001Matthew bravely fought in operable brain cancer for the past two years. When he began homeschooling, Matthew stayed connected to his Gilbert Elementary family attending event like chong a tree and pancake breakfast. His classmate sent him cards and make video for him throughout the year. As his health declined rapidly, he remained comfortable at home surrounded by his love and family and spended final months at children hospital or in county. Matthew love video games, Pokemon and going for walks. He is survived by his devoted parents, his brother Anthony who attended Rancho Alamos High School and his 21 years old sister Kimberly who was an extraordinary caretaker throughout his illness. He will be greatly missed. Ruth de Das began working for the district in 1999 as a gate teachers at Allen Elementary School. In 2005, she became a
002program facilitator at Morningside Elementary School and then quickly promoted to principal at Marshall Elementary School in 2006. In 2008, Ruth joined the secondary team at assistant principal at both Jordan and Rostston intermediate school until 2015 when she continued her leadership at as principal at Roston Intermediate. In 2022, she be she became principal of our virtual learning academy. Rude was wonderful leader to her staff and students and caring colleagues to GG family. She was loving wife and mother devoted her time and energy to her husband Joe her son Janna Ruth would be deeply missed. Doedo joined a district in 2005 as a teacher in a moderate severe special education program at Jordan Intermediate School. He worked at Jordan until 2013 when he moved over to Los Amigos to follow his passion for teaching high school students
003and he remained at Los Amigos for the past 12 years. Joe was beloved figure at Los Amigos. He always taught with kindness and patience the kinds of things he which make not only a great teacher but also the great person. He were always encouraging, always smiling, always uplifting and he loved to share his student success with parents. It was obvious how much Joe truly care about his students. Joe was also devoted father to his son Ari and his daughter Camelli Cam Melly and it will be greatly missed. We honored to have his father Joe C uh Paul Cassedo and his wife Mara here with us today. We extend our deepest condolences to family and friends Matthew Leonise R Gomez Diaz and Joe Cedo. A moment of silence begins. Moment of silence now ended. Please be
004seated. Thank you. Okay, we uh continue on with the agenda today. Can I ask if any member to request to speak? Oh, first we need to get on the recognition. First, like to invite uh assistant superintendent uh Dr. Stephanie Heflin um of assistantship superintendent of secondary education to introduce our student representative to the board. >> Perfect. Thank you, President Wyn, member of the board, Dr. Mafi, staff and community members. It is my pleasure to present to you our student board representative for the school year, Miss Christy Getu. Christy is a rising senior from Rancho Alamos High School. Before coming to GGUSD, Christy attended the Fullerton School District until attending Alamos Intermediate in the eighth grade. Christy has already demonstrated tremendous leadership skills on campus, participating in CSF, tennis, and girls league, as well as serving
005as an ASB officer and member of the superintendent student advisory group. She is passionate about finding solutions that increase empathy and inclusion. She truly wants to make a positive difference in her school, district, and community. She's excited about this new leadership opportunity that we know she will excel at. As we look ahead to the 202526 school year, we're excited to introduce a new district student leadership group, the GGUSD student. This initiative was inspired by a suggestion from Dr. MafI as we explored new ways to amplify student voice across the district. In past years, student input was represented by our student board representative who also served on the board representative council, also known as BRC, a group made up of four ASB students that from each of our eight high schools along with the student board
006rep totaling 33 students. This BRC group meets monthly to share school updates and student perspectives. Christy was part of BRC this past year as well. To further strengthen this model and provide more consistent leadership and engagement, we created the GGUSD student senate. This new group consists of eight students, one from each high school who are elected by their peers. The student senate will meet five times throughout the school year and serve as the district level student leadership team. Their responsibilities will include helping plan and lead BRC meetings, building community amongst our student leaders, gathering input from students at their sites, sharing key information with their peers, advising district leadership on student matters, as well as serve on their high school stu superintendent student advisory board. One member of the student senate will be selected each
