001We're going to go ahead and call this meeting to order at 5:34 p.m. And prior to jumping into our open session, we're going to couple housekeeping. Um, this meeting is being audio and video recorded for those of you. We normally do an announcement of where you use the restroom, but uh that that building is closed today. So, we have a restroom right inside of here inside of this room. Starting with item 3.2.1 stipulated expulsion 0411C25-26. Do I have a motion? >> Move to approve. >> I second. >> We have a first by Trustee Jeff and a second by Trustee Underwood to approve item 3.2 2 stipulated expulsion 0411C25-26. All in favor say I. >> I. >> All oppose. Hearing none. Motion passes unanimously. Item 3.2.2 readmission of expelled student 10923-24. Do I have a motion?
002>> I move. >> We have a first by Trusty Underwood. >> Second by Trusty Jeff to approve item 3.2.2. All in favor say I. I >> I >> All oppose >> hearing none. Motion passes unanimously. One moment. >> Should we redo the motion? No, you're totally fine. Thank you, Dez. So, these are actually all stipulated on my notes. It says otherwise, but so that is um a stipulated uh expulsion and all of these are. Okay, perfect. Thank you. All right. Item 3.2.3 stipulated expulsion 0609 DO24-25. Do I have a motion? I move approval. >> We have a first by Trusty Underwood, >> second by Trustee Spade. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Um, that part was correct. >> Was inaccurate. >> Yeah. >> Stand by. >> That was actually 2526. Sorry, I'm going
003to start calling them out from this other sheet. One moment. 3.2.3 2.3 is actually 069 C25-26. Motion carries unanimously. Okay. Item 3.2.4 stipulated expulsion 099 C 25 through 26. >> The agenda shows a different number. >> Lord have mercy. Stand by y'all. And 3.2.4. four. >> Yes. [clears throat] >> So we have a discrepancy here. Is it is just >> It is 100% the agenda. >> Okay. >> So item 3.2.4 stipulated expulsion 089C25-26. All right. Do I have a motion? >> Move to approve. >> We have a first by Trusty Jeff, second by Trusty Lake to approve item 3.2.4. Four stipulated expulsion 089 C25-26. All in favor say I. >> I. All oppose. Hearing none. Motion carries. 40. All right. Item 3.3 public employee employment discipline dismissal release pursuant to government code section 54957. We
004have two items to report out. The first item in close session, the board voted to approve the motion to non-reelect classified employee number 8320 pursuant to education code 44929.21. The motion was unanimous. All four members uh 4. The first was by Trusty Lake and the second was by Trusty Spade. The second case for the same item, the board unanimously took action in favor of approving a discretionary unpaid leave through May 20 uh May 29th, 2026 pursuant to California code education code 45195 for employee number 6222. The first was by Trusty Underwood and the second was by Trustee Jeff. Item 3.5, conference with labor negotiator pursuant to government code section 54947.6. No action was taken. Item 3.6, Six, conference with legal counsel regarding anticipated litigation pursuant to government code section 54956.9 significant exposure to litigation pursuant
005to government code 54956.9 subdivision D21 case. We want to acknowledge that we've heard the concerns of the community. There is a threat of litigation and all of this is now in the hands of our attorneys. At this time, we did not uh finish item 3.7. The board will uh readjourn and uh prior or excuse me, after our uh open session back to close session to conduct our superintendent evaluation. Actually, you know what? I skipped item an item. Let me move back here. >> 3.4. Thank you. And prior to that, um item 3.4, for a public employee appointment pursuant to government code section 54957B1. Um a board majority 3 to one. Uh the majority included trustes Lake, Jeff, and Spade. Uh the opposing vote uh was by Trusty Underwood and uh direction was provided to staff.
006[clears throat] With that being said, we're going to go ahead and move into our open session items. Organization, welcome. It's nice to have a full house tonight. Thank you guys for taking time to come out and uh join us. And with that, we will rise uh for the pledge of allegiance. Trusty Lake, will you lead us, please? >> Sure. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. And madame president, if I may, we need to move into the uh public hearing at 5:40, please. >> Thank you. >> Going to go ahead and jump to item seven, and we'll go back to the other items on our agenda here shortly. This is
007our public hearing uh for consideration of resolution 162526, resolution of conveyance to convey an easement to PG&E. Miss Madam President, as as noted, we first approached the board on this in December meeting. Um that was then given notice to the public if they wanted to come to this meeting and have any comments. This is public hearing time for them to comment on the agenda item that will be coming up in action uh recommending approval of the easement with PG at Kfax High School and then more will be explained at that time. >> Thank you very much. Is there any public comment on our public hearing? Seeing none, going to go ahead and close that public hearing and we're going to move back to item 5.2, approval of our agenda. Do I have a motion? >>
008Move to approve. Second. >> We have a first by Trusty Lake and a second by Trusty Jeff to approve item 5.2, the approval of our agenda. >> Second, >> excuse me, uh by Trusty Underwood. Uh do we have any questions or changes at this time? Hearing none, starting with our student board. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Board. >> I. >> All oppose. Hearing none. Pot motion passes unanimously. All righty. All right. We're going to go ahead and uh move to item six, reports and communications. Uh starting with item 6.1, board reports. This time is allowed for our members of our board to conduct discussions on events in which they've participated and correspondents related to our district programs they wish to share. Do I have any takers? >> Okay, >> thank you. >>
009So, I believe it was last week. It seems like forever ago, but [clears throat] um Delora had their back to school night and with my uh daughter being a junior at Deloro, um I went to go sit in on her class sessions and and meet her um her teachers, the ones I haven't met yet. Um that was a great experience. Um that night before the actual um rotations where u the parents are going into the classrooms, however, there was a series of breakout sessions and student board member Justin Petty um took the initiative to set up a um a session uh kind of getting to understand what the board the school board actually does. So it was very productive I feel like and I want to thank um school board member Petty for for doing
010that. It was a great um experience and there was I don't know probably about 10 parents or so that came um >> in the second and >> was it that many? Yes. >> Okay. Wow. I really wasn't paying attention, though, was I? [laughter] But it was a really productive time. Um, and you know, we got to talk a lot about what the board does and what we don't do and um and how we do things and um and answer a lot of questions that people had too. So, I thought it was a great experience. So, um we did have those uh the flyers made up um recently about what the the school board does. Hopefully, there's some on the back table there. Um if not, hopefully maybe at the next meeting we can have that
011happen. Um so that people get a better understanding of what the board's authority actually is and what it isn't and what we do and what we don't do. Um that's kind of the purpose of that and the same kind of the similar to what the session was that uh school member Petty um put together. So great job. >> Thank you Trusty Jeff. Trusty Underwood. >> Yeah. Uh good news is uh Thank you. Good news is important to share when we can. And the investment committee is doing incredibly well. Uh Matt, our investment uh supervisor for their scholarship funds has, to be conservative, has moved uh about 25% of our stocks uh back to bonds and reduced our exposure uh which is I think excellent not knowing exactly what might transpire in the future. Uh we
012are uh about 25% up right now from our original investment doing quite well and that's exciting. So uh we should be able to uh meet not only our our current obligations of scholarships but we're considering adding new scholarships as well. So uh kudos to our investments and our investment advisor. Um, I guess my thoughts, uh, in general, um, having been with the district for 51 years, this is my 51st year of service to the district. Um, I love this. I I love our district. I love our our schools, our sites, our our administrators. Um, I guess my heart has always been with the kids that are struggling and are finding it difficult academically to succeed and my thoughts are always with them. Um, when I was teaching in the classroom and and it's changed so
013much right now. I I really like what we are doing that I'm seeing. There's no longer any rows in classes. Kids are collaborately meeting, discussing, working together. All of my uh time that I've spent in the classrooms. I'm excited with the uh creativity of our staff, the enthusiasm of our students. I think we have a good district. Uh I'm concerned about the finances. you know, our budget was we haven't had to make severe cuts, but um we're not able to uh really offer more incentives to our staff, which I I wish we could. So, I'm just hoping that we can continue with our measures of austerity and uh the staff realizes that we hold them in high esteem for their excellent work, their creativity, their enthusiasm. Um, we have a great district. Thank you. >>
014Thank you very much, Trusty Underwood. Trusty Lake. >> Yeah. Hi. Hello, everyone. It's good to be with you all. Thank you guys for coming out. Um looking forward to the meeting tonight. Um this past month has been we got through the holidays and it's been really good to to see the action that's going on on our sites at our on our campuses. I was able to attend the the walk and learn at Plaster High School. Love that campus every single time I get the chance to visit. uh we got to go into classrooms and um see teachers in action. In in one case, you're just a fly on the wall. You don't even they don't even miss a beat and you're just um this this was a a freshman class and the engagement was was
015awesome. Um there really is great instruction going on. Uh and there's a lot of uh wonderful things that are happening uh at all of our sites. And so I think that there's a lot to celebrate, a lot to be optimistic about. Um I think that uh the future is bright for our district and you know it's a it's an honor to uh to serve on this board. This today marks my one year mark. Uh it was one year ago where uh I was appointed because of uh of a resignation and um it's been a a year of of learning and gaining experience for myself and uh I just want to share with you that it is an honor and privilege. [snorts] um you wish more of your time could be spent on uh matters of
016education, but the reality is uh I I don't know if it's just the world we live in today, but we do deal with a lot of different issues outside of education. Uh a lot of important decisions are made u regarding our budgets, um regarding staffing issues, [clears throat] regarding complaints and uh and litigation. So you get to really wear different hats and uh and you you gain different experience and you and you experience different things. So, uh it's it overall it is a positive. Uh it does feel like um you're you are providing a service to the community and um and it's you know I I feel blessed and and fortunate to be among you all. So grateful to be here and uh that's all I got. Thank you, Trusty Lake, and happy one year.
017>> Yeah, thanks. >> Glad you're still hanging out. >> Yeah. >> Welcome everybody. Um I hope everybody enjoyed a long weekend. Um I know that we we appreciated it. We were we spent most of our time on on a school campus because of a wrestling tournament, but nonetheless still joyful and wonderful, and I hope you guys had some had some nice time to regroup from the holidays as well and reset. Um similarly, you know, our our campuses are busy. Our programs, our winter sports did not have a break. Um the Kendall Arnett uh championship at at Plaster was happening New Year's Eve night. Truth be told, I was planning on going. I was not feeling well and I actually slept through it. I Who knew that I was going to fall asleep at 400 p.m.
018on a New Year's Eve, but I did. Um but congratulations to both teams for performing so amazing and thank the community for coming out and supporting these teams. Placer did win, just in case you were wondering. So, um, it's always great to be a Hillman and I love opportunities for our community to come and celebrate together. >> Um, so I just wanted to say, um, I also attended the California School Board Association's uh, Governor's Budget proposal breakdown Zoom meeting. For those of you tracking school finance and the the governor's budget is it's the third year consecutive that there's a proposal to do a maneuver with the education financing and budget. Uh, and I would assume just like the past two years, there's probably going to be litigation through California School Board Association uh for this
019maneuver that uh violates uh our constitution, our California State Constitution. So, we shall see where that goes and and how we prevail. Um, I hope down the line. I also attended a wellness meeting and thank you to our student board member Justin. I was on another call and I got a text message. He goes, "Hey, you confirmed you're going to be at this wellness meeting." So, uh, even our student board members helping, uh, keep us accountable, and I appreciate it. I was coming. I was just coming a little late. Um, I also attended the Placer Learning Walk. Um, I love learning walk season. Trustees, I hope that you're able to to make it to the next couple or few. Um, and please, uh, trustees, use that Google calendar so we can kind of track and
020make sure that that not more than two of us are showing up, um, at at any given place. But I decided that the theme for my plaster learning walk after uh considering all the wonderful things that I saw is that it was hands-on and phones off phones and screens off. Like those kids were were I was in science, so there's a lot of hands-on in science, but they they were not reading out of a book and just doing normal things. They were they were um working on projects together collaboratively. I saw um wonderful instruction and total engagement. >> [snorts] >> It's so wonderful to get to visit the sites. Um, as Trusty Lake had mentioned and Trusty Underwood, I mean, there's so many wonderful things going on on our sites at any given time, but
021there's so much noise outside of uh what we do and it's always wonderful to get a reset with the kids um and to see the great the great work that's happening. Um, we had senior night this past week for the wrestling team and our boys and girls wrestling team are doing outstanding and uh the boys team at Plaster High School had a major victory against River Valley on Wednesday night last week with a 52 to28 score and they are two uh duels away from getting that title for the first time since 2018. So kudos to those awesome athletes and coaches. I also attended the the Forest Hill Learning Walk and um a comment that Dr. Camonetti made in there and and it resonated because it's the truth. There's so much leveling happening in all of
022those classes. Those teachers are teaching multiple courses at one at any given time and um and they're doing outstanding work and they're creative and they're they're keeping their students engaged. Um, and it's always fun to be walking with other teachers when we're going through because, you know, inevitably like we're all learning from everything that's going on on our campus at any given time and they are learning from their peers and and being inspired by the good practices that are happening in those classrooms. Um, but it's so fun. Uh, Forest Hill is such a beautiful school and I always love uh getting to pop up there and see the good work that's happening. Um, we like I said, I was at at Plaster all weekend with a dual tournament and and I can't you can't be
023there for that many hours and not give massive shout outs to everybody who makes these types of things happen. And I know they're happening everywhere um on on all of our campuses, but because I would had an eyewitness, I just wanted to thank all of the the community and the kids that that showed up um and spent hours setting everything up. um their booster club, the coaches, the athletes. Um and we had two amazing custodial staff on site. Um Tyler Tubs and Israel, I'm so sorry. I cannot recall your last name. My sincere apologies, but I have a picture of him. I you can identify him later. But Israel and Tyler were exceptional. Those bathrooms were super clean. They were happy Johnny on the spot grabbing um and and taking tables and chairs and making
024sure that plaster was so beautiful. I love walking through and hearing people who haven't been to our campus talk about how amazing our site is and uh they're like, "This place is so rad." And we had teams that have never been to Plaster before. So that was really fun. Um I also wanted to give a shout out to the athletic director, Mike Sabins. Um he arrived early Saturday morning when he needed we needed to troubleshoot. He opened his office. He allowed coaches to use his printer and computer. Um, and uh, I have seen because of my husband um, coaching for years, the incredible work that Mike Sabins does as a as an athletic director. He takes calls early morning, late at night. He shows up, drives so many miles to support these kids and these
025programs. He's a decisive leader. Um, he definitely supports these kids. He was Matt side cheering on by name the kids on the mat. I just I I have a ton of respect and a a lot of appreciation for how he's shown up um continuously and this is not an isolated thing. Um but it made me consider that um over the weekend. I wanted to thank our superintendent Ali also for for coming to the DS on Wednesday and on Saturday. We just have a really amazing team and support and uh I'm very appreciative of all the work that's happening for all of our coaches and all of the people on our our sites. But I think that until last year, I had never seen a superintendent um come to to wrestling, at least not not when
026I've been there. I haven't witnessed it myself, but last year, Dr. Caminetti came to came to a tournament and superali superintendent Ali came this past week and I just so appreciate that. There's there's a lot of things happening on our campuses all the time. Uh music and I know that um our staff is supporting that and I and I sincerely appreciate it. There's a couple of things uh that have happened recently with uh federal rulings. I just wanted to share this with you. Uh there was a case uh granting a motion for summary judgement issued on December 22nd just before Christmas. In the case regarding Mirabella versus Olsen in a federal district court judge in San Diego ruled that parents have the constitutional right to be notified when their child requests to change their gender
027presentation at school and that schools cannot prohibit teachers from sharing information about a student's gender with uh with parents. This case um is a class action lawsuit which involved teachers and parents who objected to policies that prevent school employees from disclosing information specifically regarding the students gender identity without a student's consent. In its decision, the first California case uh to make this holding, the court held that these policies violated parents substantive due process rights under the 14th amendment to make decisions related to education, medical care, and religious upbringing of their children and their first amendment rights to direct their religious upbringing of their children. Further, the court held that these policies violated a teacher's first amendment rights to free exercise of their religion by prohibiting them from sharing information about their students to their parents.
028Notably, this case has been appealed and uh and a temporary stay was issued. Once a final decision is issued and appeals are exhausted, CSBA will review relevant uh sample policies to determine whether revisions are necessary. But I did uh want to bring that to your attention. Um, they also noted, CSBA also noted that this case was initiated before the passage of Assembly Bill 1955, which bars school districts from requiring parental notification when a student changes their gender presentation. And the court stated that this decision was not about that legislation. And so, at this time, they said it appears or CSBA said that it appears that AB1955 has not been overturned. So, I just wanted to give you an update on that there. I'm sure that there will be more, but those who are tracking it,
029just so you know, we're tracking it. Also, with that being said, we're going to go ahead and move on to item 6.2, our ad hoc committee updates. Trusty Jeff. So about six months ago, um an ad hoc committee was formed with trustee president Spade and I um to go over, you know, and review our board policies, which of which there are many, [laughter] um to determine if any of them need to be updated, um if any of them, uh are just not necessary whatsoever and we can get rid of them because they don't necessarily apply to us. Um making sure that those policies as written um are still uh representative of the practices that we have in place. Um so over the last um number of months we've been going over those a little bit
030at a time. We met again last week and went over um a number of policies for about another hour and a half. Um and I would say we might be maybe halfway through if we're lucky. Um so we probably have a number of months still to go before we continue. Um but we have been identifying policies that we uh that we feel like aren't really necessary. Um they were just directly adopted by CS CSBA and uh there's no real reason for them. other policies where some changes need to be made, verbiage or what have you. Um so that process is still ongoing and uh hopefully we'll be meeting again later this week to continue that process and um I'd like to see that that completed by um by the summer. So >> uh definitely want
031to make sure that we're we're getting those knocked out. >> Thank you very much. Would you also like to speak to board bylaw 9030? >> Absolutely. So, we talked about this board bylaw um or board policy at length at our last meeting and the purpose of it you know what what it is that we were drafting uh and you know again why u which is significantly important um and that draft as I understand it has gone is at at the point where it's being reviewed by legal at this time so hopefully as soon as we get the green light from legal >> and with reflective of any changes that might need to be made um from their perspective um hopefully maybe at the next meeting we'll be able to bring that that policy forward Um
032the just to really briefly recap the conversation from the last board meeting. Uh our old policy um was certainly lacking and ambiguous and had some didn't really clarify what needed to happen, whose responsibility it was to do what. Um so that's that was the whole point of this new policy u was to clarify exactly what that policy looks like. Uh whose responsibility it is for what and who has what authority. Um that's really what that that policy was about just clarifying those those things. Thank you very much. >> Item 6.3, our student board members report. Starting with >> you, Cooper. >> Yeah. >> Um, I've got double trouble again. >> Great. [clears throat] >> Um, hopefully Adam is kicking butt at a soccer game right now, but who knows? >> Okay, so I'll go with
033Adam's first. Um, they had the future Falcon night on February 12th. Wait. Oh, he had or he's going to have. Sorry. um and they're inviting new students, parents, and guardians for a warm welcome to the Falcon family. Um his potential topics for student voice. Um he recommends a life skills class. Um they want to talk about what would be some potential subjects that students think would be important for a life skills class. Um he recommends or you know some examples will be self-defense or financial literacy. Um for sports, they've got snow or snowboard, alpine and Nordic ski fresh snow and they've started races and practices. So, good news over there. Finally, some snow. Um, wrestling had a showing last weekend at Placer and Foot Foothill tournaments. Um, boys and girls soccer is playing tonight at
034Center and girls basketball had a strong win over Liberty Ranch last night. And Friday, boys basketball beat River. Um, in the drama department, they have rehearsals underway for their spring musical, Foot Loose. Um, what else? They have track runways are being finished for the pull vault. So hopefully that'll be finished soon. Track season's coming up. And the KFAX Model United Club is hosting their fourth annual gala. Um they said it's a fun-filled night of dancing of this February 28th at the Ridge. Tickets are available online. So he says he's looking forward to student voice in our next meeting. That's Adam. I guess you can come back. Sure. If you want to just keep it in order, that's totally fine with me. >> Hi, Justin. >> Welcome. >> Sweet. Thank you. I appreciate it. Uh, good
035evening everyone. I hope everyone had the happiest of holidays and amazing start to this new year. In the last month, I've attended the St. Francis vs. Deloro varsity basketball game on 15, the St. Francis vs. his Deloro freshman soccer game on 18. Attended some of the CSBA governor's budget proposal breakdown on 112. Later that day, Trusty Jeff, Clerk Duncan, and I held a spring parents night session on 112 regarding schoolboard information and getting involved for student to board bylaw 9150. Thank you to Principal Zuros and DO Abn for that opportunity. Um, and thank you Trusty Jeff for that recognition as well. I attended the wellness committee alongside President Spate on 113. I was able to attend the Fulsome versus DO soccer game on 113 and a student ambassadors meeting held by assistant principal Barbario on
036114. Um, all right, let's kick it off with some Confluence West. Many students are loving their internships. Uh, it's really cool to hear because every time I go to check in, students are finding out what they like to do and they sometimes will go into an internship and they're like, uh-uh, absolutely not. Get me out of here. And sometimes they go into an internship and they're like, "Oh my goodness, this is the coolest thing ever." And seeing that progression throughout the term has been something that I didn't know about and something that has been really cool to see for me. Many students uh have come to me wanting merchandise to rep their culture and school spirit. They don't have like merchandise, so like t-shirts or anything like that. So I've been working alongside Sean and
037Morgan. They have a Cricut machine and uh there's a possibility of getting that done. So that would be really cool if we were able to do that. Uh, as academics go, some seniors graduated early and others have finally submitted pretty much all of their college applications. So, I'm excited to see what students get and where, what scholarships they get. That's a really fun time for our seniors. Dual enrollment classes taught by Sierra professors are starting up on 126. And we have uh many exchange students this year at Delora, which was kind of an interesting thing is I haven't had a class with an exchange student and this year I've had multiple classes with exchange students. So, this was actually something that a lot of other students have realized and are coming to me and are
038like, there's a lot of exchange students here and it's it's cool. It's cool to see. Um, as for activities, we had winter break, which was a nice relaxing time. And as we started back up, we have new schedules in place for the semester. And students, I you could talk to Miss Evans about this. Uh, she's our psychology teacher. She always calls it the care graph. And it starts up very high for students and it goes down low. And for teachers, it's the opposite. And at about midterms, it's at the same point. So, uh, it's nice to see the energy reset though at Deloro. Students are looking forward Oh, I just said that. Auditions for Legally Blonde will also be happening soon. As for activities, moving on to athletics, our winter sports, basketball, wrestling, and soccer
039have all started up and games are being played. Uh, there's no report on playoffs yet. Feedback I've received in the last month, mainly in the last month, I've received an immense support for our teachers in the district. I think it's the new classes that people are going into their new classes and loving their teachers. Um, I know I say this very often, but we do have very incredible teachers in our district. I feel like a record on repeat, but I support our hardworking teachers so immensely. And uh with the recent PARS agreement, I think it's more important than ever to retain our current teachers and make this position more desirable to any applicants by either lowering their class sizes, giving some sort of competitive compensation or COLA adjustment as they are the incredible individuals that
040our students are getting to be with and learn from. Um, all right. This next one, um, I want both the board and public to know that the following information is a public statement regarding Kirk Clerk Duncan and is not related to the news articles, politics, nor basketball, but simply as a character reference. I want both the board and public to know that I did not discuss this with anybody, not even my parents, before sharing this, so this is all my own opinion. Clerk Duncan is from my experience a man of integrity and a man of character. He has often seek the student perspective and has additionally been a vital role in attending events at Deloro High School. I've seen him at sporting events I have been to as well as the student voice meetings. Is
041he perfect? No. Is he a hardworking human? Yes. His daughter is very involved at Deloro and I've seen her do acts of kindness. To give an example, there was a freshman no one was talking to and her friends were walking by, but Clerk Duncan's daughter acknowledged the student and stayed to talk to him. Furthermore, with the large amount of experience and involvement clerk Duncan has had in the community, he has used it for the better and has provided a voice to the Delaware community when on the das and leads as a role model went off the dis as well. Trusty Duncan from my experience is invested in the community and from all experiences I have had, I want the board to know that I believe Clerk Duncan to be a good man, leads with integrity,
042and has good intentions. All right, moving on to student voice. I think cafeteria options should be the next student voice topic. I've re I heard a laugh. Um I know it's so hard with state budget and with state guidelines and nutrition options, but um as our wellness committee is starting and as we have our first two students there, I think that students more often than not want to go to school to eat the food but might not like it. And I have connected with other student board members across the state on this issue. And they said that students who get a sample like they they've had student voice meetings where they get where the cafeteria brings a sampling of everything that they can think of, new recipes, old recipes that are all like cafeteria eligible.
