001for [Music] uh I should make it clear we are reconvening from Clos session uh may I have a roll call student trust Maria um hello everyone um so this call oh okay sorry here trusty here here vice president here we have an agenda for tonight uh perhaps we can move to close out the roll call first we just stust thank you uh trust Lee were you you saying something make a motion I was going to make a motion to approve the agenda so move all in favor I I we have minutes from our last meeting on March 18th move to approve the minutes of March 18th 2025 second all those in favor all hi uh there's nothing to report out of closed session uh moving on to agenda item 11 Communications the board report starting
002with students um I believe that miss morera is ready all right so hello everyone um this week is going to be our our stepup rally on Friday um meaning that right now we're um in our spirit week um ASB just finished um their um elections um and promis soon for seniors um jcyc is um hosting field trips for um Juniors and seniors and there are CT classes um field trips to improve their knowledge on their fields thank you wesmore yeah at Westmore we've been having our ASB elections with candidates being announced yesterday we also had our prompt for juniors and seniors last Saturday at SF City Hall Red Cross Club is also organizing the blood drive which will be happening tomorrow in our small gym Filipino dance club/ Filipino barata is organizing Island Fiesta which
003is a yearly tradition our next rally will be happening in early May and our women's History Month just wrapped up with your Jeopardy event thank you o um at Oceana we're currently in interim week um which kind of symbolizes your ex just ending which was last Friday um so very proud to all the seniors um and then we're also selling oceanana PJ pants um and prom tickets right now our prom is going to be on May 3rd um we also had Springfest and a rally that were in the past couple weeks thoron from our graduate right on thanks um today is really ugly it was really windy and nasty outside I just want to put that out there but um yeah at Thoren a little over a week ago we had two School field trips
004one was to Levi Stadium and the other one was to Alcatraz I went to the Alcatraz one and it was cool I just wish we would have stayed longer we were only there for like an hour um but both were successful and fun I had fun um last Wednesday we had a muralist come to the school to talk to students about our upcoming mural project which we are going to begin painting on the wall I think in like I think after Spring Break um I was there because they hired me because they actually want to document the process and they hired me to do that cuz I I'm into that I'm in field so that's cool um many students are finishing up on their last few credits um and those who aren't finished um get
005to leave early due to reduceed schedule because they're finishing up on those credits which is cool um promp forms were given out last week for students who are attending this year and tickets are now on sale um and we also had job Readiness workshops come to the school to help out any students who need help looking for a job or help sending up resumés and that's it for over here thank you uh Jessy Lee all right first first of all Daniel I appreciate you continuing to milk every possible congratulations which you so richly deserve for being done now so congratulations once again um just a couple of things um going back a couple weeks to the fabulous art showcase that we had out here in the lobby the student art exhibition was really fantastic just
006to see all the amazing pieces of work that all of our students have created and it was a perfect gallery to to Showcase their talent so it was really great to be able to to come particularly on the opening night of the official opening night of the art showcase and then last night I was at student advisory and I know the students student trustees are hard at work on their various projects that we'll see a presentation for here in a couple of weeks so that's pretty much it although um I just want to add I know this is a crazy time in world and national politics and driving home on driving up here on my commute up from Mountain from Mountain View where I work a couple of days a week I was listening to
007the tail end of Senator Cory Booker's lengthy 21 25 hours and what 5 10 minute speech something like that and that last hour was just a Powerhouse where he just kind of went through the work the Civil Rights work that you know that that uh that John Lewis had done and the inspiration that that that Lewis was to Booker and and the fact is all of us can do something in this environment and we all should be doing something I'm here doing something all of us up here doing something each of you out there are doing something to advance the cause of democracy and and decency and love of fellow human beings the empathy that we all need to collectively share is something that we need to continue to do and remind ourselves and hold
008each other accountable to do on a daily basis and I'm proud to be part of a district and that continues to show that amongst students amongst staff amongst each other and let's continue to do that because we can save the world by by Saving each other and taking care of each other um that was like the perfect segue to my board report because last Sunday I attended my first nwcp uh chapter Conference of Mato County um and it was really moving and I think some of you might not know this but I'm not the typical quote unquote africanamerican I wasn't born in America so I don't really know the struggles of black people in this country and so like trusty Lee said do something I'm starting out by educating myself and just by going to
009that event um it was truly moving it was truly moving to see people that have been in the fight you know I think ever so often when things get good we forget all the fight that went into making things good here's some point not see Germany didn't happen overnight slavery didn't happen overnight so what is it you can do today right now if it's debunking a fact on social media you are doing something so stand up for what's right um so anyway just talking about that is getting me rather emotional um but that makes me human and we are all human our emotions are going to come into play but staying silent doesn't fix anything pick aside stand for something you believe in and be willing to fight for it that's it boy um after
