PUHSD Board Meeting 11.18.25

001Look at it. And there's that that welcome. >> Thank you guys for being with us tonight. We're going to go ahead and call our meeting back to order here at 5:39. Thank you for your patience as close session ran a little long and sorry board. We'll be headed back there at the close of our open session to finish wrapping up our items. Uh but with that being said, welcome. Glad you're here with us on this chilly November night. Um just as a reminder that this meeting is being uh audio and video recorded. Housekeeping, our restrooms are available during our open session at the Gold Country Media Room, which is just right across that parking lot. And um while I don't have all of [clears throat] uh a report out for our close session because we

002didn't hit every item, I will report out what we were able to complete during our time over there. Um and with that being said, item 3.2.1 stipulated expulsion 0311C 25 through 26. Do I have a motion? >> Move to approve. We have a first by Trusty Duncan, second by Trustee Jeff. All in favor say I. >> I. I. >> All oppose. Motion passes unanimously. For O. All righty. I'm going to go ahead and move to item 3.5, Conference with Labor Negotiator Government Code 54957.6, subdivision A, agency repres um designated representative as board president under rep under underrepresented employee superintendent. and the report out is just that we discussed and provided direction to councel and 3.6 uh clerk Duncan >> 3.6 uh I'm sorry 3.6 we met with uh legal counsel uh regarding anticipated litigation pursuant

003to government code section 54956.9 uh and discussions occurred and no action was taken. >> Alrighty. So, with that being said, aside from our uh reconvening, we're going to go ahead and move to item five, our welcome and pledge of allegiance. Trusty Duncan, will you please lead us in the pledge? >> 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. All right. Item 5.2. This is our approval of the agenda. Board, do I have a motion? >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> We have a first by Trusty Duncan and a second by Trusty Lake to approve item 5.2, the approval of our agenda. Any questions, comments, changes? We're good to go. All in

004favor, starting with our student board. I >> I >> board I >> oppose >> hearing none. Motion passes unanimously. Item six, reports and communications. We'll begin with item 6.1 board reports. Uh this is our time allotted for members of our board to conduct discussions on events in which they've participated in correspondents related to district programs which they would like to share. Do I have a starter? And I know our student one of our student board members is leaving soon. Um, do we have a time on that, Cooper? So, you can make it to your event tonight. >> I'm go. >> Is the board all right with that? >> Yeah. >> Okay, Cooper, we're going to go a little bit out of order and then sorry rest of our student board members, we'll come back to

005you, but we just want to make sure Cooper gets to share out. But before Cooper does, if he doesn't ring his own bell and toot his own horn, I have to say some exciting news for Cooper. Um, like I don't know, is it in your report? all of your highlights of you. Well, that I'm stealing not stealing your thunder, but I have to acknowledge that Cooper made it to state. He's going to be running um um with the cross country team for state. So, congratulations. Two weeks, Cooper. [applause] >> In two weeks. >> Yeah, after Thanksgiving. >> After Thanksgiving. So, you get a little break. Um but also really exciting news that he was accepted to his mom's alma mater and will be attending Stanford uh running cross country and track next year. So, cheers

006to Cooper. [applause] Very proud. >> All right, Cooper, take it away. >> Okay. Well, cross country kind of was, but you know, it's [laughter] um so starting over at Confluence. Um cool little story over there. So, one of their students wanted like a music room over at Confluence. So, they modified like an unused kind of closet back room. Um they put like some drums and a guitar like recording studio in there. And now they have some students kind of making a little makeshift project over there. So, um cool little stuff over there. Um they also shared that one of their students who was an intern um at Ropes Jewelers I think um he started with an internship there seven years ago and now he's been working there you know seven years ever since. So um

007cool story over there and yeah just kind of a testament to how valuable the internship program is. So cool stuff over there. Um over at Maidu their community bulletin board is um become very popular and their Maidu meetups are you know pretty valuable as well. and the the students basically just kind of share their common interest on the bulletin board and at the the meetups like they've been lots of friendships forming. So cool stuff over there too. Um at Plaster um cool story um probably Justin will talk about this too hopefully. Um is the girls tennis team for Plaster girls tennis team won a section championship and then like two hours later um the Deloro tennis team won a section championship and basically the there's you know the coaches are relatives mom and daughter so

008that was pretty cool. D4 and D2 championship in like a span of two hours. So, very cool stuff over there. Um, our girls cross country team won back-to-back section titles um this past weekend and the boys team sent two individual qualifiers to state. So, we're pretty stoked to run over there. Um, and then one other thing I heard from a couple students um is they they were a little bit like not frustrated, maybe that's a strong word, but um maybe wanted like an explanation for why graduation is on Saturday morning. um they sounded like they were in a favor of like sat or Friday night. Um so maybe like an explanation would be helpful. Um I personally don't really care, but you know um an explanation for those students might be helpful. Um and then

009also we have our Thanksgiving dinner lunch coming up soon. I guess that's what is that tomorrow? I think >> Thursday. Thursday. Yeah. >> Oh yeah, that's it. >> Thank you, Cooper. And good luck at state. All right, we're going to go move back to 6.1. We had a brief hiatus at 6.3. We'll come back to you guys. All right, board. Do I have a starter? [clears throat] >> Thank you, Trusty Jeffree. [laughter] >> So, uh let's see a couple things. So, last week I had the opportunity um to meet up with um ATP president Lamelli at Plaster and we had the opportunity to uh tour the Maidu facility and see their uh their new meetup room and all that. Um really beautiful facility, small um but but nice facility there. Um it'll be nice to

010see how that that facility is used in the in the future. I did notice that the area where there's an office where the teachers kind of work from independently when they're there on on the campus um is relatively small. So it's curious to me how uh how that would end up working out logistically if they were all there at the same time. Um, another thing that I wanted to bring up um is some concerns that were brought forth to me by um more than one teacher uh in the district um with regard to our uh the grading policy that the board implemented. Um the the concerns that have been brought up that the uh the district and site administration hasn't really been doing much to like help that process start to roll out. Um and

011some teachers are starting to get a little bit stressed out about how that uh that implementation process is going to look. uh since there hasn't been a lot of meetings, there hasn't been any trainings that I'm aware of. Um that kind of thing hasn't been happening and I'm I'm concerned um that you know we we need to make sure that our teachers are prepared. We don't want them to fall into that same uh problem that we saw when CBE was rolled out where you know it was all pushed on them all at once and they were all you know very stressed out and upset about it and they felt like they didn't have time to prepare. We've given that the teachers you know a lot of time to prepare you know in accordance with theou

012that the ATP agreed to. Uh we just want to make sure that as the administration side that the administration is doing its part to help that process uh to help make sure that the teachers feel comfortable that they're ready uh that they've had enough time to meet they've had enough opportunities for training uh and time to confer and and come up with the ELO's together and all those kinds of things that are going to be really vital for this uh this policy implementation to be successful. So I want to push back on the on the administration to make sure that they they are doing that. >> That's all I had. >> Great. Thank you, >> Trusty Duncan. Thank you. >> All right. Um, so I wasn't here for the last board meeting. Uh, but, uh,

013was able to go to a couple football games at Deloro. Uh, fun to do. Uh, got to spend time with staff and, uh, uh, in one of the end zones, uh, with, uh, with principal Zurwas and some of his staff and also got to meet some other staff that I didn't know that well. So, it was a great opportunity to watch some football and get to know some of the staff members uh at the same time. Uh went to the last game and it was a tough one losing to Rockland, but what a great season uh by our team. Uh a big turnaround from from last year. Uh and uh I was on the um I was uh on the field at the end of the game just trying to find my children usually. Uh

014and uh it's just it was it was a tough moment, right? a lot of seniors that I saw and um and and it was cool to see some of the Rockland guys that they probably played football with as little kids come over and give hugs and you know there was a winner and there was a loser but there was uh a lot of empathy and and compassion after the game which was what sports is all about which was really cool. So uh hats off to Deloro for just an amazing season. Um, and then uh I had to I got to go to some work nights uh uh leading up to that. Um uh at least picking my daughter up. Um I heard about everything that was going on. Saw pictures uh and it looked uh

015it looked like again amazing time and amazing commitment uh by these students um to to put their time and effort in the way they do. It's really cool. Um, I had time to go on campus with Principal Zurwas, uh, during the lunch period, which was really cool. Uh, saw a ton of kids obviously that that I know there. And, uh, we walked the entire campus, almost the entire campus because, uh, didn't get to Bonner where my daughter was, which she was probably happy about. But, uh, uh, we talked a range of things, which was really cool. Um, you know, uh, principles areas is thinking a lot about math and and some cool initiatives. uh as well that we discussed. Um and I did learn uh that there's a lot of carrots left over after lunch.

016So I helped pick up some carrots and uh and uh Principal Zurwas and Christopher Strucker were right there picking up carrots. So they were leading the way. So it was uh it was cool. Great opportunity. You know, I've been there usually uh during the classes. So I'm watching the students listening to how the uh the teachers are are educating them. So, it was different to be there during the lunch period, which I really appreciate that opportunity. So, thank you. Um, and that's it. >> Thank you so much, Justy Lake. >> Hi, everyone. >> Hello everyone. It's good to be with you. Um, a few things to uh report on. I uh I've also had a chance to visit the the mighty charter charter campus, the expansion at Plaster High School and uh I'm I'm really

017excited to not only hear about them tonight, but I think that that there's a um I think I said this early on months ago about a uh there's a potential there where I think there'sund and something students enrolled. I think that that this online school uh or charter is actually I think it's a it's a potential that if we if we really focused on marketing and involved I know the the Kfax High School has a uh has a strong uh marketing uh video production team. If we task students with with promoting and creating content that can be used online to promote to kind of grab the eyes of parents who might be considering uh alternatives to to to public education uh that are considering other charter schools. I think that uh the MYU uh school

018is is on par with with some of the best out there as far as instruction and um and what you're able to accomplish whether you're a student athlete. I know that there's certain athletes who are uh are considering pursuing their their sport but also want to have that school experience. I think it's a it's a great opportunity. So, I really encourage uh you know admin and uh and our site leaders to to consider um a marketing campaign to to promote this great product that we have in our district. It's awesome. Um yeah, tough loss. I was hoping we would we were going to beat Rockland, but it didn't happen. Um, but rest assured, next year is going to be even better than this year for Delo football. So, we're we're excited about that. Um, coach

019and team is doing a phenomenal job. Um I'm also uh I had a chance to meet with uh with uh Bethleamelly regarding uh more discussions about just um some of the the challenges that uh so I'm seeking to understand more of what it's like to be a teacher uh in our district. And um we had a we had a great meeting. I thought it'd be an hour. tomorrow. We ended up chatting for a couple hours and uh I appreciated the the insight and um so they'll there should be some um some good things that that that come from that. So, thank you. Um I'm also looking forward to paving the the parking lot at Deloro. Uh and um had a meeting with Peter and what I you know anybody that comes and goes from that

020after events following football games and other school events and even in the mornings the the bottleneck is just it's terrible. The traffic's terrible. All the schools kind of begin at once. There's a there's a grammar school down the street, Lumis Grammar. And uh anyway, it's kind of a mess. Um, so I had a conversation with uh someone at Lumis City Council and uh I think we can work to kind of add an additional lane and have a dedicated right turn exit lane out of the parking lot and uh kind of widen that entrance instead of just a two lane, maybe a three or four lane. So, you know, there's a little bit of potential there. Overall, uh I've I've been thinking about, you know, it's that time of year. We've got Thanksgiving next week and

021um you know, gratitude is on the mind and um and I've I've you know, I think we all take time this time of year to kind of count our blessings and to to look at what we can be grateful for. And I think that in our school district, there's a lot that we can uh that we can be grateful for. We have amazing teachers, amazing administrators, and uh and most importantly, we have awesome students that are that are working hard all across the state. Attendance is up, graduation rates are up, and uh and our numbers are are looking up as well. So, uh I'm really optimistic about the future, and um I think there's some some good things that are that are in the works. So, thanks everybody for for all the things that you

