PCS Board of Education Meeting: April 23, 2024

001Alright, thank you all for bearing with our technical difficulties. It's never a dull moment. I'm gonna reconvene our meeting at 6 0 7 p. M. Yeah, do any of your, oh, it's the phone. One moment. All right, yep, that's much better. Thank you, Dave. A round of applause for Dave. Our tech guru and savior. And with that, Trustee Pond will lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Okay. See the Okay. Jesus. And now we will start with school reports. 1st up we'll start with CASA, unless it's a joint one again between Kasa and Petaluma, then both of you can come up. Oh, one of costs more recent activities that have been going on. Is Happy Week. That's part of our hatchery curriculum. And what that is is for an entire week students in the hatchery

002program dress up in really bright elaborate colors. And there's kind of a whole like storyline and premise around it, but basically the main goal of the week is to teach our students a lot of team building and team bonding activities and strengths. Next thing that was very frequently was the butter eggs a parade and Koster Grande was very adamant in the parade we had band wrestling and robotics as well. And then Petalumahi also attended. We had ban phase and the wildlife museum. And then this is probably our most recent event as this happened about 2 days ago. We're happy to announce that accumulatively the 2 of our schools send over a hundred camp counselors to 6th grade camp this year. So that's a really big accomplishment. And I look forward to going myself next year.

003And then another fairly recent was our senior state capital trek over a hundred of cost regarding seniors spent the day in Sacramento turning the capital building and meeting with assembly member, Damien Conwell. And this is more of an upcoming event, but GQ, also known as Gauchella, is coming up at Casa Grande. And this is our charity event that's almost like a talent show per se and it's where different groups of students compete but it's more like friendly competition in the talent show to raise money for their chosen charities. And then we have Springfield coming up May 4th and we're super excited as well with the Spirit Week. I don't, don't need to go through the days. Okay, well our sprinkling is we're really excited for it. We're bringing it back and we're hoping to have

004a bunch of bright colors and a bunch of Thank you. So next up. So at PHS we celebrated Women's History Month last month by having notes up in the hallway where you could write a note to a woman. On campus that influence you and influences you and inspires you. And then an ASB, we delivered the notes to the students and teachers and we made a TikTok to advertise it. This is not working. Oh, okay. Next we had the every 15 min program. It was a 2 day program focusing on the upperclassmen and it was a challenge to help us think about drinking, driving, personal safety, responsibility of making good decisions and the impact it can have on your community. Those are some pictures of the fake car crash that was staged and then the second day

005was the assembly and stage funeral. Okay, and then on Friday we had the hood on throw down dance this was a prom fundraiser and a tailgate and we raised $1,800 for the senior class. And then so between the 2 schools, 289 students win scholarships at the PEF night. Congratulations to all of them. That's really impressive. And then our JSA chapter attended the Spring State in Oakland. They met students from around Northern California and one of the students was the official con speaker for a debate about government power to make vaccines mandatory and they're going to go back in November. And then other events we've had recently is Class Dodge Bouldering lunch to fun like community building activity. Yesterday on Earth Day we had a campus cleanup. Our band is going to New York City to

006perform. Our Trojan broadcast team went down to Long Beach to go to a conference and they learned a lot of new fun skills. They also went to San Francisco and I think they went to the KQD office, which is really cool. Had an FFA convention, those are some pictures. From that. So for athletics, PHS currently has swimming, lacrosse, softball, baseball, boys golf, boys tennis, and track and field. And then for Casa the swimming championships on Thursday and Friday. We also have the cross softball baseball boys golf and boys tennis happening right now. And then so end of the year coming up, we have special Olympics, which is for the full inclusion students, AP exams, the senior recognition rally, mental health awareness month starts in May and we are partnering with the safe team for a

007drive. And then we also have Super Spring Week coming up, which has fun spirit days and our flag football games. Yeah, our senior rally. From and then our senior sunset and finally graduation. And then for CASA, not nearly as impressive of a list, is the send off rally, prom, senior sunset, and then of course graduation. That's it. Thank you. Thank you guys. Awesome. Thank you all. It's so nice having you all present together and see what both comprehensive high schools are up to. Next up we have the San Antonio High School and as Valiox doing the same time or separate. Okay, perfect. So San Antonio. Okay, Hi, my name is Derek Stokely and I'm a junior at San Antonio High School and this is my 1st year attending. Partis, you're attending both Costa Grande and

008Pivot Charter School. What I appreciate about San Antonio is the ability for students to get themselves back on track as well as the teachers would treat everyone with respect. My plan is to get caught up for this year and return the cost of Grande for my senior year. After graduation, I intend on pursuing career in the business and the financial world. Currently while off school I enjoy singing and dancing. Some I found fun this year was being selected to participate as a student panelist on this, youth truth student panel where we gave input based on our experiences at each of our schools. Here are some things that we've been up to for this year. San Antonio has 81 students currently enrolled and we've had 14 students graduate so far this year. At the end of

009each grading period, many students receive awards based on 100% attendance. As well as several levels of honorable and the highest being principles on our role for earning a 4 pun on GPA. Last reading period, we had 8 students with 100% attendance and 5 students with a 4.0 GPA. Gloria Castro was selected as our student of the grading period and we've also had student 4 students take and pass the SRJC Spanish One credit by exam, earning class for both the JC and the high school. In December, Miss McGurry worked with a group of students to construct a gender bread house for the annual competition for the at the Petaluma Hotel. This year's team decided to build Whoville based on Dr. Seuss's How the Grinstall Christmas. They spent a week planning baking and decorating their entry before

010taking to the hotel. They're entering one second place in the team category and this is the 6th year of San Antonio in the 1st year, sorry, 6 year San Antonio's enter the college and the 1st year they placed. Yeah. The Cardio club ran and walked the mile for the Family Fund run on December, the 9.th Some of our students along with Miss Gribe, Miss Pearson, and Miss. Former participated in the event. Earlier in the spring, San Francisco shakes around tour, a traveling Shakespeare troop came to San Antonio for condensed performance of As You Like It for our whole school. The show lasts about an hour and some of our students were selected to participate in the production. Miss McGary in the cooking club spent time after school learning how to make various Super Bowl snacks

011including artichoke dip and chili cheese dip. We continue to hold mentor days following each greeting period. Besides meeting with mentor teachers for age about visual credit review, team building, classroom circles, and digital citizenship lessons. Last waiting period, we ended the day with a rock paper scissors tournament. Jackson came out the winner earning all of the green beads and lucky Green Derby. Last month, our school participating in a school log disaster drill, staff search teams searched all rooms and buildings. And while doing so, located several well-placed hazards and many and some students were had fake injuries. Fake injuries included a broken arm, a broken leg, and a head injury. Early in March, San Antonio huts a six-year Wasscar view. 3 Walls team members comprised the visiting committee. They met with staff, students, and parents as well

012as board kitten cabinet members. Overall, the report they left for us was very positive and the accreditation determination will come in make some time. 2 weeks ago we had our annual career health and wellness found campus. There were 14 different entities presenting as students would take through classrooms, listen to speakers. Some of their presentations included the Paralympic Safe Team, Pelima Bounty Farm, the Marines the National Guard, Sonoma County Black Forum, several trades unions, not a body technician, tattoo artist, and anesthetician. Overall, it was very informative and worth relevant. Some of our upcoming events include the Open House and Portfolio Night on May first.st The Safari West wide field trip on my 17.th The science field trip to Warm Springs Dam on May 30th and of course the graduation ceremony on June 6.th Thank you and

013thank you for continuing to support alternative education. Awesome. Thank you so much. You all have been busy. And next up, Valley Oaks. Thank you. Okay. Good evening. My name is Paid Pappas. I'm a twelve-year-old 7th grader. I've been a Valley Oak students for around a year now. I decided to enroll at Valley Oaks because for my 5th and 6th grade year I was homeschooled and I figured that Valley Oaks would be a good step up for me before heading to Kenilworth. My favorite thing about Valey Oaks would have to be that has a nicely structured schedule unlike homeschool where I could just wake up and do work whenever I wanted or public schools, you have to wake up around 6 am to get school. In addition, I'm also a huge inter route. So the smaller

014and more calm the school is, the better for me. The plans I have for myself in the future are to start studying in chemistry so hopefully one day I can become a scientist in that field as either my dream care choice and one of the biggest passions of mine. Thank you for your attention and thank you for supporting Valley Oaks. Good evening. My name is Luka Keith. I am 14 in the 8th grade. I've been in the value of virtual academy for about 2 months now. The reason why I want to go to Valley Oaks is because I have a medical condition that causes me to blister easily. I've heard about Valuation, my grandpa and I knew it'd be perfect for me because of my condition. What I like about value is that I can

015choose when I do my work and I've been teaching me to be more consistent. Thanks, Avalukes. I've been able to complete more assignments. My plans for the future are to be a truck driver or Openmount skate shop because even though I can only skateboard. They're only like 15 or 20 min for a couple days a week. It is my favorite hobby and sport. Good evening. Thanks for listening. Good evening school board members and administrators. My name is Michael Morgan and I'm an 8th grader who has been attending Valley Oaks for a few months now. The primary reason why I chose Valley Oaks is my school is because of the flexibility and options it offers students. I heard all about Valley Oaks from my mom who had thought of me when she learned about the school. Valley

016Oaks has been all that I hope they would be in more. I've been able to focus more on my personal life. My classes have been tailored more specifically to things I have more interest in and I'm improving academically. Attending Valley Oaks has truly opened my eyes to what is possible for me. After my time at Valley Oaks, I eventually want to go to law school and become a lawyer because if there's 1 thing I have been learning at Valiox is have a great ambition for your future. I appreciate all of you giving me the time to share with you my experience. Thank you. We had a productive back-to-school week. Staff welcomed every returning and new student and their family. We've been preparing for our portfolio open house night on May 7th by supporting students with

017the creation of their personalized digital portfolio. This year, we are encouraging students to use a website platform other than Google sites. Miss Bradley from the District Office came to our assemblies to help us with Wakeclip, Foot Creator, and Adobe Express. Every other month we have an assembly to help students with their portfolio. We have icebreaker games and it is a great opportunity to see and talk to other students and build community. Each student is assigned to a staff member, including our secretary, counselor, and principal. Rallyiox has joined the International Peaceful Movement. Our new peace poll will be dedicated on May, the 1st at 11 am and we cordially invite all of you to please attend. This one click next. So you're being exciting, but 2 big and exciting changes that value, show the addition of

018Virtual Academy and 3 new teachers for it. Mr. Weinders, Miss Songer, Miss Balmer, and for Valley Oaks, a new principal, Mr. Stevenson, new secretary, Angelina, new counselor, Mr. Baba, and lastly, a new special ed teacher. Mr. Cauchy. They have all recharged and add a new energy to our school. 11th and 12th graders continue to be encouraged to get a job and an elective credit. And that. Oh. Sorry, all within 12 years continue to be to be encouraged to get a job and an elective credit and the highlesses you are at a farm that breeds themselves pygmy goats and our local daycare for babies through age 4. Additionally, all students are required to do 5 h of community service every semester. The biggest draw the CIA has been to work at Snapcats in Santa Rosa, which is

019for special needs and unadaptable cats. There have been 8 graduates this year, including 2 Virtual Academy seniors, a 15 min bell ringing ceremonies offered that celebrates the occasion. Oh, your students have been encouraged and challenged to be their best selves. Exceptional efforts of students have been recognized with our 3.5 GPIO semester honor roll and our 4 point principles on rule. Which both additionally required demonstration of excellent personal character. Likewise, we have been recognizing a student of the month all year. We give gifts and post their photos. Are the photo on our wall and website? The winners of the annual science fair were recognized with trophies and certificates. We have been following the new junior high state policy for daily live interaction and social for Daily Live interaction, and social support on Thursdays with Miss Halsey's history

020group. Miss Kesseru has continued to have English groups for 9th through 12th grades. This year, the project topic has been artificial intelligence. Groups of 3 to 4 students must communicate and collaborate to produce. One group written report and created product. This year we have a new high school elective course called game analysis. Students play and analyze board games and type reviews. This year, our 21st year of offering wet labs for student course or for science courses which provide meaningful social interaction, collaboration, and communication. Thank you. Great job, you all. Thank you all for sharing your stories and everything you've been up to at Valley. Moving on, we're gonna recognize some students of the month and we're actually going to start with Kenilworth Junior High School. Okay. Okay. I'm always junior high school student of the

021month, April, the 20, th 24. Kind of work junior high school is proud to present our April student of the month, Emmy Varahona. We have been selected as student of the month by her teachers who describe her as motivated student, great team member, and a polite respectful and joyous person. Miss Martin, Emmy's physical education teacher says, Emmy is exceptional in every way. She's organized and prepared for class every day. I mean, is one of the kindest and most helpful students on campus. She's friendly, respectful, and always comes to class with a positive attitude. Her approach to school work and her attitude lifts up those around her. Emmy has maintained high grades throughout both 7th and 8th grade with a 3.8 9 GPA. Math is Emmi's favorite subject which she has described as fun. When Emmy

022is not at school, she's often at gymnastics practice at our local Redwood Empire gym. Taken gymnastics for many years and one of her proudest accomplishments has been scoring 1st place in every event during a competition. What a talented young woman. I'm his very family oriented and shares her favorite hobbies including playing soccer with her dad going to the park and playing games with her whole family. Barbecues and beings together. And we also loves to draw and big cookies in her downtime. With plans to become a Casa Grande Gaucho next year. Emmy is looking forward to trying out for the high school soccer and cheer teams. Emmy's high school goals include maintaining her high grades and seeing more academic successes. And he wants to attend a prestigious college or university and is excited to find out

023where her true career interests lie. I mean, is truly a wonderful young woman and everyone at Kenilworth looks forward to seeing all of her future dreams come true. Congratulations, Emmy. Do we have Emmy's friends and family in the audience? If you can please stand. We want to celebrate you too. Wait a minute. Can we, can our senior high is proud to introduce our April student month KCC hand. Casey has been selected, and the month by his team. By his team of teachers because he excels academically, it's hard working and dedicated in kind. Miss Martin, Casey's physical education teacher shared. Casey is a reliable, responsible student. He's always prepared for class and helpful to others. I can depend on I can depend on Casey to make good choices and he serves as a great role model

024for other students in class. Casey is kind, friendly, and respectful to adults and students. Academically, Casey has been a true star at Kendallic, taking the most rigorous courses we offer in maintaining a 4.0 GPA. Casey's favorite subject is math and he has demonstrated his master of this subject and accelerating math 7 and map one. Casey is also take it advanced English for both of his junior high years and plans to take as many advanced classes courses as possible during his high school career. Casey is passionate about athletics and plays both North Coast FC soccer team and Nor Cal Oakes baseball team. These experiences have been both enjoyable and valuable training preparing him to try out for both sports at Costa Grande High School. Outside of school, Casey enjoys riding his bike with his friends, being

025outdoors, and spending time with family. Casey is proud of his academic achievements as looking forward to continuing a successful pathway through high school. After graduating from Casa Grande, Casey has aspirations of attending a university of his choice and interested in pursuing a career in engineering. Casey, Kenenworth is so proud of you and we have been honored to have you as a student. Good luck in all that you do. Congratulations, Casey. Congratulations, Casey. Do we have Casey's friends and family in the audience? Can you please stand? Alright, we're gonna move over to Petaluma High. Let's see. Alright, so 1st up we have Christian. Is it Pardio? Okay. So this is what was written about her. Kind, passionate, tenacious. These descriptors hardly scratch the surface when attempting to describe Christian in just one word. Many who were

