PCS Board of Education Meeting: May 24, 2022

001so we're gonna get it yeah um may 24th pendleton city schools board meeting to order at 4 32. we're going to acknowledge av 361. we're currently in a hybrid meeting situation which we're still in the midst of a pandemic are there any comments from the public on the closed session items for items all right so we're going to adjourn reporting in congress the next item is public hearing contract reopeners with um that you jason yeah do you want to um what's that do you want to just introduce item what does explain what this is yeah this so this is um we just uh received our sunshine letter and shared ours with the federer federal federation of teachers for adult educators so we're starting that the first the first step in the disclosure process and we're

002starting negotiations we're going to be hopefully we'll have a fairly speedy process through and um yeah but this is and that's for 21 22 right for this year for this current year um open the chat if anyone in the audience has a comment about this item about this item only the public hearing for the contract reopeners please put your first and last name in the chat and to be clear this is for adult education for pendleman federal federation of teacher adult end while we're waiting with the chat open does anyone here have a comment about this questions or not no okay i don't either um i'll leave it open for just a little bit all right let's go ahead and close the chat all right thank you okay moving on to uh special recognitions reports

003always do that okay it's option and approval of the agenda i move to adopt and approve the agenda a second all in favor aye aye all right now special recognitions reports and presentations we'll start with the announcement of the new principal of petaluma junior high school all right so we want to uh invite aaron and day and our family up to the french so we are pleased to announce the assignment of aaron day as the new principal of petaluma junior high school erin will assume her duties on july 1st 2022 aaron began working as at as a pcs administrator at petaluma high school in july of 2019 during her time at pcs she found it necessary to shift redirect and review her approach to supporting students and staff in response to the effects of the

004covid pandemic she's proud of the work that she and our colleagues have done over these last three years to help phs and their students move forward in light of so much change and so many unknowns aaron joined petaluma city schools after spending two years as a vice principal of martinez junior high school aaron leans on her nine years of secondary teaching experience two of those years as an instructional coach with a focus on educational technology and project-based learning when determining how to affect change as an educational leader aaron taught at both the junior high and high school levels and has a keen interest in the transition between eighth and ninth grade aaron will pull from her experience working with the students and communities at phs to support her students at petaluma junior high school as

005they prepare themselves for high school aaron enters the role of principal at petaluma junior high school with a passion for fostering opportunities for students to grow into their best selves she is excited to partner with pjhs colleagues because she recognizes that a focus on building relationships employing one's strengths and fostering empathy is the foundation of a successful school aaron believes that everyone has a role to play in moving the school forward she is dedicated to building students self-efficacy as well as their intrinsic motivation to learn and to be good people erin was awarded her bachelor's of arts degree in literature from the university of california san diego and a masters of arts degree in publishing from napier university in edinburgh scotland erin has two young children and lives with her family in san rafael and

006her free time she enjoys reading to her daughter and listening to her son tell her how to do everything please join us in congratulating erin on her new leadership role congratulations yeah thank you and i look forward to continuing my work with the board i've loved my time at petaluma high and i really look forward to joining the petaluma junior high school staff so thank you all i appreciate it announcement of new assistant principal at kennel world's junior high school so now we'd like to welcome up jessica dennan we are excited to announce jessica dennin as the new assistant principal of kenilworth junior high school jessica will assume her duties on july 1st 2022. jessica began her teaching career in 2003 as a science and math teacher at petaluma high school she worked at petaluma

007high and served as the director of student activities for many years and then transferred to casa grande high school in 2009 to teach science for three years in 2012 jessica moved to carpe diem and sonoma mountain where she continues to teach science art and ingenuity jessica was born and raised in oakdale california she attended university of california santa cruz to pursue her bachelor's degree in biology jessica then attended sonoma state university to see receive her teaching credentials in life science and chemistry jessica earned her preliminary administrative services credential in the north coast school of education jessica first came to sonoma county to earn her teaching credential and she never left she now lives in the town of sonoma with her two children she loves nature music and running jessica serves as the board president of

008the woodland star educational foundation in sonoma valley professional she professionally she's passionate about mindfulness and restorative justice in all things jessica values a growth mindset and brings that perspective to her work and personal life jessica looks forward to joining the team at kenworth and working with the fabulous staff there that is committed to their students she is excited to work with junior high students and jessica strives to courageously lead by example with gratitude integrity empathy and straightforward communication jessica dennen has made a huge impact on the students over the years she has been nominated for the sonoma county teacher of the year involved her students in service learning projects that won them a trip to ecuador and orchestrated students caring for and transforming the petaluma river habitats we are excited to see the impacts you

009will make at kenneworth in the upcoming years please join us in congratulating jessica on her new position as assistant principal at kenilworth elementary thank you so much i just want to say that i'm honored and super um inspired to be joining the outstanding leadership team here in paluma city schools and that i'm super excited to be joining the kennel worth cares community thank you for the opportunity welcome welcome i'm already wearing those colors all right uh next up students of the month for kendall words petaluma junior casa grande and hillary do we have either of the encounter word students here they must be online yeah okay cool progress okay good evening this is will earlinghouse the assistant principal at kenworth right now and with me we've got samantha and ashley and they're going to present

010our students of the month kennel work junior high school is proud to introduce our may student of the month gustavo benfield gustavo has been chosen as student of the month by his team of teachers because of his wonderfully positive attitude and strong work ethic gustavo's teachers had great compliments to share about this excellent young man miss voldemort gustavo's english teacher said gustavo brings a great presence to a classroom he completes his work with care and thought and also brings a nice sense of humor in he is the kind of person who brings the people around him closer together and makes the whole class more cohesive mr raya from history says gustavo is highly intelligent and loves being in class school is where he belongs and he is thriving here at kennel worth mr clement from

011bands says gustavo is one of my fav one of my best players he's a first chair trumpet player in concert band first trumpet in the jazz band and just an excellent student to have in class he always has playing assignments turned in on time greets me with a smile and is ready to go i have no doubt he will go far with whatever it is he wishes to pursue miss rutter from gustavo's mask shared gustavo is always on task ready to help his team members and others in class ready to answer questions motivated incredibly kind and respectful ms martin from pe said gustavo is a great student in person he is very kind and helpful towards his peers and teachers he has a positive energy that extends to those around him gustavo works hard at

012everything in class and puts his complete focus into every task gustavo is an exemplary academic student demonstrated by his 4.0 gpa when asked which personal achievements gustavo was proud of he enthusiastically stated i'm proud of my grades and where i'm at in my life i'm achieving my goals outside of school gustavo plays first base and outfield for the paloma valley baseball league gustav is also a black belt in taekwondo which he practices two to three times per week for fun gustavo enjoys building with legos where he lets his ingenuity and creativity flow freely gustavo is looking forward to starting at casa grande high school in the fall where he hopes to play football and baseball after graduating gustavo's goal is to attend yale university and study architecture gustavo you are already on a path to

013reach all of your dreams kennelworth knows you'll go far congratulations gustavo for your accomplishment kenoworth junior high school is proud to introduce our may student of the month chantal arango amador chantal has been chosen as student of the month because she is a truly caring and kind person who makes kennel worth a better place chantal's teachers were enthusiastic in their praise of her mr radke chantal's science teacher says chantal is a wonderful person and student she is never less than polite friendly and attentive in class she does well in individual and group work always ready with an answer always on top of class and never hesitates to ask questions when she needs it which isn't too often she's a student that makes me look forward to class she's in ms chavez chantal's english teacher agreed

014saying chantal does her best work and she's a student who's polite and kind too based on the topic she's chosen to write about this year it's clear she's someone who really cares about others and the world chantal is a pleasure to have in my class ms bradley chantal's elective teacher states in design lab sean paul has tackled stop-motion animation with two different programs producing short videos that demonstrate her artistic and digital skills she can be counted on to focus on her work throughout the class period following directions and going above and beyond what is asked chantal's gpa of 4.0 shows how all of her hard work and dedication have paid off over the past two years chantal shared that she uses different student strategies to stay on top of her work including setting goals and

015giving herself rewards once she accomplishes all of her tasks chantal enjoys watching movies with her family and baking pies cakes and cookies with her sister on her own time chantal enjoys to draw specifically profiles and anime characters when asked what her favorite class was chantal says she enjoys her design lab elective as she has the opportunity to select her own projects to focus on including digital art and drawing different characters chantal is looking forward to attending casa grande high school next year and hopes to get involved with the campus community and join some clubs after graduating chantal plans to attend college and possibly pursue a career in the digital art field although she is keeping her options open at this time in her life chantal is a wonderful and kind person with enormous potential counterworth

016is proud of you chantal congratulations chantal for your accomplishments congratulations chantal and gustavo thank you congratulations both of you we will see you soon at graduation all right next up chad a little bit of junior high school any of them in attendance online [Music] oh hi uh petaluma junior is i'm proud to present our students of the month and our presenter conor bosco we are honored to present franco scomoff as one of our may 2022 students of the month he's an all-around excellent student athlete who always puts forth his best effort frankie looks forward to a successful high school experience in being part of the national honor society he is particularly interested in math and would like to eventually attend a university where he can study accounting and finance academically frankie enjoys school works hard

017and earns good grades he is a straight a student enrolled in challenging classes frankie impressed with his dedication to his work his spanish teacher comments it's a glass he's always on task paying attention and giving all his work his best effort he's a great role model frank is extremely respect polite as well as an athlete frankie is strong dedicated and focused he enjoys participating in team sports including playing football for the pendleton panthers he was a valued member of the pghs boys basketball team and is now on the track team in addition frankie is a volunteer buddy with the north bay miracle league where he can share his love for baseball with a child who lives with disabilities he also enjoys riding bicycles with his brother and hiking with his family in magica bay his