010hearing my two um board members speak I'm I'm of the uh I'm exhausted I'm worn out by all this and yet I worry that I might get stopped you know and asked to show my ID and end up getting locked up somewhere I this president has been completely transparent this whole time completely transparent and we can't just say he's crazy he's doing it and no one knows how to respond no one's even the only way that the laws fighting the leg fight hopefully the Constitution will hold up to it but everything's so politicized and yet it just hurts when I see you know brown people getting hauled off the street I mean that could be me I carry those yellow cards that um faith in action handed out I carry those in my purse I
011carry them in my car you know I'm ready to I'm I'm putting it around the neighborhood because you don't know um but you're right we can stay silent I'm glad I'm in a district that um we think the same way this board um I'm excited to see our students this presentation I'm so excited for because it's our students who are are doing the work and what they believe in this program is amazing can't wait to see it um but I I have to get re-energized myself um you know but I um I'll report on facility subcommittee later but um let's stay strong uh I'm going to start by telling a short Corey Booker story uh 2010 I was fortunate enough to be in the room where he spoke there was maybe 500 people in the
012room and uh he's describing being a local elected official and uh one of the community members was trying to convince him that he need to act on something and I don't remember what it was and he kind of says to her he's he's brand new so what should I do she says well I don't know but do something so it's it's good to know that maybe he's figured out what he needs to do uh in more more traditional reporting uh I came by the art show that was here a couple weeks ago was thoroughly impressed by the work and I believe there was a Best in Show and uh I'm just kind of happy to know that I kind of know that student a little bit I'm proud of her um last week two weeks
013ago I went to a career day at Thornton High School and um I don't see any of you here that were there except for Danny and about the canes about the oh um we had Raising Canes canes provided us food for lunch that was pretty good um I got to share about my careers with uh two other people and uh if you're somehow connected to them and you like what they said or what I said uh find a way to get to me if you want to know more um I think it was that important um last week I was here on Wednesday I think it was Wednesday the Community College District had their meeting here they came to North County and um they shared a lot of things about I the three schools in
014the district uh they talked about the promised Scholars Program they talked about Middle College they talked about dual enrollment um all things that our district is participating in uh so it was good to hear I'm glad I was here for that I'm looking forward to my first housing meeting this week uh I was also inspired by the NAACP meeting last week with trusty Cho and that's all I have to say for the superintendent report today I do not have anything to report just that I'm on honored to be up here uh tonight with everyone uh as Miss prea was unable to attend uh I think we have at least one board subcommittee report Miss tahada so um we had a meeting of the facility subcommittee on March 28th and we discussed our current Bond projects
015so first of all the the new district office and the adult education buildings are in the final stage of commissioning so we're expecting to close out those projects really soon the tanova baseball and softball fields are progressing really well now um there were some delays caused by permitting issues and rainy weather but we're on track to complete the project by the end of August um so by the next baseball season and for the Jefferson High School gym and pool project where uh it's going smoothly and we we still on track for demolition right after graduation in June and um so there's also one little project for the intersection improvements in our employee housing um like the sidewalk area and uh we didn't receive any bid responses um it's a small small project small scope um
016so we weren't this wasn't totally unexpected but we're working directly with contractors to explore alternative proposals outside of the formal bidding process and finally uh we discussed upcoming improvements at oceanana and uh director Phillips is collaborating with principal Torres to identify key projects including upgrades to the site signage the theater and improvements to the gyms bathrooms and locker rooms and that's my report thank you any other subc commut reports um AF local 1481 report Monica Casey hello um the main thing I really want to say is that if you check our AF 1481 website there's some ways to get involved um there's uh April 5th hands off mass action uh you can sign up you can show up there's lots of different places to participate so even if you're in the East Bay North Bay
017South Bay or San Francisco area or san Mato area you can participate so please scroll through those items um so that's all I have for right now and spring break is next week for some of us so looking forward to that thank you uh agenda item 12 concerns the consent agenda move to approve consent second all those in favor I I thank you uh 13 public comment do we have any public comment Madam clerk we do not uh 14 A1 uh is the be the change youth Coalition um and we're gonna have a presentation led by Mary beer good evening everyone trustees thank you so much for having us um to the student trustees you're amazing thank you for putting in all the time that you are Daniel it's good to see you makes me
018so happy see uh my name is Mary beer the director for Alcohol and Other Drug services at the Daily City youth Health Center uh we have a evolving program over at the health center uh we're going to be rebranding it's called Inspire and that's for a whole another presentation but we have some buckets we have brief intervention uh we have um Community Education youth leadership and policy advocacy and tonight we will be highlighting our youth leadership this is my research group from oceanana high school I'm very very proud of them they have been working some of them for years on this and I'm just going to turn it over to them so I'm going to hand the mic over to Sarah student in the building okay hi everyone thank you for taking the time out
