001Better get out my notes here. All right, y'all. We're going to go ahead and reconvene an open session. I don't have I keep looking for a watch. It's not on my hand, on my wrist. I'm sure Dez has it. Okay. 5:36. Thank you for your patience. Got a full house tonight. It's nice to see all of your faces. Welcome. Uh we'll quickly um report out our close session items. Uh 3.2.1 stipulated expulsion 1110P25-26. Do I have a motion? >> Thank you. Move to approve. We >> have a first by Trusty Jeff. >> Second by Duncan. All in favor say I. >> I. All oppose. Motion carries. 40. Item 3.3 public employee uh public employee employment discipline dismissal release pursuant to government code section 544957. Uh the board unanimously provided direction to staff. Item 3.4 4
002conference with labor negotiator pursuant to government code section 54947.6. The board also unanimously provided direction to staff. Item 3.5 conference with legal counsel regarding anticipated litigation significant exposure to litigation pursuant to government code 54956.2 subdivision D. Two cases. In the first case, um the the board uh had a first by trustee Duncan to approve an agreement and a second by Underwood. The motion carried for O. I'm going to go ahead and jump to report out case number three. Um the board also provided unanimous direction to council. Um would you like to provide report out on case two? >> Yes. Um oh yeah. Um we're we're still reviewing um this case, so there'll be more information later. >> All righty. With that being said, we'll go move to item five, our organization. Welcome and pledge of
003allegiance. Trusty Duncan, would you please lead us in the >> pledgece to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you so much. Welcome to the first regular meeting of the school year. It's good times. This is an exciting time um of the year. I love I love this time of year. Uh just as a point of reference housekeeping um we this meeting is being audio and video recorded uh restrooms are across the hall uh during the open session in the Gold Country meeting room across the parking lot. So that is just north. Okay. Alrighty. Um item 5.2 approval of the agenda. Do I have a motion? >> Motion to approve. >> But first, by Trusty Duncan. >>
004Can I ask for an amendment to the agenda? >> Absolutely. >> Can we swap uh 6.1 and 6.3? That way we can get the student board members sworn in earlier on. >> I love that idea. I'm totally fine with that. We'll make item 6.3 the new item 6.1 and our board reports will go at the end. And Jessica, can we have a discussion on item 17? >> Is this a consent item? >> It's consent. >> Okay. When we get there, let's amend that and we'll move it to our first um our first agenda or action item. I will circle it though so we can reference it at that time. Any other changes to the agenda? >> Yes. Uh 8.3 I think needs to be pulled from consent. >> Okay. Okay. Again, we'll just as a
005practice once we get to consent, we'll pull those at that time if nothing else in the regular agenda is transferring or moving. >> Understood. >> Cool. Okay. All right. With the change of items 6.3 and 6.1, we're going to do a little dosey do there. Um, do I have a motion? >> Motion to approve with that agenda modification. >> Have a first by Trusty Jeff. >> Second by Trusty Duncan. Any further questions, comments? Right. All in favor say I. >> I. All oppose. Hearing none. Motion passes for zero. Alrighty. With that being said, you guys are on it. I'm going to come on down. Would you like me just Sarah, would you like me to do it from that microphone up there with the kids up here that way? Okay. picture. I've never I haven't
006done it from this side in a while. Make sure I'm doing it right. And I have to say that this is my third round of student board members and my first time with any gentlemen. So, welcome. Uh this is exciting. I'm a boy mom, so I'm thrilled to see some boys at the table as well. All right, I'm gonna have you go ahead and raise up your right hand and state after me. I state your name. >> Swear or affirm on this the 19th day of August, 2025. >> That I will support the Constitution of the United States of America. I will support the United States of America >> and the policies of the Placer Union High School District >> and that I will faithfully carry out the duties of the position of a Placer
