001like to reconvene the regular Open session at 602 and item six report any action on items from closed session I have nothing to report at this time so item 7 communication report starting with board member reports who would like to go forward I'll go first so in the spirit of community and volunteering I got two things I'd like to recognize first of all I want to recognize the subtle grad night committee my wife's involved with that so I've been seeing all the hard work they were doing and it's outstanding so if if any people are involved with businesses or anything and get a letter please you know if you can volunteer some time or Talent OR treasure and then um a shout out to the high school I believe it's Mr Sunseri there's a after-school
002workout program that has been started on Tuesdays and Thursday nights the district's providing busing up there and the feedback I've been getting from the students and the parents it's absolutely outstanding so it's really really appreciated and it's making the making the students more comfortable at the site and everything so I think it's a really wonderful situation thank you I have no report I I think trustee Kemper also attended the El uh roadmap presentation that was done online and I kind of had ended up with with two takeaways out of that one of them was that I don't know enough about how we differentiate in serving our um second language students whether they're newcomers or they have additional learning disabilities or other sorts of like how do we create these different strands so that we're as
003targeted as possible I don't know enough about that so I'm just throwing that out to the world here um the other thing was that I um I really did feel like uh closer relationship with the FRC would would benefit the district as they enter into their whatever they're moving forward into their next phases with it in our community school and everything and could be really beneficial to our students um I also just wanted to say thank you for the letters I have gotten on snow days because I have to say 100 of them have been really collaborative problem solving and understanding like how can we work on this together and I really appreciated the tone of those letters um and just last um even though the CTE presentation event wasn't held yesterday it made me
004reflect that um that's really a good location for community events because now we have at least guaranteed transportation from you know basically half of our town you know from there going to the East and so if transportation is a barrier to anyone they can always get to the Middle School from that at least that direction and it's hard to get up to the high school for those kinds of events so just a thought that's it um I attended the uh Ernie's south tower high school fundraiser we'll start our own Dorian Gooseman there um was really looking forward to the CTE presentations but I understand why the vendors had to cancel with our weather um I today I got to read to Mr Schneider's fourth grade class at Sierra house and then I got to go
005around and judge the bulletin boards with Heather Hart oh my gosh so creative so incredible um both you two in the front row got high marks from me um and that's it so going on to Sofia hi and good evening uh thank you for having me again at tonight's board meeting I want to start off by saying I'm glad to be back in school with the added week of snow days because of our heavy weather I've just been really excited to get back because it was actually starting to feel a little I was starting to feel empty not being back in my classroom um but I also wanted to mention that Southall High School is hosting an open mic night on March 17th from 6 to 8 PM tickets will be selling online for three
006dollars and it will be in the student union and we want to have a big come out of people so we hope to see many of you guys there next with covid lash with covet affecting us the previous years Southall High School's prom last year was held on the football field so this year we really wanted to make a spectacular prom so I'm asking if anybody would like to sponsor anything for our prom we're hoping to lower the price of tickets to make problem more accessible to anybody who wants to go right now it's standing at 85 but we are hoping to lower it down significantly for those who want to go to their senior prom if you'd like if anybody has any information on how to help or if they'd like to reach out
007please reach out to either me or miss Ferguson also S Club is launching a food drive in partnership with the bread and broth for kids there will be a flyer in the following newsletter with more information but if you have any non-perishables that you can donate please consider bringing them to the district office during their hours for any questions please contact me through the phone number that will be provided on the flyer finally I wanted to ask about Flex Flex is uh was supposed to be a part of our schedule starting about a month ago and it was just supposed to provide an extra period for students to get extra an additional help on assignments or to come in to make up for missing work because of Athletics or absences and it was a great
008time to also make up tests and quizzes most students were really excited to start it but from what we the student body knows is that it was put off and we've been kind of left in the dark we would really like to have to start this Flex opportunity because it's going to benefit many students so we hoped for it to start soon thank you Sophia Dr Cutler Madam president members of the board thank you so much um you know what I wanted to try to be sure because I want to get to the students and talk about some celebration stuff but I do have a few things I want to make sure I share this evening first and foremost I want a big thank you to the Barton Foundation they donated 12 aeds um for
009our schools and we just appreciate that partnership and their willingness to to work with us on that um I want to make sure I invite we continue to publicize and invite folks to our state of the district El Cap conversation it's going to be a community conversation just to highlight what's going to happen there at the event um we're going to do a presentation of all the work that we've been doing um to work to improve our system and then we'll have tabletop conversations about you know what do we do well as a district um what do we get do that gets in the way of Student Success and what recommendations would the folks have for the future and then we'll end the night with the panel conversation with some of our our key Partners
010Boys and Girls Club city of South Lake Tahoe El Dorado County and others so I'm excited about that night March 15th next Wednesday night six o'clock at the high school student union so if folks can make it we'd love to have them there I'm looking forward to great turnout and so we can collaborate and discuss the future of our system um you know I just stop and talk about the weather this has been crazy I was telling somebody I said I came to the district and it was a Kobe year unless then the second year was fire evacuation and you know coveted and snow and this is snowmageddon um and you know I know that's been used and it's like it's pretty crazy and it makes it very difficult for us as we navigate how
011to to deal with the challenges of making sure we can get students in school and educate and teach them and and to take care of them and I've said before in many ways it is so important for us to have students in school um there's several reasons not just for their learning obviously the learning is is Paramount and important but for for us to feed our students this is a opportunity for them to have a good breakfast and lunch um it's an opportunity for them to interact and so be social with their peers and to grow and develop in that way and so as we cancel school it's it's it's gut-wrenching I've used that word for me it really is every time we have to look out and look at the the the the weather
012report and determine if the weather's really going to hit and if it really does what's going to happen um obviously when you cancel several days in a row there's lots of of questions and things about well what can we do differently and I wanted to just highlight a couple of those and we appreciate people coming forward and giving ideas um you know the district used to and many years ago and and I don't know when exactly stopped had main bus stops only um and and so we've been working really hard to create a system where we would have main bus stops only but one of the concerns we do have for for our students is is that movement from where they are um and they're they're the most their close bus stop to a further
013location in the travel and and the risk and the safety of our students moving through those those locations we are working with the city as if we were to implement a main bus stops only would they you know that those roads would be the first roads to be to be widened but again you know and I just can speak I can speak for a lot of communities because I've driven all over to see our schools but just in the community I live in navigating the road roads with just walking is not always safe and so we take into the consideration of our safety of our students in the transportation um and and so we have but we are working on the concept for the future of Maine bus stops only and I know that's been
014an idea that's come out from from families and and friends um the other question that's come up is why don't we just go virtual and I wanted to address that briefly um number one after so when we went into covid Virtual School wasn't allowed and then all of a sudden because of coveted virtual school was allowed when I say allowed the state of California calling it a school day after the year of covid um year plus of covet the state legislature determined that no longer would they have Virtual School less the school was a designated Virtual School like we have as elevated could no longer have a virtual day count as a school day um and and so when you think about the 180 day required school year that we have um that that would
015not count towards that and understand our employee groups are contracted to work on school days and not not all employee groups are contracted to work on non-school days so it becomes very challenging in that manner besides the fact is that when we talk about going virtual Wi-Fi in this town is very challenging um it can be hit and miss um and uh and so there's some concerns that if we went virtual would we really have our students be able to All Access and be available so those are some concerns and things that we think about when we think about virtual I don't know what next tomorrow tomorrow morning brings I don't know what next week brings as we see more snow coming um the possibility of warmer weather and flooding with that just so you
016know the city has declared an emergency state of emergency in our community and we go and is and we'll be opening a um a shelter here at the middle school in our NPR and so we're working in conjunction with with the city I will just say this our partnership with both the county and city has been very strong through these these situations um we're at a place where we can pick up a phone and say to the county hey is this road going to get plowed and they they are struggling to stay up with plowing as many of the folks in the county know they're short staffed they have short equipment equipment being broken and so is same with the city and and so we we're patient we work with them and I just want
017to let you know that I want to start say this this has not been easy on anybody this weather this strain people worried about their roofs I drove around and saw schools today and as I was driving into the communities Folks up on top of their roof working to try to get snow off this has been really hard and I think that we just need to be as a community together not against one another looking to help how do we help each other so that we can get through it what is really quite challenging when you have to think about cancellation of schools the the movement of Transportation in people and and it's just not really easy and by the way I want to say this that also is our staff too our staff oftentimes
018are seen to be have to be strong and and have the fortitude to to get through the challenges that the entire Community faces and then we were there with kids and so I just want to tell you I'm so proud of our staff for being part of this community working through these difficult times and being there for our students and I want to say and we've said it before our Grounds Maintenance custodial crew and our transportation crew are just and then just yeoman's job that is just amazing While most of us are on a Sunday this past Sunday for example home staying warm they're out working and cleaning our our campuses and you know we couldn't open up on Monday because it just the amount of snow and where we're placing it just wasn't we
019wanted to make sure that our campuses were safe places and just to talk about that um our roofs are are strong um the California Department of architecture has high expectations of how you build a school but that's not to say that we aren't the you know concerned will our roofs hold and so we've been out measuring weight we've been out clearing off roofs where we are concerned about it and we are not making sure that if we needed to move students out of certain areas to to work on those areas we've been on it I just want to guarantee that those are things that we're on top of and that we're thinking about and that students safety and staff safety is is number one and so like last Monday when we canceled and of course