018p.e teacher and track coach comments frankie's respectful and hardworking student who performs well and is willing to help he is also a member of our school track and field team and is one of our strongest 400 meter runners frankie likes to be involved in a variety of activities as a student at liberty school he participated in the science fair and volunteered for mother and son event and ribbon week he received the president's award in sixth grade graduation his parents are very proud of this and have to add frankie works hard at everything he does he's a great kid he takes pride in his work school sports being a good friend and brother he always strives to do his best and set an example for those around him we're frankie selmoff too he's one of those

019students who is always ready to lend a hand and be the best he can be we are pleased to have frankie represent paluma junior high school as student of the month we are proud to present alexa birmingham is one of the final students of the month for this school year aloe vera is a highly capable student athlete and musician she looks forward to continuing her sports event wars and advancing her academics through high school and beyond academically ella fair is an excellent student so far she has earned straight a's in junior high school while attending rigorous classes her spanish teacher shares that she finds alifara to be a role model student while her band teacher adds ella fair is a fantastic student and a talented musician she always has a positive attitude works hard places

020the best of her ability and is a pleasure to have as a student in the band ella first commitment to music goes beyond playing in the band she is also the treasurer of the band and choir club at pjhs in addition to academics in musical and vendors if al affair is very involved with athletics she was a valued member of the girls sorry bjhs girls basketball team with her coach commenting that she was one of the top performers this year she helped lead the team to third place in the district league additionally alexa plays soccer for the north coast alafaire's leadership skills are evident in both her commitment to sports teams and though her previous activity on student council where she was a regular speaker on the morning announcements and during friday afternoon assemblies how

021the first parents are very proud and supportive they have this dad alifare has never been one to sit down and watch life go by she began walking and months and running just a few days later even when she she would call out i'm okay in mid-fall from a very young age alifare was academically motivated since she was born in september her birth birth date barely qualified her for kindergarten enrollment before the age of five she quickly became here's helper and later her class is student council representative every year for fourth fifth and sixth grades she began playing soccer at the age of two she keeps excellent balance maintains three days in school and is leading her soccer team as the goalkeeper we are excited that she is being recognized for being the very cool young

022woman she is we are both pleased and honored to have aliphara birningham represent by luma junior high school the student of the month for may 2022 thank you congratulations we'll see you guys in a few weeks as well yeah thanks to our readers as well okay uh casa grande do we have any of those students they i think they're all one well yes okay um emily rosales is in this meeting um she was voted to be next year's asd president so as part of her training we were hoping to have her read today's student of the months if that's okay that was a great idea thank you that's great not finding stephen garcia okay so the first student of the month is jordan jordan is a hard-working senior at casa grande as part of the

023casa girls soccer program for four years and north coast football club at petaluma jordan has learned to juggle a demanding school schedule full of rigorous ap courses with soccer practices and games five to seven days a week after high school jordan plans to attend san diego state university to major in environmental science with a passion for wildlife and the environment jordan hopes to become an environmental scientist and earn a master's degree in environmental science in her free time jordan loves coaching players from the petaluma youth soccer league and north coast fc mainly working and volunteering during the summer and the fall seasons jordan also enjoys hiking making dutch bro runs with her friends and walking her corgi bert family is a large part of jordan's life and she truly appreciates the support and love her

024parents and her little sister have given her they have helped all make all of her achievements possible and the second student of the month is stephen the second scene of the month is stephen garcia steven is a well-rounded individual who is currently enrolled at casa grande he plans to attend san diego state university as a business major steven is a first-generation college-bound student who has focused heavily on his academics throughout high school to achieve his goals and make his family proud he has made this possible by enrolling as a part-time student at the santa rosa junior college and taking advanced placement courses outside of school steven enjoys the sport of bodybuilding which has led him to develop an ambitious mindset towards reaching his milestones physically and mentally other than bodybuilding stephen spends his weekends volunteering

025at the redwood empire food bank where he helps with the distribution of food to low-income families being bilingual stephen has been able to make the process easier for the latino community at the food bank for the past two years he has also been a calculus tutor for a couple students at casa grande stephen plans to continue to help his community and make his family proud thank you congratulations to you both next step we have petaluma high school it's our reader here as well or they don't mind the readers online okay so cole what's up first hi i'm ben and i'll be presenting petaluma high school students of the month hi ben do you mind doing cole first we have him up here of course thank right you ahead okay our student of the month uh

026for may is cole manning cole is a talented young individual with the bright future and impressive skill set cole continuously gets impressive grades every semester and works very hard in and out of the classroom cole plays trombone for the varsity jazz band at petaluma high and has been in the marching band all four years cole also plays on the varsity golf team and helped his team win league and take home the vval pennant cole's favorite memories from his senior year are the band trip to new orleans the gq talent show and winning the vval golf tournament as for the next few weeks cole is most excited for prom so he can show off his nice outfit and hang out with his buddies in the city cole is a member of the financial gains club as

027well as the jazz combo group this fall cole will be attending cal poly san luis obispo and majoring in economics he is looking forward to joining clubs continuing his higher education and playing for the club golf team at cal poly i personally can attest he does go very low on the golf course congratulations i feel honored and i'd like to thank all you guys thank you over here is your family here family and friends all right congratulations to you guys as well all right all right um so we whenever you're ready okay our next student of the month is also for the month of may zoe haynes zoe is a senior at petaluma high school where she has been involved in the petaluma wildlife museum and band for the past four years and taken ap

028classes in her junior and senior years currently she is a lead docent at the petaluma wildlife museum a flute player in the wind ensemble and marches in the front row of the phs marching band outside of school she has been a member of 4-h for almost 10 years primarily in the poultry market poultry rabbit dog agility and archery projects she volunteers with classroom safari works monday nights in the youth crew at the marine mammal center of sausalito and spends saturday's giving tours at the petaluma wildlife museum she was a junior keeper at safari west for five years and will soon begin a summer internship there all her life she's grown up around an assortment of animals often saying her pets were her siblings and she would like to continue to work with exotic species in

029the future using animal conservation stories to inspire people to implement sustainable solutions in their lives zoe is currently enrolled at srjc and will start attending full time in the fall she will obtain an associate's degree in sciences for transfer to cal poly humboldt where she will most likely major in animal training and behavior zoe says she owes her success at school and in outside programs to her amazing teachers her mother robin haynes and the many opportunities petaluma high school has to offer congratulations zoe i'd also like to say thank you to you guys and to all my wonderful teachers at vhs zoe's family here want to stand congratulations all right we have what we have one more cody yeah cody here one [Music] i'm proud to announce april student of the month cody okamura cody

030is a senior at petaluma high school and has enjoyed participating in a variety of organizations when he is not working as a sales associate at the magic flute music retail store he participates in petaluma high's financial gains club as well as the band program specifically jazz band marching band and drumline cody's passion for music extends beyond school as he spends most of his free time practicing various aspects of musical performance and creation cody will continue applying the tenacity and drive that is permeated throughout his academics as he continues his musical journey through education at the university of southern california this fall cody was admitted to usc's popular music program after a long and rigorous period of preparation and auditions he cannot be more thankful for the support he has gained from his peers mentors and

031family throughout his time in school he is honored to be included as student of the month this year as it will serve as yet another reminder to keep pushing himself beyond his limits in the years to come congratulations cody i just want to thank you guys so much it's really an honor and sorry i didn't wear something nicer no we love it cody just make sure you have your plaque right you you were some we sent you a plaque okay okay it's cody's family so we'll break for like two minutes you guys can leave if you'd like to or chris's riveting budget budget update i find it interesting that i always have to follow so it even makes my presentation seem less riveting so as dave is working pulling out my powerpoint um you know

032this is really coming to the board and giving some highlights from the governor's main revised as you know the governor comes out with his budget proposal for the upcoming year in january and then once we get through the april receipts he knows what the statutory cola is he knows what the revenues are the reflections from the state through april and he comes out he or she come out with their um they leave us for the upper machine there's still a long way to go um it's not a you know we don't have a state budget yet but this becomes the roadmap that we use to build our budgets going forward i will just say to you tonight that this is a complicated budget it's an extremely good budget i mean there is a lot of

033money at the state level it's it's a little shocking when you think about where we were two years from now two years ago at the start of the pandemic that may revise was 10 reductions across the board and we were reeling from that and trying to figure out what how to handle that we had a very v-shaped recovery from that and revenues for this at the state level pop back up so the governor's main revised really reflects what we're seeing at the state level from a revenue perspective and we're going to walk through some of that i will also just say preface this with there's so much in the governor's budget proposals may revise that i have not i have not it would take me a long time to get through every single possible proposal

034and scenario i'm not gonna do that tonight i think that most likely will be coming forward when you think about things like the elop the extended learning opportunity program which is different than the coveted money it's ongoing money i think that we'll come forward with um presentations later in the future for some of those programs just to kind of highlight what those programs are all about and how we're going to move forward with them um so i am going to scratch the surface really um you know the last several several budgets from governor brown prior to governor newsom there wasn't a lot of um categorical money there wasn't no there wasn't a lot of new programs so it was the lcff the focus was on implementing funding the lcff over a period of seven eight

035nine years this really shows a shift in moving toward all of these new programs and indicative of the state money the availability of so much state money right now but we're also talking about some risk to the budget too because there are some risks out there and i think it's important to keep those in mind as we plan for the future so with that can you you want to go to the next line so again we're talking about the may revise comes out every around may 14th may 15th um you know and so that's kind of what we're doing tonight is just kind of shedding some light on what that may revise is going to look like dave so i'm going to walk you through a few slides that just kind of show where we