007spring through an interview process conducted by the office of secondary education and the public information office to serve as the student board representative and join you at the dis for this upcoming school year. That representative will be Christy. We will have an alternate student board rep as well for times in which Christy might be unable to serve on the dis. and that alternate will be Alvin Rayo who is a rising senior at Santiago High School and also serves as the ASB president at Santiago for the upcoming school year. The launch of the GGUSD student senate reflects GGUSD's ongoing commitment to elevating student voice and creating opportunities for students to lead alongside school and district leadership. We are excited not only for this new leadership group, but for Christie as she takes on this new opportunity
008to represent all of our GGSD students as the student board representative and also be part of our inaugural GGSD student senate. She will be joining the board on the dis next month and we wish her best of luck in her position as well as in her senior year. Congratulations Christie. Christie, we look forward to welcome you. Jonah is here when the school year start. Enjoy the summer now. Um, okay. Next item on the public comments. Can I have request for anyone to speak? >> We do have three. >> Yes. >> The first request is from uh Mr. Nicholas Magana. Good evening board members, district leaders, and members of my community. My name is Nicholas Magna, and I'm here not just as a student, but as someone who has believed in or been in a leadership
009role for years. I joined ASB to be a part of building school spirit and making a positive difference on my campus. and I believed in the core values of our schools, leadership, inclusion, and safety. I would like to talk to you about my journey and experience on campus. To paint a picture as to why I'm addressing the board today, um I was constantly bullied by two seniors and my ASB adviser. Um two seniors served on our executive board as president and vice president. Mr. Nuin led through fear and intimidation as he constantly reminded us um that he was protected by the union and that there was nothing we could do to get him in trouble or fired. I felt like that kind of message created a toxic environment where students felt unsafe and able to
010speak up for things that were wrong. Eventually, I did speak up. I went to my administrators and later the district. Around April this year, my mom and I submitted a formal complaint with evidence, expecting an investigation. And to our surprise, nothing was followed up on. The complaint was cancelled without our knowledge, without any explanation as to um what the outcome was. Um and there was no type of formal investigation completed. I was devastated and felt like my complaint was being silenced. So, I left ASB, not because I wanted to, but because staying meant continuing to be hurt in a place that no longer felt safe. And once I left, it felt like the problem was considered solved as if I had been the problem all along. But I wasn't the problem. I was only asking
011for help. Later, we found the ASB constitution on our own because it was never given to us. It showed that I had every right to speak up. And so, I moved forward in creating a petition to remove our ASB vice president. But our a or our school secretary, Miss Brown, said that she wanted to rip it up. We were treated like we were the bad ones for simply standing up for ourselves. I am not alone. There are more students who left this year. And I know that there are others still there who feel voiceless, afraid to speak up, and convinced that nothing will change. The district says we're no place for hate district, but what does that mean if students can be mistreated by both peers and adults and nothing is done? How do we
012expect student leaders to build safe, welcoming campuses when we ourselves aren't safe? I am here to ask this board to take a serious look at how we hold both student leaders and staff accountable. And I'm asking for student voices to be included in this process because we are the ones experiencing uh these issues and we deserve a say in how it's fixed. If nothing changes after this speech, then silence is officially the loudest message our district sends. Thank you for your time and for allowing me to bring this issue to the light. And I truly hope we can take a deeper look into the ASB program and find a way to make all students, especially those in leadership, feel seen, heard, and valued. Thank you. >> Thank you for coming to speak to us. And
013next is uh Nicole Haimey. Okay. Hi, Nicole Himeus. I'm a parent. Uh, first I just want to start off by saying I reun my state complaint, right? You guys appealed and I won again. Yay. Um, I'm going to start with the same request I usually do. So please start recording and publishing the study sessions so that we know the information that you have as well as decision process behind it. He also held the superintendent evaluation today at noon. So um how many working parents can really go? It's just it's not really inclusive transparent and it's just kind of performative access at this point. Uh moving on to the new skilled trades pathway for the building and construction at Rancho which is a great program on the surface level. Right? So, when you look at Santa