022do. >> Thank you so much. I feel like everybody's report was just spot on. And on that note, I just want to like uh take it away. So, I I'm not sure that I want to share my full thing here because I feel like that just ended on such a lovely note. I did a lot of things this past month. [laughter] Um but I visited multiple sites. Uh recorded our state of the union, which not sure exactly when if do you believe that that's still going to be coming out? >> Okay. Okay. All right. So, I wasn't sure. we've we've had some things going on behind the scenes. So, um we recorded that. Um looking forward to sharing that with everybody. That's a new thing for our district. Um previous you guys didn't really know

023exactly what we were working on and we definitely didn't have a state of the district. And so, uh you know, made a creative video up at KFax High School. So, thank you to Sarah Wrath and the team and the class up there and the students who were pros and taping mics to our lapels. They they're the real deal at KFax. They know how to put a program together. My dad was in broadcasting, so I can give you my stamp of approval. You guys are legit. Um, and very proud that of what you guys are accomplishing up there. Um, went to a do I never say this right. Got to slow it down. Deos muertes. I say it slow. >> Deosutos. >> I never could conjugate verbs properly. Um, anyway, it was I don't speak Spanish

024clearly. Um, but it was a really cool event. Uh, the art department I think we've got people here. We do. Um they had lots of crafts and fun things and um actually our former one of our former APS Dr. Sandor was there so it was just really sweet. Um and I wish it was even more attended. I think some of the kids are at sporting events and practices and all of that. But there were still people lingering even close to five and live music. It was super super fun. So kudos to everyone who helped put that together. um attended the plaster youth commission uh the county youth commission and we've got a Deloro student who's doing great things on that commission who is full of energy and super sweet and uh also attended the the

025plaster county um uh school [clears throat] board association's trustee dinner with trustee lake and superintendent Ali such a nice time to kind of visit with other trustees from the county talk about the good things that are happening um celebrate a teacher of the here um and hand out some awards. Trusty Underwood is not with us tonight, but he earned an award for longevity uh for serving on our board for 10 years. And if he he had been there, he would um we would have recognized him there, but when he's back, we do have um a certificate for him as well. Uh Superintendent Omali and I attended a Veterans Day ceremony at Sierra College. Um it's a wonderful event. uh the eyes for freedom. This is a exhibit that has toured the US essentially. Um really

026moving and beautiful. Um and was able to connect with our sheriff, Plaster County Sheriff and uh Rockland uh PD chief and even our uh Rockland mayor um Miss Jill Galdo. So it was nice to catch up there and and just honor our veterans. I see that we have our band director from Plaster here in the house tonight. And I one of the things I love most about Auburn um is their sweet Veterans Day parade. I just think it's just beautiful and epic and I love seeing our marching band in that. It just touches my heart. So, thank you guys for choosing to be part of that every year and making it special, homegrown. Um let me go here. Oh, our fiscal transparency initiative is starting to take some traction. There's good things happening. We had

027our first uh feeder school district in Plaster County pass the resolution and they have a page live with Lumen Lumis Union School District. So more fiscal transparency the better. And we've got our neighbors and friends um providing greater access to their community which is our community as well which is wonderful. Um congratulations to all of our sports teams. Obviously, we shared uh Cooper, but there's a lot of incredible athletes that are just finishing up their season or are reaching the pinnacle here in the next couple of weeks. Thank you so much to the coaches who spend countless hours to their spouses who give them up for four months and support them. It it's such a huge undertaking to be a coach um and to be a mentor. These kids deserve and need that uh guidance

028and support. It's some of the some for some of these kids, it's the only reason why they come to school or why they even try to get a decent grade is so they can compete and to be a part of something that's bigger than themselves. And uh I I love athletics for a lot of different reasons and clubs and music and plays because it gives our opportunity our kids an opportunity to shine. It's so incredibly important. Um so with that, let me see here. Communications. Oh, I did receive some communications uh regarding our three-year math requirement. And I know there's been a lot of conversation around math. Um there was a request to have an agenda item uh to discuss that. Um we have not set a time for that, but just so you guys

029know, we did receive a request for that. And that is all for now. Um and happy Thanksgiving to all y'all. Hope you have a wonderful, wonderful holiday this next week. And bonus, for the first time, I think in Plaster Union history, our kids and staff are off the entire week. So sorry. Thank you for coming to school early and enjoy your week off next week. >> Okay, >> Madam President, if I may, can we jump to the public hearing at 6? >> Beautiful. Yes, we can. >> Okay, [clears throat] we're going to go ahead and jump to item seven, our public hearing. So, I'm going to go ahead and open up this hearing. This is our notice of our public hearing for our Mighty Virtual Charter Academy renewal charter petition. Do we have any public

030comment or do we have an explanation from staff? This will be an item later in our action hearing. None. Go ahead and close that public session and head on back to 6.2 ad hoc committee updates. Board policy audit committee. Jeremy. >> So the uh the board [clears throat] policy audit committee which is made up of trust president Spade and I um made some recommendations which you'll see on the consent calendar. Um, and we're still continuing to go through those policies. I'm sure we'll be meeting again soon uh to continue that work. Um, I think our goal is within the next few months is to get through everything um with recommendations on what policies we can get rid of and what policies we can amend or change and what policies we need to kind of keep

031it in place as is. Um, just know that as we're going through those and making through the making those recommendations, we are checking with legal um to make sure whether or not this is a um, you know, a legal modification or change or tweak that we're making as well as talking to the district administration to make sure that they're conferring that this policy whether it's you know vital that we keep it or not. Um, so we are still continuing to go through that and again you'll see some of those those recommendations on today's consent calendar. >> Perfect. any um and quick update on BB912 as well. >> So for board pol uh yeah board policy 912 um trustee Lake and I met months ago um and sat down and we drafted the new policy. I

032see it didn't make it on the consent calendar for this month because probably because there was so much on the agenda this month. Uh so hopefully our next meeting we'll have that on there. Um but we did have some recommendations for changes to that policy. >> Okay, great. All right, I believe that is all for our ad hoc committee. So, we're going to go ahead and move to our student board member reports item 6.3. >> Welcome, Adam. >> Good evening, everyone. Uh, I'm Adam Weart, the student board rep from Kolfax, if you don't know me. So, to kick off kick it off with what's going on at KFax, our sports teams, a lot of sports stuff going on, but our we had two section title appearances from our cross country and flag football teams, respectively.

033Uh, congratulations to them and especially Sophia Smiley for winning league MVP. Congrats. Um, our girls golf, volleyball, and football team are wrapping up their seasons. Our we had our last uh football game of the season against Burbank on November 7th, winning 42 to 14. Great way to end on end off the season. And so with our fall sports coming to a close, wrapping up, our winter sports are starting up. I know our wrestling, boys and girls soccer and basketball teams have been out there practicing, getting ready for upcoming tournaments and games. Uh, really cool. And so, kind of bringing it back more to the student body side, at the end of October, I ran our fall blood drive. Um, we consider our goal thanks to donors of both staff and students alike, especially our interim

034principal, Mr. Wilson. Thank you so much. U, I hope you all had a really good Halloween. I know we did at KFax um with our Halloween costume contest. It was really cool to see everyone dress up. Um and just this last weekend, our drama department finished performing their rendition of The Outsiders. Uh it was really amazing and so I'm looking forward to seeing their production of Foot Loose in the spring. >> And so sorry, sorry. And so recently some of our other students um honored our veterans by painting murals on an unused wall at our Kfax Veterans Hall Center. It was really cool to see. Today was our Thanksgiving dinner that Cooper had mentioned that he was having in a little while. Um and this week also going on is our SOA senior. So it's

035a really great way really great way to raise money for the senior class. And so this Thursday I will be one of the ones getting soaked. So very exciting. Um, our CFX TV team has been working pretty diligently on their upstander bowling PS today and I was at their first meeting a little while ago to help kind of facilitate the discussion and really break down the word. That was our focus of that first meeting. So, looking forward to their continued meetings. Uh just regarding student voice, um some potential topics maybe like school climate, like how students treat each other, just the kind of student body, and then maybe college and career readiness, like how prepared are students for their next steps after high school. All right. Thank you so much. Have a good Thanksgiving. >>

036Thank you, Adam. Justin, welcome. >> Thank you so much, President Spade. I appreciate it. Good evening, board. And let's get into it. uh within the last few within the last month I attended the eyes of freedom exhibit as well on a different day than President Spade, but um that was really cool to see. Same with the Lumis Grammar Veterans Day event, which has been my favorite event I've attended as student board member. Uh I got to I was joined with LUSD trustees Chadwick and Trustee Wright from the Lumis Union School District as well as Superintendent Sloan and Director Kelly Booth. That was I'm just so grateful for our troops and the price that they paid for our freedom. I got to attend the Confluence West open house, uh, which was super cool to hear their

037presentations, hear their perspectives on so many, um, items. I thought that was awesome. A Delaware parent club meeting on 11:18. And, uh, I also want to give a shout out that it is National Family Engagement Month. So, uh, just want to celebrate the role our families play in our students education. So, I know I appreciate my parents. I also uh speaking of that wanted as well in addition to Trusty Lake recognize gratitude uh for November. Uh two things on that. There is a great opportunity in the community to give back. There's a giving machines in Roseville which if any community member knows what that is, they can help and give to local community by a vending machine which is pretty cool to see that so close to our community. I also feel so grateful to

038be able to serve my constituents which my constituents I think I said that right which are the students of Deloro and I just want the community to know that these are the people I serve and the only people I serve and I feel so grateful for that opportunity. As activities programs goes uh we had our homecoming our homecoming week and game. Uh our game was an awesome football game. We smoked Davis and there was a really cool band performance. That's actually one of my favorite things to watch is our band performance. Our band does a great job. Um, and then we also have our the theme this year was haunted hoco. So, haunted homecoming. And it was pretty cool to see everybody kind of go back to their uh like kindergarten selves dressing up in

039Halloween costumes. I love that. Uh, looking to the future, there is winter wonder week and the Makea-Wish rally that the board is welcome to attend if they wish to see what I did there. Uhhuh. Um, they also FFA is doing a kiss a pig event with teachers Hardy Smith and Dilap. So, uh, you might want to see them kiss a pig for a great fundraiser. I also want to recognize the art programs and the amazing work that they do at Deloro. As academics goes, there are many junior and senior student athletes that have verbally committed and signed to colleges. Uh, we had a senior signing day and I just think it's so awesome that uh, these students are getting to pursue their passions and the support that we have in athletics. Um, we obviously can

040do better, but we obviously also have a very good program to have so many students be committed. Speaking of athletics, as athletics goes, uh, Deloro had varsity football playoffs. Uh, our football team was seven and three this year and we advanced to playoffs. Our girls tennis won the division 2 championships. Cross country boys placed fourth uh in I don't know where and uh sixth. I'm assuming that's league, but I don't know for sure. And then two students are advancing to state which is pretty awesome that we have two and they're both uh boys. Awesome. And girls volleyball finished 2712 and golf that we have a student going to masters this year which is um unusual and pretty cool. Winter sports has uh come to a close and or sorry, fall sports have come to a

041close and winter sports just recently had their parents night. I got to check in with 25% of students at Confluence West today. And they uh I asked them, I said, "What's your favorite thing that you've done in the last month at Confluence West?" and they said that their new internship for an electrician, their Halloween party that they threw at a senior center, uh their leave to learn production, um they watched a musical at Sierra College, the kindergarten classroom internship, sports league, which is an alternative athletic league, and it sounds like Confluence West is pretty good. So, uh watch out other alternative athletic schools. And then, um one student just said, "All leave to learn. They love being able to go on these field trips." So, that's awesome that we offer that. As student voice topics