036are generally economically as a as a nation as a state just to kind of give some context and some background for the state's budget you know you can see this is the gdp and it really shows kind of that v-shaped recession or recovery that i talked about you can see um quarter two of 2020 that's when the recession hit and we took that huge dive in the economy and then popped back up in quarter three and then you can see it's kind of stabilized over the the last several quarters since the great since the pandemic hit but you can also also see where quarter one was for 21 or 2022 and you can see how that trend is starting to change slightly and then this is standard and poor's and you know the stock market

037is one of those things that's really reeling over a lot of the current events that are going on right now and we're seeing a lot of procurement challenges we're seeing a lot of trucking challenges a lot of delivery challenges and we're seeing a lot of challenges in spite of all this money that we have um so this just kind of shows standard of course reaction to some of the things that are going on and and we're just kind of keeping a close eye on it because when we talk about some of the risks the potential risks in the future this is one of those potential risks so inflation is another thing that the nation certainly the state is struggling with i think as a district we're going to start seeing some true impacts as our

038school sites try to continue to operate on their budgets and what their allocations look like they're going to be struggling as as well as the district to say okay the cost of goods are going up and so as we've contemplated developing this budget next year you know it kind of struck me that maybe we need to think about some of the allocation rates for the school segments because the reality is inflation is going to be hitting whether it's buying instructional supplies for the classroom whether it's buying custodial supplies we're already seeing our custodial budgets go up for example and so i think that we're going to have to take that into account as we move forward into next year's budget and to ensure that our instructional staff our schools have enough money to be able

039to buy the goods that they need again this is just looking at personal income taxes comparing what the governor's budget proposal in january was was using that data it was using as compared to what the may revise looks like in may and it's comparing that for the past two years in addition to this current year so you can kind of see where january was in 2021 and then may you can see in 2012 where it was in january and how much it popped up in may and then you can see for 22 23. i'm moving through these quickly please feel free to stop me if you guys have questions so this just shows capital gains its share of personal income and the reason this is important is that a lot of the money we're seeing

040at the state level is really being generated by that one percent or maybe even the half of one percent and so capital gains is driving in many respects significant revenue or income at the state level and that's important because capital gains income tends to be much more volatile than something like property tax so it's just again it's a key data point that we just kind of take a look at as we're looking to the future this is another capital gain slide that just kind of breaks it down for more over the past several years to kind of see what those capital gains revenues look like so again we're talking about risk to the budget um and the long-term forecast before we get into all the really positives because this budget is a really positive state

041budget kind of unbelievably positive in many respects but there are risks that we have to kind of plan for and be prepared for as we move forward um again i don't want to come back a year from now saying oh my gosh you know what i mean all this stuff is happening and it's a surprise so we know that inflation and what inflation pose i mean we're really literally facing and i'm sure you've read the news the highest inflation that we've seen in 40 years and so that is certainly something we have to keep our eye out on not only just from planning but also like i said looking at making sure that our schools have adequate resources to be able to fund what we need to fund in the classroom supply chain bottlenecks continue

042to be a challenge and that impacts inflation and impacts the cost of goods sold the volatility of the stock market we just talked about and of course though the war in europe is definitely creating challenges and i think that you know as they're talking about the longer lingering term impacts of what's happening over there that may unfold as we go over the next several months so this is a slide that just talks about the budget versus the main revised and it just kind of shows how much it was and how much it is and when i talk about how this is a phenomenally good state budget for everyone for education particular you can see the cold's gone from 5.33 which was pretty high in january to 6.56 um and that's that's really good news for

043us looking at 6.56 percent cola we're looking at some one-time discretionary funds that we'll talk about um part of this cola being so high though is also in response to inflation going so high so we have to keep in mind there's a there's a relationship between inflation and statutory ebola so we don't receive a percent increase on our lcf funding what we do is the state converts that percent increase to a dollar so that dollar amount you can see there representatives so you can see the base the 2122 the current base grants and the lcf that we get by grade span we've got 8093 8215 84 58 and then 902 for high school and then they're going to apply that cola or the dollar amount that that cola represents in addition there's an additional lcf

044investment and that's that's reflective of this 266 270 278 322 and basically what the governor is proposing to do is not only give them 6.56 percent cola then augment the base further with this unjust additional lcfs investment and this is an ongoing investment so this is also really good news we've been asking i mean yeah education has been advocating for increases on the base for some time this is a small step toward that remember last year the governor and the state adopted an uh not only the cola but they actually increased the concentration grants without augmenting the banks and so that only impacted very few districts like santa rosa it did not impact us we don't receive we're not the benefit we don't receive the benefit of concentration so this is really i think a

045step in the right direction for the governor and then we get the great span adjustment that's reflective of k3 and careertech at the high school level and then again you see the supplemental and you see that concentration grant at 50 at 65 it was 55 or 50 so that went up from 50 to 65 last year so districts that have an unduplicated people count over 55 they get 65 in addition to the 65 for the they get 165 percent of the days for those students so that's a lot of money it's a lot of additional funds i think i've asked the question before so i'm sorry but i hear a lot of um uh money um numbers being thrown around like uh it's now going to be twenty thousand dollars per student funding and i

046can never figure that out like what are they talking about when they say the average will be twenty thousand dollars per student when we don't even come close so um i i just you know what they're referring to because you hear it on the news all the time well i mean if you look at the 912 column and you take the new adjusted base and again this is this is reflective of the budget proposal the rain revised we don't know what the actual final state budget will be but if this ends up being it the adjusted base grant for high school would be 11047 and then if you're a concentration grant you're getting an additional 71.81 for those students which is about 18 000 and almost 19 thousand dollars yeah almost 19 000 or 18

047change so so yeah i mean it's getting close to 20 but but again that's not on all of the students no no that's for that and it's only on right students for districts that qualify for concentration okay some of our students about 40 we receive the supplemental grant which for high school would be 2209 on top of the day so we're not we're we're nowhere near 20 000. we're not even near 15 and that's high school i'm looking at the high school which is the highest level of funding because of course high schools are more expensive to fund than an elementary campus so at the k3 level or the 4 6 level which is the lowest level you can see we would get 9 000 in this proposal per student and for the unduplicated students

048we get an additional 1800 to 1805. so again you're talking about not even if you're talking about less than 11 000 or less than 12 000. and then there's lottery funding and so on and so forth but that's not significant that's less than one percent of our budget or about one percent of our budget so this is the majority of our funding any other questions thank you good questions i hear that number thrown around all the time it's like you know across the headline and it's like no well and there are basic aid districts that easily receive that level of funding easily and more so you know part of the challenge too when you look at it as a percent you have to also factor in when you look at a percent of income one

049year can go nuts and ada also impacts that revenue right so we are our increases on the per ada amount might be going up by x percent or x dollar amount as we looked at and that's different by grade level or great span but then you also have to factor in declining enrollment we're going to get into a little bit more about where our enrollment looks and what the governor continues to propose as a solution if you will and so we are facing declining enrollment it's pretty significant fortunately as we're projecting next year it looks like we're stabilizing we're going to stay around 7 200. we'll look at those numbers in a few minutes but but this is something that we have to be aware of because we have declined by students you know over

050three years so in light of that and we're not the only one in this list i mean the majority of districts in the state of california are declining i know that in sonoma county um dr harrington had said earlier this year late last year that sonoma county over a 20-year period was looking at declining by 73 percent as a county enrollment that's a significant amount of decline and so the governor is proposing some solutions to i know typically districts have a protection in declining or or in dips in a moment so we can use the greater of the projected ada which would be next year 2223 or the prior year ada which would be this current year and so that's usually a projection that kind of baby steps districts down so that you have a

051year to kind of plan for that level of defining a moment it also it kind of gives you okay we know what our ada for this year is so we know that's kind of the minimum we're going to get funded on when we plan but because we've been funded on two years ago ada for two years so in 2019-20 we were funded for 2019-20 2020 21 and 2021-22 so that 1920 has carried us through for the two pandemic years and that has come to an end so we're planning for 2022-23 um the state has come out with okay here's a couple of options the first option that he's proposing is that we would be fund again based on the the greater of next year's ada the current year or prior to your ada or the

052average of the prior three years so that would be 1920 2021 21 i know be yeah 21 22. but the 2122 the actual ada in 21 years so basically we would have that average of those three years to use as our minimum guarantee if you will for next year so we're going to be taking a look at that option because i think that's probably the best option for us given not only our decline in enrollment but also our defining attendance this year but our attendance rate grew up significantly because of the omicron spike and covenant in general we um so we're going to be taking a look at that option two he goes on to give us another option which is this idea of a tendency and i call an attendance rate right so typically

053our attendance rate at the elementary overall every school has their own but overall it's around 94.5 to 95 percent which is generally fairly low print elementary elementaries that i've worked with worked with previously were more like 96 96.5 our high schools alternatively always have had enjoyed a very high rate of around 97.5 to 98 which is alternatively very high compared to what i've been accustomed to so this year our attendance yield or our attendance rate dropped precariously down to roughly around 92 percent of the elementary and probably around 95 or 94 secondary and so what they're saying is you can take your yield from 2019 20. so if our attendance rate was 95 element for easy math 95 elementary 97.5 high school that we could take that attendance rate and apply it to um to

0542021-22 and use that as our prior year ada does that make sense the challenge is because we declined by 350 students that doesn't help as much because yeah we would be using the yield or the attendance rate during the higher attendance years but because our enrollment is down it doesn't help if our enrollment was relatively flat it would be and we just dropped our attendance rate dropped because of omicron and covid then that could be a huge benefit for us so we're going to look at both but my guess is and as i started looking at it already we're probably going to use the three year average as we're planning next year so does that make sense chris i went to the csva budget may revise meeting and one thing they pointed out was that