020the Sun came out and for those folks who wanted to get to Heavenly and ski that was good but the reality of it is our campuses we're not safe places for that started that day so that's why we had to cancel I just wanted to highlight all that because it's so important that we are talking you know about what is most important and most important is that we're taking care of each other and that we're safe and I just want to really highlight that and in the midst of all of this we restructured our our facilities and transportation department and had a gentleman begin his new work in our district right in the middle of all of this and so what I'd ask is just briefly um that uh the Salazar associate superintendent of business
021and operations introduce our new director of facilities and transportation a little long-winded I'm sorry the president and members members I am we are so excited to have a director of facilities and transportation and he has done it all he has been on roofs he has helped plow he has done everything we absolutely imagine and more and I'd like you to meet Mr Dave Zebo the new director he has a wealth of experience in Maintenance and Facilities both at Heavenly and at Edgewood and I'm going to let him talk a little bit about himself hey how you doing absolutely by the way started like a week and a half ago just so we understand what he walked into hi it's nice to meet you all um my name is Dave Zebo and I've been in Tahoe
022for 25 years I'm very happy to be here um I'm committed to the safety and Excellence of this school as well um I have a five-year-old daughter that's going to be starting school here next year and I plan to be working here and seeing her through and just wanted to let you know I do have a wealth of experience in the maintenance portion of the background of this position I'm still learning the uh the bus routes and and all that stuff and I'm learning that very very quickly um so yeah I just I appreciate this opportunity and I'm very happy to be here and and I won't let you down all right thanks Madam president I was long-winded tonight thank you for being patient with that um that's my report this evening okay do we
023have any employee Association I do not believe we have employee Association reports this evening okay um any public comment so I did not receive any cards for public comment is there anybody in the room that did wanted to show up for public comment this evening we see none okay so then this is the very favorite part student celebration Sierra house Mrs Karen home please okay do we have the flicker yep we sure do it's right here um is it on yeah okay it's on all right okay and it's the which one to go forward well let's open let's hope it goes forward what was the problem last time yeah all right well it's not moving so we have to click we'll click just tell us real quick right now okay so good evening Dr Cutler
024president Mansfield and Board of Trustees my name is Karen Holmes and I am principal at Sierra house elementary school and it is so fun to be here tonight with our Sierra Elementary School students and celebrating some of the great things we do at our school these five Brave children have volunteered to come speak tonight and share some things that they think make Sierra House special so Kaylee Clem who's going to lead us off so can we change change all right we'll see what we're doing foreign and I am a fifth grade weather kid in Miss terpening's class one thing I really like about sear house is the weather kids program I really like it because you get to be go on the radio with Howie at about 8 10 every school day Howie is nice
025and fun to talk with I was nervous before I started talking but once I get going I'm not nervous anymore and it's fun to talk about the weather with Howie we also get to make jokes and try to stump him every morning Dr John Hellman brought the weather kid programs into your house in 1989 and ran the program all the way to the covid pandemic Miss Mansfield helped Dr Hellman for many years and now Mr Scott is running the program for us we're three weeks before we begin forecasting the weather on the radio we have lessons about how to predict the weather identify cloud formations measure the wind speed and direction as well as measure precipitation I invite you to tune in at 93.9 the lake at about 8 10 on school day mornings to
026hear the cedar house weather kids give their daily forecast hi my name is Kayla Suka and I'm a fifth grader in Mr Scott's class at Sarah house one thing I love about Sierra house is that our teachers and staff are very nice one of my favorite things during the day is working with our special needs kids in the body program working with these students and helping them figure out new things is really rewarding for instance I was working with a nonverbal student and learning how to use their iPad to communicate and also to help let him walk around during recess instead of just sitting down I had to work on moving slowly with him because he would easily get frustrated I am pretty good at helping him calm down when he gets upset I really
027like working with students in Mr cromwell's class on art projects and learning their letters their spelling and basic math I like making a difference in our school by working with these students and helping other students understand that they can also be friends with our students with disabilities experience okay Julie good evening my name is Juliana Milton and I am in Miss terpening's fifth grade class at Sierra house I love going to see our house because all the teachers here help you advancing your learning and explain things in a way that helps you learn better in math we are learning to take four square notes that are much easier and more fun than regular notes we are focusing on math this year and many classes are learning to do counting collections to figure out what our
028problems in maths are really asking reading is fun because we read entertaining books in class and many students use Learning Ally after we read the book we sometimes get to watch the movie Miss McLean has come in several times with the CTE program and those lessons are really fun in a lesson about search and rescue we got to use compasses to find injured people then we learned how to fight apply first aid older students got to bandage our classmates and younger students got to manage teddy bears hello my name is Lee Davis and I'm a fifth grade student at Sierra house in this terrapin's class to your house is a special place for many reasons one I really like that we do community events our walkathon is super fun every year and lots of parents
029come to help and even in and even this year we had the hockey team join us also this fall we had our Harvest Festival I got to help in the haunted house and it was fun to scare people our holiday program was fun because I am in the choir and I got to sing in addition to all of the classes singing our Valentine's dance was a few weeks ago and lots of students and their families came to the dance we are we had a really good time we had we had family Mac night in fall and we are looking forward to a math festival for all of us for our students coming on May 11th to celebrate math and athletic committee my name is Everett Henderson and I'm in third grade in Mr Warner's class
030at Sarah house one thing I love about Sarah house is that we all get to go skiing at heavenly it's a really good time because our coaches done our levels and we get lessons that are perfect for each of us the coaches always bring us to great places and know where to find the best putter eventually gives all the students who do not have equipment rental equipment for our skis all of us get better at skiing and boarding every year because of this program I have a really good time with my friends on the ski days I learned a lot about skiing technique and safety we also gained self-confidence as we get better at skiing and sporting this program is great for our school because not only does every student get time on the mountain
031but they also get coaching so they can get better at skiing or snowboarding thank you for letting us come share some of our really fun things that we're doing and that's just a few of them it's a great place to grow so thank you any questions but it's okay well I'd like to make a comment um a few years back when we brought in a new superintendent one of the things that we wanted to emphasize was to cultivate a positive School climate at each School throughout Lake Tahoe Unified School District this is a great example of what we were thinking okay so to watch these young people just come up here and express themselves and come across that hey I love school I love school now we've had some trying times you know I was
032going to do a report on that you know the weather was so good I didn't go out and do anything the last 10 days and that's why I have no report but that would have been a lie okay because I was shoveling snow but but this makes me someone that was in education someone who cares like all of you that are in this room and others in the district or in the community about that positive School climate so I I just I really commend you the only thing that I would probably ask is the weather people can you help us out here a little bit come on just help us out a little bit you know do a little I don't know some pixie dot dust or something and get us bring us some sunshine
033and I can't say too much because I'm just gonna start crying so I I would just like to say that what really impressed me was the diversity of opportunities there and that just comes back to our vision here discover and Foster the unique talents and potential of all students and it seems like you've really we've said you've set that up really well yeah I think just as a very very sincere thank you I mean it's just wonderful it's it just shows that everyone that you guys just care and love being around the students and and they're reciprocating so it's just absolutely wonderful yeah you know what wonderful job thank you Sierra house families uh students who did a wonderful job here we're so thankful for them to be here great job we wanna get up
034here with the board so if we need all the students just to come up right up here in front of the boardroom right here come on up however senior house wants to do it with absolutely hey but you got to help you got to help get them it's right there yeah it's great oh yeah oh hey trips and falls kind of thing here that's right that's right all right get all the parents over there absolutely and I'll I'll jump in there too parents parents and teachers fair enough I thank you guys great job great job good job looks like just one second okay okay are you going to introduce them okay ready okay I think uh okay yeah we will yeah item nine ltusd partner organization update are you going to introduce um Mr Hermann
035film yes Madam president members of the board excited to have Herman Fillmore um from the Washoe tribe of Nevada California with us this evening I want to say that we met a few weeks ago and we had a wonderful conversation about wanting to build a great partnership with um with Herman and the team from the Washoe tribe of California Nevada and I know he's ready to present to you regarding the culture history and specific to actually you know wanting to make sure we talk about the curriculum as well so Herman thank you so much for being here this evening so uh welcome everybody hello my name is Herman Fillmore my parents are Benny and Laura Fillmore and I'm from the Carson Valley I'm of the people of the valley or as we say in our
036language the people of the valley um so as Dr Trainer said our doctor cutlers apologies uh for the Doctor Jill trainer in Alpine County that I've been working with no worries no worries a lot of doctors out there um uh so anyways Dr Cutler said we were looking to enter into kind of a partnership and I wanted to talk a little bit about who we are as a people who we are as a tribe um and some areas that we can potentially partner for the future so I put together a quick presentation I call this washishu in reference to who we are as a people the people from here first it'll get working here of course yeah well let me get it going I want to learn I don't know why go ahead and move
037it you tell us when we'll move and then if I get this thing going we'll go okay sounds good um so I wanted to start out by introducing some terminology usually when I do my presentations I talk about tribal sovereignty and all of these other things that are important to who we are as indigenous peoples um today I just wanted to talk about terms that I'll be using in my presentation so you'll hear me say washu or Washi shoe in place of Washo uh Washo with the o ending is kind of used for archaeological and anthropological records um it's kind of the most anglicized version of our name we prefer to use washu in reference to ourselves because that's how our elders refer to us in our language the same can be said with washishu
038the difference being that washu is singular and washishi was plural today we're recognized as the Washington tribe of Nevada in California we have one reservation in Alpine County um but in general the the states of California and Nevada bisect are traditional territory and I'll show a map here in a little bit you'll also hear me use the term indigenous peoples I use this in reference to indigenous peoples of North America as a whole because there are traditions the knowledge that we share one of the things that you'll notice across the world is there's terms like First Nations used in Canada or Aboriginal peoples in Canada and Australia so a lot of this is reclaiming our identity and our connection to place by understanding that we're not Native Americans as America was discovered after our existence