014Ana Unified where it's a two-year versus the four-year program, and that's where it kind of gets messy because if you have kiddos where you don't address their dyslexia, and so you just push it along, you don't acknowledge the auditory processing, you acknowledge the visual processing, you lock them into one reading intervention program, it doesn't work. Then they get to junior high and you want to take away their elective at putting them resources because they need more assistance because you refuse to address in elementary school. And then you move it to high school where they only have one elective if they're in a double class, right? So one elective. This is a four-year program versus Santa Ana's which is two years. So if you only have one elective and you still have resource in high school
015and you have guidance counselors like Jessica from Garden Grove High School who goes to the meetings. This is my experience for my family, so I'm sure I'm not alone. IEEP kids don't get electives, right? I made a huge fuss about that. I don't mind speaking out. I speak out all the time. How many other people aren't going to speak out? So, where is this training coming from? Thankfully, Valerie shed fix it for me, but how many other families are hearing the same thing? I know I know we're not being picked on, so this might just be endemic, right? And also funneling into resource. I had to shush that repeatedly with multiple kids. No, my kid gets to pick something they want to do. What if the child wants to do sports, right? That's one elective
016that it's going to take elective time. You want to do sports or sometimes could have PE. It really depends. What if my kid liked PE and he did it all four years as his elective? Really kind of depends. But the point of the matter is when we're looking at these programs, although they're really good, they really need to be inclusive for all students, especially since not all students go to university. University shouldn't be the end all beall. If you have children who are interested in these trade programs, but they are essentially excluded by misinformation from staff, you are excluding these kids from these programs. So, please re-examine how you make programs in the future. Maybe re-examine this one on how you could change it so it could be a two-year junior senior and be more
017inclusive for all students with all disabilities. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. Next request from Mr. Nicholas Dibs. >> Members of the school board, Dr. Mafy, community members and staff, my name is Nicholas Dibs. I was the only person at the superintendent's evaluation at noon. I think it's unconscionable that you don't allow people to call in if they can't be here. How many parents, they're busy working, many of them, they're raising children. they don't have time to come to the superintendent's evaluation. Community members are busy. You have these things at the middle of the day. Uh one year it was at 5:00. Even then that wasn't good. So you need to allow people to call in just as at this meeting you allow people to call in. Other school districts allow it. Why can't
018Garden Grove? That's one point. The other point is on the superintendent's evaluation. I've sent you an email and and then a second one today. Both today. And I'm asking that the superintendent's contract not be renewed for various reasons, but you're going to renew it anyway. So when you renew it, put a three-month thing. So every 3 months, people can come here and give an evaluation of what they think whether or not she should be removed or not. You heard from the first speaker, the student that spoke, okay? He's complaining about being bullied and not being treated fair. staff, many staff members, students and teachers are not being treated fair. It so there needs to be a cultural shift in this organization. That's why I'm here because I haven't been treated fair. I wasn't treated fair
019as an employee and I wasn't treated fair when you folks or Dr. Mafy interfered in three in two schoolboard elections I ran in. And in two schoolboard elections that other people ran in, there was un unfair and unethical things being done with taxpayer funds and resources that weren't right as alleged. And so I asked that her contract not be renewed and that we work for positive change. Uh the misuse of public funds uh etc. the smartphone policy to protect students from the internet all across the country. school districts are banning cell phones during class time instead. And I gave you all the research, city of New York, city of, uh, LA Unified, uh, the the state of Utah, all kinds of districts, and then this district joined a a multi-dist lawsuit against the social media
020companies, ex, except that now you you you you don't comply or you don't want to ban the cell phones districtwide during class time when the studies show that student performance increases when you do so. Now you then kick it down to 67 principles who who don't want to go up against the parents on smartphones. You need to ban the smartphones and allow only plain phones on campus uh and on the buses to reduce uh reduce bullying to reduce cyber bullying suicide prevention. What haven't you what haven't you done? You didn't comply with AB224 and AB 1776. Thank you. All right. Next item on the agenda is approval of the minute from uh last meeting on June 17. Any comment? You could request for correction hearing. None. Let's call for the vote. >> Trusty Dina Win.