042goes, um I recommend that we have student involvement in both academic and athletic hiring practices as this is a constant uh constant feedback I get is in hiring practices. So I think that that would be a good and interesting and unique student voice topic to look at. All right, as you guys know, I always like to end it off on something fun and light-hearted. So M Mountain Mike's Pizza is back every single day and Mr. Zurwas went on the announcement and said, "Mountain Mike's Pizza will be back every single day in our district or in our school and uh there was a lot of cheers from that." So, that might have been the most exciting stuff that's happened at Deloro. And then also uh this this is also pretty funny. Do you want to build

043a snowman and baby shark are both on our uh on our on our on our radio system when uh our bell schedule to get to class? And again, students like these kind of funny they're funny things, funny smiles before going to class. So that's all from me. Happy Thanksgiving and I appreciate this. Thank you. >> Awesome. Thank you. >> I'll just say that is different and cool when you're walking around and all a sudden you hear music. You're like, "Oh." But it >> it does make it interesting and fun. >> We all need a little more fun. All right. Item 6.4. Our superintendent showcase community recognition for Maidu Charter Academy. >> Welcome Maidu. >> Dr. Davenport, come on up. >> I'd like to ask to join me first. >> So, tonight we are uh Mighty

044is honoring Miss Pauliana Redmond who is a recent retiree. I almost said graduate when I was writing [laughter] it out. She graduated from Maidu last year. So, um, Polyiana, I would say first thing, she has been a major change maker for Maidu. And when you hear her numbers, you'll understand why. She was in the Plaster Union High School District for 33 years. And of those 33, 27 were spent at Maidu. Um, in her time at Maidu, she weathered many changes, including the transition of Maidu from a general independent study school to the Maidu virtual charter academy that we are today. Um, I will also say it's very fitting that she's here tonight to receive this acknowledgement given we are also working on our charter renewal. Um, which I think was done eight years ago. It

045was supposed to be five uh but CO hit. So um I personally know that she experienced at least three site moves and a number of internal programmatic changes. Through it all, Polyiana always kept students at the forefront. She provided a very personalized instruction for each of her students. In addition, she was actively involved in the teachers union and regularly attended board meetings to stay a breast of happenings in PHSD. So I thought it was kind of humorous when I thought, well, is she going to want to come to a board meeting now? And as she sat next to me, I happened to have two agendas. So when she we started, you started off, she was looking for like, well, I need to follow. So I handed her an agenda. She was able felt like she

046was back at home. Um, as administrators, we would often turn to Polyiana to get her opinion and her knowledgeable fe field feedback on potential programmatic changes. together with um fellow teacher Tony Amaral, they developed and implemented our tiered engagement policy to help support struggling students. And with the implementation of this engagement policy, we've seen noticeable improvement in student outcomes. Be because Pauliana gave so much to Maidu for all those years, the least we can do was to honor her as a changemaker for our school. Pauliana, I honestly felt kind of bad inviting you back for another board meeting during your retirement, but we do thank you for all of your years of service and everything you did to support students and improve our programs. I hope you are thoroughly enjoying your retirement. And I did

047hear that she is. >> I am. [applause] >> This way. This way. Sarah's not here. This is hope. No guarantees on a picture. >> All right. Ready? One, two, three. [applause] >> Sure. All right. So, Maidu is part of the hot ticket tonight. We're on here, I think, three times. So, um this will be short and sweet. I believe I'll be under the 15 minutes and eight slides. So, who drives Maidu? Uh we have and I'll explain a little bit more about some of the acronyms as we go, but we have two and a half PEP teachers. So now that Pauliana has retired, Tad has taken her place as the OG of our program. So Mr. Tad Ikeman is one of our two full-time PEP teachers along with Joanie Lutz. And our newest addition, um

048Aaron McCabe is our half-time PEP teacher. We have five collegiate teachers that are all also teaching dual enrollment. Tony Amarall, TJ Feck, Kimberly Carver, Laura Sers, and Ellie Verie. We have one counselor, Rachel Stevenson. one office staff member, Beth Parkkins, and a half AP half CTE teacher in Kristen Miller. Um, I almost said slide two to myself. Um, so we were asked to focus on two components of the areas of focus for our board. And so for Maidu, what I decided to focus on was the MVCA comprehensive but also alternative education that we offer to students. Um it's the board expectation number four. I won't read the whole thing but it's there. Um our collegiate program um as I mentioned before we have five teachers in that program. It's all A to G. Students can

049go straight from the collegiate being a collegiate graduate to a 4-year um college. We have our PEP program on the far right which is our personalized education program. That program typically serves students that come to us um credit deficient and it's an opportunity for students to um move through educ school at their own pace. And I will say we actually have I won't point them out individually, but we do have two parents of our my students in the room tonight. And I think the beautiful part of it was listening to one of those parents talk about how her child is going to graduate early and school maybe isn't the greatest fit and ready to get on with their career and get job skills and go out and be a productive member of society. The other

050one has a student that um Trusty Lake as you mentioned the athlete side competitive uh athlete and is seeking Maidu for a completely different reason and I think that's part of what we bring such a wealth and a variety of um opportunities educationally for students that they maybe couldn't get or they get in a different way at the comprehensives. And then the I feel the most exciting part right now is our foray into the early college program and our partnership with Sierra. Um and then as you can see at the bottom, we've added a number of new courses the last um three years in both dual enrollment and CTE pathway uh course opportunities. So who are we enrollment data? I'm not going to go too in depth in this, but um the one thing I

051do want to highlight is that we you'll see in green on the um chart on the pie chart on the lower left um is our out of district and I think Emerson or Trusty Lake um to your point uh we are really working on um [clears throat] exactly what you said and marketing. In fact, if you go to a um movie at Studio Movie Grill in Rockland this month, I believe it started yesterday and through the remainder of this month and I think partially into December, kind of hitting the holiday time, you'll see a a quick blurb on Maidu. And we're also doing it as a pilot at another movie theater in Sacramento. We'll see kind of what feedback we get on that and if we wanted to grow and improve it. We also um

052have two grants that we set aside thousands of dollars for marketing. So, we're really just starting to get ramped up. The beginning of this year for our early college was kind of our slow roll out. Our plan is to really hit the ground running this spring and early fall. And then as far as total enrollment and again to the point of u MU being an opportunity to bring in enrollment which then in turn has the potential to bring in money. Um I won't talk about it too much. It's in our charter renewal, but we part of our charter is to focus on our PHSD students first. But in addition to that, then our goal is to enroll students that are from outside of the area. [snorts] And as a charter, students don't have to go

053through an interd district transfer process. It's school of choice. They get to leave their district and they just come enroll with us. And so with that, we have um as you can see here, a number of students that transfer from those are just samples of students we currently have from those districts. And as you can see from that chart, um we're growing and our total enrollment um is continuing to increase and has over a number of years. And I did put the dollar sign because the increased students from outside the area equals ADA money. So the second area of focus um that we selected was um safe and supportive schools. And so we did a survey and for the board you can click on the um upper right f full survey to see the full

054data but we just parsed out a few things. And so really what we find and being a principal at both Forest Hill a comprehensive and at Maidu um a lot of students for a variety of reasons want and need to transfer. So you'll see from here a big part of it bullying um feeling needing to feel safe flexibility that ties to kind of the some of our higher achiever athletes, race car drivers, all of that. And then we have a number of students that for health reasons um transfer to Maidu. And we were excited to see that 85.4 of the 41 students that responded um are satisfied with their decision and 68% of them felt less stressed at Maidu. And then these are just a few of the quotes that came up in the part

055where they could actually put some words in there. Um, I'm not being called slurs. Don't have to worry about being jumped. I don't get bullied, less judgment, less stressed, not harassed. Um, no drugs, no social media, no bullying, no anxiety in the classroom. And I put down there the hashtag my domyway um because I think it kind of speaks to um students being able to do things their way without a lot of other outside pressures. And then it was mentioned earlier, but um yes, our Maidu meetups are a cornerstone of our program and it's an area that we have um really we received feedback last year from our site council um from students and parents and really wanting to expand the opportunities for meetups. So, we had two teachers that piloted it and that's um

056Laura Cers and Ellie Verie. And we've expanded that to where all of our teachers are involved in the meetups throughout the year and support students in a variety of you'll see here there's Sierra College, there's bowling, they went to SAK State, uh hiking, a coffee meetup, and the most recent one in the middle there with the red tablecloth was Dia de los Muertos at Sierra College. So, and that was a really cool opportunity for some students from different sites that maybe have different um kind of interests to be able to collaborate and learn from each other. The teachers were over the moon talking about the experience. And last but not least is our new space. Um, and I'm glad that some of you had an opportunity to see it. A lot of money, blood, sweat,

057and tears went into it. Um, putting furniture [clears throat] together. I in a little picture down there. Um over the summer putting some stuff together we have uh Mr. Wilson was at a meeting in front of the calendar there. But I do want to thank um Mr. E and his team. Uh Principal Jackson and her team as well as um I don't want to forget Jason Lee uh who is our tech guy. He handled our tech stuff, but he also helped us put together a lot of furniture. And then, um, Beth Parkkins, our office person, was very involved in a lot of the movement, the actual moving. And then last but not least, uh, Kristen Miller was instrumental in a lot of the choices for decorations. We got to go couch shopping. Um, but we

058really feel that the space is um much much better than what we had before and we're excited to really be able to implement it and use utilize it to its fullest extent. >> Did I make 15 minutes? >> Oh, yes. You [laughter] crushed it. I debated about saying names because I was worried about that. >> No, that was that was so great. Um, thank you so much for showcasing tonight. Yeah, I I'm with Trusty Lake on the fact that it's I remember when you guys were starting to roll out um the PEP and you guys were talking about it a lot last year. Just Yeah, I can see how that was just going to open up doorways not only for our students and our incredible staff that that we even have that opportunity based on

059their credentials that we can offer all of these. So, super proud of the good work you're doing and I hope you speaking of marketing that you do might do my way all over all of it because that's very catchy. [laughter] That was great. So, yeah. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> Any questions from the board while she's here? >> I think you're clear. Thank you. >> That's what it was. >> Ah, >> thank you. >> All right. With that, item 5.6, our superintendent's report to the board. >> All right. There there's never a shortage of things going on in our district, which is really kind of fun. Um, I was at the California High School Coalition Conference on 10:27 down in Sacramento. I was with President Spade at the uh Youth Commissioners of

060Plaster County meet and greet on 10:29. Also attended uh PCOE trustee dinner on 11:30. Um Confluence West open house which um you know alternative ed is is is a pretty remarkable program when you really get into the how it serves our kids. So that was really it was nice to see. Um, you all, including student board, should have an itinerary for the CSBA meeting when we get back from Thanksgiving. So, make sure you take a look at that. If you have any questions, please reach out to Miss Atkins because I don't really know much and she's going to tell me what to do on those days. So, that's going to work out well. But, we'll get you there and get you home. Um, we have a board workshop scheduled for February 24th from 9 to

0614. I need you to check your calendars because we need to have that meeting and I need all you there from 9:00 to 4. If we can't do that day, we'll we'll have to move it. >> But that's going to be leading into some >> Mhm. >> that's going to be leading into some potentially challenging budgeting conversations. Um those kind of things. So, I just want to call that out because you guys are busy. I get it. But I want to make sure that if that date doesn't work, um we can get you to a date that does. Um, our next regular meeting is on 1216 and I just want to say um, our students have talked a little bit about results and and we have a lot of very good results in this district.