026asked insisted that a single term could never do her justice. How could empathy alone capture the depth of emotion she has poured into consoling those in need? Her tears reflecting the pain of the undeserved in her frustration and not being able to do more. To simply say she is talented severely undermines the extraordinary breadth of her artistic abilities. By 17 Christian has learned to play the piano, flute, alto saxophone guitar, and ukulele through sheer self-taught dedication and passion. All while lending her vocals to her high school's jazz band and to her church as a member of the praise and worship ministry. Christians compassion goes way beyond any boundaries or limits society tries to put on people. Her tenacity in advocating for the forgotten reveals a drive to uplift those who are cast aside. Music and

027her caring nature come together beautifully to show true compassion. To define this remarkable young woman and just one word would be an injustice. Her intense passion to serve burns to right to be confined. Christian perfectly represents how awesome and limitless humans can be. It's no surprise that Christian has decided to major in psychology with her caring spirit, determination, and versatile talents, Christian is going to keep shining bright whether she's analyzing a case study or pouring her heart into a melody. The human minded soul are just infinitely intriguing words for her to positively impact. Congratulations. Thanks. Congratulations, Kristian. We have Kristianne's friends and family in the audience. Can you please stand? Yeah. Okay. Alright, and then next up we have DD Albert. Okay, in high school DD Albert spent our time engaged in many activities both

028inside and outside of the classroom on the tennis court she has led the varsity girls team as the number one singles player and on the Sonoma County all league VVEL team. In her free time, she coaches tennis lessons for kids and works downtown at Angela's ice cream. Throughout high school, DD has also maintained a strong commitment to the language arts. She currently writes for the August Courier publication and has gained many volunteer hours from English language literary workshops with local elementary students. DD has also pursued an interest in international politics and diplomacy. Participating in programs at the World Affairs Education Center in San Francisco and interning for the World Affairs Council of Sonoma County. She has also led the Academic World Quest team here at PHS and even competed in local and national competitions on

029various topics and current events. DD plans to attend UCLA and major in international affairs in college hoping hoping to end up in DC one day and continue to study the infinite details of future global conflicts. Congratulations, DD. Do we have Dd's friends and family here in the audience? Can you please stand? Now we'll move on to Casa Grande High School. Unfortunately, neither of our students of the month, we're able to make it tonight, but we're honored to announce that Jackson Hoftling is one of our April students of the month. Shakson is a senior at Costa Roni High School and he has taken a number of AP and GC courses as well as band. Engineering is why he's going into college and his future career. And our second student of the month is Kai Radovanjimi. Kai

030is personally one of my good friends. I have the opportunity to run track with him every day after school. He is an amazing student and athlete and just a friend overall. But his teachers also write. Kai is a very involved with outgoing senior at Casa Grab, taking multiple honors AP and JC classes at the same time, as well as participating in high school varsity sports all 4 years. Kai is a well-rounded student athlete. Having been an ASB and involved in numerous camp clubs, he also has gained leadership experience and is very engaged with the community. After high school, Kai plans to attend a four-year university in Southern California and study kinesiology or sports medicine. He plans to become a future athlete, athletic trainer and receive his graduate degree. Outside of the classroom, Kai loves to

031go for drives, listen to music, spend time with his family and friends, and watch sunsets. He wants, he wants to thank his parents for always pushing him to do his best, work hard, and for always supporting him. Thank you. Okay. Congratulations to Jackson and Kai if you're rewatching this video later. Let's move back to Petalima Junior if we have everybody here. Yes, perfect. Petalima Junior High School is proud to introduce our April student of the month, Deer de Haslam. Dear Joe, was chosen as Petalima Junior Highs April Student of the Month because she is an excellent member of our school community. Deirdre displays outstanding citizenship citizenship in addition to being a member of Alright, sorry, how am I step? An excellent scholar. Miss O says that Deirdre is creative, hard-working, compassionate. Empathetic and trustworthy. These

032qualities make Deirdre a joy to have in class. Deirdre excels in math where Miss Garvey says that Deirdre is focused, hard-working, and demonstrates a flexible way of thinking. Deirdre is friendly. 2 peers with a wide range of personalities, which makes her a delight to have in class. Deirdre shares that she enjoys her open-minded and helpful teachers at PGHS. Outside of school, Deirdre previously participated in sea scouts. Dear's current hobbies included creating art and spending time with her friends. Deirdre is excited to join her older brother at Pedalima Junior High School or peddling my high school next year. She also hopes to join. She also hopes to join in on some of the extracurricular activities they offer. In college, Dear Joe would like to study animation in design and she hopes some way someday to make

033a movie about her life. Deirdre's family is also very proud of her accomplishments. As well as who she is as a person. Deirdre's mom shared that Deirdre is the most genuine person she knows, and that Deirdre stands up for what she believes in. In addition, Deirdre is kind, dedicated, loving, in fear, and a fierce friend. Deirdre's family admires her bravery and willingness to try new things. Deirdre has an exclusive spirit and tends to put others before herself. She is a huge heart and a smile to match. Congratulations, Deirdre. Congratulations, DD. We have Deirdre's friends and family here in the audience. Can you please stand? Thank you. Pedal Virginia High School is proud to introduce our April student month, Julian, Rabo Masius. Julian was chosen as perimeter in highs April student the month because he embodies

034the bantam. Embodies the bent and values in always. During his brave authentic neighborly trust trustworthy, accepting and mindful each day and every day. Miss. Garvey shared that Julian is a personal and friendly. Julian demonstrates excellent leadership qualities that make and makes an effort to include all of his team members. Julian was combined. Jordan has combined his internal full gifts with hard work and thus made has made tremendous, tremendous growth as a scholar at PGHS. Julian makes many people's days with a cheerful good morning in a high 5 every day. Julian says that he enjoys the supportive and welcoming staff at PGHS. Julian enjoys participating in FFA. He is taking our basics elective during 0 period this year. Julian is looking forward to meeting new people and taking engaging elective courses at Petalumahi. Julian plans to

03510 college and study business or agriculture. He would like to open a cafe or a business in the beef cattle industry. Julian's mom and Elvia shared that Julian is an incredibly young man that enjoys helping others. He loves learning new things and applying them to his everyday life. He will spend your time with his family in going campaign. His biggest wish when he grows up is to own his own cafe and run it with his family. Congratulations, Julian. Right. And now we're gonna read it in Spanish too, Julian. You can't escape that quickly. Okay, so to give you a say, the presenter and Westro Syrian, Julian, Ferrell, Los Angeles. Julianne Esvalente, Otentiko, a. The Yeah, at the end of Tololo, yes. Is, Julian, the moistra. Excellent the Qaeda is the link. The leader, Yes, it's

036a for support, including autonomous members. Julian, a Commander, Acombin, NATO, SO, IN, Intequalis. K, He, They will, Creasey Manto. Connected and, canal, Kon, A, K, and PGHS. Julian, Allegria, and D. I'm not sure as person as Kona aigria. One conone alligeria bonus yes, new high 5. Controlosius. William, this, give this fruit up for you. Hello, Huian, Louise, the Patri Sippa in, Elis Tamar, Ellestan, Tommando, and Material Otiva. The Contract, keep those passcodes. Adi Colas. Toronto, Go to the, This is Courier source, Alec Devos. In Petaluma. Julian, Plania, SCC, ally, Universia, is Julia, the A. Hello study, and then it's like door today, Canalo, Baktono. And my mother, Julian, Oliva, Olivia. Compario, Kafirian, Asano, Ashnhovan, in Travel is, Lankanta, Prinder, Kosas, Noivas, Iaplikar Asuvita, the area. Lankan Tapasar, DEMOCK, and, FAMILIA, YEAR, Camping. So my Yeah,

037to. And I must laugh, Amelia, in Los Angeles, Devilian. Okay. And now we're moving on to some students of the semester from San Antonio. Yeah, girl. Okay. Good evening board members, students and parents. My name is Costavo Shinzo, the counselor for San Antonio High School and I'm here to present our student semester. I'll do it both in a Spanish and English as well. San Antonio High School is very proud to present our student semester, She represents the very best of San Antonio. Christo came to us in the fall of 2022. And from our 1st greeting period with straight A's, Crystal began her rise as a Phoenix. In fact, she worked so hard and was such focus that she was able to graduate early, and on March 1st Chris would achieve her high school diploma. So

038while I San Antonio, Crystal is always willing to get involved in try new things. She joined the cooking club during her 1st semester. She's great at following instructions and enthusiastic about cooking. She worked with her classmates to make smoothies, cookies, and Super Bowl appetizers. She'll make the sauce for the back to school night possibly 2 years in a row. Also both the years she joined our gingerbread team to make a house from scratch for the Pivotal Matter bread showcase. Chris of adventurousness extended beyond school in the fall crystal attended stance classes at a studio in Petaluma. She enjoyed telling her friends and teachers about her performances. All the San Antonio staff agree that having crystal in class was a joy. Should we always had a positive attitude and a little quiet often have thoughtful insights

039to share in class discussions? Chris was someone who was quick to offer help to her classmates if needed. Include your Trim Brother Christian who also attends San Antonio. Chris was truly a San Antonio high school success story in her time with her San Antonio family we saw her gain confidence and become a role model as our student semester we are certain that she will continue to rise and pursue her future goals. Where to go crystal? We are proud of you. Hang in there, Crystal. Got one more. On the Crystal and Toro Konosutos in Antonio, they don't need. Yuptuo Purasas, the SUPPREME. The H. KFI capacity of in San Antonio, Christo simply has to with this Preston in Voluccasi. I intended nervous activists. See in your A jealous but in Super Bowl. Where's These months, you

040will know those channels under 3 keep the castle, they can give it. But I said, when I cast this, they set up and they went to a Pylement in your bread showcase. Okay. And, Lotonio, Christopher, Stuart, at the Classic, the Valley in the studio, Okay. Doer Peso Nerison and Tuno Concorde, K, KILTON, S. There are classes. In Klanoswormano, Antonio. Crystal is a bit of that. I mean, And so 1st it comes to familiar the San Antonio, we must can have to confess. Kumas high school, Chris Tokuvas, Caledon. Yes. Congratulations, Anthony. Congratulations to all our amazing students. Don't flee just yet. We're gonna pause in a little bit for photos, but we have some exciting announcements before we do that. So yeah, so at this point we're gonna do 2 quick announcements and then we'd love

041to take, we'd love to get our picture up here and take a break. So, I wanna, I would love. Love to introduce, I would like to invite up, Gloria Estavio. Gloria, could you come on up, please? Question. So we are we are pleased to announce the selection of Gloria Estevio as Petalum City School's new director of educational services. Esteville will assume her new duties on July 1, st 2024 and we are ecstatic to have her get started. I'm Gloria comes to Pelham City Schools with 29 years of experience in education. She currently serves as the director of educational services for the Wright Elementary School District in Santa Rosa, where she oversees curriculum and instruction and special education services. Before holding that position, Miss Estavio led the College Readiness Program for middle and high school students,

042adult ESL classes and the career education program as Director of Education at the Canal Alliance in San Rafael. She has worked in the San Francisco Unified School District as coordinator of the secondary school redesign initiative and supervisor of special programs for teacher and administrator development. Before serving in these district level positions, Ms. Estabio was a principal in San Francisco Unified School District and San Rafael City Schools and was an elementary classroom teacher for 9 years. Mrs. Stavio earned her Bachelor of Arts in Literature from the University of California Santa Cruz and her administrative credential from the California State University beach. She also earned her Masters of Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. For many professional accomplishments, Gloria is especially proud of her leading efforts to support English learners at Wright Elementary School District.

043This work improved the California dashboard. English learner proficiency indicator from low or very low to high or very high. Her work at the Canal Alliance to launch a new career education program in partnership with the College of Marin helped to significantly increase A through G completion rates in their college readiness program. Ms. Esteville was also named an honorary by the Marin women's Political Action Committee, recognized as women's commission's woman of the month, all and featured in North Bay Woman Magazine. Ms. Estivia looks forward to collaborating with a wonderful team of educators at Pedal City Schools. She hopes to support all students access to high quality, engaging educational opportunities. Most importantly, she looks forward to getting to know the Pedal City School students and families. Gloria has lived in the Bay Area for 25 years and

044currently lives in Nevada. She's an avid hiker and enjoys gardening, traveling, and spending time with friends and family. Please join me in welcoming Miss Gloria to Pedom C. Schools in her new role as the Director of Educational Services. That's right. Thank you. So much. We can't wait for you to get started. You can, you starting earlier. Okay. Next I'd like to invite Whitney Katrell to come on up please. I am pleased to announce the assignment of Whitney Cottrell as the new principal of Kenilworth Junior High School. Whitney will assume her duties on July 1, st 2024. Whitney earned her Bachelor of Arts in History and her Master of Arts in Education from California State University Sacramento. Ms. Katrell served as Wood Creek High School at Wood Creek High School for 20 years, teaching world history,

045AP European history, US history, avid and leadership. She was also the department chair, professional learning community lead, and instructional technology coach. From there, Whitney served as an assistant principal at Rockland High School and most recently as principal at San Ramon Valley High School. Among her many accomplishments, Whitney designed and facilitated an instructional technology professional development program for teachers. Presented at Google conferences and began a 1-to-one device program at Rockland High School. She is spearheaded social emotional wellness programs and implemented equity initiatives to combat bias and discrimination, including the SLAM, student led anti-racist movement program at San Ramon Valley High School. Whitney is originally from Sacrament from the Sacramento area. Her daughter is 25 and lives in San Luis Obispo. Her son is 24 and lives in Santa Barbara. Amazingly, her partner grew up in Petaluma

046and he attended Ken the Worth Junior High School. When is excited to get to know Keno where students, staff and families. She hopes to strengthen partnerships with families, community organizations, and local businesses. And she is eager to support the holistic development of our students, including their social, emotional, and personal growth. Miss Katrell is committed to fostering a positive school culture that prioritizes equity, diversity, and inclusion within the Kenilworth community. And she looks forward to celebrating the achievements and successes of students and staff. Please join me in welcoming Whitney Cottrell as the new principal at Kenenworth Junior High School. Congratulations and we can't wait to have you and your family in Penaluma. With that I'm gonna convene us for a 5 min photo break. Thanks. Okay, right now I don't have that. Here you go. Alright, we're

047gonna reconvene this meeting at 7 0 4 and it looks like next up we have an update about . Live Oak Somebody has an update like someone has not pay for me. You have. Or we're gonna bring up a quick presentation. Called Live Oak. Okay. Thank you. All right, tonight we are going to. Or we're presenting an update to the Live Oak Charter School prop. 39 request. What is a prop 39 request in California of proposition 39 request is a formal process that allows charter schools to request facilities from their local educational agencies, typically a school district, Prop. 39, which was approved by California voters in the year 2,000 requires LEAs to provide charter schools with facilities that are reasonably equivalent to those used by other public schools in the district. This includes considerations such

048as location, quality, and condition of the facilities as long as, excuse me, as well as access to resources like playgrounds and technology. The charter needs to submit an official request to the district by November, the 1st which LIBO did. The district then is required to make a preliminary offer and the charter school then will do a review and response and a final offer is generally due to the charter school by April, the first.st Both PCS and Live Oak have agreed to an extension until May, the 8th because we're still discussing what the facilities can look like for next year. This is a timeline of meetings that PCS and administration and Live Oak have had that really started the conversation through the Prop. 39 request. And through this process, started the conversation of what could it

049look like if live oak became a dependent charter school for PCS instead of an independent charter school. One of the last conversations, was a site visit by district administration over to live oak where we were able to spend some time. With live oak board and administration and a tour of the facilities and have a meal together. So, now I'm going to turn it over to Superintendent Harris for next steps. Oh, I think they. The process here, this prop 39 request, right? We've been Live Oak has been. Chartered through Pedama City School since its inception, 2520, 23 years. Who's counting? About 23 years ago. And, during that time, so. During this prop 39 request, we're really able to sort of as a man I said sit down break bread together talk a little bit about relationships

