001Sorry we're a little behind tonight. It's busy time of year. I'm going to call the meeting to order. It is the May 13, 2026 Mount Dav Unified School District board meeting. We always start with our land acknowledgement. We recognize that the Mount Dav Unified School District sits on the territory of the Confederated Village of the Lashonal. >> I don't think people know that we started. >> That's never been something I've heard before, but okay. the ancestral and unseated land of the Bay Miwok and Northern Yokott, the successors of the sovereign Verona Band of Contraosta County. As members of the Mount Devil Unified School community, it is vitally important that we not only recognize the history of the land on which we learn, but we also recognize that the land land we inhabit and learn on
002is the ancestral land of these people who are alive and flourishing members of the Mount Dav Unified School District and broader Bay Area communities today. And with that, we will do our pledge. And just for the record, our um student trustee is being honored somewhere tonight. So, he won't be joining us, but he will be back next time. Okay. Review and potential approval of the minutes of the regular board meeting held on April 22nd, 2026. Madame President, I move that the board approve the minutes for regular board meeting held April 22nd, 2026. >> I'll second that. >> Thank you. >> We have a motion by Trustee Lawrence and a second by Trustee McDougall and that passes 500. Next we have 6.4. for review and potential approval of the agenda as presented. Dr. Clark. >> Yes,
003Madame President. I have a a couple of adjustments. I would like to um I would like to move item 12.1 uh to to item 8.1. And I would like to move 10.1 to item 8.2. And I need to also I need to pull item 15.6. >> Okay, >> we'll bring that back at a later time. I believe that is it. >> Madame President, >> yes. >> I move that the board um approve the agenda as amended, moving 12.1 to 8.1, moving 10.1 to 8.2 and pulling item 15.6 to be considered at a future time. >> Thank you. Do we have a second? >> No. We have a motion by Trusty Mayo, a second by Trustee McDougall and that passes 5 Z. Okay, that will take us to our report out of close session. In close
004session by a vote of 5 to zero, the board took action to approve the nonreelection of two certificated employees. In close session by a vote of 5 to zero, the board took action to approve the res reassignment of one vice principal to advised principal middle school position for the 2026 2027 school year. In close session, by a vote of five to zero, the board took action to approve the reassignment of one vice principal to a teaching position for which they were credentialed for the school year. In close session by a vote of 5 to zero, the board took action to approve the resignation of one employee per separation agreement. The board met in close session with legal counsel to discuss a matter of existing litigation pursuant to government code number 54956.9D1 by a vote of
00550 in the matter of Gausny versus Mount Dav Unified School District Contraosta County Superior Court case number C24-02021. The board approved a settlement of the stipulated amount and according to the settlement terms, the board met in close session with legal counsel to discuss a matter of existing litigation pursuant to government code number 54956.9D1 by a vote of 50 in the matter of Mount Dav Unified School District versus Timothy Day Contraosta County Superior Court case number 926, excuse me, N26-0631. The board approved a settlement according to the settlement terms. The board met in close session with legal counsel to discuss a matter of existing litigation pursuant to government code number 54956.9 by a vote of 50 in the matter of Mount Dav Unified School District versus Sherry Day. Contraosta County Superior Court case number N260632. The
006board gave direction and settlement authority to the general counsel. The board met in close session with legal counsel to discuss the matter of existing litigation pursuant to government code 54956.9 by a vote of 50, the matter of MP versus Mount Deb Unified School District, Office of Administrative Hearings, case number 2025080440. The board gave direction and settlement authority to the general counsel. The board vote in close session with legal counsel to discuss a matter of anticipated litigation and significant exposure to litigation pursuant to government code 54956.9D. In the matter of one case anticipated litigation, the board voted 50-0 approved a settlement agreement up to the stipulated amount and according to the settlement terms and then we went into possible expulsions and we'll take it from there. Who's got 7.2? That would be you. 1426. >> Yeah,
007>> Madame President, I move uh that the board approve the uh stipulated expulsion agreement for student 14-26 uh subject to uh meeting the following requirements. One student must not enter the grounds of any MDUSD school at any time for any purpose without express permissions from the campus's administration with the following exceptions. Student will be allowed to enter campuses of any student of any of students siblings for the purposes of picking up or dropping off that sibling at school. Uh two, student will be allowed to enter campuses of any of students siblings for purposes of attending any event involving student siblings as student is accompanied by parent. Uh, two, student will not attend any MDUSD school sponsored activities whether on or off campus. Three, student will complete his coursework through attendance at the opportunity program starting
008August 2026. He will remain in home and hospital for the current school year. Four, student will complete 30 hours of counseling. Five, student will demonstrate a successful school experience which includes one, no violation of school rules and ed code 48900, 48915 or district rules and regulations. to satisfactory academic progress. Earn a minimum of 60 credits. Three, student uh satisfactory attendance 90% attendance. The student will communicate in advance regarding any planned absences and provide documentation for excused absences as required. Six, student must not commit any expelable offenses as defined under the education code. >> Second. >> We have a motion by trusty Lawrence, a second by trustee. And that passes 5 Z. Okay. Well, 1526. >> Madame President, I move that the board approve the expulsion uh and stipulated agreement for student 15-26 with the following
009requirements. uh that prior to readmission, student 15-26 is required to meet the uh following conditions. One, student must not enter the grounds of any MDUSD school at any time for any purpose. Two, student will not attend any MDUSD school sponsored activities whether on or off campus. Three, student will complete her coursework in home and hospital. Four, student will complete 15 hours of counseling. Five. Student will demonstrate a successful school experience which includes uh one no violation of school rules and education codes 48900 48915 or district rules and regulations. Two satisfactory facacactory academic performance uh progress earn a minimum of 35 credits. Three satisfactory attendance 90% attendance and no more than 10% tardies. Six student must not commit any expelable offenses as defined under the education code. Thank you. Do we have a second? >> Second.
010>> Okay. Uh motion by Trusty Lawrence, second by Trusty Ini. And that passes 500. And we have one last expulsion. Madame President, I move the board approve the stipulated expulsion agreement for student 16-26. Prior to readmission, student 16-26 is required to meet the following condition. Student must not enter the grounds of any Mount Diablo Unified School District at any time for any purpose. Student will not attend any Mount Diablo Unified School District school sponsored activities, whether on or off campus. Student will complete coursework through attendance at Olympic High School starting August 2026. Student will remain in home and hospital for the current school year. Student will complete 30 hours of counseling, demonstrate a successful school experience, which includes no violation of school rules and education codes 48900, 48915, or district rules and regulations. Satisfactory academic
011progress and earn a minimum of 60 credits. Satisfactory attendance, 90% attendance, and no more than 10% tardies. Student must not commit any expelable expenses offenses as defined under the education code. >> Thank you. Do we have a second? >> Second. >> Okay. We have motion by trusty Mayo, second by trustee Lawrence and that passes 500. So if I understand right, Dr. Clark, it goes to you for 8 point. Okay. Madame President, I would like to um I would like to call to the podium. I'd like to call Katherine Fireman who is our um who is our director of the multi- um lingual language department and we're going to do a brief presentation on our newcomer leadership council. So we have a team of students. >> Good evening Dr. Clark, Madame President Mason, trustees, thank you
012for having us this evening. My name is Kathern Fireman. I'm the director of the multilingual education department and I'm honored to be here this evening with members of our multilingual education team and our newcomer student advisory subcommittee. Tonight we are pleased to share insights from newcomer student voices across Mount Diablo Unified Schools District who are who where we currently serve approximately 1300 newcomer students districtwide. Through this presentation, you will hear directly how students are informing our understanding of belonging, support, and student experience as well as recommendations that can strengthen our system in response. Looks like Oh, I have the clicker. Huh. So, just to tell you a little bit about our Cal New grant. Um, we are finishing our fourth year of the Cal New Grant. Um, it is a grant we wrote four years
013ago. um and it is administered by the California Department of um social services and we have to focus of the funds um and allocate them to three areas basic needs, family engagement and empowerment and youth engagement and development. And Mount Diablo Unified School District is one of 20 districts statewide that um has received this grant. Um and we in our first four years have added staff uh to our department to support this work with newcomers. Um we had one part-time newcomer CWA and we have two newcomer social work specialists who are here with us tonight. Um and we have focused on the development of newcomer the newcomer student advisory subcommittee which you'll be hearing from this evening. All right. Hello. My name is Vanessa Castile and I am a newcomer social work specialist. A powerful
014example of this grant in action is our newcomer student advisory subcommittee which was created to elevate newcomer student voice and leadership. Since October, student leaders from across the district have met twice monthly online to reflect on strengths, challenges, and recommendations for improving newcomer student experiences here at Mount Diablo Unified. This year, students from three comprehensive high schools participated in this leadership effort. And these lovely ladies that you see here today also led a district-wide survey reaching newcomer students. This is a 73% particip participation rate across 26 EL classrooms. They focused on belonging, safety, support, and student experiences. Tonight, the findings we are sharing are grounded in student voice and intend to help inform continued systems improvements. You will hear from these newcomer leaders now. Good evening. My name is Maria Christina Korea. Maria Christina Korea.
015I am a senior at Conquer High School and I was born in Texas and grew up in Mexico and I have been in the United States for nine months. As a newcomer student for myself, newcomer support is important to me because when I come here, I need some help to feel part of the school community and know how things work in an American school. Good evening. My name is Mia Garcia when I start. My name is Mia Garcia. I'm a senior at Concord High School. I was born in Honduras and grew up in Nicaragua. I have been in California for two years and a half. And when I came here, I noticed that some things were hard for newcomer students. For example, get involved in clubs or speaking English. I would like to improve the
016resources for newcomer student at my school and in the district. Good evening. My name is Destiny Benitz Gomezardes. Destiny Benitez Gomez. I'm a senior at Mount Diablo High School. I grew up in Mexico and I have been in California for two and a half years. I wanted to be part of this committee because I would like to help newcomer students feel more comfortable being at school. I want to help them receive the support they need to be successful. Good evening. My name is Jalo. I'm a senior at Y High School. I was born in Srira and grew up here in Guinea. I have been in the US for almost 2 years. It's important for me to lend my voice to improve the school and to help other students because I have also been in their
017shoes. >> Good evening. My name is Lin Aldovi is I'm a freshman at Agnasi Valley High School. I grew up in Jordan and I have been in the United State like for a little over a year. I wanted to be of this committee because I because I like to help other students. >> Good evening. My name is Amy Fritz and I'm a secondary MLL support teacher. After discussing the results of the survey with the students, we found that the majority of students had very strong opinions in the following categories: newcomer orientation, support that newcomer students needed to be successful, and school safety. In my opinion, the most important information that we learned from this survey was the most students really wanted to have someone who could communicate with them in their language. Especially when they
018first arrive, students need someone to speak with who can communicate with them regarding both academic issues and personal issues. For me, the most important information that we learned from the survey was the almost 80% of the students report that someone explained things about school to them when they arrived. This is good news, but there is room for improvement. I think the most important information that we learned from the survey was that the teachers and the counselors are the most helpful to newcomers. I'm glad that the teachers and the counselors are welcoming and helpful to our students because it mean that our student do not have to feel nervous about coming to school every day. In my opinion, the school community is welcoming to new students. When I came, teacher tried their best to help me
019and explain things to us. Teacher who speak the same language as the students make students feel comfortable. From my perspective, the most important information that we learn from the subre was the districtwide 13% of the student had been called names or made fun of because of their culture or country of origin. I hope we can improve in this area. We have the opportunity as a community community to work together to improve the school experience for all students. We were so impressed with the suggestions we received from the students and we tried to come up with recommendations that reflected those suggestions. The first recommendation is for a structured bilingual peer ambassador program. Many sites do have studentled campus tours, but we realized that students needed a fuller program that ensures that they learn rules and expectations
020in their own language and also have opportunities to make friends and get involved in school activities. The second recommendation is to implement the newcomer student support toolkit at all sites. Our newcomer social work specialists and their intern are currently working on this toolkit. It provides school staff site school site staff members with handy checklists and information that can help improve services for newcomer students across the campus. Lastly, students requested a way to know who the adults are on campus who can help them in their home language. So the third recommendation is a visual map of site staff with pictures, names, languages they speak, and their campus locations. We think these recommendations are reasonable and we look forward to supporting sites with implementation. Good evening. My name is Estrea Estrada and I'm a newcomer social work
021specialist. In addition to the data to the survey data, we included open-ended questions to center student voice. The recommendations Amy just shared are directly reflected in what students told us. Here are a few examples in their own words. One student from college park maybe assign students to the new students to help them the first two weeks winter schedule in classes. A 11th grade student say teacher and student could also be more friendly and supportive and the school could create clubs or activities where new students can make friends and feel included. A conquer high student said, "My school do it very well. The big problem isn't the first time I don't understand what they said. An 11th grade student said, "I will feel more supported if the school had easier access to mental health supports, having
022a safe place to work." Attending grade students say the school can help the newcomers by volume their mother tongue in the way to help improve their English. Also, they have in many language all around the school. Thank you. I would like to end with this quote. Um, this quote is by Dr. Donna Mitra, an expert on student voice and engagement. When students believe that they are valued for their perspectives and respected, they begin to develop a sense of ownership and attachment to the organization in which they are involved in. We just want to thank you all for your time to hear the voices of these brave newcomer students um and their leadership. If we also appreciate uh the MLL team, but there we have some counselors and EL teachers here who are supporting these students
023um in the audience. We appreciate you being here. And if the any questions or comments, our students are here to answer any questions. Great. just that they're so well spoken and it's s such a nice way to start our meeting. You guys are why we're here doing what we do and so um we really appreciate you taking the time to come down. If any other school board members would like to comment. >> Um I'm really impressed by the response rate to your survey because we don't see that anywhere in any of the surveys. Parents don't respond anywhere like that. So, I'd be curious why you think students were so willing um to respond and especially because you also had open-ended questions, which are the ones that people usually skip. >> I'll take it from the
024students or from the staff. It doesn't matter. So because like some student shouldn't be nervous to share the voices. So and like we come and we share our voices and like we be brave. I believe that because they want to improve their resources for others students and because they want to have more opportunities for their life because school is for make their future more bright. I will just tell you that we what the students did was they asked their teachers to have class time to give the survey. So I think that contributed as well. And so many teachers were able to take a few minutes of class time and let students do that and the survey was anonymous of course. So I think that also helped. >> Great. And so so I really want to
025thank I want to thank you all for your leadership in this. Obviously we as a board and as a district are committed to this and our goals are really to make sure that every student feels welcome and safe in our schools. And um just officially from the superintendent, I want to welcome you all even though some of you've been here for two years. Um, but thank you for coming tonight and we would like to take a picture with you up front here. If you will please come up. Got to get married. Thank you so much. Thank you, Mario. All right. Um, >> go ahead. >> I was gonna say and next, Dr. Clark. >> Yes. So um so next we are extremely excited to um to move into item let me get that item first.