062I know Dr. Cam Eddie is going to talk a little bit about at the dashboard um, and you'll get more information on that in the coming months. But I think data dictates or data shows that students will reach the bar where we set it and this district has incredibly high expectations. And you know, I've, you know, [snorts] done a lot of work with a lot of different school districts and we ask a lot of our kids and the dashboard shows that they're responding to that, which is which is really cool. So, I just wanted to as we talk about, you know, we we do have some things we need to analyze and I don't question that, but high results yield high expectations. So, I just wanted to throw that out. With that, Dr. Camin. Thank

063you, Mr. Mali. Um, tomorrow we have our second budget advisory. Mr. E is going to be leading that at the ELMAC tomorrow. Um, we had our best meeting and um, new um, board members of the best is where we invite our nine feeder school superintendents um, to kind of have a dialogue and start working together. Um, hasn't happened in a couple years with CO and everything mixing up and um, transitions around here. Um, we wanted to kind of start fresh and and have a nice uh nice meeting in order to figure out how PHSD can partner with our our feeder districts and in in terms um build stronger relationships with our students coming in. And so we're scheduled to have two meetings a year and we'll have our next one in April. But it was

064good conversation. Uh it happened to be a torrential downpour last Thursday and so we did not have as every superintendent attend because they were probably addressing um leaks on their campus but it was positive. Um [clears throat] we will be reaching out to our certificated teachers um for a grading committee update. um we wanted to wait until we had some data on uh the first term in order for them to see and share how um the grading policy has been going for them, provide input into um and we'll of course bring that back to the board of what those kind of findings were. So that'll be in January. Um per theou uh we'll have a greater obviously majority of of those stakeholders being our our teachers part of that group. So that concludes my report.

065Thank you so much. All right. Item 6.6, Associated Teachers of Plaster, CTA, NEA, ATP, President's Report, Miss Lameli. >> Good evening. >> Push the button. Oh, green. There we go. All right. Um, thank you so much for having us today. Um, I'm actually going to turn it over to, um, to VAPA. Um, so I think I've talked to a couple of you about how since the spring, um, we've been looking to, uh, hopefully increase the transparency around the Prop 28 funds, and they're going to speak to that. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Yes. Well, oh, and they have a handout. Um, that that means that I have to ask permission. You're supposed to ask permission. Um, no, no, no. It's okay. I'm just teasing. um they have a handout that they would like to

066um give you if that's okay for them to approach the the board. >> Yes. Yes. Okay. Thank you. >> Thanks. >> Thank you. Sure. >> Oh, I gave it. >> Sorry. >> Hi, I'm Dave Lawrenson. Thank you for the shout out. I appreciate that. my last >> one of these days you'll have to go to the uh the uh ceremony that's done at the um gold country fair um because we play for that too. We provide all the ceremony music for that too. It's a really great event. So keep that in mind. Um [clears throat] just as a general thing uh I know that we've been meeting with uh members of the administration. We're very concerned about the way Prop 28 money is being uh used in the district. Uh I think we in essence

067have a different interpretation of of how it's done. Um I'd like to specifically talk about uh what Prop 28 is and what it's not. Um it was new money. Proposition 28 was voted for the by the people of this California to um to make VAPA more than what it was. Okay. So these funds um are restricted state allocation that must add new capacity to our vapor programs. Uh they cannot replace what was happening before. Okay. So the baseline is a 2022 2023 spending baseline. So every school in the state looked at what was done uh then and then it was supposed to expand on top of that. um using them to pay for existing VAPA salaries or fund nonvapa positions such as administrative or core academic staff is a direct and illegal violation of the

068supplant not excuse me of supplement not supplant requirements. Um as far as we know and can understand uh enrollment shifts are irrelevant to the mandate. There's nothing in the mandate that says if we're under uh uh declining enrollment that that makes any difference at all. So, what we're looking at is a situation where we uh had certain classes, a number of classes, and we added to that at our schools, and now we're not doing that anymore. So, that's our our specific concern when it comes down to both the teaching positions, the FTE, uh how that applied, and the monetary part of it as well. And I think I'm going to turn it over to you now. >> Hi, I'm Ka U Perkins. You know, I teach art at Placer. Um, so what this is, before

069I go any further, you got a slideshow printed for you and it has all kinds of really great information, some specifics, lots of numbers, and for non-number people, we kind of tried to sum it up a little bit. So the the second point is the fidelity to VAPA standards, meaning that the funds must exclusively be applied to activities that fall under that visual and performing arts standards. and any deviation of that um is a misallocation of restricted public funds. So, we just want to make sure that the money that the voters voted for and has been set aside by the state truly goes to the kids and the kids in art um that it's supposed to be delineated for >> sense. Hi guys, Red Johnson uh art teacher at Pler. The last point on uh

070the top points there are mandatory public transparency. We would like the district to legally uh is legally required to make an annual public accounting of how all the prop 28 funds are spent. We see a need for a detailed line item budget showing direct investment into the VAPA staff materials and training to uh verify compliance so we don't lose the funds because they're very important to us and uh it's very important that we know where they're going. [snorts] >> [clears throat] >> We've presented uh three concerns and now we have some uh possible solutions that uh we considered as um we tried to articulate um what we were thinking and uh the first solution is [snorts] it sounds like something you're already working on on the um Mr. Dr. Kimetti the transparency on the dashboard

071you do dashboard stuff. >> Yeah, we're going to present on Yeah, we're presenting. >> So, um we were hopeful that um the transparency of this particular um [snorts] Prop 28 could be um implemented in a specific public-f facing uh budget ledger. [clears throat] um a simple spreadsheet perhaps uh on the district website that is updated quarterly. This tracker um [snorts] could display the incoming funds, the current expenditures broken down by categories, salaries, materials, and operations and the exact carryover balance providing a real time transparency which sounds like it's already on your agenda to be fully transparent. Sorry, that's okay. Hi, my name is Sharon Arsenith and I'm normally an English teacher, but I get to teach AP art history um under Prop 28 funds, which is amazing because that was my major and my passion

072as an undergraduate student. So, that's who I am. Um form a formal VAPA advisory committee is something that we would request comprised of all stakeholders including parents and a minimum of 50% VAPA teachers. This committee must be mandated to review the quarterly spending reports and have the authority to formally approve the spending plan for all carryover funds ensuring that these funds are tied to VAP goals. Hi Rachel Cottingham for High School. Uh lastly, we'd like to request that uh we have an earmarking policy for capital projects. So we need to establish a clear district policy shared to our website as well. called the PHSU PUHSD website that carryover funds are automatically designated for multi-year VAPA capital improvements only. So we have a lot of things that we need that need to be replaced after long-term

073use and things that we need that are not daily consumables. So that could be um replacing musical instruments, upgrading a theat's lighting system, purchasing expensive, durable art equipment, thereby building long-term VAPA capacity to prevent it from being absorbed into next year's general operations budget. Thank you. I think one thing that this didn't bring um is to make sure you understand that we are an LAP meaning that if we are together as a district. So if one school is doing something that isn't in accordance to the proposition then we as a entire district can lose those funds which would be detrimental to our entire um departments all of our departments. >> Good. >> Thank you so much. >> Yeah. Thank you. And just I want to quickly before the board potentially has a comment or attempts

074to have a discussion because this is not an agenda item specific that identified we're going to thank them. [laughter] We're not going to have a conversation so we don't violate the brown eye. All right. >> Can I say something? >> As long as we're not going to have a discussion. >> No. No. I just want to thank the teachers that came in tonight. Um this kind of you know u seeking for transparency is is is perfect. like this is what we want to see. Um I think everybody on this board wants to make sure that we're doing the right thing, that we're spending funds the right way and we're doing the right things for our kids and what you guys are doing is helping us do that. So I appreciate that. Thank you. >> It's

075perfect. Well said. >> All righty. Uh we're going to go ahead and jump past item seven because we already did it. So exciting times. We're speeding up. Item eight are consent agenda items. Um do we have any changes to the consent agenda? All right. Hearing none. Do I have a motion? >> Motion to approve. >> I have a first by Trusty Duncan. >> I'll second. >> Second by Trusty Jeff to approve our consent agenda items. Any questions, comments? Hearing none. Starting with the student board. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Board. >> I. >> All oppose. Motion passes unanimously. Alrighty, flipping a couple pages here. If you're following along with paper, it's on item uh on page seven. We're going to start with our action item 9.1, certificated personnel report number 425 through

07626. Take it away. >> Yes, Madam President. I do want to put a shout out to Adam and the fact that they are developing a video for the Upstander campaign. I really appreciate that. and hearing about it. So, it's getting out. It's getting word. I love it. So, thank you very much. So, that was just an aside. I'm sorry, Madam President. >> No, that's perfect. Um so certificated personnel report again you we have a number of teachers um that are doing additional stuff including um dual enrollment courses and teaching on their prep and all of those difficult things that they do as add-ons that we really appreciate them being willing to do those things for us. On the behalf of the superintendent, I would recommend approval of the um certificated personnel report. >> Do I

077have a motion? Motion to approve. >> First by Trusty Duncan. Second and >> a second by Trusty Jeff. [laughter] >> Any questions or comments? >> Yes, I do have a question. So, I'm looking at the um personnel report here. And one of the teachers, Isabella Barto, it says she's getting four additional hours per week for assessments. What does that mean? >> She's a school psychologist and they need additional support. >> Oh, okay. >> Thank you. Any other questions or comments? >> I do want to share that she actually doesn't work full-time, so this is not beyond her full full-time position. >> Thank you. >> Hearing none, we have a first and a second on item 9.1, certificated personnel report number 425 through 26, starting with the student board. All in favor say I. >> I.

078>> Board. >> I. >> All oppose. Motion passes unanimously. 9.2 to classified personnel report number 4 24 24- 26. >> As our student board members let us know, winter sports and then therefore spring sports are just around the corner and our classified personnel report demonstrates that clearly. Um so again all the all the different individuals that not only are in our paid positions but in our volunteer positions we do want to thank them for all the work that they do um to support our students in the variety of um activities and um events. We also have a number of students that are taking on working not only in our child nutrition but being student teachers teach tutors. Teachers yeah same thing almost um student tutors. We really appreciate their work and of course we have

079um some resignations that we always want to acknowledge their time in our district and thank them for the work that they've provided to us. On the behalf of the superintendent, I would recommend an approval of the classified personnel report. >> Do I have a motion? >> To approve. >> We have a first by Trusty Lake. >> Second by Trusty Duncan. Any questions or comments? >> [clears throat] >> I just want to echo um the superintendent, assistant superintendent Del Favo. Yeah, this list is long. It's comprehensive. It takes really a village to do anything around these parts. And I love um also seeing our students engaging um in tutoring and and helping at our site. So, thank you guys all for for your time and your efforts over the next several months and for our resignations

080as well. Any other comments? Hearing none, we have a first and a second on item 9.2. two to approve our classified personnel report number 4 25- 26. All in favor starting with the board say I. >> I. >> Board I >> I. >> Motion carries. 9.3 Memorandum of Understanding between the PHSD and the California School Employees Association CEA addressing CISB reduction in work days 25 2025 through 2026U between the PHSD and the CSEA which addresses the reduction in the work days of the student intervention specialist behavior position. >> Yes, madame president. When we first um developed the student intervention specialist position, we were looking at a time that we still had some summer school and some other events that were going on and we made a 10-month calendar as we've had those individuals in our

081employment. their their work is central to having students on campus and so um when we're always looking at budget and um considering how or where what our needs of the district is and how do we best s um serve those students while being financially or fiscally um prudent. We reviewed that the current individuals that were hired as a 10-month employee, they remain the 205 days, but any new employees hired after that time will work student days inclusive of the teacher days that the two work days and the two professional development days that allows us to give time um to professional development as well. So, we entered into anou with our um classified union um partners. And so on the behalf of the superintendent, I would recommend the approval of thisou. >> Perfect. Thank you. >>

082Do I have a motion? >> I'll move to approve. >> You have a first by trusty Jeff. >> Second. [laughter] >> Second by trustee Duncan. Any questions or comments? Hearing none. Starting with the student board. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Board. I. >> I. >> All oppose. Motion carries. 9.4 for memorandum of understanding between the PHSD and California school California employees association addressing CNS administrative assistant reduction in work days between the PHSD and the CEA addressing the reduction of the administrative assistant to the director of child nutrition services position to an 11month calendar. >> Thank you. Um I kicked Peter accidentally under [laughter] the table. Sorry about that. >> You probably deserved it in. Well, anyways, um so uh it this actually was brought forth by the assistant um administrative assistant to

083the director in when we had the summer feeding program, the workload was different than it is without the summer feeding program. She initiated this. She um she worked with her director, the director of um child nutrition services and they both um identified that that was not necessary during that time that she could complete all of her duties and again fiscally and financially this is a uh move that would support it. So um at this time uh we would recommend the approval of thisou that our union partners CSEA union partners um agreed to that reduction. Awesome. Thank you. Do I have a motion? >> Motion to approve. >> First by Trusty Duncan, second by Trusty Lake. Any questions or comments? Just a huge shout out to I mean we're we're speaking about our um our nutrition

084department. They are serving so many kids um special Thanksgiving dinners. They started today at KFax and they're going to be throughout the district over the next uh week, this week. And uh just it's it's a huge undertaking. Not only that, but they feed us dinner at all of our regular board meetings. We just so appreciate everything you do and I believe they're feeding KFax Elementary School amongst other things. They they do so so much. So, thank you for your time. Appreciate you guys bringing this forward and staff um bringing working on thisou with our union partners. Any other comments, questions? Uh we have a first and a second for item 9.4, our between the PHD and California School Employees Association. All in favor say I. Starting with student board >> I. >> Board. >> I.