021>> Yes. Trusty Walter Mun I believe is absent personal business. Okay. Trusty Terry Roco. >> Hi. >> Bob Harden. >> Hi. >> Chairperson Lenwin. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Item three on the agenda is public hearing presentation and report. We have one public hearing on the initial contract proposal from GGO to uh classify uh employee association. I want to begin the public hearing. Now we have request to speak from Mr. Nicholas DeS. Okay. I'm speaking as a community member and former employee that worked in a district over 13 over u uh 16 years. Um the my understanding and and you Dr. Dr. Muffy can correct me if I'm wrong, but our autoshop teachers who used to be called RO teachers are now CTE teachers. And all the RO or CTE at that time, they
022were not represented in a contract. So I I realize that this is the is this the CCA contract you're referring to or the uh GGA contract? But in any case, I'm asking that the district, if not this year, please consider having all teachers represented um in a contract. And that is if they're RO or CTE, they should not be excluded from being part of the GGE contract process or you set up a separate entity or they do. But the the CT teachers for for many years were out in left field on their own or the RO teachers. They weren't represented by the union. So I'm asking both the union and the district to please consider allowing representation of everyone. And if they're not if they're they don't fall into a particular uh area of the
023contract that you do what you can to make sure everyone is included in a contract somewhere. That's all I'm asking to be fair to them. Uh um that they the auto shop and the other uh trade teachers should all be included in a contract somewhere. And if that's being done, great. But the last I heard, no, it wasn't. So if I'm wrong, then I'm wrong about it. But I'm up here to provide some input and suggestions that that all employees, whether they're classified or certificated or management, should all be covered somewhere, including uh part-time people. And so I hope you'll please consider that. uh uh it was I felt it was wrong that the that our that our three auto shop teachers that we had were not part of GGA. Now that's a decision for
024the union, but it's also a decision for the district. And if the union won't represent them, then put them in somewhere where they can have some collective bargaining uh influence instead of just being out there on their own uh with no contract. And the other thing is the substitute teachers uh of which I used to be one for many years. Allow the substitutes to be represented. Have them be represented either by GGA or have their own union so that everyone who works here is represented and under a contract. Thank you. >> Thank you. Any other request to speak? >> There are none. >> None. Uh no other request to speak. The public hearing is now closed. Item four on administr is administration. We have 4 A and B. I need a motion. >> I'll move
025the item. Item 4 A and B. >> I'll second. >> Thank you. Item 4 A is to approve the memorandum of understanding with the Orange County Superintendent of Schools to provide a special education program for uh for student with exceptional need uh for the school year 2025 and 26 for the total cost of uh estimate to be at 90,147. Uh item 4B is it to approve um the list of approved and certified non-public schools and non sectarian schools and nonpublic agencies uh for to service uh educational student with exceptional need for the school year 2025 and 26. Any comment question? There none just call for the vote. Trusty Dina Win. >> Yes. >> Trusty Terry Roco. >> Hi. >> Trusty Bob Harden. >> Hi. >> Chairperson Lenwin. >> Item five since on the programs and
026instruction we have a uh 5 A through C. >> Yeah. I'll move 5 A through C. >> Miss Trusty Roco. I second the motion. >> Thank you. 5A is to approve the uh participation in the art uh master inc uh to provide instructional art program at various elementary school site for the school year 2025 and 26. Item 5B is to approve the memorandum of understanding with the UCI pediatrics eyes mobile for children to provide vision services for children in transitional kindergarten and preschool effective July 1st 2025 to June 30th 2026. Item 5C's is to approve the our district event uh to to have one event to allow 96 vocal assemble member from Garden Row High School to attend the choir retreat in Running Springs, California on January 8 to 11, 2026. Comment question hearing none.