007Union High School District student board member >> to the very best of my judgment and ability. Congratulations. [Applause] Do you want in there? Welcome. All righty. There we go. All right. Super. All right. We have a notice for a public hearing um at 5:40. So, we're actually going to jump real quick to item 7.1 and we'll come back to board reports and the ad hoc update if that's all right with you guys. Let's go ahead and jump to 7.1 public hearing. I'm going to go ahead and open that public hearing. This is a notice of a public hearing for a temporary uh transfer of inner funds and staff take it away. If I may, Madam President, this is just a public hearing regarding a resolution. We'll be hearing during action items for your um our
008recommendation to approve u allowing staff to use funds from or money from other funds to help balance the books as we go out throughout the year. There's policy and procedures that go into place for that and we can talk more about that when we get to the action item, but it's something that's done within the school year. It's normal business practice. >> Okay, great. Any public comment on item 7.1 before we close the hearing? Seeing none, go ahead and close that public hearing and we're going to head back to item 6.2. That's what how we amended it. So, ad hoc committee updates. Um, I will go ahead and >> report, right? >> Did we switch the two to six point six? >> We just flipped it. >> Be the grand finale. >> Okay. Um, so
009the policy audit committee, we have a meeting set up next week to start that. Um, just wanted to thank Superintendent Omali for sending and sharing a document regarding CSBA's required policy list. So, it'll help us to navigate that audit and hopefully we'll have a little bit more to report out next month. Also, we there was an ad hoc committee created um after or during our board meeting, our super our special board meeting in July regarding a superintendent evaluation tools, goals, and expectations. These items have been completed by the ad hoc committee and are on the action tonight. Is there any other updates from ad hocs? Not at this time. Okay, let's go ahead and move to item new item 6.3 um which is our board reports and this is the time allotted for our board
010members to conduct discussions on events in which they participated and correspondents related to district programs they wish to share and do I have any takers >> thank you >> um so let's see since our last meeting I attended the KFAX back to school night um and that was uh that was a nice evening um it wasn't super structured, so we were kind of just, you know, kind of floating around. Um I probably visited about a half dozen classrooms and Superintendent Mali was there as well. Um and some of the cabinet staff. Um so that was an interesting night. They were doing like a whole barbecue and everything was pretty cool. Um I also attended the uh Deloro back to school night last night as a parent. Um and that was really interesting as well. Um
011to see, you know, different perspectives from different teachers and you learn all learning about what uh my daughter's going to be doing this year. So that was that was kind of a great experience. um something over the years that I haven't had as much of an opportunity to do because I was actually doing the session. Um so that was kind of nice nice to be able to be there as a parent to do that. Um prior to the school year starting um my wife and I and and several other teachers from Deloro um helped with the uh the Wings orientation which is the uh the freshman orientation and uh the transfer students and new students to to Delore High School. And so we spent uh two five hour nights training and then uh then we
012had the orientation the following week. uh went off really well. Um and then Molly was there and I think you were there as well. Um but that was you know really great experience. I always enjoy uh participating with the the wings or link group whatever you want to call it. Been doing that for a long long time over the years and that's where that program is where my wife and I met 20 years ago. So it's kind of special to both of us. So it was a great experience. >> Awesome. >> Next. >> Yeah, please. Uh, I have been pretty busy with a few things, so I haven't had a chance to get out in the community as much as I wanted to. Uh, no surprise, most of my stuff has been involved with sports.