055the state assembly is totally opposed to any kind of hold harmless because they think that now that schools are open we don't need it um and so the suggestion there was to write to your assembly person and express the need for some sort of for something within the governor's proposal so that was just something i heard today yeah i mean again this is just a a proposal by the governor right right it has to go into committee it's already committing being evaluated they have their own ideas and their own proposals um my hope my belief is that we're going to end up with something similar to what the governor is proposing i hope so again it's not a whole harmless not the old harmless we received this year and last year being able to use

056that 2019-20 ada and holding us at that higher enrollment level and at the higher attendance level but but it is it is enabling us to step ourselves down a bit without having this precarious cliff of losing 350 students and having our attendance drop and we still don't know what our attendance is going to be next year we can we're not we're not completely out of coding as as we all know as evidenced by you know how everybody is feeling about there's there's still a spike going on right now so we don't know how many more spikes there's going to be which will continue to potentially impact our attendance next year so having this at least somewhat of a protection not a hold harmless but a protection so that we can at least know by looking

057at our three year average what we can base our revenue on next year regardless of what the attendance or the enrollment is is going to be a huge benefit for us if we use this year's ada under the current law i just don't think it would help us much because the attendance this year was so low in addition to our enrollment job the assembly just doesn't seem to understand that that's what that was what they talked about um and they were pushing advocacy by emailing or writing or calling our members and expressing the need for some sort of help in that that enrollment clip so to kind of look at it i think i have a couple slides in here that show it more than dollars and cents and these aren't our dollars i talked

058about this already this kind of shows it using using math if you will so it kind of talks about enrollment over 1920 2021 and 21 22 22 23 again our enrollment's not 10 500 or 10 000. it was 75 ton variant and it's now about 7 200. um well we're projecting it to be 7200 next year but this kind of gives it easier math when you look at it at ground numbers so they're saying if the enrollment was ten thousand five hundred and ada was in ten thousand so they had a 95.24 percent attendance rate in 1920 and so therefore they were using this district the scenario was using that ada of 10 000 both for 1920 2021 they also used it for 2122 however their actual attendance in 2122 in this scenario says their

059ada was only 9 000 because they only had a 90 attendance rate so then 22 23 their enrollment drops 500 and their ada they're estimating to be around 9 000 out of 94.74 so we're saying okay we might bump up a bit so taking this scenario how do these proposals help a district so in other words in this scenario their ada would drop 1088 they would go from 10 000 to 9000 ada so they've been getting this the benefit of ten thousand ada 2223 they're going to drop to 9000 ada so under the scenario they would they could look at that ratio of 95.24 right so they had 95.24 in 1920 that that attendance rate and they could apply it to 2122 which would bring their ada from 9 000 and 95 24. so that's

060where that that ray could help in the next life please but using the average you're looking at again the ten thousand and the ten thousand the nine thousand and the nine thousand that ninety five twenty four using the rate that ada relief based on the rate but if you use the average which is ten thousand ten thousand ninety five twenty four divided by three which is that prior year average and all of a sudden you've got 98.41 to use as your attendance and this is actually combining both so that's what we're going to be looking at like how do we maximize the amount we can use for next year so we're kind of working through these scenarios using our number but the difference between 95 95 24 and 98 41 is pretty significant you're talking

061about over 380 days of these numbers and if you use around 10 000 dollar revenue per ada looking across all average of all grade spans with with all the increases then you know that's that's millions of dollars so this adds a level of complexity to what we're doing trying to come up with our lcff and the interesting part for us as i'm looking at it is we've got to do this for south county which means i'm taking nine districts looking at their 1920 88 their 1920 ada the 2122 ada dividing it seeing if they're growing seeing if they're not growing this is just for south county trying to come up with which one works the best and also knowing that our districts drive what benefit we're going to get not south county because it's part

062of the district so we're also looking at the elementary district which we file separately and the high school district is one in declining is one and growing all of this stuff kind of plays out so we're going to be running these scenarios for our elementary district our secondary district and then applying the scenarios that work to south county in the charter separately and the charter subject which we're going to get to because they're even different from this and can you choose different formulas for each case or do you have to go for this for our two districts we're going to decide which one gets us the most ada so yeah no no we do two separate calculations one for our elementary district one for our high school district one for each charter so we do

063five different lcf calculations i have to then apply the elementary and secondary to how we do self-count because they get the benefit of the ada they generate so the charters are a little bit different they don't get necessarily this three year average so david does that make sense i know it's complicated but and we don't even know if this is really going to happen but this is what we're going to assume is going to happen but if this does happen chris right we'll run both scenarios and choose the the one that's going to benefit the district so yes well we're going to buy district and buy charter now i didn't put the charter school slides up here but i can tell you in a nutshell charters have never had the prior year protection they're they've

064always been funded on current year atm with the exception of last year so last year everybody was funded in 1920. no one had a choice because of kids of course kids weren't necessarily in school so the charter all three of our charters were funded in 2021 based on 1928 that actually hurt us because our charters were growing right this year 2122 they are funded on current year ada and so that attendance drop that attendance rate drop even though they're growing has also hurt us in our charters because we didn't have the benefit of continuing to use 1920. we'll get to that in a second but and i'll show you what the enrollment looks like by district and by charter the good news is our charters are growing so oh the change of the law for

065is that next year they're going to be able to use the greater of prior year which is 2122 or next year's apa will be using next year's ada because they're growing and so we will be using and because our attendance this year is so low we're going to assume conservatively probably like 94 attendance rate on their additional student but that'll be better than the 92 that we've been seeing this year so that makes sense so we have to look at it from five different perspectives and then add in that sixth which is south county so another go back i'm sorry they're not quite ready so the other bit of good news in this budget is that the district or the governor is proposing a discretionary block grant so this is um again they're saying that

066he's taking the page because you know governor brown was a big fan of one time discretionary money he did a lot of that in the recovery after the great recession and so the governor's proposing this we're we're waiting to get more information it looks like it's generally pretty unrestricted but i will tell you much like the covet funds there's a lot of a lot of reporting requirements and tracking that we're having to do for every penny or every dollar that we spent with covered money and you know is it does it fit in this category or that category another category so i'm waiting to see i'm interested to see how many reporting requirements is this going to have are there any you know like do we have to develop a plan or is this truly

067discretionary like in the governor roundings which was very discretionary so this is kind of a wait and see but if they are looking at um about fifteen hundred dollars per ada that was it current year ada or next year's ada which ada is in 1920 88 you know we'll just have to wait and see it says it's going to be distributed using this current year 2122 p288 so that'll be on the lower ada than what we're accustomed to so the dark word you can see we're looking at six point five four six six point five six percent cola which is equivalent to a dollar amount in addition to the augmentation that we've talked about but you can also see in 23 24 and 24 25 they've increased the colas from what they were projecting in

068january to what they're projecting now and that's a good news that's good news for us because it's going to help us with our multi-projections so even though we're going to have to step down our ada and our because our enrollment's down the coal is the higher colas are definitely going to be a huge benefit for us again it's indicative of ongoing inflation so we'll see universal kindergarten um we're implementing the first year in 2223 so we're adding tcat both cherry valley and grant you don't currently found tk um this is from september 2nd to february 2nd by ford policy we're allowing to go to april 2nd which is what the 23-24 window will be and then 24-25 it's september 2nd through june 2nd um there are some there are some clauses in here regarding a

06924-1 or a 12 to 1 staffing ratio you can have a teacher and a class line member to meet that 12-1 so basically it's 24-1 with a six-hour instructional assistant so we're building all of that into the budget and there is some penalties associated with this universal tk if we don't follow those guidelines and so we're planning and preparing for all of that now working with the two schools in particular that are adding transitional kinder to make sure those spaces are set up that they have furniture oh and one last note i will say about that 23 24 it it may easily go to 20 to 1 or 10 to 1. so that cap which is currently 24 per class or 12 to 1 per adult well most likely they're talking about going to 21

070or 10 to 1 in the following year is that the cap it's a hard cap about a ratio well it's a ratio but it's a hard capping ship this is that expanded learning opportunities program funding and it's very confusing because there's covered money that's called expanded learning opportunities but this is an ongoing ewok so this is actually the state coming in saying we want to have those extended learning opportunities we're talking about aftercare or before care um it it is about 2 500 per student which is really good news um we have hired a coordinator to come in and help really develop and coordinate and implement this program if we're not able to do it at every school side there is a what appears to be a transportation requirement that if we have elop or

071an e-lot program at this school but not at this school that we have to provide transportation so kids that are at school that don't have it can get to school that does have it our hope our goal would be that we implemented in every school but again it comes down to staffing fortunately we already have like the aces grant which will be a good partner with this so we'll be looking at both aces and and these are ongoing revenues so this is going to be an ongoing theme and it's really good news for our family because it's going to allow us to really provide those after school learning opportunities or after school enrichment and academic opportunities and there are some pretty structured components about this about how you implement what is the academic portion what

072is the enrichment course portion so some very clear guidelines about how these b lock pro programs will be going so stay tuned this is one that i think we're probably coming back with in the fall about kind of what is that program going to look like and this money can be used in belfast right well all of it will be articulated in the elk house i mean we could have a three year health cap that we've already developed yeah but this would be an action that we would need to add at some point to this lcap to kind of augment because this is a new program but it's not funded by the lcf or supplemental it's a it's a grant it would mean like title one gradually it's a state or really it's like the