027Let's call for the vote. Trusty Dina Win. >> Yes. >> Trusty Terry Roco. >> Hi. >> Trusty Bob Harton. >> Hi. >> Chairperson Lenwin. >> Item six and the business item we have A to B with a full alphabet list. >> I'll move the item 6 A through V. >> I second the motion. >> Thank you. It's long list so bear with me. Item 6A to approve amendment to the list of a school site for the multi-size uh modular building projects. Uh basically to remove Rancho Alamidos High School from the list of site in connection with the preliminary services agreement and the total guarantee project cost that we approved at the last um meeting. Item 6B is to approve the annual insurance report on property casualty and excess um insurance for the school year 2025
028and 26. 6C it to uh approved or authorize uh the participation in the state of Arizona with the National Association of State Procurement Official Value Point Master Agreement uh number CTR058809 to the California participating addendum number 7-22-70-50-05 four with addendum number three for the purchase of Melan equipment supply and maintenance from Quadian Inc. for the contract effective from May 14, 2025 to May 14, 2026. Item 6D is to approve the second of four extension of bid number 2207 for the kitchen equipment for food services from Arrow Restaurant equipment and supply and to be effective from July 1st 2025 to June 30th 2026. Item 6E it to approve the first of the two extension of bid number 2314 from Medic Air LLC uh with an average price increase of 3%. Uh the contract to be valid
029from May 8, 2025 to May 7, 2026. Item 6F it to approve accept the bid for the office and instruction supply for warehouse stock from plick arc material complete office LLC lake saw uh school specialty and the three lift product at a low qualifying bid meeting uh meeting the specification terms and condition of bid number 2419 and valid form. July 16, 2025 to July 15, 2026. Item 6G is to approve the bid for the fencing project number 12 at Anthony Cook and Garden Park Elementary School from Wolverine Friends Company in the amount of 489,000 with the district allowance of 50,000 for the total cost not to exceed 539,000 uh under the condition of the bid number 2420. Item 6 AH to authorize a participating in the California Motorable Award uh schedule with school specialty LLC
030under the CMAS contract number 4-23-02-10.6 [Music] 6 with supplement number two to purchase furniture and a contract to be valid from February 10, 2023 to February 28, 2026. Number six, I to approve the acceptance of the completion of California uniform public construction cost accounting ad uh with uh purch uh uh to custom size number one customsize inc Mark Train. Number two with JLM Installation Inc. at Garden Row High School. Uh number three to mural for schools at Pacifica High School. Number four to Case and Sun Construction Inc. at Rancho Alamito High School. Number five JM Installation Inc. at Assessment and Registration Center. And number six, a Chapman Coast Roof Company inc uh at the transportation. and that a noted completion uh be signed and filed and invoice process for payment. Item 6J is to authorize
031participate the use of the helmet unified school district bid number PUR2023-01 [Music] as a means to purchase school and office furnishing and accessory from day bank associate incision effective March 5th 2025 to March 5th 2026. Six. Item 6K to authorize participation in the state of Minnesota with the National Association of State Procurement Official Value Point Master Price Agreement number 2326 to the California participating addendum number 7-23-70-55-01 [Music] with the amendment number two for the purchase of computer equipment peripheral and related services from Dell Marketing LP. The contract is valid for June 30th, 2025 to June 30th, 2026. Item 6L is to approve the 6.5% average price increase on a item from CDW for bid number 2205 for technology equipment and peripheral. Item six M is to approve the ratification of California uniform public construction cost
032accounting act inform bit award uh to Ben ask for circle city electric inc co ink and ultrasound audio ink. Item 6 N it to approve the first of two extensions of request for proposal number 316 with the food guides valid from July 17, 2025 to July 16, 2026. Item 6 is to approve the first of two extension for the request for proposal number 23 17 for fresh pizza from food services from Domino Pizza and also uh with an average increase of uh price of 4.67% 67% and Papa John uh with no price increase. The terms of the contract valid from July 17, 2025 to July 16, 2026. Item 6B is it to approve the authorize of participation in the state of Utah in the association with the national association of state procurement official value point
033master agreement number MA1 149 to the California participating addendum number PA- 2022-WD- NT with amendment number two for the purchase of seller uh data communication plan form AT&T. The contract eval to May 22nd, 2027. Item 6Q is to authorize a participation in the state of Utah with the national association of state procurement official value point master agreement number AR 3229 to the California participating addendum number 7-20-70-47-06 addend number three supplement number 10 for the purchase of router Swiss a security and store networking from Paulo Auto Network Inc. with digital septor corporation at an authorized reseller. The contract is valid uh from June 1st, 2020 to September 30th, 2026. Item six R to approve the agreement with the school standard LLC to provide school accountability report card with uh data collection and report services for the