013So, um, I had a chance to meet with a couple coaches. Um, and a little time around the Do girls uh, basketball team, which has been awesome. Hired a new co coaching staff there, so that's been very cool to see. Um, but, uh, I have a full week ahead already. I'll be in an interview at DO Thursday uh for a for a position. So, that'll be fun. And then I look forward to getting some teacher feedback um as we get into uh deeper into the semester for the grading system and how things are working. >> Awesome. Trusty Underwood. >> Yeah. >> Would you turn on your microphone? Thank you. But uh the foundation uh I'm really excited about our scholarship foundation that we have and how well it's doing. And in our meeting that we
014had today and then we had one previous uh we have uh gained about $600,000 for scholarships above what we started with when we began our investments. And and it's for for the kids and it's exciting. I really like that. And uh we have a uh I must send kudos to our financial advisor Matt. I think he's doing a spectacular job in finances and uh very competent when he makes his presentations like he did tonight. And I just have to uh make that initial statement. Living close to Plaster High School, I'm around the school every day. I walk my dog around the football field and so on and I and I really take a look at what's going on and the kids excitement at the start of the year is wonderful. It's excitement. The your future
015seems unlimited and and uh you can't wait to get in your classes and you've got music going. Good job on that. you know, on the campus and and the climate is really tight and uh that's very exciting. I look at that, I just smile, you know, uh when you see kids beginning their their future growth and and they have these uh visions and excitement and opportunities and they just can't wait to dive in. and being in the classroom for 39 years, you know, for a long time. Uh I I can relate to that personally as an educator, you know, the open eyes and what's going to happen. And I always looked at high school students more so than when I was teaching at at a junior college. You give them enough uh you give them
016boundaries, but you give them excitement and opportunity. they will work so hard, harder than anyone else. They'll they'll just defy your expectations. And so now I look at the start of the school year and I and as I look at the kids, it's really exciting for me uh to see that knowing that uh this is a time in their lives they're never going to forget. And hopefully it's just going to be wonderful. I have to send kudos to Mike Savens uh in terms of his hard work at Plaster High School. They're selling the gym floor. You know, you can buy a little piece of of old hickey gym and what a legacy that is. What what a great history all the kind tournaments and so on over the close to a hundred years. And so
017it's really exciting to see that to see the the uh the students a football program ready to go. Uh I I'm excited as is our year is just beginning. We just have to keep that enthusiasm up and I think we will. Um, and it's it's interesting for me being on a new board with new people, you know, to see that they're all working hard. They really are. They're working hard. We might have differences of opinion, which we do on some matters, but I I I respect their professionalism and working hard uh for the betterment of our district and for kids. And those are my comments. >> Thank you so much, Trusty Underwood. I just want to acknowledge that we've got a board member MIA right now, but he's on his way. He's been stuck in
018traffic driving from San Francisco, no one's favorite. So, he will be joining us at some point, hopefully sooner than later, safely. So, um, when he sneaks in, just so you know, um, he's excused. So, uh, we have had a lot going on this summer with our new superintendent installed. This is his first regular board meeting. So, give it up. Let's welcome officially. You've only had specials. So, uh, now now you're really, um, getting in it. So, we're thrilled to have you here. He's been working hard. We we met his first day on the job and had some breakfast and getting to know each other and and um I've been impressed with the work that he's done. And how many official days have you been on site? Sorry, I didn't ask him in advance. >> 35ish.
