001so good evening everyone today is February 26th and I'd like to reconvene the meeting of the mount diao Unified School District Board of Education um we will uh do the land acknowledgements 6.1 uh we recognize that the Mount Diablo Unified School District sits on the territory of The confederated Villages of the Lan the and the ancestrial and unseated land of the bay M Miwok and the northern yoot the successors of The Sovereign Verona band of the Contra Casta County as members of the mount diao Unified School District Community is it is virtually important that we not only recognize the history of the land on which we learn but also we recognize that the land we inhabit and learn on is the ancestral land of these people who are alive and flourishing members of the Mount
002Diablo Unified school district and the broader Bay Area communities today please stand for the pledge of allegiance of United States of America to the stand one nation indice and next is the review and potential approval of the minutes of the last meeting on February 12th there discussion and or motion I move that we approve the minutes from the regular board meeting held February 12th second so we have a uh motion by trustee and Zi with a second by trustee uh mcdal to approve the M minutes uh on the meeting of February 12th Is there further discussion question trusty Ooa how do you vote Yes than you and that motion is adopted on a 50000 vote uh with the support of our uh student board member next we have the review and potential approval of the
003agenda Dr Clark are there any changes Madam president no changes evening I make a motion we approve the agenda as presented second so we have a motion by trustee Mason to approve item 6.4 the agenda with a second by trusty count further discussion trusty Ooa how do you vote yes so that motion to approve the agenda is do adopted on a 50000 vote with support from our uh student trustee Ooa next item is the report of out of action taken in close session so um the first item is the 7.1 is negotiations um the board received direction from our received information from our Representatives uh regarding um representative employees government code 54957.6 7.2 discipline dismissal and release of or reassignment of um public employees I apologize um now that I've had cataract surgery I can
004read there but I need my glasses for close work so it's taking me a while to adjust um so for the first item in close session by a vote of five to zero the board took action to approve the non- reelection of the following certificated employees ID number 4716 number four 10844 4 number 16472 number 23665 number 48145 number 25685 number 2234 number 48284 number 4741 9 number 43 962 number 45697 number 47105 and number 4710 then further in Clos session the board considered the reassignment of two principles and two Vice principles under education code 44 951 and by a vote of five uh in favor and zero against to direct the district to send notice that these individuals will be reassigned to a teaching position for which they are credentialed at the end of
005the um 2425 school year from their certificated administrative positions then further in close session the board considered the reelection I'm sorry considered the release of two certificated administrative employees pursuant to Education Code 444951 and the board voted five in favor and zero against to direct the district to issue a notice of release and non- reelection affecting at the conclusion of the 2425 school year then for item 7.3 conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation the board met in closed session with legal council to discuss a matter of anticipated litigation significant exposure to litigation pursuant to government code 5495 69b um as was noticed on the agenda and by a vote of 5 to0 in the matter of am versus Mount diao Unified School District the board approved a settlement up to the stipulated amount and then
006for item 7.4 a liability claims government code 54956.9 five the name of the claimant was the Bay Area Community Resources the name of the agency against which the claim is made Mount diao Unified School dist uh School District the board met in closed session and by a vote of 5 to Z gave direction to General Counsel on a liability claim for damages pursuant to government code section 5495 6.95 by the Bay Area Community Resources against the Mount Diablo Unified School District and that concludes uh our Clos session report out of action taken or not taken uh we're ready to move on to public comment do we have any cards okay so the uh I should read the information that goes along with this apologize um the public May address the board regarding any item within
007the jurisdiction of the board of education at the mount davul Unified School District that is not on this agenda speakers must submit a speaker card to the board secretary the board president will call each speaker to the podium as appropriate these presentations are limited to three minutes each or a total of 30 minutes for all speakers or the three minute limit may be shortened if there are multiple speakers on any one subject the public comment period may be moved to the end of the meeting speakers are not allowed to yield their time and uh public comment will also be allowed on each specific agenda item prior to the board action thereon so our first speaker is Mr Eric Haynes welcome sir I might need to borrow your glasses because I forgot mine good good evening
008board my name is Eric Haynes uh some of you know me um I've been a conquered resident for most of my life my family's been in this school district since the 50s so I speak with um a lot of disdain for what's going on right now with the negotiations because I I respect our teachers a lot I know you guys respect them too but some of the things going on I I don't I don't agree with first I'd like to say that in the superintendent's last report on the negotiations it appears to me that he's trying to make it look like mdia is being unreasonable to try and make it sound like MDA is unreasonable because they have opened almost every section of the contract is misleading along with trying to say that only a
009handful of those changes would cost a district hundreds over a hundred million dollar as a union member myself I know that to open any part of a contract is only done because there is a real problem with that section and it needs to be fixed the district made absolutely no movement from their previous offer of a 1% salary increase from 2025 26 1% salary increase for 2627 and no increase for 2728 only a salary reopener the claim that this is the best that they can offer at the this time even with over $200 million in reserves Mount dablo Unified School District believes that the cola projections for these years are 2.43 3.1 and 3.8% though other sources project Cola will be even higher this is not feasible with how expensive it is to live in
010this area little example of that my high school water polo coach the neighborhood that he owned his house in I graduated in 1992 he bought that house twostory four-bedroom raised his home family in it only income I would love to see a teacher be able to buy a house in that same neighborhood that works in this school district this District also continue to show their disregard for the amount of work that teachers do by completely denying the proposal for payment for any work after sight time and deny more pay when and forced to give up prep periods to cover classes we need to do better for our teachers I understand that we have you have a fiscal responsibility to this District but we also have a fiscal responsibility to our teachers to maintain their benefits
011to attract good teachers quality teachers and pay them appropriately thank you thank you the next speaker is Evan Johnson welcome good evening members of the school board when I start this my name is Evan Johnson and I'm currently an eighth grader at Foothill Middle School Evan Johnson I can say that I grateful to have been able to study Spanish since kindergarten at bankra Elementary in the two-way dual emerging program from bankra I continued on with my cohort with an intradistrict transfer to Foothill Middle School where we currently take accelerated Spanish last December of 20124 I was very disappointed and saddened when I found out that a lot of us would not be M moving on to high school at Northgate with our cohort the due to the denial of many inis transfer requests in the
012lottery today I wanted to talk about why I believe we should be able to attend the same high school and hopefully get our appeals granted by the district throughout all these years my friends and I have grown up learning Spanish side by side we've learned the language the culture and worked hard together as a team this isn't just about speaking Spanish it's about the way we've all supported each other through challenges helped each other improve and celebrated our progress as a group our bond is strong because we've been through this journey together and I feel it would be unfair to suddenly split us up now when we've come so far in high school Spanish as well as other classes will likely be more challenging in having the support of the same group will make a
013huge difference we already know how to learn together and we've built a foundation of trust and teamwork over the years if we stay together we'll be able to continue supporting each other through more advanced Spanish courses and continue growing as a group our goal is to obtain the California seal of biliteracy as well as past the AP Spanish test for college credit it also means we can keep building on what we've learned instead of starting over with a completely new group of people I truly believe that being with the same cohort in high school will help all of us succeed and continue thriving not only in Spanish but in also in our other courses High School is already going to be a huge transition and I think keeping us together will make it feel less
014scary and more exciting thank you for considering my request and have a great evening thank you um so now we have Aiden and classmates you need to on the mic s uh good evening superintendent Clark board members and our community members my name is Aiden Nota and I'm a student at elderado middle school I'm up here with my classmates to invite you to the middle to the Multicultural performance and fashion show at our school on March 28th at 6m a lot of our students staff and community members have volunteered their time and effort to shine light on their own cultures we are proud to host this event at elderado middle school and would love to have you all join us more info is on the flower being handed out thank you thank you very much
015thank you so much we have extras that we can share with the audience as well thank you so much the next speaker is Cara dong young and I actually brought a couple handouts for you guys I emailed all of you last week so I just want to put my face to the email and say hello um I had the pleasure of having shes and Tom both join me this week at um a Walk and Roll program which I shared with you guys about so I just thought I would come and say hi and explain it a little bit with um some words and the handout basically I um started a Walk and Roll program at Pleasant Hill Elementary School as a parent volunteer back in years and years ago and it got implemented in September
016of 2022 and it was so successful in terms of getting hundreds of children to walk and bike to school every week that it caught the attention of um the contracosta Transportation Authority so they hired me to now bring it to the cities of Clayton Martinez conquered Walnut Creek and Pleasant Hill which mdusd has schools in all so I just wanted to make sure that you guys the leaders of our school district know how awesome it is and um it caught the attention of the CCT because significantly reducing traffic congestion and increasing air quality is important to them but what we found through this year's pilot program at now seven schools is that it is affecting attendance and tardies as well as um helping the principles after school not have to wait around with students who
017have been left behind as well as school congestion has been greatly reduced so um there's also wonderful benefits from the parent Community every school that has one of these programs now there's seven if you go to page two on this um handout these are the different schools that are currently represented by um our little Walk and Roll guy um we the basically the situation is it's like a $2,500 scholarship that we buy all the resources for the school and then I come along with the scholarship and train the volunteers so that they can implement it smoothly and easily and if they have questions because I've run the program for three years I can be there to help them but we also H hire a graphic designer who um takes their mascot and then puts it
018on our bike so the community Gets behind that and kids really really love it and then the last little fun piece and you can pass this around and look these are the so close I'm G touch her um once a child gets checked in from um the from with their tag once a week then they get a little charm and you can see that on on these these tags that I'm passing around and the charms are what made the program go from like kind of cool to amazing and the students love it it's for elementary school students so it's right up their alley and what we say about the program is it's for the whole Community to get to school in an active or environmentally friendly way because once the students want to get to
019school then the parents need to come to okay and that's my time thanks it's the program is very very successful around Pleasant Hill Elementary School thank you thank you so much for inviting us as well okay the next speaker is Lisa dispro good evening and thank you for um giving me this opportunity um recently in uh one of the school boards in the county uh a representative of the American Association of University women uh stated can you show me where the timer is oh there it is thank you um that uh this year president Trump would not be issuing any proclamations recognitions of black Americans Hispanic Jewish and I think she added a couple of others and um I thought that was curious so I went to White house.gov so I found that to be
020a really helpful resource and guess what I found on the very last day of January the President issued his White House Proclamation and I wanted to read it to you because I think it's important for black history week uh he would not be the president if it weren't for the um large outpouring of support from Black Americans today I am very honored to recognize February 2025 as national black history month every year National Black History Month is an occasion to celebrate the contributions of so many black American Patriots who have indelibly shaped our nation's history throughout our history black Americans have been among our country's most consequential leaders shaping the cultural and political Destiny of our nation in profound ways American her heres such as Frederick Douglas Harriet Tubman Thomas Soul Justice Clarence Thomas and