073aces grant only going to different type of basis targeted for after school yeah before school in afghanistan yeah oh why is that we have a girls it's really limited to that it's restricted to that yeah that's great and it like i said it has some very clear um from what we can tell that's a very clear here's what kind of curriculum you need to use here's you know like the aces grant the asus grant is very very structured and regulated and audited where we have to count attendance we have to make sure we're providing this much enrichment this much academic support etc so this is going to be very similar to aces um with hopefully better funding to support it you know stay tuned on that one oh what's not in the baby you guys

074things what's not in the main reverse no additional pension unless you count the augmentations so there's no specific tension released and just for my as a reminder i've got another site that shows this for 22.23 we're looking at 19.1 percent of course stirrers for all of our instructional or certificated staff and for pers we're up to about 20 25.4 25.36 i think so we're over 25 so for every dollar we pay our classroom employees for first numbers it costs us a dollar 25 just for the person portion so that is a huge amount um it's going to continue to go up but um but there's no there's no relief for that in this budget no additional transportation fund which would have been a huge thing because honestly like our first certain contracts are dramatically there's

075a huge driver shortage it's kind of interesting they're trying to put more transportation requirements or districts because just trying to find qualified drivers is challenging um and then we're implementing universal meals there is some money behind us but the impact of trying to provide a lot more meals to a lot more students is challenging so for example in our district we don't have cooking facilities those were removed decades ago so we don't have big kettles we don't have the ability to bake a lot of goods we have very limited production kitchen so we've been impacted quite dramatically we've actually added a lot of refrigeration this year we've added three therm ovens we've increased ovens at some of our campuses like cattlework in order to accommodate that but the challenges are going to continue with implementing

076those universal meals it is a really good thing for kids though so i mean i'm a huge support and glad it's happening it doesn't give us a lot of time a lot of time to plan one of the things i didn't touch on very good my slide on there's actually some proposed money for deferred maintenance and some facilities money for tea cans other things we're going to be looking at that seeing how we qualify and applying for more of those capital funds including the possibility of maybe somehow not renovating some of our kitchen facilities but we'll see here's the calpers employer rate that i talked about um 22 23 it's at 25.37 so and then it it next year 25.2 these are set annually by the calpers board whereas stirs was set by statute for

077the state this is set by the calpers board but we know that the actual rate for next year is now 25.37 they've taken that action the others are projected and estimated there's a lot of new mandates well at least these four in particular i wanted to just highlight the universal meals we just kind of talked about the fact that we now must provide free breakfast and lunch for students during the day um there's also a menstrual product mandate that's starting july 1st it basically lowers it to grade six and it's it's having the availability of menstrual products in every girl's gender-neutral and one voice at each school so this this i will say while i understand it and support it it is wreaking havoc on our sewer systems because unfortunately it's temptation to flush and

078do things with the the stuff that has impacted our drain line so we're trying to evaluate how do we how do we how do we deal with that but this is a going into effect july person will be implementing this over the summer the late start time you know it provides that you have to start after a certain time depending on the grade level and then um that last one if i could leave something right but instead of let's slides allow zero periods for a limited number that did not generate ada yeah did that mean that there's no zero period i don't know i think we're gonna have to do more research i i this is just some of the mandates that they're looking at that we're looking at having to evaluate so let me

079see this by slide it requires an lea to ensure that all their 12th grade students submit free applications for federal student aid or a california dream application i think she's asking about the one degree the allowed serial period for a limited number of people who did not generate yeah what does that mean you know so if we so in marine county we have um we had our typical six day period and then we would have a zero period or a seventh period yeah outside of here at some schools we do so i think this is just saying that you can allow you can have zero periods start earlier right that's primarily what you say so in other words the regular school day start has to start at 8 30 or later in their high schools

080but you can have a lit you have limited zero period it means if you don't generate anything yet well i think what it's saying is if i'm a student and i take six periods right that's my eight way that i'm generating since now i'm taking the seventh period we don't get in other words you can't you can't say oh everyone's going to do zero periods so now we're starting at 7 30. yeah yeah basically would they want to keep the instructional day so if i'm a full-time student i start after a certain time but i can opt to take the zero periods early again there is so much in this budget that i i just tried to pick a slide that was most important but there's a lot more in this in this proposal that

081he's got so what we know you know we're going to have an on time stay budget because we know legislators want to get paid um we're planning on that 6.5 percent cola and i talked about how we're going to be looking at our ada and and trying to pick the best way to maximize our ada for next year and we're assuming that change to the base that we're going to be downloading lcf um templates that have a lot of stuff in it we're going to be assuming that one time block grant trying to get some estimates um if we can't get good enough estimates that may be something we bring back in july in that 45 day budget period we'll just have to see how much information is truly available to determine how much money

082and its own resource so there's a lot of accounting behind whether or not i can put that in the budget but we'll be looking at that we know we've got the stars and pers rate increases we've got state employment that's staying at 0.5 versus 0.05 which is what it historically was where now we're probably looking at that three year average using prior year p280a but we're going to look at it by district and by charter and then we're going to be staffing based on current enrollment projections and we're going to go into a little bit of that what does that look like what we don't know we don't know what the final budget you apply as you said ellen you know the budget committees are now grappling over these details and so there will be

083nuanced changes to the information but we can't wait for that we have to bring you a budget so we're going to use the main revise as our starting point transitional kinder and beyond will be a 20 to 1 ratio or 20 to 2 ratio we don't we don't know we'll be looking at that how will how will our enrollment recover our ada when we look at the enrollment projections i do think we're stabilizing at around 7 200. property liability insurance we have not received those rates yet because the property liability markets are so difficult right now that we are probably looking at 15 to 20 percent in increases inflation what is that impact how do we how do we minimize that impact on our schools how do we deal with that the cost of gas

084for example for transportation we're having to look at those types of things and then what are the long-term fiscal impacts of the pandemic the war the global markets these are all things that we don't know but we'll be watching closely what does our enrollment look like so our current year and i show seabeds down below on the left-hand side you can see back in october of 19. oh the california basic basic educational data system it's the day in october where every district reports what their moment is so back in october of 19 it was 75 21 this is all combined doesn't include live voc or independent charter but everything else october 2020 at the middle of the pandemic we dropped to 737 this past october of 21 we were at 7203 the current month nine

085enrollment is 71.44 so that is our total enrollment monthline which is as of around the end of april and that breaks down elementary 1574 secondary 45 just under 45.60 penguin 46 469 cherry valley 422 and packs of 120. so that's what makes up the 71.44 so projecting next year we've worked with our school sites they've been collecting enrollment information there's a whole spreadsheet that they have put in their information so i went through all of that we staffed based on that i kind of tried to summarize it here so we're projecting enrollment next year at about 7200 and the way that breaks down is elementary district 1566 so compare that to 1574 and you can see that's a decline secondary 4549 i decline but relatively flat i mean these are both relatively flat so i

086say decline because it's an additional decline over what we've already seen hand grove is growing 31 students that's we're adding a fourth kinder um and they've taken on more students cherry valley we've added tk so there we're assuming they're going up by about 32 right now and pax is remaining steady i mean they they're around 120 they'll probably be about 120 we're planning on 124 but that's basically their four classes so that's still a decline if we project 7200 that's still a decline of 321 students over the 1920 seabed's enrollment so when i say we've dropped that's a pretty significant problem it's roughly five percent so and that's that looks like it's kind of now our new norm 1700 now it's a wait-and-see game you know when we see the whites of their eyes in

087august july and august we'll have a much better idea we'll be recalculating stuff as we really know what our enrollment's going to be but for staffing purposes and revenue ada calculation this is what we'll be using so our next steps are basically we're going to be finalizing pulling this whole budget together we've been working on it diligently um we'll be doing our revenue calculations we really were waiting for the main revised to come in to see what how that was what we're waiting for the templates to be released the lcf calculations we're monitoring our enrollment along with our principals you know we we may need to make tweaks over the summer especially at the secondary we know that our newcomer population is has been growing we may need to add newcomer sections everything in the

088summer and we had those conversations this past fall we'll be monitoring um enrollment on the k6 level making sure we're staying within our ratios both contract and 24 to 1 25 to 1 ratios so we'll also be just completing and analyzing all of our other types of revenues like interest earnings to see as interest potentially as possible we may be able to increase our interest earning revenues so we'll be looking at all that stuff the other challenging thing honestly is utilities utilities has become quite the conundrum water sewer it has been a dramatic increase so we'll be monitoring our utilities as well so with that we'll be bringing back the preliminary budget two on june 14. tony and i are already working on the lcap and reconciling the lcab to the budget so that we'll

089be bringing back the draft by that too and we'll have a public hearing on the 23rd and most hopefully we'll be announcing the budget violation i know i've gone through a lot i've tried to put this possible any questions thanks chris um going back on personnel uh staffing back in march we approve uh big slips based upon the governor's proposed budget now we have a may revise how does this look on on that on that issue a lot of the um a lot of the adjustments that were made in large part were in response to the enrollment losses right and staffing based on where we see enrollment so a lot of it was actually making adjustments for that as well as independent studies so i didn't say a lot about independent study so you know

090independent study as we know it for this year pandemic here has sunset or slated to sunset superior there is some tweaks in the independent study laws but they're not going to take it back to where we were so some of those layoffs actually had to do with closing down that independent study so i think that um we've looked at stuff and anyone that we can store of bring back that's all processed but a lot of it wasn't really because of budget reductions it was really because of enrollment enrollment reductions does this about the increase in the projected enrollment uh absolutely i mean yes yes other questions yep thank you thanks chris okay thank you all right next up um comments from the public on non-agendized items so um anyone online wants to make a comment