039here but instead we're indigenous to this place and we um we've been here longer than the idea of the Americas I will use tribes or tribal Nations to talk specifically about federally or state recognized tribes not all tribes have Federal recognition but most do the majority of them in the country do I will also and this isn't so much for this one but I wanted to include this the term pan indigeneity there are things that are shared amongst tribes and cultures but for us specifically we are very unique until a lot of our Traditions aren't things that you would see in other communities and again I will go into that in a little bit [Laughter] the first thing I wanted to show here and this is just kind of a general map of North America
040right this shows um kind of regional descriptions of indigenous people so peoples of the Southwest uh the southeast the Northwest the Great Basin and it's really cool because California has its own region so in the United States there's 574 federally recognized tribes um prior to colonization so prior to contact we had roughly 300 distinct languages this isn't to talk about distinctions as far as dialects among tribes but unique and distinct languages themselves of that today there's roughly about 187 languages that are still alive this is mostly due to boarding schools and various policies that sought to eradicate indigenous peoples in North America however even today we still only have about 40 languages that are being taught in the home and so this is what we would call healthier living languages the other 147 are considered
041more about which means that without help and like a lot of hard work today they are going to die within the next 10 to 20 years specifically for us um I wanted to talk about our unique list within our own homelands foreign so the first thing here I wanted to show is the California map so you can see here all of the tribes in California right around Lake Tahoe you'll see the Watcher tribe in Nevada and California uh California is really unique in and of itself within the United States So within California alone there's about 20 different language families uh which is really cool of that the washu language and washu people are unique our language is considered a language isolate unrelated to any other language in the world it also talks about our distinctness
042in place and being here much longer than any of the other tribes either on California or the Nevada side so not only are we unique with our language we're one of the most one of the oldest tribes within the area and within the United States as a whole oh so the next thing I wanted to show is a Homeland map for us so you can see that at the center of our homelands we have Lake Tahoe in our language we refer to it is meaning late so the word Tahoe itself is actually a mispronunciation of the word lake or lake the word sorry the word meaning lake so when we say Lake Tahoe we're saying lake lake or lake the same is for Mountain to lag our word for mountain is the lock so when
043we say Mountain to lack or Mountain delock we're saying mount mountain so we can see how confusion happens over time and it's it's a it's an honest mistake it is kind of funny because when you look into the history of Lake Tahoe you also see that on the California side they called it Lake Bigler until like the 1940s um which is a whole separate issue with California trying to be a secessionist state and those sorts of things the other thing that I wanted to show here around Lake Tahoe um Lake Tahoe is the center of our homeland and so a lot of our knowledge is tied to this place this map was done in conjunction with trpa and their Tahoe in-depth Tahoe in-depth magazine which is a quarterly um magazine that they they operate here
044we included some of our traditional place names for the streams around the lake these are some of the most important places and really when we talk about washu culture a lot of our culture and our our relationship with land is shaped around the taco Basin specifically you'll hear our elders and people within our communities talk about this is the center of our homeland and the most sacred place within our homeland so it truly is cherished and something that we pride ourselves on I mean people from around the world come here to enjoy its beauty and really as the original stewards of this place we were thankful that that it's still beautiful that it isn't completely destroyed although we are fearful for those changes in the future so to talk a little bit about the tribe
045in particular um we are the original stewards of the Tahoe Basin and surrounding lands and our creation story we talk about being here since the beginning of time we we don't talk about traveling from another place we talk about our origin being right here on these lands archaeological records date us back here at least 12 000 years um again the thing with archaeological records is that's what's been discovered so if there hasn't been anything discovered to go back further than that eventually hard to contest that date however again in our oral histories we talk about being here forever one cool thing that I always like to show is that the Tahoe Basin itself and the creation of Lake Tahoe occurred about nine thousand to 14 000 years ago so within the Tahoe Basin and we
046have our creation story for how the lake came to be we we saw this occurrence happen so we we describe it in a different manner but we have an understanding of how the lake came to be this again pushes that potential timeline for us being here upwards of 14 000 years Way Beyond archaeological records so it's really cool to talk about how our oral histories can also to represent knowledge of place um how those are important lessons for everyone as well I think we give a lot of credence to Greek mythology and those sorts of things without understanding that there's teachings of this land that are important as well so I'm going to get into a little bit of history and I don't want to kill you guys with bullet points and information tonight so
047I'm just going to kind of categorize these in a more General manner so the first thing for us of course and this is talking about western expansion is the arrival of settlers and explorers into the area the first documented explorers that we've been able to come across are actually first rappers this one States Jedediah Smith um in 1825 is the original timeline for coming into this year's the area that far into the Great Basin to see the Sierras in 1844 of course John C Fremont traveled through the area um and it's kind of funny to me because California didn't become a state until 19 or 1850 however within the first year of its operation it did declare laws against tribes so in 1850 the California government protection act established a means whereby Indians of all
048ages can be indentured or apprenticed servants for local ranchers and Farmers a lot of this is related to the development of the Constitution and so on so forth for California because they didn't want Native Americans or indigenous peoples to have the right to vote um so that's where a lot of this government protection act comes from again in the same year they established the price for an Indian scalp or an indigenous person scalp at 25 cents per scalp and in 1851 the United States as a whole paid out over a million dollars for scalps so about four million indigenous people have killed in one year's time um later on and this happens in 1854 1859 and again in 1866 but there were recommendations to move indigenous peoples from California to the Eastern side of the
049Sierras to leave them in the Great Basin and electric themselves again completely removing them from their own homelands in connection to place which is a real which is a huge part of our culture our reciprocal relationship with land and knowledge that was developed in relationship with that place over 12 000 plus years the other thing that I like to highlight here is that in 19 or 1859 commercial fishing began in Lake Tahoe um it does note here that in 1880 they had completely depleted cutthroat trout from the lake and again here later on in they actually banned washu people from fishing using traditional methods Spears traps Nets diversion of creeks all of the things that we had done again for millennia it also notes that in 1877 fish began dying off um again in 1880
050I um a couple of our leaders and they're they're titled these captains we didn't have Chiefs we didn't really have traditional leaders in the same measurable ways that other tribes across the country did so during contact we established kind of leaders based on geographical region we have here Captain Jim Captain Pete and Captain Walker met to prepare petition to Governor Kink head of Nevada requesting that he stopped the destruction of pilot lands and the depletion of fish in the in the Lake Tahoe Basin um again in 1880 this or sorry in 1890 the Stuart Indian boarding school uh started for anyone who doesn't know the founding principal of boarding schools is kill the Indian and save the man this is a famous quote from Richard Henry Platt Pratt who created the Carlisle Institute in Pennsylvania
051that meaning get rid of their language their culture um often times insert Christianity and other things to fill this individual up we often talk about it as becoming an empty husk of a person in order to be subjugated to second-class Citizens for the benefit of the United States mostly cheap labor right by 1891 uh 150 Watson people assembled here near Bijoux where Captain Jim addressed them one of the biggest things here again was the outlying of fishing and the ability to provide for ourselves in our own homelands although it's 1890 we're talking about less than 50 years of contact here and so less than 50 years of colonization and we've already seen a drastic decline in our ability to survive within our own homelands I always go back to a quote from my uncle Wesley
052Barber he says in a document with the forest service here that you were more likely to run out of firewood than you were to run out of food in the Tahoe Basin so it's one of those things as far as indigenous practices that stewardship of land protection of resources was incredibly beneficial that this relationship with places an inherent part of indigenous communities and beneficial for place and people as a whole at also that quote specifically talks about management of dead and down fuel so the instance here is that fire was a lot less dangerous forests were a lot more well managed and it was really a relationship between people and place the other thing here that happened in the uh early 1900s is we actually petitioned the federal government in four lands it wasn't until
0531916 that we received anything and this was a bill through Nevada specifically in 1970 17 and again this is related to the Nevada side but there was actually an ordinance requiring all Native Americans and Indigenous people to be out of the the cities of Gardnerville Minden and there used to be a painville down there in Douglas County so you were required to be out of town by 6 30 or pay a fine or spend 10 days in jail um that siren was on the book or that um that siren still sounds today the law was actually on the books until 1974 almost 10 years after the Civil Rights Act so we're still seeing those things happen in Douglas County and that kind of history of Oppression carrying on um one of the things that I
054always like to express here is the stories from our elders so we recently at one of our dresserville community community council meetings had an elder come forward he he kind of laughed about it when telling the story but in the 90 1950s when he was about 12 years old he was arrested for being in the in the town of Gardnerville past that sounding of the siren they were playing at a local park and he said it was about him and 10 other washer boys they were put in jail there at the Old Courthouse overnight and before they were released the sheriff cut their hair he actually buzz cut them kind of bringing forward this imagery of scalping Indians again right um so those are things that are really detrimental to indigenous people and a part
055of our history of place here within our own homelands so finally I just want to talk a little bit about um the Indian the Indian reorganization act so by 1934 there was finally a means to kind of recognize the political status of indigenous peoples bring forward federally and state recognized tribes and so for us as washu people um we established our first Tribal Council in 1935 we created our constitution in bylaws in 1936 and we were given a corporate charter in 1937. um this happened really fast across the country so it was something that every tribe had to do within a matter of years it wasn't like you had a decade to receive federal recognition you pretty much had to act on it the day of or miss out a few tribes did actually have
056their Federal status revoked and then spent the another 50 plus years fighting to get it back finally the last thing that I wanted to talk about here is in 1951 and this goes back to our homeland map we petitioned the Indian Claims Commission under um docket 288 is is what it's known as to receive compensation for the illegal taking of Washington Lands during colonization um the original estimates for the resources within our homeland of course you think about Timber resources fishing resources Virginia City and the gold and silver that was discovered there was upwards of 85 million dollars that was cut down to about five million dollars so our final settlement was just a percentage of what our lands were actually worth here the other thing too is that this case took almost 18 years
057to be settled so it wasn't until 18 or 1969 that the the settlement actually came so this was 20 years that we were in court fighting this case against the federal government um there's some cool information there if you look into it there was actually a big time argument between anthropologists um one perception of anthropology is that indigenous people inherently shaped the homelands in which they existed the other perception at this time or perspective was that indigenous peoples were lesser in some Manner and were did not have the uh civilization or the ideologies per se in any meaningful way change land we know today of course that indigenous peoples did manage land we did prevent a lot of the climate change or the effects of climate change such as huge forest fires by our relationship
