case by case basis. >> Um I'd like to clarify that uh this facilities master plan is not a compliance document in the same sense is and some other reports that we have to do. Um this was entirely voluntary. board itself wanted us to I mean I made the recommendation and the board approved let's develop a facilities master plan a little less than a year ago and so we set about doing that at expense of tens of thousands of dollars many manh hours and getting input from hundreds of people um to reach this point at the board's direction um I think it
163would be feudal to abandon it at this point >> I don't think anybody's abandoning it so Just want to clarify that it is a living document that can be amended. We can even create an allnew master plan from scratch if we wanted. If you wanted to reapprove it and go through the same process we did the last eight or nine months, we can do it again if the vision were to change that significantly say two years from now. >> And it may. >> Okay. >> All right. Unless there's any other discussion, I call for the vote. All in favor say yay. >> Yay. >> I I the motion passes. So the master plan is approved. >> All right. So we move on to district operations section. >> President Welder, can I ask a question? How
164do we put this on the agenda? >> Uh so board member uh comments at the end. Bring it up and we'll add it. Okay. Agenda. >> Appreciate it. Yeah. Um, district operations, uh, adopt recommended revisions in board policy, administrative regulation 3311, business services. I'm going to hand this off to the superintendent to kind of guide us through these various >> This first recommended revision comes from the business services division. So, I will let Amanda Phillips describe that for you. Second read. >> This is a second reading. There have been no changes. This was just a quick reminder on our bids BP and AR all recommended CSBA language. >> Right. Can I get a motion to approve it? >> Motion to approve. >> Second. Second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Passes.
165All right. Um we now move to item I2. first reading of recommended revisions in board policy 3400 business services and we'll pass that back to Mrs. Phillips. >> So this is um our EP 3400. It's talking about management of district assets. So um as we have been doing uh some more construction um we have decided that it would be uh beneficial to break out um our capital assets um into the if you can see what the changes we've made. We've broken out equipment um and land and building improvements. Um it was very low if you look at the threshold was only $5,000 for both. Um the last time this was updated it was 2001. Um there has been a tiny bit of inflation since then. Um and so construction costs have just jumped just a
166hair. Um and so while we're leaving the uh equipment threshold at 5,000, we are increasing the land and building improvement to 25,000 uh to just maintain that um inflation threshold. Um so when we've run this through legal, we've run this through um our auditors. Um so they are all in agreement. We're good with this langage, but this is um actually your own language, not CSBA language. >> I take it that you're happy with the language. >> Made it ourselves. >> Okay. Um, this is not up for a vote, but is there any discussion? >> Um, I didn't look at it too closely, but I know that we are able to do a lot of work inhouse, which is pretty amazing. So is there anything in there that talks about to the extent possible that we
167do the work internally or is that not >> No, it it doesn't break that out necessarily because it's just about the threshold that that is spent. Um and then the only caveat we made um is about u I think federal funds because there are some federal funds that have a lower threshold in there that we have to follow. All right, since we don't need a vote, we'll move on to the first reading of um board pol. Let's see. First reading of recommended revisions in administrative regulation 1312.3 human resources. So that will go to you. I'm working on your last name. Kerolani. >> Got it. >> Mr. Kerolani. Got it. Only took one night. >> I appreciate that. Uh this first reading is being brought forward uh because there's a need to update the email address
168for the compliance officer listed in this administrative regulation. Uh since Dr. Good, the previous assistant superintendent of human resources, is no longer working in our district. >> All right. >> Yes. And I'll make one note. I noticed that our district website had a change, but Sampas Squalls still needs to be updated. So I think it's site by sight you'll start to find those. So thank you. >> I did notice that. Thank you. All right, thank you for that. So then we're going to move on to item three, first reading. Oh, that one. I guess we're on to board member reports. Is that true? >> Yes, superintendent. We made it. >> So, um, let's see. Why don't we start with Trustee Durnney, then we'll go Vincent Knight and Weller. >> Okay. Thank you. Uh, couple of
169things. One is I'd like to Can we move this podium? I'd like to see if it can be moved off to the side or something rather from the middle. I don't think I lose a quarter of the audience and uh the other thing I want to say is uh I appreciate that the public had an opportunity to speak up today. I thought I might have been in church because I heard that I am a Christian. I do go to church in Escanido weekly. Uh I was even reading scripture from the pulpit a few weeks ago. And for the record, I do not plan on resigning and I will be running for office again next. That's my report. >> All right. Thank you. Um Trustee Vincent. >> Well, um I'm just looking around at this amazing