026>> It was 10.1 and we changed >> one and this is um recognition of the Mount Diablo Unified School District 2026 classified employees of the year finalists. Can we please just start off with a big line of water? So they they gave me a script, but this is basically I'm going to go off script for you for a minute and just say that um you know we have we have close to 3,800 employees in the Mount Diaba Unified School District and each and every one of them plays a pivotal role in in supporting all students. And really the reason why we're here is is to support students and to support all of our students. And I think you just saw a great um example of that um in in the students who just came here
027tonight. Um but these individuals who we're recognizing tonight are all part of a massive team. And so I know that um folks in this in this profession do not like to take credit or do not like the spotlight to be on them. Um, but tonight but tonight we are going to honor these four individuals and we're going to I'm going to embarrass them with some nice things that are said and um and and really they they truly are, you know, deserved of of everything that we're going to say. And just on behalf of the board, um we are so appreciative for your work and for and for your commitment. So, so just real quick, um, all four honores were nominated to represent the Mount Alba Unified School District in the Contracasta County Classified employee of
028the year program. We are especially Oh, I can't give that away yet. Um, so tonight, tonight we are pleased to recognize these four individuals and thank them uh for the pride that they take in their work and for their positive impact they have had in our community. So, first off, and if she will please um please stand and be recognized and get ready to be embarrassed. And that is going to be um Shannon Bough. Did I almost get it? Boddorf. Um, she is a she is a um she is a lead campus supervisor at Northgate High School and and and Shannon, I didn't I'm just reading what they wrote, but she's worked at the school for 29 years. Yes. and she was nominated by principal Kelly Cooper for consistently demonstrating excellent through unwavering reliability, deep
029institutional knowledge, and an extraordinary commitment to student and staff safety. Her initiative and problem solving skills are exceptional. She has an unmatched ability to anticipate areas of vulnerability and take proactive actions to protect the campus. Her love for her role is evident in every interaction and her commitment elevates the entire campus. Through 29 years of service, Shannon has built relationships that will last well beyond a student's time on campus. Simply put, her consistent excellence, dedication, and quiet leadership make her indispensable to our community and a true model of what employee of the year represents. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Shannon Bac. >> Congratulations. We have this for you. >> Thank you. >> And we would like you just to say a couple words. Even if you just want to thank Even if you
030just want to thank the people who are here. Let me just say hello. Maker Brian, >> usually I'm not at a loss for words, but thank you. >> That's let me just I just have one quote. Um I think it's Confucious. If you um find something you love, you've never worked a day in your life. And that's how I feel about my job. And could I Dr. Clark could I quickly say something? So >> we have uh Prey wants to make a uh comment. >> I'll just embarrass her further. So um I I I will just share two uh very distinct uh memories that I have um which I think are just very indicative of her her character and her excellence. And one was uh a few years ago that there was a uh smoky
031day and and Northgate was open and I went over there and Shannon was the first person I saw who quickly told me why is this place open? What are you doing and let's get it shut down? And she w I I I will tell you she was absolutely correct. and she said it because of her passion and her conviction for the students, for the staff, for the community, and had no problem just bluntly telling me and the then superintendent. And she was and and the principal and so she was absolutely right. And then two, uh, we have a small dog named Ple who uh has, uh, he he has a bit of a a adventurous streak and so occasionally he's a bit of an escape artist and he one day wandered over to to Northgate
032and uh, we eventually tracked him down and he was hanging out with Shannon and and I I took him back and then Ple like ran back to her and uh, just really was having the time of his life after we'd spent hours searching for him and you know whenever and I've seen Shannon so many times times over the years at basketball games and every other event and she always how's Ple doing? How's my friend Ple doing? And I just think that's so indicative of her and so this is such a welldeserved award. >> So now that everyone saw how this runs they could All right. Next we have um from Highlands Elementary School we have Maryanne Brezia Brezia. Now, if you know anything about schools, everyone thinks the principal runs the school, but really the
033uh office manager, school secretary runs the princ uh runs the school. So, the Highlands elementary school secretary was nominated by principal Dr. Carrie Nihow um as and teacher Amy Bilson. As a new site administrator to Mount Diablo Unified, I rely heavily on her institutional knowledge, steady judgment, and collaborative spirit. Uh Dr. Nearham said her impact on student success is is immeasurable. through consistent outreach to families and careful monitoring of attendance and independent studies. Um she has played a central role in reducing Highland's chronic absentee rate from 10.1% in January of the last school year to 5.2% this year. Families trust her because she communicates with genuine care and follows through. students seek her out when they need reassurance or support and she helps them feel calm and ready to return to class. And we really
034we really do do this for the students. So I do have a little friend out there that's going to help me with something. So if she could come up here um um then we have she has been an integral part of Highlands for many years and serves as a steady trusted presence for students, families and staff. So, we are proud to recognize Maryanne Brezia as one of Mount Diablo Unified School District's classified employees of the year. Oh, he's ready. You're already >> Come with me. I need my hands. I want to thank my incredible administrator, teachers, staff. They're my family. >> Yes. >> It's such a privilege every day to get to come to work to work with beautiful students and community of Highlands Elementary. Thank you for this honor. It's truly a privilege. And
035this is right. All right. So, next we have um we have our third um classified employee of the year. So, is there a Kimberly Montano in the audience? Yes. Yes. So, a special education a a special education assistant at Riverview Middle School. And again, I I'm only reading for 26 years. Kimberly was nominated by the spe by special education teacher Dr. Mary Asibo, who has been named a 2026 2027 Mount Diablo teacher of the year. Our collaboration has become well known on campus and we are often referred to as the dynamic duo. Dr. Aibo said Kim brings a level of knowledge and competence that cannot be taught overnight. She deeply understands students, systems, and school expectations, which allows her to respond effectively to challenges that that may arise. Kim takes initiative in ways that many
036others do not. Always keeping student safety, learning, and dignity at the forefront. Montano is often sought out by colleagues for guidance and support because she is knowledgeable, approachable, and honest. Supervisors respect her experience and judgment and students respond positively to her calm presence and clear expectations. We are proud to recognize Kimberly Matano as one of Mount Diablo Unifi's school district's classified employees of the year. Ladies and gentlemen, Kimberly Montano. I'm kind of loud. >> The um the online can't hear you unless you use the microphone. Okay. great work working with you as well as other 38 staff members I've worked in classrooms with with all all of them. I've learned a lot. Of course, we're there for the students because that's a lot of people don't want to work in education anymore, but you have
037to have the heart. If you don't have the heart, it's not meant for you. So, I'm always there for them. I like to say it's kind of like survivor. You have to outplay, outweigh, outlast to make it 26 years or more. I mean, my heart's in it and it's just not meant for everybody. So, everyone who's in education, I definitely applaud all of you because we all earn this. I don't care if you work in cafeteria, maintenance, operation, your custodian, secretarial, people get overlooked all the time. So, my award is for all of them out there in MDSD, throughout the state, the nation. We are the unsung heroes, you guys. And I'm glad our board recognizes us. Thank you. So our our next and final uh classified employee um of the year um is uh
038Violeta Tria. Yes. So, >> please stand. I'm gonna embarrass you. Okay. So, um so anyway, we're you know I I hope that we're not here too late because I heard that um she wakes up at an ungastly hour every single morning to get to work because um not only is she working food service, she works in the warehouse, she's an attendant, truck driver, little pretty much does it all. Alo a food and nutrition services driver and warehouse attendant. Violletta was nominated by her supervisor Chad Voss for her 27 years of service in the district. Violletta has also has also been selected as the Contraosta County's nominee to advance to the state classified employee of the year competition. This is an honor that reflects the impact of her service. Violeta's positive attitude and dedication truly set
039her apart. She approaches her responsibilities with enthusiasm, professionalism, and genuine care for others. Um, she started off her career as a substitute food assistant and steadily expanded her skills, learning to drive a semitr and operate a forklift. She has significantly enhanced the food and nutrition program at MDUSD through her initiative, adaptability, and unwavering can do attitude. Through her empathy, leadership, and dedication to teamwork, Violeta has earned the respect of the entire food and nutrition department and continues to make a meaningful, positive impact on those she works with every day. She also has strong family connections to the district. Her daughter Justine Ria was an MDUSD special education assistant and her late father Ernesto Ria retired in 1988 at age 70 after working as a custodian and then continued working as a substitute custodian for 5
040years at Mountain View Elementary. the Mount Albo Unified School District uh its superintendent and entire governing board is proud to recognize uh Violeta Violet Tria as the MDUSD classified employee of the year and good luck in the state competition. You have a speech, right? >> Just a little bit. >> Good evening to everybody. I am very honored to be named the 2026 classified school employee of the year. First of all, I would like to thank my husband and my daughter for their support. Second, I'd like to thank our food and nutrition services director, Alex Emmett, who is always there for me despite our long work days. And most importantly, I'd like to thank our warehouse manager, Chad Vos, who nominated me. Like I've said to him before, just being nominated is reward enough. I cannot
041thank you enough for all the things you've done for me. We make a great team. You're the best manager we ever had. I hope I can continue to work at the Mount Diablo Unified School District, which what I call a second home. Thank you. Find it. Could we start all our meetings that way? I like that. First the students, then the employees. Okay, we're going to get to our public comment now. Our first person will be Anna Marin. And you're we're gonna have two minutes for public comment. I'll be flexible, but don't abuse it. Good evening, board members. My name is Anna Mariam. Recent public comments suggested that dual immersion program belongs in schools where Spanish is heard in the hallways. That reasoning is pretty and deeply concerning because it echoes ideas that were rejected
042by California long time ago. In 1947, Mendes versus West Minister established that separating MexicanAmerican students based on language or background was discriminatory. Dion programs were created to bring students together across cultures and languages, not to concentrate them. When you a successful from a high performing diverse school and justify placing it in a more heavily Spanish-sp speakaking school, you're not necessarily expanding access. you're actually concentrating it. As a Latina and immigrant mother, this feels deeply personal. It feels like my kids must only go, if I want my kids to learn Spanish, they must go to the Latino school because they're not welcome in the other schools. Okay, the Spanish speaking or where Spanish is spoken in the hallways, which are the schools that have highest concentrations of Latinos. I urge the board to re-evaluate a rational
043that California rejected decades ago and really just try to do your own research on the Mendes versus West Minister case and ensure that we are expanding the opportunity and providing integration for all of our students. Thank you. Next we have Angel Milan. Is it on? All right. So, good good evening everyone. Good evening board members, President Mr. Clark. Oh, sorry, Mr. Superintendent. Mr. Clark. Sorry. Well, I just wanted to say it's been um at least a couple couple of months since I've seen all of you, but overall just wanted to jump into this because but overall I just want to share um a little um suggestion with all of you guys. I know that um especially for for me in particular for me and I am very excited to share this little announcement with all
044of you. instead of becoming a special ed teacher in MDUSD, I'm going to be becoming a special ed teachers assistant with MDUSD. So, that's going to be very exciting for me. And overall, I wanted to share this special um idea and suggestion with all of you. You see, with people with disabilities, you know, it it comes, you know, at a time that, you know, they need, you know, more support and especially in the blind and visually impaired community. But in this case, you know, um I know how it feels to, you know, because um in this in this, you know, circumstance um when it comes to, you know, being, you know, included and you know, interactive with other people, but and but you know, specifically, you know, it would be great to have, you know,
045more support, more services for people who are blind or low vision. In particularly, we need, you know, more people, more support services like, you know, orientation and mobility, more braille, assistive technology, you know, kind of services for them because right now, um, throughout my years here in the school district, um, we hardly have barely enough, you know, students who are blind or low vision. And it would be nice to have you know more you know students in that in that sector you know and I feel you know as a as a as a person of myself with a visual disability myself I know how it feels to have you know challenges and feel discriminated sometimes I know how it feels but overall you know it's uh going it's going pretty good and especially you know
046recently I've been playing a parolympic sport called gold ball lately and if you guys are interested you can always reach out to me anytime if you have any questions about the sport. So you guys are more than welcome to come and check out our practices in Berkeley. So we are if you want I can send you guys some information down the road. >> Angel if you can wrap up. Thank you. >> But anyway um if you have any more questions or suggestions you can always reach me anytime. Thank you. >> Thank you Lisa Catron. Good evening, Superintendent Clerk and trustees of the board. Thank you for this time to address you this evening. My name is Lisa Katrone and I teach newcomer students and long-term English learners at Conquered High School. Um, I'm here tonight