058with Place through cultural burning and a lot of those things are being brought back to the Tahoe Basin in conjunction with the forest service and so on so forth so I know it's a lot of different things that I threw at you guys today um but to kind of sum it up the washu people today or the Washington tribe is a federally recognized tribe we have roughly about 1400 enrolled tribal members that doesn't include descendants but that's specifically enrolled tribal members who meet the requirements um currently our land base has been cut down by quite a bit but we still have four reservations each of them having a community council that make up our larger governing body the tribal council we also have multiple trust lands and allotment lands one thing that's important with allotment
059lands because it comes up a lot but allotment lands are actually held by individual tribal members and not held by the tribe as a whole so it's kind of a direct relationship between individuals in the federal government but it does still Encompass our land base and what lands we're able to govern um and create laws to govern today so finally and just the um kind of wrap up here so as as Dr Cutler had had mentioned at the beginning of this one of the big things that we really wanted to bring forward was the opportunity to create a meaningful partnership with the school district and so there's a couple of opportunities here the first one of course is the adoption of a land acknowledgment um this is something that's been really popular over say the
060last five to ten years land acknowledgments are usually tools to recognize the indigenous people of a particular place depending on the region there may be a land acknowledgment that encompasses multiple tribes but this being at the heart of Washington the Washington people's homelands we recognize this as the lands of the washu people one of the things with this is it is a process but it really is a kind of teaching moment and collaborate collaborative effort between the tribe the school board and even the school district as a whole but it is supposed to be meaningful and representative of our connection to this place and really create a partnership and an understanding for the future the final thing and this is something that you may all be aware of but just I believe last year in
0612022 California passed the assembly California past assembly Bill 1703 um through this assembly Bill the legislature encourages local educational agencies to form California Indian educational task forces within California Indian tribes local or sorry with California Indian tribes local to their region or tribes historically located in the region participants in these meetings are encouraged to discuss the issues as Mutual concern and work to do some of the following so um one of the things with this bill is it isn't something that is required of everyone to do reading through it and I I'm not going to stand up here and act like I'm an expert on this law by any means I was actually joking with one of our language teachers today that as I scroll through the bill to actually find the requirements it was
062like looking through a online recipe where you have to read their entire story to find the ingredients um so what does this bill actually mean right so some of the goals of this bill are to develop a thorough and shared understanding of accurate high quality curricular materials about the history culture and government of local tribes and develop curriculum curricular materials for use within local education agencies that include tribal experiences and perspectives and teach about the history culture and government of local tribes number two to develop a shared understanding of proper or improper instructional materials when these materials you are used to depict indigenous peoples three encourage local educational agencies to adopt curriculum developed by the California Indian education task force in order to ensure that all pupils learn about the history culture government and experiences
063of their Indian peers and neighbors and ensure that Indian pupils are more engaged and learn more successfully and then finally purpose four is to identify the extent and nurture of the achievement gap between indigenous pupils and other pupils and identify the strategy strategies necessary to close it um one of the things with this is that the creation of an educational task force or specifically this task force on India on California Indians I believe it goes through the state and in the bill it does describe describe a mechanism to fund this um to help support that so it isn't something that would come specifically from the school district but would be reimbursed from the state once established and so I I'm not looking for any action or anything on that but I just wanted to come
064with an informative presentation um and express our interest in partnering with the local school district nice thank you very much yeah a very informative presentation I learned a lot so thank you very much for coming Herman do they still is uh Stewart's school does this still have its museum open to the public oh it's beautiful okay and they recently revamped it I think around 2019 or 2020. yeah and so they did up that and it is a much better display than it was previously yeah yeah because I I took a Class A long time ago I think was Fresno Pacific or whatever it was about Carson City but a segment of it was Stewart's school and then I read your presentation or or your uh notes about what you were going to present to us
065and I did find it and I didn't remember reading that when I went through the museum that were your the children were forced to stay there and stay away from their family so they could become and I'm going to use your words come to the white world okay and it made me automatically when I read that the other night flash to Japanese Americans right somebody that's different hey we're going to brainwash you into believing this versus your heredity you know and so forth and so on I would really recommend that anyone has an opportunity please go visit Stewart's school but more importantly I was a history teacher okay and a lot of what you're saying has been left out of a lot of history books and done on purpose and I don't want to get
066political here but with the cultural Wars we're about to face I'm hoping that we can improve what you're asking where you come in and you teach possibly our children in this District the importance that Columbus didn't discover a new world okay he didn't discover a new world there was a world here now you want to go 14 000 years back I think you could even go further if you want right but I won't go there and I just want to tell you your presentation is great I I don't know where we can go from this but as a board member and a former history teacher I'd be more than happy to be a Liaisons and to maybe bring this to the elements I know earlier I went to a couple uh PTA meetings at Sierra
067house and they were all looking for enrichment this would be a great way to enrich kids to understand that there was a world here okay definitely um one thing I wanted to touch on and it's um definitely true a lot of kids were taken from their homes and a lot of our stories are really really sad um I used to do these presentations when I first started working for the tribe about 10 years ago on historical trauma um and it was really tough for me and I used to get really emotional and sometimes even angry doing so because these aren't stories from people far gone often this is the story of my grandparents my uncle Herman Holbrook who I was named after uh joined World War II signed up and enlisted into the Navy at
068the age of 16 in order to escape these boarding schools because of the horrendous treatment that he received there and you're exactly right this entire conversation about critical race Theory happening across the country they need to include history and curriculum on behalf of all people of color to reevaluate that relationship and I always go back to um I was taking a social social cultural studies class and we were looking into bilingual education because my passion is truly revitalization of our language I I I I'm passionate about teaching our language to our youth either in a full emerging setting or a bilingual setting but one of my professors there he said you know the curriculum that we have in our school districts are built for and I don't mean this in an offensive way but they're
069built for middle class white kids and we're not even just um providing the services that we should for them so if this is built for a class of people that most most of us don't fit into kind of thing and it's failing those students think about what it's doing for the rest of us Jonah um I want to say that one of the most impressive things about the museum is I the my docent was actually a former student and she could talk very personally about the experience um I was wondering if you and I'm thinking about this task force and of course it it looks pretty informed as as you presented have you spent any time considering what the model might look like um have you ever done any curriculum development work in the past
070any members of the tribe um so can you like do you have a vision for this at all so um a couple of things I I have worked on curriculum before most of my curriculum has been specific to language immersion lessons so what we do in our own classrooms and after school programs I have assisted with some curriculum for local schools we do have people within this within the tribe who are highly skilled for example my mom was a K-12 teacher at Smith Valley her passion is Art so oftentimes she'd make sure that we talk about Steam and not stem right the inclusion of arts and everything that we do currently our typo officer Patrick Burr is a he's teaching at the University of Arizona and Arizona State and while he finishes his doctorate degree
071so we do have some highly skilled people within our within the tribe um some tribal members some descendants some married into the tribe and so on so forth in the 1990s we also had an emerging school that the tribe operated so we do have experience with some of those things but in um related to this bill specifically on I believe it's Friday March 31st we're going to have a meeting at the woodford's Indian Education Center in Alpine County to discuss this further there's actually a task force in California amongst tribes as a whole that's going to bring a presentation there and we're kind of hoping to identify those next steps at that point thank you for coming and I'm really excited about developing a stronger partnership with you um for our school district and um
072I've just I've always um I've lived here since 85 but I worked at the water quality control board for three or three years so I've had a relationship with the Washoe people related to Leviathan mine and just Watershed protection and water quality so I'm always impressed with everybody I meet from the tribe and and um just the knowledge that you bring uh forward to all of us to help us you know understand um the way our our world works and I guess I'm excited about the possibility of um not only having an improved social studies curriculum that talks about you know the heritage of the wash of people and how we um discuss indigenous people here but as you said the steam aspects and you know we're doing a lot more with um what we're
073calling Career Technical education but you know a lot of it is focused on Watershed protection environmental science and environmental restoration so um I think that element might be it may not be unique to other places but I just know that here at obviously Lake Tahoe you know we all are committed to protecting the lake and the Watershed um but also helping our students understand um the new the techniques that you're reminding us of you know how to how to manage force and things like that so um I'm excited to have you here and just and I've heard the speaker I there was a speaker from the tribe that came in talked about language also for at the library here and it was really informative that was me that was new yeah I did a speech
074over there as well okay cool I was there yeah I thought I couldn't really ever was you or somebody else but that was excellent your mom was from Oakland she's the art teacher is she from Oakland okay okay great she's from Missouri or Missouri yeah okay yeah that was that was fantastic and I love um well I just love that that is that she came that she came to help the tribe with this notion of keeping the language alive because I remember I knew people that were doing the immersion program back in the 90s and I'm sad that it's not there but I but I'm just glad that you're keeping it going um so yeah so I'm hoping we can support that and and I'm happy to you know be part of that task force
075or whatever so hopefully you won't be able to look into that thank you Herman thank you very much uh being a born and raised person of Tahoe I I feel like I don't know anything about my homeland what I would like to call it uh based upon your your brief presentation and I look forward to and feel it's very important for us to explore the opportunity to learn more about our homeland and appreciate it and at minimum uh teach stewardship yeah so I I thank you very much and I look forward to us exploring it a lot more thank you and so I do just want to take one moment to acknowledge your teachers and some of your technical education staff because they have reached out to us to provide presentation locally um just recently