091we're gonna open the chat please put your first and last name in the chat um we'll leave it open while we're reading the public comment uh policy government code section 54954.3 a members of the public have the right to address the governing board on any items of interest providing that relate to the subject matter jurisdiction of the school district will government code allow speakers to criticize the district's policies procedures programs services and or employees the district does have a policy specific to complaints against employees should comments from the public pertain to a specific district employee the board requested the complaint first be submitted and writing to the employee's immediate supervisor for investigation if the comment is about something that is not on the agenda it will be heard only during the public comment on non-agendized

092items period once that part of the meeting is over comments will only be taken on agenda items during the discussion of those items the board values 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 four minute per person limit or 20 minute limit per subject matter so i know we have some comments in person looks like we have a couple so we will start with our in person uh sandra larson and those may be from those i don't know but you might need to look joanna are those for non-agendas items or those agendas okay okay all right yours is non-agenda it's right yeah yeah do you find me here yeah still think thank you

093my name is sandra larson i'm president of pft i'm also i'm here to talk about our classified staff today it's funny we were my class has been working on reports and we were talking about how they hadn't had an opportunity to present in public because of two years of coding how scary that was to do it we sort of had a memory walk back to 2021 and we all realized even the kids oh who was at our school with our classmates we stayed home we asked them to go to school and take on a risk that i didn't take on if you remember back then we didn't know what how come it spread or how things worked our classified staff were there they were there to hand out meals to make sure they got work

094and to be in the office with someone we needed them continuing on the next year same thing we asked the same thing of them while we stayed home classified staff are the backbone of any school district they're serving the backbone total in the city and i'm asking you tonight to settle a contract with them to give them a one-time bonus money that respects what they did they did what most of us didn't do i'm asking you to not to be equitable not equal now that offense i keep talking about some people can look over the fence that's our highest paid people in the middle we needed a little boost classified needs a ladder and they certainly work for it and finally i'll just say you can go to any school site and you see the

095stress we're breaking because we don't have the staff my personal site does not have an attendance clerk you can imagine what that does to the office who's taking care of the teachers who are calling for help the kids who are in for band-aids or because they've had a hard day all that's going on without staff to support them we don't have yard duty we don't have we hear from people all the time that we don't have aids they're very important so i'm asking the police go back settle and give them the respect that they deserve and show me the appreciation thank you thank you all right um next up uh christy hold holtwins hi my name is christy goldmust and i teach transitional kindergarten and valley vista school my brain doesn't always understand negotiations nor

096do i have math grades that i understand apply as a csta with my heart and that's how i want to speak to you tonight is through my heart 28 years ago when i was a student teacher at manor school in fairfax my mentor teacher lucy bozeman said to me always get to know and be kind to the most important people in the school those who know all and are the end all the school secretary and the custodians they hold the school together like blue i worked in five schools and this statement has run true at each school it's the classified staff that i go to with so many times so many times with all kinds of questions and requests it's my aide carol kornford that keeps me sane it is an invaluable second set of

097hands ears and ants miss teresa williard belly vista's head coaster who will stop and climb up the ladder when frisbee lands on the roof she understands the impatience of a five-year-old mary pratt senior secretary she knows where everything is she can find an extra box of paper clips at the last minute and always have an encouraging word and smile when they need it the most miss jeannette our attendance clerk who can tell me without looking why a student is often and will reach out to a spanish-speaking family because i don't speak spanish audrey the evening costarian who's willing to feed her close pet over vacations and even buy her extra crickets when she runs out these people are the superstars of the school these are the classified staff that i come into contact with on

098a daily basis however i know that every school has stellar cost of big staff and i believe this kuala luma z school district needs to respect these employees with a well-earned race please settle with our classified staff they deserve this and much more thank you krista o'connor i'm christophe o'connor teacher at honolulu high and pft high school and vice president two weeks ago i spoke to the new one for offering stronger academic support for our students by making sure that we can fill the many weekend special education and bilingual instructional and system positions that you may have in the registry i feel i must reiterate my request and further statement but i hope you can fairly consider our classified colleagues in csca as you go forward the settlement contract i understand relays to the impasse

099and firefighting i do not understand how it got to this point in the first place you are about to approve raises for all of your cabinet and management positions receiving a while and still have an uncertain we have nearly 60 open positions for classified employees and today many of them vacant all here i wish to address this from the perspective of equity and access you say you want to have school site staff to reflect our community demographics but the fact that some of our imbalances result in people being shut out because they don't have anyone in their family making a living wage and they often can't pay the bills working for veterans disables i know of one person who calls her to pay the position from volunteer job and works primarily because she wants to

100help our students succeed less so for the roles as she receives i know several classified colleagues who say they could make more work in their in and out and get benefits to food and every time i hear this it silences me we know what it's largely of our classified staff with our electoral classified staff that we got through the pandemic at all who kept the doors open we put their own hope of this to supervise coverage and students who needed to be on campus who made thousands of lunches for kids and families to prevent each week from dedicating cnca memory with those things and hundreds of other tasks to keep us uploading last week was classified complete appreciation week i would like to honor and acknowledge my classified colleagues without them i could not do

101the job i do serve my students each day i hope you can honor them by valuing the work they do settling their contract and paying them wages that allow them to live and work in this country thank you thanks christian next up genie preacher hi and um before i start i just want to acknowledge and appreciate all you guys that hard work you know i'm spectacular in this this year i'm a little um fried after a really long crazy day so um hang in there with me and hopefully i can make some sense i'm going to talk to you about equity but before i get into that i want to echo the sentiments of my colleagues in terms of supporting the classified staff our district will hemorrhage if we continue to lose our classified staff

102they are the glue that holds our schools together that is an understatement um but on to the topic of equity which i have spoken with you about specifically in regard to the horrendous study and my dissatisfaction with that study and huge concerns which it raises um i just want to say it was very disappointing to me to reach out to all of you board members and while i i did have a response from a lot of you saying you appreciated what i said what i was asking for was some time to meet with you so i wouldn't be limited to four minutes to talk about this incredibly important issue which clearly is important to you if we put the money and time into a study matthew gave me some time we didn't really have enough

103to get into what i wanted to get into and i'm not going to be able to do that either tonight so again i am going to request an opportunity to speak to you where i can actually present and show you something that is really the crux of the inequities in our district that orenda has yet to even blink at um that should be a huge red flag to you um in what they did present to you there were a couple things that did stand out um and one was their statement about every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets and that is true i totally agree with that um and it's it's interesting that sandra used that image of the kids looking over the fence to to watch and they all have

104either the same size that they're standing on or they have different different sized ones and what we have in this district right now is we've got kids of all different sizes um standing on the same size block to watch the game and you are seeing the results of that you are seeing the results in your graduation rates of your els and your your economically disadvantaged students arenda's response and solution to that does not address the real issue i i presented you guys with demographic information that is glaring and it's not just myself that was shocked by those numbers every group of teachers that i presented that to were shocked including high school teachers on the el committee teachers from other schools um the reality i was shocked though by the lack of response i got

105from cabinet frankly i was i was thinking like am i not making sense here is this not clear so i thought maybe i'd go in to just kind of clarify what that means when we talk about high need students and i'm talking about kids who are living in poverty and also els and in our site in mcdowell that's a kind of a double whammy um and you have 89 percent of your s of the population at one site with those high-need students and you're staffing them at this i mean you're stopping your stuff at the same ratio you do across the district you're putting those kids at a disadvantage and that continues with them that gap you're seeing in high school starts in kindergarten and as long as we continue to let it go you

106are continuing to create that system and and nothing's going to change you might get some changes in some test scores by by bringing in horrendous sister company and god forbid you do that because i think that money was a waste of time um i mean a big waste of money but uh when you see the kids at our school and you know the reality is for them a lot of them have three or four families living in one house you're at the end of your time okay and that's hence my frustration so i hope you guys can understand that i hope that you will reach out to me because i'm at the point where i'm tired of talking to the wall and i expect as a parent and a teacher in this district to have

107an opportunity to sit down and talk about this very village thank you okay we have sarah as well online hello everyone good evening i wanted mostly i've missed a few meetings and i apologize but it is a beautiful evening after a very hot day and i wanted to acknowledge each and every one of you um and everyone that has spoken so far before me i'll start with who started kind of first besides the students who are amazing thank you to chris for getting petaluma city schools everything that we can with all the financial prowess that you use i remember when you first got here and everything got slashed because our our financials were in a mess and we were like oh no all this money is going away and now we are so organized and

108so well spent and everything's getting it attended to and that's because of your leadership thank you so much for that um thank you to tony and the team uh and your team for the in-depth and whole child equity assessment that you did that orinda did not be able to do but using that and youth truth and the conversations that you've had with different members of the community to uh lead the way with and then also lead the way with the most inclusive and engaged lcat process that i have experienced thus far in the district in the handful of years that i've been engaging i wanted to thank maite and ximena for convening the lgbtqia plus work group with the express interest in hearing from our community and keeping safety at this highest priority for those

109students and those families and really being able to engage in the needs of that of that community within ours i want to thank the teachers and the staff for showing up every day and doing the best they can with these challenging times being tired not knowing when you're going to come in with covid also with being able to die working on digesting all of the work of the equity study and what that means and how we're going to move forward with that i want to thank the classified staff for coming to our bringing our campuses always safe and clean and up to speed managing the libraries our front offices the yard duty feeding our students and doing all the things that as everyone has said before classified staff is really magical at doing for all

110of us you're hearing bear in the background apologize thank you matthew for acknowledging leaning into the growth and challenging times thank you for following the lead big this long long marathon of work towards um getting us to educational equity in petaluma city schools it's going to be a rough and tumble ride and it's going to take a lot of a lot of work on all of our parts and a lot of healing and a lot of space for us to process and move through so that we can all get to the table in a grounded space to be able to move through a lot of this work that needs to be done i want to also thank you for speaking to the tragedies that have happened in buffalo with our black community getting killed in