019of your schedule to hear our presentation like Mary said we are be the change youth Coalition we have been working the last few years on collecting research policy advocacy especially focusing on mental health and substance use and throughout be the change youth Coalition there are many different groups which saafa will explain hi um first up there's a summit Workshop group they basically they're just they create student Leed workshops which they present at the summit and the podcast group creates podcast interviewing people and um like interviewing people about their experiences with mental health and like substance abuse social media they create post uh advertising BTC and what we do and what we strive to do and research group we collect data from surveys just to um show the impact and prove how Substance Abuse and Mental
020Health impacts the high schoolers and just our community and I'm going to be passing the mic over to Natalia oh sorry Sarah so like salaa mentioned there we have conducted many surveys as the research group some of these include data from fog Fest from the last 3 years about cannabis Narcan and opioids as well as mental health from these fog Fest surveys we have collected approximately 3 to 400 respondes through then and we have also had focus groups at our youth Summits and in these focus groups some of our youth leaders had led discussions about substance use and mental health with adults middle schoolers high schoolers and even Elementary age as well and during those times we conducted a lot of data that we would like to present to you here today about this data
021what we've noticed from it and also some possible solutions that we have and we also along with this data rely on data from the California healthy kids survey from n9th graders and 11th graders and to talk about those topics that we have conducted or have collected will be Natalia hi so we're going to be going over easy access to vape products for the Youth Narcan and overdose prevention girls afraid of being beaten up suicide and chronic sadness and then deferring adult and youth perspectives on Mental Health um I'm now passing the mic on to Savannah and Emma okay so now we'll be talking about substance use prevention and our first point is easy access to vape products for youth so starting with of our primary issues is the legal selling of vape and nicotine products
022to our youth and this can be connected to the easy accessibility of Vape products from drug and tobacco retailers and the appeal of flavored nicotine products to our youth which will wrongfully attract and condone these youth to into substance abuse and another main issue is that tobacco whe retailers are really close to our schools and in some cases they can be less than a 3 to 4 minute walk and next is our findings from our surveys with 37% of surveyed youth or adults recommending more education on substance abuse 20% of 9th graders thinking vaping is not harmful and 30% of 9th graders say it is easy to obtain Vape products um for some possible solutions that we have found um we were considering working with cities to increase police compliance checks um we can do
023this by increasing tobacco license fees which would fund for these checks um and it would crack down specifically on vendors who are selling who are legally selling flavored nicotine and we would also like to mention health education that supports these youth in their knowledge of the harmful effects of vaping and substance um use and now I'll be passing it to Lance and Jeff so a sec a second Point ning and overdose prevention um apartment issues are that commonly nowadays young people are dying from accidental Fano poisoning as fento is commonly being laced into common opioids when young people use them for the first time like cannabis and Other Drugs um also youth in our schools do not have popular access to n can which can mean the difference between life or death in the scenario
024of a drug overdose um for the more in our surveys we found out that youth in adults would appreciate more education on opioid overdose and Nan prevention um here are findings from our BTC surveys in 2023 and 2024 um 54% of adults recommend that youth should have access to Nan products 80% of Youth reported that they should be allowed to have access to Nan 80% of adults were not taught about overdose prevention and 78% of adults supported wanting education regarding overdose prevention now after listening to our primary issues and findings here are our possible solutions uh to work with the County Office of the education to allow youth to have access to Naran after receiving opio overdose prevention education and prevent and Naran training and have the J hsd present prep presentation on the S
025Sano County opioid task force uh we would like to um express our appreciate our thanks to the J uhsd for continuing to support health education in our class rooms and providing staffs and teachers with Naran training and access to Naran our next segment we will go over is on Mental Health passing it over to Natalia and Sala hi I'm Natalia and I'm saafa we're going to be talking about the girls who are afraid of getting beaten up so 12% of 11th graders 11th grade girls in jsd are scared of being beaten up this means a lot to me because I know girls from my school and from other schools in jsd these girls go to school hoping to learn hoping to you know hang out with their friends instead they're going to school in fear
026that they are going to get in a fight and they're going to be beaten up we found that 15% of high school girls reported getting into a physical fight within the last 12 months 88.5% of high school girls reported getting physically abused by their Partners while 11% have reported getting sexually abused by any perpetrator so our next our next steps we want to continue to provide mental health support mediation and support services for for both the victim and the perpetrator by doing this it'll give the perpetrator and the victim the support systems that they need we would also like to continue to collaborate with the Daily City youth Health Center um and promote healthy relationship campaigns we want to educate these students and these kids on healthy relationships versus toxic relationships and how you can