047with a couple concerns I hope you will keep in mind as we are planning for the new school year. In the district's LCAP goals, it is mentioned that multilingual learners are a major group for focal scholars. I'm grateful for that acknowledgement. It is not fully clear how um however what the specific results should be for those focal scholars, but I would like to highlight some needs that could help a specific group of newcomers excel. That being students labeled as Slife. For those that don't know, SLE students are students who have had interrupted or limited schooling opportunities in their native country. uh they need us to address their acculturation to the US school system, attend to their social emotional needs, for example, post-traumatic stress disorder, poverty, family separation, and other traumatic experiences. They need us to
048provide not only focused literacy instruction, but also focused academic skill instruction to bridge gaps in knowledge. And one area that seems to really stand out is in math and numerical sense. Um, and they need us to provide integration of content in language instruction. The district has done some really great work in some of these areas. One example is the Afghan family resource night at conquered high in conjunction with a church relief service addressing family connection and poverty. So, thank you for that to our district MLL department for your coordination and work in this area. It has also been awesome to see some of our newcomer students uh take on these really big leadership roles also led and organized by the district MLL department. I was really excited to hear from two of my own students
049uh tonight from this amazing team of student leaders. Um an area of need I would like to focus on, however, is the emotional support for our newcomers, but most importantly for our Slife students. It is recommended that these students get wraparound services. At this point, it is my understanding that in our district, the decision has been made to provide no extra supports for any 9th or 10th grade Slife students, only 11th or 12th. And I don't believe even our 11th or 12th grade graders at Conquered High receiving any extra support that I know of. 75% of our Slife students at Conquered High School are 9th and 10th graders. 0% speak Spanish as their first language. So, um, having other language support at the district perhaps needs some attention. Okay. I would like to say after
050looking closely at our list of SLI students, a huge percentage of our newcomer counselors time is going to these SLE students who truly do need extra support. The extra need is really being felt in EL classroom as students are brought to class and the doors closed behind them. Um leaving the unressed needs to the ELD teacher and counselor to deal with so much. Thanks. Um yeah, thanks. I'm sorry. you mic was on. Sorry, Heather. Superintendent and board members. Um, so what brings me here tonight is yet another issue. I understand address verification very well. I sent an email. I wasn't going to come. About less than an hour after I sent the email, a district person comes to my apartment. I've lived here for six years. I've had nine address verification in two years. That's
051excessive. Is there no communication happening? Are we not trusting? My youngest just started Shadeland's October 28th, so I had to give all that paperwork. I'm talking everything. Are we not trusting the district employees who registered me? My fresh my my twins just entered freshman year. I had address verification. Then last year I had someone come to my house again. I turned in everything. Vehicle registration, apartment lease, even a handwritten letter and one from the corporate management of my apartment. I mean everything. Tax returns, a letter from social security because I do have a disabled child. You name it, I've turned it in with this address. Something is happening. I don't know if it's coincidences. I don't know. But it happens after I come and speak out. I'm just saying. So hopefully something can be done,
052looked into. If there's not a system in place like, hey, we've already checked this person. Why are we going to go check her again? We already called her. Why are we showing up? And the person who called me isn't the person who called me doesn't work in attendance and registration or isn't without naming her. Um, she doesn't even work with verifying attendance. So, thank you and have a good night. Thank you, Heather. Gina Hayes or Haynes. Have I been saying your name wrong for all these years, Gina, that we've known each other? >> Oh my gosh. >> Good evening, Dr. Clark, uh, President Mason, and members of the board. On April 22nd, I appear before you to present the annual report for fiscal year 232 24 from the Measure J Citizen Bond Oversight Commi Committee
053in my capacity as outgoing chair. As noted in the report, I informed the board and Superintendent Clark that district-wide PG energy consumption increased by 68% between 2022 and 2024 during the period in which the ESCO contracts were under construction. Earlier this morning, I was forwarded a voicemail summarize summarizing a meeting that you, Dr. Clark reportedly had yesterday with a board member regarding the possibility of placing an agenda item before the board concerning district energy consumption before and after construction of a 15 $50 million energy savings contract. According to the information relayed to me, you Dr. Clark stated that I was a liar, that the information I pre presented was gibberish, and that the board should not trust the data provided in the annual report. Dr. Clark, I have no reason to lie. In fact, a
054majority of the members of the Citizen Bond Oversight Committee have expressed concerns regarding the ESCO contracts since the award more than three years ago. Those concerns were consistently raised in good faith and fulfillment of the oversight committee's responsibilities. The analysis presented in the annual report was based on actual district-wide PG Genie billing records obtained through a public information request and reviewed by a qualified CBOC member with the expertise necessary to analyze and interpret uh utility consumption data. The conclusions pre presented were supported by underlying records. The numbers do not lie and neither do I. It would not take significant effort for district finance staff to independently verify the data. The difficult work of collecting, organizing, and analy has already been complete. So if the district believes the analysis in incorrect then I respectfully ask that
055the administration present its own analysis districtwide PG conser >> transparency not personal tax. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Okay. So now I'm gonna just go two minutes solid. I've been giving everybody about 2:30 but now you're it's being abused twice. >> Jim Walsh. Sorry, I didn't >> Jim Walsh. >> Evening board members. Um I'm here on behalf of John Ferrante, the uh former vice chair of Measure J. Um in regards to what Gina just said, this is from John. It's come to my attention there is some doubt about the verocity of the energy data mentioned by former chair of the measure JC CBOC at the previous meeting. This simply pure raw data is obtained from PG& by an MDUSD employee who at this time wishes to remain anonymously. If you doubt the data, I'm going
056to clean this up. Get off your lazy butts and verify it with your own accounting department. It simply shows that there has been no energy savings, not just as promised by Schneider, but none at all. Furthermore, the solar the solar data that used to be on the MDUSD website was purposely removed. He wants to know why. Who gave the order? And what is the district trying to hide? This is a major disservice to the taxpayers of MDUSD and any and all involved in this conspiracy needs to be dismissed. Let's set aside the arrogance and ignoreman of this. Get this problem solved. If you want the newly proposed bond to pass, stop ignoring the truth. Stop accusing people of lying and let the public have access to the solar and PG& data so they can decide
057for themselves just how shady the people are being. and good luck with the new bond. That was from John. This is from me. Four years ago this May, I got a call from an employee in this district telling me about this uh $25 million LED lighting project. And I knew because I was on Measure C for over 10 years that that project was reviewed under measure C. It was reviewed by capital engineering who looked at it, made the calculations and said it not only would not meet the criteria for an energy conservation contract that the return on investment was so low that that project was thrown out completely. Um furthermore for this having been on the um the lev the HVAC upgrades were looked under measure C as well. uh same thing that was determined
058that it had to be put out to bid which 25 sites under measure C were um >> Thank you. >> Therefore the the cap the LED lighting project was was >> Is my mic on? >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. I think it's time that the board board members with the exception of Mr. McDougall's doing their job voters elected them to do and run this district instead of >> giving captain control to Superintendent Clark. Over the past years, he's tried to dismiss and discredit this Measure J oversight commitment. >> I'm sorry, sir. We're trying to be polite and give everybody equal time. >> Case, >> thank you for coming and sharing your thoughts. We appreciate it. What you should do is do your mic for now, sir. >> And actually, >> but
059you should think about what Queen >> and Please, sir. >> Do you have any better luck with this name? I don't want to butcher the next person's name. >> It's Natalie Rodriguez. >> There, Natalie. Okay, >> she wrote it in a hurry. Good evening to all to the board member Dr. Clark. My name is Natalie. My family bought a house in the boundary for a Spanish program at Bankro Elementary. I have a first grader in the program and a TK student who has been planning to enroll in the program this coming year. I'm origin from Peru and Spanish is part of our family cultural identity. I care deeply my kids having access to the high quality longstanding program at Bankro. I'm devastating that the district is trying to remove it. It's hard for me to
060express how important is for my childrens to be in a Spanish program. It's so important. But I want you to understand that I cannot split my children's up and send my daughter to Woodside for kindergartener next year. That's doesn't work for my family. I have to make a sad choice to enroll her in an English program at Vangro for next year. But I'm here to request our Spanish dual immersion program at Vancro continue next year. is wonderful program and please don't end that successful program. Thank you so much. >> Thank you Elizabeth Silva. >> Hi everyone. I'm here to advocate for the district to keep the Spanish program at Braftoft Elementary. I moved to Walnut Creek for the program. uh Braftoft and the other programs in MDUSD that have dual immersion, you know, is really
061one thing that makes the district so special. As you know, Braftoft is the longest running two-way dual immersion program in the district and it is a high performing program. The location of dual immersion programs matter. A school's location and where the where the dual immersion program is is really central to its success. Opening a new program at a new school takes time to get off the ground, just like the program at Braftoft did. 12 years later, the program at Bankrooft is a sought-after program that attracts many families to Mount Diablo Unified School District. There were a few statements at the last board meeting that I want to address. One is that every decision made, you know, there's half the people that support it and half the people that think the decision is bad. I understand
062that for many things that is true, but there's nobody coming to this board meetings saying like, "Thank you for eliminating the program at Bankrooft." I know because we have been at every board meeting since January 28th. You have all received hundreds of emails. I don't need to tell you um you asking you to please pause the phase out. Uh more than 50 individuals have come and come again and come again to ask you to please pause the phase out. We represent a diverse student body at Braftoft Elementary that come from all across Mount Dable Unified School District. I haven't talked to one person that has said this program needs to be phased out immediately for incoming kindergarteners with no notice. Uh the superintendent also referred to the program at Bankrooft as high performing, which I
063really appreciated in your in your last remarks. Um it is a high performing program. Um and one of the reasons that we do continue to say that is because Dr. Gilly. One of the preliminary points she raised on February 11th was that it was not a high-erforming program. English language learners were struggling and that was a reason given to remove the program. We dug into the data and it turns out that it is the highest performing dual immersion program in the district. Um so we love the program. We do appreciate the millions of dollars spent on dual immersion programs in Mount Diablo. We want to work with you to improve um you know to to continue these programs. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, Kate, turn still. Hi, my name's Kate. Um, I'm a Bankrooft parent.
064Uh, I have two kids at Bankfra Elementary. We live in Boundary. We plan to go to, uh, Foothill and Northgate after Bankraftoft. Um, I just want to continue on from um, Elizabeth's speech um, where the argument was made that Bankraftoft is overcrowded by Dr. Egilly uh, back in February. But, uh, she's given a presentation to the board where she's shown all the numbers at Bankraftoft and there's space in every single monolingual class in the school. Every grade has space in monolingual and in fact Elizabeth is handing out the numbers there. Um, the TWWDI program is a lottery. So, the district has direct control of the enrollment into TWWDI. So, the school is not actually full. Dr. Clark mentioned um recently that Bankraftoft no longer has a steam program and no longer has a steam classroom.
065This is incorrect. Bankrooft does have a steam classroom and it is one of the most wonderful spaces in the school. It's a wonderful program. Bankraftoft is comparable to Walnut Acres down the road. In fact, it has fewer students um on our last analysis and walnut acres isn't having, you know, classes removed. So, why are we removing the TWWDI program from Bankraftoft? The the reason given is space, but this is not adding up to us. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Jorge Silva, >> hi. How are you? Nice to see you again. Um I actually want to um provide a couple of updates on the advocacy efforts that are on their way to preserve the Spanish dual immersion program at Vancraftoft. Over the past several uh weeks, parents and community members have expanded conversations well beyond
066Walnut Creek. We have met with local and statewide candidates, educational advocates, and community organizations to ensure that they understand what is happening here and what is at stake. Last month, we presented at the Issues Committee of the Democratic Party of the Contra Costa County, and I'm proud to report that the committee voted unanimously to oppose eliminating the Spanish immersion program without first conducting a demographic impact study. They also agreed to review a broad resolution that we drafted uh in their upcoming May meeting. Um, we also continued uh our legislative efforts in Sacramento. We're setting meetings with our local representative elected officials and their staff. Uh, we are reaching out to candidates for the state superintendent position. We have identified several that are viable candidates that are strong proponents of dual immersion programs. We're making sure
067that they know what is happening here and how we need to close the Prop 58 uh loophole. We're also um we're also being really successful in in and we're sharing our information. We're also supporting uh AB2332 from Assemblyman Gonzalez that aims to establish a dual immersion coordinator statewide to support the expansion of the dual immersion programs, helping California toward creating 1,600 programs and protect them. So, as of March, this bill is moving to the legislature and it has a strong support for the Latino legislative caucus. And the last thing that I will say is um dual immersion programs are great because they bring the community together. It it actually opens open the door for bankrupt for Latinos. Thank you. >> Thank you, Zo Gonzalez. Hi, my name is Zoe Gonzalez. Hola, me is Zoe Gonzalez.