170job. Isn't it professionally done? Right. >> It's the most beautiful, sir. >> I know. It's great. So, this shows you how how professional trades are and how valuable by the craftsmanship that they create. And with that note, um I have to say that I would like for us to put the proposal that I discussed today onto agenda for next meeting. So make it very specific though, David, that it relates an agenda item to look into turning one of the high schools into a trade school and whatever waiverss are necessary for that. >> Yeah. A new declaration of opportunity establishing a public trade school in Escandido um evaluating one of the schools potential. >> Great. Did you want to say something to that? Oh, I have some ideas on how we would approach that and clarify
171that if it's there's else on the board to see second. Okay. So, we are we are going to have an agenda item >> on a future agenda. I I hear member Vincent suggesting it be as soon as next month, >> September. Um it will require us to kind of have definitions first to make sure we're all talking about the same thing. I'm wondering if we're talking about what is trade education versus >> I can give you a detail >> versus CTE because we already do care technical education. So I want to be sure that we're addressing correct topic also might be a chance for us to share with you the recently adopted master plan for career education. >> I already read it. It doesn't limit it to what we've you sent it to me and
172I read it. So there's limitations to that. So obviously you want something above and beyond what's in California. >> Absolutely. >> And for career education. >> Absolutely. >> So you would like a presentation from the staff. Would you do would appreciate clearly defined idea of what that presentation would be in September? I I know >> I'm thinking this that we would put it on the agenda to have a discussion of further detailing it. We don't need a presentation. Just like put it on as a discussion >> with more detail that I'm sure >> um Trusty Vincent and Trusty Durnney would be bringing. >> Yeah. >> So they look at the closest things that currently exist out there. The Riverside example perhaps um something out of Vista High-Tech High. We could look at some models that
173that already exist >> and maybe That might be something that if staff were to bring anything, it might be kind of some things >> bring some ideas like that. And I appreciate that we can launch with the discussion to kind of guide where we want our research to go >> because we have a lot to do in the next month to get people started um need school underway. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> I'm fine with just a discussion for next month. No action needed. Just let's start. talking about >> and we now move to Trusty Knight. >> Oh, and so with that, as uh I am now a consumer of our district. I shared that earlier today. Uh I will have a freshman at SA school. I actually do have a freshman apparently uh
174now that he started sports. He's officially in high school. So um yeah, I will have a whole new lens and hat to wear as a parent. not you know not only a parent of a student but a consumer that's how I it's the word I keep coming back to because we are consumers of education and education is something that people consume and um so um I will be sharing things from time to time that I come across and by all means it is only to improve our district and make things more user friendly for both parents kids everybody so um I'm excited thank you There was that one thing. >> Uh, Trusty Knight, Trusty Knight, you were going to bring up that one other thing regarding the mandated training. shift my mic. In our board
175update, we were um given information about uh required training that has been mandated and anytime there's a mandate from the state of California for me, I'm going to immediately have red flags because anything mandated can be concerning. So it was a training for um staff and when I further explored staff it was very specific to certificated staff and only certificated staff and for that reason it raised red flags for me. So um with further understanding um on this item it's a training that is um comes out of an assembly bill. Can it can you refresh my memory on what that assembly bill was? >> Recall it being five, but it amended the California Education Code to require LGBTQ cultural competency training of all certificated staff annually for the next five years. >> The next five
176years. So what raised red flags flags to me number one was that it was limited to only certificated staff for whatever reason the law was written. Didn't they didn't whoever wrote it didn't seem to think that other staff would benefit from this type of a training. So that was very concerning to me is that if a if a competency training is required for teachers that are interacting with students I strongly believe that that same competency training should be provided to all members of our staff. So with that because this mandated training in the state was providing a link that only teachers could access. I would like to and again further clarification on this law. I did a lot of reading on it because of policy. I tend consider myself a I love policies so I
177read it and um it does not require us while it's mandated it does not require us to use the spoonfed version of this training that does not allow anybody else to take it. So, I strongly believe that our district is capable of preparing a training that would meet all of the requirements that this statemandated uh training requires as well as perhaps more encompassing and more comprehensive and would be available to all staff in the district. So, um I that I would like to propose that and I don't know how other sta how other board members feel about that but again it would require staff to but sometime or and andor whether if it's our staff or something else out there there is the opportunity to do a more comprehensive training that is all-encompassing and inclusive