027prevent getting in these toxic relationships that nobody wants to be getting into and we should care because the fear of being harmed leads to anxiety and depression and many other mental health issues um fighting creates a toxic School culture where it's normalized where students come to school every day not feeling safe and supported but coming to school every single day feeling safe supported and ready to learn that's just a basic right that every student should have and there are 12% 12% of these girls in this District do not have that right we'll now be passing the mic on to Sarah and moving on we will be I'll be talking about suicide and chronic sadness which can be come from a result of that fear of being be up as well as many other reasons so
028the primary issue here is that more students than we originally more and more students are experiencing chronic sadness and Suicidal Thoughts From our data this number has been increasing and looking at our findings 133% of 9th graders and 10% of 11th graders have seriously considered attempting suicide in the past 12 months and 30% of 9th graders and 36% of 11th graders reported feeling hopeless almost every single day for two or more weeks and this not only impacts their daily lives but impacts their education ability to focus and that feel of being safe is just taken away and this can impact them in so many different ways and we want to acknowledge this and get to the root of the problem as with these feelings also comes with more likely to turn to mental sorry more
029likely to turn to substance abuse which we have seen through our focus group discussions so with that here are possible solutions first we know that the district has the stopit app an anonymous reporting app and QR code and we believe that BTC can really help promote this because from our focus groups and discussions we've also seen that not a lot of Youth and schools actually know about stop it and how to use use it and to turn to it so we want to help bridge that Gap and have youth help possibly have the youth help educate their fellow Youth and we also want to integrate Suicide Prevention and mental health education more into the curriculum and we know it's touched on in health classes however we think that this can be integrated more and really
030help reduce the stigma and create more opportunities for open conversations because there is a gap and we want to help bridge that Gap and to discuss that will be Renzo yes today I'm going to be talking about differing adult and youth perspectives on Mental Health now a big statistic that we found was 35% of Youth surveyed reported that they are not comfortable talking to adults about mental health and something else connecting to that is 24% of adults are report they are not comfortable to talking to youth about mental health now the reason why we think this is such a big deal is because we feel like Youth and adults should be able to talk to each other about mental health since mental is kind of a big deal especially nowadays now some possible solutions that
031we thought of were we wanted to continue to offer confidential and accessible Support Services now we want to continue to make school counselors easily available and to ensure students know how to reach them and me personally I know me and a lot of peers actually don't know how to access our student counselors and the reason why this is a big deal is because we don't have any way to develop a relationship to allow each other to get close to our student counselors this prevents people from talking to their student counselors about personal issues whether it be suicide drug use or anything like that and we also want to continue ways uh continue different ways to provide Anonymous ways for students to ask for help whether it be suggestion boxes or online forums this kind of
032just allows students to have a comfortable way to share their struggles whether it be bullying or the other issues I talked about before like mental health or substances and lastly we want to prevent or provide students with clear understanding of mandat reporting which serves kind of as a barrier for feeling comfortable sharing now this is something a lot of me and my friends kind of feel is a big struggle with the idea of a student counselor or a school counselor because the mandated reporting system isn't really explained to students so a lot of students feel like it's kind of like this thing where oh if I share anything personal I have towards a school counselor they may just like report it and my whole like connection with my school counselor is kind of just dead
033it stands now we also want to continue to celebrate mental health awareness events this will kind of help normalize the idea of mental health and allow students to feel more comfortable sharing things like mental health now we want to recognize events like mental health awareness month which is kind of a big month for mental health awareness which will help kind of again normalize the idea of mental health we also want to organize themed weeks with fun activities educational sessions and guest speakers this can help share personal experiences with with uh or of people who struggled with substance use or mental health or things of that sort and can kind of help again normalize the idea that's kind of the big thing we're having here is we want to normalize the idea of mental health we
034also want to encourage students and staff to share positive messages and experience which whether it be their own personal experiences dealing with issues with mental health or issues with substance use to help again normalize the idea and lastly we also want to continue to engage parents and Guardians we want to organize parent workshops on mental health and youth communication strategies which we believe you guys can help us with we want to help um get parents more involved with mental health so they can feel more comfortable talking to their own children about it we also want to send home Mental Health Resources and discussion guides so then help with that we also want to encourage collaboration between parents teachers and counselors to support student well-being this will then help teachers parents student counselors all different types