043So it's like like all all stuff that they can serve. And then having those students being able to say what their favorite is. So, if they really like the, I don't know, chowine, maybe they maybe we look into some more Asian foods to add to our menu. Or maybe if they're loving the burritos, we look at some more Mexican food to add to the menu. And kind of going based off of student input there. I think that'd be kind of interesting. And then we could also along with that partner with our families and parents and send out a survey or um send out a similar parent night to be able to have that similar feedback because I think parents also want their kids to be having good food. All right. And as always, ending it
044on a light, positive, and fun note because I know we do a lot of serious stuff, but at the same time, we do a lot of fun stuff as well. And uh Mr. Feffer, I know I talk about his science experiments all the time, but he did a demonstration for parents night. And as we were at parents night, I'm just hearing the parents talk about Mr. Feffer's science experiments. He did different ones from what I believe for each class. And the chemistry one had fire. And if anyone knows anything about science, we all love fire. So that was pretty cool. And then the last thing, uh, last fun positive thing is the military had a concert at DO, um, last week on Thursday. That's something I've never seen before. They had a full-on, um, speaker
045system, singer, band, drums. Uh, it was awesome. They they're all they're they were trying to recruit for sure. But, um, students loved it because they were able to get some free merch. Um, they were able to listen to a concert and just have a good time with their friends at lunch. And I didn't know about it beforehand. No one knew about it beforehand. So, it's just a really cool surprise. Appreciate you guys and thank you. >> Thank you, Justin. >> Maddie, >> hello. Um, so for sports at Forest Hill, our basketball teams are about halfway done with their league programs and our girls basketball team and our JV boys basketball team have a winning record. Yay. Uh for our spring sports, uh they've started practicing and we now have a girls sand volleyball team, which
046means Forest Hill now has seven spring sports. Uh, as for our leadership program, they're throwing a glowco dance on Friday in our theater and they are going to start working on community night. And to sort of like I don't want to say force, maybe force more parents to look more into the classes their kids are attending, we're going to move all of our like teacher stations into the main hallway so that when they're going to the basketball game on community night, they're going to have to look at it. So, we'll see how they like that. [snorts] Um, we recently had a student panel attend a meeting with teaching staff and the student panel was asked a lot of questions about how teachers can motivate students to participate more more in class and I know that
047a lot of teachers benefited from this experience and I think the students liked it too. Um, so I think that was really cool. Uh, our National Honor Society has been working on a mental health awareness week that we're trying to bring up soon. Uh, our journalism club is working on setting up their annual field trip to the Auburn Journal. And for our next voice meeting, I'd also like to talk about cafeteria food options. I think that's a really good idea. [laughter] Thank you, >> Maddie Cooper. >> Mine is not cafeteria food. [laughter] >> Little variety. Thanks. >> Yeah. My recommendation would um this is kind of um from a meeting that we had in the student advisory council maybe couple months ago. Um it came up and it was about like books that have been
048banned or challenged. So um I think it'd be interesting because you know our English department or really just like all most English departments have historically you know taught with books um like specifically um I remember like of Men Tequila Mockingbird um that have been recently banned or challenged um at like a national level. So, I thought it'd be interesting just to get kids together to discuss whether these books like have enough value to continue to be taught or if it's just too, you know, offensive or um, you know, whatever their argument is that it's not appropriate. So, that's my recommendation. Um, at Plaster today, we got leaders around our campus to talk with middle schoolers at Newcastle Middle School um to basically just pitch how great Plaster is. So, um, and just help him just
049kind of get a, you know, just an overview of what life as a high schooler like and just try to, you know, take like the nervous gap away being that, you know, first freshman here on campus. So, um, that was cool. Um, both basketball teams are off to a great start. You know, we saw um, the boys win the Kendall Arnett um, once again and the girls won the Coach G tournament earlier, too. So, they're both off to a great start. Um, President Spade said that um, wrestling, you know, mentioned wrestling already. Um, I talked to one of our players or wrestlers a little while ago. May not still be true because it was like a week ago, but the boys are, I think, undefeated. Um, and the girls program has doubled in size, so
050that's good news for them. And they say they're most looking forward to league finals, which will be at Plaster this year. So, they are looking forward to that. Um, student advisory council is also working on an exciting new project to organize a panel of community members. Um, also perhaps board members just to help um, you know, bring our students closer to you, kind of understand the why behind what you do. Um, and just to ask questions, just clarify, just you know, make that connection closer. So, um, stay tuned because maybe that'll be coming out soon. Um at Maidu, um assistant principal Miller is on the road presenting the middle schoolers in around the area um to showcase Maidu's amazing programs, kind of like what we were doing today for classroom. Um and they continue to
051grow rapidly. They officially welcomed 114 students since the beginning of the school year. Um which is basically a over 50% increase in enrollment over the course of the school year alone. So they are doing great. And uh one quote from a student last week was um at their MIT meetup he said that we all showed up not knowing each other and left each other as friends. So a little cheesy but meaningful as well. So yeah. So that's all I got for this week. Thank you. >> Awesome. Thank you Cooper. Item 6.4 are superintendent showcase and community recognition for Deloro and Confluence West High School. Welcome. >> Hi. Um, I want to do some community recognition first. I was talking with a community member just today about the special connection that is Deloro High School. And
052the word we use to describe it is magic. Um, and we brought someone here today, Bob Ericson, who helps make that magic. Before I bring him up and talk a little bit about him, we have a video that we actually put together two years ago that will show you him in action and a little bit of that magic. So, take a look at that. Bob Ericson is a Delend. He's been coming to Delaw sporting events for the last 40 years. And he doesn't just come to the events, he makes them way better with the energy and the passion that he brings to get the crowd hyped up. We had the chance to check in with him. >> It was 44 years ago when my son was playing football and I was up in the stands
053with a bunch of other parents and the cheerleaders were leading cheers down there and everybody was doing their thing and the adults kind of wanted to cooperate but just maybe one of them would say defense and another another would say go deal and I for whatever reason I have no idea I about five adults around me and I said hey I'll two and we'll say go and they said okay. So we did it and everybody around us kind of looked over like oh that's interesting. [laughter] So after the game I went home and I thought maybe I'll make some signs and I'll come back and the next game the next week I can uh see if we can get more people. So I did I tried that and it was absolute failure. [laughter] Got down
054there with my signs in front of everybody and I lifted them up and said, "Go do." But nobody responded and I thought, "Oh, this is awful." On the way home, I I was just just depressed and I thought, "This is awful. I'm a successful businessman [laughter] known in the community a little bit and I made a fool of myself. I thought, "No, don't give up." So, I went down. I got some signs made. Nice. And that was 44 years ago. And the history is there. >> It was so fun to hear what Bob had to share about Delo's history. And I think he beautifully articulated how we all feel about the culture here. There is a culture here at Delo that maybe some other schools have it, maybe they don't, but I know it's here.
055Hard to explain, hard to put a finger on except when you walk on campus and you talk about somebody or you see somebody in the grocery store or somebody on the car, it brings back something that's special. Get involved. Get involved. Whether it's in music, whether it's in sports, whether it's in academia, whether it's in in our welding program, the band, everything is special. So I I can't pinpoint one. The whole everything is special. So we just heard from Bob and I love how you're talking about the culture and as a whole, it's hard to pinpoint where that special and I also love how talked about get involved, get engaged. It's so important and that's who we are involved in all the things and he has been coming around to those football games ever since
056I was a student athlete [cough] and years ago and now here's his grandson and he's out there every game cheering him on. And that was just some of the highlights of him talking about how special this place is. Another highlight for me was when we ended, Bob ditched us and saw Jake just walking past and just wanted to talk about the game last night of how many threes he had. He's talking about it. He's shooting and it was just fun to see that interaction between him and the players. Amazing. >> [laughter] [clears throat and laughter] >> The first step [laughter] oldest cheerleader. Maybe I'll be world records. I don't know [laughter] >> team of basketball. Go go go [laughter] go go. >> I love [applause] it. Bob. >> Yes, he brought a science. >> Uh
057Bob has been coming to events for, you know, he's come to umpteen plus another two years since then. So team plus, you know, two extra years. And you make us better. We are a better place and a better community because of you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We got you a little card and a little gift. And what I've asked Bob to do, and this is what he said to me today. When I asked him to do this, he said, "I'm 88 years old and I still get so much joy for this." So, we're gonna have a little go led by Bob in this room right now. Can you do it? >> Can I do it? Absolutely. >> You know what? Uh, >> sorry, I turned my back on you guys. Uh actually uh
058I can say by looking around that I'm the oldest person here [laughter] and when I saw the you and you and you and I thought man I really am old. [laughter] So uh and I thought about retiring and I thought 90 I'll retire when I'm 90. [laughter] And I thought, but I I have a little hard time getting around, but I'll give it a shot. And here's what we're going to do, folks. Now, I was embarrassed way back 46 years ago when I went home and nobody yelled. So, this side of the room will be go and this side of the room will be do. And I'm sure that's not too difficult. [clears throat and laughter] You guys can do whatever you want. So, [laughter] >> and these are nice signs that I have made.
059Okay, you got to follow me carefully because I just kind of get called. [laughter] >> One, two, three. >> Go do go. [laughter] [cheering] do. >> We did better. [laughter] [applause] >> Many people I see there's Steve Evans and his wife and I I just people that I've known forever. >> Yeah. Makes us old. Scoot back just a little bit so we can do without this. [laughter] >> So much fun. [laughter] >> Can you guys scoot back this thing? Sorry. >> Yep. Jeez. with that. >> Yeah. [applause] >> He didn't used to do the fake out thing. That's [laughter] when I was playing. >> That's That's for you. >> Maybe I'll run for school board. There you go. [applause] Let's see. >> I'm gonna have to go. We're going to a basketball game. [applause] >>
060Yes. Together tonight. >> That's right. >> Two undefeated teams. Should be a battle. >> Thank you so much for coming tonight. >> Let's give him one more round of applause. >> Legend. The legend. [applause] That's going to be hard to follow with a slideshow full of data. But here here's what we're going to try. Um I have two goals for the next 15 minutes. I want to share some data that we at Deloro and Confluence West are very proud of that's connected one of to one of your board expectations and then we want to tell a couple stories about the students behind that data. So we'll first start with some data and if if anyone out there wants to go uh you could see videos and the slideshow at that uh URL bit.ly backdo showcase.