085All oppose. [snorts] Motion carries. 9.5 resolution number 1225 through 26 approving the petition for renewal of the charter for Maidu virtual charter academy. Obviously we had the public hearing earlier. Take it away. >> So I don't have a whole lot. Um I know last spring we did a presentation on our renewal process and then you had the nice succinct 14 whatever minute uh presentation on my do. Uh the main thing I want to do is just to highlight some folks that were really integral because um that nice succinct eight slide presentation is just a snapshot of uh the 130 pages uh for our charter renewal. Uh Dr. Kristen Miller our assistant principal um was integral. We said we need to get her a shirt that says data is my love language. Um she really is

086excellent with data and she did a great job of putting a lot of the data together. Our might uh staff as well all reviewed it. Uh edits were made by staff and obviously a lot of it's much like a wasque so a lot of collaboration. And then last but not least our attorney uh Bill Schultz has uh been very integral in the process. Um, and I feel very confident that uh this is a very thorough and um representative document of what we do at Mighty Virtual Charter and we would love to see the charter petition renewal continue for the next five years. >> Awesome. Thank you so much. Do I have a motion for our resolution? >> Motion to approve. >> Second. We have a first by Trusty Lake and a second by Trusty Duncan

087to approve item 9.5, the resolution number 1225 through 26 approving the petition for renewal of the charter for Maidu Virtual Charter Academy. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, this is a resolution. We'll have a roll call vote uh by uh Superintendent Omali. >> Student board member, >> I. Trusty Jeff, >> yes. >> President Spade, >> I. >> Trusty Duncan, >> I. >> Trusty Lake, >> hi. Motion carries. >> All right. Congratulations, Maidu. Thank you. That's a huge huge undertaking. All right. Niden. 6. I'm going to say this wrong. Fagen Freriedman and Full Frost. That is the That is a tongue twister. >> Did it. >> Uh F3 LLP agreement for legal services 2025 through 26. Peter. >> Yes, Madam President. um as has been shared um and um some communication we've had some irregular and

088unusual things happening with some say some special ed and so we are bringing F3 on to provide the district with a limited scope of representation for special education services and settlements that we are facing right now in the next little while and want to bring a new face to it. So, um, what you have in front of you is that contract not to exceed 30,000 for limited scope. And on behalf of the superintendent, we recommend approval. >> Thank you. Do I have an uh a motion for item 9.6? >> What's the timeline on this? >> It's for this year for right now. >> This fiscal year >> through through June 30 >> through June 30. this school year. >> And and Peter, have we worked with them before? >> No, they're brand new. >> This

089is the first. Okay. >> Yeah. They come highly recommended on the scope of the work that we're asking for. >> And the rates aren't too bad. >> They're reasonable compared with everything else. >> Yep. Yeah, it looks like it. >> Yeah. >> The the $30,000 estimate is based on estimated time >> that we'd be putting in with them, working with them. Peter, do we currently have a legal firm that is handling these kinds of services that we're no longer going to be using? >> No, we just needed to find a different outlet with the seriousness of what we're facing. We wanted to bring in a fresh new eyes, look at it, someone who takes a different approach. >> So, what legal firm do we have right now that's been handling? >> Usually use uh DWK

090or we use Courier and Hudson. >> Okay. So, we won't be using them for these >> be using this firm. We might well we're still using Curry Hudson for some of the specialists that we've been ongoing. Okay. >> But this is to intervene on one specific issue. Where are these folks out of? >> They're here locally, I do believe. Sacramento, >> Superintendent M. >> Yeah, they're actually statewide. They have multiple offices throughout the state. I have experience with this firm. They're they're very solid. >> You've worked with them? >> Yes. Okay. They're very good. >> Cool. >> Do I have a motion? >> Motion to approve. >> Have a first by trustee Duncan >> and a second by Trustee Jeff. Any other questions? Hearing none. Uh we have a first and a second on item

091on item 9.6 Fagan Freriedman and Fulfrost F3 LLP agreement for legal services services for 2025 through 2026 school year. Starting with the student board. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Board I [clears throat] >> I. >> All oppose. Motion carries. 9.7 District Advisor's proposal for developer fee study services for 2025 through 26. >> Yes, Madam President. For years, we've been using um a firm that was called Cooperative Strategies, and then they became Walpert. Walport is no longer going to provide us the assistance to complete what's called our justification study that we do every two years on even years. So, it's coming up in 2026. The justification study goes out and basically confirms that we are still able to collect level one developer fees, which we're currently been doing the last several years. And

092so in looking at a couple of different quotes, these are the ones who came recommended and were the lowest at $6,500 due to justification study. And so on behalf of the superintendent, we recommend approval of district advisor's proposal for developer fee study. >> And and did you work it looks like we're working with a a carveout firm with Larry Fershaw? >> Say that again. >> Did you work with him before? >> He worked for the firm with Walpert before and he just went on his own. >> But you guys, we had experience with him. Yeah. Is that 6,500 the same rate as we paid before? >> Actually a little bit less I believe from the ones before. Great because the individual form warp was like a big one in strategies. Yeah. >> Yep. Great. >>

093Do I have a motion? >> Who requires the study? >> Say that again. >> Who requires the study? >> The state the what's called the state allocation board. So every two years they come out with a new rate that school districts are allowed to charge. Um that rate is based on a K12 and currently it's a little over five dollars. Um usually they raise that rate every they've raised it for the several years I've been in this position every two years because of inflation and so forth. We split that 60/40 with our feeder districts. And so you take 40% of that whatever that number is and you notice when I give my reports on facilities you look at developer fees it's helped a lot with things that we've done. And so, um, if you don't

094do a justification study, you just keep collecting what you previously had approved. And so, if you're collecting at 240 and it jumps to 275, you know, it's 35 cents, but then it's 35 cents times, you know, 100,000 square feet that might have been built residential homes. Makes a difference. >> I'm not saying we're going to get I'm just in some districts, though. >> No, thank you. >> Do I have a motion? >> Motion to approve. I'll second. >> We have a first by trustee Duncan and a second by trustee Jeff to approve item 9.7. District advisor's proposal for developer fee study services for 2025 through 26. Any further questions or comments? Hearing none, starting with the student board. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Board. >> I. >> All oppose. >> Hearing none.

095Motion passes unanimously. 9.8. Yes. So, this is a big one here. We've um and if there's any well questions, I can bring up our director of maintenance and operations, Mrs. Manning. We've been having some ongoing issues with the chiller at the 500 building at Delo. Um we've been trying to work with it in the last year or so. Um Train is our soul source provider with our man energy management system and our HVAC system. So, we reached out to them and this is the bid they're providing us that should better provide a fix for the issues we're doing because we really don't want to replace that right now at a cost well over a million dollars. And so, we'd rather look at fixing what we have going on um and making sure that we have

096repairs rectify the issues that we're having in the 500 building. And on behalf of the superintendent, we recommend approval. And so we're just replacing the compressor portion of the >> well a gas pump, doing fluid analysis, corrosion protection. That's why Miss Manny put all those things in there. It's a list of things that we're doing. >> Um that when they came out and did their assessment, [clears throat and cough] basically they're not going to guarantee, but this they said this should really solve your problem for right now. >> Do you have an idea how long we've had this component? >> 20 years. >> Plus 20 >> 20 years. >> So it's due. >> Yeah. And I I was probably off of my estimate without Miss Manning coming in for I' probably well over a million

097and have to replace these systems. >> Yeah, >> come on down. >> Thank you. That's >> you're providing good info and no one at home was going to be able to share that. Yeah. Yeah, >> please. >> The quotes came in at about 1.75 million to replace the chiller. >> Oh. >> So, we went with the rebuild. >> Yeah. >> Um it's upgrading the controls on the system and the components listed. The the chiller is uh like large. It's like a AC H. >> It's a large cooling unit for the entire 500 building which is your admin, your theater, your band rooms. >> Are there any warranties for the work that they're doing on this? And maybe I >> It's a one-year warranty on the work. >> Only one year on the work and then

098five year on the parts. >> Correct. Okay. [clears throat] >> Okay. >> And then does the bit is Does that number include the service agreement? >> They already have a service agreement on this equipment. >> Does the offering requires the purchase of a train service agreement? Service agreement shall include at a minimum three inspections and one oil analysis per year. >> Yes. >> Nice. Oh, is this I didn't get to read this. That is the tariffs uh category in everything you're seeing now. >> Yes. [laughter] >> The worst. >> Did we get bids on this proposal? >> Uh this is a proprietary product, so there are not other people that can manage the control systems and the tie-in. So, we could have someone else rebuild the unit, but they wouldn't be able to upgrade the

099controls. We would still be paying train to upgrade the controls >> cuz it's a train chiller. >> It's a train chiller with train controls. >> Makes sense. >> Proprietary. >> Yep. >> All right. >> I think this is the most fiscally prudent um option right now. Obviously, um >> I do want Yeah. Sorry. It's coming what's coming out of RDA funds that we can use for >> maintenance and facilities. So, not the general fund and not the fund 40. Great. >> A one time funds that comes into us every year. >> What's the timeline to have it installed? >> Well, it's fixed. [laughter] Yeah. >> Um the chiller is really not needed so much until the spring. So, it will be over the winter. >> Great. >> Good timing. >> Yeah. [clears throat] >> For

100your work on this, >> I'm sure the staff at Dio will be thrilled. [laughter] >> All righty. Uh do I have a motion on item 9.8? Motion to approve. I >> have a first by Trusty Duncan. >> Second by >> Trusty Lake to approve item 9.8, Deloro High School Series R, Chiller Maintenance and Upgrade. Any further questions or comments? >> Hearing none, starting with the student board. All in favor say I. >> I. All oppose. Motion carries. 9.9. Thank you, Don. Public agency retirement services. PAR's supplementary retirement plan for employees. >> Yes. So, Madam President, back in in August of 2025, that board meeting, we presented a proposal uh from PARS regarding a retirement supplemental plan. We went through the process. Um we had 36 people participate. We I think we're predicting 24 if I

101remember correctly. I put this in the summary here. Um so, a lot more than was expected. Um in the packet you'll see that the estimated savings we were looking at way before was less than what is now presented. It's a 2.3 over three years. It was a 1.8 I do believe and so a little bit of increase there. Um so I think it is providing what we are looking for um in regards to helping out with our budget issues. I do want to point out that this is not going to solve the budget issues but it will help. Um and so on behalf of the superintendent, we recommend approval of the supplemental retirement plan. >> Thank you. >> And if there are any questions, um Ryan Nassio from PARS is here in the >> Great.