050between our district and this independent charter school. It's this nebulous term right right. When you look at the Ed code, there's really is no distinction between dependent independent independent independent independent. What what we really mean is. They manage their own budget. Their own staffing, they're really sort of the school that we have this oversight every 5 years we renew the, renew the charter or not. We always renew the charter. But there's always been this sort of the separation between the 2. So I'm trying to work on how do we, how do we even come closer together? Because we know that Waldorf education is there's a lot of demand in our community for Waldorf education. And so to the to the extent that I think I believe the number is There they have. A little over

051half of the students that attend Live Oak live within Penal City School's attendance area. And, we look at their TK numbers as an example for next year, they are full, full, at maximum capacity and have a waiting list of about 41. 48, 48 students waiting to get into the program. And so again, attracting students coming from Santa Rosa, Nevada, Old Adobe, oh, with it even within just the Pelomic community. And so I think there's that has been the the prop 39 and I think at the same time and again so that's the prop. 39 aspect. They're really the, and I'm going to invite some friends up here in a minute just I would love to just kind of expand on what I'm saying. But that prop. 39 requests is just sort of opened up a

052lot of these conversations and. And frankly, just brought us closer together as part of having these discussions, ongoing discussions. And frankly, I learned a lot about our relationship between Live Oak and PMC schools historically what what it's been and what it could be. I also think that when I look at you know, our board goal or sorry, our districts, our second district goal that we want to. Ensure that students have lots of broad diverse opportunities and I look at the number of students who are flocking to trying to come in to a Waldorf education who are being told, sorry, we don't have enough space. And then looking at the facilities where Live Oak is located. They've been for years, over on the fair at the fairgrounds. And if you've been in to see the facilities,

053I would just say less than ideal when I compare it to our facilities. And so that's the prop. 39 side. So we have to, I think there are 2 very distinct issues, right? So that's Prop. 39 with LIBO and we've kind of come in at the last board meeting we talked a little bit about what the offer is because the district you know under prop 39 we have to make we are required to make a comparable offer Oh, little over half the students, the 10 live oak are within our attendance area. We have a responsibility as the LEA to provide space for our for those for those students. Students in our inside our tent area. We made a and and a good faith offer for I believe it was 4 classrooms at Valley Vista looking

054at our campuses right looking at our campuses and where we have potentially could have space. That we could free up 3 at Petaluma Junior just given the enrollment at those 2 schools. Live Oak is a k 8 school. We have. All of our campuses right now that are non-charter. We have K 6 and 7 8. So that was sort of that process. Parallel to that, we have been for the last about 10 years, we have seen, in there, they're connected now. That point. Valley Vista over the last approximately 10 years we've seen sort of a steady slow decline in enrollment. We were, you know, close to 400 students about 10 years ago. I think it's 375, 9 or 10 years ago. And we're now down to about 100 8,190 range. And so little over half.

055Of what we were 9 or 10 years ago. And during the course of those 9 or 10 years, Things have been tried such as the International Baccalaureate, right? We gave that a run for several years at Valley Vista, talked about becoming an international baccalaureate. It was actually an international baccalaureate candidate school. Several years ago, I think it was right when I 1st started the principal and staff came to me and at values and said this is just this is not what we want we want to search for something else and we talked about project base we I know a couple of board members I know Ellen maybe was just Ellen just on we went on field trip with the staff we I've been having meetings with staff. The new principal Bushman has been talking with

056staff about what is it that we're really searching for. Things such as we've been searching for and and some you know you could also say it's just a neighborhood we wanted to have a neighborhood school this is great for years and years it's run like that Great. But once you start getting to these lower numbers and you start to have one single classroom per grade level and then starting to look at possibility of combining class since we start saying, well, we need, we really need to figure out what's going on. There are some many, many reasons. And I would just just boast for a second. I really believe, you know, Valley Vista is a gem in our school district. When I look at that campus, I think my gosh, what a dream location and buildings

057and facilities. Rich diversity at that school, which is something I knows personally I highly cherish in in our schools and it's got it. A strong sense of community. One of the most beautiful gardens that you'll ever find in in Penn City schools, focus on deep learning across disciplines and the pure joy of what comes from being part of that neighborhood school. So anyway, we've been exploring all these things. We've looked at things like project-based learning, STEM, dual language immersion, would that be a place? Global school, expeditionary learning, we've had lots of ideas and none of them have taken hold yet at the school. So at the same time, this is why I'm bringing up as part of this Live Oak update. Started to think, well, we have a lot of demand here this this Waldorf

058could that be a fit for a Valley list? And so I and just wrote something to the Vale of us to community. About the growing demand for Waldorf and I I invited the Valley Visted Committee out and cabinet were planning to be there and we'll have some representatives from LYBOC as well. On May 9, th 5 o'clock at Valley Vista. To just have a conversation and approach the subject about who could this be a potential partnership. I see some, a lot of similarities. I mean, I think when when when we think from my conversations with the folks in Waldorf and I wish Jason speaks really eloquently about this he has personal experience but when I talk to the folks there some of the Waldorf principles centered on a commitment to developing the whole child. Head,

059heart, and hands with intentionality in every interaction. Some of the things that I saw a lot was there. Waldorf Education emphasizes outdoor learning, utilizing gardens and nature as educational tools. Low-tech hands-on experiences, learning maps similar to grade level units and frankly project-based learning and service learning. Many of the things that are already happening at Ballyavista. Are there differences? Absolutely. So part of that, the idea there is to let's share, let's talk about this as a community and see, is this something that many in the Valley B of community would would would want to do and partner with with this group. And so I've invited, Several of our partners from Live Oak here this evening just to sort of I love just share their anything that they want to share about the Prop. 39 request the

060prop 39 process but then also just kind of coming together and what that. Partnership could look like from their perspective. So love to have Jessica and whoever you want to bring up here, please. Good. Yeah. Hi everybody. You all know who I am and I don't think you've had a chance to meet our new director this year. Who has joined us as our, as our executive director and this. Fabulous and she comes to us. We're so lucky in this moment to have her with us because she comes to us with. Decades of experience with charter schools and doing charter school oversight for a large district in the East Bay. So she's well versed in All things charter schools from both the school side and the district side. So it's really fabulous to have her in

061these conversations. As Matthew said, we initiated a Prop. 39 request last fall as part of our decades long search to find facilities that were. Adequate, suitable, not falling down around our ears. We have met the fair grounds for 20 ish of our 23 years and in that time those buildings were old, we moved in and they've not gotten any younger or any better. So we have been engaged in a long deep process of looking for where could our home be. And we have a solution potentially figured out with the city at the fairgrounds. But it involves. Construction, which is expensive and chaotic. And, and it would be. It would not happen and come proficient until after we'd still have to be parked in these terrible buildings for another 5 or more years. So we decided

062to initiate the Prop. 39 process with the district because the district has responsibilities for its in district students even though they're at a charter school. And we thought it's it's really good for our relationship with the district to just get around the table and start having conversations to try to do some relationship repair, the less said about our historic relationship with the district the better probably. And also to try to find the solution for building some possibilities for what Livo could find for homes in the town. What we also went out of town in full honesty, we we have talked to other districts about having us and they've wanted us because we bring out of district students but we are really committed to being a pedalima public school and if at all possible that's what

063we want to we want to serve the students and families of Petaluma. So we're trying to find a way to make that happen here in town. That opened the door to getting around the table with Matthew and with Amanda and really talking honestly and openly about what is Live Oak Meads. What is Livo brings to the community and to the students here in town? And what does the district need? You also have needs that are not met you have a school that is under enrolled although that was not the starting point for the conversation at all. But you know in trying to be a good partner with the district we asked what do you what do you need? What are your opportunities and and how can we be good partners together? And you know amazing

064things happen once you get around to table when you start having positive conversations and being honest and transparent with each other and I think you all know Matthew at this point is a a guy with a vision and Amanda has run a lot of really fresh energy to the table and it's just been a really lovely experience. The opportunity to partner and collaborate with Valley. Feels hot off the presence. And, you know, we're in the early conversations, but excited to be talking with district about that. Do you want to say something? I'll second everything she said. Okay, please, this is, our other board member. Yes. No, vice chair. Yeah, just as a public. Waldorf school, we're incredibly committed to public education. That's why we all do what we do. That's why the teachers choose public

065school instead of a private school. The idea of being responsive to children in these times is something that really is it's just a fire burning inside of us and so we have long wanted to be a part of a more institutional, sustainable solution to public education and have often felt like Well, we could have an ecosystem of education here in Petaluma. And we're really hearing, oh, that's the vision that PCS has. So we feel really confident that, we'd be a huge asset. In achieving that vision. So anyway, our commitment to public education is deep. So I just wanna, wanna close by. Just kind of where we're at right now in the process. So the prop 39 request was made right for the 1st time ever for multiple reasons. And the our offer was 4 classrooms

066at Vallibus to 3 at pedal the junior. What that would mean is it would break up like you know live oak would have some classrooms probably at the Pyram. Some at Ballyavista Summit Pedalma Junior and I understand it's a very less less than ideal and we also have to work from our from our perspective we're maintaining our programming because we have schools there. When you have a side by side 2 schools in the same sites because very challenging. From the office staff to pick up and. I mean sharing the facilities all sorts of different things. And so the idea just sort of came up as far as what is the space look like and to be hyper clear, no decisions have been made. We're not, we haven't agreed to anything. The only what we've agreed

067to is let's go and meet out at with the Velivistic community. So that was literally I think was yesterday that I sent something out. And we wanna hear from, you know, Valley list to families. I know that there, I was talking with Jessica and they have some families from Valley Buster who are at Live Oak right now. And so the idea really is, is this something, is this an idea that we could sort of, you know, 2 communities that would, that could come together and could mesh together and create something really special on that campus. So that's that's where we're at right now that Thank you guys for being here. Questions? Yes. Sorry. Just to be thinking about it. Just hearing this. I did have had a conversation with a belly distant parent. So, and

068I really like this idea. I've been, I've thought about it for a long time, but I also really concerned about Valley Vista. And so I want to know whether you intend on it still to be a charter. Whether you'll keep the live oak name. Whether it's still gonna be a K through 8. And if you still have credentialed Waldorf teachers. All of those things, define you. And so moving in with Valley Vista, I really want to make sure that Valley Vista teachers and families who have built a community there and have stuck around. For a long time and feel very identified with that school. I want to make sure that they they're gonna be less, you know, and so I want to make sure that they're valued and that they're not kind of subsumed in

069the Waldorf. I mean, I, not Waldorf, but just. In your identity and I think it's going to be an interesting work ahead. I really want to see Valley Vista. They come, you know, your vision and our vision. But I just want to make sure that those things, because there could be some, certainly for me some. Those are all great questions, Maddie. And I think that, again, it's such early stages right now. Agree. I mean, value business is a special place and I want to see it. You know, thinking about over the last 10 years going from 400 down to 1 80 like it's some point we have to and I've been out to talk with the staff multiple times and so the staff We've had a lot of candid conversations about what this would look

070like and the transition and different things and there are I don't wanna speak for the staff because I know everyone has different opinions, but it was no one, I said no one stood up and threw their cell phone down and walked out of the room. Same thing at the staff there and I think everyone but maybe one or 2 had thumbs up like yeah we want to continue this conversation and see what this would look like. I think one of the challenges is when you start to, when you bring 2 communities like this together, there are certain things. And I said, let's talk about what are your non-negotials, what are non-negotiables, what could this look like? And I've. Talked with both staffs about that. One of the things you have to be mindful of when

071you're creating, you know, a school and a vision, you have to. If you're if it becomes too cloudy of what are we actually doing here? There's too many moving part if if we wanna really create a model, like a model, of our program, what does that, what would that look like? And as far as the credentialing, like, absolutely, we want, we would want to keep as many Valley vested teachers there as possible. So it's got to be, gotta be a positive for both communities. It's not just. It's it's gonna be a melding of 2 not one taking over what it's yeah So thank you. Sure. I think that we have. You know, this the pace of this has been like hot off the press is no exaggeration. And you know, equal to our commitment to.

072You know, the sustainability and thriving of our school is the Valley Vistic community. We're very relationship oriented school and you know I don't think we know exactly how we're gonna get there but we really value relationships. And being in conversation and I think when you when you deeply are listening to each other you can create something so we're kind of putting a lot of faith into the process of being in relationship with Valey Vista and are grateful for the May 9th board meeting and also we haven't been at the like this conversation of being a dependent charter or relocating. It hasn't even it wasn't even vocalized. Right. Until, I don't know, like 4 weeks ago. So, It's not like we've been at the table for very long at all. The Prop. 39 process did start

073November, but, you know, I think you said when we got into the room we were You know, we had our guard up. What was your word? Yeah, we were scared of each other. Let's just wait. So I just think that's important, right? This has been a long conversation and we've been at the table for a long time, but you know, we haven't really been at the table for that long. So there's a lot of room at the table. Yeah, I would say with our 1st meeting, I believe it was an introduction meeting. For Live Oak to meet me and for us to meet Linda and it came up and it was. Over our dead body was my 1st introduction. Yeah. Hmm. I think one thing that I always think about with charters, dependent, independent, anything,

074making sure that the neighborhood families are the top priority in terms of enrollment and I think I that's what I think we've. Managed to prioritize that at every other charter school so I don't foresee it being a problem. I just want to vocalize. That. Any other questions, comments? We definitely look forward to hearing back how that the upcoming visit. Goes. Keep us posted. Yeah. Thank you all. Okay. And now moving on to a parcel tax update. Okay, we received official notice from both Sonoma and Marin counties that measure E, our elementary parcel tax was 68.5%. We also received notice from both Marin and Sonoma counties that measure B, our high school parcel tax. Did not pass. We had an approval rate of 63.5%. Thank you. To the voters in 1,978 for setting up this wonderful

075process where democracy gets ruined. Thank you so much for that. But thank you seriously to all the voters in Petaluma and the surrounding area who voted for both. Okay. Became real close. Not quite close enough, but we will persevere and figure it out and Get excited to figure out how to implement Measure E while we get ideas on how to. Help our secondary schools out. Yes and I think the takeaway for me the positive takeaway is that the vast majority of pedal limits voted for these measures even in an election even in an election where There was very historic low turnout. And even 63 and a half percent. That's a majority in my in my world. So it's there's there's a positive feeling out there and frankly you know measure measure be part of the

076challenge right you have so many districts in town and You see, schools, maybe you're, you know, have elementary students and WAI or an older dog. And you were wondering, wait, why is this on my? Cause we're all secondary, we're all part of pedal and city schools. I think in light of some of the things that we've in the news of the week before spring break, one of the most challenging weeks in my career. Okay. You know, I think it's a real, it would have been a really huge win to see measure be passed because one of the things that we keep hearing over and over is we need more trusted adults on campus. We need more for, you know, thinking about student safety, thinking about those relationships. And so, I'm very grateful to all the

077owners who turned out and I and I hope that there's another opportunity for us to. To bring something like that to to the voters because I do think that our schools are amazing places for learning and when I go out to staff means and talk with staff. Some of the heartache that I feel is Matthew, we need more, we need some more adults on campus. And it's like, yeah, I, that's. What we were trying to, and you know, I think measure, elementaries are going to have, they're going to get a chance to see that. And I want our secondary schools to have that same, and I want our secondary schools to have that same, same opportunity. So more to come on that. Great. Any questions on? Moving on to academic support and enrichment programs, the

078RFP presentation on this. Alright, we will just pull up this presentation. Hmm. After this one, you do get a short break while Tony presents before I come back. Alright, as it was previously discussed, PCS has put out an RFP for academic support and enrichment program. So this is just a quick presentation of the process that we are following and the timeline of our goals. City Schools is requesting statement of qualifications and proposals from experienced and qualified organizations to serve as the before, after in summer school academic and enrichment program provider to operate. Operator to our elementary schools including during the school year non-school days inner session and summer session. PCS delivers a high quality, diverse, equitable, and inclusive education to all student scholars so they can creatively explore interests, collaboratively solve problems, and fully develop