061Um the board one of the board expectations is to prepare students for life to prepare for college career and life after high school. The state of California has a measurement that they define looking at every every graduate in the state of California called college career indicator. And so it's a it's a mix of a whole bunch of different things that go into defining whether a student will be uh considered prepared by the state of California. It's ESPback scores, it's the college prep classes, it's CTE pathways, it's dual enrollment classes, seal of bi literacy. So all these things go into a formula and then the state says you're either prepared or not prepared. Every December uh the state releases public data so anyone can go to the the dashboard California dashboard and look up any high
062school they want. And so I if you know me you know I get competitive. So the first places I looked up were Fulsome Davis, Oakidge and Granite Bay. Um because I want to see class of 2025 where were they at? And so you can see between 69% and 76% of their students were prepared uh based on those four schools. Uh continuing out our athletic league, you have Rocklin and Whitney, uh schools that we like to to battle with that were a little bit higher. Um so 77 and 82. And then I went to just into Google and I typed this simple phrase, what are the three highest achieving schools in Northern California? Now I didn't mention college career readiness. I didn't mention anything like that. just simply simply what are the three highest achieving schools
063and I mentioned these three ligh Dohy Valley and Mission San Jose and so I looked up their college and career indicator rate on the dashboard and you can see you're getting up in the the 80s high 80s um and then obviously I think everybody knows what the grand finale is going to be here because Deloro yes 94% of our uh graduates last year were considered college and career ready by the state of California. so impressive and something we're so proud of. What I then wanted to do is I wanted to make sure that wasn't a fluke and I want to see are we trending in that direction or was this an outlier. So I looked at our last it's this is actually seven years but there's a a gap in there because the state didn't
064measure it during COVID. So there's no 2021 or 2022. But these these uh uh bar chart this bar chart here the yellow is what uh are all students right? So in 2019 we had 74% of our our graduates were uh considered ready um and then went up to 94. And then the two grays are areas that we always are looking at. So our SED which means socioeconomically disadvantaged students and you can see a trend there as well going from 52% all the way up to 92 which feels so good and and huge. And then our students with disabilities or students have an IEP from 26% in 2019 all the way to 72%. My mind then went to let's compete again. So I went back and looked at those same numbers in our rivals. And so
065I wanted to see the the yellow is what we already looked at on the first chart. That's all students compared to Granite Bay and Whitney and Rockland. Vista Delago is a school we always put on there because it's the the local school that's the most similar to us demographically. Um, but then looking at the the light gray, how we compare to these other schools and how prepared our socioeconomically disadvantaged students are. And then the dark gray, looking at things like Granite Bay at 20% or Rocklin at 30% and then our students with disabilities at 72% prepared. So impressive. Uh, one last chart and then I want uh want to have some people come tell some stories. So the last thing I want to show um this is our number of graduates in each of these
066classes. So the class of 2022 the number of graduates who had access or who took a college class while they were in high school. And you can see that number growing significantly. Research shows this is I want to share two two things that I think are really impressive. Research shows that when a when a student has access to and completes a college class when they're when they're in high school, they're much more likely to enroll in college to persist and complete a degree. But what's more, I think uh encouraging also is that even when that student doesn't choose to go on to college, if they have completed a college class when in high school, they're more likely to persist in whatever their next endeavor is, whether it's a trade or uh a career, whatever else
067it is, they're more likely to persist. So this is these are our numbers over the last uh five years including the the chart on the far right is this graduating class. That's assuming everyone passes their classes this term. Uh but we'll have 59% of our our seniors graduate having taken a college class. 53% of our students with socioeconomic challenges graduate having taken a college class. And then that 39% of our students with disabilities. Huge growth. Really impressive. But what's behind these numbers? Obviously, these are just numbers and it's not as exciting as the stories behind them. So, the assistant principles are here to tell a couple stories. >> All right. Good evening. My name is Liz Barbarian. I'm one of the assistant principles and I get the privilege and honor to talk about a an
068amazing student, a Delaware student that was a graduate of class of 2025 and his name is John Davis. John Davis started in the workforce long before he actually graduated and went across the stage for graduation. Um, which he is now thriving because of Deloro. Although I can't say that we are the only reason because I know that there are many other reasons that have made him very successful where he is. Um, I think he took full advantage of a lot of things that Deloro had to offer. Um and those include some of the courses that he took advantage of which were statistics, a um biology, welding, project design, pro project implementation, and a leadership. And those gave um John the hands-on experience, the real life application, and the confidence to continue and apply himself outside
069of the classroom. Um in 2022, when John was a sophomore, he began his small business called Porter A. At that time, he was selling and delivering hay to local neighbors. Um, by the time that John graduated last year, he wasn't just selling hay, he was uh brokering a diverse portfolio of hay and grain to the local community and plaster county. John was serving um high-value equestrian centers, cattle ranchers, and feed stores. and he is continuing to have his suppliers stretched all the way as far as Canada and has great relationships with um ranchers up in Oregon where he has a great relationship with them and making sure to have the finest quality for his clients. Today, John is fully immersed in the workforce. Not only is he attending Sierra College to continue his um pursue
070of a degree in business or construction, but he's also full-time working at Triker Construction and continuing to build his business at Porter A. Although Deloro cannot take all the credit for John accomplishing so much, we can say that we have provided a lot of opportunities and staff and uh relationships that have supported John and believed in everything that he could accomplish. John Davis is a powerful example of what is possible when a student is given opportunity, support, and the freedom to turn learning into action. Thank you. [clears throat] >> Good evening. Um Matt Rick um one of the other assistant principles for Delo and Confluence West. I have the honor to talk about Isabella how Izzy. So let me talk about her just a little bit. She graduated last year. Um she met her A
071throughG CCI requirements. She earned the seal of biiteracy and she completed four dual enrollments uh courses throughout her time. Um she also was a water polo and she did swim. She is now currently at Sierra. She's pursuing her nursing. Um, and at Sierra, she was on the water polo team in the fall. They won the conference and Norcows and she's doing swim right now. Um, I'm going to read this part because this is what she stated to me. Um, she said, "Door prepared well for the rigor at community college through the challenging coursework and the strong support system that she had. She expressed her gratitude for case manager Amanda Muga, the resource team, the counseling staff, and noting the dual enrollment courses that helped her build confidence to take on difficult academic challenges. Um, so
072now Izzy reported she that she feels so confident taking Sierra College classes. She's taking all her prerexs right now. Um her next step is deciding whether she wanted to transfer to a four-year school or go straight into the nursing school for pediatrics or um surgical n nursing. Um thank you for letting me share about Izzy. Um she is thriving at Sierra and has so much fond memories of how Deloro just kind of prepared her. Um the other one I wanted to shout is uh through that counseling staff, Miss Fesidin, the counseling staff, um uh Mr. Mr. White and Miss Montgomery that are here, but their workshops during intervention of how to like register for Sierra, what's coming next, those things that they put on for our students, she said those were so helpful that she
073felt like she can go right over in the fall and she was ready to go. So, good job, Izzy. >> Hi, President Spade and trustees. Um, I'm Christa Streker. I'm your third assistant principal over Confluence Weston Deloro High School. I am honored to talk about E Edenbo. Um she and I share part of our stories. We are both children of immigrants. We are both what is called firstgen collegegoing students. Um and Eden's parents immigrated from Vietnam and she was raised to value um learning and education highly. She works very hard um for her success which is easy to celebrate. Um, being firstgen means that Eden is the first wave of people who have ever gone to college in her family. It's a huge accomplishment. Um, she plans to attend the most pre prestigious and competitive
074medical program she can. And to prep for this, she is fully taking advantage of all that DO has to offer. She has completed um eight uh AP courses to establish herself as a highly competitive candidate and she's completed nine DE courses including um some that we don't offer at Deloro like calculus 3 um to get ahead in her college coursework and ultimately save herself some time and money um as she's navigating really really challenging and competitive um college classes in the future. We're really proud to celebrate all three of these students and um how much they've taken advantage of all that DO has to offer. >> Thank you. >> So that's that's DO. But wait, there's more because uh I want to show you some data for Confluence West. What this chart uh represents is
075six current Confluence West students. The red columns are their attendance this year at Confluence West. So you can see student four never missed a day, right? uh student five maybe missed you know two or three days. The yellow column is their attendance when they were at Deloro. So these six students all previously were at Deloro. One of the things one of the ways that we are helping prepare students for life specifically at Confluence West is the thing that all of us know when we have a job. You got to show up. And so they're showing up and when they show up they're having some really incredible experiences worth telling stories about. So listen to these. >> Hello, my name is Morgan Zurwas and I'm one of the teachers at Confluence West. Um, and I think
076one of the reasons the students show up is because of the community we're able to develop due to um, being a smaller setting for these students that really helps and just because Sean and I are so awesome. So they just want to hang out and all that time. Um, but also we offer so many cool opportunities. So, I'm going to talk about the picture on the left, Skyler McMaster. Um, she's a junior this year, and she is spectacular and just amazing in so many ways. Once a month, we go to the Lumis Senior Life Center to volunteer. Mostly, we just wander around and hang out with seniors um and ask them questions about their life. They're actually very um they tell us just really naughty stories, and it's kind of uncomfortable sometimes, but um the
077kids are really in awe of the stories some of these seniors tell. Skyler in September really got excited about this idea of why don't we put on a Halloween party for the seniors at the senior center. And so she talked to Jenny Nisley um who runs the senior center and asked if she could put on a Halloween party. And Jenny obviously was really excited about this. In putting on this Halloween party, Skyler had to coordinate with an adult um Jenny Nisley who used to be the mayor of Lumis. So someone who's a professional and really well known in the area. Um, she had to come up with a materials list of everything that was needed. She had to talk to me and Shawn and also to Jenny about how to fund all the the materials
078that were needed. And she then she had to also manage a group of six other students teaching them what they were going to do at each station and making sure that they were prepared. Um, an opportunity like this, which we offer students the opportunity to come up with their own projects that are very student driven. because we opt for opportunities like this, Skylar was able to build connections with important people in the community. Um, she was able to learn about event planning, which is something she's very interested in. She also has an internship with a wedding event center, so it really coordinated well with that. And she also learned how to be a leader. Um, and um, because of opportunities like this, Skyler is for sure better prepared for life after high school. >> Sean
079Nam, teacher and adviser at Confluence West. I [clears throat] know I don't like to talk about Deloro, but I an accomplishment that Deloro does have is taking on Confluence West. It's not easy to have a school dropped on your campus campus and share resources and try to support without all the ability to do so. So, I want to thank those guys and and everybody at at Deloro that their support has helps us to be able to support students like Jaylen. Uh she's in the middle there. Jaylen came to us with very little academic trouble. she was going to have no problem graduating. Um, but she was dealing with some emotional issues and part of what we do to prepare them for life is to educate them in all the ways about being a person. Uh,
080work life balance and understanding their own emotions and learning to manage them. So, part of that was taking chances on internships. Her first her first attempt was at Lake View Ranch Estates and she realized very quickly that she had zero interest in anything that was happening there. um but still showed up and and definitely learned skills associated with success in life. This is from her second one which is the Penin Pet Hospital. She did we had had other students there but Jaylen was offered a job to work there as well. So she's interning and going through the process of being hired by them and so helping helping students like Jaden to learn about their emotional intelligence, how to how to use that knowledge to put themselves in position to succeed as well as to avoid
081situations where they may struggle. And then the process of just making choices. What is it? It's not just like I don't like it. Well, what don't you like about it? What what what can you still learn from it? And that is that's an excellent life skill to be able to uh make decisions in a complex uh unforgiving world. >> All right. And the last picture over there are a couple students at the forestry challenge. So, firstly, just just a shout out to you guys. Um you the district sends some of us to a CTE conference every year. And at that CTE conference, I was able to make connections with this program called the Forestry Challenge um and was able to sign up. It's a completely free program um that we were able to take four
082students for 4 days into the Elorado National Forest where a few years back they had a pretty devastating fire called the Caldor fire. And because of that fire they needed they did a whole bunch of plant tree regrowth. They planted a whole bunch of trees, but they needed to figure out if the trees were actually growing. And to do that, they needed a lot of help. So they used all these students from all over California who come to this forestry challenge to go out into the Elorado National Forest and collect data, measure trees. And so these students, these four students that we brought were able to first of all work alongside um National Park Service foresters and also CalFire firefighters to learn about how to identify trees, how to properly measure trees, how to tell
083if a tree is healthy. We got to use so many tools that I've never even heard of before. Um and we we were able to um they were able first of all they were surrounded by a whole bunch of schools with some very academic students and it was really fun to watch our students first of all acknowledge who wa these kids around me are very smart. Um but also they rose to the challenge. They had to do a presentation at the end where they actually proposed to the national forest service what they think whether that whether the national forest should do more replanting. Um, so they put on a presentation, probably not nearly as good as some of the other presentations, but I was so proud of them for for doing this. They spent hours
084preparing over this 4-day period. Um, they learned how to use um very real tools that are actually used by firefighters and foresters. They used how to apply math in careers. They learned how to make connections with adults and ask questions to adults. They learned how to analyze data that is actually being used by the National Park Service to make decisions and they learned how to create a professional presentation and then present to the Forest Service. Um, and then on top of that, myself and one of Deloro's sisps, Jordan, we got to go with them um, and spend the night with our students up at this camp. So, it was also this amazing opportunity to build community. And so once again, these opportunities that we are able to offer our students um is helping to raise
085their expectations for themselves but also prepare them in many ways for careers after high school. >> Thank you. >> Oh, wait. So, I also there's a there's a list somewhere back there that if you want to grab it, these are just this year um all of the resources and opportunities we have offered our students. And I think it's one of the things Sean and I are the most proud of is the amount of things we offer our students. They do not all take advantage of everything, but we offer it. And the students who do really are given some amazing opportunities that they would never have been given elsewhere and it's really awesome to provide that for them. So check out the list. >> Thank you. And so that's Delaware High School and Confluence West preparing
086for [applause] life. Thank you guys so much for your presentation. Obviously, the data shows the incredible growth um both academically and and I love that Confluence West also you that you guys shared some data regarding their attendance. And I will say uh kudos to those teachers for sure. Our our alternative education programs are so successful because the right teachers are there and those students want to be in the space that they create that is safe and supportive. and I just really appreciate all the work you do. Thank you. Are there any questions about that presentation? Otherwise, we're moving forward. All right, moving on to item 6.5, our superintendent's report to the board. >> Thank you, Madam President. Um, great job, Delo. Appreciate your time and effort into putting that together and bringing Mr. Ericson out
087for somebody who's an outsider. It's it's really cool to kind of to see the history and and just get that vibe. It's It's not common. So, congratulations. Um, Jacob Feffer continues to check boxes on lists of things I didn't allow science teachers to do in my former district. So, thank you for that, Justin. Um, so yeah, it's can't help but appreciate it. Um, again, being kind of new to the district, everybody was talking about the Kendall Arnett and you got to see the Kendall Arnett and it's basketball and it's, you know, it's basketball. But what you they don't tell you is when you open the door, you walk into this sea of humanity and there's nowhere to go. It incredible environment. The contest was was phenomenal. The kids left everything on the floor and just
088what a what a great evening. I went up to Kfax to watch soccer and when the thermometer hit 38, I decided that was long enough and that was at halftime of the girls contest. So kudos to Adam for hanging on for the long haul. That is winter soccer is something else. Um, student voice, that is the last event will be on the 11th and I'll be hosting from Forest Hill Matty. So, we'll see you up there. Um, we did hear you guys, um, Cooper in particular about maybe possibly moving that, you know, to intervention, seeing if we can get more kids. So, we're weighing that for next year, not this year. Um, but that is something we're considering. So, thank you for bringing that to our attention. Um, we've updated our compensation website to reflect
089AB1390, just so the board knows. Um, that is the board compensation law that Governor Newsome signed and went into effect in January. Also, regarding the governor, the January budget proposal is out. We'll be attending a workshop at the end of the month. Um, Superintendent Estu attended one today and you know, what do you say about it? It's January. We'll see. We'll see what actually gets approved. Um, it's it's fine. We we'll see what happens. Ultimately, I'm not holding my breath. I think we're um I don't know. I just we've got a lot of planning to do in this district. That being said, you know, financially, obviously, you know, we're still things are pretty tight here still and we still have a lot of work to do. And that being said, as we move forward with
090personnel decisions, ultimately I think it's important to just remind everyone that, you know, I'm I'm responsible for personnel decisions in this district. I'm blessed to have a wonderful team and the amount of time that has been spent on what next year looks like and what the following year looks like with all these retirements and how do we best serve these kids because that's ultimately our goal. Those are long, challenging, hard conversations. Ultimately, you will ratify those. But the decisions that I bring you are very well thought out, very thorough, and and they're going to be, you know, as things get tighter, as we continue to dig ourselves out of this hole, they could get more and more complex. I'm hoping not. Again, you know, we want to keep things as far away from the classroom
091as we can, but we are going to have some very difficult decisions coming up and those will be um brought to you for ratification after a very thorough um oh, I don't know, plan with my group over here that again I'm very blessed to have. Um I am setting up my superintendent advisory groups at each site. So, basically, as I said in the email, it's for gloves off conversation where, you know, we're just going to call balls and strikes the way they are. And if you aren't comfortable with that, that's okay. Just find me somebody else. So, just a very diverse. What I don't want are head nodters. Um, I want people who are going to challenge what I'm doing um and answer those questions. And again, just working on the transparency, the open, honest
092communication with the staff. And that's how as we, you know, depending on how budget goes, that's how we keep, I guess, just keep the noise down is at least staff knows why we're making the decisions we are. They may agree, they may not, but at least they know why. Um, so those will start up and um I'm just about there on all the sites, just so you know. Uh, back to school events, LCAP community forums, uh, the third at Forest Hill. Uh, next regular board meeting is on the 17th of February. We will have a special meeting. That's the workshop. I know we were kind of back and forth on that, but I was able to get four of you on the 24th from 9:00 to 1 and we just we need to have that
093time together, especially to focus on budget and staffing. So, we will be doing that. And with that, I will turn it over to Deputy Superintendent Camdi. Thank you. Um four items tonight. Um this Thursday, we have our grading committee. We had 26 participants, uh 26 teachers, and some administrators. um sign up to participate. That'll be Thursday afternoon. Uh the purpose of that is for uh teachers to go ahead and share how the new uh board policy has worked in effect for them and provide input into that. Um we have our annual budget perspectives on Friday at PCOE. Uh probably much the same that's already you've already heard from the governor, but it's good to hear it from a different perspective. Um on Monday night we have our AXA administrators of the year celebration and we
094have two winners this year and they're actually in the house tonight. And so our co-administrator assistant principal of the year is uh Matthew Rick [applause] and our administrator for student services our child welfare and attendance director Kimberly Barry. [applause] And so they'll be honored on Monday night and it's always a great celebration. And then um potentially moving on to state recognition. Um as you've already been a part of learning walks, we have four left. We have Deloro at February 4th, Confluence February 11th, Maidu February 18th, and KFax February 25th. And those are just always a great opportunity as we've already mentioned to see um just the day-to-day operations that happens on our campus. Student learning engagement and it's always unique to the campus culture and um facilities needs get get brought up. Um learning gets
095talked about and so it's always a wonderful day and our administrative teams and CNIs are the ones that lead those groups and we have lots of teacher input. uh they attend the feedback sessions and are always um just open doors for their classrooms. So, we enjoy those events. But, uh as President Spade mentioned, board, please RSVP on those four left so we know to count on you and we don't have any um Brown Act issues. So, with that, that concludes my report. [snorts] >> Thank you very much. Alrighty, we're going to go ahead and skip item seven because we already conducted that public hearing. Moving to item eight. >> Oh, just kidding. Come on down, honey. >> I have so many little notes. It looked like it was checked. Item 6.6, Associated Teachers of Plaster,
096CTA, President's Report. Welcome. >> Thank you so much. >> Are you okay? >> Nope. One more. There you go. >> It's green. Great. >> Um, so I just have one item for your consideration today. uh ATP issued a formal complaint and request for an an an independent investigation against Trustee Tom Duncan. And we had five uh items that were components of that one. We know that people requested for the item to be placed on the board agenda today and it wasn't. Um but we don't know in terms of what timing they had with that. So we would like for it to be placed on the February 17th board agenda. Uh there were concerns all the way from last spring that have cons that have continued until the present. And um it's helpful when we have
097something that is a communitywide concern um for people to be notified via posting on the agenda um that this is a worry. Our second item is that we asked for the board to authorize an independent outside investigation. We asked that um people who speak are ensured of protection from retaliation. This was actually a component itself of the concerns that people were experiencing retaliation for speaking up in the first place. Uh we asked that um public disclosure there's public disclosure for any and all findings and we asked that um in the case of findings that appropriate corrective action including censure um as warranted or considered. Um, we also had, and I just want to speak to this because I know this isn't how things work, but I also want to make sure that we're representing what
098people said um, in the survey, what their comments were. And there were also a number of people who were calling for Duncan to step down. Thank you. Thank you very much. Moving to item eight is our consent agenda. Do we have any changes to the consent agenda? I would like to pull two items. >> Okay. >> Item 8.8 and 8.14. >> 8.8 and 8.14. Any other items? With that being said, do I have a motion? >> We have a first by Trusty Lake and a second by Trusty Underwood. Any other questions or comments? This is approving the consent agenda item with the removal of both 8.8 and 8.14 which will go first in our action items hearing. None starting with the student board. All in favor say I. >> Board. >> I. >> All oppose.
099Motion carries unanimously. Item 8.8. Superintendent Omali. This is item BP5121, grades and evaluation of student achievement update. >> Yes. So, it was brought to our attention um that ultimately in the newer grading policy, new grading policy, um the term selected was left out of the line. So, what the policy says is currently what it says is students enrolled in dual enrollment courses will receive a grade bump essentially. Um, typically what this district has done is had a list of courses posted on the website that said what courses were eligible for the grade bump. Um, again, that word got left out. So, ultimately what we need to do first is get that corrected in the current policy and then I'll be working with staff on how we're going to deal with that. >> Can I address
100that, >> please? >> All right. So, um, when we actually this board approved that policy, that was one of the things that this board discussed, that particular that particular line item. Um, and not only was discussed at this board meeting, um, but it was dis discussed um, multiple times at the grade committee meetings that we had. Um, our decision um, as a board and as we put this uh, this grading policy into place was that all dual enrollment classes should get the grade bump. Here's why. Why does an AP class get a get a grade bump? Anybody? Why does AP classes get a grade bump? Does anybody know? Usually I hear because they're a rigorous class. They're more difficult. Okay. They're at a college level. I've heard that um many times when it comes with
101respect to AP classes. Well, if you're going to give a grade bump to an AP class because it's a rigorous college level class, why would you not give a grade bump to an actual college class? That makes no sense. Anybody have a answer to that? >> So, I kind of do. There is certain like dual enrollment classes that are insanely easy. Um, like I I'll compare like a dual enrollment calculus 3 class versus a dual enrollment life skills class. Very, very different classes. So, perhaps maybe why I'm not like justifying either way, but I'm just saying there's a huge discrepancy between some sorts of or some types of college classes. >> Are you asking for Anybody's input? >> We allowed to have >> We could definitely have public comment on this item. >> Sure. >>
102I'll just say I mean I have three kids in Deloro and multi they've taken dual enrollment and AP again. Yes. Sail through the dual enrollment. This is so great. I've got me things AP. My daughter just had AP. Um Kim didn't pass the AP portion or she um >> I forget her luchi's at back there. Maybe honors Kim. Yes. Well, and my son who had taken an AP and this is two years ago didn't pass. So he's like, "I got a lot out of that class, but he didn't get the grade bump and he didn't deserve it because it is in my opinion a higher level." And for my kids on the classes they have passed, I'm like, "Yes, good for you. There's day there's a piece of information that you have not just sailed
103through this the course, but you have taken a comprehensive test at the end that you actually own that data in your head." That's my opinion, >> Jeremy. >> For my kid or Supervisor Jeff, can I can I add some context to that? >> Um, I don't recall ever in the board meeting or in our our grade meetings having a conversation about the grade bump specifically for those classes. Doesn't mean it didn't happen. I just don't recall it. I would be surprised if it did because I would have jumped in and explained the process that we went through to uh to arrive at the decision that we did. and and you could talk to the counselors uh some of them which are here. Uh we spent a lot of time discussing this over probably a year
104or longer period about which courses uh we were going to include in that. Um and so it wasn't a just a blanket kind of conversation. It was something that we sat down and discussed over and over again. there's a lot of potential issues that go into uh grade bumps and grade those kinds of things that we were discussing. Um and so uh the reason we came up with selected uh was was to ensure that uh it was the the fairest process uh aligned with um as as Cooper was saying uh the level of college um rigor to those courses. uh we we felt that this was the best way we and we chose the the courses that were a part of the Calgetti requirement or um which is going to be CSU UC requirements um
105and and so that was the essentially the um the effort that we did to do that but I don't recall and uh I just want to also bring back is that originally in the board policy it was that that whole section was in the AR as you are aware of because uh the new board policy basically combined the old AR and the BP into a single board policy which hadn't been that way. Um, and so we had we, you know, it was something that I didn't look at uh because in my mind it was always in the AR and I didn't think it had changed or I would have brought it to the attention of of the board of saying, "Hey, I just want to want you guys to think about this before making the
106decision um about some of those ramifications." So that's how it went about. >> Okay. Peace, Justin. >> Thank you. Appreciate it so much. Um, I want to give a big thank you to Trusty Jeff for pulling this action item because this is directly affecting students. This is um I believe that this is on the agenda. I don't know for sure, but I sent an email to Superintendent Omali on 17 um regarding feedback that I've received from students um in this specific board bylaw. Uh as Trusty Jeff mentioned this, when you're taking an AP course, you pass a test to get credit. When you're taking a dual enrollment course, you are enrolled in a college course. For attendance purposes, you can only have two classes at Deloro. Those class those two classes can include honors or
107AP classes, but they cannot include dual enrollment classes because dual enrollment is a college course. So, if we're giving credit to AP courses and not dual enrollment courses because they're at college level or at a rigger, that doesn't add up. So uh to give this board a perspective, I've completed eight community college courses. I'm currently enrolled in three and I've served on a committee at Sierra College as well as the ACT grading committee in PHSD. Uh as this board is well aware, I am someone that will always stand for transparency. And if this policy is passed, it will undermine the transparency and accurate grading of the district. The added word selected changes the board policy that this board polic proposed board policy adds gives the administration too much power as they can change what courses
108they select whenever they choose to do so. Additionally, the list of approved courses can only be found by searching Placer Union High School District, pressing the three lines at the top, clicking department, selecting educational services, scrolling down to dual enrollment, and selecting the link in the smallest print of this subsection labeled weighted dual enrollment classes. It is very likely families will not be doing this entire process. And further, this list is kind of a list of arbitrary courses. If I take Spanish 3 or ASL 3, I do not get credit. But if I take History of Rock and Roll, which is not offered at our sites, I do. This does not make sense. And while it is it needs to be open to every single college course as it is a college course that's offered
109at our sites or that's called that's what dual enrollment is. And further, when I'm on the Delaware course catalog signing up for classes, it is never it never signifies to my knowledge of what courses are honors weighted and not honors weighted. I want to remind you the community chose this policy as Trusty Jeff re reaffirmed. Um, in that email I sent to Superintendent Omali, I stated, quote, "This is a violation of board policy and additionally not transparent." End quote. By implementing this policy, it continues to not be transparent, but is no, it would no longer be a violation of board policy. By voting no, this you are all choosing transparency and letting the board inform families with full disclosure of what classes will give them an honors bump. By not, it'll give administrators too much
110flexibility and power. I also want to know for the students that took the any dual enrollment class this year, would they receive credit because they signed up for a dual enrollment class with this being the policy at both at the beginning of both semesters? I don't know who wants to answer that question. I I I will say um there are some concerns that we have from just a practical standpoint of going back and doing that. Uh there's a lot of things to unravel uh in this in this situation and I totally understand your your your point of contention. Again, it it wasn't an arbitrary pick choosing of courses. Um, we, as I mentioned earlier, we sat down with counselors, multiple meetings, um, to discuss what was the best way. And to be honest, there were
111times where we thought we weren't going to even, uh, include dual enrollment courses in the grade bump. Uh because at the time I and again I would have to ask the counselors for cl clarification on this but I remember um colleges sometimes included the grade bump for certain dual enrollment classes already. Uh not all dual enrollment classes but certain dual enrollment classes. Uh and then they would give them the grade bump when they were calculating their GPA. So it wasn't it wasn't done for um specific you know arbitrary reasons or an administrator. It was really uh counselors getting getting input from the counselors who uh work with students about GPA and college applications uh and and us working through that together in a system that we thought was going to be the best going forward.