019Yeah. Well, I you're you're making strides and um and I can say that at the um the welcome back at Placer, which is always one of my favorite days to sneak in with all of the staff. He's laughing because he knows I'm going to bring up his speech, but I just we knew we hired a solid guy. Um and we knew he was funny, but we didn't know that we hired a stand-up comedian who crushed it for 15 minutes. Um I recorded it, sent it to some trustees that weren't able to be with us that morning. heard lots of f um positive feedback and uh and it's going to be a fun year. I feel like it set a really positive tone. So, just wanted to thank you for that. Um mid June or mid
020July um I did have a meeting with Plaster County Board, a school board association meeting um talking about the upcoming trustee dinner which I'll bring up a little bit later. Multiple meetings with staff obviously we had a special board meeting on the first and uh lots of good things happening on campuses. I too love um hearing and seeing the buzz on campus. And when we were there for that welcome back, we got the first moments of um the new intercom system. Yay. Welcome. Uh the new intercom system playing music as everyone arrives. So, they're working. Um I'm thrilled to see hear that. Um and also the new Maido virtual charter academy space over there. It looks beautiful. Hope you guys are um enjoying that as well. I did have a site visit at Deluro last
021week. Um checked out the AOD gym. It looks amazing. Way to go, Mr. Fee and everyone who participated in that beautiful um upgrade. And I also visited the girls locker room. Um the new lockers are beautiful. The paint is beautiful. And um but there are some other obstacles still there. So I want you to know that I am paying attention. Um, we're going to do our best to address the things that come to us as quickly as possible. Um, sometimes we wish that those could happen faster. Um, you know, but we're but we're working on it. We are paying attention and we want you to know that that they're not falling on deaf ears. We are listening and we care. Um, student board members, welcome. And I just wanted to let you know that a
022friend of mine who is also a delegate um on delegate assembly for uh California schoolboard association reached out to me over July and wanted to ask he's also represent CSBA um working and doing trainings and he has requested that you guys participate in the training at the annual education conference. So there will be more information I'll relay um through our superintendent. I'm sure Desire is going to loop y'all in and we'll figure out how you guys can participate. But he has his eyes on Plaster Union High School District student trustees. So, that'll be great. And it's in Sacramento, which is great for all of us and our budget. Um, I had a couple of Auburn Union School Board members um share reach out to me sharing some concerns around digital ID. um connected them um
023with staff and and just some general feedback about some parents concerned about so much emphasis of communication through apps. Um a lot of families have a lot of different priorities. Um don't want their their children as much on phones and I know there's a lot of communication happening through apps which we're trying to connect with kids on whatever you know source that they're using most but I just wanted to bring that to light that there is some concern around that. Um, I just wanted to give a big thank you to our maintenance and grounds teams, um, our facilities, everyone who was working to beautify our campuses and get so much work done over the summer. Your work this summer has been outstanding. Our campuses look beautiful and we sincerely appreciate your work. Last couple things,
024areas of focus. Um I just wanted to share that um over the next couple of months as far as one of the focuses I have as a board member and that I'd like to work with our board and some others locally um with some transpar u transparency initiatives. I've reached out to our assemblymen with with an idea um that I believe I believe strongly at some point it will become law because it's cheap and it makes sense. Um, but that will create some greater access to important documents so that our community can have eyes on the things that our taxpayers are paying for and also um potentially a program that could support our military families that have been in connection with another trustee locally. And um so all all good things. Um some upcoming events
025going on. Um, we're going to touch later, but I had to acknowledge that tomorrow is my wedding anniversary. And none of these trustees up here function without a good support network. So, I love you, Brett. Um, thank you for supporting me in this role and giving up a lot of time with our family um to do this. And tomorrow, I'll also be on a call with our Plaster County presidents and our delegates uh phone call Zoom with the CSBA legislative expert um Chris Reef. There's a lot of legislation happening right now that will impact education and so there will be more to report out at the next meeting. Okay, that was a long one. Let's carry on folks. We're going to go ahead and move to item eight, consent agenda item. With that being said,