068I love coming with my mommy to take my voice heard for things that are important to me. I've attended meetings to the board of trustees and the board of supervisors for Alama County with the nurses and I'm proud to be here at the school board meeting. I'm here today in support of the two-way dual immersion programs program at Bankraftoft Elementary School where I'm taking where I'm a second grader. My little brother is in kindergarten and my baby brother is only 2 years old. Learning Spanish has been so fun for me and I really really want my baby brother to be a part of the dual immersion program at Braftoft. Also, it's such an amazing school and I'm sad to say that one of our wonderful teachers left after we told that the program will be
069ending at Bank. Your decision to move the this program to Woodside affects me and my family, especially my baby brother. Please, let's try to find a different solution. Thank you for your time. Thank you, >> Courtney Gonzalez. Would that be mom? There we go. >> Hi, my name is Courtney Gonzalez. I'm here today to speak on behalf of the TWWDI program that is being phased out of Bankrooft. I am a Bay Area native, born and raised in the North Bay. Spanish is the second most widely used language in this area, coming in just after English. We spoke English at home growing up, and I was only formally introduced to Spanish in middle school. After college, I spent two years in a rural village in Guatemala serving as a Peacecore volunteer, and that's where I became
070fluent. I currently work as a nurse in the intensive care unit at a local hospital, and I use Spanish every single day. AO, although I can't speak perfectly, I try my best. Five years ago, we purchased our home within the boundaries of Bankrooft to enroll our children in the TWWDI program. The Spanish language is extremely important to me, and it's something that's very close to my heart. I have three children, two of who are uh two of whom are benefiting currently from the program, but unfortunately my youngest is set to miss out based on this decision. The way this change was introduced was shocking. We felt blindsided and we also felt like the decision was so final without any input from the community. I'm going to skip a little bit here. I'm here to tell
071my story, but there have been so many that have been hurt and affected by this. Um, not to not to mention the added stress um to parents who will now have to navigate multiple school drop offs, which is already difficult at baseline. Um, to think we might have to sacrifice the one and only year all three of our children will be at the same school, is pretty heartbreaking. We truly believed in the mission that MDUSD is committed to ensuring highquality education for all students and providing innovative programs that prepare them for su success in college, career, and life. That's what the TWWDI program is for us. And clearly, we're not alone. We respectfully ask you to reconsider a decision that is affecting real people, real families, and little children that can impact the trajectory of
072their lives. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you. >> And Jane Enllo, good evening members of the Trustees Board of Education. Dr. Clark in community. I want to speak tonight about something that's essential to building trust in our community. Transparency in our district budget. Our schools belong to the public and the community has to has a right to clearly understand how decisions are made and where taxpayer dollars go. Right now, however, and I've tried to do this a long for a long time before I found it, finding the district budget on the website is really hard. Important financial documents are buried under multiple links, difficult to navigate, and often written in ways that are not acceptable to the average parent or community member. Transparency is not just technically posting information online. Transparency means making
073information easy to find, understand, and access. If we want families, staff, and community members to trust district leadership, we must communicate openly and clearly. When people cannot easily locate the budget, it creates frustration and confusion. It can also unintentionally give the impression that information is being hidden even when that is not the intent. I encourage the board to prioritize a more user-friendly budget se budget section on the district website. This could include a clearly labeled district budget tab on the homepage, simplified summaries of major spending categories, timelines for budget decisions, and easy access to presentations and supporting documents. Good communication builds confidence. Clear communication builds a partnership, and transparency builds trust. As we continue to make important financial decisions that affect students, staff, and families, we must engage the public. We must ensure the public
074can follow and understand the process. Our community wants to be engaged and informed. Let's make them let's make it easier for them to do that. Thank you. That's the end of our public comment. Before you leave though, I want to say this meeting that we have and this this year this month, it's only one meeting because of all the graduations going. This is the time for the district to take care of their business and there's a lot of business and why I value public comment more than anybody else and I will tell the bankrooft group you've been very polite. You've stayed with within the time limit but there's a time limit on the meetings because we have other things to do and we can't be here all night long. That's why sometimes you get three
075minutes. That's sometimes we lower it's 30 minutes of public comment. If we wanted, we could let only 10 people speak, use up the whole 30 minutes, and then make the rest of you wait till the end of meeting. Or what some other districts are doing nowadays with a lot of uh contention is they just put public comment at the end of the meeting, which I would never do because that's not playing fair. But unfortunately, the people that need to hear this left, we will always respect you. We always hear you. We value what you say. We weigh your comments. But this is also our time to do business, not just to if get public comment. And the only last thing I will say is the public comment we get is not only said in this
076room. We get a lot of emails and sometimes if somebody has a different opinion than a lot of people that are coming here, they feel more comfortable sharing it over email rather than coming here and speaking out. So, I thank you for loving your children, standing up for your children, and we're going to give you a little time to move out, and then we're going to go on with our meeting, and we hope you have a good evening. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. Communications District Organizations. We have a card from Linda Ortega. Thank you. So, good evening, President Mason, trustees, Dr. Clark, members of the audience. For those new in the audience, my name is Linda Ortega. I am the president of the mountab education association or media. I represent about 1,600 media bargaining unit members
077such as and I have a list right off our contract our freshly print well about to be printed contract. So I represent all the temporary, probationary and permanent certificated employees in these positions and aiologists, classroom teachers TK to 12, library media teachers, nurses, peer coaches, teacher induction support program mentors, program enrichment personnel, reading specialists, resource specialists, speech therapists, teachers and special education programs, teachers on special assignment, traveling teachers, work experience education, staff, home and hospital teachers, counselors, enrichment and support teachers, intervention and instructional support teachers, coach specialist teachers, full inclusion inclusion specialists, assistive technology specialists, argumentative and alternative communication coach, adaptive PE teachers, instructional music teachers, elementary general music teachers, e support teachers, teachers of visually impaired, preschool teachers, dual language teachers, workability program teachers, orientation and mobility specialists, um do uh death and heart
078and hearing teachers, independent study teachers, v uh virtual learning program teachers, alternative education teachers, and we just now added adult educators and coordinators to our list. So that is the reason why I read it because I wanted everybody to understand media represents a huge range of educators who directly support our students or in a different level. So we as Dr. Clark and all of you have said we are here to support our students in every different level. So so with this new position I am pleased to announce that both media and the district have signed a tenative agreement for adult educators. I appreciate both parties and and spending the time in negotiations and because I know those negotiations. I've been in those those rooms and I've been in the marathon one that was over 24
079hours. And for the special board and of course, thank you to the school board for listening to our adult educators and students when they spoke during these meetings. For those who were unaware, this is a historical event since our adult educators have never been part of a union. And now we are here that both parties have signed a TA. However, next we have to ratify the TA. So my media members will be voting to ratify the TA in the coming weeks as the trustees will also be voting to approve the agreement hopefully next month. This should be a smooth process as we all been here before. On another note, I can't believe that another school year is coming to an end. As an elementary school teacher for many years, I was always um I would
080always list how many days we've been in school. You know, when you go into an elementary school, they always have leading up to the 100th day of school and we would celebrate that with activities. Then once that flipped as a class, we would start counting down to the end of the school year. According to my count as of today, and somebody can correct me if I'm wrong, we have 13 days left. Is that true? Every year when I was Yeah. Okay. Every year I was always amazed at how much we covered in the course of one school year. I was always so proud of my students and their accomplishments. And yet it was always a bittersweet feeling that my students would be moving on to the next level. These are the joys of teaching, seeing
081my students progress and then move on. And I still miss that. When I was in the classroom, I I I just enjoy seeing them move on. Finally, I want to congratulate all the high school seniors who are graduating this year and to all our students who are moving to the next grade level. I know your teachers are so very proud of you and we all wish you a safe and restful summer break. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Okay. 10.2 review and potential approval resolution 252675 classified employees in week May 17 through May 23rd 2026. >> Yes. Thank you, Madam President. And I'll be brief on this since we just uh spent a considerable amount of time in uh recognizing our classified employees. But um whereas classified school employees provide valuable services to the to
082the schools, students, teachers, administrators, and other staff of the Mount Alaba Unified School District as well as the general public. So now, therefore, be it resolved, the governing board of the Mount Alba Unified School District hereby recognizes and wishes to honor the contributions of classified school employees to quality ed quality education in the state of California and in the Mount Diaba Unified School District and declares the week of May 17th to the 23rd as classified school employees week. Madame President, I leave this resolution in the hands of the board. >> Thank you. I will entertain a motion. I move that we approve resolution 252675 classified school employees week. >> I'm going to second it because I was a CSEA member for a lot of years. >> Okay. So we have a motion by trustee and
083a second by trustee Mason. I still have my t-shirts by the way too. And that passes 500 Z. Okay, Dr. Clark, I'm just going to let you run with the >> Yeah. Um I'm I'm very happy tonight to bring resolution 25/26-76. And I really wish we lived in a time when I wouldn't have to do a resolution like this, but because of ignorance, hate, and bigotry, we need to. And so, um we are recognizing June as LGBTQ plus pride month. Whereas June is a time to celebrate our dynamic LGBTQ plus community, raise awareness of quality services, and foster a dialogue to promote healthy, safe, and prosperous school climates and communities for all. Whereas all children and youth should be able to attend school in a safe and inclusive environment free of discrimination and civil rights
084laws contribute to to such environments. And whereas California Education Code 20 uh 220 requires that all programs, activities, employment practices should be conducted without discrimination based on actual or perceived sex, sexual orientation or gender identity and expression. It provides that public schools have an affirmative obligation to combat sexism and other forms of bias and responsibility to provide equal educational opportunities to all students. Both state law and district policies protect transgender students from discrimination. I could go on, but I will spare you all. Now therefore, be it resolved that the Mount Diablo Unified School District recognizes the month of June 2026 as LGBT LGBTQ plus Pride Month to inspire equity, create alliances, celebrate diversity, and maintain a safe environment in our schools and community. And be it further resolved that this re resolution be distributed to
085every school in the district. Madame President, I leave this resolution in the hands of the board. >> Thank you. I will entertain a motion. >> Madame President, it is with great pride that I move to adopt resolution 25/26 number 76, June as LGBTQ plus pride month. >> Second motion by trustee Mayo, second by trustee Lawrence. We'll now vote. >> Can I make some comments? Yes, sir. >> We've had this proclamation a couple times since I've been on the board, and I just want to uh bring up a couple of points. The LGBTQ uh acronym, the TA part, is in my mind not for promotion to anyone under 18. Decisions for surgery or puberty blockers should not be made in one's youth. There is no scientific evidence backing those things up. Many countries outside the US
086have prohibited gender affirming care and the USA uh refuses to realize these dangers on the LG part of LGBTQ. Uh I find that this is uh some many LG leaders have proclaimed in the past and recently their desire to stop nuclear families or to destroy them. This is one man, one woman with children. And so nuclear families have been what makes a society strong and it has ever since the creation of the world. Finally, we need not honor this proclamation because basically it's promoting sex to our students. It is a distraction from our main job of teaching students to read, write, and do math. And for too many years, we have failed at this task. Thank you. Can I make it? Thank you. So, for now, two years in a row plus some other times.
087Um I think for October, I can't remember what October is. History, LGBTQ history month. Um when we come to serve on this board, we serve everyone in this community. And it's really hard for me to hear um and maddening and sad to hear from this dis um someone who is really speaking against children in our district, the students we serve um the staff in our district, the families in our district and our community. And I know especially when I see the faces and the responses like I don't even hide my face but neither do you all. Um, when we hear these words, I know that that's that these words don't reflect the majority of our community. Um, I know that they them is not a threat to anyone. Um, I know that someone who is
088transgendered or lesbian or gay, I'll say the words, bisexual, did I give them questioning queer? Sorry. um that they are people. They are human beings with full humanity that it's our duty to recognize their entire and full humanity. Um people are thrive and raised in a variety of families. The nuclear sometimes being extremely harmful. Some people were raised in really nuclear families, really really nuclear families and are really traumatized. Um and many people are raised in families that um are not part of what some people think is the right way and you know grow up and become governor or president uh of these United States or lawyers or doctors or teachers. Um they run the gamut. So I will always speak up when these words come from this dis because I can't let our community
089think although we had very um strong resolution I can't let people think that it's okay truth be told my husband's like you should just stop because um it's not necessary because we're not in the minority here and this board is always going to support this resolution, but I can't let like if I have no idea if there's any student watching. Um, but I especially can't let our children think that we can just let these words come unchecked when they're wrong. They're false. They're just not based in fact or reality or morality, I would argue. Um, so with that, I haven't pressed my yes. Sorry, y'all. That's all right. I um totally vote for this always and forever. So, I thank you for your eloquent comments. Um, when I first came on the board, uh, people
090did not feel comfortable throughout our district sharing their authentic identity. And in 2002, we voted, the board of education voted to provide benefits, health benefits to registered same-sex partners. For me, that was a major step forward in the Mount Diablo School District in supporting individuals throughout our community who provide service to our students and families. We have many educators and um classified employees who express who need the right to express their authentic identity and I value them and I love them. And I also um want to thank my own family for valuing and recognizing my family members who needed to express their authentic identity. There are so many things that have been provided uh to our global society from individuals with different identities and we need to recognize them and acknowledge them and thank them
091whether it's the medical profession, the educational profession, uh the art profession and many others. So for these reasons, I will support this resolution and I always will. You are safe with me. >> I I think my my fellow board members have have said it very well. And I would just say that to me, one of the things that makes this a district I'm so proud to be a part of is the fact that we welcome all people. of different backgrounds and that we will continue to stand for uh welcoming them. >> Okay. Just waiting for the vote and no surprise there. or one in favor of Okay. So, next one. Dr. Clark. I move to approve resolution 2526-78 authorizing submission of applications for the Bay Area Air District Local Community Benefits Fund Competitive Grant Program.
092>> I'll second that. >> Oh, excuse me. >> So, we have a motion by Trustee Zwee and I don't know who beat on the on second on from Trusty McDougall. Okay. and that passes 500. Okay. >> Thank you, Madam President. Last resolution, resolution 2526-79 in recognition of May as mental health awareness month. And just, you know, we have a lot of young people who who and there's older people who suffer from from mental health um issues. And part of the reasons why we do these uh resolutions is to um let people that let people know that this is a safe space and that we can talk about these things. and Mount Diablo is heavily invested um into um helping take the stigma away from mental health and also provide support and resources for those who
093are suffering from mental health. So whereas mental health awareness month observed each May is dedicated to raising awareness reducing stigma and promoting equitable access to mental health resources and services for all individuals. And so be it finally resolved that the governing board encourages students, families, staff, and the community to engage in activities and practices that support mental health and well-being. Madame President, I leave this resolution in the hands of the board. >> Thank you, Madame President. I move the board approve resolution 25-26 number 79 in recognition of May as mental health awareness month. >> Second. >> Okay. Have a motion by trustee mail, a second by trustee and Zwee. There we go. Now you're showing it. I just kept pushing on the green. I finally did it. Took me about four pushes. >> Not yet.