079as resilient, caring, responsible members of our community. Our mission expands beyond the regular school day and includes before and after school times as well as non school days. PCS would like to contract with one organization to provide and operate before school after school non-school day intercession and summer programs in deep collaboration with the district. The program will be supported by and utilize multiple funding streams including but not limited to after school education and safety known as ASIS in accordance with Ed code sections A. 4, 8, 2 through 8, 4, 8, 4.6 5. Expanded learning opportunities program. Which we often call ELOP. And funds a portion to the district in accordance with Ed code section 4 6 1 2 0 childcare vouchers and family fees. The timeline is is on April the 17th we issued the

080RFP. We sent it out to our current providers and it is posted on the homepage of our district website. The deadline to submit questions is tomorrow, April, the 24.th The deadline for responses is Friday, May, the 3.rd We, will have interviews and presentations. With a committee. And then our goal is to bring to the May 14th board meeting a recommendation for board approval. We will be having a review committee, which is going to be made up of 11 members that includes a member from each of our 7 elementary schools. We will have 3 principals, so we will make sure to select one principal who currently has champions as a provider, one who has Y.M.C.A. and one who has Boys and Girls Club and then Mister Whoa, our assistant superintendent of Ed services will be our

081district administrator on the panel and I will act as the facilitator. So can I just, I just wanna add something real quick to this. So this process is many of you know, is that we had a process. We had a process. And we ended up stopping that process. Part of it was, and I think the reason that we ended up, so we need to restart this because it didn't feel. Super transparent to me and as as a parent in the district at 2 different schools and superintendent when I asked about the committee and said, oh, there's already committee. Go and said, wait, I think we need to do a better job of being really transparent about this, bringing it to a board meeting, making sure that we're really communicating to all the school sites about

082what's happening. No matter what decision we make, there's going to be, there's going to be some schools where they say, there's going to be. Push back and hurt there's we know that not everyone's gonna be happy about decision but we have but the idea here is using this new resource, these new resources of ELOP funding. For I think there are 2 really core things in my mind. The 1st one. Is, is an equity issue and what I mean by that is If you have, let's say you have a family, I'm going to use, I'm not picking on these schools. I'm just going to use them as a total example, hypotheticals. You have a family who goes to. Mcneer, they sign up. Mcneer. They say we love me. We can't wait to start here. And the

083family is all registered, excited, and then they find out that, is all registered excited. And then they, find out that, oh, but by the way, we need before school and after school care for 2 children. And then they tell them, great, sign up. Here you go. It's $1,400 a month for after school care. Again, hypothetical, right? But, and these are, you know, these things happen. And then a family might say, well, we, that's, no, we can't do that. Or maybe doesn't want to advocate and say, is there a reduced rate? If we go over to McDowell, it's free. Or if we go to this school, it's way reduced price. So there's, we've set up systems at different schools for whatever reason, like here we are, ACE funding at some schools and there's all sorts of

084different reasons why this is why it is why we're at right now but the fact that a family would say I can't go to this school that I really want to go to because the childcare costs are just outrageous the idea it from an equity perspective is how do we make sure that students who qualify for ELEP have free before and after school care at any PCS school that they go to. And number 2. If they're within a certain income bracket, we have sort of like tiered rates that we can set and say, doesn't matter what school you go to, this would be the same cost at as it would be at Terry Valley. So same cost at Pengrove as it is at McDowell. We for the family based on their income. That's That is

085the overall message that we're saying. We're done playing these different games and moving families from one school to another because they can't pay for before care and before before care and after school care that's that is creating inequities in our system and frankly it's creating in schools the demographics shifting demographics in our schools that is the opposite of what we're trying to do is create diverse places for learning. So that's the number one thing. In my mind about why we're doing this. Number 2 is quality of before and after school care. We now have a coordinator of ELP. And part of this, the idea here is we want to. I use it over standardized, but we want to set a set a high expectations for what we expect for our before school and our after-school

086providers. From everything from the nutrition that is pervaded to the academic academics to the the enrichment opportunities that are afforded to our students things like marimba, coding robotics, offering these things so that all students get to share in this wealth. Of things that happen in the after school program and I'm not talking about school funded or things that happen, after school enrichment things. I'm talking purely from our after school provider, whether it be champions, boys and girls club, Y.M.C.A, depending on who applies for us. I have no I don't really it doesn't matter to me which one we go with I want to go with the highest quality and the one that's going to provide quality a price for families so it doesn't matter which school they go to. That's the bottom line. For this

087process and kind of putting into perspective of the why. So, with that, if you guys have questions. Yeah. First, st thank you for. I that issue. I mean, I think we've over the years we've talked about these multiple providers at different sites and We had just went ahead and just put it together to ask ourselves these questions. So thank you for observing it and then acting on it. I wanted to ask a man on the RFP. I didn't notice anything on there about number of school sites number of families serve are we asking for something you know to give us a rate that we scale to what the need is or do they know how many sites that we're talking about? So in this in the statement it does say our 7 elementary school sites

088they're not listed out though and in the process through the conversations they are aware. Excuse me that we are looking for tiered rates. Both organized. Yeah. I have a question about the funding. I believe. Jj last year said it's 1.7 million per year but then is there an expiration on those funds. It's ongoing funding each year, annual. Yeah, it is ongoing. Though we did have quite a 2 years of carryover that we have been spending down so the expectation is that the amount per student will fluctuate. Each year. We won't know next year's rate until, the governor's budget is approved. But this is because I believe before they were talking about it as like a block grant, but this is not a brand or is it like one of those non competitive grants that you

089just get every year? So this is this piece of it so we have been lucky enough in California to receive ELOP and ELO. So yeah, the original it was ELOP when they came out with the new ELOP, they renamed it ELG. So the original was a 1-time block grant. This is ongoing funding, which is part of our principal apportionment each year. But if you do, you will, if you do not use it, and it's very restricted, you do have to return it. And the providers know that we're part of their part of the bid is tiered rates. Like I said, anyone who qualifies for ELP funding, so it will be free, then there's another rate and then there's sort of like the full boat fare, right, what it would cost. Okay, Kagogo programs the same

090federal government allocates various funds to qualifying schools and districts for programs and services with the primary focus of supporting academic achievement of students, especially students performing below grade level or are still learning English. Category program allowable expenses. Very. It's all dependent on need, but everything from staff to instructional materials to professional development. And all of it really to ensure that students are college and career in life ready. And they can be successful in that. And here's a list of state and federal programs that, yeah, it isn't, I don't think it's everything, but it's most things that we oversee, monitor, ensure that, it's the reporting is done and and all the plans are in place, so that it can be spent, according to how it was intended. I don't, I don't plan to talk about every

091single one of them, but I do want to focus on our title, our title funds. And I know that my next presentation is on the CSI update so I'll kind of segue into that. So our title programs, we receive titles 1, 2, 3, and 4 funds every year. And these are federal programs to support specific to students. The funds are restricted and they're distributed to us through the consolidated applications that we apply for every year and that the border crews usually around August, September. And the concept is just the vehicle to have that. Cde distributes the funds, but also helps monitor if, if we're using the funds as it's intended. Title one funds is the largest federally funded program. It is supplemental so it cannot supplant the already resources at the heights. Its eligibility is

092based on students who meet the poverty level and again it's intended to support student achievement by sharing that all students have a fair equal and significant opportunities that the schools that you see channel one friends. So these are the schools that are that receive Title One funds, McDowell, San Antonio High School, Carpet DM, Sonoma Mountain, Valley Vista, McKinley Elementary, Kenilworth, South County Consortium and Casa Grande next year will will be school wide, Title One, school. Title one schools, you know, are the, the funds have to be approved by their schools. So that the school state council's main responsibility is to develop their SIPSA and how those funds will be used through needs assessment. And then, and before it can actually be spent, it needs to be approved by the board. And every school that receives

093TIE one funds must also have a parent family engagement policy which is a way to help engage the community with the process of what the needs are and how this one should be spent. Oh, sorry, Tonight. I may just heard you. Did you say that this district is qualifying for Title One next. The Casa Grande High School, it will be a t 1 school white title one next year. We received out of 2 funds and that's funds that, typically go towards professional development, helping new teachers with their bits, and coaching for administrators or, opportunities to the Axa platform. Title 3 is funds that we receive mainly to help students become English proficient. As well as, help them meet academic, standards, and, level standards. Those things help fund things like newcomer materials, software, programs. Like Rosetta

094Stone or things that can help students learn, learn the language, reading intervention materials as well as also professional development. And title 4 is really around improving school conditions. Insuring students have a well-rounded education. Technology proficiency digital literacy for students. So this is our federal entitlement that we received for (222) 023-2024. We're since we're 2 districts we receive 2 separate funds which. Can be challenging when we have to do reporting, and things like that. So every, year we apply and based on, how they allocate the funds. So we receive funds for us to spend according to the restrictions that are applied to each. So with that, another Funds that receive that are understood federal is our comprehensive support and improvement. And these are, so as a requires every state, education agency to identify schools that are

095eligible for comprehensive support and improvement or CSI. In schools that are eligible for CSI receive funds to help address the challenges that they are facing. And there's various different criteria that we qualify them for CSI. Currently, San Antonio High School qualifies or remains under CSI eligibility for low graduation rates and that's 68% graduation rate or below over several years and they've been and Instead, for, a number of years. So even before I started here. And South County Consortium is eligible. This year. For low performing suspensions and that's based on the 2023 dashboard receiving all reds actually all reds in Well, performing in in English suspensions and I think they were orange and absenteeism. Which qualifies them for, for these ones. So both sides receive funds to help. Hopefully help them exit out of C science

096and and students become or start achieving at their at those those size graduation goes up and the performance goes up for the students. There's expected to receive about 164,000 to help develop root cause analysis and evidence-based strategies. At the sites and part of that is also requirements that the community come together in developing a plan and and going through that. That community process. So really, when the. Look at all of our categorical programs. They are highly audited and they are highly restricted. There's specific requirements, that continuously need to be monitored. Because if the funds aren't spent correctly, the students suffer. And if the spins aren't, the funds aren't spent. The students suffer and we end up having to give money back and it becomes another issue. So, you know, these are things that we really

097want to be careful with and things that we really want to make sure we're using appropriately and ensuring that they can benefit the students. Last year we were audited. for our secondary FPM came and and you may remember I spent most of the fall really working on with our team to. Truly address all of the issues that the FPM team came, and looked at. And it was a, you know, it's a district wide, the whole cabinet and district folks released, really helped. Address the FPM findings, but we cleared all those findings and we, and there was no nothing for us to, If anything was we celebrated in the fact that we. Didn't have any findings that carried over that would become an issue for us and we were able to clear up any concerns that

098they had. Next year we'll have another FPM, review for elementary. And so we're waiting to get more details about exactly what they will be looking for and we'll begin the whole process again. Putting a team together to go through the whole audit. Which is definitely you know, time consuming and it does take us away from our daily responsibilities, but at the same time it also helps educate us and ensuring that we are doing what we should be doing and and making sure that we are serving our students correctly. And using the funds appropriately. And being compliance with the law. So. Next steps, you know, in the coming, summer, I'll be bringing forward our, title programs for approval. To the board. Will be looking at. Developing root cause analysis, for the CSI schools. And we're hoping

099to, build support, with additional staffing to help oversee the implementation of our Kyra Global programs because they are, vast and they are required to require a lot of detail in monitoring. And, specifically, specifically around our title, our title programs and our CSI programs. So with that. Thank you and if there's any questions. I have a question. Oh my god, just the So many hoops to jump through to apply for grants and respond to grants and I I see you in the nonprofit world too like they're just creating you're see and admin. Jobs. And I mean, I get it. You can't just give people money and let them do whatever, but like at the same time, you just give us. Money and let us do whatever and hold us accountable but like all the reporting. So

100I saw that Title 4 really only ends up being about 36,000. How much do we end up paying and staff salary staff time if we're talking about adding. Staff. What percentage of these title monies are gonna end up just paying a district. Staff salary. I don't expect you to know that off the top of the head, but. Yeah, I would imagine it'd be multi-funded, probably multi-funded through multiple categorical funds, so that it's not concentrated in in one particular fund. It won't be one full time person just to look over the title ones. And well, it could be, but that person might be multifunded because they look over all of the categorical programs. Maybe significant part of it could be out of the supplemental. I know in the past we've had to give back, supplements. I

101know in the past we've had to give back, I know in the past we've had to give back supplemental dollars and there's been significant carry over as well because they're not being carried over and if there are over 15% it becomes an issue. So you know those kinds of things are can happen when there's not enough hands or eyes watching to make sure that these things are. You know being spent appropriately and I get and to criticize you know the worst thing that we can do is not spend the dollars because they're meant for the students and they're meant to benefit the students and of course spend it appropriately. If we're rushing to figure out how do we spend the dollars that we didn't spend, we make, you know. Sometimes bad decisions about where we

102spend those dollars. So I know those things are things that we definitely want to try to avoid. So, exactly. You know, how many people or what that looks like. You know, I think that's probably a conversation we'll have. But, but it's something that I feel based on all of the category problems we have and the reviews that we'll be facing next year. It just may be something that worked well to explore. Thank you. So I know previously we had CSI money for San Antonio. What came out of that root cause analysis that we can. Potentially apply. To now or may not do. Yeah. So San Antonio is graduation and I think, the biggest issue that I've seen is really the systems that are in place there. Kids are you know transfer there there isn't doesn't

103seem to be a clear process of how students are being transferred from back to San Antonio or if they travel back. To the comprehensive sites, exactly what those needs might be. Some students may be transferred with so low of credits that there's, even if they Please, San Antonio, they don't have enough time to actually complete all of their credits. So a lot of the, I guess, areas that we want to look at is also what do we need to do with the comprehensive sites to ensure that students are not falling too far behind that when they end up going to San Antonio that they are too far behind to even catch up there because it's a very San Antonio is can be very transient students that come and go depending on the credits and also.