112I think we're stuck in a situation uh where you know the decision is going to cause some murkiness. [snorts] We'd have to go back adjust because we didn't again uh those those grades in Aries those courses are identified as grade bump courses >> and so uh not knowing that that had taken place and it included more of those courses. make another comment when he's >> um we uh they're not listed in that areas that way and so the amount of work that it would take for the registars to go back and include them all and then going forward there's a lot of implications towards validictorian and other things of that nature that um I'm just really nervous about not not that I want to you know deny anybody's rights but I think there's a lot
113of pieces there that I would want to make sure that we slowly look at and get all of the information from counselors and registars about the implications of what this looks like because I don't think it's um just a a wave of the hand and snap of the wrist kind of thing. >> Okay. Well, so I would disagree with you on that. That's exactly what it is. Uh secondly, um this grading policy that we were talking about isn't be supposed to be implemented fully until fall, right? >> So there's nothing you would need to change for this particular school. Another thing I want to point out is that some of the courses that get get a grade bump are not college level courses. For example, my daughter is in uh pre-calculus this year. Uh that's
114not a college level course. That's not a college course at all. And >> it's considered honors course. >> Yeah, I understand that. But when you're talking about rigor, you're are you trying to suggest that that course, an honors course, is more rigorous than an actual college course? That's ridiculous. So, another thing that I want to point out is um and I've been complaining about this for a number of years. back when I was teaching Sierra College classes at Deloro. Um how my class the classes that I were teaching were more rigorous than the college classes that they were getting at Sierra College for a few different reasons. Uh and I was advocating back then for my students to be able to get that grade bump. And again, I want to reiterate to my colleagues here
115on the board that this was discussed not only at the board meeting, uh but this was discussed multiple times with parents and students and community members. like when we were going through having all these grading committee meetings and the hundreds of hours that we spent like going having these meetings and rewriting these policies and talking about them and going back and changing the policy again and modifying and tweaking it. This was discussed this was brought up and this point was discussed um when we went to you know forward to to approve this policy with the specific intent that if it's a rigorous college level class it should get um that gray bump and if it's not a rigorous college level class then what are we doing offering it on our campuses? Okay. >> So, I
116would I would recommend to my my colleagues here on the board that we vote no on this this amendment. >> Can I comment on this, please? >> Oh, you just turned up. There you go. >> So, I'm concerned with Trent, what you were talking about. But I was thinking one of the problems I have with a lot of the dual enrollment courses that are offered is the fact that I feel like kids are getting a sent a message that those classes will transfer to a 4-year college and some of those courses are not going to count to transfer to a four-year college. They might indeed get a junior college credit for it, but I don't know if they're getting a four-year transferable credit. And I don't know if that's part of what you were looking
117at in that trend, but >> but you're right. There are some regular I', you know, regular courses that are probably as rigorous as some college courses that aren't designated honors that aren't getting the GPA bump. That's okay. That's that's the way it is. But the dual enrollment, I do think you have to be clear on that because I think you said Cooper that you knew some that were super easy >> and some that actually are rigorous courses. So certainly >> if that's what we're distinguishing then maybe it does need to be looked at course by course. >> Yeah. I think are we trying to distinguish like it should it be honors or AP or um bas are we trying to distinguish by rigor or whether it counts for four year like what are we distinguishing
118by is it by rigor >> I think that that's a great question um and obviously since this was brought forward this is this was obviously a concern by by uh staff um and it was also brought forward by students and so just trying to provide some clarity obviously um and I will I see you we're going to get to you I promise Um obviously there's anou in place right now that has you know stalled the progress or the full implementation of this this policy. There are other issues that are you know popping up here or there that the grading committee is going to kind of unpack and discuss. Um some maybe some blind spots that we didn't see in crafting and adopting this policy. We knew that eventually it was going to come back to
119the board. We wanted feedback from from the staff and from families to make sure that it was articulated in a clear um way. Um, and Justin, I do appreciate uh your comments and uh Trusty Jeff and I want to get to that, but I'm gonna go ahead and let you go first. Welcome. Thank you, >> Blaine White, counselor at Delo High School. Nice to meet you. >> To Justin's point, I definitely agree that this it should be transparent and easily findable by everybody, what courses are weighted and which are not weighted. um the many many discussions we had I think over the better part of a year or more that Trent Wilson was talking about through district counseling really did look at that rigor and one of the filters that we started to look at
120dual enrollment classes through was Calgetti transferable Calgetti approved courses. So for example that Spanish dual enrollment Spanish 3 which is Spanish 2 at Sierra College is not Calgetti >> whereas dual enrollment Spanish 4 which is Sierra College Spanish 3 is a calgetti course. So that was one of the reasons that it may seem off offkilter but we are trying to align it with what how the colleges are looking at these as well. um courses that are approved by UC and CSU to be weighted such as honors pre-calculus that you brought up trusty um that that is we want to give that weighted credit because UC's and CSUs are giving that weighted credit. So we're really trying to keep things in alignment not to make it more confusing. >> Okay, thank you for that clarification. Um,
121I will say I do see the point. Obviously, like you're enrolling in a college course. I can see how that can be seen as enrolling in more rigor, but enrolling in college courses doesn't mean necessarily taking more rigorous courses. As a super competitive person, I'd love to enroll in the history of rock and roll and how to make a paper snowflake and like super boost my GPA and be at the top of the class. But obviously that's not necessarily fair because there are obviously rigorous courses you can take in high school and in Sierra College, but there's also more elective courses that don't necessarily deserve the grade bump. And I think that those courses need to be defined, maybe amended on some of them, and just more in detail explained how those courses are chosen
122just to really clarify what is considered like a rigorous AP bump course. Thank you. >> I'm curious to hear your response on uh what the counselor just mentioned as far as aligning with uh >> Calgetti, you said. >> Yeah. Not well, not just Calgetti, but uh the UC and the um >> Do you have any thoughts on that? um [cough] only that that every time that this has been brought up in the past, which has been brought up by me multiple times, it's always been stated that the AP courses in the honors courses are more rigorous and that's why they get the grade bump uh because they're quote unquote college level courses. And if that's the case, then all of our college level courses should be getting that grade bump. Now, if we're offering college
123level courses with they're lacking in rigor, why are we offering them? because because of the relationship with the colleges that allow that rel allow that course to be taken at the high school level. I mean, let's face it, [clears throat] in college, not all classes are equal. There are easy ones, there are hard ones. I do think it should pass a uh you know, there should be there should be a a standard of rigor um and a consideration. I don't think it should be a blanket grade point bump. And are we talking about just a one point? Is it a blanket bump for everything or are we talking about.5 point? >> It's it's a one whole point. Yeah. >> Point. >> It's a GPA bump, not a grade bump. >> I understand. But I mean,
124is there any room for a half point? >> Too complicated? >> I think so. But uh I mean again, I just keep I'll let Miss Montgomery uh talk about her point and then we could have uh some more conversation. Yeah. >> So I just wanted to clarify. So there are two processes where classes are identified as both APN honors and then as Calgetti transferable. So we use the APN honors um designation that um UCSU issue and we honor that. And then we're we're trying to do the same with the Calgetti transferable. So it's a select group of college classes that are um that transfer to any UC or CSU. So there's that that we've made that point. you made the point you could take any class. Maybe it's um snowflake making or whatever. >> So,
125what I wanted to say is we made a further line around this um and that was it had to be offered at one of our sites. So, the only uh only classes that are offered at one of our um sites are on that list. And that way students couldn't shop at any community college. We have over 110 community colleges and take, you know, any possible class and have it put on their high school transcript to be in that GPA war. We want to keep it close to home. We want to have it classes that are offered here. And so those are the two lines that we use to kind of um rein it in >> um to keep it reasonable to keep kids focused on high school >> and and not you know out competing
126each other for a GPA. >> So I just want to say >> thank you. >> The policy as written says dual enrollment though. It doesn't say >> community college courses. So specifically as the policy stands right now, we're talking about only the dual enrollment classes that are college classes that are taught on our campuses where where the students would be getting the grade bump. >> I I hear the concerns um with and some of the points that were brought forward by by both of um our student trustees sitting or our student board members sitting with us um about about the level of rigor. Um, I do obviously see the issue with selective and and the staff kind of uh seeing past that and frankly I didn't consider that either. Um, and with this in mind,
127you know, obviously we're going to have to address, you know, what transpired in the um in the first semester, but I obviously this this is kind of a this is not this is more complicated than I think what we can solve or fully unpack tonight. My concern obviously there's there's elements of this grading policy based on theou that are not going to be fully in effect until next year anyway. I think in order to just keep uh cohesion with with the previous system which our our teachers were aligned with at this point. I feel more comfortable um putting back into the word selective and having some further conversation about this. That's just my personal opinion. Um, but to your point around transparency, I've had so many brought so many things forward that people have no
128idea where to find these things. Whether it was the board policy, which by law was supposed to be on the front page of our website that identified it was like seven clicks in to try to find it and and then we, you know, we realigned or even creating our fiscal transparency page so everyone can have one easy access point to access all of the records, the financial records for our district was it that's very important to me. that's always been important to me. I do find that concerning. Um, and and we've got to be able to articulate that better to both our our kids and our families when they're selecting courses where they believe they're going to get a bump. I think at this time it's more appropriate to lean back into where we were
129at and address these other concerns when we have more time to flush it out. Um, so I'm I'm in favor of of moving forward with this change at this time. Um, based on the feedback from both staff and students. Um, but I totally hear your concern and that there are courses that aren't getting the grade bump that are more rigor rigorous than some of uh the courses that potentially are. Um, I'm grateful that we had some counselors in here as well to be able to explain that process and why you're trying to aligning align certain courses that these kids can take forward on their transcript, which makes perfect sense to me. Um, that we want to be, you know, pushing the courses that that are going to hold with them um into the future for
130for a 4-year university. Um, is there any other comments from the board? Trusty Underwood? No, I I can say that. >> Oh, you're on your head. Sorry. Um, I taught the first AP class at US history and uh I enjoyed teaching that. We were that class was uh not just difficult. It was >> uh 36 kids started and 15 finished. The rest dropped out. but they wanted uh a a college class and that's what I taught, but it was an AP class. So, I'm not sure exactly which way um I I sway on that. I know that uh as was stated earlier, not all college classes are are rigorous and there's different uh levels of classes and some will be uh can transfer to UC or state college, some can't. There's just a lot of
131issues involved in that. But um I support I guess in general right now our current policy. I think a bump on AP uh is appropriate and I I it's just where I stand from my experience and knowing what I did, you know, although it's advanced placement US history, it was a tough class, you know, and uh the the students that I had one girl that went to Stanford, in fact, Marlo Tevis, and she said, "The hardest class I ever took in my life wasn't at Stanford. it was your AP US history class, you know. [laughter] So, I I kind of I feel a bump [clears throat] is appropriate in AP. I'm not sure about the the there's a lot of ambiguity, I think, on the college, but I hear what is being said. That's where
132I stand. >> Um I wish you heard Cooper. His microphone was off, but he goes Cooper's about to attend Stanford in the fall. And he goes, "What? What' you say? What was her major? [laughter] He challenges that statement. >> Any other uh further questions or comments, please? >> Thank you. Um I would feel honestly more comfortable with tableabling it um if we're not ready to have the conversation yet because to me I'm with Trusty Jeff. Why are we offering if it says dual enrollment classes? It's to the point of Miss Montgomery. It's not any class under the moon in any 110 community college that you could find. It's our specific dual normal classes that has to be offered at one of our sites. So, if we're not if we have a dual enrollment class that's
133snowflake making, I think that we should just have that teacher teach a different class, especially with our limited funds right now. Let's have them teach English. If they could teach English instead of snowflake making, like if this is actually happening, that's like a greater problem, I think. So, I would definitely feel way more comfortable tableabling this. Um, I've had students come to me with this and they're like, I totally thought like ASL 3 or Spanish 3 would give me that GPA boost. Like, it is a hard class. Like, I have been in that class, the dual enrollment Spanish 3 class. It's not an easy class. It is a hard class. So, I don't know if it's if it's about rigor and it and if you if you read it, it it says because of the
134more rigorous nature of yada yada yada, you know. So, when we're looking at rigor, I think if we're offering dual enrollment classes at our sites, they should be rigorous and we should just hold our teachers and our administrators to that standard and not try to do a workaround that's giving too much power to our administrators and not enough power to our families and students when they're picking their classes. Thank you. >> Can I make one last comment, >> please? I [clears throat] also feel it's a little bit premature for us to be having this conversation in the first place because 3 days from now they're going to be having a committee that's going to be talking about making changes and tweaks to the policy that we passed last year. Um so I feel like it's
135it would be premature for us to be even voting on this tonight. >> I think I think that your your point is fair, but I think that they're two separate issues. I mean this is one element of a a broader discussion. this is really about because now there's questions about the fall and just providing clarity through the rest of this semester of how that's going to to roll out. Obviously, if the implementation's not happening till fall of next school year, there's still time for us to address the other concerns, but this is something that's happening right now. It's timely. Um, my concern with tableabling it is because potentially this wouldn't come back or or we wouldn't be able to address it prior to the end of this next semester because there's I'm sure going to
136be other tweaks that we need to massage based on uh feedback from our staff and and I like I said prior some blind spots that we didn't foresee that we've already been receiving some feedback. But because this isn't even being fully implemented, we I think we need to address the issues now that we can. Uh, and I believe it is an issue right now that we need to address. And I think the most simplest form, our staff's not fully implemented anyway that we go back to the system we had prior and then we need to figure out a transparent uh way that we can articulate and communicate this better because there's confusion. So, I think that there's a way to improve on both ends. Yeah. Uh, Trusty Lake. >> Yeah. I I think that there
137should be uh some discretion on which classes are given the the grade bump. Um >> I think it's going to eliminate some of the games that are played as far as GPA boosting. Um >> and if this will help counselors help students and guide them to for their class selection in the future, then I think it's the right call to do right now. So >> with that being said, do I have a motion? May I interject a little bit if you don't mind because let's just keep going. Um, so right now what we have is grades have been issued for last semester. Um, they were issued on the list that was in place, right? So the complexities behind it with Aries, you know, you put all this stuff into Aries and then it's going to
138roll out these kids grades, right? So that's what we did and it rolled out those things on the transcripts. What we're still working through is what are we going to do with last semester? Okay. Cuz right now what we're being what what Justin has brought to us is make the change for last semester which means we have to go through and alter I don't know how many grades Trent thousands I mean hundreds and hundreds >> of grades and send all those things out. Who knows what the implications are as validictorian. Um there's going to be some fallout from that. This semester we're heading down that same path if we do nothing. Um, if the intent of the board is to award every dual credit course full credit, okay, we we're going to have to go
139through and we're going to have to do a lot of work and send out a lot of things and change a lot of kids grades. >> Are you saying full credit grade bump? >> Yes, >> I don't course. >> I don't think it's smart to go back and rehash last semester. I mean, I think we can make a change moving forward, but I it doesn't make any sense to to go and upheaval things that have already been settled. >> I mean, agree. >> Is that possible? Can we can we make a change? >> Keep it to keep it. >> If we keep it status quo, we don't have to do anything. Nobody's trades are going to change. >> Which is the Oops. Sorry. >> Look at me not turning on my microphone. [clears throat] um
140the word selected that was added would keep things status quo the way that it was prior and would provide clarity. Um that's why it's important you know to have this conversation right now. So that adopting this now would not require the counselors to go back and go through hundreds potentially thousand whatever grades >> and and would provide clarity for this semester as we you know further unpack this this topic. So, it's my recommendation that we move this forward. Um, I move to approve item 8 uh 8.8 BP5121 grade evaluation of student and achievement update. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> We have a second by Trusty Lake. Any other questions? >> Hearing none. Starting with the student board. All in favor? >> I I board I >> I. >> All oppose. I
141>> a motion carries 31. All right. Item 8.14, Kitchell Construction Management Services proposal for district. Can we >> You pass. >> It's not a resolution. >> Um, >> it's not It was just a It wasn't a roll call vote, David. It was >> It wasn't a roll call. >> I'm sorry. >> It wasn't a roll call. It was just a group. So, if you're in favor >> Oh, I thought it was more like a referendum. >> Sorry. >> Um, I I concur with you like >> All right. All right. So, motion carries 31. Thank you, Underwood. All right. Item 8.14, Kitchell Construction Management Services proposal for districtwide new and modernized projects. Can I just pause for one second if staff if we could figure out just in direction and correlation with this, if the board's
142in agreement to find a way that it's more accessible without, you know, 7 to 12 clicks for these families to understand, I think we need to bring this to the forefront. Thank you. Okay. Carry on Kitell, I'm assuming that's you, >> Madam President. So, uh, back when we passed the bond in 2018. Uh, we then engaged, we went through a bidding process looking for project management team for all the bond work that was going to be done at Plaster Deloro and um, and eventually the entire district when other monies came in either through developer fees or modernization funds from the state. Um, the [clears throat] team chosen back then was from Kitchell. We've continued to use them for the past um, six years. Uh, one of the final projects we've had been working on them
143is the uh, Boington parking lot. Uh, back in November, we um, secured their services. At the time, the project entailed, uh, the entire parking lot and looking at the potential of building a CTE building at the end of the parking lot. That idea was scrapped. Um, but right now, we are still working um, with uh, Kitchell. We have a DSA meeting uh premeating tomorrow morning um online um in hopes of getting plans out there so we can go out to bid. Uh Kitell is who we use to help navigate us through that process in working in conjunction with the architect uh the contractor that is eventually chosen um to help us with the bidding process and making sure that we're following all the rules that are out there because this will be a several million
144dollar project um well in the five to six maybe $7 million range. Um it's a very expensive project uh keeping us with DSA compliance. They provide a very valuable service. This contract is in front of you is just a renewal. At the time, we only did it for one year. You'll notice this renewal. I'm asking for two because as of right now, this will not be done next summer. This will be a process as explained in previous presentations. It's it's going to be a big timing effort. And that's where Kitchell comes in as well in helping with that timing and helping us navigate that process. And so, hence why you see this as a recommendation by staff to continue. There is no new money added to this. Um, this is just to renew that that
145current contract. Um, I do not expect us to use all that. They still bail us by the hour. Um, when they first bid it out. It was for looking at a whole process of the parking lot and creating a pad or future use of a CT building. That's not there anymore. Um, but if this process were to go forward, the maximum amount that we'd be paying them is 277. That represents about anywhere from 3 to 5% of a total project that range anywhere from 6 to8 million. Hence the number. And so not asking for anything new, just to renew this so we can continue working with Kitchell. >> Trusty Jeff. >> Yes. Uh thank you, Peter. So the reason I pulled this uh item really, Peter, is I was hoping you could just give us
146a really brief summary of what this parking lot is going to look like when it's done. >> Yeah. So I can um send pictures out as before, but my my goal to recommend to the board is that the entire parking lot from stadium all the way to the entrance will be paved. >> A complete repave. Well, not repave, new pavement, repaving that area. Um, it involves uh if you can picture, and I'm sorry I didn't bring a picture with me. >> That's okay. >> Um, the ramp that leads behind the baseball field that will be all taken out and redone because that will make the DSA compliance that we are required to have a path of travel from the parking lot to the campus. And that area will be redone so people in wheelchairs will