111orange county with our taiwanese community getting killed now in texas with our latinx students being killed in elementary schools thank you for taking the lead on that and making a space for people to be able to learn how to speak to their families and try to make sure in through all of the challenges they have going ahead that we have a community that hopefully will be spared from that kind of tragedy i want to wholeheartedly thank you all for the work that you're doing it is really hard i really acknowledge all of it and if i show up and press you on different things whether it is equity work or lgbtqi stuff or racial equity or justice that it is all because we are working together to make sure that we are in a space

112that we can thrive in i thank you so much and i look forward to future years and i hope that you all have a wonderful summer love me sarah thanks sarah um up next we have phoebe ellis hi good evening can you hear me yes um hope everyone is doing well i am speaking tonight in regard to more support and more engagement on behalf of our student athletes families coaches athletic directors at our petaluma city schools nearly over half of the students i know at both the comprehensive high schools participated in at least one sport if not two um sports athletic programs obviously provide opportunities for engagement belonging friendships growth physical activity emotional well-being academic success and much much more yet our coaches athletic directors salaries are very low compared to other districts we provide

113zero transportation to our student athletes which requires parents to leave jobs which requires students to drive themselves and their friends which creates an incredible amount of liability in my opinion for our student athletes and families and our school district currently petaluma high school all four of the scoreboards are not working i emailed earlier this week to the superintendent and to the to chris thomas we have raised the funds to improve the scoreboards and um so i am hoping that someone at the district level can reach out and let us proceed with taking on these projects um and of days of declining enrollment i just listened to chris thomas's entire presentation and that was a a prime topic was declining enrollment um any opportunity for retaining students or bringing students in to our district athletics is

114a big thing i mean i i'm a i'm part of the petaluma high school athletic boosters and i've been involved there for four years and i can tell you that we get very little support from the administration um it's very frustrating i talked to many coaches i talked to many parents i talked to many student athletes and everyone feels very unsupported so i think it's time and i think there's some great opportunities to support our athletes and i think it does great wonders for all of our our schools and our um successes and ability to engage um and i i know that there's you know two i i hopefully some board members can get out and support we have which is an incredible thing that's happening right now both of our varsity baseball teams are

115in playoff games tomorrow which i don't think has happened in many many years which is fairly incredible so good luck to both of those teams um and as always i'm here to help and discuss and support but we have a very generous community who who wants to get involved and financially support um so let's let's please utilize that generous support and get some of these projects taken care of we just need to go ahead or the the the the buy-in from the district and we can get some of these scoreboards i know at petaluma high replaced and fixed so um i would hopefully someone could reach out to me or to the administration at phs and we can get some of these projects going thank you so much for your time oh and i have

116to one other thing i got to mention that so many of the students of the month tonight talked about athletics and how important that's been in their career in petaluma city schools so i mean i think that's just a testament how important sports are for many students so thank you very much okay all right um report i think that's it right is there one more comment no okay um report on activities and correspondence of school board members um since the last board meeting our student board members have gone to site council meeting west side relays ilu meetings planning meetings for the coffee cultural festival sac meeting malaya can remind us when the cost of cultural festival is um festival it's basically just a bunch of clubs at our school getting together um to celebrate different

117cultures and um our community it's this friday after school at 2 45 yes 235 to like 4 15. okay and where is that going to be where it is in the what i'm sorry okay all right and starts at 2 45. that casa yeah i thought it was on my calendar but i didn't know what it was like i think it's on my calendar too thank you um and then also um we attended lcap healthy choices committee meeting adult school esl leadership class csba analyzes the made budget revision healthy choices uh blue zones introductory meeting and the kickoff introductory kickoff meeting blue zone school focus group staff picnic cherry valley dine and donate k-12 curriculum committee budget perspectives workshop climate committee esl leadership class final and open houses at kenneworth mcnair mckinley grant and pet

118grove did i miss anything all right [Music] did anyone want to comment about any of their activities before we move on um i'd just like to comment on the budget meeting i went to today um there were two things that they really uh pushed and encouraged us to do a little advocacy one was the ada relief as i mentioned earlier the state assembly is opposed to it because they think everything's all fixed now that we're no longer in hybrid um so what they wanted people to do is write their assembly um members and advocate for the ada relief the other piece that they wanted us to advocate for was um the bump in the lcff base uh the governor's pr is said three percent and both the assembly and the senate um want more up

119to 15 so that's something else to advocate for is the bump up of the lcf grant that's all okay anyone else um comments from the public on the consent agenda so if anyone has a comment on something on the consent agenda please put your first and last name in the chat and which item you'd like to speak towards or in person uh the yellow cards okay we'll go ahead and close the chat all right um approval of consent agenda by consolidated motion i move to approve the consent agenda a second questions or comments on any of these good um on project success there was no emily yes i just realized and so i was just i was puzzled because um we did fix it it's on there now right right yeah and it might have

120been on the right we had a couple of complicating factors happening so my apologies oh it's okay i was just i just wanted clarification on it and yeah we'll we'll bring it back to them sorry and also could when you do bring it back could you be more specific about how it's used like if it's just after school if they just have a presentation in hi or whether it's something that uh it goes into the junior high sixth grade um like how exactly is it used and how how does it work as an alternative to suspension and stuff yes i will okay thank you thank you i'm glad i wasn't nuts no no because there's two chickens because there's two things for allergy so should i then move to table 12.4 12.4.1 until the next

121meeting yes okay then i move that second cool all in favor all right i know i was looking at i get such an overview any other questions or comments i just want to say that the alatine program is amazing and i'm glad they're coming into our schools my son got a lot out of it yeah i like that they had uh three networks that was really helpful we haven't seen one of those in a long time it was great so thank them and thank you mikey for doing that thank you if you have any questions about anything all right um then i'll move to approve the consent agenda as amended second all in favor all right okay uh comments from the public on action items same thing first and last name in the chat give

122a comment about something one of the action items all right i'm going to close the chat i think there's no one right all right old friend av 360. uh we can either go back to remote we can stay hybrid or i move to stay in hybrid for whatever the longest period we can possible all right all in favor okay um resolution 21 22 to 29 consolidation of the election conservatives from moraine county so i read that and i don't understand it so there's a there's a little little chunk of marin county that isn't within our tenants area it's yes it's all yours now it's really it's like not already yeah it's like first and it still costs a ton of money to put your stuff on the ballot even though it's only for like 40

123households and remember we actually go all the way to step of money from high school boundaries so yeah it's about 40 about yeah i move to approve resolution 2122-29 second all in favor hey what would happen if we didn't have services no way to vote for you i guess no i don't know yeah i will let's not find out okay let's not find out now all right uh resolution 21 22-30 um declaring june as lgbtqia plus prime month i moved to approve resolution 21 22-30 a second somebody has to read it it's so beautiful okay yeah it is you're gonna read it i'll read it i will read it karen did most of the writing i just edited thank you karen yeah it was beautiful resolution of the board of education of the petaluma city

124elementary and petaluma joint union high school districts of the county of sonoma state of california now we know where we are for declaring june as lesbian gay bisexual transgender queer intersex and asexual lgbtqia plus pride month whereas petaluma city schools model sorry i'm gonna i can't read it i'm gonna cry do you want me to read yeah okay uh whereas petaluma city schools models models advocates and promotes the inclusive and respectful treatment of all members of the community it serves and is committed to safety for all including the lgbtqia plus community and whereas the district is an inclusive school community and will continue to build an environment where every student grows up knowing their school community supports them is proud of them and has a place for them exactly as they are and whereas the

125month of june is an opportunity to highlight the identities and contributions of the lgbtqia plus community in june 2022 in particular marks the 53rd anniversary of the stonewall uprising which highlighted and served as a catalyst for the struggle of lgbtqia plus rights and whereas the fair education act of 2012 called for a positive inclusion of the contributions of lgbtqia plus americans and social studies curriculum and the student success and opportunity act of 2013 strengthened protections for transgender students and a firm that all students should be recognized and participate in activities by their gender identity and whereas sexual orientation and gender expression biased bullying is among the most common forms of harassment in schools in peer harassment and whereas harassment and bullying contribute to significantly higher rates of school dropout academic failure and school disengagement and

126whereas lgbtqia plus youth are more likely to experience a mental health condition and are at a greater risk of suicide and deserve our vocal affirmation and support as well as special attention to the unique challenges they may face at school and in their communities and whereas education regarding lgbtqia plus issues increases understanding cultivates respect for lgbtqia plus students staff and families and creates a culture of allyship and whereas policies that specifically mention sexual orientation gender identity and gender expression are associated with students feeling safer lower levels of bullying decreased incidence of harassment related to sexual orientation increased teacher staff interventions and a greater reporting of incidents in a safe accessible and accountable process under california ed code and whereas the board of trustees recognizes and rejects the shameful history and present-day manifestations of bias against

127an oppression of lgbtqia plus individuals and heartily celebrates each lgbtqia plus student staff member and family member as valued members of the petaluma community and by recognizing pride month we support other policies practices and curricula the honor and respect lgbtqia plus students staff and their families do you want to read the end or do you want me to keep going okay now therefore be it resolve that pendulum city schools hereby issues this resolution and on and record in honor and recognition of june 2022 as lgbtqia plus pride month therefore be it further resolved that petaluma city schools hereby directs all district sites to fly the pride flag during the month of june 2022 and every future month of june all right thank you karen that was amazing yes karen and katelyn thank you very much