104You know, that they have, other challenges that aren't being addressed as well. So, and their population changes depending on, you know, the semester. Or the quarter. I also think that they, they run off a different system. I think they run on a quarter system where they accelerate a little bit. But they also do, varying credits depending on grades and other factors. So I think that doesn't create a continuity between the comprehensive sites. So, so I think it's mainly a big systematic issue that needs to be addressed. Cause I was just looking at the dashboard and saw that the graduation rate is 51% of the year before that it was 60%. But then we're we just saw you know some students from all ed that were here from San Antonio one of them graduated. Last month

105she graduated early and a bunch of students. I forgot how many they said took. The Spanish credit by exam. Test at the junior college now they have college credits and high school credits. So has and I know it's come up before about making more of the classes more rigorous and A through G. Eligible. And so I'm just wondering if part of this is fostering like that college and career readiness that we know like helps. Retain students and help some graduate because it. I don't know. I'm just. How do you know what to say? Like, 51% of the kids and there's like 85 kids at the school. Yeah, I think since maybe 2019 or so it's been yeah under CSI so So like, we're getting money for the second getting money. It feels like if we're

106not seeing any movement. So I'm just hoping that we do not do the same things, whatever we did before with the CSI money we do not do again, cause that did not work. Or we can look at the root cause again, but let's make actual practical changes. And when we face resistance, just keep moving forward because we cannot continue to have 50% of kids at school if 85 kids not graduating. I'm just like really frustrated. Right, especially when it's our most Latino school and the kids from comprehensive gets sent there for. Reasons we don't always know. And we know that they can do, we've heard people say like they can't do, we know they can. This girl graduate, they're literally doing the accelerated stuff for credit recovery. Yeah. Yeah, well, said thank you. Okay, this

107has been super educational. Thank you. I've learned something. It's great. I wanted to ask a couple of questions. It's great. I wanted to ask a couple questions about these title phones. Particularly Title One, and you know, we're We've thought around that term so much and I know it's associated with SES, but what are the prescriptions of what we can spend that on? You know, can we go is it just curricular or can we go co-curricular and extracurricular or what? Yeah, so it's meant to go up. It's meant to be above and beyond what they will get all Austin supplemental. It's meant to be above and beyond what they will get lost doing, supplemental. And the, you know, things like. Food is not allowable you can't spend money on you know food but really it now

108if you have a parent meeting you could spend a little bit of title one dollars to provide refreshment. I think they're separate funds for that. Yeah. But whatever the whatever the, the, I guess expenses are for t 1. The the most important piece that it goes through a process and that process is they do a root cause analysis they determine the need and based on that need the school site council and the community gets together and say, well, what, what, how do we meet this need based on the dollars we have and then make sure that they're not supplanting that they go above me on so it could be everything from additional staff. It could be, you know. Computers, it could be, intervention programs, it could be tutoring, whatever there is above and beyond that

109they are providing all students. And if they're school-wide, it, it creates an opportunity to, to provide that services to all students, even if they're not technically qualified under Title One. But the majority of the school is they benefit from from those programs. As opposed to targeted where they have to then target specifically the students who qualify, which is very difficult to even identify sometimes. Right. Okay, you answered my other question. Because one in t 1 and 3, they follow counts of individuals. But what I'm hearing from you is if though if those benefits that are targeting that population have spill over. That's okay. Correct. So if schools have to, I think, need a threshold of about 35, 40%, students who qualify for, for them to. Be school wide if they choose to be they can

110still choose to be targeted. I'm sorry. It's that low. All the ones that are that I listed there meet the yeah We'll meet school wide. Yeah. And, I was I think over 46%, but they never were, t 1 schools, but this year they, will be working with their SIPS to put down as a school white so that they can receive. Title one dollars. It is Tony sharing. SUpimental curriculum, bilingual resource teachers, instructional assistance, bilingual instructional assistance. The PK program is a perfect example of ways, you know, how do you engage parents? How do you, really support the students who are who meet the criteria. There are many ways to do it, but. Those are just some examples of how some of our schools use their title one funds. Any last questions or comments on categorical

111programs including CSI? Alright, thank you. One more presentation, y'all, and then we'll do public comments and then we'll have another short break. Let's hear about the financial audit report. On measure E and C, the bonds. Alright, tonight, we bring forward to, for your viewing pleasure. Our audits that were submitted to the state on April 8th if you remember at our last board meeting our audit for firm requested an extension in order to submit those funds. So this is not for approval. They have been submitted to the state. We, have attached our year end. Audit and then our bond audit. One of the things I wanted to point out on the audit that these are our funds, all of our funds as a whole. So when you read our audit, it looks very different than what

112we present at budget and interims where we break it up by fund balance. Some of the highlights from the fiscal year, 23 year and audit were that the district's financial status increased overall as a result of last year's operations. Net position, a governmental activities increased by 15.2 million dollars. 68%. Our expenses were roughly 123 million dollars in our revenues were roughly 138 million dollars. We acquired over 11 million dollars in new capital assets. In last fiscal year, mostly due to our ongoing construction projects. Excuse me, reserves for general fund decreased by just under 1 million dollars. So we ended the year with 10.3% in unrestricted reserves. Nothing really to note on the bond audit. Other than you can see where we sold elementary bonds for 5 million dollars and secondary bonds for 25 million dollars

113which increased our overall balance of revenue in last fiscal year and gave us a healthy start for our projects in this year. At the end of the school year and audit you can see our findings I just wanted to highlight that we there was a finding in child nutrition. There were 6 months out of the 10 months that there was either over or under reporting which equal to a net of $137. The error was found out and corrected in June, but what happened was is there was a student that we had 50% of in a school that we provide food services to had 50% and there were a couple months where the same student was counted twice. But corrective actions were taken at the end of last fiscal year. Our second finding was in our

114attendance accounting that we now will be submitting. And adjustment to the state because we underreported our elementary district by $4,000 and our second dairy by almost $85,000. This was due to data entry errors as well as we did receive approval from the CDE on a material decrease for some of our days we J. 13 waver. One of the things we are doing to remedy this is we are continuing to remedy this is we are continuing to train to remedy this is we are continuing to train our site staff. We are continuing to train our site staff. We do have a new person in the attendance role at the district level auditing this year. We are just making sure that we are setting up guidelines and procedures and. Double checks and hopes that we don't see

115an error like this again. I'm sure and then so moving on to measure E and C are bonds. There were no findings for that. Okay. But, the audits are quite a bit quite lengthy if you haven't had an opportunity in the audience to look at the backup for our board meetings are audit was 97 pages and our bond audit was 20 pages. Are there any questions on the 97 pages? 19 or 19 page one. Okay. Are we ready for those? Oh, so I wanna, do you have an estimate on when we're gonna run out and when we need to yeah help us think and interpret this. Yes, yes. So, I'm pulling up to give you the exact numbers the bond update from. Last month. So we anticipate at the end of this fiscal year to

116have just under 4 million dollars in our elementary and 20 million dollars in our secondary and through the presentation and conversation last month, that will get us the goal is we have now have an idea. How we're going to spend those remaining dollars and we have started the process. That most of those funds will be encumbered in next fiscal year. But they they are all now accounted for so we will likely be depending on the length of the project. We will run out of funds. At the end of next fiscal year or halfway through the following if projects aren't done. So we are ending the near that we're We're there. Does that, you know, the 4 million at elementary 20 million is secondary that we are this encumbered for next year. Does that include? Possible,

117you know, but it is part of the incumbent, reserve for emergencies like flown gas lines or water lines like that thing? No. And one of the reasons why the end of last fiscal year, the balance was so high as we had the end of last fiscal year, the balance was so high as we had 2 major projects, the balance was so high as we had 2 major projects. Our Pengrove project, which was supposed to major projects, our Pengrove project, which was supposed to be done in last fiscal year and Unfortunately, will not be done in this fiscal year and our battery backup projects, which have now both of those have carried over, will carry over into a 3rd year. So that's 1 of the really hard issues when you are, though our regular funds, our

118general fund, our food service, our developer fees, those all follow the governmental accounting procedures of you, you encumber, you spend, you close out, the bond is really a project. But our systems don't account for that because that is not how, governmental funds are generally spent. So that's part of the reason why when you look at these reports, I mean, it looked like our bond was flushed with 72 million dollars. Yeah, so. Okay. Okay. What is it? Why is Pengrove taking so long? Sorry, I, it's my understanding that in the beginning going through DSA the prior the process there was a lot of back and forth between the district, the architectures, the DSA approval. There was some things that the, sorry, DSA is the division of the state architect. Most of our capital asset projects have

119to be approved by the state before we can move forward with those projects. The, there is an ADA path that the district was not in agreement. So there was a back and forth with that. And then there was a delay in starting the full project. It was scoped out originally as one project. We've now broken it up into 3 kind of chunks. Was one of the things and then the actual site work started so much later than anticipated that we have hit the horrible rainy season which has really is are the current delays for the project. Matt, you had a question? I did. So, This is kind of somewhat related to the contracts also, but I wanted to, I, so I looked over our last meeting because I couldn't remember what projects were in come

120or what we were about to do, what we finished and all of that. And so I kind of have that here and. So we. So we have secondary bond projects that equal that 20 million dollars. And part of that were was the 8 million dollars for the building wing at Casa Grande, which we all questioned at the last meeting. And then, and there were several other things that we weren't really quite sure about. And then there were the elementary bond, which also added up to the 3 million that we had left. So. And I don't think there were any questions about any of those. But so then, but then there was the current projects. So I'm just trying to figure out if there's really a lot of money and and I'm just trying to figure

121out if there's really a lot of money and I'm just trying to figure out if we do all of these, then we won't have any money for the current project. So one of the right or not well one of the things from the last board meeting what we determined and we are now moving forward with was that The goal of the board was to not move forward with the new building wings at CASA and instead move forward with the turf athletic field. Bleachers, all of that replacement. So that is one of the one of the changes that we have made. Sorry, historic. Okay, sorry. I'm trying to think this through. So one of the the struggles that we've had in this fiscal year is finding historical documentation from the implementation of the bond. What has

122been what projects have been bond, what have been capital, developer fees and things like that. So one of the things that my team is working on is it's called a bond allocation summary. I think I mentioned it last month. We used it in my previous district where it's broken out, not not by year, but by bond and by project in the anticipated costs. So what I did was, I took it all, we have all the feedback from the bond presentation and we are working on this updated spreadsheet. One of the hard pieces of this is that we are using some of these numbers that we are using are 4 and 5 years old and escalation and inflation have really changed the cost of projects. That now we're finding that, we're, re- Going out, our coordinator,

123our capital facilities project manager is working with some of our architecture firms on trying to update some costs so we have a better idea. But the the projects that were presented as the current those are moving forward we have contracts and stuff like that. And then the projects that we had on those lists with. Casa Grande being one of them. Those will take up the remain the remaining bond funds and actually they are a little higher than our current bond, knowing that we may have to make small cuts or we may use our developer fees but I think by creating this summary allocation and our goal is to work backwards. So really when we have these conversations about our facilities, about the costs, what our future needs are. We have a historical document. And really

124to the public to showing them, these are how we spent the bond funds. It kind of goes in line with what I think you were starting to talk about if you want me to touch on that or view you want me to wait okay I do know that we're bringing forward on our consent is a contract for DTA. It was my understanding after the presentation at the last meeting, in order to really consider going out if we are going to go out for a bond that decision needs to be made to by the board by July and in order for you to really make that decision. Is that you really need to have an understanding of where what we have, how it's going to be spent the cost and really what are the long-term needs

125of our districts. We have many aging facilities. We have sites that are at capacity now and in order to do that we really need a facilities master plan. It it's bigger than me and my team going out and making our best guests. So a facilities master plan. Takes months. There is community involvement. There are public hearings and meetings and the one thing that I heard loud and clear was that we we needed more information for July. So I reached out to a couple firms and so this what they were able to offer is a phased approach where we can do initial consultation on facilities, walks and really look at the needs at each end individual site and get kind of this is where we're going to be. This is the funds that this is what

126you need to maintain your sites by July. So I can present to you. Why if we did if the we decide as a cabinet and district administration that we really do need to consider a bond. This is the why and this is how we got there knowing that we then from July all the way to the November election actually through December because you don't need the facility the actual finished plan until you sell the bond and you start spending it but then really what does that look like so it's a really phased approach. Regardless of going out for another bond or not, a facilities master plan is. Extremely important for district to have, especially with the aging facilities. We also have 17 acres of land that comes up in conversations here and there and really

127what this does is gives us kind of a road map of where we need to spend our funds. And I think a lot of times we're often talking about bonds, especially right now we've been discussing all the voters and the measures, but our facilities include our bond funds, our developer fees, our deferred maintenance, our routine restricted maintenance and our general fund dollars. So it really is how we can best meet the needs. Our facility needs, through a thoughtful process, and really One of the things that is accounted for is historical trends in inflation and escalation on what future costs will be. So out of the master plan it may say I'm just making this up, but McKinley Elementary School will need a new MPR in 10 years from now. Today's cost is this. But this

128will be the cost of replacement. In 10 years from now. So even if we decide to not go out for a bond this November. We could look at this plan and say, okay, we can buy a couple more years maybe we go out at this year but it will also show us if you choose to not spend the money now. This is how much it will cost to fix this. In years out. So that's really I I do feel like we grouped the facilities. Master plan, we were talking quick. There was a lot going on, workforce housing, measures and all of these things that the master plan itself kind of got lost in the shuffle of the importance. Also with the state going with their the possibility of a state facilities bond on the ballot

129for matching funds. We also have to have a facilities master plan to be able to apply for these matching funds. We also have to have fun the matching piece of the funds but this is really in anticipation to set the district up for the best possible outcome, regardless of, or whatever decisions are made. Yeah, so. Thank you. You know, I, I really was, struggling. With the with that contract. For 2 reasons. And one was the fact that they specifically said in the contract that usually they they do this planning. With a facilities master plan and that they're going forward with that one. So, but if we look at this as the facilities master plan as as reframing this. I don't know whether you have to change the contract to do that, but, so that we're

130looking at it in that way because my other reservation is that because measure B did not pass. I want to have a discussion. About whether we put up a bond or whether we put the parcel tax back. And I mean for, for November. And you know, we can't have both. And so I guess I. I was going to ask for a postponement of the approval. Of the contract until we've had the discussion and then. Have the facilities master plan but No, I I don't think we need to do that, but does that make sense to you that I mean to this is just you know I I don't want this to become the preliminary for a bond that we may not put forward. To speak to the language in the contract, like I said, DTA

131is a very reputable firm that I've had the opportunity to work, previously and this is out of the norm. We when I I called the day after the board meeting and I said. Can I need a facilities master plan. Great when and I said July and he said, absolutely not. And I said, I need help. So this is really how to and this was really to show the scope of work and this was not 10 firms out of 20. Might have said okay and given us boilerplate. Pre done facilities master plan. So that's really where that language came from is I, I call I upset the Apple cart. Yes. And this was like this is this is not normal. It's it it it is not common for a school district to not have a current

132facilities master plan and by current I mean even 10 years old that is updated every few years. So we're really working for working backwards. On this planning piece, but I do understand how, after the conversation, the way it was written, but that was really in true like this is not this is not typical but they understood that the board is going to be making a very large, a huge decision, likely in June or July and this was really the way to give you as much information as possible. In a very short amount of time. I really appreciate that. I appreciate what you've done. And, the work that you've been put into this and you put my mind at easy. Thank you. Any other questions? About the audits. Alright. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you all. Now

133we're going to move on to comments from the public on non-agendized items as well as special recognitions, reports and presentations. I have 4 public comment cards if you'd like to make a comment about something not on the agenda, please run a card up to our wonderful Bree. And I'm going to quickly read as quickly as possible our really long statement. Under government code section 5 4 9 5 4 members will public have the right to address the governing board on any items of interest providing it relates to the subject matter jurisdiction of the school district. While government code allows speakers to criticize the district's policies, procedures, programs, services, and or employees, the district does have a policy specific to complaints against employees. Topic doesn't mean should comments from the public pertain to a specific district

134employee the board requests of the complaint 1st be submitted in writing to the employees immediate supervisor for investigation. If the comment is not something not on the agenda, it will be heard only during the public comment on non-agendized items period. That part is right now. Once that part of the meeting is over, comments will only be taken on agenda items during the discussion of those items. Use public comments and although we cannot take action or discuss items not on the agenda, we listen carefully and appreciate input from the public. Public comments are subject to a 3 min per person limit or a 20 min limit per subject matter. Commenters may not cede their time to others. And since I have 4 cards and they're all on different topics, everyone gets their full 3 min so Deb, you're up

135first.st Hello everyone. My name is Deb Fox. I'm with the cool Petaluma program, which is community based climate action program. I'm here to give you a preview of our upcoming transportation mode shift campaign, basically helping people get out of their cars and start trying biking, walking, and busing to their destinations. With 67% of Petaluma's activity based or direct emissions basically what you and I can actively take responsibility for doing in every decision every single day is how we choose to get around town. And so what we're doing is basically helping to raise awareness, promote behavior change, and build momentum towards a more sustainable and active transportation system in Petaluma. And all of this is aligned with the goals of our city's blueprint for carbon neutrality, specifically to the transportation and land use action plan. So