021countless others represent what is best in America and her citizens their achievements which have monumentally advanced the tradition of equality under the law in our great country contined to serve as an inspiration for all Americans we will also never forget the achievements of great Americans like Tiger Wood s who have pushed the boundaries of excellence in their respective Fields Paving the way for others to follow this National Black History Month as America prepares to enter a historic golden age I want to extend my tremendous gratitude to Black Americans for all they have done to bring us to this moment and for the many contributions they will make as we advance into a future of Limitless possibility under my Administration now therefore I Donald J Trump president of the United States of America by virtue of
022the authority vested in Me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States to hereby Proclaim February 2025 as National Black History Month I call upon public officials Educators Librarians and all the people of the United States to observe this month with appropriate programs ceremonies and activities and Witness of Donald J Trump thank you thank you so uh we have no more there aren't any more public comment cards so we'll move on to 9.0 Communications I do just want to let our students know thank you so much for for coming we have your event on our calendar but if you all would like to leave right now this would be a good time to do it thank you thank you for your time students um so for district organizations we have Linda Ortega welcome
023good evening trustees Dr Clark members of the audience media members have now submitted 97 H fact adverse working condition forms and yes some of these are duplicates because the problem has not been fixed my members have continued to submit these forms until their haax issues have been resolved we all have been waiting since the start of the school year and Schneider Electric Executives if you are listening you are failing our students and Educators we deserve the um we deserve answers and relief on another note I have to say how confused I was to have read The District's last bargaining update as well I had thought we all we were all on the same page wanting to hire and recruit bipo Educators over the years I have received many complaints from our bipo Educators that they
024did not feel supported by their administrators some have shared with me that they were often bullied and didn't feel comfortable speaking with their admin in fear of retaliation many of these Educators decided to resign or asked to be transferred to address this and in hopes of working with the district media proposed working together so that our bipo Educators would be supported isn't our goal as a district to recruit Educators that reflect our student population I hear over and over again about the out cap goals and how we need to support our students in specific groups I feel the same way when I hear that I want to support all our students I would think by recruiting and attracting bipo Educators would help in this this goal as a Latino attending Public Schools I wish I
025had more teachers who spoke Spanish and understood me and my culture as an educator and the only speaking Spanish teacher at my site for years I was often approached by Hispanic families to assist them they would always come to me and say and I would of course would help them I am grateful we have Educators who do speak different languages in our schools as well as our students I'm sure they their parents appreciate that but we need to do better in in supporting them we need to support our students our parents our community that's what media is asking for in our negotiations finally I am very appreciative of those who came out to our roadside rally today media we had close to 200 to 300 people who came out media members other local unions members
026of the community parents and students your efforts mean so much to me our bargaining team and of course our students trustees thank you again and I look forward to our next Cito meeting you so we're ready to move on to item 10 recognitions and resolutions 10.1 is the review and potential approval of resolution 24-25 number 49 in recognition of prescription drug abuse a awareness mon thank you madam president um this is a a very important topic and I hope that um that um by us uh hopefully potentially adopting this resolution that will resolution that we will continue to shine a light on um on some of the dangers around um prescription uh drugs and the danger with abusing those drugs so resolution 24 25-49 whereas prescription drugs are strong medication which require a prescription from
027a doctor or a dentist such as vicadin zertek Advil Prozac and Ridin and whereas there were 22474 emergency department room visits related to O opioid overdoses in 2023 7 7,847 deaths related to opioid over overdoses in 2023 and 7,137 deaths related to fentol overdoses in 2023 so whereas the mount de Alo Unified School District supports the dea's next National Prescription Drug takeback day which is April 26 2025 from 10:00 a.m. to 2 PM so be it resolved that the mount diabo Unified School District board members encourage all Community all community members to pledge spread the word one pill can kill and before I officially submit this um resolution I just our hearts break for the four students in um Santa Rosa um that overdosed on fentanyl um and two of them unfortunately passed away an
02818-year-old and a 16-year-old and a 16-year-old and 14-year-old were hospitalized and luckily um they were able to save those two um I also just want to to bring light that our own Kelly Perkins along with our team um was on KTVU today in studio again sharing the work that we're doing here in the mount Dela Unified School District around fentol and she was also sharing her very tragic story how she lost her own son to um to fental so Madam president I leave this resolution in the hands of the board motion Madam president I move to approve resolution 24 425 in recognition of prescription drug abuse awareness month second that so we have a motion by on item 10.1 by trustee K with a second by trustee Mason Is there further discussion I just want
029to say thank you to Kelly Perkins and to the team and to the district for really supporting um all of all of the work to get the word out about fenal awareness um and then um for drug abuse uh for drug take back day it is that particular day but it's also every day our cities have at their City Halls places where you can take back um any kind of medications to make sure that they're out of your house and Out Of Reach of anyone else um accidentally using them for the wrong purposes so um thank you we're not flushing them into our water Sy not flush them please into our water system and uh many of the pharmacies also have um a bin where you can leave uh extra prescription drugs trusty Ooa how
030do you vote Yes did we have a second yourdon and um 10.1 is adopted 500 z uh with support from truste Ooa great Madam president I have 10.2 as well okay this is resolution 24 25-50 National School Social Work week March 2nd through 8 um whereas the importance of school social work through the inclusion of school social work programs and services has been recognized in the elementary and secondary Education Act of 1965 and the individuals with disabilities Education Act um whereas School social workers are exceptionally skilled in providing services to students who face face serious challenges to school Success including disability poverty discrimination abuse neglect mental illness homelessness bullying um um and other barriers to learning so now therefore be it resolved that the mount Alo Unified School District number one supports the designation of
031school Social Work week and promotes the 2025 theme Social Work compassion plus action madam president I now leave this resolution in the hands of the board one day last year I'll make the motion one day last year um I happened to be in a Wellness Center um which is run by social worker and had Social Work interns in it and a student came in this is a high school and a student came in and they had an issue that they didn't feel like they needed privacy for so they sat down with an intern and I got to hear this very teenage story of that was really important to her and I loved though that she so easily sat down um with a social worker and told her story and worked through a good solution for
032overcoming this really age appropriate challenge um and so it's those things that to us might be um trivial um and it's the bigger things that Dr Clark even mentioned in the in the um resolution and so yay school so social workers and social work at school I move to approve resolution 2425 D50 in support of national school Social Work Week second that so we have a motion by truste ande with a second by trusty McDougall on item 10. uh two in support of national school Social Work week uh further discussion trusty Ooa how do you vote Yes and that motion is adopted 50000 with support from trusty Ooa ready to move on to 10.3 Dr Clark Madam president recognition of we have resolution 2425 d51 in recognition of March as women's History Month whereas American
033women of every culture class and ethnic background have participated in the founding and building of our nation made historic contributions to the growth and strength of our nation and played a critical role in shaping the E economic cultural and social fabric of our society whereas the history social science framework of for California Public Schools kindergarden through grade 12 adopted in 2016 states that the history curriculum of of the community state region nation and world must reflect the experiences of different genders uh racial religious ethnic and cultural groups and must be integrated at at every level now therefore be it resolv that the mount Ela Unified School District proclaims the month of March as women's history month and encourages all schools to commemorate this occasion with appropriate instructional materials Madam president this resolution is now on
034the hands of the board thank you Dr Clark we have a public comment card on this item uh Lisa disbro good evening Lisa disbro I am a woman I am a b biological woman um I can I have procreated and I have children and I'm a Nana and I am not the same as the father of my children I am a biological woman and I'm in opposition to the all genders reference in the resolution we have you have an obligation to protect the um well-being and the safety the physical safety of females by protecting and securing Sports and private spaces for just females and your resolution recognizes all genders which is unique in American history and the overwhelming population of California um opposes this concept people across all party lines ethnicities religions uh political parties
035believe that children are I male or female and should those biologies should be respected and not um put into the cultural transformation agenda and that your job is not to do that so members of the board as a woman that was born in the month of March I would like to make a motion that we approve resolution 24-2 551 in recognition of women's history month and also a woman that believes everybody has the right to think believe and feel what they want I will second that and I would like to add to the discussion that we are here to educate all of our students no matter how they identify any any gender uh we are here to support every single one of you and protect you in our schools okay so we have a motion
036by trusty Mason and a second by trusty C on um in recognition of women's History Month uh Is there further discussion yeah I'd like to make a comment on the inclusion of all genders in this uh resolution um I disagree so I think that we should strike that part from it that's my opinion you would can so are you Mak you stated if I understood you correctly you think we should strike all genders from that resolution yeah so are you making a motion to strike all genders in the text can you advise us which section I don't have it in front of me I have it in front of me it it reads so just so we're all clear what the objection is whereas C Education Code section 5120 4.5 specifically calls for instruction in
037the social sciences to include the study of the role and contributions of people of all genders to the economic political and Social Development of California and the nation with particular emphasis on portraying their role in contemporary Society the fourth paragraph um it's the fourth From The Bottom the sixth from the top this is Education Code so we don't actually have a choice here this is state law UND it's an education code item uh but I register my objection to it no need for a motion thank you you your uh objection is noted um is there any further comment trusty Ooa how do you vote Yes um so on item uh 10.3 the vote is 5000000 the motion is adopted with support from truste Ooa thank you yes so Madam president our next item is resolution
03824 25- 52 in support of National School breakfast week which is March 3rd through the 7th whereas the National School breakfast program was made permanent by Congress in 1975 after being piloted in high need schools beginning in 1966 and whereas research has indicated that students who eat breakfast have better attention and memory and reduced absenteeism and whereas the mount Unified School District serves over 9,000 breakfasts daily and over six over 1,600 breakfasts annually whereas the mount ala Unified School District Board of Education continues to recognize and takes great pleasure in commending the Food Service team members who accept and meet the daily challenge of providing School breakfast to our students now therefore be it resolved that the mount Ela Unified School District Board of Education celebrates National School breakfast week from March 3rd through the
0397 Madam president this resolution is now in the hands of the board first I'd love to honor the Black Panther Party for starting feeding children in their communities back in the 1960s which is what the model of which our national school breakfast and school lunch and supper and summer meals um is modeled after and with that I move to approve resolution 2425 d52 in support of national School breakfast week I would like to second that and also thank the state of California for continuing to fund our school meals after the federal government cut that funding thank you we have a motion by truste Andi with a second by truste count is there a further discussion trusty Ooa how would you vote yes thank you and and the resolution in support of National School uh breakfast