034school year 2025 26 through to 2022728 school years with the annual rate of $60,100. $00. Item 6S is to accept the gift uh in the list of the uh donation and gift accepted by the school site. Item 16 is to reject the claim uh from WOW W Law Group on the behalf of the client Hungu uh and two minor for alleged bodily injury sustained on December 2nd, 2024. Item six U is to accept the uniform complaint report summary for the report from April 1st to June 30th, 2025 and again with no complaint indicated. Item 6B is to approve the purchase order and check for the total amount 46,747,6158. Any question, comment on any of the item? >> Hearing none, let's call for the vote on item six. >> Trusty Dina Win. >> Yes. >> Trusty
035Terry Roco. >> Hi. >> Trusty Bob Harden. >> Hi. >> Chairperson Lenwin. >> Yes. Uh last item on the agenda item seven, we have seven A and B. I want to report that we have a uh item C a close session early today uh to discuss the student I mean I'm sorry superintendent evaluation uh with the consultant from CSBA and also to discuss employee uh discipline and dismissal with the superintendent and assistant sub superintendent Jason Pvakwa and no action to report today I need a motion for item Item 7 A and B. >> I move we approve items 7 A and B. >> Thank you. Uh item 7 A is to approve the certificate personnel report and item 7B is to approve the classified personnel report comment question none. Let's call for the vote. Trusty
036Dina Win. >> Yes. >> Trusty Terry Roco. >> Hi. >> Trusty Bob Harden. >> Hi. >> Chairperson Lynw. >> I to the last item on the agenda. Um discussion by the board member. U begin uh with trustee Dwin. >> I have no comments except I welcome our new student representative. Thank you for your volunteer work. Thank you, Trustee Terry Roco. >> Yes. Welcome, Christie. Um, you be the student voice for us, which is very important. Um, we listen and we take into consideration your your opinion in a lot of the decisions that we make and um, hope you have a great year. And I'll see I attended the Garden Grove state of the city uh as well as the Staten State of the City. Garden Grove of course because we're Garden Grove district. Um it's
037nice to know that um everything they share goes align so much with our district and our views and uh what's important to us. And so I can I can they should say that they do things the Garden Grove way because they do. And so it's always very um enlightening to go. Stanton is um not in Garden Grove, but my trusty area encompasses uh the Stanton area quite a bit. And so I feel it's important for me to have a relationship with the city of Stanton to know uh what their strengths are, what their needs are, and uh gives me the opportunity to meet with um the community was nice because that one was a little different. it was in the park and so it was an open event with the food and booths and a
038concert in the park and so it was a very informal setting but a great way to interact with the community members and the council members. So and um I attended the CTE internship culmination event which was really good. It was like the academy awards. Um um kudos to the CCT department and to listen for um planning and executing uh a very meaningful event. If you were attended, you got a good sense of what this program is that our uh kids that um participated. I believe there was 93 93 students who were placed in various businesses in our community and uh so they they get a a little certificate after for completing the six-week program. Two of those weeks are spent in the classroom um with a really amazing, very useful classes on helping them um
039learn how to fill out applications, how to interview, how to conduct themselves, how to communicate, how to dress for success. And four of those weeks were spent in the actual place of business. And um so that's a lot. And that's an amazing experience for a junior to have. I just feel like they're going to be a step ahead once they uh go out to look for a real job, right? But also the speeches that were given, the the testimonials given by the students and by the places of business as to what they each got out of that, what what the the experience meant for them. Uh, of course, the students very appreciative and sharing what they learned. um and how it also how it impacted the employees that they worked with who probably thought, "Oh,
040we're having this, you know, 16, 17 year old kid in here, you know, uh and what they learned from each other." So, it was really great as well as the the um I guess CEOs or directors of of those businesses sharing um I was very impressed with one in particular was Jeff from King Shocks. is the first time they participated. Um, it was very moving and uh, he did an excellent job. He was very articulate. He was a little worried and nervous about getting up there, but he did a good job of explaining to us not only the impact the student had there and how impressed they were with how prepared the students were, but how it affected the employees and the employees saying that it was an amazing program. They wish they would have