136we are working with the city and the safeguards to school task force that we have here in town, Sonoma County Bike Coalition, various bike advocacy groups and the city's transit department to coordinate active transportation again biking, walking, and then public transportation, which is buses. And basically creating a funnel of activities to build momentum with the 1st one being the most important one for you all is Wednesday, May, the 8th is bike to school day and we have currently there are 4 possibly up to 5 schools leading from Wikersham Park. On bike trains riding to school bike to work day as May 16.th We have a 1st Friday program happening all summer, Saturday rides teaching people to ride to errands, nature into breakfast. We have our own community resource fair where people we connect the community

137to resources on how to prepare for their emergencies, learn how to reduce their consumption, reduce energy and water conservation. And then we have city events like the summer, 4th of July, stars, stripes, dogs, and bikes on 4th of July and many other fun events that will be happening that again will also include busing. And this is where you all come in. I have been going around to all the boards and commissions around at the city to invite you all to come out and get on a bike with us. To support the schools, you become basically a bumper on a bike train. We have bike leaders and or engineers and cabooses and bumpers to get our kids like live oak like if I oak did a pie day bike ride across town they wrote all the

138way from. Mountain View and Webster and we stocked by City Hall and picked up Peggy the city manager and we had the mayor with us and we wrote across the D Street Bridge all the way to Live Oak and they got a homemade pie raffle. So that's the type of momentum that we're working on building. And the most important thing that we're here is the enthusiasm of the kids. They crave they want their parents to do it more. So we, you'll be getting an email sent to you to please join us and I'll have different routes available that you can choose. We mostly have a West Side at this point, schools participating. We, I don't actually have any bike trains that we know of. The Safe Roose to School Director does not know of any

139West, or East Side trains just yet, but that's why this is just the 1st of many. That we'll be doing over. Well, until 2030 until we can lower a carbon footprint. So anyways, thank you very much for the opportunity and, you'll be getting an email from me. Could you give us the time location? Just the logistics 1 1 1 more time. Yes, May, it's Wednesday, May 8th is walk and roll. The trains tend to leave Wickersham, 7 45. There'll be a rally at that one of the parents is coordinating with schools, trains going to Mcneer, Grant Live Oak, trying to get McKinley in there because we can split off and go to McKinley. And then there may be some pedal in Virginia high students participating as well, but the keep the piece in all of

140this is we need parents at least on these. Coordinated rides. So Valley Vista does not currently have a train, Petaluma junior high. They don't have an actual, we're helping coordinate the actual trains so that we're putting support so we have for live book we have a kindergartner every Thursday we've been riding with we support with block leaders to help make those bumpers. So it depends on the school. The school has to sign up. And so, and then you have to have a bike advocate, which the only way you create bike kids just to get people out on their bikes. So. Thank you. Alright, thank you very much and thank you. Next up we have Celia Mayo. Hi. I'm a little nervous. So I'm here to address Facilatron and the recent rate hikes for our after

141school enrichment programs. I'm currently teaching after school enrichment at McDonald. My rates have gone from under $100 to almost $600. To use classrooms. And our after-school program enrichment programs, our ASE programs, are extensions of the school day. And they're here for, we provide them for, our own Petaluma City School children, our own students. It keeps the students engaged and connected to our schools. And it is just, that it's during after school hours. It supports varied interests. Giving the children opportunities to explore the world outside of technology. Outside of the classroom and promoting whole child learning. Personally the cost as it stands now is prohibitive and we didn't know this was going to happen. We had no idea this is how it was going to be. So as it stands now for me, it's prohibited to

142continue after this time. My classes always have like almost always have waiting lists. So. I provide something to the children that they can't get in in a classroom anymore in these days, especially because of all the technology. Where I'm kind of down to earth. An example is. I teach, adventures in nature to TK and kindergarten kids. And we had last time there was an autistic child in my class. And his, he had a, he had a support person with him. But he was the quintessential Salamander finder. And he became the he became beloved through this program and made friends through this program that he would not have had in his classroom before that. Things like that happen in after-school enrichment programs. And because we're sponsored by the PTA. Where we want to look at how

143to readjust the rate the rate scales. We understand if it was an outside organization with outside community members that the fees could be, you know, would be different. But that's not the case with after school enrichment. It's through the schools PTAs. They set it up for the children to experience learning and intellectual development in ways that are not. Offered anymore in a classroom environment. Personally, my classes speak to a child's creative process, whether we're learning about evaporation, by painting with water from the tops of carrots and turnips. As well as tasting turnips. On the school board and because I believe that you would do what's right by our children and I hope that you've gleaned some understanding and insights to correct the situation as it is and that you will help to rectify it. I'm

144happy to be part of that process. And finally in closing. I'm curious, I'm curious about how much of our rate increases are actually going to Facilitron and not to our facilities. I would appreciate transparency in this regard. And I just want to say, let's open this up. Let's continue this conversation. Let this be the beginning of a conversation to fix this. And thank you all for listening. Thank you very much. Thank you. Am I allowed to leave now? No, next up we have Peter. Yeah. Good evening everybody. Peter Kansas, school trustee and I just You know, wanted to share a few things with you. One is, I love coming here. I mean the energy the energy at the beginning of board meetings with this room is always packed you honor your students but you also

145honor the students parents. I just think that's really heartwarming. And I just want to share a couple of things with you. I was very fortunate a couple weeks ago to go to the National School Boys Association Conference in New Orleans. And just some takeaways about that. One workshop I went to Toronto City Schools. They're part of it. They presented they had a big issue with hate crimes in their schools. So what their board did was they mandated in our high schools that black studies And, of course, in the Holocaust, be taught. So this started 5 years ago. So by instituting those mandated studies, they've dropped their hate crime rate from the high level to basically nothing anymore. It was just amazing just by through education. You know, doing that. Another wonderful thing that happened was

146one of the keynote speakers was Ruby Bridges. So amazing. She, she was, you know, 6 years old and she, you know, integrated at all white school in Mississippi and she put on the on the screen the the Norman Rockwell painting of her, you know, 6 year old girl being walked by 4 guys in suits and into the classroom. So she talked about that experience. But then she started talking about race and racial issues and, you know, coming the climate in the country. And she was riveted. You know, everybody was riveted listening to her and she said, you know, it's not about Black versus white, it's not about black versus brown. It's not about yellow versus, you know, white. It's about evil. And she says, it's about evil. And what evil does is evil wants to

147open the door a little bit. And even wants to implant these thoughts in your head and then people will go about doing evil's work. And she said, my son. Was shot by a black man. So it wasn't about black, black, white. It was about about evil. Just. Powerful speech. And then the next keynote speaker, the next day was Timothy Schriver, the son of a uniche driver and Sergeant Schriper, he's now the head of the the Special Olympics. And You know, the whole theme of this thing was, you know, diversity, equity, and inclusion. And he started talking about dignity and how we've lost dignity in this country and how we We have contempt and contempt is was striving the media and contempts was striving politicians. About and I'm done. Okay. Yeah. Anyway, so he came up

148with this dignity index and the bottom of digging. Anyway, so he came up with this dignity index. At the bottom of digging differences, they're not even humans. It's our moral duty to destroy them before they destroy us. And the top of the index is. Each one of us is born with inherent worth, so we treat everyone with dignity no matter what. So his whole thing is he goes to school districts, he goes around the country and he tries to talk to people about how they talk and to talk about dignity. Because when you have contempt, you're not going to listen to each other and you're not going to get anything done. And really quickly, tomorrow's go is honor honoring the classified employees in the county. So thank you all for your work. Awesome. Thank you,

149Peter. I love having Peter come visit us. And I wish I had gone, especially because I was in New Orleans. For the national school board. Next up we have Vicki Parks. Good evening, everyone. I'm Vicky Parks. I'm 1 of your elementary music teachers. And I had heard that the idea of dedicated performing arts portables was presented last time and I just wanted to come to encourage you to think about that and give you some reasons why. So the high school and elementary music programs in this district are at risk right now. During COVID, the elementary junior high and high school music programs were minimized. There was no elementary ban for 2 years. That means there were no band students feeding into the junior high or successively into the high school music programs. Especially banned. Students

150signing up for junior high and high school band are currently at a critical low. More than half of what they were before COVID following that we hired 3 new muse elementary music teachers. Only 2 of them stayed. No, actually only one of them stayed. This year we started with 2 more new teachers. And they are very hard to find. We basically hired Just about hired everyone that applied. I mean, yeah. And they were in internship programs and not getting credentialed, experienced music teachers in this district. One of those that we heard this year already is gone from the middle of the year and we just now hired a 4th team member. This kind of turnover is happening because of the difficult conditions in our district for elementary music. It's also happening in other places, but

151especially here. We have seen people that applied and gone elsewhere that had better conditions or people have left to go for better conditions. And there are very few, they're hard to find like all across the board with all kinds of teachers right now. So of course the ideal teaching situation would be a very large music classroom with cabinets and shells filled with instruments at the ready, plenty of space for students to do movement, folk dances, creative dance, music games. And the teachers know all the kids. Because that's 1 of their home schools where they teach all the grades from kindergarten through 6th grade. Instead, we grab instruments from a shared cabinet to roll around on a car. We sometimes have a space. We sometimes have a space where we can teach for the entire day,

152but often we have to change classrooms more than once a day or change schools. And our least favorite is when we have to teach in somebody's actual classroom. Where there's not enough space for active games and we have no autonomy. About 30 seconds Vicky. Oh really? Okay. So maybe I'll skip to the end and see what I have. Left time for. So these are conditions what make it make it difficult to attract and keep good music teachers in our district. And, having more spaces would be a huge improvement for that so that we would have a place to go. Thank you. Thank you very much. And next up we have Erin. Good evening everyone. I just want to let you all know the art show is next Wednesday, May 1, st 4 30 to 7

15330. I keep changing that. Thank you. I'll stay till 7 30. We'll be cleaning up. But I want to remind everybody that it's at Lakasi Center and they are under construction. So it's 1 night only. So if you want to see it, you'll need to come on that evening. We'll have the art show greatly reduced to smaller amount of art a digital show will still happen so you can review that on your own later and then we'll still have performances from the jazz bands and hopefully Legally Blonde is all set up to come out and do a little couple of numbers, right? And we've worked on also Casa Grande being there, again doing food, food trucks outside, similar what you've already seen, but redone because it's a 1-night only. So just wanna make sure you

154knew that if you wanted to go. Thanks. Thank you. And thank you, Erin, for all of your hard work on this. Thank you. All right, as promised, I'm going to adjourn us for a five-minute break. Being our meeting at 8 56. And the night is just getting started. Thanks for bearing with us. Let's see what is up next. Adoption and approval of the agenda. Do I hear a motion? I move to adopt and approve the agenda. I second. And any comments or questions? Just so we have. Inadvertently. 2 items are the same 1. 11.4 point 1. Approval of elementary school comprehensive school safety plans and then it's also an action item. Under Okay, can someone move to amend to either take it off? I can see that agenda. 11.4 point 1. Approval of elementary schools

155comprehensive safety plans from the consent agenda. Alright, can I have a new motion to approve as amended? I move to approve the agenda as amended. All in favor of approving the agenda. A amended agenda. Any opposed? Any extension? Hearing none, the amended agenda. Carries. So now I will report on activities and correspondence of school board members. Please bear with us because it has been a month since we met and We don't really have a spring break. Board trustees attended the astronomy club at Petaluma High. Tours of the building trades facility, the blue zones kickoff, PEF scholarship awards, the safe routes to schools task force, the professional development committee, the equity committee, the Earth Day student panel hosted by PCS Climate Action Committee and CAP, the continuous improvement committee, costs as American government class, a Petaluma

156River Park stakeholder meeting, the Casa musical legally blonde, the Kasa e sports state playoffs, a meeting with global glimpse about student travel opportunities, a cost of track meat, the Lucian youth perspective event, Kenilworth junior high site visit the LCAP meeting and arts committee meeting a student board member handbook discussion and the butter and egg days parade. And that's just what the adults did. Student board members attended the low CN youth perspective panel and that student board member was on the panel, which was awesome. The Buipock Club, PEF Scholarship Night, Press Democrats celebrate Community Youth Service Awards night and various baseball games. You can guess which one went to the baseball games, except now he's not here, but he was in, he was in his uniform. Does anyone have anything they wanna add or share about

157there? Activities in the past month. Go ahead. It's a bummer, Jayden left. I just wanted to second what you said about him on the LOCN you perspective. He just showed a lot of courage and added a lot to the conversation. Yeah, and there were 5 student panelists and 3 of them were actually PCS students, which was really great to see. Cool. Yeah, I want to highlight that. Kasa Grande's e sports team in the 1st statewide playoff tournament out of a hundred 80 teams in the state of California. Costa Rica, the finished number 16 in the state, are in the top 16 I should say they made it through to the 3rd round of the playoffs before getting knocked out by some other school. Team and in Pablo and a good team as well this year.

158Alright, moving on to comments from the public on consent items. If you have a comment on anything on number 11, please run that up to Bree, but seen no one jostling the stage. I'm going to move on to approval of the consent agenda by consolidated motion. Do I have? A motion to approve the consent agenda as amended. I move to approve the consent agenda as amended. All in favor please say aye. Hi. Any pose? Any abstentions? All right, hearing none, comments from the public on action items. Same thing. If you wanted to speak on an action item, please come bring us a Public comment card. I see no cards, no frantic public So, we'll move on to action items. And the 1st action item is under admin and human resources, approval of resolution 2324 dash

15937 honoring the contributions of teachers to quality education and declaring the week of May 6th through 10th as week of the teacher. Who, Maddie, can you read that one into the record? Here. Yes, there are many resolutions this time. That's cool. I didn't do the teacher. Okay. Alright, resolution of the Board of Education of Petaluma City Elementary and P the the joint union. School districts honoring the contribution of teachers to quality education and declaring the week of May 6th through 12,024 as the week of the teacher. Whereas California at code section 3 7 2 2 2 sets aside the second Wednesday in May is the day of the teacher and encourages suitable commemorates the day of the teacher and encourages suitable commemorative exercises directing suitable commemorative exercises directing attention to suitable commemorative exercises directing attention

160to teachers and the teaching profession to teachers and the teaching profession. And whereas the Board of Education, directing attention to teachers and the teaching profession. And whereas the Board of Education of the Pablo City Elementary and Joint Union High School Districts has the utmost respect and admiration for Petallim as professional teachers. Who have dedicated their lives and their talents to the education of our students who are truly our most precious and important resource. And whereas the Board of Education Recognizes the vital, truly vital role of teachers in realizing the vision of the California State Board of Education for California Public Education. All California students of the 21st century will attain the highest levels of academic knowledge, applied learning, and performance skills to ensure fulfilling personal lives and careers and contribute to civic and economic progress.