178of all staff. I've definitely found that our staff is super competent and that the fact that the state shoves stuff down us all the time is rather disconcerting and inappropriate, but that's another discussion. So, what I would like to propose is that we do bring this back and pass it on to staff and say, "Look, we have the entire year to uh implement this. So, let's go ahead and um bring it inhouse, write it internally. Um, honestly, I think that it could be done fairly easily. Um, making it more relevant to our specific needs as well as um implemented for schoolwide policy and um just to hold off on the statemandated one this month and bring it back uh at a later time in the year when we can do that. So, do we need
179a like do you need a vote from us on that or is that >> I know this is not something the board again I lately when state is pushing stuff down like there's things that the board does wouldn't normally vote on but this to me is a red flag. Why would only teachers be able re be required to take this training and why only for five years? No, the board the board does not need to vote. Nor can the board vote since not an agenda topic. >> Okay. Um this is mandated training. So the administration would simply carry out the law. Our job is to implement the law. So uh we will we will make sure that the district obeys the law. Um this way this legislation was written, the CDE wrote the curriculum. You're
180right in your research that uh the law does state that districts have the option to do their own inservice training rather than use state training called prison. Um, we I mean if I'm hearing direction from the board to slow down and pursue our own inservice training in lie of the state provided training after >> yeah I mean versus >> it's mandated training we will have to negotiate with both bargaining units. >> Yeah. >> Um for paid time want to throw that out there. Yeah, >> everybody knows. >> Yes, the law states it must be done during a work day. >> It's fine. Most trainings probably are mean all of the ones that I have to do in LMS are >> on my work time, but I just our pre-ervice training days are in August. So,
181we would have to find time before the end of the year to training during their normal shift. I'm sure they staff meeting at some point. >> That'd be great. >> Those currently the boat on the pre-ervice. >> Yeah. I just don't like the idea either of it just being this like box that's being checked like oh did you do your train 15 different trainings because trust me there's probably like easily 15 trainings that you have to sit through in one day. depends on what you do, what you're trained, but if it like from if the I feel like this training should be done thoughtfully and inclusively for all staff. Um, and >> yeah, I'm I'm really glad that you um did some research on this and caught this. So, thank you. Yeah, I mean advisory
182from the board is to bring it in house >> and find >> Sorry. Okay. both of us. Okay. So, we need more specific definition and we're going to bring it in house and write it and find later on in the year. >> That's the >> That's what I want. >> Okay. >> Does the board have consensus? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> No, consensus. >> None of our mandated trainings are votes. >> Yeah. Okay. Great. All right. There you go. Consensus. Is there anything else in directing? Yeah. For your preference. Yeah. Um, Trusty Knight, is there any more? >> I think that was >> okay. Uh for me, I'd like to bring back that we discuss and vote next month on changing our bylaws on the way we choose our president and vice president to reflect how
18399% of the rest of the districts in San Diego choose us is with uh president and vice president is through vote, not just through rotation. So I'd like to bring that back. Is there anybody else in the board that would be uhable that we do that? >> Nope. Well, that's one. No. Is there anybody? >> Um, I I would be well open to discussing that and looking at the bylaws. And I'll be quite honest with my concerns with it is we have a board member who's absent again this evening and is scheduled to be board president next year if we do a rotation. And I'm sorry I'm publicly saying this, but I want to publicly put it on the record. We have a board member absent again. Like to see it on the agenda next
184month. >> Very good. Um, point of clarification, uh, this board does vote on board officers. The bylaw, >> just an automatic rotation. >> By law, yeah, dictates that there be a rotation. Um, we always vote. What I'm hearing is that want to consider the idea of removing the rotational language and just putting it up for a vote. The ed code requires that officers be elected at the annual organizational meeting. Has to be done during a certain window in December. >> Y >> um so you want to bring it back for discussion or do you do you want staff bring a proposed bylaw to consider or >> Well, we actually if we mirrored CSBA's language, does CSBA language currently call for a vote of the board for those positions? >> Yes. So we um >> but
185but the CSBA language I I think it's what most districts use doesn't have a rotation, >> right? >> The board will select a president, a vice president at its annual organism. >> What's interesting though is I don't know if staff has to do anything because it's our governance um handbook that we put together ourselves and I think we just need to take out the rotation. >> The selection of officers is not in the governance handbook. It's board bylaw. >> In the board bylaw. >> Okay. So then how do we make that change to take out the rotation aspect? >> By laws are like any board policy, administrative regulation. >> Okay. >> Um bring it to the board for first read usually and then we bring it back for a second read and bylaws. >> Okay.