041had something like this when they were growing up. So, um, it was good feedback to hear and, um, uh, it I just know we're going to serve it more more and more kids every year and I think it's just super beneficial for, uh, all all people that were involved. Um, also, I know that our community um, continues to have uh, needs. many families are, oh, I had said this before, suffering from food insecurities, but also needs for mental health support and legal um information. And I just want to give a shout out to a group of our GGUSD parent leaders who uh heated to a call of action to actually help to coordinate and put together resources. is hard in the summer because schools are closed, our F FRC's are closed, but these parents um
042have done an amazing job of making sure that uh food is being delivered um that they've connected with agencies in our community that um are available to help. And so get through the summer until school starts. And I know Dr. Moffy shared with us that there's a lot of things in place um that will be ready to serve our parents at full capacity once everybody gets back to the school sites. Thank you. Uh, Trusty Rock, uh, Vice President Harden. >> Well, it's not on our agenda tonight, so I can't really discuss the merits one way or another of cell phone policies, but I do want to correct a couple of misconceptions that people might have after listening to a speaker that was here earlier this evening. Um, I hate calling out somebody who isn't in
043the room. Um, but he is not here at the moment. But I do need to say a couple of things. Um, we have repeatedly been accused by one member of our community of having kind of a wild west approach to cell phone policy that that saying that basically we don't have a policy and we leave it to every school to determine what they want to do. Um, I could see how you could get that impression just by reading the single policy statement. Um, and maybe we need to clean that up a little bit as we go through policy review over the next few months. Um, but that certainly is not what's happening on our campuses at our elementary schools, our 40 plus elementary schools. The policy that is consistent across every campus is that the
044phone is turned off and goes in a backpack uh when the student arrives on campus and it comes out of that backpack when the student leaves. It does not come out at recess. It does not come out at class. It does not come out at lunchtime. Now, I'm I'm not sure how Mr. Dibs wants to pull wants us to police use of phones on a bus, which he mentioned tonight, which that's the first time I've heard him mention that. But the policy is consistent uh in terms of what elementary schools in our district are doing. There may be different forms of discipline for violating the rules. Um, and those might be specific to a school site, but the the district's guidelines are very clear and they're enforced at all of the elementary schools. The same
045guideline is it is in place at our intermediate schools. Uh, and I and I want to add, um, I specifically have been looking for this as I go out and do school visits and I've done more visits in the last year. Um, now that I'm retired from my day job, uh, I've done more visits in the last year than I had done in the in the previous two or three years. And this is something I look for every time I'm on campus. The only time I have ever seen a phone out uh on an elementary school campus was with a special education student who specifically had use of the cell phone written into his individual education plan. Um, so it it might sound from what our speaker earlier said that uh we're applying policies inconsistently
046or are leaving it up to the principles and we're not. Um, that's what the policy is and that's what's happening on our campuses. I can say the same at the one intermediate school that's in my area that I visit on a fairly regular basis. I can tell you I don't see cell phones out. I don't see cell phones out in class. I don't see them during passing period. I don't see them at lunch. And that's the policy that's in place again at the intermediate schools. When students show up on campus, the phone is supposed to go in the backpack. It's supposed to go away. It's supposed to be turned off. It's not supposed to ring in class. Uh and there is progressive discipline in place for that. At the high schools, we give a little
047more leeway to 14 to 18 year olds who are learning learning to to be adults. We do have policy in place that says the phone is not out in the classroom unless the teacher has asked you to have your phone out in the classroom for a specific education purpose. Phones are allowed during passing periods, during lunch. Uh, and I can tell you on the two campuses that I visit, uh, I actually see not as many phones out as I would expect. Um, you do occasionally see phones out and and our kids, some of our kids are kids, our students are on campus from 8:00 in the morning till sometimes 5, 6, 7 o'clock in the evening or even later with afterchool activities. Uh, and I find it difficult to believe that that if we wanted