035of adults that could help students with their struggles with mental health substance use all these different big things that we feel like is are big issues in our community that adults can help with and that's why we think this is kind of a big deal next I'll be passing it on to Emma we'll now go through the highlighted possible solutions that the district can partner with BTC in so starting off of substance abuse and specifically vaping we really want to think and really appreciate the continued support of Health and Drug use education on vaping and nicotine products and would like to continue increasing growing and fostering this program and for the overdose prevention education we would like to work with the County Office of Education for allowing youth to have access to Naran products after
036after Education and Training and have the ju uhsd representation on the San Mato County opioid task force next for mental health in the fear of violence sadness and thoughts of suicide we would like the continue of providing mental health support for both the victim and perpetrator and the continued collaboration with Daily City youth Health Center in promoting healthy relationships and to promote more anonymous apps with youth-led programs now for the Youth and adults communication about mental health we would like to organize parent workshops specifically on the mental health of Youth and communication strategies now we would like to mention a bit about what be the change personally means to us as members of the program for me be the change was something that really gave me a way to see how I can take action
037in my own community and it gave me kind of a perspective of how I can make a positive impact and I can become part of my community and through this really nurturing safe environment I really learned how and we'll each give a little memo so BTC to me is a very very um supportive Community I feel like when I walk in there every Wednesday I have so many people to talk to it's such a safe space and it's so uplifting and there's just such a positive vibe um I feel like I always have a smile on my face I'm always laughing it's just a great space and I suggest all students to join this program um Mary makes everyone feel just so so safe and they you know say whatever they want be who they
038are um and by joining BTC students make new friends um and they just have another Safe Community that they can always always rely on um to me um being the change was really eye opening for me as I was educated on a lot of things I was I didn't really know which even like things that were really relevant today like issues um but not only that it was also a safe space where I could really have a voice and I think it's a really supportive environment that I don't I didn't really have so I'm really grateful for it um BTC is really really important to me and it played a huge part in my high school experience I started when I was in freshman year and now I'm a sophomore so this is my second
039year and it taught me a lot like for example I had no idea what norin was like I had no idea what it was used for and I didn't think that I could ever like make a difference with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health um and Mary makes it just so easy to like contribute and to like it just feel like everyone say walk in there like Savannah and Natalia said I walk in there and it's just so supportive and it just there's no fear and sharing your ideas and no fear in like learning what you don't know and it's it's just such a supportive space and yeah for me BTC um is really a great environment to hang out with my friends with um I gained a lot of information valuable knowledge on Mental
040Health and substance abuse um for me uh yes it's about learning about substance abuse and like mental health but for me it's really about the space that Mary has really embedded in this um organization basically I started uh last year and I didn't know what I got myself into until I met her um after meeting her and her kindness she basically um embedded her positivity and made me a better person I am truly grateful Mary thank you well I've been doing BTC for almost four years now so basically my whole High School career and the thing is BTC helped introduce me like a lot of other of my peers helped introduce me to a lot of these issues whether it be Naran mental health and things of that sort but the thing is a lot
041of the people around around me my peers who are not a part of BTC don't have access to an outlet like BTC which is why I believe this is such a big issue a lot of things like mental health Naran opioids all these things a lot of people don't know about but BTC helped teach me about it which is why I want to teach a lot of other people about it and a lot of a lot of these issues aren't focused on commonly which is why I believe it's such a big deal and we know how much effort you guys want to put into our community and we you guys also want to help our community with these issues and which is why we want to kind of work together with you guys to help
042solve these issues yes like Renzo I had been a BTC for the last four years and this program while to be honest it did start with wanting to fulfill our community service requirement the moment I walked in that Mary completely changed my mindset she and her she and her team of interns created this like mentioned safe space that really made sure no one was left behind really made sure that every person was able to speak and I've really watched this program change and grow it started I remember one of our first workshops we LED was about the importance and Brilliance of resiliency and really keep going we've spread messages about how it's important to have kind on your mind and this year our message is to educate communicate and celebrate so like mentioned earlier we