094>> It looks like it went through. >> Yeah. There we go. Okay. 0. >> I I'll tell you how you voted. >> Computers. Yeah. It shows up here soon. Computers are acting weird tonight. Okay. >> 11:0. >> Yes, sir. May I say something? >> Absolutely. >> Um, one I would say that the the mental health resolution I actually believe it's very closely tied with um the one previous to that that um when you look at the incidents of suicide and depression uh for some of our most vulnerable youth, the impacts of that and I I think that matters. I say this as someone who has had this very directly impact my family and I think it really matters. So, thank you. >> Thank you. Okay. Public employees appointment. >> Who's going to handle that for
095us? Dr. Clark, >> we have Dr. Emmenorfer is going to um handle our uh our first one here. Good evening, Madame President, trustees, superintendent clerk. Tonight, the human resources department is bringing for the board's review and potential approval the appointment of Nicole Kitchenen as the principal of elementary sight to be determined. Nicole began her teaching career at John Mir Elementary School in Martinez Unified School District where she taught for 14 years. She then taught for five years at Grant Elementary School in Antioch Unified School District where she then served as vice principal for the last four years. Nicole earned her bachelor of arts in liberal studies from California State University Hayward and her multiple subject teaching credential, master's in teaching lit leadership and administrative credential from St. Mary's College of California in Moraga. Nicole enjoys
096spending time with her husband, two children who attend College Park High School, and her extended family and friends. Her family can be found playing board games, watching movies, hiking, and traveling. She is proud to be an active member of the Mount Diablo Unified School District community and enjoys participating in as many community events as possible. Nicole feels incredibly grateful to have dedicated her career to education and is excited about the opportunity to serve as an elementary school principal in Mount Diablo Unified School District. With that, I leave this appointment in the hands of the board. >> Madame President, I move that the board approve the appointment of Nicole Kitchen as a principal for an elementary school site to be determined. >> I'll second that. We have a motion by trustee Mayo, a second by trustee
097McDoug that run 500 Z. Uh good evening uh Superintendent Clark and fellow board members. I am so happy to join the Mount Davos uh unified school district as an elementary principal for the upcoming school year. Um I my heart belongs to Mount Diablo. We've been a part of Mount Diablo ever since my children started at Hidden Valley. My son Dylan is a senior at College Park. and he's in the back row. >> And then I have my daughter who's a freshman at uh College Park. So >> there she is. And I have my husband and my sister-in-law also. Um so I'm just really happy. I feel like this is a full circle moment for me. Um and I'm just excited. I am really passionate about serving children in all capacities. And so I welcome this
098opportunity. Thank you for giving me this opportunity. >> Thank you. >> Next, the human resources department is bringing for the board's review and potential approval the appointment of Adria Abara as the principal of elementary school site to be determined. Adria's career in education began with 15 years in elementary classrooms, serving as kindergarten and first grade teacher in the Boston metro area. When she returned to California, Adria shifted to middle school as a sixth grade core teacher. As a middle school assistant principal, Adria has been recognized for her dedication to strengthening student learning and engagement. Through data-informed practices and strong collaboration with staff and families, she helped her school make significant academic gains. Adria earned her Bachelor of Arts in Human Biodnamics from UC Berkeley, master's in elementary education from Leslie University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and administrative
099services credential from California State University, East Bay. Adria resides with her husband and two children in Danville. In her spare time, Adria enjoys traveling, baking, and gardening. She also is an avid Disneyland fan. With that, I leave this appointment in the hands of the board. >> Madame President, I move the board appoint um Adria Iber as an principal at an elementary school site to be determined. >> Second. Good evening, Dr. Clark, Madame President, and trustees. Um, thank you so much for this opportunity to join the Mount Diablo Unified School District. I am looking forward to collaborating with our staff, our families and colleagues to ensure a nurturing environment that challenges our students and also sparks curiosity for them. Again, thank you so much. I'm grateful and excited for this opportunity. >> Good evening. Thank you,
100Dr. Clark. Good evening, Madame President, superintendent, trustees. The human resources department is bringing for the board's review and potential approval the appointment of Amanda Lucian as the principal of Agnosio Valley High School. As a leader, Amanda's mission is to empower the YBHS community by fostering an environment where every student, parent, and staff feel welcome and students achieve academic su success. Amanda earned her bachelor's in science from Iowa State University and her master's in educational leadership. Amanda is a daughter of two retired educators. Her dad, Pat Lucian, retired from Riverview Middle School. Amanda's daughter, Lyanna, is a sophomore at Northgate High School and her son, David, is at Foothill Middle School. Amanda sees her family as an MDUSD family. She is looking forward to serving as principal at YB and she feels at home there. With
101that, I leave this appointment in the hands of the board. >> Madame President, I move uh that the board approve Amanda Lucian as permanent principal at Ignasio Valley High School. >> Second. >> Okay, we have a motion by Trusty Lawrence, a second by Trusty McDougall. Good evening, Superintendent Dr. Clark, board of trustees. I am so very thankful and honored for this opportunity and um I'm just to lead, guide, and inspire my community. We've already done some great work as interim. Um, I want to recognize my family. I couldn't do this without them. My mom, my dad, and my and my kids. And I just I really am touched and honored and very very thankful. So, thank you. If I can I just wanted to say really quickly, I I've had the opportunity to uh visit
102Ignasio Valley uh several times uh during the course of this school year and I think that there's been a transformation over the course of the year. Um the the energy and excitement was palpable and I I do think that Ignasio Valley High School is one of the hidden gems in our school district. And I think as we share the amazing things that are happening over there, it's just an opportunity for us to to educate uh our community as to the many great things that are happening there and I look forward to seeing what happens over the next few years. >> Good evening again. The human resources department is bringing for the board's review and potential approval the appointment of Charles Harrington Jr. as the principal of Prospect Continuation High School and Horizon Center for Independent
103Study. Originally from Tennessee, Charles moved to California in 2002 and started his career as a special education teacher in Oakland Unified School District before transitioning into leadership and administration a decade later. This is Charles 24th year as an educator. Outside of work, Charles en enjoys time with his children, reading, writing, and caring for his plants. With that, I leave the appointment this appointment in the hands of the board. Thank you, Madame President. I move the board of Port uh Charles Harrington Jr. as uh principal at Prospect Continuation High School and Horizon's Center for Independent Study. >> Second. >> Okay, we have a motion by Trustee Mayo, a second by Trustee Zwee. Uh, President Mason, Superintendent Clark, board. Um, I first wanted to acknowledge my appreciation uh for you guys. I appreciate the opportunity. I'm happy
104to be here. Uh, this is my fourth year in this district and I'm happy to call MDUSD home. Uh, secondly, uh, I want to give out some thanks. Um, to my parents, uh, who are still in Tennessee where I grew up, uh, my siblings, they're watching. Um, I'm thankful for my staff at Prospect Horizons. Uh they've been great. They've been supportive and we've worked very hard uh to do everything we can for our students. Um along with that um I want to acknowledge our focus. um LCAP goal number one the first two words say it's all students and uh I think in order to support our students there's many ways to do so but the only way well one of the ways uh that we can support our students is through alternative education and I'm
105always excited when I hear Dr. Clark say all students and I'm happy to be a part of that vision and I'm happy again. Thank you. >> All right, we're going to excuse all of our new uh all of our new appointees. Congratulations to you all. We did 12.1 at the beginning, right, Dr. Clark? Okay, so we're going on to 12.2. College and Career Readiness Update, California call colleg's guidance initiative, and Mount Dley Unified School District implementation of California Colleges.edu to support college and career exploration and preparation. >> It's a mouthful, huh? >> Uh good evening, uh President Mayo, Superintendent Dr. Clark, and board trustees. Thank you so much for allowing us to present and we'll try and do it quickly um the work that we've been doing over this past year to implement um the
106California colleges.edu platform to support college and career exploration. The work that we've been doing I want to recognize um we've been working closely with the department of strategic support headed by Linda Pete and um uh Pedro Ao Aoyo um in designing the lessons and working with our counselors. So, um I'm going to use this. All right. Um I don't need to repeat all the LCAP goals, but this really um continues to guide the work that we do within the department of college and career readiness because as um Principal Harrington just said, it says all students, we're going to graduate them college and career ready. So, you guys know the work that I've been doing over the last uh 10 years in our CTE world. Um but that is a very small percentage of our students
107and it leaves a lot of students out in the cold when we talk about preparing kids for college and career career readiness. So um I'm excited that um we are starting to expand beyond the CTE world in the work that we're doing. Um and then also this framework. So college and career readiness is the foundation of um equity work that we're doing in the district making sure that all students have access to the CTE classes as well as the college and career readiness and college and career readiness cannot be limited to just college it has to include career oops sorry um all right so just quickly just to provide some context to the california.edu edu. Um it is part of the college uh California college guidance initiative. So we in our world we call um
108it CCGI. So the work that we're doing is to support CCGI implementation across the district. Um for years Mount Unified was a Naviance district which we paid for. I want to say the contract ran us about 250 for I think two to three years. California colleges is free. So right there that should make everyone happy, right? Um but really it's this idea that the state has promoted that we have to do more to promote college and career readiness from the cradle to career. And so California colleges was built out of this initiative as the platform that the state is supporting to support college and career exploration. And so um it starts this is the other really good thing about this platform is it starts in sixth grade whereas Naviance was not usable for students before
109high school. So this we can start doing the work at an earlier age which we all know is super important. Um if there's also parent and education resources available to support parent involvement. Parents can sign up for their own account. They can't go in and do the things but they can see what their students are doing within the account. So, we're really excited to do this and I will say I was saying to someone I like I'm a little competitive. I like to be say to say we are a leader in this region in the work that we're doing with California colleges. So, we are working closely with the state and they are following our lead in how we are implementing this. So um through this platform, students are able to take interest and value
110assessments so that they can learn more about their themselves and their interests because that should really guide them in choosing future careers. We don't want students going into a career that they're not interested in. So um and and as um Amanda, my amazing team member, is going to talk about that happens down in the middle school level. Um they can also monitor their academic progress and their A throughG completion. So we know that A through G we they need to complete those courses in order to even be eligible to apply to college. So even if a kid is thinking I'm not going to college, we want them to be eligible so they have options when they graduate from high school. They can also find and research careers, colleges and or training programs. So NVIAN did
111not necessarily include those training programs. California colleges does. They can learn about their financial aid options. And this la this next piece is super important for us. We can track the um college applications that are being launched and we can track the financial aid applications that are being launched. So it's going to make it much easier once we get everyone on board to actually launch their applications through the system. But it the system feeds into the application. So students don't have to go in and manually enter their courses into their college applications. it automatically is going to feed it into um those applications and then as the students um as we move into this idea of um guaranteed admission for students who are qualified, they're going to pull that data from CCGI. So that's why
112it's it's really important that we um work on students on using this this platform. Um students can also set goals and make plans for their future as Amanda's going to talk about. There's a life plan that we ask students to complete. my goal before I retire, which um is not that far off. Um in my mind, it's not too far off. Got to get the kid through college first. But um my goal is that every student graduate from high school with a plan of what their next steps are, right? We know that students are not going that the the trajectory is not a straight line, but if they have a plan for what that next step is, they're far more likely to to to at least move forward. That's what we want. move forward. Um
113and then they can save important documents like resumeéumés, the recommend letters of recommendation and things like that. So um in terms of our implementation, this school year is our second year of access to the platform. Um we had to sign a partnership agreement and go through all the legal ease that goes into that. Um and then um but this is really our first year of full implementation. all sixth through 12th graders have access to california.edu. And then we were so excited this year we got the single sign on um aspect. So they could go into um the class link pla page on the website and they can easily access the um the program through class link. So that was that was a game changer um and they don't have to remember a password. Um, all
114right. So, in terms of what we've done to um support the implementation of CCGI is we tabled at all of the high school open um back to school nights and open houses. We hosted a parent information night in September. We presented uh information to the workability team because this is a tool that should be used by all students. Um we presented to the focal scholar team in September. We tabled at the college fair um that YV held in October. Um we also in October presented to case managers um to support sped students accessing this platform. Um and then we presented to CTE teachers about the platform. Um we also were fortunate enough to be chosen to present at the um state CTE conference in Palm Springs. Um so that was with Amanda and also Anna
115Ramos. Um we host monthly CCGI implementation meetings with um uh strategic support team and our counselors. Um and then we um are working on implementation of CCGI at our alt ed sites. They can't follow the same scope and sequence that we've created. So um that's the work that we're doing. And so what came out of our uh work in in last year was we created a tier one scope and sequence. And that my my intent with this and I and um Linda and Pedro and Amanda were all on the same page is that this is like the bare minimum of access that students should get to CCGI. Um we found out in looking at the data from Naviance that um the career tools of Naviance were not used hardly at all. Um and it really
116was just used by students who are applying to colleges. Um, so we wanted to make sure that at a bare minimum we're we're a all students are accessing just like the the most basic information that they can get out of CCGI. So from this tier one scope and see I know it's really small but the blue lessons are our college and career lessons. The green lessons are SEAL lessons. So, we wanted to to embed the the CCGI into the work the counselors are doing it. And and part of the reasoning for that was that this is work that they're probably already doing where we're just formalizing it and we're implementing the use of a tool to help make this process go better. So, um so the blue is where CCGI lives. So, um again, we
117start in sixth grade and then we go all the way through 12th grade. We've got lessons that the counselors are doing and also lessons that college and career adviserss are doing. So now I'm going to turn it over to my amazing colleague Amanda Witzac. She's a career pathways counselor and she's really leading the effort in the implementation of CCGI. >> Good evening. Thank you for sharing your time with us this evening. Um so we get to go into the data. um rate we have on the screen here are the tools that we use a quick snapshot of the tools we used this year for in California colleges. So our sixth grade students I'm sorry sixth through eighth grade students all took a career interest inventory which was a series of 20 or so questions that
118after students completed generated a list of careers based on how they answered those questions. Um and this is part of our exploration for our middle school students. Next year we're hoping to expand on the type of lessons that the students are receiving. Um, one of my favorite features of California colleges is the career exploration page because there's several different ways that students um can search careers. So, they can base it on education level, they can base it on industry sector. So, it's just a great starting point for our students. Our high school counselors delivered lessons um for our 9th graders using the academic planner in California colleges, which is pictured at the bottom of the screen. Our 10th graders um received a lesson on smart goals, how to set a smart goal. And then our
11911th graders received a lesson on how to use the life planner. Our college and career adviserss pushed in and you can see um did a lot of lessons with our students throughout this year and they focused heavily on the skills assessments. Um so to make sure that our students are aware of the type of careers that align with some of their interests. Um and then once we get into 11th and 12th grade, we're looking at more college career planning. Um and then they work with our students to launch their financial aid applications as well as uh college applications through the platform. So here's just a quick snapshot of some of the data from our middle school students. So we have compiled a list of the top three careers at each middle school based on um
120how they responded on their interest inventory. So we have a lot of aspiring actors and lawyers in the district. Um, but it's just really wonderful information for us to see and that we can use as we kind of tailor um more information or lessons to our students. One, you can't read this, so I'm going to read it for you. So, all of these lessons in the scope and sequence have pre and post tests that were created that students launched through Renaissance, which is another single sign on, and that was just a way for us to capture some more data and information. So the one of the post- test questions was asking using California colleges has helped me find um um additional careers that I might have not considered before and we saw a huge increase
121in agreement with that. So a large growth and that's really the point from middle school is that we want to expand that career exploration. Once we get into the high school data um again at the very bottom we have our top three careers at each of our comprehensive high schools. Again, a lot of aspiring lawyers and doctors. Um, to the very far left, we have our fall 2025 tool usage. This is not indicative of how many students received this lesson, but how many students were using the tool in the platform. So, has provided us some areas of growth. Um, we have the highest usage in our academic planner. So, that's where students got on the platform and they can plan out their four years in high school. Um, this also links to A throughG completion.