026I've heard trustees mention item 8.3, district issued warrants to move to action item as well as item >> Did we skip 6.4? >> What is 6.4? Yes, I did. You know what? I'm just excited to move through this agenda as quickly as possible. On that note, your first official board report. Thank you. 6.4. >> Thank you. >> You bet. >> Oh, actually, Trusty Emerson, sorry you're coming in hot, but would you like to share a board report real quickly? >> Sure. Yeah, it's good to be here. Exciting new year. I have two students. I have two kids who are students of Deloro and uh I just hats off to Deloro admin for an awesome roll out. Um I had uh like many of you it was curious to see the beginning of the school year
027starting on a Friday on a minimum day like this doesn't make any sense. But the the the overall feedback was that uh the students loved it and it was kind of an awesome uh start to the year. So that was great. Whoever uh had that idea, you wouldn't it was kind of unconventional, but uh yeah, I never I never heard why that actually how that actually happened, but uh you know, turned out good. So, um, kudos. Um, over the last, uh, couple of months, we've been working on, uh, multiple drafts for a, uh, for a resolution that we'll be presenting, uh, at our next board meeting, but it's kind of centered around, uh, mathematics and um, and the direction. Um, you know, it's something that's been going on. If you step back and kind of
028look at the last five years, um the reality is that CO did a number on our community and it did a number on our students and uh and I I felt that personally at home with my own kids that were in high school and uh and middle school at the time and elementary school. Um and so it's if you uh look at the the trends across the country and um and what the rebound has looked like uh in public education, we've seen a decrease in test scores and uh and performance. And so there's no question that that there was an impact on um on on public education. Um, and so it's exciting to look at the developments that are that are happening with AI. I uh I'm I'm happy to report out that uh I
029myself have been using um I think of it like an AI tutor like uh this companion. I use this I use the Gro app. I use it in my car. I use it on my phone. And I'm literally astounded by the future, what the future holds. It's it's unbelievable, you guys. If you're not using it, um I encourage you all. A lot of these apps are free, but it will blow your mind to have these conversations with uh you know, a digital assistant. It It feels intuitive. It feels natural. it feels um like a helpful assistant. And um and the reason I bring this up is because we've had a uh a roll out of uh the Khan Academy um an initiative brought forth by uh Jerry Jackson out of Forest Hill and uh he
030started implementing this and he's already seeing positive feedback uh from his students. Um, and so I'm really excited. There's there there's no question that teachers are uh in many cases are are overworked, overwhelmed, and uh by all the expectations that are placed upon them uh in this day and age. There's no re there's no question that there's a uh you know across public education in general there's a there's a shortage of u of teachers. Um and it's it's kind of a it's not hard to see why. Um there's a lot that's asked of of teachers today and it's not just teaching. Um it's all the other things. And so to imagine a a digital assistant that can that can customize and and and um kind of supplement in a way. I mean it's it's too
031much to ask a math teacher who uh is teaching a lesson to 30 students to be there for each one where you know kids learn at different paces. They have different needs. They have different challenges. Um but it's proving uh very impactful to have this sort of AI assistant. Um now with that there's also a lot of cautions and things but anyway that's just what's been in my mind and um and uh it's I can bear testimony that it's like there's no question that it's the future. The question is uh how are we going to to implement and and of course have safeguards in place but it's it's an impressive uh development in education. So anyway, that's all I got. >> Thank you so much. All right. Thank you for keeping me on track. Trusty
032Jeff, take it away. Superintendent Ali 64. >> Well, first off, again, like I've said before, thank you for this opportunity. I I appreciate it. Um, I appreciate everybody coming out to support me tonight because I know that's why you're here. So, thank you for that. Um, in your packet you have the draft copy of the governance leadership calendar. If you would take a look at that and email me any changes, concerns, questions, that would be great. Um, you know, overall I I showed up in this district on June 22nd and I wasn't an employee yet, but I started working because I didn't have anything better to do and just started meeting with folks. And so I've met with all the trustees, some of you several times, our union partners. I've been all the sites. I