040week is approved on a 5000000 vote with support from trusty Ooa um next we're going to move on to Public Employee appointment 11.1 Dr Clark yes and um we have uh um lean lean from HR is going to um take this uh take this uh item to turn on your mic did I oh hi again good evening the human resources department is bringing for the board's review and potential approval the appointment of Lucia Antonio as the program specialist with special education Lucia Antonio received her bachelor's degree in business Administration from St Mary's College she then earned her Masters in special education from the University of the Pacific Lucia began her career in education at West Contra Costa Unified School District in 1998 as an instructional assistant in 2015 Lucia found her home at mdusd where
041she has served in various roles including resource specialist and special day class teacher at ignasio Valley High School Lucia has three very supportive children to share her passion for learning with that I leave this appointment in the hands of the board Madame President I move to appoint uh Lucia Antonio as program specialist special education though I think ignasio Valley High School is gonna miss her very much sorry second so we have a motion by trusty count with a second by trusty and Zoe to point point Lucia Antonio as uh program specialist special education is there further discussion trusty Ooa how do you vote yes thank you and the appointment of Lucia Antonio is approved on a 500 00 vote with support from trusty Ooa is she here tonight oh okay we'll acknowledge her another time
042thank you very much Dr Clark 12.1 reports yes so we're going to have a um a media report on the lcap and um again um lcap is really what what guides our work here in the mount DEA Unified School District and we have Samantha Allen who is going to be presenting this and I know that Samantha Allen is aware of our um of our protocols when it comes to staff presentations I have you turned over the timer nothing here okay well good news is much of the data in this document You' have already seen much of it is our dashboard data so so it's not surprising or new so there's not a lot of explanation that has to go into the data but um I want to thank you uh trustees Madame President Dr Clark
043for having me here today to share our midyear lcap update um I also want you to notice that we have a handful of District staff here uh tonight supporting um me as I present this information and I ask them all to be here so that if you do have any specific questions that they can speak to the work they're doing because it's wonderful and impactful and I'm super proud to be a part of this team so um don't mind me as I read my notes I want I don't want to miss anything so moving right along do I just push the red button oh okay so I'm going to try not to read slides to you but this one I'm going to read real quick because it's it's policy uh all Charter Schools school districts
044and county offices of Education are required to present a midyear report on the annual update to the school to the local control accountability plan and the local control funding formula budget overview for parents honor before February 28th of each year at a regularly scheduled meeting of the governing board the midyear report must include the following all available midyear outcome data related to metrics identified in the current Year's ALC cap and all available midyear expenditure and implementation data on all actions identified in the current Year's alap so one of the things I want you to remember as we're going through I'm sorry just like you getting your eyes fixed I just like grew into readers and so I'm back and forth um so uh this is a three-year plan and we are in year one of
045implementation so this is a midyear report of year one of a plan so I want you to recognize that um we are working very diligently to uh improve student outcomes but this is just a midyear review so um what I'm gonna ask I'm gonna ask a friend to come up and talk real quick uh Gustavo from our uh fiscal department is going to come and talk a little bit to you about how we come up with the money in the plan thank you so um in the lcap the midyear actuals are calculated to provide a review of expenditures and to analyze the progress towards the goals um so for the the midyear actuals we we look at the actual expenditures from July 1st um 2024 to December 31st 2024 um keep in mind that there
046the encumbrances are not included and these are just actual expenditures um and there's some reconciliation that is done with ed services around second interim um if not at estimated actuals um and the budgeted versus the midyear actuals May differ due to the use of one-time funding now I can turn it over to Z so one of the reasons I asked gustava to join us today is that we are both new to the elcap and so we've been working really closely together and he has just been wonderful to work with and a wonderful help so thank you gustava I appreciate your time okay so the metrics this is GNA you're going to see this as the first column on our on our data pages and the Matrix are the The Matrix the metrics are um basically
047the assessments and the tools that we use to measure pro progress this this slide represents our emblem that our emblem that represents our lcap goals um and then our five lcap goals are summarized there okay to the meat of the of the slideshow um elap goal number one Equitable education for all students all students will receive a high quality education and a safe and welcoming environment with high expectations and rigorous instruction in the California state standards that prepare them for College and Career okay so this is the slide I'll probably spend the most time on and then we'll sweep through it real quick just so you understand what everything means um again I'm going to go back to the metric the metric is the actual assessment or tool we will use to measure progress the
048Baseline is the data from the 2023 Casp some of our baselines will Beal data it might be calpads data areas data in other areas but the majority of our data comes from the Casp um the target is the goal that we set now I want to remind you we built the lcap last spring right using 2023 Casp data we set our goals or our targets last spring which means the 2024 Casp data that is in the blue um column the actions that we took based on the targets that we set would not have impacted Ed that data yet because those actions began this year does that make sense to everybody okay so I just want to make sure we're we're clear that doesn't mean that we didn't make progress in certain areas but I wanted
049to make sure we understood the timeline when we move into our next report you'll start seeing some movement at least we believe you will so um one of the things I did a little differently was we've seen this data and we've been talking a lot about what's been working and what has not been working and and what we need to do what I highlighted this time was I highlighted some areas where we did grow and and there's a reason why it's not that we grew a lot and it's not that we've landed the plane yet but what I wanted you to notice was there's a trend in where we grew and this is an important thing to understand about our elcap that is that we utilize the elap to identify the resources that we're going
050to use to impact student progress right so we made a commitment three years ago with tntp to focus on that we started year one with tntp where we just made sure every classroom was teaching the grade level standards every classroom had the curriculum that they needed year two we actually talked about what does learning look like so this would have been last year we walk classrooms together deciding what strategies are working what are not we had teachers in groups together learning about how to teach the most uh recent research-based strategies in the classroom so it is important to recognize that we do have some growth and it is in the area where we put all our resources so I want to be thoughtful about that okay as we move through here again um graduation rate
051went up a little bit that's good uh high school dropout rate went down there's a few of these that we want to see it go down high school dropout ratees one of them I also want to recognize that high school dropout rate um can be impacted some sometimes by our data in Aries there is always a small percentage of dropout rate that is related to us not um following through or being communicated with when a student moves to a new school um and then our AP exams went up so students were passing um a AP exams at a higher percentage okay here we have textbook sufficiency academic counseling and if you look on academic counseling one you'll see in progress much of our data that we need to report out to you which we will
052in the spring uh probably closer to June I think um that data will come it's just we haven't collected it yet so if it says in progress that's what that means um if you look at the CTE uh the CTE completion rate we went up and uh we have Dr fontania here tonight who is our director of College and Career and CTE Pathways and she's fantastic and I'm certain that their work her team's work is the reason that's gone up uh we made progress in elpac and our chronic absentee uh rates went down which is a positive so this next page here this is where we put our action title what we plan to spend and what we've spent since December 31st so December 31st is where the cut off is for these dollars so
053we've spent a lot more dollars since then but that's just how we that's just the date that we um utilize so I'm just going to highlight a few things in here I'm not going to read through all this so so these um my friends back here in our audience they wrote These for us they helped us fill up this like what are we doing how's it going so um one of the things I wanted to bring up under foundational literacy so remember I told you tntp we brought them on board and we worked on math this year is the first year that we added literacy to the professional development so um you'll see on the second line under foundational literacy wonders science of reading language and literacy PD for all K through2 teachers in the
054fall and three through five teachers to be trained in the spring so we should expect based on the the impact we've had with our math that we should see impact on literacy realstone okay and again um I want to recognize uh 1.6 positive School climate and safety um we have worked really hard to build mtss Frameworks um we have right now sites that have social workers uh wellness centers um and we have seen such an increase in ourl data which is which is really wonderful okay and expanded learning uh High School Credit Recovery for those of you that don't know our summer program um is an opportunity for our high school students to recover credit and um do some great Improvement if they so choose okay elal goal two highquality culturally proficient and responsive staff
055will create a safe and supportive and engaging learning environment respectful of all students backgrounds to ensure they are College and Career ready so again same model and just for the sake of having a different lens I highlighted where we grew versus taking a look at where we need to grow so um and again we haven't landed the plan I don't want to say that I'm standing here saying that we have achieved all the things we want I want to talk a little bit about the target remember the Target that we have in there is for three years that's our threeyear Target so when you look at certain things you'll see um we're moving but we haven't arrived by any means and so that we we are still utilizing that Target um to set our goals
056so if you look at um if you look at the First Column third through e8th grade Casp Ela and math you can see again what's the common thread any Movement we made in a positive direction is math right um and again we're still below where we want to be I'm recognizing that we're still below one of the things that I want you to also know is that we we as a as a team work with a plan due study act model of continuous Improvement what does that mean that means that we have to look at both types of data the areas where we have need and the areas where we grow when we plan for whatever it is we're going to do in the future whatever activity we're going to do or professional development we
057also identify where we're making positive progress the reason behind that is because we want to capture what is happening where it's happening who it's happening to and replicated across the district and so it's really important to think that when you are when you are researching when you're to unearth what works you really have to look at both where you need to be and also what is working even if it's small because sometimes when you dig into that small data it's one school two classrooms that are doing something unique and different that we can replicate across the district and and Spark some progress okay so I'm going to move through goal two here and get to our actions so again our actions are are were written by our team in the back there good job um
058and um trainings for standards based instruction that's our action number one uh instructional coaching number two and coaching and supervision all of our sites have an ilt team that's an instructional leadership team I know there's lots of acronyms in here I tried in most places to kind of write them out but instructional leadership team is a te a team of Educators uh administrators who are setting a vision and goal for the school that's aligned with our lcap and then providing support at their site so that is great okay so moving on uh classified training professional development for classified staff we offered CPI training this year um 2.5 Recruitment and Retention of diverse staff um and DSC will be participating in the spring 2025 career Expo hosted by Jackson State University um our own Dr Frances
059will be flying out there and finding us some uh some new teach which is exciting and then 2.6 teacher induction and support program they are fantastic if you have not met uh that team you need to go over and do that they are wonderful okay I'm moving right along Dr Clark I got this okay goal three parents and family I'm not going to read that one all the way through um so let's get to our metrics here so when we think about how parents can be involved in how and we know when parents and families in community are happy is when kids are coming to school um and when kids are not chronically absent and when kids are not getting suspended or expelled so that's those are the data points that we use the metric