147have an appropriate path of travel that will take them to the top and then follow that road that's along the tennis courts into the campus which is all DSA approved there when we put the three new buildings up way back when. And so it will include um some electric charging stations that's required now when you do parking lots and public areas. Um they'll have new lights all the way up and down the parking lot so the place is lit up and surveillance cameras. um tried working with um the city of Lumis. They're not interested and not because they don't want to, it's just they're not in that place right now in regards to the ingress and egress of the parking lot because our property line ends exactly where the exit is. >> The driveway that
148then goes to Boon is not our property. It's part of the cities. I'm also working with the county and I sent them um our pre-diagrams of any help they can provide us because that's great. We paved the whole thing. You still have the exit entrance issue, right? And um the intent or the goal um is to see if there's a way to add a second exit line. You don't seem to have a problem with people coming in because they come in at different times. It's the exiting and be able to create a second line so maybe people leaving on the right hand side can immediately go on to to King and the weather one. So looking at those things, but that's why I've worked with the or I'm trying to work with the city and
149then the county to see what kind of help they can provide. Um I'm not you know financially we're using fund 25 which is developer fees as shown in previous things. has been budgeted. Um, and then we'll be collecting fees over the next two years to get this project done. But this is started well over two years ago and it's going to take another two years probably to finish depending on multiple factors. Um, DSA approval the bidding process which as we go out to bid um contractors are presented we make a recommendation to the board. We'll probably do what's called the least lease back. So it provides us what's called the best value um to pick a contract that we we feel will fit for the district to get work done. Um, and again, again, that's
150what Kitel helps us with all that whole process. And so that's where we're at. Um, we were not supposed to have this meeting with DSA tomorrow, but somebody dropped out and our architect called said, "Hey, can you make it?" So myself or Don Manny, our director, should be on the call. Um, because one of us has to be on there. Um, so a little fortuitous there because it maybe moves the planning on a little bit further. A lot of collaboration with the school because for those who work around Delore, I don't know when there's a good time. graduation. If you've driven there, it's up and down the street, right? So, if you start out after that, I'm sure all the swim teams are going to be upset because they have big swim meets in the
151summer type of thing. And then you have football season. God forbid the parking lot's not available for home football [laughter] game. That's just me joking. But, um, I understand those ramifications. And so, timing is a big issue. and relying on that contractor to can figure out what part of the project can be done because unlike the upper parking lot at Delar which was done over the summer that was a repave with some renew stuff. This is all brand new >> and it's a little bit bigger of a project. So that's where we're at right now and I can provide a further update in February if you'd like but um or Friday facts but um I didn't have anything till actually this but not know about the meeting but I can I'll meet the board later
152on that see where we'll go. >> Understood. [clears throat] Thanks Peter. Thank you, Peter. >> Can I say something, >> please? >> Um, I know we've chatted about the the the bottleneck there, Boington, um, potentially widening that so that we could have a dedicated exit lane >> and then a merging lane. Was it Peter? Who was it? Somebody on I' I've talked to a member of the city council and um, you know, first steps would be a study, a traffic study. Um, who was it that mentioned that a turnabout or something? >> So, I'm sorry. Um, when I met with there were two people. I met with a city engineer >> and then another guy. I'm sorry. I don't have their names written down. I I don't recall them right now. Um, but they are
153interested and they know there's a bottleneck. If they were to do a traffic study, that would be on them. We've kind of done our traffic study. I think I I presented it a long time ago, but we spent a good amount of money looking at traffic study what we what currently Del housed now to get traffic off of Taylor and I think the staff have done a great job if you go through that campus in the parking lot making sure people come off Taylor and drive through the lot appropriately to drop off their kids um and then how to access uh Boon in the back. But my understanding and I don't know how much is is factual. You know, the city is still trying to figure out what to do with the development that's proposed
154behind the >> railies. >> And I think a lot of it has to do with um I know from my position um and I'm speaking for the district, we would love to have a frontage road that runs along parallel to 80 that connects say Doc Barnes or Horseshoe Bar to King, but I don't know where that status is with the development and the city >> to help offload some of the traffic issues on Taylor. I think it involves the city wanting some kind of roundabout at that area, which I would call like a tricsection. I don't, you know, you go over the freeway, you go up to Boon, you go in the parking lot, people coming out, and I know the city's interested in that, but they're I don't know where their status is with
155that. I just know we need to get the thing paved. >> Well, I would just encourage to uh definitely look at a wider entrance, three to four lanes at a minimum. We're trying to remember that we can do as wide as we want. It's just when they leave, you have that covert as you and I walked that we don't have the money to fix that and that's not our land in the first place. And then that area owned by SP Mud, they need that for an easement when they enter that building that's right there. And so I don't know how much they want are willing to give up per se. >> And then the more you wide it, if people coming in, does that create kind of a hard turn coming in? And that's why
156I met with them. And you know, they they offered their I call two cents. They were very helpful. that you know our costs that area alone could almost be double what it's going to cost to pay the park line just because of the work involved. >> Thank you so much. Uh Peter, >> would you like to speak to this item? >> Sure. Come on down. >> Hi, I'm Jan Clark, mayor of town of Lumis, and I would really encourage you to make a make an appointment and meet with our current um engineer because I'm not sure exactly the timeline. I just met with him in december. >> Okay. So is um so then maybe you and I >> young guy. It was Yeah. >> Yeah. So maybe we should meet again. >> Okay. >> Sure.
157>> Okay. Sounds good. >> Thank you. >> All right. Do I have a motion to approve item 8.14? >> Motion to approve. >> I'll second. >> We have a first by Trusty Lake and a second by Trusty Jeff to approve item 8.14. Kitchell Construction Management Services proposal for the districtwide new and modernization projects Deloro High School ASA 16 renewal. Any further questions or comments? Hearing none, starting with the student board. All in favor say I. >> I. Board. I. >> All oppose. Motion carries 30. Trusty Underwood has stepped out of the boardroom for a moment. All right. Going to go ahead and move to item nine, action items. Starting with item 9.1, certificated personnel report number 62 through 26. >> Yes, madame president. As you can see, it is that hiring time for plaster school
158for adults >> as well as um some substitute teachers and our um ongoing uh curriculum development and additional things that our staff do for us and for our students. So, on the behalf of the superintendent, I would recommend approval of the certificated personnel report. Do I have a motion? >> I'll move to approve. >> We have a first by Trusty Jeff >> and a second by Trusty Lake to approve item 9.1 certificated personnel report number 62 through 26. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, starting with the student board. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Board. >> I. All oppose. Motion carries unanimously. 30 9.2 classified personnel report number 62 through 26. >> Yes. Once again on this report we do have a number of our plaster school for adults teachers as well as
159some changes within our staff within from school sites and different roles and that's always exciting to see some promotions and changes that are happening. Of course our ongoing activities we are um still working on some winter sports as well as starting having our spring sports on there and our volunteers. can't say enough about our volunteers and their willingness to support our students and all the different activities that they do. We do have a couple of students listed on this. And so on the behalf of the superintendent, I would recommend approval of the classified personnel report. >> Do I have a motion? >> I'll move to approve. >> We have first by Trusty Jeff. >> Second by Trusty Lake to approve item 9.2, classified personnel report numbers 625 through 26. Any questions or comments? I have
160one. I just want to thank the people who are are taking the time to get cleared to be a chaperon. Most of you who are paying attention right now. Uh the bus driving situation is brutal. Uh there's not enough bus drivers. It's very difficult for our kids to and teams to get anywhere with a bus and it requires support from the community. So, I appreciate you guys taking the time to to be cleared so that our kids can make it to these events and the parents who are filling their vehicles um and making that happen for our students to access all the wonderful things in our community. So, appreciate you. Anything else hearing? None. Starting with the student board. All in favor say I. >> Board. >> I. All oppose. Motion carries 30. Item 9.3,
1612024 to 25 audit reports presented by Crow LLP. Welcome back, >> Madam President. I'd like to introduce Elizabeth Sav uh from Crow LLP. As you know, as mentioned in December, um we were allowed an extension because some government stuff going on. I'll let Elizabeth talk about that. Nothing on our end, but um Elizabeth here is to present our audit reports not only for the district, but for measure G and Measure D, uh the two bonds. Thank you. >> Thank you. Um, I'm Elizabeth Savv. I'm an audit partner with Crow LLP. We are your external audit firm. Um, hired uh by the board and required to report to the board. So, first and foremost, if you don't hear from us prior to the final report, that's a good sign. Um, we have no problem reaching out
162to the board president. If we have some sort of concern with your management or something that's come up, um, we would reach out directly to you. Um, but no news is good news in the world of audit. Um, yes, you were supposed to hear from us in December. Um, the federal government um issues a compliance supplement. It's basically their audit guide for the year. You know, the California state audit guide comes out once a year. The federal government also has an audit guide which guides how we um test your federal programs. Um, they did not complete that guide until the week of Thanksgiving, which was not ideal timing. So, um, we couldn't really close out our audits until that was finalized. So, they did grant us extensions. Um, so we were actually able to still
163finish the audit prior to the holiday, which was great, but we are reporting to you a little bit later than normal. Okay. So, there's a summary in the audited financial statements. Um, I'm going to cover the district audit report first. Um, it's on page 75 of the actual document. um page 83 of the PDF if that's helpful. Um this kind of is a summary uh capturing all of the work we do over hundreds of hours and hundreds of requests that we send over to your team. Um so we'll start from the top here. Um we're essentially performing three different audits all um captured in this 100page report. Um the financial statements uh we conduct that audit following government auditing standards. Um you are a governmental agency so there's certain requirements we must follow. Um as
164part of that I am um required to report to you that we do not issue an opinion on your internal controls. We are not um opining on your control structure but we do assess it. We are required to assess it like your payroll processes, your um receipts, your dispersements, different things like that. So as we assess those, if we had deficiencies um or errors that we noticed as noted as a part of that, we would be required to bring that to your attention. We issued an unmodified opinion for your financial statements. That is the highest level of assurance that you can receive at the completion of an audit. So that's exactly what you would want to see as a community member, as a board member, um as a management team. Um they of course want
165to see that. Essentially um what that means is as we were doing our testing um we didn't come across any significant material errors um where we couldn't give a clean opinion. Um we had no material weaknesses, no significant uh deficiencies identified as part of the audit. Um so like I mentioned we do have to assess your internal control structure. We look at tone at the top. We come into your district office. We interact with your um personnel. We actually are required to perform um surprise fra fraud inquiries which makes some people a little uh nervous but it's all part of our audit requirements. Um so if we had anything come out of that or come to light we would bring that to your attention. All right the the next part of it is the federal
166audit. Um and so I think we just lost the screen but that's okay. So the federal audit again we um issued an unmodified opinion. You can see listed there that we audited the child nutrition program. So we don't just get to pick whatever program we want each year. Um we're required to kind of follow the compliance supplement that was issued late um to tell us what we need to audit. So we looked at your national school lunch program followed through the different um compliance requirements. Again, you'll see there were no material weaknesses or significant deficiencies that were identified as part of that process. Um, and had a clean audit opinion. Um, [clears throat] and then the state awards only has one little line at the bottom, but this is about 50% of the work that
167we do. It's a it's a big lift. Um, and if you actually want to, I apologize, but if you actually want to scroll up to, let's see, page uh 74 and 75 of the PDF. It's 67 of the actual document. Um, but it provides, yeah, there we go. Just halfway down. And you can see where the audit guide listing starts and it actually continues further down to the next page. Those are all the different um areas that we are required to audit as part of your um district. And if it has an an NAC below, that means it doesn't apply to your particular district. But if it has a yes, there's a laundry list of procedures that we need to go through. Um the state used to kind of swap in some, hey, we want
168you to look at transitional kindergarten. That doesn't apply to you, but we're going to take out kindergarten continuence and kind of swap it out. They stopped doing that about a decade ago. And so this list just keeps kind of getting longer and longer and longer. So the time that we spend um is is expansive. Um I say all of that because the other part of the California State Audit Guide is they don't allow for materiality. So when we do our audits, we have materiality thresholds that we calculate based off of lots of different factors to perform our testings because we're not giving you 100% assurance. We're giving you reasonable assurance that everything looks good. The state of California audit guide doesn't allow for that. So if we have any finding whatsoever, any error, um for
169example, independent study is a really fun one where if you're missing one signature on an agreement, that shows up as a finding in your report. If you have a student that has an absent note, but they were sh marked present that day, that is a finding that shows up in your report. It doesn't matter that it's not material. It doesn't matter that it doesn't have a fiscal impact. Um, so as you scroll down to the end of this, you'll see that there are three blank pages on uh page 84 to 8 uh6 of the PDF. And that means that you had no findings to report. So that's not just an exceptional job of your business office when it comes to state compliance. That's the classrooms, the sites, the teachers, your facilities. We ask for facility
170reports. Um, we are asking for safety plans. I mean, you name it. All of the different departments of your um district are called upon during the audit process. So, a job well done, very clean audit um and nothing to report and it wasn't for a lack of trying. There's a lot of stuff that we ask for. So, any questions on the district portion of district audit? >> Not from me. Did you have something, Trusty Lake? >> Yeah. How long did this process take? So we're getting ready to start right now for the next year. Um it never ends. So uh our our field work typically for interim we do most of our control and compliance work in the May time frame. Um April, May, and then we kind of catch up a little bit in
171June, July. So nobody's ever really done with us. And then we come back in September and October where we're back on site, you know, for a few days and asking. We do a lot of work remotely, so we try not to be impeding on your space for a long time. Um, but it is nice to to interact with everybody. Um, and then we go through the reporting process. So, uh, hundreds and hundreds of hours. >> Yeah. >> But it's a constant process. >> It is a continual process. We do have usually two very distinctive fieldwork weeks. Um, but we're interacting on a regular basis through our exchange system. Yep. If you had to put a number on the size of your team that works on this, how many would you estimate? >> We have well
172there would be me, then we have a manager who helps oversee and coordinate. Then we have a senior associate who senior associate who really does a lot of the meat of the work and oversees the staff. And we have I would say on average three to four staff that are working on it. one or two that are interacting with your team and then two to you know another two or so that are behind the scenes >> crunch the reports. >> Yep. >> But we do have some really nice AI tools that are helping us with no longer requiring our team members to foot and crossfoot and all that kind of stuff. So that's been really fun [laughter] >> be reflected in your bid. Haha. Um, no, because there's a lot of That's a very good
173question and a very common question, but um, >> yeah, I I think you know, >> well, this kind of gets off topic, but I think eventually we may see some of that savings because there's a lot of infrastructure that we've had to build out within the firm to kind of get our tools to where they are. Um but that is the hope because the reality is any students in the room um there are not a lot of accountants who are >> um graduating anymore out of um out of college. So we have a we've seen a reduction in students um and especially those taking the actual CPA uh license exams. >> Yep. >> And I don't I'm just curious what's what is the contract cost on an annual basis? Um, off the top of my
174head for the district separately, Peter, are we so we're somewhere in the 40s? Somewhere in the >> 40,000 as well. So, >> yeah. So, measure G and D are separate and so those contracts will go away in the next probably year. I think you guys are almost done with those >> by June. >> Yep. >> Awesome. >> Thank you. >> Thanks. Okay. So, we can move over to measure G first. Um, let's see. So, as a refresher, your bonds are what they call Prop 39 bonds. And what that means is they are required to be audited annually for not just a performance audit, but also a financial statement audit. That's why you have two reports for each. Um this is following again the California state audit guide spec specific to performance and prop 39 bond
175audits. Um this document the performance audit is usually of the most interest because you want us you want to hear as a voter did we spend the money in accordance with the voter approved agenda or project listing. So, if you want to scroll down just to the page one of the report, it's probably next one after the table of contents. There we go. All right. So, this is our report. It looks a little different um than from the district audit because this is a compliance audit, a performance audit. Um the very last paragraph is the most important. says, "The results of our procedures indicated that in all significant respects, Plaster Union expended measure GEO bond funds for the year ended only for the specific projects developed by the district's governing board and approved by the
176voters in accordance with the various requirements. So, if you actually wouldn't mind scrolling basically to the page six, the very last page, there's legislative history. >> There's the guidance and then here's really the the conclusions of what what's happening. So, you see the scope there. There was about 2.5 million in expenditures was the total population for fiscal year 2425. We verified the mathematical accuracy. Audit 101. Make sure you've got everything complete. reconciled it back to your district's um audited financials. And then we selected 11 expenditures, which doesn't sound like a lot, but it was actually about 83% of the total because sometimes you've got some large contractor payments in there, but we also want to make sure that we're we're selecting things that are smaller. So, we're not just looking at the big dollars. We
177try and stratify our um selection to include some smaller dollars as well, making sure that they're in line with the um the voter approved list. So, and again, the conclusion at the bottom is the same as what I just read. So, everything was clean. We didn't have any um differences or variances or um concerns. And then if you want to move to Measure G's financial statements. All right. So, go to page three of the PDF, I think. There we go. So, this is a financial statement audit. So, you can see at the top there's the opinion paragraphs. The second paragraph um reads, "In our opinion, the accompanying financial statements referred to above present fairly in all material respects the financial position of measure G." Um, and then the emphasis of a matter paragraph just reminds
178you that the financial statements you're about to look at are just for measure G. They're not the district. We just have to emphasize that um, as far as far as our government standards um, to make sure it's clear. Then if you want to continue down to the first financial page five. Yep. Yep. Yep. Thank you. We didn't practice and rehearse. I appreciate you helping me. [laughter] All right. Okay. So, here's the balance sheet um as of June 3025. So, it's going to look different as of right now because you're 6 months into the next year, but this is a point in time for measure G. You had about 1 million, just a little over 1 million in fund balance left over um moving into the 2425 year. And if you move to the next statement,
179the next page down, um that's your income statement, if you will. So, you're earning interest on the cash that's sitting there. Um, and then you've got some um expenditures. So, that 2.5 million in total expenditures should look familiar. It ties back to the um performance audit. But the purpose of this financial statement audit is to make sure are we accounting for things correctly? Are we capturing expenditures in the right period? um it's it's less about the compliance of the expenditure, more about the accounting um that it's appropriate. So, no concerns. If you go to the very end of this report, you'll note that there's no matters to report, no findings or deficiencies noted um from this audit. All right. And then measure D. So, the one was placer high and this is Del Oro. I
180am thankful that whoever named the measure helped me remember by D for Deloro. That's how I remember. [laughter] So, okay. So, this will look very familiar. The very last paragraph, this is the performance audit reads exactly the same. Again, a clean opinion um uh a clean conclusion for your performance audit for measure D. Continuing down. Yep. Last page. You're so good. Okay. So the scope is about $115,000 in expenditures. There was a lot less activity there. Um we selected a sample of seven expenditures and actually tested about almost 100% of your population. So there was just a few things um happening there, but you guys are getting pretty close to having that bond closed out. >> So if we move over to the financial statement for measure D, it's going to look very similar. Again,
