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FJUHSD Board Meeting 07/20/2021

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Source
YouTube / Fullerton Joint Union High School District
Date
2021-07-21
Location
Orange County, CA
Material
Transcript
Extent
1,469 words · about 9 min
Collected
2026-06-08

Transcript

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001meeting of the board of trustees of the fullerton joint union high school district and um invite of our new superintendent steve mclaughlin to lead us in the flag absolutely yeah good evening everyone please stand put your right hand over your heart ready begin i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you very much i'd like to welcome everyone and uh mention once again that we like to hear from the public even though the group is very small today and that can take place during the public hearing part of the meeting or if it has to do with an agenda item you will be called upon before any action is taken to

002speak to that particular issue next before us is approval of the agenda is there a motion to approve move by vicky calhoun is there a second by jester jang are there any questions or comments on the agenda all in favor please say aye aye opposed past five to zero next is approval of the amendments of the last of the july meeting is there a motion or the june excuse me is there a motion to approve move approval moved by lauren klatzker seconded by chester jane are there any questions or comments all in favor of approval of the minutes please say i i oppose past five to zero uh any correspondence that the board would like to acknowledge seeing then we'll move on to number five which is timely information from the board and the superintendent

003does the board have any comments they would like to mr superintendent yeah why not it's my first time so uh thank you president bush members of the board um distinguished audience and everyone at home on youtube um i really just want to take a moment just to thank the board for this opportunity again uh to in an official capacity uh this is now day two uh of being here and on that note thank the the district senior staff um linda everybody for helping during this transition keeping things going had a great opportunity at least with a few of our principals so far looking forward to the next couple days getting to know you all but really uh overly impressed with the people throughout the district uh continue to be uh amazing at welcoming me and

004just everything fullerton was about coming into it it's just shining through in in two days already so meeting uh the staff is is really something that i want to get after and get out there and get going uh we have 27 days till school starts just to freak everybody out but what i do know already is that our principals and their teams and across the district are working hard to uh to get people hired to get people in the positions they need to be so we will be ready to come back uh full in person uh with some modifications um but nevertheless full in person and a more return to normal so again thank you so much we plan on communicating a lot of this out in the next few days so both our community

005will get it from the district and the sites some of that information regarding some of the changes but couldn't be happier to be here and again thanks for the opportunity welcome welcome all right next um the updates of the employee association is angie senkak would you like to come forward please and she's the president of the fullerton secondary teachers organization i am thank you president bushy um and i picked up a text message and i should not have sorry got rid of your notes yes i had a member text me saying i have a question good evening everybody members of the board principals and and everybody else tonight our fsto members have been quite busy this summer many of them taught summer school this year to help offset the effects of the pandemic and to

006allow students an opportunity to move forward in their educational experience a huge thank you to all of our members who took time out of their summer break to work with our students this year additionally five of our fsto members attended the 100th annual national education association's representative assembly which met from june 30th to july 3. the representative assembly or ra is the largest labor union in the united states with over 3 million members in all 50 states including washington d.c and affiliates on military bases around the world this year's ra was attended by over 8 000 members using a virtual platform to discuss issues and ratify business matters our responsibility as delegates is to adopt strategic plans a budget of over 1.3 million dollars numerous resolutions and legislative programs brought forth by our members we

007also elect our executive officers committee members and at-large members of the nea board of directors some of the most important work we do during the five-day conference is to deliberate and ratify new business items or nbi's which are submitted for consideration to the ra by union members throughout the united states popular topics for nbis this year included health and safety measures for students and staff transgender rights for students and staff ethnic studies and critical race theory and period poverty a significant focus this year centered around assessments the nea outlined five principles for state and federal assessments that would ensure all students have access to equitable robust and culturally responsive evaluations this year's local delegate attendees who were elected by our fsto membership were myra dyster fsto vice president valerie dean fsto treasurer nolina beecham fsto

008site representative from buena park high school and magdalena vialba a negotiating team member from fullerton high school i was honored to represent fsto and our orange service center council as our state delegate to the representative assembly an honor i truly take seriously also tonight you all received your invitations to the new teacher luncheon and we hope that you can join us for this enjoyable event it is next it is uh wednesday august 4th at our no cut offices and we hope to see you all so that we can share some time together um principles if you have any swag for the event please bring it as you can share that with your new teachers at that time either by raffling or however it is you want to do it just email me or give me

009a call and let me know and last but not least dr mclaughlin a huge welcome on behalf of our fsto members we are so looking forward to working with you in the coming weeks months and years and we um very much are looking forward to the start of our new school year in 27 days is that what you said uh yes oh that's not nice so thank you thank you thank you angie uh mr slyker president of csea good evening thank you uh president fuchi members of the board um i was on vacation for the last board meeting so it's nice to see all of you sitting up there again um dr mclaughlin it's uh i wanted to publicly take this opportunity to uh welcome you to our district i'm excited about the future under

010you under your leadership and i hope we get a chance to meet with you very soon i also wanted to extend to the board our members gratitude for for authorizing some additional compensation to the classified employees who voluntarily worked over the summer they appreciate the extra money they earned and wanted me to share that with you so thank you lastly i wanted to express my appreciation to dr atkinson and the rest of the district's negotiating team for a bit for a very cooperative and comfortable first meeting last thursday i think we set the tone for successful negotiations going forward thank you for your time thank you very much is there a representative here from the parent teacher association nobody this evening getting the last of the vacation in before we start uh next is the

011place on the agenda for public comment i don't see any blue cards so i believe we have no public comments so we'll close the public hearing and then move on to reports i think 6.5 is a report on the nature and resolution of the williams settlement dr atkinson please thank you president bushi members of the board dr mclaughlin for the williams settlement it is required that a quarterly report is made to the board during a meeting of the board of trustees with regard to the number of complaints and nature of the resolutions to the complaints received by the schools in the district there have been no williams settlement complaints during the fourth period of the reporting for the 2020-2021 school year per the williams settlement a report will be filed with the orange county department

012of education this will keep the district in compliance with the requirements of the law thank you and this concludes my report okay thank you very much any questions yeah okay thank you very much that moves us now to the consent calendar and i would like to pull one item and that is i think 4.5 i'm not sure not quite 4.5 7.4.5 okay we have a new agenda so it's a little bit different uh and with that are there any other items that any board member would like to have pulled for separate consideration or questions okay seeing them then i would look for a motion to approve the consent moved by lauren klatzker seconded by chester jang any other questions or comments okay all do we have a resolution we do okay then we need a

013roll call vote please so this is bushy yes mrs hi miss paulie aye aye okay that was funny i reverted to we used to say yes rather than i i reverted to that but you guys didn't bother well that's okay oh my goodness is that the end of the agenda someone asked me if this was going to be a short agenda and i said i think so all right that brings us to the fishing on the first day nice yes that's what we like to see second day last opportunity for additional comments i just would like to make a couple um first of all to reuben hernandez our new assistant superintendent of business welcome aboard it's nice to have you here with us and also jesse mclaughlin welcome again to your first official meeting and

014so far so good man you guys got us an agenda in record time so only downhill from any other comments from anyone and it's nice to see all of the principals here this evening and hope you had some vacation time or will have before you get back to work so thank you for what you've done and what you will do we appreciate that welcome reuben ditto to the comments that jonah made and any other comments from you no i'm very good thank you very much great all right well with that um that concludes our meetings thank you for coming you

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