060that we use again the Baseline there is that 2023 data um and you can see we have done better in chronic absenteeism that is a testament to the hard work of our staff and most specifically our classified staff as well as our teachers meaning we have all types of Staff members who are working towards this goal and so I think it's important to recognize everybody um and recognize our students for coming to school thanks for coming to school we appreciate it okay um and we're moving right along through goal three percentage of families who agreed with the statement so this is our data we've seen this quite often um and um what you can see is the data is not different in each column that's because we don't have new data yet we'll get there
061and then um again I do want to commend Dr Clark and Miss Brandt over here and that did we just communicate so well I think it's fantastic I'm I'm super proud of our Friday letter um and our board updates and all those things I appreciate the board updates the opportunity for us to communicate publicly it's really really a great way to let the community know what we're thinking about and um for us as a team to have time to think through and answer so uh Communications going well um and then we got translation support if you guys haven't noticed our translation team is everywhere and they're fantastic and we appreciate you so much so thank you um and then again we we talked about this tonight for family nights this the fentanyl awareness is just
062an amazing opportunity for families to get ahead of something that's just really scary and so we we appreciate that and um I'm really excited about our apacks we have I think it's 24 now 24 apacks across the district um and that's a really exciting if you haven't been to one go they're fantastic the families are fun and um and so that's been great okay goal four um so this is where we one of the things that we are super proud of as a district is the fact that we are not only committed to um saying that all students will we're committed to saying that we know we have groups of students that need more from us that's huge and it's really important because it really helps us um as we think about how to make
063commitments with our resources so this dat is really exciting so here's another example like I gave you of tntp if you see look at all the look at all the places where we did well where we progressed this is a tribute to the commitment we made to our focal Scholars this data shows you that when we put our resources and we put our time and our energy into where it needs to be to make progress that we make progress and so our focal scholar team and we have some members here tonight have done an excellent job of reaching out to families making campuses more welcome working with students um to help them increase their grades talking to families providing tutoring I mean it's enormous the work they've done with how little resources they've had I
064mean I mean I'm saying we've G given them quite a bit but they have done a lot with what they have so I want to be thoughtful of the fact look again what's up there though math so that again I just I I really feel strongly that our commitment to our professional development and consistency and coherence has has um has created this trend of an increase in math okay so and a couple more metrics for goal four we've got our uh graduation rate Again by groups our English language Learners went up our students experien homelessness went up students with IEPs went up chronic absenteeism went up for African-American students English language Learners and students with IEP so that's all very exciting okay and one more and again I just I'm just going to have you
065take a look at where we went up and and recognize that um we are moving in the right direction we are not moving as fast as we want to We're Not Making as great a leaps as we would like to but but progress is progress and once you break the seal and start making progress it becomes something you can replicate and I I really want to push that through okay so I'm going to keep moving goal four and here's our actions that we took and if I could I would read you all of these because they're so amazing but I'm not going to for the sake of time um I want to say um we have just done some incredible um like field trips and opportunities for students in our district um our HBCU fair
066that we held at Mount Diablo every year is so incredible again if you don't haven't gone go it is so amazing our CTE Fair our focal Scholars um honoring our focal Scholars our different night where we honor our focal Scholars it's it's just we've done a really excellent job our focal scholar team has actually done a very excellent job of making sure that we are honoring students for progress and I appreciate that uh support for foster Youth and students experiencing homelessness um and and Dr Reed as you all know is fantastic and out there helping us with that um okay so actions for goal number 4.3 support for English Learners and supports for long-term English learners and so if you all have read through all these and have any questions that's why I brought the
067team tonight but again I'm not going to read through every every piece uh support for students with iep's professional development provided to staff and areas of instruction and implementation um and then again all these things are still in progress so as you notice um we have not spent all the money because we still have a few months left to school supplemental funding and accountability okay and this goal right here uh goal five which is from Crossroads and Olympic is connected to our Equity multiplier um and if you don't know what that means it means that um schools with a large percentage of students with free and reduced lunch um requirements and a high transience rate which means students moving from school to school so um they were they are required to to add a goal
068to our lcap and so that's why it's just these two schools and it it makes a lot of sense um in our continuation schools um that we would have a higher percentage of students who have moved through a couple schools because you move from a school to get to a Crossroads or an Olympic um and so again I want to I want to look at their suspension rate um those of you who know uh Olympics started our one our Yonder bags and they have had such an amazing impact on student engagement I should probably have you come up and speak aren't they wonderful yeah yeah so um so uh we've had just and and they you have a great administrative team as well and some really wonderful teachers so um that helps but suspension rates
069have gone down graduation rates have gone up really quickly Crossroads very small school uh when you have a school that has like un 30 or under or less students any group that you have that is small when you start looking at this data you it's not uncommon for for it to rise and fall the reason is is because if you think about there let's say there were 10 graduates in a in a class of 28 last year and next year we only have four students who qualify for graduation and one doesn't doesn't graduate on time that fourth year that's a much larger percentage than one of 10 right so just thinking about that when you follow the smaller schools and their data that it's I recommend as a board member go see them they know
070their data and they will tell you exactly where they actually are at because the the big data is is usually a little inaccurate so um here are the actions that they've taken um across the schools um one of the things I want to highlight is Olympic hired a full-time site child welfare and attendance staff member this person visits homes makes phone calls checks in with kids uh I mean it's a fantastic um service that they provide and has really helped with their attendance and then Crossroads has implemented an after school um Child Care Program so that that so that students can stay at school and get their their homework finished so I think that's quite amazing okay I made it am I still on time Dr Clark okay close and grows um and and you
071all know this you already know these things um increased percentage of students scoring themselves mid or high on L we have done it we have come to a place where I really feel like we have momentum with students feeling safe and happy to be at school and having positive experiences it doesn't mean we don't have issues at times and it doesn't mean we don't have to respond to those issues and make changes but I am telling you when you walk on our campuses they are just beautiful places and I I I always um get a a high if you will a happy High going to our sites and and engaging with kids because it's it's awesome um and our uh across all our focal scholar groups are improving that's that's a low for sure Improvement
072in the cast math results which we identified in here Crossroads and Olympic High School show improvements in graduation and Casp and Ela average attendance rate has increased chronic chronic absenteeism has decreased grows we actually have a lot of grows what I mean by that is we're in progress with a lot of things um and so our long-term English language Learners were added to the groups identified for differentiated assistance we knew that was coming and so we had we had our uh that group in our elcap go floor already so we are on that path and doing that work right now disproportionate results for different student groups finalizing coherent processes to collect relevant timely data on a regular basis we have um and you've all heard about this we've adopted star and uh mclass Dibbles and
073we are in progress with that but we have been taking a Peak at the data and it is incredible not only is is it incredible to be able to to Really identify just in time growth or needs but it's also very user friendly for our teachers so that they can have conversations about where kids are at and what they need to do in the moment so that's really exciting and I'm hoping I can get our our team to share with you edge of climber once it um once it's completed because that's another fantastic dashboard that will um that gives you the profile of students so I am complete I I appreciate you allowing me to uh go through our our midyear update um I'd like to ask you if you have any questions Mr mcle
074thank you for the report you're welcome um we've seen some of this information before so it's not new um some of the good news is there and that's encouraging it's good to see that progress even what are we one six of the way through this program um but it also highlights the hard work that we have left to do we can see there's a lot of work that has to that remains I a question slide surveys will be sent out to all educational Partners labor Partners SEC so on so forth who is part of the educational partners advis see the advisory committees labor Partners um those are your our educational Partners okay so it's all those members there so I should have said that I apologize I did not read that so yes with the
075our elut process has a timeline our next step is to survey um basically everybody in our in our school Community teachers uh students staff advisory committees um if you haven't been or have been to one of our parent advisory committees um our CAC our Pac um th we will be survey or talking with those groups they'll be doing activities that um give us some feedback related to the lcap goals um and also ideas like things that they think their schools need um so survey is next and today in fact uh we met with the county and had a conversation about what our setting up our timeline to start taking a second look at our lcap and making the adjustments we need to make for next year okay now so this is uh got a parent
076advisory committee in this advisory committee correct okay I guess I've gone to one of those I have a conflict on Tuesday nights unfortunately but um I I like to see that participation um and so you're putting the surveys to the the survey will go out and in fact I'm I'm certain you all get it you'll you'll end up receiving it um but what may is the and I I can give you the date I'll make sure I email you the date the May Pac meeting is where we will uh do an act our act our reflective activity of the alcap so so right it's an online survey that's on the website that anyone can respond to in the whole Community but if you go to the website and click get involved you'll see all the
077different advisory committees so it's it's the PAC the CAC but it's also daac there's a lot of different um advisory committees right um and those that's where think you were describing well that's where the in-person kind of Hands-On activities happen to be able to get people's ideas as there groups at tables yes and we we have already done activities with our um administrators in in groups responding to what we what their roles are what they're what they've been doing what's been working what has not been working um and so we can we'll bring that data back to you um the next time we stand up here and Report out on the alcat good thank you thank you so much got to ask these guys some questions I'm kidding I'm [Laughter] joking well we appreciate the
078hard a few things then okay um uh I want to say excellent work I know there's so many great activities in here that um that have been really well thought through and I'm really excited about um and like even when you were talking about summer school right some we are very fortunate to have that and be able to still be offering summer school I know there are many districts around us that are cutting things like that and they they're having to make massive cuts to a lot of these types of activities um I did I don't know if someone has the answer to this tonight and if not that's fine but I saw in the foundational literacy it says hegerty pilot in TK I don't know if anyone wants to talk anym about the um
079the literacy trainings that are happening if not tonight that's okay I'd love to see it as a future topic hi well you can't they can't hear the the public can't hear you unless you speak in the M good evening uh we had Joanie coio one of our tosas from our department um she works with our TK teachers extensively and she has a pilot group this year working through hegerty early phonics so we had really rolled out TK very play based all the foundational skills of preschool and so we're wrapping in early phonics which is really exciting and we're likely going to go full program next year but right now we have a pilot group launching it under the guidance of Joanie and Margie calbeck wonderful I think I saw the kits for that yeah yeah