102>> Thank you. And thank you for your patience. Do [snorts] I have a motion for item 9.9. >> Uh can I ask a question, >> please? >> So for the if they do take this um like the money, right, and retire, choose to retire, is there plan to fill the positions that they will be leaving? Great question. >> Yeah. So, um, a couple [clears throat] ways. There are some positions we won't be filling. That was part of the plan. Um, that there were some we're not and we're not going to be filling them just by the sheer fact of what's called attrition. The staffing ratio goes up and we're losing students. And so, this helps with that part where instead of having to lay off teachers if we have too many, we have over 17

103or 17 who are retiring in different positions. And then in response to some of the teachers we may have to hire back, we have anou with our teachers union that basically says we can't hire anybody with more than 10 years experience. That's what helps with the savings. That was part of when they did their analysis of the savings estimate. >> Just u [clears throat] excuse me follow-up question. Uh would the with attrition right would that offset like the loss of the teachers like would there be a like would we see a change to like classroom sizes or anything like that? No. >> Okay. >> Last plan to stay the same. Thank you. >> Thank you, Adam. Please. >> Thank you. I know this is probably a really hard decision for you guys, too, but uh

104I'm kind of with Adam here. I have a lot of hesitation >> going into this. Uh I believe that the teachers are kind of the heartbeat of what we do at Del at at Deloro. You know, that's what K it's what gets kids to love education. I'm I feel so lucky to have had such great teachers. It has made me love education so much. And when I saw this, I was kind of looking back on it and my favorite teachers that I have had have been veteran teachers. They're the ones that are most experienced in the classroom. They're the ones that are training our future teachers. They're the ones that are continuing excellence and wanting more excellence. So, um I know there's fiscal things. I know that's your job is to keep us on boat,

105but at the same time, I think that students will really hurt from um from passing this proposal. I really do. I think that the majority of the students that have relationships with teachers are veteran teachers that have had experience in the classroom. They have crafted their subject. It's what gets students to love secondary education. It's what gets students to love their jobs in the future. And um yeah, I have a hesitation with this. I do not think that the board should pass this, but I know that you guys have to do what you have to do. So you would uh so you're saying >> in your experience it's the veteran teachers who you feel um so what's your understanding like these are teachers that are I mean maybe you want to speak on this a

106little bit regarding [laughter] >> well because we talked about not just the numbers >> Mhm. But it's like strategy, right? These are teachers that are getting near to retirement and they they're given an option to say, "Hey, >> um, if this is offered, would you consider what are we talking a few years prior than scheduled? Two years? >> Year two? >> It varies, but they've all met eligibility for retirement. So that that means that they're really close to the end of their of their time and they're going to take into consideration where they're at with how many years of retirement system. So those are all factors. When we look across the district, what we're talking about at the most is just a few at each school site. So it's and please remember all those veteran

107teachers were at one time new teachers and they developed their craft over time and um we like I said it's really only a few teachers and remember it's certificated staff as well. So it's not just teachers we're also talking it was it was opened up to all classified and certificated staff. So some of the certificated people are not just teachers that would be looking at accepting this. And so the chances are they were probably pretty close with to their probably timeline of when they were going to retire or maybe some of them were already planning on retiring and this was [laughter] >> this was just an added boost um to be honest with you. And so I think in general it can feel overwhelming because there's no names given because that's for [clears throat] their

108privacy and confidentiality. But in general, what we can tell you, it is spread across the district. And so, it's not going to be one school site that that fills a loss of a lot of teachers. It's it's spread throughout the district. And um and I agree they are the heartbeat. That is absolutely what we all agree to, but this is an opportunity for other fresh ideas to come in. And 10 years of experience is actually a pretty experienced teacher to be honest you with you. So, it's not that we're saying we won't take experienced teachers. It's just we're saying at the most is 10 years. And last time we did this, we actually did hire a couple of teachers that had more. They just couldn't start any higher than step 10. So, that is what

109occurred in the past. Um, I didn't mean to inter No, no, no. >> Oh, please. >> It's a good it's it's worth this discussion especially because >> we had to become educated as well like as us that are new to the board and have to consider these things. I think that's really valid. Uh the amount of classified and certificated. Can we look at the numbers on if we go to page um >> page three? >> Can you break that down for us a little bit >> just to help us understand a little bit? >> Yeah, sure. Um >> good evening madam board president, members of the board. Again, my name is Ryan Aassio, senior vice president with PARs. I came previously to present our projection. So now that we've completed the enrollment window, we now

110know exactly who participated and took the offer. So now we're coming back sort of with our analysis based on actual participation. Um so as was stated, uh the participation exceeded our initial projections. Uh so from that standpoint, the plan had very good participation. Uh 20 teachers, um I believe that's 36 total folks across the four groups. And based on uh feedback from staff as regard with not replacing some of those positions uh looking at four of those teaching positions so bringing back 16 of those 20 not replacing uh four and then one of the certificated administrator position you know that's where not only the greater participation led to more savings but also those non-replacements of positions and strategically across the four groups that's where we're showing savings over one three and fiveyear cumulative uh period

111grip even more so than what we initially projected because of the good participation and I think what I would sort of say with regard to an early retirement incentive is sort of the the intent is to try to offer something that benefits uh both the district from a fiscal savings uh perspective uh reorganization potentially and also at the same time offer you know your veteran teachers sort of a a parting gift sort of thanking them for their many years of service and And I think that's sort of what we're seeing with regard to uh the overall analysis of those um numbers. Can >> I ask you a question? >> So what exactly are we voting on here? Are we voting [laughter] on approving the resignation of these 36 teachers? And are we voting on what

112level that replacement is going to look like? For example, it says on page I think it's page four that the teacher uh certificate of replacement was again at the 80% level which means we can we're going to lose four teachers. Is that what we're voting on as well? No, you're voting on or I guess approving the the early retirement incentive offer. So, you would take the 36 employees that took the plan and move forward with that. And then the analysis that we're showing is based on feedback from the staff saying you're looking at not replacing four of those teaching positions, one of the certificated admin administrators and sort of based on that input. That's where our numbers are coming from for the fiscal impact of the savings over a 135 period. >> Okay. So, where

113would those four teachers come from? Yeah, it's not just teachers, it's certificates are looking at psychologists and counselors and you're also, as I mentioned before, since the raising the staff ratio, losing students, we'd be losing one of those most of those teachers just through attrition as we have the last couple years. >> Thankfully, we've been lucky that teachers have been retiring or leaving and as we've been able to avoid layoffs because if we come down to a point where we have more staff than we need for sections, we would be looking at that. This helps with that situation. >> Which sites are we specifically talking about that we might where we might >> It's across the board. It's not just one site. It's across It's all four sites, five sites. >> We we actually are

114going to be doing a lot of meetings upcoming in the near future, including with all of our uh our um principles, looking at enrollment, looking at um credentials, looking at needs across the sites. Um, so we, um, there's going to be some that are automatically have to be replaced because we did get some heavy areas that are necessary to, um, for our students to be able to move on and re get their A to G and all of those pieces. So, I don't know that at this time we have an exact answer for that. But then there is the allocations that we look at and that is something we can discuss and talk about. But I do know that we already have a planned um at least a couple of planned meetings including one with

115all of our principles who's going to come prepared with their enrollments looking at what the needs are their of their sites and all those pieces. So it is an ongoing process that we'll be going through. >> Okay. I'm just concerned about you know drastically increasing class sizes. >> No no this is not tied to class size. I was mentioning earlier to Adam, we are raising the class size from 37 to 37.75, but that has nothing to do with the PARs that was done previously in terms of budget stuff. And so class size will be when they're doing their master schedule for this spring for 26.7 based off a 37.75 ratio. Obviously, some classes like PE or band choir ask for more students, but that's the numbers we generally will be using. So, this does not

116mean we're not going to replace teachers. If we have a need for so many sections and we only have fewer teachers, we will be hiring. That would be the funny thing about this is sometimes we see so many teachers. Um, I'm not guaranteeing it, but I have a feeling we might you might see some hires. We had some this past year, >> right, where we had to hire some teachers and people think, well, wait, I thought you guys were in a budget crisis. Well, if we had enough leave, we have to fill those positions. I can promise you with that amount of resignations and [laughter] our certificated we will be hiring teachers. There's no >> so the pro the the more the recommendation has been to up the class size to 1 to 37.75. That

117is one of the topics that I think um our superintendent Ali has put on the agenda for us to continue to look at that and is there a possibility not of not or or to what point? So that is one of the topics that we are definitely consi continuing to discuss. >> Par's question is that 37 students 37 to1 class size is that going to be across the board with without respect obviously to special ed programs or vapa program classes have more but for all the other courses for example like a study skills class or study hall class as that's kept at 25 currently is is that going to be addressed? >> So this is how allocations are made. Allocations are made by a 1 to 37 ratio. um right now. That's what this was

118done this year. Now, when [clears throat] students have a block off, which most seniors, not all, because we have some seniors that are intent on getting every science and math course they can, um and band, let's not forget the seniors in band. Um but a number of our seniors do not take those courses. We do not multiply that into any calculation. We take every student. So if there is a 100 students and they're supposed to be taking eight sections for the year, we we multiply the 100 times eight and then we divide it by 37. That number then becomes to the principles. We don't control it at any means except there are some things the special ed allocation is separate. It's not included in the that um and so it there's some courses that are

119have are capped like some of our dual enrollment courses are capped at a certain number. So the principles work with all of those numbers with their allocation. >> Just a quick point of order and I know that this came up through comment about concerns about our ratios. Um but that is definitely not on the agenda tonight. The agenda item is for PARs. Um so I just want to make sure that we're we're not going too far um out of bounds here. No, no, no. They're they're they're questions and they're they're relevant, you know, as far as uh replacing staff. I just want to make sure we don't get ourselves in trouble. So let's just stay on topic purely to approve. >> This is just about the the incentive and I appreciate I appreciate your comments

120and your feedback uh regarding the analysis and why those numbers are are um one question they are. Please pull up page three please. >> It's up there. >> It's there now. >> Thanks. Um can you can you talk about why it goes into the red for the classified >> on um >> the bottom classified man? Yeah. I think you're just not seeing uh savings associated with that group uh because you don't have the same salary differential that you do on the teachers associated with the step and column salary schedules and that's sort of typically what we would see you know generally like with the um classified and management groups those tend to have um cost associated with those. >> Is it because it's the replacement is going to be more expensive than those retiring? Yeah,

121the differential is not enough to create savings uh between the outgoing employee and the replacement employee. So, the cost factored in with that is exceeding the the replacement. >> And Trusty Lake, I think we're going to make some changes in one of those positions to where we can offset those negatives. >> Yeah. It just was like it really stood out and it didn't make sense. uh you'd think someone at retirement wage would uh there would be a difference there. >> There's a differential. Yes. But then you know part of our analysis model is not only looking at that salary differential but also the costs associated with the program including uh retirement uh the retirement incentive cost itself um uh retirey healthcare cost um cost of natural attrition meaning that we don't take um credit for

122those that would have had retired anyway. We're trying to increase participation above and beyond as well as the cost of the futural uh future loss of natural attrition. And in this case on the bottom line with the you're not we're not looking at non-replacements. So there's uh no savings associated with that. Whereas you're seeing the savings jump for the first two groups because of the non-replacements >> and it's offered to classified and and certificated just out of to be out of fairness or >> that's what we presented in August. That's what was approved that >> it's opened up to everybody. Yeah. >> So that that's just a representation of somebody choosing >> that was already approved. Yeah. To represent all groups. >> Yeah. >> Any other questions or comments? >> And then Superintendent Mali, would

123you say you're looking at what regarding the offset? one of the positions um we can reclassify and basically not pay as much >> and so we can take care of that red on that classified management and confidential. >> So it sounds like some of these numbers may be malleable going to be changing. >> There's there's 20 certificated and 16 >> classified. So anyway, thank you for bringing it up. It is it's valid, you know, but >> [snorts] >> uh it's also a reality that, you know, teachers put in 30 plus years and >> they're moving on. So, >> the the the statement is thoughtful, right? But >> I think that number one, that's that's the point is people can make that decision. Number two, I think first and foremost, when we talked about this, it's

124the students first like what what can we do? And then, you know, we look to the site administrators to then become efficient and strategic and still keep the kids first as far as the craft of the teachers go. And it's and and it's the reality of the situation. So, what we have to do versus what we want to do. So, and part of this is still and to Elena's point like new blood is also good. And so, um got to look at the positive pieces as well as the reality of it, right? So, >> yeah. you know, we've, you know, sadly seen with with declining enrollment um across our state, but even locally where schools have had to to close build multiple schools in our in Auburn have closed over the past couple of years.