076and actually just today I was talking to Michelle with CTE they are planning a trip to Valhalla and and to lack historical site um and we're hoping to do four days or at least one day worth of programming with them I think they're taking four different third grade classes um so just to acknowledge you guys as staff and your teachers as well there are big things happening but we wanted to make sure that this also comes to the highest level down yeah I'm I'm so glad that Michelle is reaching out to you and I was thinking I was a third grade teacher at CR house so third grade is local history and learning about our local people so I'm glad that you're going to be doing that thank you so much yeah I remember going
077on a field trip down to the tribe land and doing everything it was it was very impactful I didn't realize it was third grade but that's yeah yeah Madam president members of the board just to know that obviously well thank you for this incredible presentation and I just want you to know that um I'll ask Dr reader to make certain that we are working with uh Herman and and looking at how we Infuse the appropriate places in our in our system third grade and so on and so forth um with the historical components and and ask Herman to join us and it's really great to hear that Michelle had reached out to you as well I wanted the board to know um and from a suggestion of a board member um we we looked up
078into how many Native American or Alaska natives do we have in our district and approximately 80 students um and uh so then we were you know it was kind of a last second thing we're trying to to get high school students invited to come here tonight to hear Herman's presentation um and you know to to have a sense of what we're working to accomplish and um and so I want to recognize a student and his mom that came this evening and and welcome you to come to the podium if you'd like to say something um uh so again if I say their name wrong I apologize but Cardin Juarez what is yeah um so and Mom and I don't have names oh and okay Laura Laura Aunt um so if you like if you'd like
079to share anything with the boards you've sat here through this and I would want to welcome you to to the podium Guardian if you'd like to say anything all right Laura thank you yeah hi uh yes so our family uh we are part of Mescalero Apache and so we have you know being raised here and brought up here and I'm born and raised here uh it when we heard about this program we were like that's great because we don't know a lot so to learn more about you know our culture and everything and especially um sorry I didn't think I was going to come up here this week but especially traditions and things like that I think it's exciting um especially for uh his age you know to experience that and becoming an adult and
080stuff like that so I think that would be interesting for him a gram and I would like to add that uh I think that it would be a great thing for students like my age to learn more about their answers as well because I know I would like to learn a lot about my ancestors um all the way from New Mexico but even if it's not from here and it could be from somewhere else I think it would just be a great thing for people to know where they came from who their ancestors are and to know their traditions you know I I just thank you for coming this evening I know that uh between Theresa and Mr Zunino we were we had 20 I think we identified 20 students tried it from the high
081school and you you made it that means a lot to us and to share your thoughts on that that was really powerful for us so thank you very much you're very welcome cardan are you in the spirit of taking pictures I know it in the same pictures Mr Fillmore uh Laura and pardine will you guys join up with the board and we'll get a picture taken thank you so much pardan I have a question for you are you a junior this year thank you for being thank you history thank you foreign I don't know but I think what happens on screen I don't know about that I don't know but it works to the C because what I think happens is the first one oh you know what I want to hear it now move
082it move it for me move it back yep there it is try it okay that's right okay ready okay going on to item 10 Educational Services um all right dear house single Focus update this is an information item hold on a second I think we can slide it out to the back of that door I know right there right up there okay we ready so Dr reader said I could introduce Sierra house myself so we're we're going for it so thank you all right good evening Dr Cutler president Mansfield and Board of Trustees we are excited to share our tonight our single Focus work that we are doing at Sierra house the members of our team presenting tonight include myself Karen Holmes Jeff Henderson Paige cephalu and Mandy Miller but it's important to note that
083while we are here presenting this evening every teacher at Sierra house is deeply invested in what we are presenting tonight um when we began our single Focus project with the goal of posting clear objectives in math our goal was to move to posting objectives and math and writing in year two and hosting objectives in math writing and reading in year three as we began our math journey we became deeply involved in analyzing our practices and taking deep dives into why we are getting the results we are getting in math this has led to an amazing journey that has been Guided by our work with California Ed partners and the latest research coming out of UCLA writing our daily objectives is becoming ingrained practice but we have moved so far beyond that we had eight teachers
084attend the National Conference for teachers of mathematics and this conference opened our eyes to a world of possibilities in math instruction we've also taken advantage of our California Ed partnership to guide our work on embedding effective strategies into our math instruction as we look forward to year three we are planning to continue what we have been doing in addition to working on developing common assessments for each critical concept so that we can truly identify what students know and where they have gaps and how we can adjust our teaching practices to maximize learning for all students that's you yeah it's not you're gonna daily math objectives are posted in all classrooms to guide instruction and student learning as seen in the slide objectives are posted in a variety of ways teachers are free to add vocabulary
085math practices and visuals alongside their objectives as we have developed our plan to improve our math practices we have worked closely with Mrs Ashley Chung from California Ed Partners to help us focus our work and make sure our collaborations are meaningful and systematically moving our teams toward a deeper understanding of strong mathematical practices and coherence of our math program across thank you as a staff we have chosen these two high Leverage pedological practices as a focus for our work as a site this year eliciting students mathematical ideas and allowing students to use tools and representations of their own choosing our specific goals are one to align our collaborations with our outcome goals two to use collaboration time wisely to unpack the critical Concepts and look at student work to draft next steps in our instruction
086three to develop our instructional practices and strategies to help elicit student mathematical thinking and for give opportunities for students to represent their thinking using a variety of tools teacher collaboration time has been a huge Focus for our team this year together we have developed a schedule that allows us time to specifically talk about math on a regular basis once a month on Tuesdays we meet to unpack the critical Concepts that we will be covering during the next four weeks Trisha sulyan has done an amazing job of preparing documents for us to work from Trisha zulian has set these critical Concepts yep yep um for us in a progression scale format and teachers take this information and talk about these Concepts um how it's addressed how it is addressed in our curriculum what we might need
087to add and what we can leave out for each grade level during that collaboration is what we talk about the next day during our Wednesday collaboration time we reflect on our Tuesday discussion and learnings and then discuss student work that we collected during the previous four weeks teachers spend time analyzing student mathematical thinking and developing plans to extend this thinking through meaningful activities so that's okay um on our Wednesday it's very happy um on our Wednesday collaboration we take our students work and really look at what they are showing us uh where um are they in understanding the mathematical Concepts and how are they demonstrating their thinking what can they do and how do we now extend their thinking this slide shows how different students approached a third grade math counting collections so obviously you
088could see they are working at their level which is wonderful we are also planning um a collaboration to further discuss research-based strategies that make math accessible for all students this collaboration is designed to give us time to talk about what is working well in our individual classrooms here are some examples of some strategies that we brought back from our conference we went to in La Mr Henderson is shown here under his interactive number line the math word walls are a great way to build math vocabulary and posting a variety of strategies helps students realize there are many ways to solve a problem so we have been working hard to increase teacher Clarity around our math instructions and goals our goal is to have all students gain confidence in their mathematical abilities and enjoy the process
089of interacting with math in ways that make sense to them um which is aligned with our district goals of developing every student as a competent learner the next two slides show our assessment data from the map and I ready assessments which we have taken in the fall and winter test scores from fall to winter on both assessments showed gains across the board in math here we're seeing decreases in the number of students scoring below the 40th percentile and we're seeing increases in students scoring above the 60th percentile on iready the number of students performing at or above grade level is increasing and the number of students performing far below grade level is decreasing we are looking forward to our students taking the cast assessment this spring to show how students are developing their mathematical thinking
090so our next step include continuing to write our focused learning objective every day continuing with family engagement and math nights and we actually have a math Festival coming continuing on our focused work with college Partners through the end of the grant cycle next year continue our monthly math collaborations continue to build and Supply our math manipulatives and activities to make sure we are engaging all students where they where they are and actively engage every student in math uh this slide breaks up our success breaks down our success criteria by the lcap goals and we are really proud of the work we're doing to make this criteria a reality and as we started our process we said you don't change data by looking at data you change data by looking at practices and this quote continues
091to guide our work and we are looking at improving math outcomes by strategically looking at what we need to teach and how we need to teach it to make mathematics as accessible and exciting for every student so thank you for allowing us to share our work around these around mathematics this evening and um we cut out a lot there's so much we're doing are there any questions foreign question your family math night May 11th that's a board meeting you're having the dates they could offer us were so limited but they said the crown jewel of their presentation is with the kids during the day so they want you to come during the day on the 11th to come see what we're doing oh that's perfect yeah I I was trying to move it because I
092was like oh my gosh but they had otherwise we're going to be doing it in June and I was like that's too yeah okay thank you that'll work that's right yeah who are the who are the they it is I can't tell you the name right now it's a um it's a professional math Festival people they come up they do they actually have a teacher PD as well and I couldn't get that to fit in with what we're doing but they um they sent us some examples of the stations they do with the kids and their um grade specific it's just amazing it's really fun and it's we're going to learn a lot from what they do for us it's like an assembly but it's a it's a festival that Kids GO Station to Station
093and do all the different math concepts and teachers go with them and they and then that night we have the kids come back for the Family Medicine okay so hopefully we can all make it to the yes at the end of the day I I told him that this was a big deal and he said they don't want to come in the evening they want to come during the day I know that's not possible not everybody well I think what's really you know is I I had the same feeling of disappointment of not being able to be there that night because we have a board meeting but I recognize that um because I did go to a family math night last year I think it was yeah and I wasn't as well attended as I
094always want these things to be but I just I do appreciate the work that the teachers have been doing you know and the excitement and the effort to um you know to create those those spaces for families to come you know they actually have another one more night scheduled in April um and so I will let you know what and I we were not sure if we were going to do writing or math but I think we're going to stick with Max so I'll let you know I'll put it out there so you know what night that is so we can do another one but I you know I think like I said it's more important that the students show up and the families for that but mostly I just want to thank you and