080fantastic that's so great yeah it's awesome we're excited okay um and then let's see can I have another question I think I mentioned that one um oh I was also just excited about the Crisis Prevention Institute Training um and the restorative practices training these are just really excellent things to be doing um I think the the main thing that I've been thinking about lately is our literacy program um I was just listening to um the podcast sold the story that had a new episode drop last week so I don't know if any of you heard that one um but it was um there we sharing a story about a school district um called Stubenville that's in um a low-income Community where um 93 to 100% of students have passed the state reading test for the
081past 20 years it's really cool example um and it just got me thinking about there's so much I need to learn about all the latest things about how to how what are the best practices and I can see so much in here about the trainings that are happening with the science of reading um and the phonics that you were just talking about there um so I would just love to continue learning about that as it as it rolls out and goes forward I know by uh June we need to identify for sure which um screener we're using right yeah and we're we're we're we're committed we're committed to mclass dibles okay okay I know we were piloting a few so we're ready to go okay fantastic great um that's it then I think I just
082wanted to mention just to the public in general that um I did notice also the California Department of Education has two reading webinars coming up that I'm excited about um and anybody can sign up for them um they have screening multilingual Learners on Tuesday March 4th and addressing reading difficulties on Tuesday March 25th so I love that we're getting support at all levels for these things as well thank you so much further questions I'll just make a comment um to this whole team and Dr Clark I really appreciate the transparency of the data that we always have at these meetings um I love data I hate spreadsheets but I love data um and I appreciate that we recognize that while there you know may be a 0.1% growth that that's probably not statistically significant I
083don't know is like um I did take statistics way back in the day but um that the the growth is very for many areas is very small and very not meaningful um and and I know that we're only in year one but I um or year one of this um part of this version of our lcap and this is a halfe report so yeah I understand that and I just hope that um we don't shy away from taking bold measures and taking bold risks because what happens across our nation is just we just do little things we do little thing we try a little thing here and see if it works but nothing is really moving the needle um and I know that we all want to move the needle um I'd also love to
084know like maybe the mid year next year um is if any of these any of these programs efforts have been evaluated and not just using the uh I'm on let me get to a good slide so I give the right heading um not just the between B Baseline Target and then the moment in time that we're reporting on um we can have that but like really program specific evaluation or or um strategy specific evaluation and and and especially on things that we we've invested made a real dollar investment in that we know that this is where the investment or maybe we should pivot we are actually in the process of doing that so I will make sure that we update you yeah I would say one question that I would ask those those that are
085here to share with us if there's one thing that you want to share that you're like most excited about some activity that you're that we're doing in our district that you think is really making a difference I can speak for Susan Hartwig and she would say A literacy in the science of reading right now I would absolutely say that and uh I think all what's what are you say oh the training is all the way K5 I was like is that a motto I just wanna if I could just jump in I just want to um you know Samantha is um you know she's in her first year in this role and um and I really want to thank the team because as you see our team is is all here and each of those
086members are highly skilled in what they do and they all bring a level of passion and as they come together and work together um to really focus on our students um we are doing like so many incredible things that are that are happening that where we are we are leading in this work and it it is not you know it is um you know not that Samantha woke up and said this is all what we're going to do it's bringing it's it's how does a leader bring together a group of experts and from those experts come up with a plan like this and come up with actions and stay focused on the goal every one of those people is being pulled in separate directions and what Sam's job is is to keep them all together
087and and Rowing in the same direction and I have been very impressed how that has seamlessly happened during this school year so um you all should be very proud of the team that that we have together and under Sam's leadership in doing what we're required to do which is this elcap so thank you thank you so thank you to everyone that's here tonight I know that you've worked very hard I know some of you personally and um I know your level of commitment to our students in our families so thank you very much thank you Dr Clark um we're ready to move on to board member reports so miss count why don't you start okay well I will start by saying my apologies for missing our last board meeting let me just say the quad
088demic is real and I learned that norovirus is resistant to hand sanitizer so keep washing with soap and water and uh you did not want me here at the last meeting um so but I did watch online so well done uh to all of my colleagues um I wanted to say thank you to Street smarts Diablo uh we heard um Cara speak earlier um but it was just so much fun to be out at Meadow homes Elementary and to see the excitement of the parents and the students and to hear from the vice principal and the counselor that they Cho they were very thoughtful about how they were doing this program they thought you know attendance was lowest uh or um there were the most tardies happening and the lowest attendance on Tuesdays so they
089made um Tuesday the day that they do bike walk to school and they have seen a huge um Improvement people want to get there on time because that's when they get their little you know those little keychain rewards and everybody's cheering and the parents are chatting with each other at the entrance it was just beautiful so I'm really excited about that because I remember as a parent um you know trying to run the walk bike to school for my kids Elementary School and at that time there were there was some support from Street smarts Diablo but it was basically they could give us some pins and stickers for one day a year um and maybe the bike the bicycles um with the bike blenders you know uh one day a year for the middle school
090so what I love about this program is how sustainable it is and how it it really is like every day rain or shine if you watch their Instagram you can see they're out there even when it's freezing cold so Bravo I thought that was exciting um I'm also uh been very excited about the Mount Diablo career Pathways committee so thank you Heather and team um we've um I think both um trusty McDougall and I have really enjoyed visiting each of the schools and talking um with not only the teachers but also um the business partners and mentors that are out there um provid mentorship to the students providing the the advice on what is being used in the real world and providing paid or maybe unpaid internships um to students um so I'm looking forward
091to Best Day on March 10th yay um and campus to Commerce student showcase on May 1 um and I just love I want to thank our Communications team for sharing out so much in the Friday letters about each of these programs and I'm most excited about the next plan plans that we talked about in terms of highlighting um creating a video for each school about the career pathway programs that each school has because I think that's been the the thing that's been the most difficult to share out there are so many community members whether their parents in our district or or uh community members that are outside of our district that did not know any of these programs even existed in some cases um and um we want our communities to know about this and
092we want parents especially of middle schoolers to know that their their students might make a choice that's different than their neighborhood school to be able to go to the construction management at conquered high or something like that right um so very excited to see what's coming next um I want to say congratulations to ybhs invent teams I was so sorry to miss the presentation that they gave to the board here um and I know they have their mid-rant technical review tonight that we also cannot be at um but uh but everyone can watch their fabulous presentation um on video that was at the conquered City Council on February 11th and I know Dr Clark you were there in support of them um as were many other community members and the foundation was there as well
093um so it's just it's just beyond exciting to have a partnership with MIT of all of all schools um with Osio Valley um I want to say congratulations to our teachers of the Year Dr pintado and Miss Swanson um just two people that I've been fortunate enough to be able to like P personally witness your magic um so looking forward to celebrating you as well um and I want to say thank you um to Dr Clark for communicating um very clearly to our students and families um particularly those who may feel fearful or under attack um our immigrant students and our lgbtq students um communicating to them that we fully support them and we are here for them um we need to keep communicating that and make sure that they know that um every day
094that they are safe in our schools and that we are here to support and protect them um and we will Champion them um and I think that is everything I wanted to share thank you so much Miss Mason would you like to go next okay um since the last meeting I went to the APAC meeting out in Bayo and as always I learned more from Dr Frances and I he's always good about giving these little bits of history that we hadn't known before it was very well attended it was a very nice event even though it was kind of a rainy night um I went to the CAC committee meeting but miss Mayo always gives the the reports on that meeting I went to the daac meeting which um was very well attended had a
095very good um lawyer talking to them about their rights uh the families and what we all have the same rights in this country we don't have to let anybody in our house we don't have to tell anybody we don't know any information and they shared that and made it very clear with all our families I went to um my monthly Java with Janice with which is at RI Vista with the principal and the parents some of those parents there are a little nervous and concerned but we had a really good discussion about how our schools are safe and we're ready for anything that comes up and um Bayo is a community that pulls together and we're all there for each other I went to the parent advisory committee last night Dr Clark gave the parents
096updates on all the wonderful things that are going on our district and then we had a nice presentation from our um food department which I mean that we're getting the parents now saying they want to know more about the waffles and what is this so the kids are very excited about the food so that's a good thing to hear and then um I wanted to thank um uh Mrs filios is that how you say her name christe filios is she here tonight okay we'll tell her because um as a member of the Baypoint Mac um I'm the Community member that the schools advi uh invite to their school safety public hearings that they have but I always get the letters after the meetings already happened so this year she put them all on a spreadsheet
097and send them to all of us so I went to the one at RI Vesta and the one at Delta View and the one at shoreacres and the one at Olympic and I just want you to know um it's very evident in meeting with our parents and our teachers that we're all rowing the boat in the same direction the parents are very positive the teachers were very positive everybody is there with our Focus being our students and what we can do to make them safe happy healthy and get them ready when they graduate to do whatever it is they want to do so it was a great month I enjoyed all my committies and I will pass it to the next person okay trusty Ooa would you like to go next of course on Monday
098I hosted a focus group at College Park High School students had a lot of concerns about Yonder pouches they are worried about the district's money decisions as well as their safety they were concerned about getting an app on their Chromebooks to communicate with family members um on a positive note students felt confident about their connections with their teachers however some students felt like their teachers were not prepared to teach some certain subjects some kids me that they never had someone to advocate for them they felt like it was such a good opportunity to share their concerns and would like more focused groups to happen they enjoyed the joy bound dogs on campus and appreciated how unique that is students also felt that their location is unique because of how close other schools are to them
099such since they are super close to DVC they also requested better access to DVC classes last week I attended the LM LMC Trade Fair I really appreciate appreciate appr seeing that campus it was very different from DVC I appreciated how modern it was I really liked seeing what programs they had and learning about the Hands-On experiences something else I really enjoyed was using the vending machine that sells hot food the the staff members were very welcoming throughout the field trip I got to see new trades that I never heard of or known before I didn't even know these options were available I really appreciated being able to talk to to different people from areas and different traits thank you very nice report thank you thank you for the information about col from College Park students
100it's good to hear Mr McDougall first of all I went to the Walk and Roll this morning and uh we really impressed I I have to say to Cara you have organized a uh well organized group there and the kids are really excited when they show up and they can get their additional fobs on their chains and that sort of thing but the fact that we're using this technology where we can just read it right away and see the 10th visit or whatever uh really is using the technology to a good effect and I think the kids really enjoy it and you could tell that the parents are enjoying coming along and just the fact that it's well organized and has a good future I mean we we're in seven schools now it'd be nice