048to, we could enforce a policy that says you can't have your phone out of your backpack for 12 hours while you're on campus. The reality is that the use of telephone of phones in the classroom I've seen once and I know for a fact that that that has been was it was addressed by staff with the teacher involved uh who was a long-term substitute. And that um you know in my experience it's not happening. if it is happening, it's being dealt with. So, and if and if somebody knows otherwise, I'd like to know. And my my email address is on the district website. Um, so I think that's probably enough on that topic. Um, I did have one other thing. Um, I want to thank Christine Pile, um, and everybody else involved. that I'm not
049going to try to list everybody because I'll leave somebody out. Um, but I especially want to thank Supervisor Vincent Serento um for his assistance in uh bringing food to families around the Santiago campus. Uh and the all of the staff members who came out I mean this is summertime um that came out as volunteers gave up a day of their time. Uh the students who came out and gave up a day of their time and even some of our graduates who came out and gave up a day of their time. Um immigration is a difficult issue in our community. getting people fed shouldn't be. And I mean, I think we should all be able to agree that if there are people in our community who need food, there are people in our community who have
050food uh to distribute that we should help them. We have the resources, we have the location that we can use for distribution. Um I want to thank everybody who was involved in that. hundreds of families received food um who some of whom desperately needed it. And I especially want to thank the Garden Grove Police Department. Um we had a traffic potentially a traffic armageddon um on Tras Avenue at at 11:00 on Friday morning. Um I actually couldn't get to Santiago from the direction that I came. I had to turn around and go back and go around the other way and come back and park across the street from the school coming in from the east instead of from the west. Um it it could have been Armageddon, but thanks to the folks at uh GGPD,
051um we got a lot of help in directing traffic and alleviating the traffic issues and some creative solutions on their part for helping us to keep traffic moving on Friday so that everybody that needed to get in uh and pick up food was able to do that. So, so special call out for our friends at the Garden Grove Police Department for helping us with that and for everybody involved in that process last Friday. >> Thanks. Thank you, Mr. Harden. Um, first of all, I want to again welcome Christie for joining us. You will be the eyes and ear for the board because for something like that like a cell phone we want to ask you how is it holding up now there how is it so okay is something we can do that's what we
052expect to hear from you and you will be in the first class first crop of the student senate that's something you want to dream up because you'll be the senator you will be the I mean you will we will put you on advisory capacity to to tell us what's going on with the student because after all those that are customer that we serve remember the customer is the king that's what we serve that's what we need to listen to that's where we make sure that we do the best that we can and we trust it on you and the student senate to do that I look forward to um to working with the senate with you to just help us out in in in your capacity welcome so like again enjoy your summer now will
053be more exciting when you come uh and also uh because Mr. Minetan uh water minan is not here but if he's here I'm pretty sure he will report on his extraordinary effort for the food distribution. Um in the last few weeks he and his wife council member uh uh minan have been leading the effort to for uh many uh food distribution. I'm very impressed not not only my my colleagues fellow member to lead in in that effort but saw the level of support for the community to come out to share whatever they can look at the level of support look at the the dedication of the volunteers the student uh I'm I'm very impressed and then this is it is it speak volume of our community uh being out there just just to share whatever
054little I could I I'm very proud to be a resident in this uh district and a member of this community. I'm very proud of uh of Trusty Minetan for take the leadership on that and thank you very much for doing that. And now we look like we're in the middle of the summer. The next meeting will come back. Uh that will be August 5th. That will be in the middle of the super week getting high gear back to school. So if you haven't done any vacation yet, do it soon before the time run out on you. So next week, next time we come back meeting, whatever will be that. And speaking of super week, I mean, I would like to say that Dr. Mafi will present and the leadership team will present the the keynote
055speak right on August 6. So, I invite everyone to come out and to to get uh get rolling, get started on our new exciting school year. And on August 5th, I will also present my first workshop on a Vietnamese culture. So, I don't know. I'm trying to learn a rope here. So, to to to get into the phrase. Thank you. So with that I want to announce the next meeting uh will be on August 5th and will begin at 5:00 p.m. on the study session and the one after that will be September 2nd also begin with the with the close session at uh 5:00 pm. With that the meeting is now adjourned.