095applaud everybody for the effort and it's it means um it just means so much to me that you're doing um like you said you're not just looking at the data and going well how can we improve the data we you know you really die diving into how to teach Math and how to just celebrate and support the notion that there's many ways to solve a problem and as an engineer and someone who loved math but I feel like I was blessed by having really good teachers then that's why math was easy for me but I see so many of our students struggling and oftentimes I just have the sense that they're not being taught number sense you know what are what do these numbers mean and so the the tangible Notions of the collections and
096all these different things you're doing I just I because math should mean a lot of things to kids and I mean it really should and they're having so much fun with this out of the box I mean they're looking forward to math activities and it's the one having our partnership with caled partners has been a lifesaver Jeff and I meet with actually probably every other week to go over what our next steps are and it's just been amazing and I just I'm glad that all your it looks like all the teachers have embraced that concept too that they can that they can teach differently like they're that that we can be open-ended you know so yeah but then we there are so many people that are doing so much more yeah it's becoming part of
097how we teach thank you yeah I just like to add that reading your presentation a couple times I just love the idea that you guys use the word Journey because lifelong learning should be a journey right and if you can find that passion for kids to enjoy and want to learn about math I was never a math person okay the last time I I think the last class of math I that I ever took was 1971 I was a senior in high school okay and luckily I didn't have to take it in college but I want to give a couple really important points I really enjoyed about your presentation was that you guys talk about focused collaboration Focus not just go in and talk and then throw stuff off the wall and leave you're you're
098getting down to the things that are most important for kids and you work at that as a former coach when you go back at the end of the season make a list of the things you taught the most and by God that's what you were really good at the things that you left out ah you weren't really quite that good and the last thing I would say and I think your staff can just take this back to your staff and be very proud that and part of your presentation when you guys say the staff shares a common belief that we do make a difference and that I think is important because kids pick up on that and please continue that I know I gave you guys a compliment you were the poster child for you
099know student involvement you're also a poster child I I honestly believe with single Focus okay and so please you should be really really proud I I had the the honor of sitting with you and Jeff at the I ready and listening to you guys and I was you know I was eavesdropping just listening to the different things you were doing I'm gonna tell you it's really exciting because I started on the school board in 2016. we weren't doing well in math and if we can make that movement it is super exciting and the more we get into it the more that we see and the data is just we we could have shown you a lot well it's super exciting and my last point is that then then your staff can help other staffs who
100are struggling let's say in math because that's the beauty of education is you steal okay if something were it's pragmatic if something works you keep it if it doesn't work you get rid of it and you find something that does work so anyway thank you very much you're very welcome I think by did you have another question yeah hold on I just wanted to say one one thing yeah I got something I'd like to say too he just wants to take another picture um I I think everything has been really well said by the other uh trustees and I just wanted to add how proud I am to see those um scores they're so consistent they really speak they do it yeah it's the more what we've been looking at the data especially with iready
101it's been really really interesting to look at it and go kind of dig in the people who are teaching with Fidelity with this the practices that we're talking about are started out Five Points below the um National Norm they're now above the national Mormon from fall to winter it's just it's so good so we just gotta keep we're just gonna keep building on it yeah I I think it's wonderful I I hear the emotion and the The Inspired tone I mean you've always been a very excitable person nice to talk to you but I'm hearing what I think what gives me the most Comfort having children in the district unfortunately they're beyond your grade levels but I I hear that you're trying to meet the children where they're at and recognizing that and then uh
102with the goal of pulling them all to a higher level and I think that's really wonderful that we don't you know just kind of boil their plate him up and classify them it's really wonderful because it's got to be inspiring the whole team and that's that's outstanding thank you Madam president members board I just want to say a few things and number one I'm just really proud of this presentation this evening and I want to point out a couple things because I get asked oftentimes what is this Wednesday thing and in this presentation tonight it showed that you know coming together on a Tuesday followed it on a Wednesday when we don't have that time for teachers to work together and collaborate and look at data and look at the practices that we have then
103we aren't able to move it forward we need that time and that's really imperative and I really appreciate it's your House's efforts to to use that time to truly make make a difference and and uh trustee Riley you made a comment that this is like the what this this for the single Focus plan being this model post to poster child I mean um why what what is so important about that is the idea of the single focus is to truly single Focus to drive in and say this is the thing we're going to do that's I mean we're doing a lot of stuff get it but it's that the staff comes together and makes that decision and together makes the difference and and it's really clear that that the staff at Sierra house has pulled
104together work together and make a difference for our students and it's really powerful and I'm really proud to be able to say that and I was just drafting an email right now to the caled partners also to let them know that we had an amazing presentation from our staff tonight and that we appreciate the partnership and the work together um yeah and so I just was just share that so thank you and I can emphasize enough caled partners are amazing and we're just so fortunate that we get to work with them for three years yeah that's good we are really into pictures tonight I love it I wasn't planning on doing a picture of these garments good job guys thank you so much all right we have to have a conversation yeah yeah okay moving
105along foreign [Music] okay moving on to 10 B uh south tower High School data update this is an information item thank you president Mansfield and trustees tonight we're providing you with a brief informational update on our high school map date as well as some other metrics we collected from South Tahoe High School this data was not available last month when we shared the K-8 map and irate ready data Edition we're fortunate to have principal Zunino with us tonight providing additional information and color commentary here's a quick slide showing our demographics of South Tahoe High School as you see our Hispanic population is our largest population swd stands for students with disabilities and SCD stands for social economically disadvantage here's some historical data on South Tahoe High School graduation rates as you see they have exceeded
106the state average in these recent years of reporting 2018 2019 and 2022 data were pulled from the California school dashboard while the 2020 and 2021 rates were not reported by the California school dashboard so we pulled those numbers from a data Quest where there's some slight differences in calculating the rates but that was the data we had as you see we've been you know we've been over the 90 percent here the past few years here uh slide 4 identifies the percentage of South Tahoe high school graduates identified as prepared for College and Career for the California school dashboard based on the applicable criteria listed over there to the left to the right um The Avenues to achieve college career Readiness are offered by the South Tahoe High School there are listed there's others as well
107but I just listed the ones that are available at South Tahoe High School here we're showing first the Seal of by literacy that's our percentage of graduating students who met competency in two language two languages uh big hats off to Marina Martin and Karen Goldberg and Moore who have advertised encouraged students to pursue uh seal of religious by literacy in fact I was there today visiting Justin in classes and heard a uh an announcement about the Seal of by literacy and pers asking students to consider pursuing that opportunity and then the other the other column there or the percentage of students who met the a through G requirements is requirements which is more than the minimal High School requirements and they met the UC and CSU requirements here are the four Pathways offered at South
108Tahoe High School and Career and Technical education you see the non-publishers the number of students who are taking classes and then to the column do the right there are those folks that completed that are considered completers and with that they have to have 300 hours or more of the CTE courses and pass to Capstone course as you see our Allied Health as the most completers with sports medicine exercise science and dental assistance here are our Casp assessment data through the past few years it's administered to all Juniors each year as you see no cast data like like our other grades was not collected in 2020 and 2021 as a result of the pandemic there's this year's data we we did discuss reducing the the grade levels that we administer the map to and we decided
109since we have these other metrics in place that we would only administer Matt to our freshmen coming in here is our map map data showing the percentage of students who are approaching meeting and exceeding the yellow greens and Blues in the fall and then again in the winter similar to what we reported for the K-8 students and then here is our map data for our freshmen in reading a little bit of a bump of our approaching and meeting and exceeding from 48 to 50 between the fall and the winter all right another data source that South Tahoe High School uses and works with their staff are the number of D's in apps by grade level here you see the two semesters for this school year broken up by the grade levels if we were to
110break it up by percentages 24 percent of our freshmen 27 percent of our sophomores 23 percent of our Juniors and 17 percent of our seniors so we have shared quite a bit of data for you tonight I've asked principal zanino to join me here at the podium to share uh just some additional things you know there's some good data there there's some data that we need to work on thank you Dr reader and thank you president Mansfield and trustees for the opportunity tonight to share a bit about what we're working on at Southall High School statistics reviewed by Dr reader have been stable for many years now on sths and we intend to disrupt this trend through a number of efforts we've been working on and a plan to continue in the coming months and
111years our secret focus at sdhs as you know is on practice collaboration and since our presentation last spring we've been busy learning and implementing a number of efforts and projects to better support students begins we're building a safe supportive and collaborative School culture for us a safe school goes well beyond physical safety but also describes a place where students develop an appreciation for each other sense of self of belonging to the school and a place where students feel like it can be who they are and a supportive School culture is one that changes challenges encourages assists all students to achieve at high levels also important a support a supportive School culture believes in their kids and engages them to develop and Foster positive relationships wellness and SEO in working to achieve this at sdhs we
112have three new important projects in the works first is advisory a program I'm excited about and the possibilities we're planning second and hopefully on the way very soon Flex a program that staff and admin have worked hard to craft which we believe will go a long way to support students in a variety of ways and third our Wellness Center which has been very timely and immediately successful since we established last May and finally on our way in developing our collaborative culture yes collaboration happens in schools all across the nation but not every school has a collaborative culture a culture that is regular and deliberate in the work that's due it's baked into the process of how we do our work but more than that it's expectations for our kids for one another and for us
113at this early point in our journey sdhs is working to develop our processes but perhaps more importantly to recognize and value that we are stronger together these three areas I have just highlighted safe supportive and collaborative I've been and will continue to be important areas of focus for the culture of sdhs aside from this we've started the work of identifying what we call critical Concepts you've heard a little bit about that tonight in proficiency scales which is an important effort in clarifying outcomes for staff as well as students in the not too distant future we'll begin to take a closer look at instruction through the lens of research-based practices on a separate note related do you want to mention can also share that were nearly completed our report for the upcoming wasp accreditation visit in