101to see it in eventually all 50 schools that we've got so yeah that's what we're trying for uh but I was also impressed for the fact that you could measure increased attendance and cutting down on the CO2 that's going in the atmosphere lower traffic those sorts of benefits that uh really are really helpful to the schools and uh of course being Frugal I like seeing that attendance increase because that means more money comes in when people more people attend so that's very useful uh tool I think we have there and should be encouraged um I will attend my final CTE meeting tomorrow it's our eighth in the series and Heather's uh been doing a good job of organizing those and it's on consumer services tomorrow a new field so should be really interesting to hear
102what your plans are for that um I feel that uh the all the meetings were very uh informational but educational for me because um I have not really known what's been going on in the district for years even though I've lived here for a long time so it's very helpful to me to see uh those sorts of things going on and you can see some of the areas that where we need to encourage uh middle school students to say see what the options are and I think we need to start that early to encourage encourage kids to realize that uh they can make a career that's um very beneficial very uh well-paying and they don't have to go to college necessarily to do it so I think we need to U focus on ways to
103Market this better to that age group and not just to that age group but to their parents and I think that's the big push we've got to make and what I see from attending those meetings um I only went to these two events in the last couple weeks because I've been I conducted a u jail Ministry Conference last Saturday it's the 22nd annual one we've done so it took up a lot of my time so um kept me busy but I just want to report that that went well too it's good to see a lot of the people who go out to the jails and to see some people who come and Report um what's happened to them once they've left the jails because that's the encouraging part that was to me to see where
104maybe seeds have been planted and now they're growing so uh just wanted to bring that up very briefly so that's my report thank you thank you trusty and zwi I I saved you because you've got a book to share thank you president Madam president uh first um oh that was that I was like sorry um I'm really proud to be part of the overwhelming majority of black voters in this in this nation who did not not vote for the president who in fact did direct all federal agencies to not celebrate Black History Month before he then believe the next day put out um a a pro resolution Proclamation declaring It Black History Month um and yeah but as we close out this black history month and um this week is black children's book week and
105next week I think it's read Across America um I wanted to read a band book um that many commun that's banned in many communities that support the actions of our president it's called I am every good thing by Derek Barnes and Gordon James so gather around friends I'm actually really good at reading children's books and I love to read children's books right get comfy I'd like to read the um in inscription to Tamir rice Trayvon Martin EJ Bradford Jordan Edwards Michael Brown Jordan Davis and Julian mallerie shayvon Martin would have been 30 years old this month I am a Non-Stop ball of energy powerful and full of light I am a go-getter A Difference Maker a leader I am every good thing that makes the world go around you know like gravity or the glow
106of moon beams over a field of brand new snow I'm good to the core like the center of a cinnamon roll yeah that good I am skateboard tricks scraped knees and elbows but you know what I am right back on my feet again I am one eye open one eyee closed peeking through a microscope gazing through a telescope checking out the spaces around me and plotting out those far off places I have yet to go but will I am a gentleman and a scholar I am kind and polite like yes ma'am and yes sir helping my grandmother cross the street and saying bless you when a stranger has to sneeze I'm a a perfect paper airplane that Glides for blocks for Miles forever I am a wearing flame of creativity I am a lightning round
107of questions and a star-filled sky of solutions I'm an Explorer planting a flag on every square foot of this planet Where I Belong I am a sponge soaking up information knowledge and wisdom I want it all and I am all ears I am Saturday mornings in the summertime I am two bounces and a front flip off the diving board I'm hilarious I am the life of the party I am that smile forming on your face right now I'm the when the Baseline thumps and the kick drum jumps I'm the Perfect Beat the perfect rhyme keeping everything on point and always on time but you already knew that I am a grand slam basis fully loaded I'm a nasty two-handed dunk holding on to the rim just to remind you that I'm still the man believe
108that I'm the Undisputed Champion I am a highlight reel of magnificence I am the celebration the Applause and the standing ovation I am Victory I am a brother a son a nephew a favorite cousin a grandson I am a friend I am real I am tight hugs a hand to hold a shoulder to cry on if you have to I hope you never have to I am here although I am something like a superhero every now and then I am afraid I am not what they might call me I will not answer to any name that is not my own I am what I say I am I am that sound in the forest when the mighty tree falls I am waves crashing gently on the shore I'm a force of nature a miracle a
109blessing I am brave I am hope I am my ancestors Wildest Dream I am worthy of success of respect of safety of kindness of happiness and without a shadow of a doubt I am worthy to be loved I am worthy to be loved that's the end it's a beautiful book I have no idea what the objection is but many there's you can you can search for all the band children's books and I just did picture books um in that have been banned or challenged across this nation it's hard to understand why this would be I can only imagine because it's a little black boy and all the the illustrations are beautiful sorry I couldn't share around but illustrations are beautiful and they reflect little black boys and when I've seen books and heard the challenges
110often times it's that um it comes from white families who just are not cool about seeing having books read to their children or available to their children whose imagery that doesn't reflect their own families however um so many children throughout our nation every day that they go to school are faced with never seeing themselves in their curriculum or the stories that are told um finally next weekend I'm going to the literacy Justice Conference in Oakland and I can't wait to tell you all about it thank you very much and you are an excellent reader thank you can I just also say um thank you and um happy Black History Month to trusty and zoi to Dr Clark to all of our black Educators and staff thank you for being amazing role models for everybody thank
111you for being a part of History making sure that all of our students um get a quality education and standing up for that so happy black history GS very well said my report will be brief um I just wanted to give a shout out because this week is National Public Schools week February 24th 4 through 28 so I want to thank every worker in our district every volunteer and every public education supporter in Mount diao School District contracosta County California and nationally we welcome and serve every student with open arms um on um February 14th I met with the Pleasant Hill city council member Andre oblinsky who was elected in November of 2024 and he shared for me with me some of his goals uh for the city of Pleasant Hill uh during his next
112four years and on uh February 18 as Miss Mason mentioned uh we attended the community advisory committee for special education and uh the topic was navigating in uncertain times and the next meeting on March 18th will feature a panel on autism um on uh February 20th Miss Tes sen I attended the major J Bond oversight committee and the final meeting of the 2010 major c cbok um group and um although um the members of that group often complain bitterly about the meetings that they've had to attend they will miss one another and I fully expect uh that they will continue to meet they have another report that they'll bring to us Su soon and all of you will get to thank them um on the 25th of February uh Dr Clark and I attended the
113Pleasant Hill chamber of commerce's annual breakfast uh to listen to reports on the city of Pleasant Hill and the Pleasant Hill Recreation and Park District and if you're familiar if you're not familiar with this in Pleasant Hill the park and wreck and the city are separate organization versus the remainder of our cities the parks are run by the city uh groups so that's why there's two different reports and they actually um Park and wreck has a larger constituency base than the city of Pleasant Hill does so it's um but they work very well together um the the I wanted to mention a few things that are coming up the uh budget advisory committee will be uh launching again applications are being accepted to serve on this committee so you just need to go to um
114the business services uh web page and then look for the budget advisory committee sub web page for the application and their first meeting will be on March 26th and it will be for the discussion will be the second interim report and budget development for our district and uh the meetings will be held in this room at 5:00 p.m. and the community advisory committee for special education will hold its celebration of success Awards on April 24th uh at conquered high school and I just have to give out one more shout because I need about 40 more judges for the contracosta county science and engineering Fair uh since March 14th please contact me or just type in cccf 2025 in your uh computer search bar and then click on uh the tab volunteer judges uh it's a
115fun day and you get the opportunity we feed you and you get the opportunity to see the amazing work of our young scientists uh grades 7 through 12 we will probably have 175 to 200 projects this year we're coming out of a covid um slow slowdown and then also West contracosta Unified School District and John sweat are joining our Fair this year so that is why we need more judges so if you know anybody that can give a day for kids uh just let me know and Dr Clark we're ready for your report great so thank you and thank you all for for your reports and sharing um information of what's been going on over the last couple weeks I know Samantha Allen did a tremendous job at at giving us the lcap update and
116so I'm not going to go over our lcap goals but I will just continue to highlight that goal one about all students will receive high quality education in a safe and welcoming environment I really think that's at the foundation of everything that we do here in the mount Alo Unified School District and then also as we add to that um with high expectations and rigorous instruction in the California state standards that prepare them for College and Career so just really excited to come to work each and every day and really advocate for um for these goals and for our students um this is our sort of our our symbol that that tells the same story but it's really everyone working together to achieve those goals in supporting our students um it is it is Black
117History Month and I want to give a shout out to U metal homes Elementary this was a um this was a student Le um play play that they did um walking their classmates through um African-American history and um and it was it was in conjunction with with one of our um with one of our outside providers who um provides support and um there were um you know widespread excitement throughout the assembly uh parents and students um were were very excited to see what these students put on and did themselves so very happy about that um also just you know again just supporting that goal one this is um um Delta View and again they're they're doing Book Fairs um when I when I saw this online it just it brought me back to those old
118days when I was a child of bringing back the the the book orders from my mom and coming back to school with a check and an envelope and things she was smart enough not to give me cash but I always came came back with a um with a check and she always made sure even though we didn't have much she made sure that I could always buy a book when those things came so that just kind of kind of hit me that we still do that in our schools and and I'm glad to see that so I wanted to highlight that um I know that these are um you know we we gave these wipe and whiteboards they're not whiteboards they're whiteboards because kids use them and then we and then they scratch them out
119and and we primarily use them for math but I think what's happening is that we're finding the benefits of teaching students how to collaborative ly um solve mathematical problems in in non um kind of tiered groups so these are these are random groups and they're working together and I mean if you look closely at these pictures these kids are excited and working together on um on books and really pulling out the main characters or the main themes and plots and and things like that so so just just wanted to highlight that I thought it was a um very telling picture and and and you know this is why we do the work that we do um you know also this is over at Northgate and this they're preparing for their for their spring Musical and
120again um you know we we have that investment from the state of California with that um prop proposition 28 with the funds there and so um every chance we get just to really highlight the art um whether it's you know painting or or Ceramics in some cases drama music things like that and so um I'm just always just so just enamored with with with what our young people do um again this is a way to get them excited about coming to school each and every day and if that's going to happen through singing or sports or other things then then more power to him so just very excited about that um uh trusty C mentioned this but this is um this is one of our teachers of the year and um we're going to be
121talking um a lot about our teachers of the year and and not only that but also the finalists for that you know it's just a a a very Dynamic group who who are really committed to to students it's always it's always interesting to see the pattern that that really arises when you talk to these folks about what motivates them or when you go and visit their classrooms their classrooms are are very much similar because they aren't the sage on the stage right they are really the learning is happening from the students and they're more facilitators of learning and and and that is really when it um you know when that magic happen so Elizabeth Swanson transitional kindergarten such an important grade level like every time I go to a TK class I just um I