043have a youth Summit and this will be our seventh annual one and I want to invite all of you there and so if you see the QR code on the screen you can scan it and RSVP for free and really we've talked to you about the how we want to educate and what we want to do but we want to make sure that more and more people can communicate this because while unfortunately BTC is only at oceanana this is way right now of branching out and allowing the community to hear what we have and hear their opinions and really work together and celebrate all of this and celebrate everything that makes us unique celebrate every all the good that's come as well and work towards improving the community as well from there we have workshops
044led by our Summit groups to hear more about mental health and substance and how that affects our community they also make videos based off that and we also have focus groups that we mentioned and really a place to facilitate those discussions there's also a live podcast where you get to hear our podcast firsthand and how their perspectives through the group and also issues that are happening today as well and then to celebrate we also have a photo booth to take pictures and capture the memories and we hope that you guys can join us on May 10th at ingred B Lacy because these Summits we' have had over hundreds of participants and we hope to see you guys there as well thank you for taking the time out of your schedule for hearing us and please
045let us know please let us know if you have any questions thank you any questions we start with I've been told to start with the student trustees yeah okay I can go first um first off I just like to say I really loved your presentation I thought it was really well done um yeah it's really amazing I go to Westmore so we don't have BTC at Westmore but as you were talking about the struggles that you face across our district I was thinking about how important it is that you brought this to the board and how important is that we implement this across all of our schools so thank you all right um uh you guys I know like BTC I see you guys around school and I know that you guys meet every week
046and I've seen how much work goes into this so Props to you guys um you all cover a lot of important topics that I feel aren't really there's not a lot of light on them which um again that's really big that you guys are talking about this and one thing that I noticed through your entire presentation was the amount of data that you guys had for each of your topic um and I feel like that's really important because when you look at the data it really lets everything sink in and it's like wow like this is affecting a large group of people around us cuz you know we're all involved in this District um and so it just really like backs up your guys' claims and um yeah I really appreciated all of like the
047percentages and all the data that you guys included as well um and yeah again I've only heard positive things about BTC and it's making me want to join next year so um those were all really good speeches good job guys um you said there was an event on May 10 anyone can go y yeah I'll be there I not um first of all amazing this literally gave me me chills um and case I haven't actually met most of you but I'm actually the board Leong to the Daily City youth Health Center so I'm really proud of you guys that makes my job to this board so much easier so thank you incredible presentation um one question and this is just a question to think about because this will come up in the program uh and
048I work in healthcare and we had when I was doing my training we had a similar project kind of like the Narcan project that you guys are proposing which was the clean needles if anyone is familiar with that and so then the question that was raised was like well aren't you just encouraging people to use mud drugs because now they have a safety way out so then I ask you the same question if you somebody asked you that in the community by making Naran really available is not just going to be a backdrop for people to use more drugs knowing that they have a safety net in a way or should the bigger problem really should be looking to solve is how do we even keep drugs for getting into our into our neighborhoods in
049the first place it's okay you can come back next time if you want to write down an answer I I feel like I think that's actually a really good point and I think a big problem is though a lot a lot of times drugs are almost impossible to keep out of the community and it's kind of inevitable and the thing is I've seen a lot of people like suffering from the drawbacks of drugs whether it be homeless people in the community in SF actually recently because during our interim week we've been going around SF and seeing a lot of these issues firsthand and how these drawbacks can impact people which is why I and many others in our group believe that people should have an outlet like Naran to fall back on even though we
050realize drugs are an issue in our community and we want to stop it that's why we think we should do things like preventing drugs or increasing like drug awareness but at the same time in the end of the day people are still going to utilize drugs which is why they kind of need that safety net great answer it's going to be a lawyer one day can I add just a tiny little bit please one of the reasons that Naran is so important is because young people are being poisoned and so kids are out if they experiment for the very first time they take a pill they smoke a joint things are being laced and so that's really why we believe that Naran is so so important okay thank you for that clarification um and then
051one more comment if sorry Andy this is like my um one more comment if anything that throughout this presentation that really resonated with me and I feel since I've joined this board that's kind of sift through um issues within our district is the sense of safety on campus right um and so I don't know what the process is with this if we want to put that as a future agenda item I would is that how we do it Tina okay all right anyway yeah the end there's an agenda item got it okay so anyway that's the one thing that's resonating with me and I want to in front of you and really commit to looking into that sense of like I without a doubt I can already say sense that because you guys have BTC