181this reads as an unmodified opinion, a clean opinion, reminding you that this is only measure G, measure D. And then if you go to page five, you'll see your fund balance is only 260. And then um your activity for the income statement, you've got um about 13,000 in interest income and then the rest is your expenditures and no matters to report. So, any questions for me that I can shed any light on or >> I just appreciate the time that your firm took. I know you explained the process thankfully. Uh, Trusty Lake asked you some great questions about that. And I just wanted to extend through this report a thanks to our staff for running a tight ship, dotting eyes and crossing tees and our and our obviously our business department as well. So, thanks
182to all those who have been communicating with you and and presenting the data um and all the information uh that we have a clean report. That's what exactly what we want to hear um through your audit and I appreciate your time tonight. >> The last thing I would highlight um and just something you said kind of joged that and I know like the financial situation in just in general is looking a little bit more bleak. Budget season's always a little stressful, especially and your enrollment's not as as high. When you don't have um deficiencies in your audit, it's virtually impossible to kind of run a helter skelter non-clean ship and get your audit together, get your stuff together. Um, so the fact that you have no audit adjustments that showed up, we didn't even have
183any past audit adjustments. Those would be maybe an error that we noted in our testing, but it wasn't material enough for us to require a change. We didn't even have any uncorrected misstatements, um, immaterial errors. Um, so what that can mean to to those charged with governance because you're making decisions based off of non- audited information throughout the year that can give you some comfort that the information people are bringing you there they are they have controls operating there is financial reporting um controls in place oversight um I'm not going to say that it's perfect but it does give you a little bit more assurance working with districts who have not had that um don't take that for granted. So, it it it is a good um indicator for the rest of your your year
184as you're trying to make decisions. >> And Madam President, if I may, I just, you know, sure I may oversee the department, but um the work is done by Sue Kaine and Walsh, Nicole Lynch, Rhonda Kimble, and Don Allison, and others who may help them at all times. But, um as Elizabeth say, I usually walk in and hassle the auditors. Um but the team does a great job working out But thank you again. I appreciate the kind words, but I I want to make sure that the the people in that department, they're they're carrying a load. And >> um Sue lets me know it when she's stressed out about it. So, >> thank you. Well done. >> Yeah. Thank you very much. >> And thank you for Peter for for recognizing our staff working on
185that. Thank you, Sue. Alrighty, we're going to keep it moving, y'all. Item 9.4, for resolution number 1625 through 26 of conveyance to convey. >> Madam President, we need to vote on that. >> Just kidding. We're coming back. We're coming back. See, I was just so eager. It was such a celebration. We just move on. All right. Do I have a motion? >> We'll move to approve. >> We have a first by Trustee Jeff. >> Second by Trustee Lake to approve item 9.3, our 202425 audit reports presented by Crow LLP. Any further questions or comments? Hearing none, starting with the student board. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Board. >> I. All oppose. Motion carries unanimously. 4. Now item 9.4. >> Resolution number 1625 through 26. This was obviously we had uh the public
186hearing uh earlier in the night. This is a conveyance to convey an easement to and enter into an easement modification agreement with PG&E for PG&E system hardening and undergrounding project at Kfax High School campus property. Peter. >> Yes, madam president. You you you have that um the packet in front of you and online. Um obviously was a two-step process. We came and presented information in December and now this is uh the recommendation to approve the easement. Uh the two things I'd like to point out uh that we came up with to remind the board is that all of our um legal bills that have been established with this is just a little over 20K is reimbured by Pen along with a $10,000 um check that's written to the district uh usually goes to our facilities
187account for maintenance and so forth to be maintaining anything that may come up. Uh they do offer a two-year warranty on the work they're going to be doing. Um but I think in regards to obviously we're in support of the undergrounding but because they are coming into our campus or one of our campuses mainly the driveway which again not a big deal but still our driveway and then placing a what we call a big green box in an area that is not going to impact the campus but it's still there um and getting something for that and also as mentioned earlier they are doing some undergrounding around the perimeter of the campus where the uh where we border Kfax Elementary so a little bit more minimal impact there um but um this has been taken
188well over six to eight months working with them. Um Pin they were good to work with but a little stubborn at times and so we played stubborn back um um just what we did and so this is our second we've already been approached for a third undergrounding one up at four still so we'll see how that one goes that hasn't gotten any steam yet but I know they reached out before but um based on that and we recommend approval. >> Thank you. [snorts] Do I have a motion? >> I move to approve. >> We have a first by Trusty Underwood. Second. >> Second by Trusty Lake to approve item 9.4, resolution number 1625 through 26. Resolutions are roll call votes. With that being said, Superintendent Omali, >> student board, >> Trusty Underwood, >> I. >>
189Trusty Jeff. >> Hi. >> President Spade, >> I. >> Trusty Lake. >> Hi. >> Motion carries 40. Item 9.5, we have another resolution number 1725 through 26 authorizing the recording of a quick claim deed to correct record of title ownership of the Deloro and Placer High School campus properties and the acceptance of a grant deed for uh recordation. >> So, Madam President, this is literally paperwork. Um years ago, up until the late 70s, we were known as the Plaster Joint Union High School District. This came to light when we were doing these easement things because of course when they looked at property and deeds, they looked at 1959 for Deloro and things like that and they're like when they first sent us the resolutions like well wait a minute we're not plaster joint anymore. And
190so just to make sure everything's corrected. Um we already did one uh for Kfax. We don't need to do one for Forest Hill because they were built when we were Plaster Union High School District. And so just a little bit of clean up deed paperwork um to make sure that if something like this comes up again we're known as plaster Union High School District. So no cost a little bit money for legal fees but uh mostly just to put the packet together. We had this information to send legal. So >> great. Thank you. Do I have a motion? >> I'll move to approve. >> I second. >> We have a first by Trusty Jeff and a second by Trustee Underwood to approve item 9.4 Four resolution number 1725 through 26 the authoriz author. You know
191what? I'm not going to repeat all that. We're just going to carry on. Uh superintendent Ali, >> student board, >> trusty Underwood. >> Hi. >> Trusty Jeff. >> Hi. >> President Spade. >> Hi. >> Trusty Lake. >> Motion carries 40. >> Item 9.6 scoreboard purchases for Forest Hill High School. >> Yes, Madam President. As we remember, um, early on in the football season, uh, Forest still resorted to, uh, paperiermâché for scoreboards. I'm just kidding. [laughter] Um, it became obvious we needed to get some scoreboards there. Um, that resulted in, uh, working with a a team called Dacttronics. Um, what you have in front of you is a quote for a football scoreboard, a softball and baseball scoreboard. Um, and so that is the total cost of the purchase of the scoreboards, shipping and handling. um
192and 10% contingency. It does not include installation. We have to uh work with uh some DSA pre-check. The thankfully the football scoreboard does come with what they call pre-check. So items that show a contractor what is required, how far to dig the hole, what kind of uh poles to buy, things like that, beams. Um the baseball and softball ones are a little lighter. They still come with the same things, but will be a little less expensive. But will we need to run electrical from the old baseball scoreboard out so that softball and baseball have theirs? Um I don't know. Uh we do want to get the uh uh I don't have an installation date and we're probably hoping for the summer. We've already engaged with an or I'm sorry I haven't engaged yet. I've spoken
193with an architect. I've sent some information to give us back an engagement letter so I can present to the board about what that would cost just to engage with this person to take to DSA. This will not require full disa requires what's called a DSA over-the-counter pre-check. So, they kind of look at the paperwork and approving to make sure we follow those specs and the architect is the one who verifies that we did follow the specs on installation. Um, this the electrical is not really a big issue. It's making sure that the poles are incorrectly. Um, you know, you do have snow and wind up there. Um, you know, and people just think we'll just bury it deeper. That's not necessarily what's going to make it stronger, but we have to follow those regulations. So,
194but uh on behalf of the superintendent, we recommend approval of the purchase so that we have them here. >> Great. Thank you. >> Do I have a motion? >> Move to approve. >> Have a first by trustee Jeff. >> And I do want to point out if I may, I'm sorry to interrupt that this was working in collaboration with the school site. >> Um this was, you know, working with Miss Davenport, uh Mr. Bobby Quaddlebomb to make sure that what was asked for is what the school site would do. I don't know if they short it with Meline. They should have maybe, but uh she won't be there anymore after next year. But anyway, >> Peter, >> when are you going to So, this does not include the installation. >> Does not include installation. >>
195Separate bid. When When's that going out? >> No, it won't go out. So, I said, so it doesn't have to go up. Well, >> the bid is going to be less than what we can do what's called informal bidding. We can call the contract be worth because it's probably going to be less than 40 50 grand for all three of them. and some of the work we can do inhouse in terms of running electrical. >> Um, but what we're doing right now, what I did was I sent some of those pre-check designs to the architect to see if he's interested in what he may ask us to pay for and then I'll be bringing that to board in terms of, hey, approving us to work with this person. If we don't hear from him, I'll
196reach out to another architect, but we have to have either a structural or architectural engineer to take these to DSA to basically say, "Yes, I will ratify that they're going to do this work." And so again, making sure that the holes dug deep enough and we're using the proper rebar and buying [clears throat] the appropriate beams to hold up the weight of that scoreboard. >> Peter, for the [clears throat] benefit of the members of the public that are here tonight, can you explain how this is going to be funded? >> Yeah, so this is coming was from fund 40, our restricted capital outlay. That was money that has been basically provided to us through the state. Since we did all this work with the bond, we were able to apply for modernization reimbursement when Prop
1972 I think was passed or the previous I'm sorry I bring a blank on the previous state bond measure, but we recouped about anywhere from I think 12 to 15 million initially plus another almost 15 million for Delaware. We did the new construction, another six that helped with plaster. And so this is other projects we did do. So the bond paid us back in a sense and so this money is in this account. Uh, and I've shared some of that stuff at previous board meetings on your approval in terms of what facility projects. Um, there's only a few items left I'm going to come to you with this money. The bulk is what we're looking on for is for Kfax High School as has been mentioned at previous facility meetings um with the board and
198and looking at anywhere from 7 to 8 million for that. Right now we're sitting just a little over 10 in that account. Um, so we're we're chipping at it, but the idea is to finish off the big things that we're doing. Um, and then basically come back with a plan for uh, Kfax. We have engaged, we've been using Lionakas for our facility master planning, but that will become later in the spring or in the fall when we come back to you guys on that again. >> So, just for clarifications, Peter, like this this money, the fund that we're using to fund this um, can't be used for things like >> only capital outlay. So, capital outlay projects can be used. It's a restricted account. can't be used for salaries, instructional materials, that kind of stuff.
199It's mostly Yeah. what they call capital outlay. >> Thank you. We have a first. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> You already gave the first. Thank you, Trusty Lake. >> I'll second. >> We have a second by Trusty Jeff to approve I've never heard that before. A first and a second by the same trustee. Action 9.6 for the scoreboard purchases for Forest Hill High School. Any further questions or comments? I just want to thank the team for for working collaboratively to make this happen. This um I did receive emails from uh members of Forest Hill community with concerns about it. Parents going, "Hey, this is not working. You know what's going on?" And I know sometimes Forest Hill feels out there and a little neglected, but you're not. We we care. And I
200appreciate the admin uh both and an athletic director working with with district uh to make this happen. >> Yeah. Shout out to Aaron and her team, Bobby, too, because they were very good sports. >> That's great. >> Um, you go to any football game, I don't care how small the crowd is and so forth. When you have a guy sitting up on a lift basically trying to work the scoreboard, >> brutal. >> Um, I mean, we could chuckle, but you know, I I rarely accomplent them because >> um, you know, I was a previous principal and sometimes you really want to get heated at people because things aren't working and they were very good sports about it. So, I do appreciate that and um, hence why we see that nice scoreboard coming down because it'll
201we want to get it done. They need a they need a new one. It's 20 years in the making. >> Yeah. >> Oh, >> well, I'm excited for that and I can't wait to see um how quickly we can get that rolled out with a first and a second on the table. No further discussion starting with the student board. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Uh board >> I all oppose hearing none. Motion carries unanimously. Item 9.7 board bylaw 9012 board member electronic communications update. Is our ad hoc reporting out on this or Superintendent Omali? [clears throat] >> Um, however you would like. [laughter] So, yeah, this had been worked on for several months and you know, we had a little mixup last month and finally have it here. Um, went over it
202again with Trusty Jeff the other day and I think Trusty Jeff, it's where it was when you sent it to me and it's, you know, it's aligned with current law. As much as it does feel kind of restrictive, this is where we're at with with California state law. So when um the ad hoc committee with Trusty Lake and I was formed to kind of examine this u board policy uh we had a couple of goals. One was to modernize it um uh with respect to like online communications and things like that. Um two was to reaffirm um exactly what what rights the trustees have to express their own viewpoints um from their own perspective versus as uh members of the board with a capital B. Um so both of those um I think those two
203issues were um well addressed in this new policy. Um there's a significant amount of this new policy that came from the previous policy. So it's not all completely new and it has gone through legal um to verify you know that everything is kosher there. >> Thank you very much. Do we have a motion? >> I have a comment. You know, I take a look at the people that elected me and a lot of the people that elected me are past students that are in their 40s or whatever and they like to hear occasionally from me online what's going on. They don't come to all the the uh board meetings obviously. they might not see the uh agenda and I feel I have an obligation to communicate to them because they elected me what's going on
204and that's a major median that I like to use. I don't do it all the time, but I do it occasionally if something's coming up. I think they want to I know they want to know because they tell me. So, I see this as a freedom of speech issue very strongly. And uh I I Tom uh told me it's it's a state law. I can't believe and he said it's a state law for both the assembly and the senate that even a senator or assemblymen can't go online and talk to their constituents. And I'm thinking this is if we are public officials and we're elected we have a at at times at least I feel I do a duty to be able to inform them of what's going on that's significant. a lot of changes
205are going on right now from this sport and I want people to know that what they do with that information is up to them, you know. So, because of that, I can't I should support it. State law, but I can't support it. >> I'll I'll vote no. >> Um, Trusty Underwood, uh, can you take a look at that fourth paragraph? Um, because that talks about how you can speak. >> I I've read that three times today, the whole thing. I want to make sure that I'm absorbing this because it, you know, it really was a hot issue with me, >> you know, and uh I'm just a person that's used to communicating online occasionally, not individually or whatever. If someone asks me a question or something, I would, but if I want to make a
206statement about the state of the uh Placer Union High School District, I want to be able to do that. And if they want to reply to me, fine. They don't, that's fine. But I feel like I'm doing my duty in communication. >> That's where I'm coming from. >> Just for the benefit of the public who who may not be reading along, would you mind reading that fourth paragraph? Uh, Trusty Jeff. >> Oh, sure. Board members may may engage in separate conversations or communications with members of the public on a social media platform to answer questions, provide information or solicit information regarding a matter that was in that is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board. as long as the majority of the board does not use the platform or post u discussion among themselves
207on any business of a specific nature that is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board. So this is where we're talking about the the Brown Act and you trying to prevent um what they would call a serial meeting. Uh electronic communication shall be used in compliance with the Brown Act. Additionally, using digital icons such as likes or emojis that express reaction to communications made by other members of the of the board regarding members within uh matters within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board should not be used if a majority of the board may see this graphic interaction. So again, that's where we're trying to avoid the serial meeting part of the board, the Brown Act violation. But we can absolutely we can get online, we can express our viewpoints. And in fact, in
208that first paragraph, um, you know, we took the time to, um, talk about, you know, like we have this this constitutional right to do so. Absolutely. I totally agree with you. The only part that didn't seem totally clear and it does say it's the very last paragraph to the extent possible that last line uh when such communic when any such communication is transmitted through a board member's personal device or account the board member shall copy the communication to a district electronic storage device for easy retrieval. I don't know what that looks like. >> I don't even know >> exactly what they're talking about. What are you talking about? >> Well, the way Tom explained it to me today because I called him up. I wanted clarification and because I I can't believe I'm really surprised
209that this is a legal issue that a public official cannot make a post, you know, regarding public information online if two other people on the board are a part of that group. So, two of you were on Facebook >> and I were to do that, I would be violating this bylaw, even though I'm just talking to my constituents. It bothers me. It really does. >> And I also want to qualify as I told M Trusty Underwood that I'm not a lawyer and my whole job is to keep you all out of trouble and air on the side of caution. So, that's kind of where my perspective is coming from. This is not the first time or the last time that this board will hear my opinions on on constitutional freedoms and civil liberties. I absolutely
210am with you on freedom of speech all day, every day. Um, obviously as as trustees, we're held to a standard with the Brown Act. And I thought about this just from a you know like just simple application as a board if we wanted to avoid that. If we believe we're going to engage on social media um and discuss matters of the board or within our subject matter jurisdiction. There's a couple ways it could be handled in my humble opinion non-legal opinion. We could block each other. So wherever we comment online, constituents could still reach us and we can still state our opinion without sharing that publicly so that other board members wouldn't know where we were landing on a certain issue. So that's one workaround that would be a no issue. You could still communicate
211um freely um but just we would all know where you were at on on any given issue. Um obviously we all have discretion whether or not we want to engage on our personal platforms. And there was a case that went before the Supreme Court that CSVA and their legal alliance submitted an amikas brief to it um when exercising free their freedom of speech on their platform and censoring the public and there this is a delicate uh subject um trustees had had engaged online. So, this isn't direct about, you know, sharing information with another board member, but just the importance of freedom of speech and people being able to access and communicate with their elected officials. And I'm really careful about when I engage or when I don't engage. And my my social media site, they
212essentially they the ruling came down to these trustees were censoring the posts. They had engaged and then there was some spamming. It was like multiple uh you know comments after one after another. and that trustee took the liberty to go and delete some of the spammed comments. And the Supreme Court found that that was censoring and and limiting uh the community's ability to access with their elected official. So, they created a rule um a three-pronged rule. Um one, are you engaging as a trustee and are you communicating as a trustee? And if you do and you were to delete something, there's there's multiple things when whenever we're engaging online um that if we're speaking as a trustee that we can't censor anything. If the comments are on, they're they're to remain on. Um if we're
213if we're using it just for personal and someone starts engaging, um that's different rules apply here. So, it's complicated. I, you know, can't foresee our forefathers seeing this or our California legislature foreseeing where we're at now with the ability to communicate with one another. And I would never want to stifle your ability to communicate. Um, we just have to be more careful so that we're not coming to consensus outside of the boardroom. That's really important to me. I want to maintain public trust and we do respect and honor uh the Brown Act, but I absolutely support freedom of speech. I don't always agree with the laws of our of our state or our legislaturator's opinions on a lot of things. Um, and so I have some, you know, objections to to the rules as well,
214but I also want to maintain the business of the board at the board meeting. And so with that, I I support these amendments. I appreciate the board taking time to clarify um this issue. I completely understand where you're at. So your concern I think you can still engage. This doesn't prevent you from engaging online with with constituents. >> No, it's not the way I understand it. If two people on this board, this is what our superintendent told me today. If two other people are just on the site, they're not my friends. I don't communicate with them. They're not going to read my feeds, but they're on that social media. You can't post anything regarding what's going on in in the district. >> So say take Facebook for example. >> Take Facebook for example. >> Yeah.