125And um one of the sites was actually one of my boys. When school boards put off making hard decisions over a decade, it the kids pay and it happens quickly and the families get rugs pulled out from them. Making strategic steps and making hard decisions now even though sometimes they don't feel ideal. I hear you when you know we want to keep our veterans in the house, but I can tell you um serving inside of classrooms and and getting the opportunity to even sit in from time to time at our schools, our teachers work so hard if they've made it to this place and they they want an incentive um you know and that's going to help us um and it's going to help them um our teachers and our staff, you know, we need

126to make we need to make tough decisions now so that we don't have to do them later and the cuts aren't more severe. So, I I'm in full support of moving this forward. I was surprised to see how many um of our staff members chose to to um join in on this, but I think that the numbers are apparent. Um obviously, nothing happens overnight. This money that you're seeing projected here does not happen this month. It doesn't happen this school year. So, I want a realistic time frame as we continue to have conversations that it's not immediate. um this is, you know, obviously there's projections over year three and five and um and some of those numbers are going to change. So, I am in full support of moving this forward and hope that whoever

127gets to join us um they're the best of the best and and I'm sure our our admin and team are going to find the best possible to be in our district because that's what our kids deserve and our staff. The last thought >> that I was thinking is we've all had those teachers and I I have a lot of respect for those teachers that stay strong up until retirement >> that really put their heart and soul into teaching and caring for the kids, >> but we also know that there's some teachers that are kind of they're checked out. >> They're ready to go >> and uh and there will be a benefit to to New Blood. So uh the the thought and sentiment is there. We appreciate it and thank you. So >> thank you

128for your time. Please. So, I think this question might be directed to Peter, but I'm not positive. So, back in the spring, uh, when we got our budget report, um, and we were looking at basically two years from now, zeroing out our funds and, you know, deficit spending after that, how does all this play into it if this if this passes? >> Okay, so simply put, and I'm glad you brought that up. So, when we showed the preliminary budget in June, we basically showed taking about $3.5 million from fund 17 over the next two years, this year and next year, so that by [clears throat] 2728, that money would be zero. So in perspective looking at this, this is 2.3 that comes to fruition of that 3.5. So instead of taking 3.5, we're taking 1.2.

129And that's going to change. You'll see first interim report, you'll see second interims, but as a snapshot in time, that's what it would look like. That's an easy way of putting it that it helps not take as much money from our savings basically. >> Okay. So this is going to keep us from deficit spending a few years >> more. Yes. Yeah. So instead of deficit spending up here, I'm a little bit here and then eventually not deficit spending at all. Okay. >> We hope. >> Yeah. Crossing fingers. >> That's not a plan. [laughter] >> All righty. Thank you so much for your time. Appreciate it. >> Do I have a motion for item 9.9? >> Motion to approve. >> First by Trusty Duncan. >> I'll second. >> Second by Trusty Jeff. >> Any other questions

130or comments? I want to thank our student board members for for being dialed, asking good questions, both of you. I appreciate that. Hearing none, starting with the student board. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Board. >> I. >> All oppose. Hearing none. Motion P carries unanimously. 9.10 selection of annual organizational meeting date. Congratulations retirees. >> I can read the tea leaves. >> That's great. >> You earned it. All right. Okay. Um, item 9.10, our selection of our annual organizational meeting. Pursuant to education code sections and 5017, the PHSD governing board must hold an annual organizational meeting. For Trusty Lake, this will be your first. For trustees Jeff and Duncan, this will be your second. Um, I see that your name's on this as the speaker, Superintendent Omali. Take it away. >> Yeah. So,

131simply it's the next meeting. we will be electing a new president and a new clerk. So, we just have to declare that, send this document off to the county office of ed that this will be our reorganization meeting. >> And it's not [clears throat] listed. Sorry, I just got a [cough] bug in my throat. Um um it's not listed on here. Obviously, the letter from Gail is here and we will let them know that, you know, our next regularly scheduled board meeting will be our our organizational meeting. Um, but it's also might be prudent for you guys to review bylaw 9100, which is around uh organization that specifically details not only reflects what the education code says, but specific our practices for our district. And um and so you'll see that at the end there's

132there's two organizational meetings a year. One's in December um when we select our presidency, but and then in August there's a separate one where we we do other things. So there's a section near the end of 9100 that references the December's board meeting and what we shall do um etc. So uh you might want to be a lookout and review that as well. Okay. Uh do we have a motion for 9.10? >> I'll move to approve. >> We got a first by Trusty Lake and a second by Trusty Jeff. Very close but tied to tied to the runner. All righty. Um any other questions or comments? Hearing none, we have a motion to approve item 9.10, our selection of our annual organizational meeting, uh, which will be held at our next regularly scheduled meeting on

133December 16th. Um, all in favor, starting with the student board, say I. >> I. >> Board. >> I. >> All oppose. Motion passes unanimously. Item 10, a discussion item. Item 10.1. Um, if you'll please pull that up for us. Here is our board trustee flyer. I'm gonna go ahead and let uh trustee Jeff take it away. >> So, maybe a month ago, I think uh President Spade and I were sitting going through our board policy review. Um and one of the things that we started talking about um was how um how can we get the the our constituents, our parents, our students, and even the staff to understand better what the board does and what the board doesn't do. Um and the flyer that you're seeing here is one that uh Trusty Spade and I

134designed uh collaboratively to kind of outline that that very thing. Um kind of outlining what our responsibilities are, what we do, what we don't do, that kind of thing. So we can distribute this um what we'd like to do anyway or I'd like to do is distribute this out to all the sites so that there's at the offices of all the our comprehensive high schools or whatever you know that'll be sitting there somewhere uh maybe get out a copy to staff have copies at the district office so that uh it's just around so people are seeing it um people are you know when they're out in the office you know they can grab it and they can say oh that's what the school board does or that's not what the school board does that kind

135of thing. Um, I tried to make it, uh, design it in such a way that, um, you know, it's not something that we're going to have to replace every two years as there's new elections coming up and all that kind of thing. Um, so it doesn't have any of our faces or names or anything like that intentionally. Um, so this could be used year after year. Um, and we kind of tried to go with the color scheme that that represented uh the the our PHSD logo there. Um, but that's that's the flyer that we came up with after having that that discussion. >> Yeah, >> it's going to be a trifold flyer, by the That's how why it kind of looks a little bit the layout's a little weird. It's supposed to be a >>

136trifold. Yeah. Page one folds together. The inside when they open it up, we'll see all the items that we do. So, um, Trusty Jeff is being generous. He created, he crafted this flyer. He's being generous, letting I'm like, can we change the colors and the font? Um, how about we add a couple more bullets? Um, this is very much uh Trusty Jeffy's baby. Um, but we definitely worked on content um and uh tightening some of that up, but this is definitely his baby. Um, and I want to thank you for your for your time on that. Um, I I mean you guys have been here so you know as uh public comments or questions uh we regularly receive uh there's been a lot of questions about even actions that we've taken and um just as

137a reiteration of what we do and why we do it. Um that it's supported not only by law but by our own policies. Um, obviously legislative action sticks out to me because we've had a lot of public comment on that. Uh, but but it's there and it's in literally black and white. Um, and referenced in our own board policies, why why we engage in certain things. Um, but also all of the other items that I think sometimes may be overlooked. Um, but that way, not only are we holding ourselves accountable or what, you know, what we're up to and what we're doing, but I think about it, not that it's it's a mini constitution or or people's like many things that they carry in a bag, like what do they do? But if they want

138to know, it's pretty succinct. Um, and we and be able to relay the message of of why we're doing what we're doing and it's supported by law. >> Awesome. One other note is that uh after tonight uh this will have to be tweaked a little bit because a couple of the board policies changed based on our votes. >> Yeah, we were uh we were discussing that superintendent Ali and I we we eliminated um I think two policies that are referenced in item one. Is that correct? >> U but we did find a companion that reflected the same material which that's this is what we found as we went through our ad hoc. We're like, okay, how many different ways do we need to say the same thing? If by eliminating and cleaning up some of

139them, they are still reflected in our LCAP policy. Correct, superintendent? >> I think it was 0460. So, >> okay. >> Yep. We'll double check all that. >> Okay, great. >> Feeling good about it? >> Yeah, it's great. Thank you. >> Yeah. [clears throat] >> Uh yeah, thank you, Jeremy, for uh taking this initiative. I think it's a it's a good idea to so students can better understand what a board does. Um >> yeah, >> awesome. So, this is just a discussion item. So, it sounds like we're in agreement. That's what I'm the vibe I'm picking up for staff. Um, if we can modify the last little uh board policy so that they reflect current board policy, um, then I think that we're good to go to to get some printed. >> Yeah. So, we'll make

140that change. I do want to push it out to y'all one more time and just make sure that it's clean, right? And is, >> you know, I reread my master's thesis once, oh my gosh, [laughter] it wasn't what I thought it was. So, anyway, just to make sure we've got all of our eyes dotted and te's crossed. Great. Perfect. Thank you again for your work on that. All right, item 11, staff reports, CTE and dual enrollment update. Dr. Cametti, take it away. You guys, I just want to say No, I'm not going to say it. I'm not going to >> not going to say it. >> I thought it I might have just ruined it. >> Perfect timing for me. I have 72 slides [laughter] >> going through every pathway and all of the standards

141align. >> Oh shoot. >> So thank you for that intro. Um I will [laughter] uh make this as brief as possible. Do want to showcase and highlight our CTE and dual enrollment programs. Um the data that you have available to you that's also on the public. This is um data that doesn't happen overnight. This is um over the course of many years of of directing um our our principles with master schedules, our counselors, um our teachers getting CTE credentials, um the the payment plan that we had for PHSD teachers to get their masters. I mean, those are all things that have been put in place. We're we're able to present kind of the the fruit of of all of that in in these numbers because they're they're exceptional. Um, and I'm really excited about it.