033was fortunate enough to have my team take me on a tour of um all of our our school sites before our students and staff showed up just so we could kind of take our time and walk through and and really just kind of, you know, not feel rusted, those types of things. Um the uh the Thursday back to school presentation, thanks for recording that. Um yeah, it's it's out there. But anyway, what was nice is uh Kaia at Placer hung on and I got a tour of the whole art facility and all the art staff and and you know music. It was it's very impressive programs that that are operating over there in the arts department. So, so that was great and that was just impromptu, but I appreciated them taking the time. Uh the
034back to school nights have been great. Um they've all had their different flavors and you know you just kind of sense the community with Forest Hills obviously coming up I believe I'm not sure when. in the coming weeks though. Um we uh we're doing a champion model. So each of the administrative team has a site that we've been assigned to. Mine is Deloros. So Principal Zurwas and I had our first champion meeting on Friday. Um it's been very impressive to sit with with this group and work with them and and really not just this group but the lead team and the cabinet and I've been very impressed with them that their dedication to our students. That's where their lens is always looking is how can we provide the best opportunities for our students and obviously
035our staff because that's who provides those service. So, it's been fun to be part of a team and and just to watch them work and and just, you know, watch some dedicated professionals do what they do. So, um it's a very good group. Again, I feel very fortunate to be here. I've got two Rotary um presentations coming up in September and the Deloro opening day was was was something to see. The freshman orientation was was pretty spectacular. So, kudos again, Principal Zurwas, and your team. That was great and thank you for the invite. Um, if I get invited, I'll be there, by the way. At least as long as I can. So, please keep those coming. And overall, I'm just looking forward to continuing to learn. I've I've talked to some friends of mine about
036the transition and they just say, "What's the hardest part?" And I said, "The hardest part is not knowing the history." So, you know, for me showing up, it's been I've been I've felt very welcome and I'm really happy to be here and and just look forward to to learning and helping us get better. Superintendent Camiti. >> Thank you. Um just two items uh for my report. We had our annual curriculum camp on the uh the week before school starts. The numbers are preliminary, but we're um still getting time cards from teachers, but we didn't have participation at every site. Um teachers are awarded up to four hours of professional development to where they can get ready for students to arrive. Um the second item is the Mammud versus Taylor Supreme Court case that you are
037probably familiar with. Um staff is working on updating any policies and optout procedures. a plaster union has kind of always had an opt out system in place that's been fairly um loose for parents to decide what they wanted to opt out. So it's I don't think that this process is going to change PHSD a whole lot um but be looking for that more updates in Friday facts concludes my report. >> Awesome. Thank you both so much. Um item 6.5, Associated Teachers of Placer, President's Report, >> welcome >> on and I'm not too close to it today. Um I just want to say thank you so much to the board. Um I know it's hard for me um to properly express like the the process that we've gone through um particularly in terms of the teachers
038with everything that's happened with the grading policy and I appreciate all the time and consideration that's gone and the hard sometimes very hard conversations we've had in terms of how we move forward. Um I did get to go visit Forest Hill and I get did get feedback from Kfax. Um and I'm just going to talk specifically about the grading policy. I think we did make the right decision to um to wait a little bit because it's not just about how much work it is to to flip for the people that have to flip backwards. But there's also we want to give people the time to fully grasp it and understand that it's not it's not about their um their contributions being unrecognized or not being enough or not being in the correct direction or moving
039forwards or moving backwards. but that we're looking to move together um all of us and um so thank you and those concerns that I had um about possibly some people at Forest Hill and Kfax feeling like crap were going the other way. Those were there. Thank you. And then I wanted to um just because I'm representing Forest Hill currently, but Rachel has been there for decades. Um, so she's just gonna talk just real briefly about Forest Hill because she can speak to it better than I can. Thank you. >> Hello everyone. >> Hi. Um, I just wanted to highlight the grading policy changes that we're seeing this year. Um, I want to highlight that no staff at Forest Hill, either the staff that were there this year and obviously the new staff um, were talked
040to about the new grading policy. So nobody was pulled. Nobody was at some point I think we were pulled by ATP but I don't believe that the grading committee ever talked to anybody at Forest still about it. Um so of the so then I pulled them myself. So of the 10 staff last year seven preferred four point grading three preferred 100. This year it split absolutely in half of the 10 staff that I pulled. Um five of them like 100% five of them prefer point. Um, but eight of them said they would prefer to have autonomy for all of us. So that we choose. Not that we'd go away from A through F. Obviously, that's not something anybody feels like changing, but we want to have the autonomy to be able to have our own