215>> So is this is this language saying if I'm assuming most of us are on Facebook, does that mean we can't in comment? >> That's what he told me. If two of us are on Facebook, we can't make any comments about our work at all online. We can't do it. >> Is that your understanding? I'll be the first to say that I was reading this like the law today and that was the way it read at the time. That's for sure. Now, I could be wrong. Again, I'm not an attorney and I'm going to air on the side of caution. I can always get a legal opinion on this and just to see what you guys can and cannot post. >> I think what they want to avoid is is if on a discussion topic,
216for example, you can't have a trustee making a comment and then some other trustee liking it or Mhm. Correct. In other words, to avoid a consensus of >> avoid consens. >> Yeah. >> See, Emerson, that's why I was really confused because there's no one else on this board that can read my themes. >> So, I think you're safe. >> What? But they can't. And yet, because two of you potentially are on that social site, you you're violating this bylaw. If you say, "I want to talk about want to let you guys know what's going on in terms of grading at BL or here. Here here's what we're doing." Okay, I can't do that. I can't post anything about what's going on. >> David, I think there's probably a strong chance that my interpretation's not exactly
217correct. So, why don't you go ahead and let me get an opinion on this from legal to see what exactly you can and can't post and what those circumstances look like. So, you're safe. >> Give a speech. >> It is confusing. I'll agree. what I want to post. As long as it's not confidential, it's public information. I'm a public official. I want to make a post about my work and what's going on. I should be able to do that. >> It's a little bit. >> Yes. >> Yeah. That came from the updated government code, though. >> Yeah. This this is referencing government code. You know, who knows down the line if someone may challenge this because they feel like it's in conflict. But I think if we just er on the side of caution with
218one another online or we're not engaging or or you do engage but you you take that risk um I think that the most likely chance that any of us are going to cross each other is through some community chitchat page where people are talking about things and typically I just don't engage. That's >> I agree with you totally on that but that's not what the law reads apparently. The reasons that you're simply on that site or use it I can't post anything. So the the policy is straight verbatim. Basically that section out of the law. All you're doing as a board by passing this is agreeing that you're going to follow the law. The interpretation of it I can get from legal counsel. >> Yeah. Well, I think at this point we have to follow
219the law. >> So I I'm in favor of of passing this, but I think some further clarifications from council is warranted. >> Do I have a motion? >> I'll move to approve. Are we voting on the There's two there. Is it like the current or is it the update? >> It's the update. Yeah, good question. Cooper, >> do I have a motion? Bless you. >> I move to approve item 9.7 BB912 board member electronic communications update. Do I have a second? Can I ask a question? >> Sure. No, come on down. I was the first. [clears throat] >> We didn't have a first. >> I'm really I'm really confused by what I'm witnessing here. >> You know, well, we'll interpret it this way. Maybe we'll get legal counsel, different interpretations of what it is. Why
220are you passing this right now? Can't you just hold it until we actually have the information that we need? And it's my understanding also there were some things that were cut out of this version that were in the past version that need examining, too. So I don't really understand what's happening here. So why are you going forward with this? >> This this was approved by legal and this reflects the law. >> So then what were you talking about superintendent >> Ali of the current legal changes? >> Yeah. So the the policy was vetted through council and council has approved this. There is the word or in here that I may have misinterpreted but I want to get clear guidance from legal counsel on what exactly that means. Right? >> I'm interpreting it one way. So
221I will provide them guidance on what exactly the law means as far as posting on social media. So, you're going to provide guidance, but that's not going to have any influence on the vote that's happening right now. You're providing the guidance after they vote on this. >> So, yes. So, so the the law is currently in place. Like, if they vote no on this, this law stands. >> I'm going to get guidance so they don't violate that law. Whether they pass this policy today or not, it's in place. >> Okay. So they're passing what's being re recommended is approve this policy because it is the standard law. We need a little bit more clarity. So I would advise the board not to post anything on social media until I get a little bit of clarity
222on this. But >> so that's the takeaway. They're not going to post until you get >> I'm not saying that. >> I don't control their social media. >> Am I the only one who's confused here? Okay. >> No. for for for clarity. The the the clarification is this sentence right here. As long as a majority of the board does not use the platform or post to discuss among themselves, that line, as long as the board does not use the platform, that that shouldn't stand. That would >> Emerson, I missed it. >> It shouldn't stand. It shouldn't it shouldn't read this way because what you're you're making a valid point. we're all on. >> It's suggesting that nobody can make a comment on Facebook because we happen to be also participating on the platform. It it
223it should say a particular post. >> So, how when you all are posting, how do you distinguish I'm posting as a parent, I'm posting as a board member because I know those lines have been confusing for people in the community and sometimes they respond. Say for example, if you said something, oh, but this is a board member saying it and that's not the role the hat that you're wearing at that time. So, what do you do when you post? How do you clarify that? >> That's not the topic. The topic is you we can't post if other trustees are on the same thread. If they're on if they're on the same topic, you can't build a consensus. >> Okay, >> that's what they're trying to avoid. This is a this is a Brown Act issue.
224So that the whole thing is just around it's about >> this word should be clarified. It shouldn't be it shouldn't read as >> and that's verbatim from the law. Hence >> the law from who? >> California and this is this is standard right? Our legislature puts things out there and everyone's confused. This is standard practice of the California legislators. But this is this is the direct quote. It's really about consensus building and violating the Brown Act. And the law stands as Superintendent Omali. Emerson, it makes sense. I understand the Brown Act quite [clears throat] clearly. You know, if a couple people, if you were online, I'm not going to post anything or two people. No, there's no way. >> But if it's just my little group of friends and I want to share something that
225should be fun, >> you know, I don't want to feel like I'm breaking a law because I'm law-abiding guy. I don't want to feel that way. I want to feel comfortable if I want to talk about my work. And I mean, education's been my life and and if I want to share something, I want to share it without having in my mind, uhoh, you know, I'm violating the spy law. >> Well, either way, David, if if that's how they were interpreting it, you'd be violating it if that's how they interpret it. But I actually don't believe I believe that you can engage. It's just about the consensus. >> You think as long as you guys aren't on my thread, I can engage? >> Yes. That's my That's my take away. >> Well, that would be
226okay then. I could support it if that's the case. >> Officials are communicating online all the time. It we just have to be mindful of the interactions with each other, especially I feel like when we're in a separate public forum, not just on our own page. >> Okay. >> That you know, so >> I think that that whole paragraph is really just to avoid serial meetings. >> Yep. >> And having a serial meeting in person or a serial meeting online, you know, either way, it's email chain. >> You just got to kind of be aware of that. >> Yeah. Not like um Trusty SP mentioned like not building consensus online. >> Exact. Oh yeah, for sure. But when I when I was under the assumption just because you're on Facebook, >> you know, who knows
227where you're at or this you're uh oh, I can't post something because there's two pe two board members that are, you know, >> that kind of that bothered me just like I was thinking I want this is, you know, education. I love if I want to share something I won't share it. >> And just for other clarification, so this is board policy 9012 on electronic communication >> and it goes along with board policy 9010 which board policy 9010 talks about how you communicate as an individual trustee or the board president or who speaks for the board. Like that's that that's 9010. That's what that board policy is all about. It distinguishes how you can speak for the board or who who speaks for the board or whatever. Mhm. >> Yeah. So, with that being said,
228we have a first. Do we have a second? I provided the motion. >> I want clarification first. >> I agree to something that you're not that doesn't make sense. >> Well, it's the law. >> Yeah, we don't have a choice. >> It's not really us. The law exists whether we but but everything we do pretty much. >> I'm in the same place you are. I want a total clarification, too. or it's kind of what and it's in our heads somewhere, you know. >> Yeah. >> Am I hearing? We don't have a second. I don't think we have a second. With that, this motion dies. This will be tabled until we get further clarification. >> Perfect. >> Okay. Item 9.8, board bylaw 9150, student board members update. >> Superintendent Ali, >> I tried when I actually
229wrote it, believe, believe it or not, in my pocket. >> All right. So, this was work with Miss Atkins and I just to update the um student board member selections to align with current policy or sorry to align with current law. So, [clears throat] you can see changes we basically made are in blue just to clarify some things and also to to change actually just to put in in in the board uh policy what we actually have been doing in this district for quite some time. So, it's just to add some clarity. Um the one big piece in this that I think is a change from past practice is per ed code students um are the ones who select the student board member and so the elections for these students will go back to the
230school sites and they'll run those as they run their election process. Um overall you see changes there um answer any questions you may have. >> Come on down. >> Thank you. I appreciate the opportunity to ask questions. I have some for you, Superintendent Omali. Um, where in ED code 35012 does it authorize a governing board to prohibit a student from serving more than one term if reelected by the student body? And on what legal basis would the superintendent and or board override that election? >> I don't have that in front of me, Justin, so I'd have to do that research. Ultimately, my understanding is it's the desire of the district to give give students multiple opportunities to serve. It's always been a one-year position in this district and so it's just clarifying that. >> Thank
231you. So one-year position is different than having uh one term limit. Those are different things. In EDC code, it it signifies that a student board member will have a one-year term, not one term limit. Mhm. [clears throat] >> Uh going along with that. >> So also on that the So the recommendation to the board is to make it one year only as has been done in this district. I'm just making sure you know. >> Can you repeat that? I'm sorry. >> So the recommendation to the board with the policy is that students only serve one year. So it's in line with ed code. This district has always had students do one year. So it's just putting that policy. >> No, it's being that's the recommendation. >> Okay. Thank you. Um, [snorts] so what >> and
232clarify and also our practice. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Thank you. Okay. So, um, >> what problem is the one-year term intended to solve? >> It's not a it's not intending to solve a problem at all. It's intending to give students more opportunity, more students an opportunity. >> Okay. So, would um would you support a similar type of uh policy for a superintendent to give more educators the opportunity? I serve at the pleasure of the board. I can be gone tomorrow. >> Confused by that question. I'm sorry. >> Yeah. No, no worries. Um to give more people the opportunity to serve on to serve in this position. I was wondering if our goal is to give more people an opportunity. I was wondering if that was something that we're looking for in all positions or
233just a student board member position. >> So, the policy on the table is a student board member position. And again, as far as superintendents go, I I serve at the pleasure of of these five people. >> Thank you. Um, and then do you know how many students is the one-year term limit affecting to run this year? >> How many students is the Well, everybody's graduating except you. >> Okay. So, one student in the entire district will not be able to run for reelection in the next >> That would be true. Yes. >> Okay. Thank you. And then my last question is this is not a CSBA guideline as it is highlighted in blue ink and I'm curious on why we are going away from the CSBA guideline and what other districts in the state of
234California have adapt have have adopted this approach. >> That I don't know because I haven't done the research and I would also again refer you to what this district's past practice has been which is students do one year. So we can give students more opportunities more kids can put this on their resumes or applications to college. It's just an opportunity thing. It's again it's kind of basically codifying past practice. >> Okay. Thank you. And um to my knowledge I want I uh did some research. I both searched as many board policies as I could find and I have not found a one-year term limit yet. And then I did an AI report to have it search up all the all the policies it could find and it couldn't find anything any district school district in
235the state of California that has a one-year term limit either. So thank you for answering these questions. I really do appreciate it. And um now I want to say my statement. First I want to start out that I have received feedback from um two adult community members that are parents of a DO student as well as numerous students on this item. These changes are not only harmful to meaningful student representation. They are inconsistent with California Ed Code section 35012 and the legislative intent behind it. Nowhere in the code does it state that once a student has served a one year, they are forever disqualified. Even if the student body wants to reelect them, we are following state law or sorry, even if the student body wants to reelect them, we are following state law with
236board member communication. And I'm curious why we're not doing that. Now, the policy explicitly uh undermines student representation. It replaces student choice with an artificial cap that the legislature has never approved. And yet, it is quoted in this bylaw. And from my knowledge, we would be the only school district to adopt language creating term limits. That matters because student board members are not appointed for convenience. They are meant to represent students. When the board limits service to one term, regardless of performance, experience, or student support, it strips students the right to choose continuity continuity institutional knowledge and proven leadership. I want to be clear that I am 100% in favor of the CSBA guideline and framework that provides that the CSBA has provided. However, the blue ink is what I am opposing. I have connected
237with student board members who are serving two-year terms already. Additionally, on a personal level, this policy prohibits one student from running in the next election, and that is me. I will say it again. Transparency is key. I firmly believe that, and what I thought to be one of the board's principles and values. If this one-year term limit truly is not to disqualify me from seeking re-election, then this part of the policy should be implemented starting with the class of 2028. It feels unfair that these rules are being changed while being in the middle of the game in my term. If I knew I if I knew this while before applying, I may have waited until my senior year to be on the board. But if an amendment is made to start this language in 2028
238regarding the one-year term limit, the language will likely be seen as something that is important to this board. However, if the board passes this bylaw taking effect, as of now, it will be seen as a direct hit on me being the only student in the Plaster Union High School District not able to run in the next school board election. In the next student board election, what are we doing this all for? The students, right? If I went to the Rockland, if I went to Rockland Unified and was their student board member, I could even make a motion. But this policy tells the opposite story. Every chance a district gets from my previous experiences. I always want to ask myself this question. Why are our families and students voices scary? And why would you want to
239limit the student board members responsibilities in these board meetings? However, that has not been my experience of this board. This board has been very pro- student historically. So, let me ask this board. Is this anti- studentent message one that you are trying to send? Because that is how I read it in this policy and if passed that may be the perception. I hold a very high respect for this board and I would hope and urge this board to take two steps immediately. One, make a motion with amendments to remove the one-year term limit entirely or make a motion with amendments to make the one-year term limit effective 2028. two, recommmit to the spirit of educational code 35012, not just compliance with its words, but with its respect for purpose. I genuinely respect you all, and
240I appreciate how pro- student you have been, and I believe that we share the goal of student representation being meaningful and not managed, legal, not conditional, and driven by students and not limited by bureaucracy and undemocratic policy choices that the law does not permit. >> [snorts] >> you have any questions, I'm happy to answer them, too. >> Thank you. >> So, I've got a comment on that. So, it looks like in the particular policy, we're making a number of changes and some of them pretty significant. For example, how the student board members are uh selected. Um that's a pretty significant change where now they're going to be elected by a group of their peers, right? Um, I feel like if that's the case, if they're being now being elected by a group of their peers,
241I'm not sure why we would need to have that one-year time uh term limit in there, uh, because if if that student board member is doing a good job and their peers >> feel like they're doing a good job, they should be able to get reelected just like any of us. >> If our constituents think we're doing a good job, they're going to reelect us, right? Um, I think that should be the same for for a student board member and and and that I understand the the the you know the opposite argument there uh that you wanted to get more opportunities out there for other students. Um, which you know but but if this is what the students are choosing to do, I think we should give them that voice. >> I have to Can
242I >> Yeah, please. >> You know, that makes sense. We've never I've never really thought about students themselves selecting their own student board member, but that makes a lot of sense because they know things that we would never know from reading an application and looking at a picture, you know, and um if that's who the students want to represent them, then I think we don't need a term limit at all. I think that's something that would actually empower the students on campus take we don't need that power if this is how we did it that the kids make their choice so I could actually support that I think >> Dusty Lake >> uh would there be any uh constraints on the year that a student can run like can a freshman run >> and I
243don't believe that that that's permissible in the policy it's juniors or senior >> juniors Yeah, rising basically rising sophomores and juniors who going to be juniors and seniors. >> So where did this proposal arise from? Because I remember before we were given a piece of paper with some names on it and basically the board selected the student representatives. >> So Miss Atkins and I were tasked with getting the the board policy number one up to speed with law and then also basically instituting what this district has always done and that's what we did. and the so we would vote but also the student board members would vote. Um but it actually the law says that they they're supposed to be selected by by the students by the peers. And so >> wait the law says
244they should >> that they need to be selected and elected by their peers. And so our practice even though we were involved and we still had students participating in that vote um you know after discussing it made more sense to take it back to the school so that they were getting to select their representation instead of the board and and uh students from across the district who you know may or may not know them well. So Jessica, we're violating the law right now by >> we're not violating it, but it this this codifies and makes it more clear because we had students voting for our student board members, but we had students from from Placer and Forest Hill and KFax voting for Deloro student board member along with the board where you know and so
245it makes it more clean instead of the other students who don't know the students who are applying. That's why, you know, putting that back to the school for the their peers to select them to be their student uh board member made more sense. Um I appreciate you you um expressing your thoughts on this. Um I and and also Superintendent Omali and I just just for our knowledge, has any of our student board members ever served more than one term? >> No. I'm looking at Miss Atkins and >> we've only had one that was not a senior. >> Okay. >> That was >> Madam President. >> If I may just say one thing too for some clarific just to provide information so the board can make the decision. Please note too that in the inception of
246this um becoming a board member automatically gets you a scholarship. [clears throat] >> So right now it's it's $1,250. It used to be you could apply for something but we've now gone down to a flat rate. And so that's just part of it where technically if you let them run two terms they could get two. I don't So again >> part of the reason I think that staff was recommending was of the option of choices or giving people that >> Peter is that language in the policy. >> No it's not it goes back to what we did as >> Yeah. >> common practice whatever you know. >> Change that common practice is my point. >> Yeah. >> If we decide so decided to strike the one-year term limit and a and a board member served
247two years he could just get the one scholarship. >> Yeah. >> Because you served as a board member. Period. >> Exactly. I just know that part of it, you know, it's embedded in the in the Ed Foundation, but also I reach out to our our our vendors every year >> and ask for donations if anywhere and I've been, you know, 3 to 5,000 to help offset those costs >> for that, you know, because >> it may not be much, but hey, you know, you're a great board member by the way, a scholarship, you know, 1250, it goes for something, books, whatever. But >> it was mostly it was just the opportunity of every kid to have it. That's just letting you know that information. >> So Peter, if we were if we were to go
248down this route, uh then we could also allow that particular man, girl, or guy who would serve more than one year to get a stipen both years they served. We could change >> or not. Or you can say if you end up getting elected twice, you still get the scholarship once. I'm just putting it out there in terms of information. You guys can deliberate that. >> No, thank you. Can I point out one other thing? >> I felt like you had something in. Okay. Nope. Okay. I was like I feel like you want to say something. >> If we're implementing this change where the sites will vote >> electing them. Yeah. >> It doesn't make sense to have a term limit. I mean, I think let the best person win as elected by their peers.