142I think it it it showcases PHSD. Um, I I didn't put comparative districts up here today because I I don't think that's nice all the time, but what I can say is that we're leading the way in these two areas in in our region. And so, um, so CT by the numbers, we have 304 CT sections offered. This is based upon 2425. That's that's where the data counts. Um, 25 career pathways. And of the 15 industry sectors, we have 13. Um I'll talk a little bit later about as to why [snorts] um we don't see every single pathway. It's dependent upon on credentials and things along those lines. Um this is a layout of all of our sections for 2425 and where they went in in in terms of the cowpads and the seabeds um

143uh pathway industry sectors that are all listed up there. You can kind of see where the majority of our sections went towards design, visual, and media arts. Um, it's a number of sections. This is districtwide. I'll I'll present at our next board meeting on the on the dashboard and talk a little about school specifics in terms of the percentages of those CTE sections and how they met that requirement. But these are all of the separate pathways um that are listed. And it's pretty exciting to see all of the that's section. So those correlate to um tiles on your master schedule across our district. [snorts] Um one of the things I won't spend a ton there's a there's an article on the next slide. Uh we work with a center of excellence with them uh in

144terms of our area and they are basically a labor market research firm um that provides all of our data. The important aspect of CTE is that we are equipping students with middle um level education provided that they have um livable wages. And so when they leave high school, uh middle level education meaning they don't have to have a four-year degree um but there's some post-secary education that's involved in order to meet these livable wages. And so that's kind of the goal of CT as a whole um statewide. So this is interesting. And this is the top sectors in the greater sac area. So Yuba, Placer, Sack, Nevada, um, YOLO, all those all those counties. And so the most jobs, the most projected growth, and the fastest, uh, projected growth. What is important to realize is

145what are those industries that are kind of listed in each of those tiles and those are the ones we we want to target. So you can see education and health, they show up in all three of those areas as the top performing most marketable jobs that are in our region. Um and so this is just the greater sack. If you read the article that's uh in here, it's just going to be for our region. Um there's another report for Southern California, right? They're going to have a totally different labor market than we do here in Northern California. Um and so all of this data is is part goes into designing those those pathways. Um this one's a little a little tricky the next two slides. Um just look at that that bottom number. We report

146CTE data yearly uh to the state. And so when we look at 2425, we had 466 pathway completions. um 494 of those were duplicated which basically says that little Steve Camonetti um met completion status in in more than one pathway. And so that's why it we have that duplicated number. Um what's confusing a little bit about the data is we have students that complete pathways all the way through, not just their their senior year. And so this one's a little bit easier to see based upon cohort of of their graduation year. Um I also want to thank uh Linda for our our district registar who helped me with all of this data and has just been is a just an outstanding um just leader in in our area I think of of understanding dual enrollment

147understanding CTE and she's helped us with all these data points. So as you look at this total cohort of pathway completions um the class of 2425 so last year senior class 579 of our graduates last year completed a pathway. It's amazing so great. Um our our current juniors right now have already completed 301. Our current sophomores have already completed 32. And of course this our current freshman is a zero because they shouldn't. It's a pathway sequence of courses. Um, typically it's a intro, a concentrator, and a capstone course. The um the federal and state requirements now have been changed a little bit to where students only need to complete a a concentrator and a capstone with a C minus or better in order to be a completer status. So those are great numbers. Um and

148so we report yearly, but just so you know that last year's cohort of of students did a great job completing our pathways largely due to um our graduation requirements requiring students to at least participate in one CT course, but then also a testimony to our teachers who are keeping students in the pathway. That's the hardest part. Students will take the intro, maybe the concentrator like nah, it's not for me. But in order to keep them engaged in that concentrator, that's really where you you get the data. So that that's CTE. [snorts] Um dual enrollment. Um and I do have Trent here can answer other questions as well. Dual enrollment, I'm just presenting today and Michelle's not um again last year 2425 program year, we had 240 sections of dual enrollment courses offered. That does include

149um Sierra College teachers coming on our campuses. that's part of those sections as well. Um, 66 courses available and over 2,000 students uh received college credit in our 2425 school year. That's it's amazing. Some things to keep in mind and key points to consider um especially as we just passed the PARS, which is which is great. Um we are limited especially in dual enrollment and CTE with with teacher credentiing. when you lose a teacher with a particular credential, especially in our trades, um it's difficult to find. It's difficult to find, um someone who is willing to come out of the construction industry and become a wood shop teacher. Um and so those credentials are going to be really important when we look at um the folks that we're going to be hopefully replacing in those

150um CT pathways because you lose a teacher and you don't fill that pathway, that pathway is gone. And so those numbers that we have um they go down obviously. Uh the same thing with our dual enrollment is just the minimum qualss as we lose a teacher that's retired uh with a master's in the subject area. Those are the minimum qualifications that you're dependent on. So with that, as we look at designing our master schedules, our principles are very aware of their needs on their campuses and who they have in terms of, you know, the tools in their toolbox in order to teach particular classes. And so that we need to be strategic with that in terms of one of our goals, strategic goals is to improve our dual enrollment, our CTE um course offerings. We

151will plateau. we will reach a point to where we just can't anymore. Especially with CTE classes that are basically electives, you can start cannibalizing your own your own in this, right? Because you offer a new CTA pathway. You have eight classes of students available to take eventually kids are going to choose and we'll see that we'll reach a point to where we don't have that those options anymore. So, we need to be strategic. Hence why we bring up the labor market trends as to the ultimate goal as to why and what particular um pathways we really should be looking at doing. Um and so that's that's kind of the goal of CT as a whole. We continue to work positively with Sierra College. Trent and Michelle do a great job working with Sarah College in

152order to keep a positive relationship with our community colleges and understand the importance of of working with them. Tom, what was my time? >> [clears throat] >> eight minutes. No. Uh I would add that uh I was hoping to get the the data for tonight, but we're trying to get the data from uh Sarah College u the success rate of our students at Sarah College. Um and what I've been told is it's it's pretty good. Um but I don't have the actual numbers in there, but I think that's also important to see that as our kids go over there that their ability to be successful there is pretty high. So >> I have a question on the the hiring of CT uh >> teachers. [clears throat] Is there since the pool is fairly small, is

153there like some type of incentive program we provide them? >> So some high need positions we have in the past added a an incentive bonus. We did add a a new column for just their their CTE credential, but that does also add some limited aspects of other things that they can and can't do with with students. >> Ah, okay. >> Steve, question. >> Yeah. So, prior to COVID, I know I think it was 2019 2020 school year, the district had a cohort um for teachers that were currently teaching within the district that were also working together to work towards our getting their CTE credentials. Um are you are we considering doing that again at some point? >> We we stopped that this year just because of budget. And so what Trusty Jeffrey is referring to

154um along the long same time as when we're doing our M's uh subject area masters, we were also um in allowing teachers to go work with we worked with um Yolo County to get their CT credential. Um, I also feel like we kind of reached a point to where you have to have the professional experience in order to kind of meet those the the 3,000 hours and we kind of reached the point to where cost and teachers being willing and and having that professional hours we kind of hit that peak. But yes. Yeah. So this this year we still have a couple people finishing it and so we're carrying it through paying for [clears throat] that but we're not adding any new participants. Thank you. Obviously with this being one of like you know the

155the stars um of our of our district and our offerings and with the PARs I know there's been conversation around that um you know moving forward aside from incentives for um you know strategically game planning you know you know what what's the game plan [laughter] so that we're we're still a able to offer as much as possible for our kids. >> Yeah, there's there's career fairs that we advertise. Getting ahead of our master schedule so we can be the first kind of to make the postings that's usually helpful. >> Um word of mouth, I mean, you're dependent upon um credential programs and again like I said, the the teacher having that professional experience. So, they usually have come out of the career or they've particularly gotten their designated subject. So, um, those are some of

156the things that we we attempt to do. >> Steve, when you're looking at these categories, this is on, uh, go back. How is it determined? I said you you said it's based on uh, like qualification a little bit, but it's also like looks like the majority emphasis is on design, visual, media arts. Well, that's the majority of of our teachers had a lot of our um design, visual media arts teachers. Um they actually were our biggest group that took part in what Trusty Jeff was saying because most of them had some sort of professional background. So, for example, Trusty Lake, when you decide you want to retire from being a dentist, you have professional experience. I can get you your CT credential real quick and you could be um part of a pathway we don't

157have which would be our health health sciences. So that is kind of the key is you have to have that like the plug. You know you didn't bite. >> No. [laughter] >> Yeah. >> You said retirement. I'm like >> right. Um, so that that's that professional experience they have to have. And most of our design, visual, and media arts folks had some sort of professional background before they got in. >> Teaching hours can count, but not um only for so much. >> It can't be something where a teacher has interest in a subject. They can become >> again, yeah, they have to have it somewhere in their life. So, we've had some folks that, you know, teachers that are have been um ski patrol or they've been a paramedic or an EMS or they've been

158in law enforcement before and then there it's second careers for a lot of folks and that's where we we get the experience. But that's part of career tech ed. That's the hard part unless they specifically go to school and we'll see this mostly in our A programs, our A mechanics, our A science where they're particular program through Davis or Chico and they come out with that A credential. Most of the other folks are coming with professional experience as a as a second career. >> To complete the program, you have to have an introduction. So, it's three different >> courses. Courses. >> Yep. Yeah, that's the the change now. It's the concentrator and the capstone class, the C minus in the capstone in order to get it. >> And you're not allowed to switch around. You

159got to stick to >> it's the same. Correct. It's the same pathway. >> Okay. >> Thank you so much. I love a good highlight. >> Yes. >> And this is this is uh kudos to our staff. >> Yes. Absolutely. >> Thank you. >> All right. Item 12. We're moving, y'all. Public comment on non-aggenda on non-aggendaized items. I don't see any blue cards, but that doesn't mean somebody doesn't want to share. [clears throat] If you do, speak now or forever. Hold your peace. Well, all right. We're going to go ahead and move from item 12 because no one is taking this opportunity from the public to address the board. So, we're going to go ahead and move to item 13, our board calendar coordinating and announcements. Item 13.1. Um, same. Um, we've got a lot coming

160up this next week as I had mentioned with our turkey feast at our school sites. Obviously, today was Kfax's. Um, I'm looking here. Uh, tomorrow uh Deloro and Confluence. Um, I know that there's several of us or at least I know I've signed up for that. If you guys are able to pop in, I'm sure that they would be happy to have you guys help serve. As a new trustee, it was actually my very first thing I ever did as a trustee. Before I ever went to the conference, before I was sworn in, I went and served. I was invited to come serve um the turkey feast at Plaster and I brought my little boy and we served and it was great. It was wonderful. So, if you're able, pop on in. Um it's a

161good time. And obviously next week's our our Thanksgiving holiday break. And then as Superintendent Omali, thank you for putting these in does our our um itineraries uh for travel. So it looks like um student board coming in on the 2nd. Um it's just their one-day program. Um there's some transportation things going on there. So meeting at the district office um for them on their first day is a little bit different for but for the rest of us on the other days it looks like 7:45 a.m. and the district has a couple vans that are going to be used to drive the students and trustees to and from the conference. Obviously driving together uh will save us a little bit of money for for uh parking etc. So if you can that could be fun. This

162is a good time for the board to to bond, get to know staff better, but also to learn together. >> Uh this obviously is education and we need continuing education as well to continue to improve. And there's a lot of different offerings at the conference. There's an app if you guys want to download the CSBA AEC app um annual education conference. you can see the list of um C classes [clears throat] and there will be some I'm not sure if they're identified yet, but certain ones end up filling up fast. So, you kind of have to strategically plan um some of the some of the things that you guys want to attend, but um I'm looking forward to that. I'm hoping that everybody is still planning on attending um because it's a good time. So

163looking here any other things? Obviously winter break our next regular uh board meeting is on the 16th which we had identified as our organizational meeting. Is there anything else on your agendas or coming up that you want to identify on the calendar? Okay, great. With that being said, we will not be adjourning, but we thank you for coming tonight. We're going to be heading back to close session. So, uh, congratulations to you and to the board. We're going to we're going to get out of here eventually. Thanks, guys. Good. >> Yep. >> All right, we're going to go ahead and call this back to order at 912 p.m. We have a few report outs. Item 3.3, public employee discipline dismissal release pursuant to government code section 54957. The board on uh the first item of

164three, the board unanimously voted uh to a to approve a voluntary discipline agreement and release all claims between the district and employees. The motion was made by Duncan. The second was made by Spade. On the second, uh similarly, the board by unanimous uh decision voted in favor of approving a voluntary discipline agreement and release of all claims between district the district and employee 7154. The motion was made by Trusty Duncan and the second was by Trustee Lake. On the third, there was discussion and no action was taken, I believe. Nope. Item 3.4, Four, conference with labor negotiator pursuant to government code section 54947.6. There was discussion but no action. And item 3.6, trustee Duncan. >> Yeah. 3.6. Uh conference with legal counsel regarding anticipated litigation pursuant to government code section 54956.9. Uh board a uh

165convened and agreed to provide staff uh direction. And with pulling back up my other item here. So we're going to go ahead and move to item 14. This is our meeting adjournment. Do I have a motion? >> Motion to approve. >> We have a first by Trusty Duncan, second by Trusty Lake. All in favor say I. >> I. I. >> All oppose. [laughter] >> Motion passes 3-1. >> Good night.