186So basically it's one sentence we're going to pull out the rotations. >> I'd have to take a look. I might be more than sentence. >> Cool. >> I just recall from when we updated by saw last time does seem like we did significantly more language in >> we had some discussion previously because there was a time where um a member of the board stepped down from the board and then somebody replaced and so there was some discussion at that time about how that process went >> but we didn't >> change anything relate right it didn't affect like we didn't touch that >> I'm remembering It was that process that made me realize we have a lot more language in our bylaw >> with the selection of officers than the boiler plates, >> right? You want
187back the CSBA language for the board to look at. >> I mean because we have September, October, November vote in December. So we have three months Honestly, there's been times like I think back to the very first time when I was president. I was still very new and it was a rotation process and I was very nervous. I had a brand new baby and I remember thinking I can't do this. This is too much. And but the fellow members of the board encouraged me to do it, you know, go for I think you you'll you'll do okay. But um there was a sense of like I h you know like it was I was forced and I was told at the time like you could you could be skipped over like we could but I
188do remember that experience. So there may be times where there is a board president that may need to serve more than one year based on experience or any number of things. I've seen it while I've also seen it abused at different levels where someone chooses to be board president multiple years in a row. I don't necessarily think that I think we've done a good job with it, but I also publicly expressed my concern about um attendance being an issue. >> I think attendance being an issue is a separate issue that needs to be addressed. Uh >> but I I've heard from people in the past that >> our board has been seen as the gold standard of boards and part of that has been because we've had no internal political fighting. for I want to
189be president or anything like that. We've gone through a rotation. Everyone goes and everyone does the same thing. Boards can get contentions where it's like here, let let's form a little block here. We'll do this and I'm going to stay in power and stuff like that. Like you said, where president's been in charge for multiple years and it's just running the place. So >> that's a possibility, but >> I would suggest that this is exactly the discussion you would have next month when it will be an agendaized topic. >> Well, we'll get there. >> All right, board member reports are over. We move to the >> Thank you. Um, good evening and I hope everyone had an opportunity to enjoy some rest and relaxation this summer. Um, first of all, I too would like to
190welcome Ron Kerpalani to his first board meeting as our new assistant superintendent of human resources. Ron has been hard at work since the beginning of July. So, welcome aboard. And in the spirit of welcome, we soon will be welcoming staff and students for the new school year in the next couple of weeks. First day of school for the 2526 school year is just two weeks from today on Tuesday, August 19th. Across the district, staff are working hard to ensure a smooth and successful start. I'm excited to welcome our students back on campus. Our schools are prep also preparing to welcome families to our back- tochool night events. Eskanito High Schools is on August 28th, Orange Glenn High School on September 4th, Valley High School on September 17th, Elago Academy on October 1st, and Sasqua High
191School is on October 6th. With that, thank you for being here tonight. I look forward to a great 25 26 school year. Right, I guess we are adjourned at uh 9:13.