122just get so excited because I'm just thinking these students are in school a year early than they would have been and so they are prepared once kindergarten comes along if they haven't had an opportunity to go to a preschool or something like that it's just a great thing that we offer so um hats off to this teacher for um the work that she's doing and and they will be coming to a board meeting in the next couple weeks and we'll be celebrating celebrating her and this gentleman Dr David pintado and you know you know him he is one um you know when you visit his classroom or if you see him um out at an event he brings that passion and energy around kids and learning he just he won't stop his energy level never
123never goes down and like literally when I've been in this class where I've just had to tell him like I have to go because he's like pulling stuff out of cabinets and showing me this and and um just that again it's that passion it's that it's that love of learning it's that faith in your students and it's creating an environment for them really to take off and lead the way so excited as as as they represent Mount Diablo and the and the county um teacher of the year um recognition program and so just really excited for those for those two Educators when we talk about um um you know commitments with uh or Partnerships with community and you know bringing families together this is over at um Valley viw Middle School and this is the
124Pleasant Hill Police Department and team doing a parents parent night on um social media and uh ways to keep students safe and way to ways to um you know interact with social media social media um does a lot of great things but it also um creates a lot of challenges for our young people people and so I'm just excited to see parents there and engaging and and so that's an example of that of that important Community Partnership this is over at secoya middle school and this is um this is uh Pleasant Hill and this is the fourth of July um group Linda you probably know what the group is called right but they're the Fourth of July what committee or right yes Fourth of July committee and they are presenting a check to one of
125our assistant principles um and it's over at seoa middle school so again just just just a another example of Partnerships with with our community and these obviously are throughout so many of our schools and communities that just just wan to just want to highlight that I could have the next um next slide so I um you know I I I bring this up because um as a as a superintendent I have there's two things at the CH at the top of my job responsibilties and that is to keep everyone safe and to keep our district solvent and um and so as as I kind of you know this is this is straight from um the news headlines from the last couple weeks um and um when when we talk about deficits and and reductions we're
126talking about people our budgets in public schools are basically 85 to 92% on people so when you hear about um a reductions needed to made you're talking about laying people off right right and so um so here is faced with $133 million budget deficit the San Francisco Unified School District had to make tough choices they're they're tasked at laying doing layoffs I think they gave out hundreds of of pink slips are coming and also they're still in that debate about closing schools right down the road at San Ramone um um you know they're they're looking at cutting 26 $26 million out of their out of their budget these are programs these are people this is going to be devastating um we look at Lafayette tiny tiny District um tiny District down the road from us
127very very high performing District very wealthy District however um they have to make two $2 million in in reductions and um and so so for the for the school year and they also anticipate additional reductions in future years with significant increases um in with with with um ongoing Revenue um as we look at Oakland the Oakland Unified School District not only are they faced with um closing schools but they have a $95 million deficit which is going to result in people being laid off the bonisha Unified School District right up the road a very small District um they they just had to do the they just had to cut $3 million this year and they're going to have to cut another 2 million next year right right over the bridge um s they UniFi down
128the road a little bit 22 million from the budget um this year an additional $4 million next year um West Contra Costa uh $32 million and um and and again you know we've read about rest Contra in the news they're you know they are really um in danger of facing State takeover so um and then Pleasanton um you know another another high performing District another wealthy District they uh the board has directed sta to follow through with the plan to make $6.3 million in Cuts right in Pleasanton and then um Martinez right down the road this was a headline that came out of the Martinez paper this week is Martinez unified budget will continue as more painful Cuts loom in 2025 so so this is our current reality I'm sorry but this is not propaganda
129this is not lies this is from the this is from the from the papers and so this was a um this is an article today that came out out um in somoma County it's the um it's the um uh the the inde the independent I believe is the paper but they really talk about with declining enrollment and the end of pandemic relief um relief grants have meant several school districts in Soma County are battling shortfalls so this is again this is right out of the right out of the paper but but what I want you guys to really realize it says meanwhile in Napa County's largest school district Napa Valley has no plans of significant cuts to programming and Staffing this is largely due to the district's proactive and fiscally responsible decisions listen to what
130that was which included closing two elementary schools closing two elementary schools and a middle school over the last five years because of decline enrollment so to be prudent and to be responsible means we need to close schools are we ready in Mount Diablo to start closing some of our smaller schools or maybe our underperforming schools or maybe um you name it are we going to have those discussions as as we go down again these are small schools 1,600 there's 1,600 students in this um in the Belleview Union School District right up the road in in in Santa Rosa 1.5 million it's happening structural deficit declining reserves um and and they have to meet still have to meet the um the 3% raise in January just last month a couple weeks ago the school board voted
131to eliminate the equivalent of 40 full-time classified positions including student supervisors office assistants and kindergarten instructional assistance right there's only 1600 kids in this district and they're laying off 40 people I want you to think about that that impact old Adobe seven 1,700 students they have to cut $3.8 million um and and it talks about again about about you have to keep that 3% Reserve in there and so you have to you have to cut um trying to see what district this is this this just goes on um about old Adobe paduma City Schools 18 schools 7,000 students so that's a fraction of what we have they have a $5 million deficit and um and the district um needs to cut 4 million this year and it's going to um they they cut four million
132last year and they're going to have to cut another 2 million this year so um oh we got more more Santa Rosa Santa Rosa schools 24 schools 13,000 students again third of our district um they're looking at $20 million in cuts and close in closing schools so this month after months of debate the school board voted to close three elementary schools and three middle schools by the end of so well there's one more Sonoma eight eight eight schools um 3,00 3,000 students um $2.3 million with declining enrollment this month eliminate 19 classified and 14 certificated positions coming next year Cuts include a middle school principal I don't know who's going to like who's going to run the school if you don't have a principal a vice principal a math teacher along with seven elementary teachers
133on special assignment a high school counselor District librarian psychologist and a special education program coordinator right oh there's one more West moment I mean it so what I'm doing I'm I'm sorry but like if if if I don't prepare for what our current situation is then I'm not being responsible and so I want this board to know I'm doing this during my superintendence report because it is being taped it will be on it'll be online anyone can click on it and if you don't believe me you can look up these these articles and you can read and and you can see that we are in uncertain times we also which we've already experienced we are also losing grants federal grants that had been out there and we had a we had a grant that worked
134with transitioning our adult special education students into um independent living and that Grant and that that research Grant was cut on how we can best serve those students and we had to lay off folks who was doing who were doing that work so again it takes a lot for me to have to send out a notice to all of our teachers and employees and families and things like that um there there's more District I mean I can just I can just continue I can just continue to go on but I did have to send a um I did have to send an update on our contract negotiations and I I truly believe if if we have dollars we will give those dollars and and and the reason why it is critical that we share accurate
135information out there because just as we heard earlier it's being said that we have a two $200 million um um ending fund balance well that's just isn't true because even though there's $200 million in there so much of that money is restricted dollars so the Arts money the the prop 28 money that is in that that is in that pot um the elop money the after school programs we got Mr Humphrey here back there who works with our after school programs that's in that pot and so if we don't educate folks and at least be transparent so we know we make certain decisions then there's going to be there's there's going to be um you know uh outcomes of those decisions um we we um had a thing with Teamsters where we did a um
136we did a salary study and we found that there were a couple of jobs in Teamsters that were way underpaid and we brought them up double digigit rate for for for those groups so we we believe in in paying our employees and we want to pay our employees our all of our employees right now are receiving a 9% raise from last year and full benefits which equates to to a 2% rise so that's 11% so in these current times that we're in you know I'm watching as my as my Bitcoin account has just taint um and and other things and I'm paying 550 for gallons of gas and things like that we are in uncertain financial times so I just want to be extra prudent when it comes to uh making financial decisions for the
137district and so I had to send out this um this this update and I encourage everyone to go to our human resources page and look under um Labor Relations and we are just going to just just share proposals in there should share information so that at least people know what the what the um what the Stakes are that we're dealing with as I as I'll wrap this up I will say that the lead negotiator from media if you email him the last his email address ends with CTA so CTA has an agenda and CTA has things that they want to get across and stuff so are we looking at a CTA agenda or are we looking at a mount ala Unified School District agenda and I would just be curious about that and I will
138say CTA um is putting out stuff around this social justice um um um social justice stuff with within there and they're talking about um you know changing the evaluation process for African-American Latino folks and things like that I'm not in favor of that I um I am the President of the California Association of African-American superintendent I'm also the president which I don't talk about the National Coalition of educational Equity we work with people all over the country on ways that they can support each and every one of their students I would never ever give that advice to change the evaluation structure and things like that for people of color surprisingly in Mount Diablo we actually have a black Educators Association these are teachers and they join a black Educators Association we are in the process
139of um of there's a group a a group that's creating an association of razza Educators for our Latino employees so so I I would I mean the the question you know the the question would be asked is you know where's their support why do they feel the need to to have to create something separate where how are they not being served so um so so these are just some serious times that we that that we need to really understand what our financial climate is in the state of California for public education and I just went down all those all those districts they're doing great things they're serving kids they got kids in those districts just like we do but they're having to cut back and we've just heard how we're making progress how we're on
140we're moving down the the the right path we've said that over and over and I I have closed schools before my previous District I closed six schools I was only there for three years I closed six schools and I had to reduce the budget by millions and it meant laying people off that is not something I want to do but as superintendent that is in my job description of what I have to do just as all of those superintendents and Boards had to make those tough decisions um going forward so so I just I just want to be transparent I'm I'm not I'm willing to um you know we we have a we have a team out there that um you know my almost my entire cabinets on the on the bargaining team we're here
141to work we're here to roll our roll our sleeves up but um what we're seeing so far I you can see it's underlined there um with 60 compensation items and and and we priced out seven of them and we're at 159 million it's not going to be pretty in the mounta school district going forward if if if if we don't live with within our means and and I know you know the narrative is is that we have this huge ending fund balance but we are deficit spending and and and so that money even that is earmarked for other things and is restricted dollars it is quickly going down and I just want to make sure that we can be physically solvent in in the next in the next three years we do have to produce