052for example in common there's naturally a sense of koder that already exist you guys already have that sense of community every student within the school district should feel that shouldn't be limited just to PTC no like PTC obviously it's the Pinnacle but that should be able to sift down toour so great work what you're doing keep pushing fantastic presentation just sort of you know just taking a step back and just listening to each of you I just think about the practical skills that you've learned by being a part of this group right you know one you're researching you're reporting out on what you've researched and you've come to specific conclusions on what the next step should be based on the data that you've seen you're developing Communications and marketing skills you're doing event planning you're
053educating us on that which you've learned presentation skills and I think the most important one actually is the fact that you're listening to each other and to the community around you and that and that is something that each of us need to do a better job of so kudos to you for that um with regards to this safe space that Mary has created how do we expand this outside of just ocean and offer it up at the other schools wow it would be great to have more capacity right and more funding and so all of our programs are grant-funded we've been writing grants for 20 years and so to have some buying that way from the district would be really wonderful and to support the capacity at each school and so that's the dream right
054as we're moving forward we're rebranding we're re-evaluating our programs we're really looking at what it's going to take for us to have a group at each School how many interns we need how many hours it takes you know and that's that's really where we're headed and so please support us along the way with regards thank you Mary with regards to you know the statistic about the girls not feeling safe the 12% based on the California healthy kids survey last year so my question to you students do you think that with what you're seeing in terms of the supports in the district today do you think that that num percentage on the next survey could go down what do you where do you think we're headed so sorry the question was how do we like see
055this um do we see the percentage going down for the next few years right with given given the support level of some of the supports that you see from the district and from adults today do you think that that potentially that the percentage of young women who think that might go down okay I think that if we um follow you know on our slides we said um our next steps what we want to do next I think if we follow through with those um and do our best to you know try and you know just do those I think the percentage could go down because like we were saying in the slides um we want to give support systems to the pro arbitrators and the victims and we think by doing that instead of suspension
056or detention you know punishment um by finding like the root of the problem instead of going straight to punishment will definitely help the perpetrators and the victims which will by giving them a support system it'll definitely decrease that percentage I think do you agree yeah I agree yeah great thank you so much yeah oh amazing um presentation I um I'm so impressed and you're very inspiring um because I can tell that all of you are it's not just community service because to you you've turned community service into a calling and um we need more students like you meor people like you out there um and I can tell that you know while you're speaking you know what you're talking about because you feel it you really care um there's so much that I wanted to
057ask you um that 12% of um jsd girls afraid of getting beat up just girls afraid of getting beat up that that's just horrifying to me um you know I went to high school here in the district in the 70s and ' 80s and I have three brothers and they they raised me to always watch your back but I was like an academic student but you had to watch your back from what you know but now these are students who are who could be my children and girls who are afraid of going to school and like you said you know you should create an environment where you're safe supported and ready to learn and those are the basics right um so what I um oh some of the questions I have um I mean like
058you pointed out how do you see a wellness counselor and how do you normalize getting help without it being stigmatized and I think um sometimes I think it's harder for for the boys to go seek help yeah I feel like that's a big issue we were seeing in our community cuz nobody really had that close connection with the school counselor and a lot of people don't even have that connection with their own parents right which we thought was a big deal which is why we kind of wanted to find that ability to get a connection whether it be maybe having like mandated like student counselor meetings with students maybe like once every couple of months even like I feel like even having that that check-in would be really good for students which is uh kind
059of a solution we thought of but we don't know if it could be fully implemented and yeah that was just one of the many ideas I feel like we had but we just noticed it as kind of a big issue which just why we wanted to bring it up yeah it is a big issue because even with our student trustees almost every year one of the the um a lot of the issues that come up are uh how do you see a counselor how do you see a wellness counselor a lot of their classmates and friends don't even know how to do that because I mean yeah how do we how do we make that um more normal and I know our counselors have a heavy case load and I know they try to see
060a student at least twice a year but it's so hard um but with so do you so you guys talked a lot about um your focus group discussions what does that look like who who is in that focus group so in those focus groups you it starts with one of one of us usually in the F for example and we're the ones facilitating it and we come up with these questions we ask about discussions and in those focused groups we have usually or the last few Summits what we've done is we've separated the adults and the children so it's at the summit yes the summit okay that's where we normally do it and in those we have discussions and we have separate questions for adults and separate questions for children and also some similar questions