249>> Um, >> and for that matter, there's a lot of time and effort that goes into this position on the board. And if you win that year, then why not have a stipen for that year or scholarship or what you're calling it? I >> mean, it just makes sense >> to me. It's no different than like if a freshman's running for freshman class president and they win, they can still be sophomore class president, junior class president, senior class president. There's no restriction and it's their peers that are voting them into place just like how we got in in place, right? >> Um >> question uh guys, how would we the the voting be supervised? I mean >> I that's a great question. I believe and I'm going to throw this to Ali that that would
250be supervised just the same way that the ASB or >> Yes. The sites have processes >> run through the site. >> Mhm. >> Yeah. That would not be a district operation. That would be a site operation. >> So they would uh have active campaigns on campus if there were several people that wanted this position. >> Okay. >> That's my understanding. >> Yeah. Different sites do do their elections different ways, so there'll be a little bit of variety there. >> Can we put a window on the time that campaigning is allowed? I mean, so that it's not ongoing for months and months. >> Soon the sites, we let the sites deal with that. Like that's just more into that minutia of things that I don't think y'all want to manage. [laughter] >> Second that. >> Do
251we have a motion on this? >> No. It sounds like there's some consensus to make an amendment to what's presented. So, >> I'll move to uh to approve striking the term limit >> clause. >> Just striking the word. >> Yeah, to striking that term limit clause. Um where it says a student shall not serve more. >> One more year. >> I second that. >> We have a first by trustee Jeff and a second by trustee Underwood to approve item 9.8 BB 9150 student board members with striking of the one-year term limit language. >> Um I actually have a question real quick, a little bit off topic. It says um completed applications will be submitted to the district office and the names of eligible candidates like what are the like eligible what is like the qualifications
252to be eligible. >> Great question. >> You still have to have like whatever your standard eligibility is for like athletics you know you have to have a GPA of a certain thing and yeah just that basic screen. >> Just wondering if there was >> that's it. >> Y >> anything else? >> I just want to say thank you again. that was like a testament to what I [snorts] believed and when I saw this I was a little bit surprised. So again I wasn't I know I'm very passionate and I'm sorry if I came across adversarial but um I just wanted to thank you guys for I what's doing I believe is truly best for the students in our district. So appreciate you guys. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions or comments? >>
253I think it's exciting in a way. You know >> I like that >> giving students the power to make their choice. I like that. >> Mhm. >> I think it's going to run more through this process and with it being taken back to the sites for them to to really have to get have the opportunity to choose their representation. >> Exactly. Yes. >> I'm with you [snorts] on that. >> With that being said, if there's no further questions or comments, starting with the student board, all in favor say I. >> I. >> Board. >> I. >> All oppose. Hearing none. Motion carries unanimously. Item 9.9. >> You know what? Yes, it's been long. Let's take a quick 10-minute recess. It's 8:52. We'll be right back. >> It's almost 9. You know what that means? >>
254You know what? [laughter] >> It's Cooper's bedtime. >> Yeah, me too. >> I think it's one word that stealing candy. to bring it up again. >> I will. >> Thank you guys for being here. >> We got to click you guys for being here. Are we good, Carlos? Are we up and running? Thank you, sir. Thanks for hanging out past 900 p.m. We're going to go ahead and get back into it here. Item [clears throat] 9.9, approval of amendment of employment agreement with our superintendent. This is an amendment um to our superintendent contract that's placed before the board today. Due [snorts] to our superintendent uh obviously moving from out of this area, we felt it was appropriate to uh provide a stipen for his moving expenses which was not in his original agreement. And that's
255what's before the board today. Do we have a motion? Motion to approve. >> We have a first by Trustee Lake. >> I'll second >> and a second by Trustee Underwood to approve the amendment to the employment agreement with our superintendent to cover his moving related expenses. Any questions? I just have some comment. >> Sure. >> So, one of the things that we knew as a board when we brought um Superintendent Omali on board was that uh he would be moving a significant distance away, selling his home um in Motook County and and and moving here. Um and that, you know, that's something that we do appreciate. You know, a lot of a lot of the candidates that um that applied were local so that they, you know, they wouldn't even have this issue. But, >>
256and from from what I understand, this is not anything unusual. I think it's it's a common practice when uh when a candidate is is you know going through those um those big changes. So yeah, makes sense. >> And one of the you know positions of the board as well is we want to have see a superintendent that that lives and works in our community. >> Absolutely. >> Interacts with our community members. So >> on a personal and a side note, and it sounds like I'm I'm seeing you lean in. Um, but I think he's loving living near Placer High School and getting to walk his dog. >> Ever claim that? >> So, well, I'm gonna claim it for you. >> Living next to the canal and being in walking distance u from the magical campus
257of Placer. So, uh, we're we're really glad that you're in town and within the boundaries of our school district. Hey, all of them are magical, too. I may have graduates from Placer. So, >> I was just going to throw out that my house continues to be for sale. Modok County, [laughter] um, 40 acres. It's a nice place. So anyway, take a look. It's on Zillow.com. That's right. Zillow.com. [laughter] >> Uh, you need to provide the address, Super Nintendo. >> That would be No, I better not. >> No, I'll save that for later. >> Thank you. Okay. I'm uh definitely not as strong on this one. I just kind of wanted to let you know I think I think open communication is great. And I just want to let you know what was running through my
258head um while reading this just to be completely open with you all. So, I'm not expecting you to take action. And I just want you to know kind of my thoughts while reading this. So I kind of looked at this is that like nothing is plaster union high school district funding. Nothing is government funded. It's all taxpayer funded. And I want to ensure taxpayer money is being used efficiently and as effectively as possible. And I guess I just looked at it like this is that $10,000 taxpayer dollars are going directly to one person's pocketbook. And I understand like I totally understand the other side. And that's why it's like I want you to know that is like I'm not like super strong about this. I just also think it's important to acknowledge that this isn't
259like a like free money. And that's like what like we can't just spend $10,000 out of nowhere. Um especially with our declining enrollment, especially with our low budget deficits, you know? I mean, a teacher doesn't get money to move here, but I do understand like having a superintendent that like lives in like lives around here is beneficial. I understand that it is a large move. I guess I just want to be like abundantly clear that like in my perspective, it's $10,000 taxpayer dollars going to one person's pocketbook. I don't know. Um I mean, teachers make like $58,836. The superintendent accepted this knowing he makes $270,000 a year. And again, like I I totally want you to know that I completely understand the other side, but I also just think I guess I'm going to end
260it with I think it's important to know that these are taxpayer dollars going into this and not just magical money that we found somewhere. That's all. >> Thank you. >> I can assure you we are hyper vigilant and aware of the taxpayers dollars 100%. I appreciate your comment. um I through our audit report and uh you know still making our minimums even three years out with a tight tight budget. Um we absolutely take that seriously. We appreciate your feedback. With that we have a first and a second on the floor for 9.9 the approval of this amendment [clears throat] for the employment agreement with our superintendent. Any further questions or comments? Hearing none starting with our student actually is it appropriate for our student board to thank you does. Starting with our student board all
261in favor say I. I >> board >> I >> All oppose hearing none. Motion carries unanimously. Item 10, public comment on non-aggendaized um non-aggendaized items. This is our opportunity for the public comments to be received by the board. This is a time for members of the public to address the board regarding items that are not on the agenda. Completing a blue uh public participation form is preferred but not mandatory. This form can be obtained at the meeting and in the interest of conducting the public meeting in a timely manner, individual speakers will be allowed three minutes to address the board with no more than 20 minutes per topic. This is a comment period only. The law California Education Code section 35145.5 does not allow the board of trustees to take action on any item not
262explicitly posted on the agenda in advance. The board values public comment and wishes to convey that although the board cannot take action on the items that are not on this agenda, they listen carefully and we do appreciate and value the input from our public. With that being said, I think we have some more. I'm going to give you a kind of a line out here. We've got Thank you very much. We will begin with Jennifer Poe followed by Steve Evans and then Barbara Smith and then I at that point I will give you the next names. Thank you Jennifer. >> Welcome. >> Thank you. >> My name is Jennifer Poe. I'm here to raise concerns regarding board member Tom Duncan's involvement in the day-to-day operations of the girls varsity basketball program at Deloro. My daughter
263currently plays on the team and she played last year when coach MJ Macy's was coaching. I want to thank Jordan George for his reporting and Taylor Crooks Cena for speaking out about the overreach and intimidation present in the program. Last spring when MJ was pressured to leave Deloro, I hesitated to speak out for fear of retaliation affecting my child's playtime or spot on the team, not knowing who would be hired as the next coach or if Tom Duncan would be involved in that hiring. This board now has the opportunity to address the concerns of this community and protect both the students and the integrity of the program. Coach MJ was an extraordinary coach, taught lessons about perseverance and teamwork. MJ ran the program the way she saw fit. Like coach Amir and his staff, MJ
264declined to run the offense that Tom Duncan wanted. She declined to put Brian Romani, who has a child on the team, on her staff. I have nothing against Brian Romani and he may make a fine coach, but the head coaches hired by Deloro have the right to choose their own staff and run the plays that they see fit. We were so disappointed when all of these coaches were pressured to leave Deloro. My daughter remains in contact with these coaches for mentorship and support. A mockery is being made of this program. Over the course of just nine months, these girls have had three different sets of coaches. There was no plan in place when Amir was forced out on December 19th. Luckily, Tristan York, the JV coach, stepped up at the last minute. But within hours
265of him stepping up, my child was cornered for 45 minutes in the school parking lot by an adult parent who has a close personal connection to this board. This parent told my child that coach Amir and his staff were lying to her and manipulating her. My child was told to use her position as a team leader to organize the other players and demand that admin install Brian Romani as the coach instead of Tristan. I want to be clear. It is unacceptable for any parent, especially one connected to this board, to involve a student in adult conflicts or attempt to use a student to spearhead a coaching change. An independent investigation needs to happen. In the meantime, it is critical that everyone in this basketball program performs their role and stays in their lane. Players need
266to play basketball. Parents need to parent their own kids. Coaches need to be able to coach. If concerns arise about a coach, the athletic director, Mr. Hilton, can address them. and if necessary, the principal and admin can step in. Tom Duncan, as a member of this board, needs to do what the people of this community elected him to do. He should not be involved in the day-to-day operation or management of the Deloro varsity basketball program. Strong basketball programs depend on longevity, consistency, and steady leadership. The girls varsity basketball coaches must be allowed to run the program as they see fit. pressure, overreach, and threats of constructive firing ultimately harm the student athletes that this board was elected to protect. Thank you, [applause] >> Steve Evans, Barbara Smith, and then Nicole Young. >> Steve Evans Thank
267you. >> Thank you. >> Most of you don't know me. I've been in in this district for a very long time. My wife Ann used to sit right there. I have two daughters. They're my therefore my involvement with girls sports. I coached at Delore for 24 years with Mike Takyama as his freshman coach youth development. I started the Lumis uh girls basketball club and I was one of the founding members of the current Lady Eagle program. I still coach in the Lumis uh elementary school leagues since 1990. I'm still coaching in the leagues. I coached for 28 years at five city softball, nine years as a varsity softball coach at Deloro where we had an extraordinary state u run. So, I'm slightly qualified for this to be a really important matter for me. The last
268three years, I was asked to mentor the new coaches in uh I stayed in uh in my lane because I was really not an authorized coach. Um things started to unravel were very disturbing. The article hits a lot of points that I wasn't able to verify because it's not really transparent. certain people aren't allowed to say certain things and I understand that. I understand the rules. But the the article brought to light what all of us need to discuss. Now, to be fair to Tom, third party investigation. Absolutely. He should welcome it. >> Thank you, [applause] >> Barbara Smith. Short people should not follow tall people at the microphone. [laughter] Good evening. The abuse of power involves unfairly controlling, manipulating, intimidating, or harming those with less authority, usually for personal gain. The Auburn Journal article
269describes how Tom Duncan misused his position to benefit himself, his family, and his associates. In addition, his earlier attempts to revise the board members complaint process reeks of selfservice. It's likely that a formal independent investigation, which is sorely needed, will verify that a sitting board member has engaged in documented misconduct in direct violation of both the California government code and the PUSD bylaw 9270. I shouldn't need to remind you that exercising undue influence, especially for personal gain, is expressly prohibited by your own regulations. In the article, Mr. Duncan repeatedly talks about boundaries and wearing different hats. It's clear that Mr. Duncan doesn't respect boundaries and should place this hat on the shelf, resign, and spare the community a lengthy and potentially divisive process. Failing that, to regain the trust of students, families, and staff members
270of this school district, this board must immediately conduct an independent investigation and publish its findings. Should the investigation sustain the published events, the board must require trustee Tom Duncan's resignation. Two, abandon any plans to weaken the complaint procedure regarding board members and instead clarify and strengthen the current complaint procedures. Three, participate or perhaps repeat the California School Board Association's professional standards training. Building trust within the school district requires transparency. Open communication can demonstrate the board's commitment to authenticity and accountability and ethical governance. Following through with the three points I listed will help. However, returning public comments to the beginning of the meetings will also reassure that the community has their needs heard. The community should not have to wait until the late evening hours to share their voices. Thank you. >> Thank you very much,
271[applause] >> Nicole. And then our last blue card is Wendy Beal. Good evening. I sent a P to all of you this morning and I want to speak plainly about why this public records request matters and why our community should be paying attention. What we are witnessing is not governance. It is a fallout. Fallout from an election where voters clearly rejected the former board majority. And yet certain former trustee Debbie Brham, Ron Oats, and former superintendent Tuker continue to stir the pot, inject themselves into district affairs, and undermine the dulyeleed current board. Let's be honest about what this is. It's disgruntled mint. It's sour grapes. And it's being fueled with taxpayer dollars. The investigation into trustee Jessica Spay did not occur in a vacuum. It came after she was the only trustee that didn't vote
272to appoint so former superintendent took her behind-the-scenes communications and the involvement of outside counsel and investigators that cost this district real money. This is taking away from our kids. The public deserves to know who authorized these expenditures, how much money was actually spent on these investigations, what was actually found, and whether those findings were altered, reframed, or selectively presented to fit a narrative. Transparency is not optional when public funds are used. Accountability does not expire when someone loses an election. And this brings me to Ron Oats. Length of service does not grant immunity from scrutiny. When serious unresolved questions exist regarding the use of taxpayer funds and efforts to intimidate or remove a sitting trustee, continued public honorific recognition is inappropriate. Ron Oat's name should be removed from district walls and plaques. Public buildings should
273not celebrate individuals whose conduct is now under legitimate public review. Finally, the ongoing social media commentary and public attacks by former trustees, particularly Deb Debbie Brham, against the current board are not harmless opinions. They are all part of a continued effort to destabilize governance after voters made their will clear. It started with Trustee Spade, moved to Trustee Jeff, and now has moved on to Trustee Duncan. It's very clear what is going on here. The community voted for change. The board deserves to govern without interference from former officials who refuse to accept the outcome and who continue to create issues within the community. This P request is about sunlight and if nothing improper occurred, then transparency should not be feared. Also, Trustee Underwood, your autoresponse for emails is rude and unprofessional. It shows a lack of
274concern for your constituents. You have been made aware of this several times and have not changed it, which is very telling. and then you went waxed on poetically about uh your need to communicate yet you're having a hard time doing it to emails. Thank you. >> Thank you, Wendy Beal. [clears throat] Good evening trustees. I'm here to respond to the recent article regarding the Deloro girls basketball program. And I want to be very clear. This situation should be raised should be raising serious questions about administrative leadership, not about a trustee who asked reasonable questions. Trustees do not hire coaches. Trustees do not manage athletic programs. Trustees do not oversee day-to-day operations. That responsibility lies squarely with the administration. So, let's talk about the administration. How did this district approve the hiring of a varsity girls
275basketball coach in his 20s with no prior varsity playing or coaching experience? How was it allowed that his first assistant coach was his girlfriend? Who approved those decisions and what oversight was in place? Why did four players, including two seniors, leave the program after attending team camp and participate in the basketball PE class throughout the fall? Why were two athletes promoted from JV to varsity only to request to return to JV because they preferred remaining there rather than playing under the varsity coach? These are not trustee created problems. These are clear indicators of a program failing under administrative oversight. What did the administration do when parents raised concerns? Was there an internal review of the coaching staff? Was Title 9 considered when experienced coaches continued inexperienced coaches continued to be hired into the girls program
276that was already struggling? Instead of addressing these failures, the narrative has shifted to blaming a trustee who has only been on the board for one year for issues that developed over multiple years. That is not accountability. That is deflection. I am disappointed in the community members that have used this as a political ploy. And if an investigation is being considered, it should be focused on the administration, specifically on any administrators speaking to a biased media aimed to take a dulyeleed board to take down a dulyeleed board member. If administrators are shifting responsibility behind closed doors, that deserves serious scrutiny. What is equally troubling is how these situations are now being exploited publicly. political opposition and disgruntled former trustee Debbie Brham is using this article across social media to call her forces to call her force
277and resignation censure actions that are not even legally possible and certainly inappropriate for all f until all facts are known. This kind of rush to judgment is unamerican in this country. We believe in presumed innocent until proven guilty, not publicly shaming and punishing by headlines or social media mob. If an administrator told staff, coaches, reporters that Trustee Duncan was the problem, this board and this community deserves to know who said it, why it was said, and what accountability exists. Trustees must be able to raise confidential par parental concerns without fear of retaliation or political weaponization. I will close by reiterating this. Tom Duncan has done exactly what he's promised during. >> Sorry, we're past our time. Thank you. All right. >> Do we have any further public comment without a blue card? >> Sure. [clears
278throat] >> Yeah. I'm Dave Obert. Both my children uh were in athletics at DO. I coached at DO for water polo for a number of years. So I've been a coach at DO under the administration. >> [clears throat and cough] >> You know, there's been a lot of he said, she said, and you know, nobody knows the truth because there has been no independent investigation. One needs to be done both for the coaches who deserve it, for Tom who deserves it, and quite frankly for the community that deserves it. This has the potential of dividing what has been a very close-knit community. Um, it's not necessarily partisan. I can guarantee that as a for a fact. Um, but it is hugely divisive and the community needs this board to move forward with some sort of
279invest independent investigation. Um, as does Tom, as does the coach, right? And so hopefully those things happen and we as a community can come back together. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Won't make this a last call. Come. Yep. >> Feel free. No, you don't need to apologize. That's why we're here. >> Okay. Hello. >> Hi. >> Um, President Jessica, I'm Ann Ingram and I do work for the district, which has made me very, very cautious about wanting to say anything. And I also like Jen, I stand behind every word that she shared. She was your first um Jen Poe. We both have daughters on the team. They've played together when they were since they were little. Um we deserve to know more. I would say for me, I tried to stay out of it
280because my daughter wants me to stay out of it as much as I could. There are so many questions. So many questions still. And I'm almost as close as you can get to the situation. I would plead with y'all to do an investigation. I've been in a situation with somebody very dear to me in a different realm that was accused very publicly and we did an independent investigation and they were exonerated and there is nothing like that. Um it settles a lot. Thank you. >> Thank you. I'm not sure about the rest of the board, but I'll stay all night. Anybody else who wants to talk, you you're certainly welcome to come and address the board. I'll give you a moment. >> Yeah. I just wanted to reiterate what I read outside of closed because
281um it's relevant and that is that we have heard your concerns. There's a real threat of litigation and at this point this matter is now in the hands of our attorneys. So I just want to reiterate that we we have heard you um and at this point we can't discuss this further. With that being said, if there's no further public comment, we're going to go ahead and move to the next item. Item 11, board calendar coordinating announcements. Thank you. Feel free. You don't all have to stay for this exciting portion of the agenda. [laughter] Thanks for your time. So, our board calendar announcements, correspondence here, upcoming uh board meeting. Obviously, we've got a couple scheduled things uh for this next month, including our special board workshop. I'm sorry that you won't be able to join
282us. Um are you officially unable? >> I know. I'm sorry. Um, and just one more time while you're here, uh, Dr. Camdetti, sorry to bother you. Could you please read aloud? I know that they're in our Google calendar, but it may be interesting real quick if the board can reference their calendars. If you have your phone on you, this might be a fun exercise >> about our learning walks at the other sites one more time. Absolutely. >> Because then maybe we could figure out who can >> Yeah. So February 4th is Deloro and I believe Confluence West will be a part of that. >> Yep. >> February 11th is Confluence at Placer. >> February 18th is Maidu. >> Sorry, one more time. Will you repeat that? Uh the Confluence at Placer. What was that? >>
283February 11th. >> February 11. >> February 18th at Maidu. And then the 25th of February KFax. >> What was that last one, Steve? >> 25. February 25. >> Okay. if we could please utilize our Google calendar, you would save save the admin trying to coordinate. I know that um >> and the board having to like all go in here and Yeah. >> Yes, for sure. >> So um if you guys will please verify that and if we could have some consensus here in the next, you know, short while that would be great. So um if >> I said yes to Delo, >> you said yes to Delo. >> Okay, great. Um, ideally at least one or two best case, um, are at all of the events. Um, and our staff, our CNIs are, you know,
284putting us with groups and, um, I just want to make sure that we have some representation everywhere. >> Okay, with that being said, item 11.2, Pler County School Board Association Executive Committee nominations. Is there anything else? Sorry, on item 11.1 that anyone wants to share? hearing none. >> Where's the uh the special board meeting? Is that going to be in this room? >> It's a good question. >> Um I would be hopeful that we have the gold country up and running and and we'll have it over there. >> Sometimes we've held Yeah. the workshops at the LMAC. Sometimes it's nice to >> broadcasted. So >> Yeah, we can do that >> if it's free. Can we do it there? >> We'll plan for the LMAC. Can we plan for the LMAC, Miss Atkins? Is that
285okay? >> Is that possible? >> Perfect. Thank you. >> Okay. All right. officially moving to item 11.2. All right, we have calls for nominations for the Plaster County School Board Association. Um, this is not technically an item that we have to take action on. It's just about nominating uh for a two-year term. Um, do we also have the members who are terming out? My apologies. >> That wasn't sent to us. No, it was just the uh the calls for nominations. Yeah. >> Okay. So, I just wanted to bring this here just in case you guys got an email and didn't respond to it. If there's anybody in the county um uh that's currently serving as a trustee who comes to mind, you're welcome to to share it right now at this time. Uh otherwise, we
286can email it. Sure. >> Uh yes, Michelle Price comes to my mind. Um, I'm pretty sure she's the president right now >> and I would love for her to continue in this role. >> I think that she's an exceptional human being trustee and I think that there's honestly very few people that would be better than her than this position. So, I highly recommend Michelle Price from Rockland. >> I wholeheartedly agree that Michelle is a wonderful human being and I serve with her currently on this committee. So, I support that. Any other names that come to mind? Feel free to share them with Superintendent Omali. Um, all the submissions uh of these names for open pins positions just have to be received by no later than February 20th as it states on the dock. So, um,
287with Yes, please. >> Sorry, I just thought of another one. Julie Hup is another one that's >> she's currently serving on >> She's on it, but >> but I'm not sureing. If she is terming out, I highly recommend that we keep Julie Hup in there. Julie Hup is another phenomenal human being. She is a incredible advocate representative. Um, another Rocklin school board member. Lives in the community. >> She's another one, >> I think. Where did No, she lives in Rockland. She lives in Rockland. She teaches in Lumis. >> She teaches in Lumis. Yes. Uh, Julie Hop. Another incredible, wonderful human being. >> Thank you. All right. With nothing further, we're going to actually board. We're going to recess back to close to do a superintendent midyear review. So, with that being said, we will be
288headed back to close 9:32. exciting. >> Yes, we're ready. >> Are we live? Superintendent Omali. We're good. Okay. All right. The board motion to extend the meeting. Uh first by Trusty Jeffrey, second by Trusty Spade to finish the meeting. Um originally, I guess that motion was to 11:10 and it is 11:34 right now. We went past that time. uh regarding item 3.7 superintendent evaluation mid-year review the board discussed and uh we'll provide uh some direction to the superintendent with that item 12 adjournment. Do I have a motion? >> Motion. >> We have a first by trustee Lake [laughter] >> and a second by Trusty Spade. >> Don't send me home. >> Any further questions or comments? Hearing none. All in favor say I. >> I. I all oppose. Motion carries. Good night everybody.