114May I feel very lucky to share that I've had some very dedicated teachers to name them Ms norling Mr Peterson Mr Terry Mr connect all working with Dr Bedwell to complete this important report where we highlight and outline many of the steps forward that will be taking over the next viewers I thank you for allowing me to share a few updates and important priorities we've been working towards at shs and please if there are any questions I have a question um on the slides the number of F's how come there were so many for 9th and 10th graders uh as I shared there uh that is um Not Unusual um it is typical that freshmen tend to struggle more in that first year with the adjustments that they're making um and and tend to get
115much better organizationally um you know attending class and just learning to become a student as as years progress also recognizing the need to pass classes to graduate so it it is concerning I do want to be sure that that that that I say and that I I say also on behalf of Staff yeah and I wouldn't want to dumb down the curriculum or anything like that you know I just they need to be challenged but it just seemed like a disproportionate amount uh that that is typical uh for more freshmen and then fewer sophomores and you see that Trend it's very consistent that way um so having said that I I think it's also important to say that and I started to talk a little bit about this uh a moment ago and that is
116we've started the work and and many other schools and Nation uh and districts Across the Nation are have been doing this for many years and that is really taken the time to focus on essential learning what is it identifying it slowing down a bit making sure we're more successful providing those opportunities for formative assessment as you work through a semester and then intervening when kids are not learning they're not with you intervening right um so so very important um that we have started to recognize this uh departments are starting to do more and more work around and I had science today for example working at the middle school today with the idea of identifying critical Concepts what is essential what the kids need to learn and and what does it look like from chemistry one
117to chemistry two to bio on and on through right so and not just doing that alone in isolation but 6 12 right that's the effort there that we started today so identifying what is really essential not just the staff I would add really important that kids know that the kids understand what those learning outcomes are they're connected with that as you're working through a lesson or working through a unit they're looking for those pieces that they need to learn that they need to demonstrate they understand stand and once they're clear on that staff is clear on that and we're assessing as we go right quite a bit formative assessment every week what are we doing to measure kids knowledge measure where they're at are they learning what they need to learn and then intervening how
118are you going to intervene how are we going to support how are we going to do a reteach what does that look like as we move through the semester now that's the process we're starting to talk more about and that will improve that stat that you saw with grades okay thank you sounds like Flex would be helpful on that for the intervention piece yes it would at least my understanding is what the goal of flex is yes um the really three parts to it that is it sounds like there's enthusiasm from the students and the uh and the team to uh accomplish great things so that's good very much so so I'm a little I'm hoping you can talk to me a little bit about completion of the CTE pathways on on one hand I
119can see it's it's a wonderful thing that kids try things and explore in different ways but I know um if we're you know for those students that are not going towards college and I know also the state is encouraging really completion of those Pathways so I guess I have kind of a couple of parts to this question and probably don't need to answer all of it but first of all really what would be what is the um the suggested or Target for the number of students that would be completing it and how do we have to think differently if we're really asking students to know already in ninth grade that they're interested in you know having a certain certificate or a certain number of real skills at a specific area I mean what is it
120that we need to do to make that whole package work better so that I appreciate question that that's related I would say on a larger scale really around planning doing more planning with kids uh bringing parents into the fold with that what does that look like highlighting those Pathways what does it look to start and as you clearly stated not all kids are going to complete that but by doing a bit more planning which we have started to do right I say it all the time trying to meet with every kid every year and we've started that work it's a lot of organization and commitment involved with that but then informing parents and you may be familiar we've done some parent nights this year and we'll continue to do that so we better inform parents
121about those decisions when it comes to enrolling in classes for the next year so it's it's really about planning how do we do more about connecting with kids to be really strategic with them one other thing I'll mention that we just recently adopted as a tool to really inform kids and explore careers uh and I believe it was adopted grade three through through 12. that's major Clarity it's a program right that really goes a long way to to articulate all of our classes and then plan those classes plan that pathway for an individual student for years in advance also opportunities in there to look at career opportunities what do those how do those classes maybe tie in to the careers that are that the kids is looking into that is exploring through this program so
122planning is a is a really big part of that and being intentional every year so vision of disclosure explore and engage and and the work that Michelle and Alyssa are doing to get that interest level at the at the elementary and middle school level so that when by the time they hit high school hopefully they've got their eyes set on a pathway and so hopefully in the near future start seeing more computers and and again do we have any kind of sense what kind of a Target we're looking for on that you know is are there models in the state that say these many kids will complete their CTE pathway and this seems like the ideal kind of do we have anything like that yeah and a couple things on that so right so the
123the the pathway education is a component of the dashboard right and and there's several elements to that that creates a score and uh and of course it's not been compiled the last couple years with the covet and everything else so um if you look at and was presented tonight to score what we have and where we fall within the state we're below the average and it's really there's this the a through G completion that's impacted us heavily on on that on that score as well as the actual um having our Pathways truly be um through to a Capstone and having those pieces to it to the point that that Dr reader just mentioned the idea of the CTE like can't get people to talk about it quite frankly I want to call everybody out on
124it right because the idea is to discover careers in elementary school Discover it not to you know get engaged and excited about Discovery and use that term K-5 is Discovery Middle School then becomes exploration of what's my interest my aptitudes my desires what I think I might like for my future and then jump into high school and engage in a pathway and as I've told parents over many years of doing this work is that you know what a student can go into a pathway complete that pathway and have an incredible education maybe at the other side of that decide not something I want to do with my future that happens in college you know I have a daughter who has a degree that she's not necessarily specifically using from college but that through that path
125of Education you learn and grow so I want to really um reinforce the idea that that CTE education is a K-12 system and many school districts do not do that and we wait to get to the high school and well let's see I don't know yeah maybe because my mom or dad told me I should think about this or whatever there's this whole system that we're wanting to build on that and that was the CTE specialist and and of course our two that were still working in that our Korean are really working hard to to to get this experience going Justin if I could uh just one more thing as a parent of a current student of yours and uh future parent of two incoming freshmen I want you to uh please uh I want
126to encourage you to please continue to engage the families because having had a graduate already it really seemed like the family involvement at the high school level significantly drops off and I don't think that it's a uh necessarily A Fault of the school it might be more of a the parents are getting a little tired I don't know what it is but please don't don't stop that engagement piece I I appreciate it I think that's that's where you're going to get a an uptick in results as well thank you thank you yeah I I go that well I just think it requires a lot more um I don't know if you want to call it pressure but invitation you know encouragement for the parents to be involved it yeah it takes encouragement because I do
127think the parents just feel like that it's you know yeah and the student has it and I I actually just I want to acknowledge that I really appreciate your focus on and getting the students more engaged in their own you know their own education and I know that's happening you know I know that's happening at the kindergarten through uh 12th grade level but I really appreciate your commitment to that um and helping kids really see that how their choices impact you know where their outcomes so I really appreciate that um do you have any ideas I mean I when I look at our the math scores at the high school I'm just I just sort of surprised I guess I don't understand I and I don't know maybe you can help me why do you
128think our math scores are so low compared to the State numbers I mean this year in particular they just seem really abysmal you know hey you're you're you ask a question that is uh important to us is important to every math teacher every teacher at that school I think is you know wants and desires and is committed to doing better I think the work that is taking place that has already been talked about tonight the articulation that is taking place is important I I do I see it as a K-12 effort um I think it's very important but I I also think and and as we get uh further along uh as I mentioned a moment ago beginning to look at instruction and really digging in with critical Concepts and and how that looks from
129one math class to the next to the next will help us improve there so I'm confident that uh we are going to be improving in these areas um the commitment is there the culture is building to support that very important building to support that um and so it's it's it's time now that um that we have in front of us with Wednesdays and other PDS that we're doing throughout the year done several this year that will bring us closer and closer each year it seems like and I really appreciate that you're talking to the middle school because obviously those ninth grade scores are a kind of a reflection of you know the last couple years those students spend at the middle school and you know so the notion that you're if you're trying to get
130your math and science and hopefully all the teachers um better alignment you know for those critical Concepts so when the kids arriving at the high school um you know they've learned the material that the high school teachers need them to have to be able to you know further their their knowledge so um that I just want to continue to encourage that collaboration between the two sites um and then I don't know tonight might not be the time to have you provide this answer but maybe we can schedule a future presentation on the um advisory period like I know you've been through it for the first semester the first half of the year um the new advisory period and I'd love to hear more about what benefits you're seeing you know how it's working what things
131are being tweaked you know what's been challenging but I'm I want to I'd want to hear more about that but yeah absolutely I'd love to and maybe a little bit around uh vision and in the future that we we see with that and and you know obviously tonight was about the data um and uh the high school staff over be coming back and doing their single Focus we can also have them back specifically to the work around wasc um all of this work that they're doing I mean so it was about presenting to you the data as we did with the K8 data previously and of course all the all the schools are connected coming back to present their plans for how they're addressing data whether you know it's data that you're concerned about or
132that or we're seeing it on the on the rise thank you very much moving on to item 11 business services and operations um associate superintendent Mr Andrea Salazar and letter a is fiscal year 2223 second interim financial report and this is an action item good evening Madam president Mansfield and members of the board as noted in educational code 42131 the governing board must certify in writing within 45 days after the close of the financial period being reported whether or not the district is able to meet its Financial Obligations for the current and two subsequent years the financial reporting for second interim and in January 31st 2023 and must be certified by the governing board by March 15 2023. the second interim Financial reports demonstrate that the district will be able to meet its Financial Obligations