142a three-year budget and lastly we aren't giving out pink slips right now my friends down the road in San raone they're giving out pink slips and and in Oakland and in West Contra those are the large districts in contracosta County well Oakland and Alama but in Contra Casta County there's three large districts San rone Mount Diablo and West Contra San Ron's laying off West Contra laying off Mount Dio isn't and so it's really going to be up to our community about how we want to go forward and what we want our district to look like over the next couple years so um so again I started with some very positive stuff and then I had to to kind of bring us back to to this reality of Uncertain Financial Times and and I'm worried about
143what it looks like in the future for us so with that um I know we have a we have a whole slew of of dollars to spend because that's what our consent agenda is is dollars and so um I don't know we can we just need to start thinking about which schools do we want to close what programs do we want to stop doing and who do we want to lay off and and and I would much rather spend money than have to do those things so with that I close out my report thank you thank you Dr Clark can I ask a question um you may not have the answer to this tonight but um I did um read an article just today or yesterday about um the Medicaid cuts um and how those
144could affect schools and I think understanding is that a lot of the positions that we have such as in our wellness centers and things like that um that we do get funding from Medicaid in our district I don't know how much but that would be I'll have to I'll have to get get get back to you on that and so I'm just I'm just not sure I know we are extremely um resourceful on on how we utilize our dollars so so I'm just not sure on Med on medicate well a few meetings ago we had a whole presentation about a whole thing that medical medic for California it's medic Cal is our Medicaid Program and not that you would know the numbers but like that's a whole program that supports children um that is was
145if I recall 100% funded by medical reimbursements and so that would be it was a budget you read it today that yes that Congress passed a budget with cut cuts across the board to the entire safety net yeah so that hits our kids too so there is more I'm nervous as well so thank you for sharing that I just your your report came to brought to mind two more things for me on the positive side um the uh our our wonderful award-winning uh TK teacher um one of the things in the um uh Stubenville uh School District that has such great uh literacy um one of the things that they say is key to their success is the early childhood education the preschool they have like 80% of their kids in preschool focusing on on
146language things like speaking in full sentences and increasing their vocabulary so yay TK um and then lastly I just wanted to mention when you talked about social media um that uh reminded me of something from my day job that does apply here um is that on March 26th um at 5:30 pm at Las lus Library the uh assembly member Rebecca bar Kahan and staff um are hosting an event called anxiety Tech technology and schools um and it is hosted by um aolani's High School District um but it is also with our own Chris Clawson who will be speaking about um our Yonder he was here before um thanks Chris um who will be speaking about our Yonder program and and our wellness centers um so thank you Mount Diablo for representing there and being able
147to share some of this important information and thank you thank you and and and I do have there was a slide I left out on my report but there were two two things I wanted to announce is um there were also lots of celebrations celebrating the Lunar New Year and um and they had dragons and stuff and just lot lots of lots of of great things and then also um Ramadan is coming up and there has been some educational guidance around um letting us know um you know just to just to understand that some kids are going through that and so therefore there's some um there's some things that they that they can and can't do and energy levels and things like that so so again it it's just the way like I really feel
148that in this District that we are true to our to our to our mission and to our you know to our students to our employees to our family that that we are true to them and um and I just don't want to see I just don't want to see us get to a place where where there's no going back so thank you so the next item on our agenda is uh the consent agenda and approval of items listed on the consent agenda are considered routine and will be approved or adopted by a single motion there will be no separate discussion of these items however any item may be removed from the consent agenda upon the request request of any member of the board and acted upon separately so are there any items that um trustees
149would like to have removed for separate discussion I move to approve all consent agenda items I'll second that well that was quick um we have a motion by trustee eni with a second by trustee Mason to adopt the consent agenda as presented um any further discussion and we had no comment cards on this particular agenda item uh trusty Ooa how do you vote Yes and the consent agenda is adopted uh with a 50000 Z vote and support from trusty Ooa oh madame president can I just say really quickly I want to say thank you to White Pony Express for the food recovery agreement and to the East Bay Regional Park service for free and subsidized student transportation to Eastbay Regional Parks yeah those were great items aren't they great so so next item we have
15018.1 and we have Mr sheii is going to come up and present that item good evening uh tonight the human resources team is bringing for the review and potential approval the um Sunshine proposals for both mzpa our Mount diao school psychologist Association and the district we look forward to sitting down and discussing uh working conditions with mpah they have always been a very collaborative group it's always a great time sitting down talking about how can we support students and that's really where their their focus has always been and maintains to be and so we look forward to that and so with that I we ask that the board approve these proposals this is an action item yes Madam president I move to approve the mdusd and mudsa sunshine proposals for the 2025 to 2028 successor
151contract second so we have a motion by trusty C with a a second by trusty McDougall um is there further discussion treso choa how do you vote Yes so item 18.1 is adopted with a 50000 vote and support from trusty Ooa thank you 18.2 uh the board governance handbook we had this on our last agenda and because trusty count was absent we uh decided to defer it till this particular meeting is there discussion Andor a motion I appreciate you waiting for me um but I had full confidence in you um and I did read through this um in full support so I would like to make the motion to approve the mdusd board governance handbook as presented I'll second that we have a motion by trusty count with a second by uh trusty Mason on
152the board governance handbook uh revisions further comment prusty Ooa yes thank you and that is a the board governance handbook is adopted on a 5000000 vote with support from trusty Ooa uh now we are up to um board policy changes um from csba the March quarter L update Dr Clark yeah this is just um this is just info and so we're just bringing this to the board for info and we'll bring it back at a later time thank you we're ready to move on to 18.4 uh this one is info action Dr Clark yes so um so we brought this back for approval but um but the others some are some of them are are first first reading that was 183 but this is one that if you all were ready then you can take
153action on it or if you want us to bring it back you can do that as well but it's info action how comfortable are all of you I've read through them I'm fine making a motion to go ahead and approve the revisions to board policy 7214 administrative regulation 7214 as presented second so we have a motion by uh truste Mason Mason with a second by trusty and SEI on the adoption of the quarterly updates on 18.4 so question just are you was the motion just for BP and AR 7214 or did you want to go ahead and approve the rest that are listed here the 4121 41 I believe it's for the 7214 uh the board policy and the administrative regulation okay and then leave the others as information to come back okay understood thank
154you everybody understand okay um trusty Ooa how do you vote Yes and those two uh the BP and the ar ar 7214 are adopted on a 50000 vote with support from trusty Ooa 18.5 yes Madam president so this is resolution 2425 d53 and it's adopting a conflict of interest code so let me just read a couple lines here whereas the political reform Act government code requires each public agency in California including each School District to adopt a conflict of interest code whereas the district has recently reviewed its list of District officials and the duties of each and has determined that changes to the current conflict of interest code are necessary now therefore be it resolved that the governing board of the of the mount Unified District adopts the following conflict of interest code including the
155accompanying appendix of designated District officials and disclosure categories and that is attached right thank you I would just note that um I appreciate that California does have these conflict of interest codes and that we are required to disclose in our form 700 these types of conflicts of interest um it would be wonderful to see our federal government be required to do similar disclosures with that I move to approve resolution 2425 adopting a conflict of interest code board by law 9270 and exhibit second so we have a motion by trustee K with a second by trustee eni on the um revisions to resolution 2425 uh for the conflict of Interest code board bylaw 9270 and the conflict in interest and exhibit 9270 um further discussion trusty Ooa how do you vote Yes I'm curious do students
156our stud does our student trustee have to complete the form 700 oh no not as a as a as an advisory vote I think that's thank you this motion is adopted on a 50000 vote um for the conflict of interest codes um and bylaws I mean board policies excuse me 18.6 Dr Clark Madam president I I can't believe I'm saying this but we're at like December 2024 quarterly updates and so um I mean we're getting close to catching up so getting very close close so we have this uh for we're asking for approval but it is info action if if you guys need more time with it but um this is in the hands of the board 186 I move that we approve revisions to board policy 1250 administrative regulation 1250 and oh I don't
157what does BB stand for board by law 9240 as presented so we have a motion by trusty and SEI with a second by trusty count uh to approve the revisions to board policy 1250 ar150 and uh board bylaw 9270 further discussion trusty Ooa yes thank you I just want to appreciate all the staff work on keeping these up to date I know it's a lot of work and oftentimes districts get very far behind on these things and it's really important that we keep these things up to date and this one in particular is our um visitors uh policy to our school sites which is crucial so thank you our colleague is just logging back into the system those things happen I think it's happened to all of us at one point or another so Dr
158Clark I wanted to thank you for talking about the Book Fairs at all of our schools uh that's so important when a student can take home a book that they've been able to purchase at the Book Fairs and many of our schools encourage families to put an extra dollar or 50 cents in an envelope so that the class teacher can help another student um purchase a book so I would encourage every family if they're listening to make that small contribution to their class so that every student can take a book home so we're having some technical issues here so can we do this the last item can we do a man a a manual vote on this or a Voice vote a Voice vote okay uh trusty Ooa how do you vote Yes trusty ADI
159yes trusty Mason yes trusty C yes trusty McDougall yes and uh I yes as well the motion is adopted of 50000 with trustee OA in support um we don't need a meeting EXT extension uh we're not going to have another closed session um future agenda items are there any at this point in time uh oh okay trouble no it's not trouble this one's fun this one isn't trouble at all so um and and even Dr Clark mentioned it in his superintendent report on the positive side um I got to go to the Pleasant Hill choir festival and so um our Visual and Performing Arts and we have a strategic plan and um that we completed did a while ago and it was presented last year and I would love an update on the um progress
160towards this strategic plan I'm remembering like even in my day job things passed whatever and we forget get like oh yeah that pass what's happening and so this was just it was just a reminder of just oh we've got this these great Arts opportunities and funding significant funding in our schools individual schools so what's happening based on what the planning was that a lot of us participated in you like me to bring the the Magnificent Kelly Hoover back I would love I would love that she is just awesome yeah her presentation was engaging and great gu trusty count that would be wonderful um I have uh two one you can imagine I would love updates on all the literacy things at some point uh before the end of the year um and then my other
161one is um I just feel like we need more understanding of of where we are with our HVAC control system um in particular I'm thinking about um trying to understand can we talk to the controls expert to ask questions can we see the control panel and the data of sort of where things are going wrong and also understand um can we talk to a district uh or hear from a district where Schneider has already done this control systems successfully so that we know um what it is that we are striving to reach um so those would be two topics um that I would suggest um and then just one last thing that I wanted to mention that I've been thinking about in terms of reading because I'm involved in trying to learn more about all
162of this um I was thinking about holding kind of listening sessions um where I just want to be able to hear from parents or students or teachers about what they're experiencing out there across the district um in terms of reading um what's working really well what are some challenges so thinking about um how to do that whether it be on Zoom or or at a coffee shop um so let me know if you have any ideas on that thanks thank you for sharing that information if we're all ready are we ready I'll adjourn the meeting at 8:30 pm thank you very much everyone and we have documents to sign so please wait a little