122So students were able to see um throughout their four years if they're A throughG aligned and if they are then able to apply to a CSU or UC school. Um we have some areas of growth for our smart goal for 10th grade and our 11th grade and and that's based on um how we introduced the tool and time length of our um presentation. So we're using that to review our lessons for next school year. Um but we did see a a large growth for students in our nth grade lesson who know A throughG requirements. So part of the um the presentation was making sure the students are aware of expectations and where they go in high school for questions but also how they can be successful and um knowing A throughJ requirements is one of
123them. We saw a great increase in our pre and post tests which was wonderful to see. We are lucky enough to also receive some data from our partner um with California colleges. So this is district-wide data that they provided us and this just it shows a we have a few slides that uh show some of the great information that we can pull from this platform. So what we have here is students who are on track uh for UC and CSU applications. Um why this is important is we're able to pull per grade level and each site can do this to monitor students A throughG completion. not only are you able to monitor um their status, but you can follow up if they have applied to any of these schools. So, it's another really great data
124point for our counselors and college and career adviserss to use while they're follow up with students as they're considering their post-secary plans. Some other interesting data as Dr. Fontineella had mentioned is we are able to track students who have launched and/or submitted applications to our California school system. So this would be um California community colleges, UC's and Cal State schools as well as financial aid. Um what is important for us is that we can see who has launched and if they have not submitted especially for our financial aid that we can follow up with them. Um this is also not indicative of all the students in our district this year who have applied to CSU's UC's California community colleges since this is the second year that we're implementing the platform. So, we're hoping as we
125continue to implement that we are funneling more and more students to apply because that's great data for us, but it also allows us to follow up um with students as they're planning. The last slide we have provided by California Colleges is our favored colleges, majors, and careers for the district. Um to the far left, we have how many students are selecting their favorite colleges, careers, and majors. And we would anticipate what we see here is the top three are our middle school students. So that's heavy in careers, which makes sense because that's what we did the lesson on. And then as they go through high school, they're moving more towards colleges and majors. But it does provide us an area of growth as we're looking at students should hopefully be connecting the careers that they're
126interested in with um the colleges or training programs that offer that and majors. So we're hoping to grow that as well. But for the district, our top three careers are lawyers, actors, musicians, and singers. Um which is wonderful. And then our top three colleges, DDC was a very large partner of ours as number one for favored colleges, followed by UC Berkeley and UC um Davis. And for majors, as I said, we're hoping to grow this, but we have um psychology as our top major, followed by um zoology, and then wildlife biology. So again, just really interesting data that we can use while we look at pathways, how to support students, career days, um and so on. So, what's to come for 2627? We are in the process right now of continuing to revise our tier
127one lessons and we're using this data and feedback that we've received from our counselors, our college and career advisors as we're um looking at lessons and what we're hoping to teach next year. We are also working on a framework for teachers that incorporate tools for California colleges so they're able to use it to support students for their college and career exploration in the classroom, but also so we're not duplicating the lessons that are happening from our counselors and college and career adviserss. Um hoping to continue our collaboration and education with our district teams and then also expand our parent and guardian education opportunities. Thank you so much. Any questions? Do you have any questions for us? >> I just ask a clarifying question. Um, how you know that students launched or applied to CSU or
128UC? Is that because they the systems talk to each other? >> Yeah. >> They go through the platform and it connects them to the application. >> But what if they didn't access the application from the >> We can't then we don't know. Oh, so >> so our hope is that more students are using the platform to apply. If they launched it at home, let's say, they can always go back through the platform and link it and it and it will show up on our reporting. Um, but if they don't, then there isn't a way for us to follow up. >> So the numbers on the slide >> are what we have reported. >> What you know, correct? Right. Okay. So, you don't know that my child applied? >> No. >> Correct. I'm just pretty certain.
129I've never heard of this, so I'm just pretty certain that she probably didn't use it. I know she didn't use it to apply, but did she go back and take a second step to let you know? No. >> So, that that that's an area of growth, right? Like we we know that we have to work um with our team to to um get the word out that this is how you should go in because it makes it so much easier and less likely to make a mistake. um that can become monumental. So that that's really kind of our goal. >> So do you see the actual application or do is it just a uh notice that the uh application was launched and then submitted >> launched and submitted. So we're not able to see if
130the student was accepted or not either. Um but it is a a data point for our staff, our colleagues to follow up with students. So, let's say it's launched but wasn't submitted that they can find out why, >> right? Um, and there are some that probably would want confidentiality versus having someone uh looking at their application. Um, I write a better application than my friend sort of so to speak. Um, how what are the education the parent tools like? >> So, the the parent tools there's a a ton of information for both parents and students. Um there's financial aid lessons for for families, but it also parents are able to access the career exploration as well. They're able to see what their students working on. So they can see the results from um some of
131the assessments students can take. They can see the applications that are launched. They just can't edit anything in their student account. >> Have we had uh any presentations before the various parent clubs other than your tableabling? We did a we did do a parent information night back in September, but we've not presented to like PAC or ELAC or anything like that network >> or PTAs and PFPs. >> Yeah. Right. Okay. >> It's exciting to me. I'm hoping that um it's beneficial for families that can afford a college counselor. U they can encourage their student. There's a tool that they can look at um and be involved with their student uh to a certain degree. Some students don't want that nosy mom uh helicoptering when they're trying for their applications. >> Well, and it's interesting because
132when my daughter was doing her college applications, I was like, "Well, you can just go into CCGI and launch it." She goes, "What?" Because her district is not is not following it. They're like the only district in the region that has chosen not to sign that partnership agreement. So, um, but I was I was like, "This is so easy. Just go in and launch it." >> And I just kept saying, "Launch it." And it was like the episode of Shitz Creek where she fold in the cheese. I just kept saying that to her and she's like, I have no idea what you're talking about, mom. So, she's, you know, I'm dumb. So, well, I'm I'm also excited to see um that the students can explore careers six through eight. They can determine where their interests
133might lie. And that was something that I experienced in a very small rural school in Oklahoma uh when I was in that particular age group and never had that experience again in Texas or California. And um I just think it's very amazing to help students identify themselves and find their favorites. just embedding it into these tier one, right, lessons is the idea is that um every student's going to at least start the exploration process while they're in middle school. So, >> thank you. >> Exciting. I think it's great to see it at that that middle school stage and then we have very strong representation on this dis and in this audience of parents of high school seniors and um you know I I my my personal experience was it it was a bit of a
134black box and trying to get information from said high school senior was incredibly challenging. Um, I really only knew she had actually applied because I saw, you know, the the common app makes it incredibly easy to apply to a whole bunch of schools, but you still have to pay for all of them. And so I I I did see that hit, but I I just think the transparency around this and that this gives a new level of access um to students. So, it's great to hear. So, thank you. >> It does not currently support the common app. Um, I think that's an area that they're looking into, but currently if you're doing the common app, you do have to go in and do the individual application. So, >> well, I think it's amazing because here
135we have a tool that the student can use themselves, but then we also have our uh staff at the high schools that can support them while they're doing their college applications and uh pursuing different things. So, uh it's a it's a great collaboration. All right, >> good job, Heather and staff and Amanda, Hannah. You guys do a good job. And I just want to compliment you on this uh the most recent one, the Campus of Commerce. Very successful. And I just want to um really, like the rest of us have said, so glad to see the emphasis moving down from the high schools to the middle schools because that's really where we got to start directing kids. And and I think you're doing a good job on this. I'm glad to see your um story
136on this and I think the more we can influence the kids to start thinking about it earlier, the better off we're going to be in directing them and helping them where they need to go. So, good job. >> Thank you guys so much. We really appreciate it. >> Thank you. >> Before we go to 13.0, Dear can I'd like to make a motion to move the superintendent's report to 13.0 and trade places with the board members because we have special guests in the audience that Dr. Clark will honor during the his report and they make good jolaf rice even though it's gonna okay. So, someone has to second. >> Second. >> Okay. We have a motion to change the order of our agenda and put the superintendent report before board member reports. We have a
137motion by Trusty and Zewi. We have a second by Trusty Lawrence. We'll now vote on it. Did I talk enough to give you time to change? Keep talking. >> Voice vote. I think voice. >> Voice vote. Okay. Trustee um McDougall. >> Yes. >> Trustee Lawrence. >> Yes. >> Trusty Davis. Yes, >> Mayo. >> Yes, >> Mason is yes as well. Okay, take it away, Dr. Clark. >> Um, last week we did the uh Willie Mims Awards and um and just um just a little brief history on on Willie Mims. Willie Mims was the uh NAACP um educational chair for Contraosta County and uh um he was a strong advocate for um for all students but um his work really led him to advocating for uh for African-American students and um he came out to many
138many districts. Um, you know, I met him when I first became an assistant superintendent and he came to meet with me about the treatment of African-American students in a in a district in Far East County, Contracasta County. And I know that Willie has been here in Mount Diablo to um to also um advocate for African-American students here in um in the Mount Diablo district. So last week we we held our um black our Willie Mims excellence awards and the um we at the district we failed to invite uh several students to um to come and be recognized for their for their achievements. And so um we were able to arrange for them to come tonight. Um um I see this as as very important. I'm really uh thankful and and appreciative of the board for
139um allowing this as a priority and it is in our LCAP goals and um and so I have a couple students here tonight that I want to call up and and recognize for their good work and um and I do just want to give a publicly a public apology for missing them the first time, but then also having them wait till 8:30 tonight. I should have moved my report up earlier in the agenda, but I didn't think it was going to be such a ruckus meeting. So, >> do you have like a DJ to play music in the background like Dr. Frances? >> So, these students are out of um these students are out of View Middle School and the the first student that we would like to recognize for um for top GPA is
140Zeta Anaman. Can you please come up here and be recognized? and our next student who we would like to um recognize and she's um it's so it's always so nice to see her because she's kind of grown up around us here in this district but we are are very proud of her and I and I just have to give um you know give her parents are just all the all the credit. They they do such a such a good job. But um this young lady is excellent. Top GPA. Annayia Pete. And I I just I I do not want to um I'm going to talk about this in my report and I actually I will just go to the next the next slide is um you see a packed house and this is only half
141the gym. This type of recognition matters. Um you know far too often um you know African-American students and African-American people and you can see what's going on in our political world right now. um we are highly discriminated against at all levels. And um and when you have a packed house like this and you have these uh parents here tonight who have been sitting through this meeting for two and a half hours to um have their students be recognized in this way because often our um students of color and our African-American students are not are not recognized and um and they deserve this recognition. They have top GPA in their in their schools and respected um classes. And at this at this um at our awards night, um it was a a very diverse crowd, but
142they were there. They they understood and you could just feel the pride within the evening. And so I know Trusty Mason, I know you were there, and I know others had conflicts, but um but but this is this is one of the truly special nights in in our district. and um and and I'm honored to to be able to oversee that and lead that. So, I want to thank this family for for sitting through this. I want to allow you guys to go now as I go into my report. And thank you again so much. >> Thank you. Well, this was nice for some of the other board members to get a little that got paid. So, that was good. >> So, you know, we're always grounded in our in our LCAP goals. And I
143think, you know, we we've heard that several times tonight about all students. And I can go on and on, but um but again, it is critical that we that we name our students, we name our schools, we name our areas of of of growth that we want to see. Um and so um we have our CCE triangle here. Um right now we're going through CASP assessments and um and we have been we have been pushing hard in this area. Our our our staffs and administrators have been um you know have been leading this work. Our teachers are teaching. our support staffs are supporting and um and we really want to give our students um the the very very best opportunity to demonstrate um what they what they um you know what they know in terms
144of grade level standards. And so students in grades 3 through eight and grade 11 take the Smarter Balance assessments. Um what are they being tested on? They're being tested on English, language arts, and math. There's also a science test to it, but it's really it's the test. It's a um it's this, you know, new type of of assessments where the more questions you get right, the harder the test the the test gets and the the um when you uh miswer questions, the easier it gets. But all of that is weighted scores. And so that all comes out in the in the score. So um and then also it includes a real world project to show what they've learned. They have to apply that. Um when do we give this exam? Um we have a window
145of 25 instructional uh days and the window is January to June. So January 20th to June 30th. So we have we have already started. Many of our schools are um getting ready to to wrap up and probably just do makeups. But it is an important time and I I really want to thank our our parents for getting their students to school on time and for taking this serious and of course the the staff and everyone else who is doing that. Um the estimated time of testing that these students will go through over a series of of uh of a couple weeks is five to six hours but each test is untimed so students can um take as long as they need to in order to to finish the test. Um, so we're we're excited about
146that. You know, I shared at the last meeting I shared our STAR scores, our STAR, you know, we're trying to get to a point where STAR can can really be kind of um that that precursor to how students are going to do on the CASP. It's not quite 100% lined up there yet, but um but hopefully when our CAT scores come out that um our folks hard work um shows and that our students have that opportunity to really show what they have learned. We don't just we don't just teach to the test and and testing is not all we do. We do lots of other stuff. But this is how our students are judged. either they exceeded the standard, they met the standard, they nearly met it, or they did not meet it. So, that's
147how we're going to um that's how we're going to rank our students and our schools and our educators um as we as we look at the data of everyone and everybody who takes this test. Um some celebrations because it is that time of year. Uh we had our Mount Diablo High School senior awards. um this gentleman here in the middle. I've seen him around campus and I've met that young man before, but um you know, again, another packed house. We we do these things as as the end of the year comes and sometimes, you know, they may just seem like rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat, but these things mean things to each and every one of those families and those kids and these are things that um that they don't forget. It's just a
148little piece of paper, but the piece of paper means something. It really It really does. And so I just wanted to capture this picture that I thought um something that just should make us all very proud. Willie Mims awards off obviously I'm not going to go on about that. I want to talk about the seal of biiteracy. Um our multilingual department has been that has been a major focus of ours this year. um along with our our work with um our our with the Contraosta County Office of Ed and also with the state organization the California uh collaborative of educational excellence. So we have really been working on ensuring that we're reclassifying our students that we are um providing training that we're right sizing our programs that we're making sure they have adequate resources but
149the seal of biiteracy is is essentially students who are are proficient in one language and then learn another language and they take they they take the AP test in a in a different language. And so we had um you know there a couple of you were there, Linda, Trusty Mayo and Trusty Mason were there. Um we had a packed house out at um at Unatio Valley in the in the in the big gym and um each student who who showed up got a cord um by myself and the ML MLL department. But just a a wonderful evening. Uh uh you know, Katherine, thank you for for organizing this and your whole team. It was it was wellrun. um just a a top-notch thing. And I don't know if you can I don't know if you