133with the reserve for economic uncertainty or EUR of greater than three percent for the current and two subsequent years and as a result we'll self-certify positive at this time I would like to introduce Miss Amber Smith director of financial services to provide an overview of second intro good evening Madam president Mansfield and members of the Court as Andrea mentioned my name is Amber Smith and I am the director of financial services for the school district this evening I will present an overview of the general fund revenues and expenditures as projected for second interim reporting the pie chart in this slide represents the general fund revenues the district expects to receive for FY 2223 categorized by percentage the total general fund revenue is 64.9 million with 64 percent of that balance comprised of lcff funding or
13441.6 billion state revenue comprises 25 percent of total funding received and federal funding comprises nine percent total general fund expenditures equate to 65.8 million the largest component of general fund expenditures is comprised of certificated and classified salaries and their Associated benefits which equates to 51 million or 77 percent of total general fund expenditures important to note is that of the 36.6 million total unrestricted expenditures 88 of the total is comprised of salaries and benefits ltusd will receive approximately 708 thousand dollars in EPA funding which will be expended towards instructional salaries during our second interim procedures other funds were reviewed and also updated at this time I will pass the presentation off to Andrea Salazar who will present the revenue assumptions utilized during Second interim as well as the multi-year protections for the district thank you
135this chart is a comparison of the 2223 first interim versus second interim the decrease in revenue of four hundred thousand dollars is primarily attributable to the supplemental and concentration grants within the lcff with the final unduplicated pupil percentage lower than 55 percent these grants resulted in reduced funding in addition the TK add-on was lower than originally projected due to TK Ada lastly a decrease of 1.1 million for the Arts music and instructional materials block grant has been projected in anticipation of a reduction to the spending as announced in a January budget Workshop there are a number of assumptions utilized in developing the multi-year projections in particular I would like to note that the funding base has changed for the previous two fiscal years the district was funded at the FY 20 1920 Ada level however
136beginning in FY 2223 it will be funded on the greater of current year prior year or three-year average Ada for FY 2223 funding will be based on 3540.25 Ada in addition the district has projected declining enrollment over the next two fiscal years as always projections include step and column movement negotiated salary increases and projected pension increases lastly restricted cares funds for covid-19 response and learning loss mitigation funds received in FY 2122 are phased out in FY 2324 in accordance with funding deadlines this chart includes projections for FY 2324-2425 the district continues to experience budget challenges into FY 2425 due to declining enrollment declining attendance and the expiration of the one-time restricted cares and block grant allocations even with this ltusd has achieved a reserve for economic uncertainty above the required three percent by 1.82 percent
137this is a slight decrease from the first interim reserve of 5.22 percent the decline is primarily due to higher increase of salary expenses agreed upon during negotiations as well as the many costs associated with a record-setting winter snowfall to include facility and Equipment repairs and snow removal due to declining enrollment the district is in a cost cutting phase and will be working collaboratively with all Administration to identify the details it is anticipated that these reductions will be achieved through retirements and natural attrition the first interim projection indicates that as defined in ab1200 the district will meet its final Financial Obligations for the current fiscal year and subsequent two fiscal years and as such as self-certifying is positive it estabs recommendation that the Board of Education approved the FY 2223 second interim financial report are there
138any questions I just want to thank you for answering my questions I had a number of questions that I sent to her earlier and um just the work that Amber and and your staff have been doing and keeping us you know with the appropriate amount of reserves um and I I know that I know that all the staff I've been hearing the hard work of all the principals and um at all the different sites to try to get the information and the data that we need for the unduplicated that that number being less than 55 and we have got to just keep pushing on that I feel like we're you know we're losing money that we deserve you know that um that our numbers are likely more like 60 percent or more and um we
139just need to be more creative I guess I mean I know that like I said Dr Cutler's told me how much work everybody's been doing and there's been lots of opportunities for parents to fill out those forms and I don't know if we're going to have to come up with some kind of incentive program or get businesses behind us but let's interrupt you trustee Kemper but there has been incentive programs in the high school did some incentive programs we're doing it so so I just say this but what you may not know is that the State numbers are down I mean across the State numbers or Downs districts this is not just something that we're experiencing all of all of the state is experiencing it and so um as as efforts for as a superintendent
140and superintendent groups we have to get to our legislators to talk about this challenge that we face because um I mean I was getting 53 of our families to to have completed that that actually qualify um was a yeoman's effort I just I mean so to to I just I didn't mean to cut you off on that but the reality of it is is that our staff is being creative and yeah we are doing these things and I've as I've exp as you just explained I've expressed that to you yeah yeah and I thank you and I recognize it so yeah it's it's almost um an indirect consequence of the free lunch program you know which we we support and we hope the you know the state will continue to support but somehow they've got
141to realize that um the what the downside is related to funding that it just is it's incongruent so let's just hope that that will get resolved at state level so thank you okay so do I have a motion I move adoption of the fiscal year 22 23 Second interim financial report a second and Dr Cutler is generating public comments no public comments all those in favor say aye aye aye any opposed motion carries and um now for Item B transportation plan this is an information item Madam president and members of the board the home to school transportation reimbursement was implemented by assembly Bill 181 and provides reimbursement funding for school districts and county offices of Education based on prior year eligible Transportation expenditures in Prior year lcff Transportation related add-on funding a plan describing the
142transportation services it will offer to its pupils and how these services will be prioritized for pupils and transitional kindergarten kindergarten and any grades one to six inclusive of low-income pupils is a condition of receiving funding the plan must be adopted by the governing board on or before April 1st 2023 and updated by April 1st each year thereafter as such a transportation plan will be brought before the board of education for discussion and action at the March 23 2023 board meeting this is an information item are there any questions I guess no questions I guess I'm kind of curious how how comprehensive this is because I mean are we really just talking about buses what do you mean by a transportation plan really but what are we the transportation of our students and how we are
143going to end how we prioritize how we're going to transportate transport the students as well as those who are economically challenged and I'm just always wondering you know looking forward to you know we're trying to be more sustainable and useless energy and um I would like us to look at it as I know this is a very intractable problem but just um be more comprehensive and not just think buses and how are we how can we work with parents better on the individual automobiles can get kids on bikes and you know I'm just wondering how broadly we can think about it yeah but I mean it's just specific this is a plan that needs to be approved by in a certain time frame specific to the funding that's coming forward for the the requirements of
144transporting students right and just so we know that we have not been required to transport students and now if the funding is coming in specifically saying no you're going to transport students so good for us that we've been doing so so in the end I understand the interest that you have but specific to this component it is about that we have to get it in so that the funding is available to do the busing of students to school and I don't want to this I don't want to mislighter misguide um you know on that specific obviously we we can build out future plans of how we want to encourage bike riding and walking and and getting less students because the trend is parents drive their kids to school a lot more than ever but remember
145also we are working on getting a fleet of electric buses in the future as well so that's all also part of I guess I'm really trying to understand how it's different than what we're already doing you know we're creating a plan but we're really not we're just telling them what we're doing is that what I'm hearing so many districts across the state of California do not provide transportation right so in the state of California now they're expecting and providing the specific funding for us to provide transportation so as districts like ours that do provide that it's simply giving the plan that this is how we do it yeah so and I I see and what this plan is it a um it's a format I mean is it similar to some of the other state
146required plans where you're it's a the report is a standard format there is no template this there is no template but our county office has devised a template for us to utilize okay good and I saw the key points and I see that the you know at least in your description you said some of the key points are really about prioritizing for the uh pupils in the younger grades the transitional kindergarten through um sixth grade so I would think too because we don't have transitional kindergarten like at every geographic location you know that that that our plan would show how you know how students from around the entire district will get to you know TK and um I don't know if there's an opportunity for us to at least evaluate or describe um what we've
147been doing this year which is new you know in terms of the new um schedule um and the new routing related to you know basically having kids go to schools that are closed captioning not available [Music] right and all of a sudden we were having to scramble and and for example you know how important it is to me to do information discussion action didn't have this in time to really get the full plan together but we needed to provide you the information that here is a CO it's coming so just know that it's it's like the safety plan has to come back every year so will this before April 1st have you so will there will there and be any evaluation such as um a certain percentage of your students need to be giving transportation
148is there anything like that built into this I don't think so yeah I don't think so no no it's very preliminary I I would Envision that it would eventually change or that they would possibly come up with a template because they're not going to get the information that they really want to see you gave us that read of about 20 questions if you went through there they kept saying it's a it's basically a local level decision right now okay right the way I read it give us a plan and then we're going to think about it and you're going to think about it and then we're going to see what we can do but I think they're going to keep it on the local level okay and you know that's have those discussions about whatever
149later but let's just get the plan well this is a common thing with the state of California is they push something through they have some funding for it give us a plan and they don't always give you the specifics and the guidelines that you're looking for and so you get that and but they need it fast so that you have it right yeah and but I think to to the questions and to the points is those are the things we'll we'll build in in the future um and see where we go but I am concerned at this point we're going to need to bring you a plan and we're going to prove so that we can do that yeah thank you uh moving on to item 12 the consent agenda do I have a motion
150I move to adopt the consent agenda is there a second a second I have a motion by trustee Riley in a second by Frosty turnbow all those in favor say aye aye oh there's a post motion carries item 13 item for consideration and future board meetings are there any items we would like to see on a future agenda hey moving on to 14 which is my one of my other favorite things adjournment thank you I'd like to close this regular meeting of the Board of Education March 9th 2023 at 808 pm