128i will look at you i just want to continue it's just uh rough time in education and queer issues but i'm just such a crybaby i can't um what we're seeing in florida and what we're seeing in texas is so scary and it's not that long ago that california was doing the exact same things and we've heard it from parents in our very own district and it terrifies me in 1978 they tried to vote to not allow gay men and women to be teachers like that's not far ago history um the year i was born yeah no and i i like that this uh it's very student-focused it's very much about like let's protect the mental health of students and let's accept and honor every student our students we wouldn't have as many queer staff

129our trans staff yeah we also have an openly gay woman running for superintendent of sonoma county schools there's a motion on the table sorry yeah yeah we're just having a cool by yeah it's a beautifully written very beautiful i'm excited to see all the rainbow flags in june yeah yeah me too it'll be lovely um as a member of the lgbtq myself like this is like it's insane i don't really have anything else to say all right oh all in favor aye aye okay all right um resolution 21 22 to 32 uh classroom capacity limits who's presenting this i moved to approve resolution we gotta do that i moved to approve resolution 2122-32 or classroom capacity limit i'll second without crying all in favor aye all right um [Music] um 21 22 salary schedules for

130classified management certificate in management confidential employees contract addendum for assistant superintendent ed services assistant superintendent of human resources and assistant superintendent of student services and chief business official i moved to approve the 20 21 22 salary schedules that joanna just read off a second all in favor all right um declaration of need for fully qualified educators in the district for the 22-23 school year i have a question sure jason you want to describe this one what exactly does this declaration do with this deck related this declaration is um stating what we anticipate the need will be for those different types of of hirings that won't be necessarily fully qualified like there's waivers or or other things that we might need and then if we if you looked in that it said if we exceed that

131by 10 we need to come back and restate that so we're trying to predict how many we're going to need and this is more than we've had in years past because of what we're seeing based on this year's evidence what we anticipate so we're trying to predict the future and we're seeing that you know it's it's it's hard to find people that are fully qualified so this declaration allows us to hire interns or it's it's yeah people outside of their credential well this this declaration is stating what we anticipate will be the need for those things i mean we're allowed to hire them by going through the proper channels but this is us publicly stating this is what we think the need will be and if it is greater than that we'll come back and

132clarify that later so just trying to i think be transparent about what we think the you know the projections are for the next school year okay thanks yeah it's something that we do every year we need we need to we need to stay publicly this is what this is what we anticipate so it's sort of a pro forum yep okay all right i moved uh to approve the declaration of need um for fully qualified educators in the petaluma elementary school district for 2223 second all in favor and i move to approve the declaration of need for fully qualified educators and parliament joint union high school district for 22-23 a second all in favor okay um business services resolution 21 22-31 yeah we we do not do this very often that we actually bring a request

133for an easement it's kind of an unusual thing so i've walked you through in the background kind of the steps that we have to take it's not an extensive easement it's at the transportation yard kind of between what dave calls the clubhouse which is the i.t [Laughter] and the transportation office dead space where we're going to install a switch gear and a pd needs to install meter and they're going to bring their infrastructure right up to that switch gear and meter um we're going to do all the work on our side of it so they really want to use them in order to maintain their infrastructure so um there's a formal process by which we have to do that this is the first step in that process the next step would be a public hearing

134and then in the energy we'll bring back a formal resolution actually granting them and we're this is also indicative of us working hand in hand or simultaneously with pg e right on this service in order to support the infrastructure we're going to put in for the bus charging stations um and that it needs to be meter to support those charging stations so we can charge the lesser rate so that's all part of this overall project and we're working hand in hand with pg e as we move down that process so is there a cost to the district for the easement for granting anything to pgne yeah no we don't we don't um no we would not pay them and they're not going to pay us anything we're just granting them we're really granting them access

135to maintain their equipment which we would want them to do because if there was an issue with the underground power feeding our leader that speeds the charging station we would want them to be able to repair it right and there this is all underground work so i don't anticipate that there will be much need for it um but but it's part of their protocol so but yes we're not we're not everything is part of their critical relationships but we're grateful that they're bringing the services because we can't operate to charging stations without it could they be used i moved to approve resolution 2122-31 a second phone favor all right thank you and pg [Laughter] okay approval of resolution 2122-23 recognizing our student board member malaya cantor hi tony are you pres i think tony's presenting

136[Music] okay i do oh and i feel them i'd love to read it ellen wants to read it oh great what are we doing malaya counter student board member petaluma city schools whereas malaya cantor successfully completed her term as student representative to the board of education and has performed her duties in an exemplary manner and whereas my malaya is an articulate intelligent casa grande high school student and her participation and engagement have been well organized comprehensive and delivered with clarity and sincerity and whereas the petaluma city school district board of education has welcomed her interests concerns and advice in many topics that come before the board and whereas malay has been a loyal member of hillary city schools demonstrated in her dedication and commitment to her studies malaya is the president and founder of the

137include inclusivity objectivity and understanding iou club member of the student council advisory pta diversity representative and spanish translator at casa grande high school she is also active in sports a varsity player for girls volleyball team and also plays on an 18 black club team for the marin juniors now therefore be resolved that the governing board of petaluma city schools commends malaya cantor for her dedicated service expresses its appreciation for her warm friendship and extends its best wishes as she continues her education in the fall of 2022 as a senior at casa grande high school be it further resolved that a copy of the resolution be made an integral part of the minutes of the may 24th 2022 meeting of the petaluma city schools board of education passed and adopted by the governing board of the

138petaluma city schools on may 24 20 22. i just want to say thank you so much to every single one of you for inviting me to support this amazing opportunity and to see the background of all the work that happens um you guys keep questions you really push change you listen to our community members and you know when having katie and i on the sport um we really show dedication to your students first and foremost and i'm just so honored to have had this experience with you guys and hopefully it's not the last time i see you all right yeah thank you [Music] just because i'm so involved in um leadership cards i haven't um signed up yet um i'm waiting to see how many other people have applied because i want to give space

139for other voices i think it's really important because when i um when i became a board member i like a lot of my peers were like oh i saw that but i was too scared and i'm like your voice is important yeah thank you for encouraging me yeah thank you that's wonderful for your fearlessness yeah it's it's scary at first but then like i came here i'm like oh yeah they're people too yeah and i really really really value your contribution because it gave a voice that wasn't represented on this board and we really appreciate it all right and katie hale she's not here [Music] probably i'm moving to approve 21 22-30 student board member malaya cantor all in favor aye aye absolutely all right so what do we do about katie we can still

140read it all right ellen do you want to read that one sure just fine okay board of education resolution number 2122-34 katie hale student board member of petaluma city schools whereas katie hale successfully completed her term as student representative to the board of education and has performed her duties in an exemplary manner and whereas katie is an articulate intelligent petaluma high school student and her participation in engagement have been well organized comprehensive and delivered with clarity and sincerity and whereas the palima city school district board of education has welcomed her interests concerns and advice from many topics that come before the board and whereas katie has been a liberal member of petaluma city schools demonstrated in her dedication and commitment to her studies katie is involved on campus through link crew asb student advisory council

141and site council outside of school she takes part in club soccer for north coast soccer club and volunteers for national charity league she's the captain of the varsity girls soccer team and has played on the team since freshman year katie is also president of the future women leaders of business and industry club i love it now therefore be it resolved that the governing board of honolulu city schools commence katie hale for her dedicated service expresses its appreciation for her warm friendship and extends its best wishes as she continues her education in the fall of 2022 as a senior at petaluma high school be it further resolved that a copy of the resolution be made an integral part of the minutes of the may 24th 2022 meeting of the petaluma city schools board of education passed

142and adopted by the governing board of the public message schools on may 24 2022 move to approve resolution number 21 22-34 second all in favor [Music] um new course proposal for petaluma high school environmental education yeah so this is actually replacing the wildlife and management courses at petaluma high school those courses were eighth or g and these courses will be eighth or geopog course excellent every time i read about new courses it makes me want to go back to high school these classes are amazing yes right and is that same for the next one yes okay um overnight field trip to washington dc for so this field trip is um it's a private field trip it's not technically i mean it's not sanctioned by the school or by the district this is probably just more

143information that um the families are going to um and just wanted us to be aware of it so it's in there for discussion discussion only because it's it's just uh yeah there's nothing nothing to approve it's just i think the principals wanted you to know that they were they're going to be taking a group of students as part of a third party vendor private vendor and it sounds fabulous all right uh future business looks like the next meeting we have an update on the uh equity professional development yes um anything else are we gonna know who our new student board members are [Music] yeah so the plan is by june 14th we should have um news number one the elections are yeah they should well yeah school will be yeah by the end of school

144yeah before they before june um okay anything else um i had gotten an email i know we've been talking about diversifying our pipeline and just getting more diversity in the schools and just wanted to know we'd have a discussion on um because the other districts around us like sonoma valley santa rosa are paying their school counseling they talking about staff diversified and staff yeah yeah i don't know if that the fact that we don't pay her accounts at the same time has been an issue in us getting interns has there been an issue with us i know that we pay our um trainees um and interns for mental health services so our mft interns i don't i'm not aware of any requests for counseling interns but that's something we can certainly consider and by extension

145look at at least have a discussion were you were you concerned were you wondering about about just those positions are you wondering about the overall board goal about diversifying our workforce um i think it might tie in only because um i i don't know what our staff is going to look like for next year if we have increased diversity i don't know what this is you're talking about school counselors yeah right yeah and i had a request from someone at least for us to discuss it i can bring information either just on the counselors or in general about steps that were that we're taking for diversifying our workforce whatever you prefer can we do both in general we can be like write it down anything else do you have anything more that you want no

146questions about um no not right now she's probably busy i know you're nearing the end all right so with that we are adjourned