161In our diverse and changing democratic society. Now, therefore, be it resolved. That the Board of Education of the Petaluma City Elementary School District and the pedal and the joint union high school districts. Here for hereby proclaims the week of May 6th through 12,024 the week of the teacher extending its sincere appreciation to the teachers in the districts who make our public schools successful. Yeah. Did we I would just say add that we have we truly do have So the best and brightest teachers are really we love our teachers and appreciate everything that they do here for our students and for our community. Do I hear a motion? No, go ahead. I don't have it before me. I move to approve resolution. 2324 dash 37. I second. Any other comments or questions? Oh, week isn't enough,

162but we can start there and I think I mean this covers this covers teachers our counselors our school counselors are you know school nurses, all our certificate. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? And any abstentions? All right. The motion carries. The resolution passes unanimously. Next up, resolution, 2324, 38, honoring the contributions of classified school employees to quality education and declaring the week of May, the 19th through 25.th 2024 as classified school employees week. Does anyone want to read this one into the record? Joanna, could you read this one? Okay. Whereas classified school employees, is this sorry one? There's so many guys provide valuable services to the schools and students of the Petaluma school districts provide valuable services to the schools and students of the Petaluma school districts and whereas classified school employees contribute to the

163establishment and promotion of a positive instructional environment, and whereas classified school employees employed by the Pedal Miss School District stripe for excellence in all areas relative to the educational community. Now therefore be it resolved that the Panama school districts hereby recognize and wish to honor the contribution of the classified school employees to quality education in the state of California and in the Petaluma school districts and declare the week of May, 19th through 25.th 2024 as classified school employees week in the pedal in the school districts. Okay. I would just add in a similar way. We love our classified staff. We have some of the best and brightest classified staff as a former principal and now the superintendent. Our district, our school sites in our district does not run without the backbone of our district or

164our classified staff. Yep, absolutely. And again, a week isn't enough, but we'll start there. Do I hear a motion? I move to approve resolution 2 3 2 4 dash 3 8 Second, all in paper. Hearing none, the resolution passes unanimously. Moving on to the tentative agreement and public disclosure between Palmicity schools and CSCA, Pelima chapter 212. Tonight we bring forward the tentative agreement in AB. 100 public disclosure for your review and approval. We met and negotiated with CSEA and settled on a 10% salary increase retroactive to back to July. I would like to note that 9.5% was included in the second interim budget. So you will see the difference of the point. Half of a percentage in the AV, 1,200. Any questions? I'm moved to approve the tentative agreement. A second. All in favor? Hi.

165Any of those? Any? Hearing none, we have approved the tentative agreement in public disclosure. Alright. Now moving on to resolution 2324 dash 33 declaring the month of April as Arab American heritage month I can read this one. If I can open it, then I will. Whereas April is Arab American Heritage Month established by the United States Congress to recognize more than 3.5 million Arab Americans across the United States who have helped move our nation forward, embodying the truth that diversity has been and will always be our country's greatest strength. And whereas people with Arab heritage were among the many immigrants who came to our country shores with a range of cultures, customs, backgrounds, and beliefs and have contributed significantly in the United States history through their contributions in sciences, arts, government and commerce. And whereas

166Arab Americans have contributed to every aspect of American society and are recognized for achievements in education, social services, public safety, health, business, fine arts, entertainment, science, politics, law, engineering, technology, and more. And whereas Arab Americans continue to be the victims of bias and discrimination, including harassment, hate crimes, racist rhetoric, and violent attacks. And whereas core values and the governance of publicity schools include the beliefs that all students reach high levels of achievement through rigorous and culturally relevant curriculum and diversity is an asset that strengthens and enriches our learning community. And whereas the Petalom City Schools Board of Education recognizes that each student needs opportunity to understand the common humanity underlying all people to develop pride in their own identity and heritage and to understand respect and accept the identity and heritage of others. Now therefore

167be it resolved that the Petaluma City Elementary and Pelima Joint Union High School District's Board of Education does hereby recognize April as Arab American Heritage Month. Do I hear a motion? I move it to approve. Resolution 2 3 2 4, dash 3 3. I second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Any abstentions? Hearing none the resolution. Passes unanimously and moving on to May we have 2 heritage months. So starting with approval of resolution, 2324, dash 34, declaring the month of May as Jewish American Heritage Month and ask Trustee Webster to read this one into the record. Whereas, whereas between 1995 and 2,006, Presidents. Whereas between 1,995 and 2,006, Presidents Clinton and Bush made proclamations that May would include Jewish American heritage weeks and on April, the 22,006, President George Bush W. Bush issued the 1st

168presidential proclamation which designated May, 2,006 as Jewish American Heritage Month. And whereas May is Jewish American Heritage Month established by the United States Congress to recognize centuries of Jewish to American culture and whereas Jewish Americans in the face of unspeakable discrimination and adversity have fought tirelessly to realize the promise of the nation's freedom and continue to teach us empathy and compassion. And whereas Jewish Americans have helped bring about enduring progress in every aspect of society, shaping our country's character and emboding the values we hold dear while continuing to confront hostility and bigotry and whereas Jewish Americans have contributed to every aspect of American society and are recognized for achievements in education, social services, public safety, health, business, fine arts, entertainment, science, politics, law, engineering, technology and more and whereas the Petaluma City Schools Board of

169Education recognizes that each student needs an opportunity to understand the common humanity underlying all people. To develop pride in their own identity and heritage and to understand, respect and accept the identity and heritage of others. Now therefore be it resolved that Petaluma City Elementary and Petalima Joint Union High School District's Board of Education does hereby recognize the month of May as Jewish American Heritage Month and encourage all Petalima families, students, and staff to investigate and celebrate the contributions of Jewish people to the community of Petaluma, the state of California. And the United States. Move to approve the resolution. No, just for the note taking. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Any extension? Hearing none resolution. 2324 dash 34 passes unanimously. And we'll move on to approval of Resolution, 2324, 35, declaring the month of May

170as Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and I'll ask Trustee Jen. And States designates May as Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, a time to celebrate the contributions and generations of the API people in this country's history, society and culture. And whereas the month of May was selected for API Heritage M because the 1st Japanese immigrants arrived in the United States in May of 1843 and the 1st transcontinental railroad was completed in May of 1,869 with substantial contributions from Chinese immigrants. And whereas the Asian-american and Pacific Islander community is an inherently diverse population, composed of more than 45 distinct ethnicities. And more than a hundred language dialects and whereas despite hardships and barriers the people of Asia and Pacific Islands who have come to this country and their descendants have made substantial contributions

171to California's development in every way. And whereas according to the California Department of Education data, at least 3.3% of students in Petaluma City schools. 1.6% of its classified staff and 2.4% of its certified. I think it's certificated staff identified as AAPI. And they contribute to the cultural music that is the strength of the school. And whereas core values in the governance of Petaluma City schools include the beliefs that all students reach high levels of achievement through rigorous and cultural relevant curriculum and diversity is an asset that strengthens and enriches our learning community. And whereas the pedal in the city schools Board of Education recognizes that each student needs the opportunity to understand the common humanity underlying all people. To develop pride in their own identity and heritage and to understand respect and accept the identity

172and heritage of others. Now therefore be it resolved that the Luma City Elementary and Petaluma Joint Union High School District Sport of Education. Does hereby recognize May as Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and encourage all Luma families, students and staff to investigate and celebrate the contributions of API people to the community of Paluma, the state of California in the United States. Okay. Do I hear a motion? I move to approve resolution 2 3 2 4 dash 3 5 i second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Any questions? Hearing none, approval of resolution, 2324, 35 passes unanimously. Thank you all for everybody who worked on all of the Heritage Month ones and the district weak honoring ones. I can't think of a better way to say that. And especially thank you to Bri Weaver,

173our amazing administrative genius who made it all possible. Now we'll move on to approval of the declaration of need for fully qualified educators in the elementary school district for 2,425. I move to approve the declaration of need for fully qualified educators in the Petaluma Union. This is the elementary. Oh, elementary. Do I have a second? This one. Okay. This is an annual item that is approved by the board and sent to the board and sent to the commission on teacher credentialing by the board and sent to the commission on teacher credentialing for us to employ people outside of. Okay, any other questions or comments? All in favor? Any opposed? Any extensions? Alright. That one that declaration of need is approved for the elementary school district moving on to approval of declaration of need. For the

174high school district. Can I hear a motion? I so move. To approve the declaration of need for fully, qualified educators and pedal limit joint union high school district. Second. All right, same thing. Yes, and I should say not fully credentialed, not outside of subject matter. I apologize. It's been a long, long time. Yeah. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, we approved that declaration of need. So now we'll move on to approval of resolution, 2324, dash 39 on final action on resolution and decision not to reemploy certificated employees for the 2425 school year. Can I hear a motion first? st I'm going to approve, 2324 desk 3 9. Still need a second. Alright, now we can talk about it. I know Jason's not here, so Matthew or Amanda who's talking. Okay. Tonight we bring

175forward resolution, 2324, 39 on the final action on the resolution and decision to not reemploy certificated employees for the 2425 school years. These are the 3. Manageated positions that were part of the initial layoff process. Any comments or questions? All in favor of approving the resolution. Hi. Any opposed? Any abstain? The resolution passes unanimously. Moving on to approval of the variable term waver request for a dual immersion language teacher, employment of Arai Tihada, Mendeville to teach Spanish at McDowell Elementary based on the issuance of the variable term labor. I can I get a motion? Okay. What do we need to know that's not a, these are the next 2 items are our visiting teacher program from Spain or 2 teachers who are visiting teacher program from Spain, our 2 teachers who are visiting us from

176Spain and they are visiting teacher program from Spain, our 2 teachers who are visiting us from Spain and there is just requiring, our 2 teachers who are visiting us from Spain, our 2 teachers who are visiting us from Spain and there is just requiring additional time to complete all of the CBS, see tell all the exams and required to teach in California. They are both. Wonderful. And teachers were very, fortunate to have them here. And so this is essentially, a variable term waiver to allow them to continue teaching in the DLA program for The next, the next 2 items are the same for 2 different people and they need to be action items for the. For the for these to least to go through the So how do we have to do this every year

177for them? Okay. In California. They have their credential in Spain, but yeah. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Any abstentions? That approval passes unanimously. Move on to the same approval for Maria. Yolanda, E. Do I hear a motion? I move to approve. Any questions or comments? All right, all in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Any abstentions? Hearing none, that approval also passes unanimously. And now moving on to business services, approval of the 2,023, 2,024 classified salary schedules. Can I hear a motion? . To approve A second. Alright, so this is making that tentative agreement happen. Retro active to July one. Perfect. Does anyone have any questions? Yeah, we gotta get it over the finish line now. Yeah, no, I wasn't talking to you. I was like, we got it. We gotta do this. Otherwise, it's just

178ratifying the contract. All in favor. Aye. Any opposed? Any extensions? All right, the salary schedule is approved. Okay. Okay. Awesome. And that was all of our action items. So now comments from the public. No, it's not. Oh student, never mind. Yeah, I thought that we had. Yep. I just don't want Asmo that to talk. I thought so that's the thing. No, yes, we do. So can someone move to approve the elementary school conference of school safety plans. I move to approve the elementary schools comprehensive safe school safety plans. All right, as Milda can you tell us about the school safety plans? Yes, so and this this is us bringing the safety plans. Yes, so and this this is us bringing the safety plans. Yes, so and this is us bringing the safety plans on an

179annual basis. So, and this is us bringing the safety plans on an annual basis. So this addresses all of the relevant and disaster plans as well as an additional climate and culture plan. And so we have our elementary principles actually on Zoom. So if there are any questions related to a specific sites safety plan, that would be the time to pose a question. But we are. Proud of the safety plans in that we've done a lot of work with North Bay security consultants and working with training our staff at each school site in our school leaders have done a tremendous job. Working those plans and practicing all of those different scenarios on their campuses and and adding that additional climate and culture piece that you see. We also know that there are, these are redacted

180plans. There are specific very site specific measures that we're putting in place that have very personal identifiable information that we don't want public facing, but I have the copies of all the comprehensive plans without the reductions in my office if you ever want to see those specific parts. Yeah, I think we had that question in the past because if we're telling people how we're going to react to a school shooting or a bomb threat, that's not always the best. We don't need to help him. Does anyone have any questions? I just I mean, you just mentioned it. I just really appreciate it you adding that or everyone who's watching adding the culture and climate goals. That was really cool to see. Yeah. To think beyond like physical, what think about psychological safety as well. So.

181Related but not on these safety plans as well, when should we expect these for the secondaries? The secondary plans will come on May 14.th Any other questions or comments? Thank you principals for staying until 9 0 nobody might have a question for you I might have a really quick question that just occurred to me thinking about some of the things that have been happening on the secondary sites. I know that I was at Casa when they were doing a practice and it was all everybody to the foot to the field. And I was just wondering if at some point we get, you know, an analysis if they're doing a drill and how it kind of feeds into their safety plans. Does that make sense? So sort of like, the, the result of those drill. Yeah,

182yeah. And then how, you know, cause they were gonna have like a big meeting the next day and go over what happened and and I was just wondering if that ever comes to us or has some relationship to those safety plans because you put in a safety plan and it doesn't happen but. Do we know that then how is that used? I guess how is the safety plan used and how does it get changed over time. That's a great question. And that's part of the after drill review that Bill is doing with the sites and actually finding them with notes so when they do their big disaster drills they are doing, he's doing a review and kind of looking at how it was enacted providing feedback to the site administrators and that goes into how

183they then. Alter some of those plans and then into the training for the following year. So there's definitely that. That feedback loop that the bill is helping us with as well. As well as best practice, I think when you mention, you know, where should, where should a site like Costa Grinde evacuate too? Is it multiple size? Is it one site? This is why we've contracted with North Bay Security. To have an expert with us there literally while we're doing the drills to give that feedback and say no no this is what you should do in this situation and practice multiple different kinds of drills. I think that we've really, we've really ramped up what how we practice these drills because we know that the more we practice them it becomes second nature as opposed to

184when you're in when you're faced with that emergency that crisis situation, you fall back on your training and that's so that's. I think that's been an important part of what we've been really working on strengthening this. This year. Any other questions? If not, I'll call a vote on approval of the safety plans all in favor. Aye. Any opposed? Any abstentions? Hearing none, the school safety plans passed unanimously. And now we can move on to comments from the public on discussion or information items. I don't see any cards. I don't see anyone rushing the stage. So we will move on to those discussion items starting with 15.1 point 1 our friend the Williams settlement quarterly uniform complaint report. Yeah, nothing to report for the for those 2 items. We love to hear it. Great. And then.