150can recognize that young man there, the only one in a full-on suit and tie and stuff, but um I was getting ready to basically uh uh put the rope around Allen or hood him as they say when you get the doctorate. But he got the cord there and all those students were extremely proud and it was it was a great evening. Um, another thing that's just happening in our in our district, another reason why I'm just always, you know, so proud of the work that we're doing. Um, when we say all, we do mean all. And and in in my reports, I always try to highlight all students. But these are our 18 to 22 year old um 22-year-old students who have who have disabilities and who are a part of our bridge program. But
151they do a news show. This is only a screenshot, but if you watch this news show, they do um sports, they do weather, they do a joke, they do current events. I mean, it is awesome. And it's all it's all studentr run. Um uh the the bridge team over there. I mean, it is it is truly incredible the work that they're doing over there. And if you haven't had a well, and the year is over, so I can't we got the Bridge graduation, but I was going to say if you haven't had a chance, like go to Bridge. go there on Thursday mornings when the cafe is open. Go and visit the classes. Go and talk to the students. Um be yes. So it's just you'll time will just fly when you're there. So um
152but if you get a chance to watch that bridge newsroom, it is truly um uh should be a a key key uh point of pride for the for the Mount Diablo district. So really thank those students and um and their teacher Gianna. um went to a couple open houses, but this is this is the Bair open house and um just families visiting classrooms, just you see pride on their faces. Families are always so excited. And then um at at pretty much all of our most of our open houses, we have uh uh community partnerships where we have folks come out and um you know and and and adult school is there um you know, LA Clinica is there like all just different um different organizations come out to our schools. The bottom picture is not
153from open house, but I thought it was cool. It's some sort of multiplication um some sort of multiplication game that the kids have and so they're learning math out there. Um Shoreacres open house. Um again, they have they have a parent center where they were giving away books. Again, just really trying to infuse reading in into our into our homes. And um and so there's a variety of books there for um you know, for for students and families to take home. And so just real proud of the of the work happening. um at our schools during during open house season. Um wanted to share this picture. This is our our PTA president over at uh Unesio Valley Elementary. And and I really like this eagle. Um this eagle is um just just just clean. And
154you can just look at this this this beautiful family. Um you know, uh mom is PTA president. You got the two young you got the two young students there. and we got the mascot there and they're celebrating teacher appreciation week over there at Unesio Valley Elementary School. So, just want to want to highlight that. Just also want to highlight some things going on over at Sequoia uh Middle School. I know um um HR is not here, but there was a there was a kickball game between students and staff. That's uh I know that's that's that's uh students on the left and staff on the right. One one of them is holding up a sign that staff won two to one. Um, how you only score two runs in a kickball game? I don't know. But
155okay, 20 kids. But, um, but hopefully everyone was able to walk away from the game. That's something we're always worried about, but just just a great way to collaborate with our young people and to have fun. Um, the bottom is a um is there's more pictures of this, but it's a it's basically a noon time volleyball tournament that they ran at the school. You know, oftentimes parents want middle school sports and things like that, but Sequoia is kind of taking matters in their own hands. It's a great way to keep kids active. It's a great way to um you know, uh be inclusive, let everybody play. You don't have to be on a team. You don't have to, you know, volleyball is a very expensive sport to play. Costs thousands of dollars and you got
156to travel all over the state and all over the place to play. And here they were able to just do this at lunchtime. And the pictures looked like they had some real good players out there. So just, you know, stuff like this is going on at all of our schools, but this was Sequoia's day. Um, the teacher on the left, she was here earlier and this and some of the some of the students here, the the uh young lady on the on the right, second in from the right, she was here. But they do a GLYPH um uh uh book or class or club over at Conquered High School. And um and we featured them in in this week's Friday letter. And so I did just want to um you know again show these students
157you know it's it's this is this is a teacher who's thinking outside the box and not just drill and kill or something like that but hey what are some ways to really engage my students so that they can acquire um English and so this is something that they're doing and they create these books with all kinds of images and pictures and stuff like that very then they're very proud of it and it's a very worthwhile worthwhile program and I was glad to see those students here and glad to see that teacher here um this evening. Um another thing that was highlighted in our in our um in our Friday letter, but I think it's it's also just a a testament of our of our students. Um you know, this this um senior over at Northgate,
158and I'm sure it's part of our senior project, but she made menstrual kits and um and and did a presentation for girls at at Oakrove Middle School. And so again, it's that whole mentoring piece, giving service, helping helping those, you know, younger and things like that. So was just really moved by this and um and and just, you know, we have hundreds of these stories that take place in our district each and every day. And um you know, it bo obviously it bothers me when as as people disparage public education and talk about you know, we're not doing what we're supposed to be doing. you know, in some of the other states where it's just drill and kill all day um just to get test scores and stuff like that. I don't believe in that.
159I believe that we really need to mentor and work with the whole child and develop develop um citizens and and not just kids who can recite um and just, you know, very um um you know, depth of knowledge, mean menial skills and stuff like that. So, I think we offer a very well-rounded program here in Mount Diablo and students who go through our system um you know get a wide range of of educational experiences. Um again, our product is our is our students and so we will be launching on Tuesday, May 26. We're going to start off at Northgate and um then we'll go to college now and then we're going to end with Ignatio Valley High School and adult education and do a whole bunch in between. So, I want to thank all the
160trustees for um for signing up to uh accept the classes and also just to to come and celebrate the good work that we do. We we do so much throughout the year that this is really our time just to sit back and watch the families, the students, and the staff really just celebrate their accomplishments. So that um that completes my my um superintendence report. Thank you uh board for letting me go and letting me acknowledge that family. >> Okay. Board member reports. Trusty McDougall. Okay. It's been a while since our last meeting, so there's a few things that happened. On uh the 28th of April, I was able to go to the parent advisory council meeting. I was only able to attend the first half, but it was well represented by the Montiablo unified staff
161at that meeting. So that went very well. On the 30th of April, as I mentioned earlier, the campus to commerce meeting went very well at the John Mir hospital. We had well attended event standing room only very enthusiastic students and they had very good um displays at their tables to really show what they've done throughout the year. So that was really u a good event to attend to to really get pumped up about what we're doing for our college and career. On the 4th of May, I had a town hall in uh Conquered Library and I had 12 in attendance. Good discussion following up with the superintendent on that. And on the 12th of May, I went to a site council at Pine Hollow Middle School and I found it very informative and it encourages
162me to attend uh more of these uh site meetings and so I feel that that's a good way to to get in touch with real good cross section of u administrators, teachers, parents and even students. So uh I will be going to uh more site council meetings as I find them. So uh I make want to make one final note that the agenda item that was requested at the end of last board meeting uh did not happen this time. We wanted to review and investigate the non-performance of the contractor uh from measure C Sch Snider Electric and the details of the non-performance where there were no savings on power usage. In fact, a 63% increase in power from two 2019 through 2024 as verified by PG&E reports. Um, and I request that we do an
163investigation uh to verify these findings. And I think that we've really got to be aware that uh if they got their contract falsely, there are false claims act in California that uh is could be put into effect. And I think this is something that uh we ought to take seriously as an investigation. And one final note I want to make on the future bond issue that is that um because the amounts that are spent are high and the projects are detailed. I suggest that we have a qualified project manager added to each of the contracts that are uh issued under the next bond issue because then we have people that are qualified to watch over the expenditures and I think the cost of this is minimal compared to what they will be able to bring
164to uh the table as far as expertise on the money that's being spent. So that's my suggestion on the next bond issue. Thank you. Mayo. >> Thank you. Good evening everybody. Um on April 30th, like Dr. Clark mentioned, I did attend the seal of biiteracy recognition with uh Trustee Mason uh for our graduating high school seniors and uh our trust student trustee was one of the numerous uh awardees. I haven't counted this very tiny print document correctly. >> I estimated 310. So I was close >> 24. I counted them. >> But I what I want to share that is remarkable is that some of the students uh qualified not only in their of course English but in two languages not just one. And the languages include French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Chinese, Mandarin, Dari, Arabic,
165Filipino, ASL, Mongolian, Vietnamese. Uh, I mentioned Mandarin already, Polish, Cantonese, Swedish, Serber, Croatian, and Russian. Uh, and I may have missed some because um the font is very small. I think this is amazing that we have that um many students who are interested in pursuing a second language. And if you've ever had an opportunity to spend time outside of the United States, um you'll you understand how important that experience is and uh how remarkable it is. And I had that opportunity as a junior in college to spend a year in Germany. Don't speak to me in German now. I can talk to you about day-to-day things, but I can't talk to you in scientific terms any longer. Um, but you know, I have friendships um many things. the benefits are so fantastic and to understand
166that we uh provide these opportunities for our students and our entire community is just um very important for me. On May 8th, along with seven others from the Mount Diablo Education Foundation, I volunteered at the City of Conquered Mayor's golf tournament. Um the foundation will benefit from some of the funding um that was earned at this particular fundraiser. Uh 62 golfers had registered for the great game of golf and the funds will be used to provide programs to the Mount Diablo Unified School District students regardless of their zip code. On May 8th, I also attended the superintendent forum for Contraosta County. Uh that was uh moderated by the uh League of Women Voters from Diablo Valley and hosted by 32nd District PTA and the East Bay Leadership Council. It was a great success and more
167than 45 people turned out on a Friday night at six o'clock when they should have been going to dinner and enjoying the evening. Um, so watch the CCTV and Ed channel programming uh for the repeated BA broadcasts. I think you will find it interesting. And I would like to uh provide a reminder for special education students and their family about the spring fling that will be held on May 19th at Monte Gardens next door at 6 pm. Um, they would like an RSVP, so please visit the Mount Diablo Unified School District website. the special education department web page and the CAC subway page to RSVP. Thank you. >> Thank you, Trusty Lawrence. >> I'll I'll speak on three things. Uh one, graduation season is fast upon us. It's an incredibly exciting time. And I think,
168you know, for for anyone who sat through tonight's meeting, I just think there are so many things uh to be proud of and for us to celebrate in this district. And uh this is for me and one other board member going to be a unique experience of uh having our own child uh be uh part of the graduating class. So something that uh a multitude of emotions but looking forward to it and uh so just wishing all of our graduates um so much success and looking forward to the celebrations of them uh in our next couple of weeks. Uh, second, I I want to um touch on something that board member McDougall covered, which is, you know, I also have a a lot of concerns around um the solar and I think, you know, our
169our superintendent, our staff, other board members have also shared that there there's a lot to unpack here. Um, and I I typically, you know, all the board members meet on a weekly basis with Dr. Clark. Um, typically I I most of what's said between us keep private, but I I do just want to say that um we he and I did cover the fact that um he was going to bring forward a study session on this specific topic. And then I will just also say that in my conversation with him um when he talked about members of our oversight committees that he was nothing but uh gracious and appreciative of the work that they've done. And so I I want to share that. Um and then the third topic I will cover is um the
170Brooft dual immersion and uh the move to to Woodside. So I I think obviously it is a very complex and emotional issue. Um I I want to share just kind of some of my perspectives on it and then at the end I'll I'll propose what I I would like to see as a next step. Um I do think that um one I believe that myself, this board, our superintendent and our our staff are very supportive of dual uh language. I think we've seen the benefits of it. Um I was excited when we brought that program forward at Bankraftoft and to see how it has grown over time and also that it is widespread across across our district. Um I do think that you know from what I've seen I think that um the the the
171district is within our rights to move a program within different schools. Um, and so I I I don't know how much uh and we'll see that played out potentially in the courts here. But I I do think that um you know, we we are not um eliminating the program. I think we've met the legal requirements, but I also really recognize the impact on this community. Um and and I think there's a lot to to celebrate at at what's happening at Bankfra. I support the move to Woodside um because I think that there's an expansion there that that's exciting and it will help balance out the size of those two elementary schools. What I would personally like to see and uh we'll uh bring as a a a motion at our next board meeting I if
172needed would be that I would like to see the continuation at least for one year in the kindergarten program for one class at Braftoft and I would like to see it limited to um Braftoft residents as well as the siblings of existing Bankraftoft students. though that would mean that um students who are outside the Bankraftoft area and who are not uh siblings of current students that they would if they are still interested uh that Woodside would be where they would be routed. um these students would also the the siblings um you know I think one of the other impacts that we we've looked at is the transfers into Foothill and Northgate and so that um you know these siblings it it would go I think the path would be to continue through Oakrove and Ignatio
173Valley and I think that's a great opportunity for those schools um and that I I would also say that this would be subject to you know the superintendent and staff feeling that we could support the program for at least this upcoming year. Um, I think that we would need to make sure there are enough students. I I believe the numbers I've seen and discussed with the superintendent and heard from staff are that there would be enough students to fully have a dual immersion class at Braftoft this upcoming year for kindergarten. I I would also one say that that this is not necessarily a full continuation but it would be a further evaluation um after this year and that also if let's say there are 30 students uh for kindergarten but then in a following year
174that cohort suddenly they're only 15 that may result in the elimination for that class if the the students who sign up do not continue with it. So those would be the parameters that I would suggest and as I said I would like to bring that forward um at our next board meeting if there's not already been an action in that direction. So thank you >> Christina Zy. >> Yes, this is our only meeting before graduation season and so to all the parents of graduates. Yeah, that was a deep sigh. Um, I only have to do this I only get to do this once. So, um, yeah, it's been May has been a whirl whirlwind and yeah, it has been wild because everything has happened. It's been a month of it's only we're only two weeks,
175barely two weeks in tomorrow. um a month of lasts. And so my heart goes out to all the parents experiencing this ser this daily last like what oh next Friday is our last Friday as a senior and for my child um of like do they have to go to school like no I mean I have no idea if those three days before graduation what their finals are done if you have to show up I don't know >> answer that >> I I know, but there's like no clarity. Anyway, I obviously my child is school. Anyway, um so I'm just congratulations to everyone who is finishing um their their um did this class have TK? I don't know. Good. Yeah. K through 12 um journey um that I'm sure is filled with many downs but hopefully
176overwhelmingly um ups. Um I just also want to talk about what's heavy on my mind and I'm sure a lot of you and Dr. Clark alluded to it earlier is this besides this attack on our democracy, this attack on the voter and especially this attack on on black people and voting. Um uh the there was actually a um Civil Rights Act of 1865 which has pretty much been overturned and now the Voting Rights Act and then the Civil Rights Act of 1965. Um, it's amazing how much uh this fight has been over a century like that to to overturn these laws that write to that attempted to write a wrong. Um, and it's happened before, it's happening now. Um, it will happen again because they will always lose eventually. Um, but what I reflect on
177as we're going into a voting season, as my child turns 18 on Saturday, so we'll get to vote for the first time in 3 weeks, I think it is. Um, or two, I don't know, June 2nd. I know the date. Um, or not June 1st sec. Yeah, June 2nd. Um, Tuesday. um that people feel like their votes don't count or don't matter, but look at how hard they're fighting to keep people from being able to vote. And that's because they know they can only win by cheating and by not allowing people to vote. Um yeah, it's true. Um this one's a fact. So the fact that how quickly two states went to when a Supreme Court decision came went to gerrymander their way to get to uh gerrymander away um majority black districts. Like when
178you look at the pictures I'm like oh wow. Is this an episode of Eyes on the Prize? Those of you certain of age would remember Eyes on the Prize. Or is this a a my textbook from the 80s? Are Oh, these are their parents probably. like these are the children of those pictures that I saw in the textbooks um that I grew up with with around learning the about the Jim Crow era and um the civil rights era. So, it's it's really it's sad. It's maddening, but we can't give up. And so I encouraging every one of you within my earshot to please vote because that is like our biggest defense against this BS. I encourage our seniors who are gra who are newly 18 mo at least half of them probably maybe by June.