061so we can hear both perspectives but also so it's more tailored to each group like from the youth we want to hear more about what does this look like in schools and in the adults we want to see what does this conversation look like with the kids around you what was it like for you during your time and there's just a lot of differences we've seen in those and also just provides that space for people to talk about it as well is I feel like you've all educated me here you know because you're out there you're getting the information and I think it's more powerful hearing possible solutions from the students and because of all the work that you're doing of course Mary beer you know love you um you're amazing um and I think
062you've changed all our lives right so um and I I'm just imagining a lot of you are probably going to be leading these Focus discussions focus group discussions and um I think it's just so so powerful that you'll be doing that um you also mentioned that jsd should have representation on Sano County opio task force I don't know what the task force is it seems important and do you think a student should be able to try I would love for a student to serve on that oh that would be wonderful yeah it's a brand new task force the first meetings in a couple weeks they've done they've done focus groups around the county so it's it's same T County Behavioral Health and Recovery Services and so yeah it would be great to have a student
063representative and if somebody is um would like to do that please have them reach out to me and they can come with me oh okay great so are you on the task force well yes but you know we need more you need more absolutely need more but a student representative would be perfect yes would be perfect thank you thank you very much all of you thank you Mary I want to say thank you for bringing us this articulate powerful independent uh a collaborative group of [Music] students um to all of you thank you uh for coming here tonight and sharing with us uh I'm pretty sure I could not have done that when I was in high school um I think that you know I don't think I know that I'm really impressed with your
064presentation uh and not only about the things we we judge presentations by you know how clear they are and how interesting they are you know how great the slide deck is but really this is about things that are of utmost importance to the the district Community um and to the students so thank you um I wrote down a lot of notes uh I think it's interesting that you talked a lot about school safety and uh School safety's at the center of one of our most important board goals um and maybe we uh in achieving our goals can take something from what you've what you've shared now and what you share in this uh May 10th youth Summit um and I want to congratulate you on this flyer and whoever had the idea to give free
065lunch uh it's fantastic um so the way these things kind of go sometimes is uh this may be the last time that you see me um but it doesn't have to be um you know I and the rest of the board I'm sure you know welcome any contact you want to reach out to us for if you need resources or um want to provide us with any um but I will uh I just want to say that I I know that uh BTC Is Not Seen the Last of Me because of you so thanks I have one question uh a series of questions how many of you are seniors did anyone's senior X Project have anything to do with what you presented on tonight so actually one of our me seniors who unfortunately could not
066be here today because they are in Washington DC during interim week his senior ex was about safe injection sites in San Francisco and I can try to I've seen his presentation so I could try to answer anything related but unfortunately he could not be here today okay I'm just curious thank you and one other um note is that we have three other groups with just as many students and so I'm sure that question can go out to them too they're just not in this group we have our podcast group group our social media group right and our Summit Group thank you and I guess I should also offer a chance for anyone to say if they had an exhibition project at any level senior or otherwise you know this kind of stuff yeah great exib
067okay great thank [Laughter] you thank you uh very much for your presentation I mostly just just wanted to speak up and um advocate for those of you that are at home to come to this May 10th event it's something that me and my family have gone to multiple times and um even though these are heavy topics as the flyer says it's really for all ages um I started with taking my child when they were 12 and that first year they're like 10 out of 10 I want to do it again so um I would just encourage families to attend the event thanks everyone thank you thank you thank you uh The Show Must Go On um 15 A1 uh approval of the jsd 2025 of Education governance calendar um Deputy superintendent F rapor thank you
068uh before you tonight is a meeting calendar for the upcoming year the 2526 calendar includes regular meetings special meetings student advisory Council meetings csba and aec Conference dates uh the first dat and last day of school and our school holidays it's recommended that you approve it and adopt it tonight move to approve the governance calendar for 2526 second all those in favor I I 15 B1 regards the third amendment to Energy service agreement uh partial solar decommissioning Deputy superintendent of Business Services Miss vanra thank you but for you tonight is an amendment to our Energy service agreement to allow for the decommissioning of the solar panels on top of the gym at Jefferson High School so that they can um de demo the building because we are ending the contract early uh it will cost
069us about $350,000 all right move to approve the third amendment to Energy service agreement partial solar decommissioning second all those in favor I iation uh future agenda items student safety that seemed to again I think as I said earlier in the in the comment um we've had multiple instances where I felt the word safety has come up I know it's part of our um District goals but I think if if anything this is like no child should be afraid to go to school because they're the where they they're going to get beat up like that's just scary to think of so I definitely would like to look a little bit deeper into that so yeah any others no uh you know what to do board move to adjourn second all those in favor I we
070are adjourned 807 [Music]