185An update on mental health supports. So I think this is this is a tricky one because I think in, when we look at the budget advisory committee, I don't wanna discount what was, you know, done with that budget advisory committee and also We the week, as I said before, the week before spring break was a very challenging week for many, many of us. And to think about our LMFT is the reduction with our LMFTs. Is very It's a very difficult thing to be thinking about. So we've heard loud and clear from a lot of. Teachers staff community members and I also think that something that has changed between those times as we've we've gone out for a for 2 very large grants. One for Casa Grande, one for Penelope High School in particular. And we're

186pretty, we are, Very, we are hopeful. And pretty optimistic that we're going to receive the grants. And as part of that grant would be for some. The pathway support for mental health and things and so part of what was written into the grant is to to preserve the LMFT that that position mental health position. And so with that as a sort of a backdrop and a change, a shift from where we're at, I have a, I, I think I was a written here, given the unprecedented mental health crisis facing our schools, our students can cannot afford to lose the support right now. And so I'm just bringing this up as a discussion to let everyone know that's where we're at. Is anyone want to add? I mean, I think we know that the mental health

187supports are paramount and our mental health team is, you know, they are responding in the moment to every dynamic situation that's faced at the sites. And so I think we know that this is this is a high priority and so we want to maintain what we have for as long as we can. When do we hear back from the? Okay. And this is the state government. I forget who's given his managing the grant. Tony, do you want to talk about that? It's a CT. Stronger. Yes, it's it's part of the strong work force. Cool. Strong workforce needs healthy minds. These are 1.5 million dollar grants each for each school. So. Well, we will. We will see. We know that when we know we have to make cuts and this is why I. Hesitate to you

188and bring this up and I don't want to discount the budget advisory committee, but I also think that We are pretty, we are optimistic that we're going to receive some of this money and. And I wanna, we want to, we know that we have amazing people in place. And so before we, we wanna continue to, we wanna continue to keep them. Our students need them. Our staff needs them. So, absolutely. Thank you for that update. Look forward to hearing that. Moving on, sorry, does anyone else have any questions? Moving on to business services. The facility naming policy. Amanda, tell us a little bit about. What's the attachment? All right, after the conversation at the last board meeting it felt like our current board policy did does not add aquately reference the goal of the board

189in the district. So I. Did a little research because we do currently have CSBa's recommended policy and just looked at what other districts had. Had an opportunity to talk to board members. About what these plans could look like. So this is the plan in draft form that I came up with. Hopefully everybody had a moment to read it, but if, Dave, you could. Can I, yeah, perfect. Up a little bit more, or down a little. So the or so, one of the things is, there is an or in this that, for on the, when naming a facility or portions of a facility, the following criteria should be considered. One, the proposed name should be appropriate. To the name should stand the test of time, 3 in naming sites or facilities, special consideration may be given

190to those names that will have some special meaning to the students in Petaluma community. And then we have options for A and 4 B. So for A reads in general, buildings will not be named after persons. Still, if the name involves a person, there should be evidence of distinguished service, special school contributions for school or service or other honors earned that reflect well upon the education received in the school district or b 4 b. Only under rare and extraordinary circumstances should facility property academic or athletic programs be named for an individual or entity without private. Sorry. Support for honorary and or service-based recognition and a recognition of an individual who has served in a PCS academic or administrative capacity shall not be made. Shall not be made until the individual has been retired or deceased

191at least 2 years, the recognition of an individual service to the campus should honor a person who has achieved unique distinction and education or others significant areas of public service or who has served the campus in an academic capacity and has earned a national or international reputation as a scholar or who has made extraordinary contributions to a campus or PCS which warrants special recognition. And then 5 is portions of school facilities such as libraries, gymnasiums, and athletic fields shall be named according to their educational purpose. However, if another name is used, it has no implied permanence and may later be removed by the board. The other piece that we discussed and considered is maybe having an exhibit. That would outline donations and stuff like that. If that is the option, the way that the board

192would like to go. Thoughts. Yeah. I like, option for be better. I think it captures some of what is stated one. I want to make it more broader comment that I did some investigation of my own as well in the CSU and the policies that. You know, if you go to a CSU campus, there are buildings named after people. Some not all. I talked with our advancement people who pointed me to. Cal State Northridge is kind of has the model policy and it's very detailed and it's generally Okay. The gist of it is Naming of buildings in particular spaces is a filmthropic. Resource. And, actually, I think that reflects what I was trying to express. Last time that honestly naming buildings after people I don't find it particularly honorific but it does attract philanthropic. Activity

193which is why you know at universities we use that. And there is this detail schedule and it will and it says, you know, 25 million will get you this. 10 million will get you that. No, I'm, I'm not joking. Yeah. We've got the, center. We have the, you know, coffee center, whatever it is. But that does actually, and, and I think as a school district. We probably do want to leave that door open, particularly for facilities in the future that are harder to fund with strictly public monies, you know, like a performing arts center or maybe a swim center or some athletic field, those kinds of things. That's why I wanna leave that door open for philanthropic contributions and as long and we still get final according in the CSU policies, you know, the the

194site and the board still gets final say because we don't want a name that doesn't reflect the values of the thing. But my point, all this is it's used as a philanthropic. Tool honoring people for doing jobs ahead of, you know, what they're expected to do. Go in other areas. You know, programs and, and type of things. It's not really. Things in in places. So I like V for that reason. Eliminate the possibility that we could that we name it after person but it does say it's rare and it's I like the two-year limit because what that is is an operationalization of the earlier of Fourier says the test of time. If someone has retired or has died and 2 years later, we're still talking about that person, they probably have made an impact that

195is worthy of that. So. You were talking about buildings. What about rooms or? Same idea. Space, okay. In the in the CSU policy of things that don't require that kind of approval or filmthropic is a gift like, oh, a community winner gives an art piece to the through the institution to display as they please. Well, it's just a gift and they can call that gift or a bench by the park or you know those kinds of things. Those don't typically require any kind of our approval. And it's not a facility, you know, per se. Yeah, I like be better. As well. Yeah, and I think 2 years is fair and it's not that long. It's not like a decade. So, and the second part of the policy sets guidelines for naming or renaming a building

196or renaming a building. Sets guidelines for naming or renaming a building. I don't know if you had a chance to go for naming or renaming a building. I don't know if you had a chance to go over that or if there were any questions, but it in the policy it sets the committee, which is the superintendent and Designee will forward, talks about the board report, it will the committee will consist of 2 members of the Board of Trustees the superintendent or designee, one school administrator, 2 certificated staff members, one classified staff member, one school council member, 2 student representatives and 2 community. Representatives. Yeah, I thought that all. Sounded really good. I think the criteria all seemed. Good. Yeah. I would encourage us to develop, that appendix and, and put some price on it. Yeah,

197particularly if, if we see that in our future for development. Alright, so we will bring this back next month. With option 4 B and then work on an exhibit attached with, pricing. I will do some research on there. We might not be able to get the going rate that the C used. We can try. Right. And they and they come with very clear guidelines like you're giving this gift, but you don't have control over it. It's a gift. Awesome, thank you. Moving on to Ed services. We got an AR and then a bunch of new course proposals. So yeah, new administrative regulations, second reading for placement and mathematics courses. So we talked about this last time, but Tony, do you want to refresh us because it's been a month? Yeah, this just to support the

198bugboard policy that was under consent. To give specifics about the placement policies and ensure that there's no criteria that that students have, opportunities to take, high level. Accelerated math without, prerequisites or any other conditions. Great. Any questions or comments? Alright, moving on to the 1st reading of do the new course proposal for introduction to creative writing. Yes, so the creative writing in the film series are actually complementary courses. Really designed to go deep in analysis and storytelling and and conventions and constructions of writing to help hopefully inspire kids to not only develop deeper literacy and and and love for storytelling but providing a elective around around the language arts and support that and hope it's developed that love for learning through the language arts as opposed to maybe some other elective options for them. And

199their semester courses that, which complement each other. Awesome. Anyone have questions about creative writing or film studies? And one's going to hate me. No. So I have reservations. I mean, of course they're wonderful. They're both electives. They're not CTE. They're both semester long, so it assumes that students are going to take both. If a student doesn't take both, they're stuck. There's not a lot of other semester classes. I mean they sound wonderful. I love teaching creative writing. The kids love doing it. But for me, I feel like we're trying to build our CTE program. We're, and we're adding unrelated electives. That would dilute that effort. This is. Just me looking at it. With declining enrollment, we need to build some exciting electives. That are part of CTE pathways to energize and inspire our students interests.

200And you know, you can build creative writing into your regular curriculum. You can build film studies into your regular curriculum. So I, I wouldn't, I wouldn't probably mind it. As standalone classes. Except for are we going to really do this CTE pathway and really go all in because there's not enough. Students for electives. I would argue that it can be career, it's technical. Part of the visual and performance. The production is. The production is this is this is just elective G electives. You know, GEE, yeah, we could go back and ask them to explore to see if it could be an intro to. Art, to explore to see if it could be an intro to, art, media arts if it's talking about film and exploration of storytelling it could potentially, maybe align to one of

201the CT definitely. That could be a recommendation. Before the second reading or moving it forward because that's what you would like us to explore. Yeah, I'd like it. I mean, that if that's possible. I mean, do, do you feel that we have enough student interest to be able to create that kind of pathway. And I think that's the conversation I can have with them to probe a little deeper. This was submitted in a little later, so I think it was part of the course request. So they may have students already signed up. But I can check to see. Where are they currently at and see if we can make any kind of modifications? Thank you. Yeah, I would. Sorry, go ahead, Sheila. Want to understand the premise of Maddie because I don't recall. I mean,

202I understand we're building CT pathways. But I don't recall that. Every course that we propose has to be on a pathway. I do recall the opposite, every CTE course has to be A through G. But this isn't that. I think I think what I'm I guess what I'm concerned about is that we have a lot of electives already that are kind of unrelated. And so I'm trying to get my, you know, we have we have, drafting. We have, there's, there's, They're in a pathway, let's say, but they're not in a CTE pathway. There's no capstone. There's no intro class. And so. I don't know that there's enough students to go around. To. Well, there's going to be a change in Bell schedule. It was just my initial reaction to it was just How are we

203gonna get? Both electives that are. You know, just kind of not attached to anything. And also. CTE electives. And get enough kids for all of them. With declining enrollment. Hmm, my issue is that I think I don't think teachers are coming up with new courses. If there hasn't been a demand for them. It takes a lot of energy and effort. To develop a course. To submit it to the UCs to get an A through G approved. And I, so my sense has been for all of these is that. There's a need or there's a want and so these teachers have develop these courses. You know, wanna investigate that further because I would wanna know if it was on the course request and what the demand was. Because this year we are seeing, especially, I mean,

204hoping next year kids will be in full scheduled and then maybe that will help since we'll have all these electives. But lot of why the fell schedule, part of the reason why we were told we couldn't move forward the bell schedule is because impact the master schedule, but then if we're going to add this other class, will that also impact the master schedule? And then, yeah, we don't even know if we're gonna have like 32 kids for each section and the fall and the spring. I mean, I'm not opposed to the class itself, Yes, I just do wanna make sure that there is the demand, that we are gonna be able to fill it. I agree. I fully agree. Yeah, I would definitely be interested in making it part of a CT pathway, even if

205not officially like this next year in the following year. I mean, as someone whose stepkid is going to art quest, like I think there is a demand and I think we probably are losing students to the Marine. School of the Arts and Art Quest in Santa Rosa. So I think they're probably is demand I would be interested to see. What it is, but I mean, one of my best friends at Berkeley went to art quest and did film studies at Berkeley and now is a writer for one of the Star Trek TV shows. So like there are careers in creative writing and film studies for sure. Okay. Well, I found it very exciting that the production class is part of a vapa, CTE. Yay! Yeah, that's a good transition because none of these are action

206items. So I think getting our feedback. Visual, and it really helps, I think, the, you know, understanding theater and stage production and all that kind of back end, stuff with theater. So I think. It's very exciting. Yeah. Yeah, that looks great. Any other questions or comments on production? Hearing none, we'll go on to the 1st reading for a resolution about the bell schedule. I really appreciate that there's a deadline written into that. Yeah. Seconded and 3rd and probably 4th and 5, th but I don't wanna speak for it. Any other questions or comments? So we'll see that one probably the next the main meeting. Okay. Perfect. Okay. Alright. Nothing under student services, so moving on to future business. Okay. I thought that we were gonna have an ethnic studies update. I mean, we did have

207a lot on the agenda. We would have been here till 1030. So I understand, but I'm hoping that we'll get the update at the next meeting, especially because you know next next school year, but like a year from now we're gonna basically have to have it all in place because the 2526 clear and so it'd be nice to at least have like Table to pilot it for a semester or 2 ahead of like it being fully required for students. So I understand if we can't pilot for the fall, but at least for the spring. Because we've been talking about this for like, we've been talking about it since we got on the board. Yeah, and then we had someone from SCO, he's not there anymore, but he came like 3 years ago to talk about

208it. And so I'm just wondering what is going on. Are we ready? Are we ready? To semester. Hmm. That's great. Perfect. There you go, Sassy. Yeah, yeah. So definitely an ethnic studies update for future business sooner rather than later, please. And then any other future business requests. Options and light of the. Master planning schedule. I think what I heard from Amanda in the early discussion is if we were to go out for a bond in November, it would be based upon kind of this 1st phase of a master plan in July that wouldn't have the detail of identified projects kind of more kind of categorical versus what I'm not even sure what the other option would be would be I guess waiting until March with a very detailed list, I guess would be. The option,

209right? And then it's too late to get in a valid, but yeah, for November. But yeah, We have funds for next year that are encumbered and it's very tight. But I'm just thinking about what the options are because it sounds like what we're saying is if we go out in November, we have to convince the community to trust us. That with a kind of a categorical menu of things, which I'm, comfortable with. How much of an argument we'd have to do that. Or we can take a big risk, wait till March of next year with detailed outline. But then run the risk of running out of bond money next year. The That it's kind of more the bare bones by July. So the board can make the decision. In order to go, but the the

210plan itself will be the meetings will happen and the plan it save itself by election time will will be able to put it into the. Okay, then. I misunderstood. Thanks. But the projects will be named by November. Yes, and by and large. And we'll need a dollar amount by the time we put it on the ballot, I would imagine. Yes, so that will help us because we do have the bonding capacity. So what it will do, what a facilities master plan also does is it, it prioritizes projects by site to make sure that there is like equal representation too. So there when you create a facilities master plan it potentially could be 300 million dollars worth of projects knowing say we can only go out for 200. All 300 million projects are there in priority

211order by site. And also allowing for flexibility, but it really gives the the clear information of chances are we can't go for out for how much we actually need but helps to prioritize. This is so one of the features once you have a facilities. Live on your website for public. Inspection at all times. And we need like, so we did 2 parcel taxes, one for high. When we do bonds, do we do Dubond to bond things as well? Yes, we'll do 2 bonds and the facilities plans will. It'll be separated, but still one. Together but they will be broken out by each bonding capacity. So one for elementary one for high. And just on the November election, one of the big pushes for November is the state facilities bond will be on the ballot and

212anytime a local bond facilities bond is on the ballot, at the same time, it has a much higher approval pass rate. Okay. It's local money. Yeah. Any other future business? Okay. I went to a fabulous, student panel yesterday for the climate action. And caps. The path the climate action pathways for schools and it was with the interns from that program. And they were fabulous. They're from Petalumahi and Casa and they were talking about climate action. They're doing an audit for, you know, our electrical use and waste. I mean, it was really well done. And so So I was. Talking to Dan afterwards. And we were we were talking about updating the climate action resolution. And he said that there was a, AB, 2 85 was passed last October and it now requires our science curriculum

213in grades one through 12. To include an emphasis in the causes and effects of climate change. So it's now a state mandated local program that's of course not paid for, but it is there. So I thought that we could get a committee together to just update the, the resolution. And so I wanted to put that out as future distance. So we wanted. So that's and anybody else that wants to write climate committee. Is the climate action resolution that we wrote a couple of years ago? Yeah, okay. And just updated. There's a couple of things, other things we could put in there. I wanted to bring it back to San Antonio. So, you know, we're gonna be in CSI. I'm asking for regular updates. Like buy monthly. Is that every other month? Like update. Good word,

214baby. No one knows what to do with us. Right. I mean, I would like an update every other month on the progress on what they're finding with the root cause analysis. I just want like real time data and information to make sure that we're actually moving the needle. On the school site. We just cannot allow the school to continue. With these outcomes. So the asking for starting and I guess August or September. And then also. The student of the month, I mean, they have seen in the semester. Order? Why can't we do that? It's like they have the quarter system. Yeah, why can't we do that? It's like, family gets to come twice a year. That's only one student. Yeah. So I would like for us to change the format on that. Yeah, that's Amy.

215More students. Yeah. We could also break down and look at, you know, population in size. So if you think about school at Casa Grande with say 1,800 1,800 students. What percentage of the students are we bringing over the course of the year? And then the students like San Antonio where you have a school of. 85 students say. How many in we bring what percentage the students are bringing a school Like, packs, cherry rallies, 7 8 as a while. We do students in the semester and so we can look at kind of give you guys a breakdown of what is the percentage or do you just wanna move forward and That's perfect. We can't over celebrate these kids at San Antonio. Like it's such a Different situation like so you wanna do a quarterly? I mean,

216but I would along those lines, I mean, in terms of ratios, I would be up and for having more than more at the comprehensive high schools. Right. What do you mean? Yeah, yeah, something. Yeah. And just to, I mean, to take a look at the ratios to see what is reasonable. Okay. Their presentations are usually pretty short. They're student of the month, at least the high school. Antonio gives a school report just once a semester, right? Yeah, maybe they could do reports quarterly as well. Instead of semesterly. So let me, bring back the ratios and can we take a look at it next time and under discussion and give direction. Okay. Cool. Any last future business ideas? If not, I am going to adjourn the meeting at 10 0 1 p. M.