179I don't know when the age when it when the date of starting school was pushed back. I was a very young person. So I graduated at 17. My birthday's late, but many of our seniors I know are 18 and I hope they vote because when we all vote, when the voting turnout is high, the right things happen. And that's what they're scared of. Um because it's only when there's not enough voters that we end up in this position. It's only when because of 2024, voter turnout was so low that we end up with this threat to our democracy, this crumbling that we're just watching and standing still for of our democracy and doing nothing, not everyone or celebrating. So, um you can vote early. My ballot's already my ballot is on my counter. You can
180drop it off at many boxes around our communities. Um you can mail it in, you can walk it in, or you can go in and vote. I will be taking my child to go in and vote because you have to have that experience. Um, and I'm making her read all the flyers that are coming in the mail because she's trying to decide who to vote for. Um, I know I've raised a brilliant child who knows right from wrong. Um, who believes in everyone's humanity. Um, and I I I have no idea who she's going to vote for, but I I'm excited that we have another one like me in the voting roles. So, I know I took more time than I thought because I didn't write it down. >> That's all right. >> Sorry. Not
181sorry. >> No time limits on board reports. We're the ones, >> but it's after nine. Sorry, y'all. >> That's all right. I I'll I'll go fast. So, um, favorite time of year. It's very busy busy. On April 23rd, I went to Shoreacres where the P they were having a meeting to consider becoming a PTA. Um, Trusty Mayo came as well and I think they're they're off. I haven't checked back with them, but they look like they were going from there. I went over to the DAC meeting where we got to see a preview of the student newcomers presentation at that meeting and also we the parents are got to give their LCAP input. On the 24th, I went to the ELAC meeting at 8 o'clock in the morning at Shoreacres. As always, there was many
182parents there. Um, then I shot over to the food bank to volunteer with Councilwoman uh Oberinger uh sorting food. And from there, I went over to the garden event at Rio Vista and um it was so cute. The kids gave me a Earth Earth Defender card and it says, "Thank you, Mrs. Mason, the garden is the best Earth Day defender for taking care of our our earth. I love the farm. I'm like, Mrs. Mason really didn't have too much to do, but other than starting gardens in the district, but not that garden, but they're very excited about it. And I need to say that our food services like above and beyond always what they need to do. They were serving snacks, healthy snacks that tasted really good to the family and kids that were out
183there. So, that was good. Um, on the 28th I went to the parent advisory meeting where we had presentations from the HR department and the budget department. The 29th I went to I was invited to join online Mount Devil High School PFC formation meeting. They're trying to get a parent um faculty club going again. So that was fun to listen to. Um, and 30th I went to campus to commerce after teaching my garden class in Pittsburgh. I went over to campus to commerce. Our kids were so well spoken. I hope none of the presenters are listening because they were better than the presenters, the professionals. They were great as were all their displays. Then um at Shore Acres that evening, it's was that date is Dia Delinos, which I never knew until that day. Uh
184packed house all full of families and kids. They had dancing cows and and dancing uh horses on stage and singing songs that I didn't understand, but I knew everybody was having a great time. From there, I shot over to Y High School for the biiteracy celebration. Um I hear from our friends at Bankrooft all the time, but believe me, when we're have graduating 324 kids that are multilingual, we care about bilingual education. In May, um there was a Cinco de Mayo event at Ignatia Valley High School, the second time I've went to one over there. And then I went to the Mims celebration and I I it was like I felt so I don't know at home there. And I I kept thinking, what is it about this that why am I so comfortable here?
185And I went home and I was talking to my husband. I'm like, oh, I know why. Because in Bayoint when I went to school, that's how the crowd was. It was many colored people all together all sharing which I don't always see at our schools which is unfortunate but and then the Mims family is well known in um tell you Mr. Mims is from West Pittsburgh, not from Pittsburgh. He's from West Pittsburgh. And I went to school with many of his relatives and served on a board with his um cousin as well. So that was a lot of fun. And then I did the went on the 7th to the wellness committee on Zoom and talked about how we can get better nutritious snacks to our kids, which I've been harping on for many, many
186years. And then yesterday I went to the CAC meeting was I think the best one I've been to all year because we had um Christine Filios there who is always so good at getting parents to talk about the LCAP and the parents talked and all the uh school folks just listened to the hurdles that they have to overcome and realizing you know we all have those but when you have a special needs kid it's multiplied by 10 and then those kids are sometime taken and have to go to a different school than their homeschool. So, it's easy to sit and think, "Oh, I'm the only family that has to deal with this." But we're all sharing these things. And I guess the last thing I would say on that is um listening to the people
187that were honored tonight and the people that spoke tonight, for as horrible place as some people make us out to be, we stick around forever. I've been s here since kindergarten. You have how many people came here and said I went to school here. My parents went to school here. There the uh Anna's out there who worked for me when she was in high school ever works here that worked for me in high school. I say we got to be doing something right because they keep coming back. So that's my report. I move that we move the items listed under the consent agenda. >> Second. >> And I'm not pulling this. I just actually it just clicked in my head. There's a thing on here about Mount Dau High School and funding athletic boosters. Just
188I'm not going to vote against it or pull it. I just want to make sure because at the PFC meeting they were acting like they didn't have a 501c3 or anything like that set up yet, but maybe this is a different thing. So, someone that's listening, I'm sure, will check on it and just make sure before they go on that trip because um Trusty Mayo knows you need to have those things taken care of or people end up sorting getting in trouble when they're dealing with money and all that kind of stuff. So having said that I called it to their attention and we have a motion by we have a second by Lawrence and that passes 5 Z takes us to business and action items review and potential approval of resolution 2526-7. 77 implementing
189classified layoffs. >> Mr. Shehy is going to present this item. >> Yes. Tonight we have resolution 25-26 or SL26-77. This uh these names came positions came to you on February 25th and again on March 11th. This resolution is in front of you. These individuals did either did not request a uh a hearing or they will rave their rights to a hearing. And this is to issue final layoff notices by May 15. >> Thank you. >> Is an action item. >> President, I move that the board approve resolution 2526-77 implementing classes uh implementing classified layoff. >> Second. >> Thank you. >> We have a motion by trustee Lawrence, a second by trustee McDougall. with regrets. What? Oh, okay. I got you. All right, that passes 500 Z. Next is review and potential approval of the 25
190school site comprehensive safety plans. We have Miss Phillios who's going to present this item. Good evening board. Um we are here presenting the annual approval of the comprehensive school safety plans. Um I also want to thank I have uh three principles here uh with us tonight. So, we um chose as our example plans from Fair Oaks and Principal Monahan is here with us. Uh from Diablo View Middle School, we have Principal Wilson and from Northgate High School, Principal Cooper. So, thank you so much. They've been here very patiently and uh >> known I would excuse them all. >> It is okay. Thank you, Dr. Clark. They've gotten a great look into our board meeting process and celebrations. Um, I will just uh before the board votes, I will just bring to your attention that um
191due to a technical issue, we were unable to load uh Oak Grove Middle School's plan uh properly. So, we'll bring it on June 10th for you. We've figured out our glitch. So, well, since they've stuck around, I want to let them know we read these and I wanted to compliment Fair Oaks on right off the bat. They talked about attendance, which we need the kids here so we can make Adrien happy back there. Kids come, we get money. And then I also like them talking about the monthly events they do for families. I thought that was excellent. Daview, I love that they stopped uh yeah with the core beliefs of the school. I thought that was really cool. And in um the other one, their vision statement that they had at the beginning and then
192um they had like what they expected of their graduates. So all of them did a great job and we'll be happy to hopefully approve them this evening. >> Thank you. And um I just want to also highlight for the board that the safety plans are really a combination of um a very broad definition of safety which includes the physical plant. Um there are things in there you'll notice like ingress and egress safety and kids being safe on their motorized scooters etc. Right? Uh but there's also that wellness and the social emotional safety and the being in a safe and welcoming environment and um so uh I feel like the the plans are wellrounded in that way >> and they seem to get longer every year. I feel bad for our >> the um state has
193added additional requirements which you saw at the end. Yes. Can you just um can you just super briefly because every not maybe not every year but many times I've we've seen parents demand a copy of the safety plan. >> Um but as we can see it's redacted. Can you explain why they have to be redacted? >> So uh we publicly publish redacted versions of the safety plan for safety reasons. Right. We do not want um to reveal things like where students might be gathered in an emergency, etc. Um so we redact any kind of um gathering locations and and all of our maps um for those reasons um for the publicly published versions. Um a parent may go to the school site and request the copy of the full safety plan and safety procedures are
194reviewed with students and staff of course. Um, and it's part of why we practice with our emergency drills, so people know how to do things um, in action, but parents can request a copy of that by seeing their uh, school principal at the school. >> So, is the safety plan supposed to be posted on the website, the redacted version? >> Yes, the redacted version will be posted. We post all of them on our district website and schools post them as well, but the redacted version only. Okay. So, the redacted version should be posted on the school sites website. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Okay. >> I move to approve the 2526 school site comprehensive school safety plans. >> Second. >> Okay. We have a motion by Trusty Z, a second by Trustee Lawrence.
195Thank you. >> Thank you. Passes 5 0 for those listening. Okay. 18.3 Review a revision of the board policy BP 3452 student activity funds. That is for information. 18.4. review and potential approval of changes to board policies and administrative regulations for California School Board Association recommendations for February 2026 quarterly update. And that one is for action. >> Madame President, I move that the board approve changes to board policies and administrative relations per CSBA recommendations February 2026 quarterly update. >> Second. >> Okay, we have a motion by Trusty Lawrence, second by trustee. That is just one. >> Should we clarify which policy we're approving? Because there's a list of about what 25 there. >> As the >> I think you can just say as stated in the on that. I apologize. >> She gave you the
196easy out. >> Yeah, she does that for me. Okay. Okay. That passes 500 and we don't need a meeting extension. I think this meeting is adjourned.