041grading policies within that framework. Um, I'd like to again uh point out that it's it's really important for us to have autonomy at our site, especially because we're different from the other sites. I mean, we're something between Kolfax and Confluence, if I can explain it. Uh, we have a nearly 50% socioeconomically disadvantaged population. Our teachers want that flexibility to be able to work with kids, to be able to explain things to them and not have to be in lock step with what larger sites may want or may decide for us. Um, I feel confident that our students are resilient and if a teacher does their due diligence, they will explain their grading policy and there should be no issues with that. If parents want to know more about the grading policy, I know all of
042the teachers at Forestell have open doors and we'll talk to parents about it and explain it. Um, and Trusty Lake said that a lot is being asked of us and that's true. And having a lot of us change from working so hard on something the last five plus years for the four-point scale is pretty frustrating. And for those people who have used the 100 point scale, it's a victory for them maybe, but you don't want to divide us like that. I think a lot of us want to be happy and want to be doing what we feel is best for our students. And so and we feel very strongly about it, a lot of us. So um also I really feel like until society evaluates everyone in the same exact way, it's good for kids
043to learn different methods of evaluation from the adults in their life. So thank you for listening. >> Thank you. just wanted um just to let you know that I did speak with your union rep about it and he shared some feedback with me during and and prior to the decision just just so that you knew that I >> last year, right? >> The one that is now >> moved out. Okay. >> Yeah. >> Can I say one more thing about Forest Hill that doesn't have to do with grading? >> Um you could save it for public comment. >> Okay. >> Thank you very much. I appreciate uh your feedback tonight. Thank you for taking the time to come down and share that with us. All right, we are now moving officially to item eight. Am
044I still on track, boys? Keep me keep me on track here. Okay, thank you. So, item 8.3, item 8.17 are going to be moved to the top of the action. Are there any other changes to the consent agenda items? Hearing none, do I have a motion with those amended? >> Motion to approve. We have a first by Trusty Duncan, second by Lake. Any questions? >> Jessica, I had a question on item number 17. Is this appropriate time? >> Let's move it to the action and then we'll take it up at that time. Perfect. >> Any other questions? All right. All in favor say I. >> I. >> All oppose. Motion passes unanimously. Let's go ahead and start with item 8.3, districts warrants. Trusty Jeff. >> Yeah, I had um two reasons why I wanted to
045pull this from consent. So, first I had a question on one of the pay warrants and secondly, I assume that you um Trusty Spade would probably want to pull it because you're going to have to abstain because you're you're on one of the pay warrants. Um so, I thought that'd be appropriate. Thank you. >> So, the first question I had was reference to the 62625 pay warrant. >> Oh, wait. I put the wrong date down. Um, I guess I did. There's a an entry. It says cash, and I was curious what that was. Look like the payout was under the name cash. >> Are you speaking on the 6-26-2025 pay warrant, >> I believe. So, yes. >> Right there it is. >> So, what is that? 559. >> Trying to find it on my sheet.
046>> Sure. >> How far down are we? >> Three quarters. >> Oh, 559. >> Yeah, I got five for $559. >> Unless I get the detail. I can um check with my director of budget and accounting. Um just cash. >> Oh, it is. So cash is not cash. Cash is the coalition adequate school housing. >> We may need that acronym typed out. >> Perfect. >> That is hilarious. >> Perfect. >> That answers my question. Thank you, Peter. >> Answers my question. >> Thank you for being in the house. All right. Any other questions regarding district issued warrants? All right, with that being said, do I have a motion? >> I'll move to approve. >> Second. >> Have a first by Trusty Jeff and a second by Duncan. Any other questions, comments? >> All in favor
047say I. >> I. >> All oppose. Motion passes. Passes for O. I abstained. All right. Item eight uh 8.17. Trusty Underwood. >> Yeah, it's uh an item that I hadn't seen before in all my years in the district, and I'm sure we've had this program for a long time. It's the independent contractor service agreement on physical therapy. And when I read through that, I noticed that we are allocating $63,000, I think, and up to $391 for uh students that need physical therapy. And and I was thinking, do we really have I don't know that many people that are in need of the service. I mean, 191 hours. That's a lot of hours, you know, and at the same time up to $63,000. And I'm I don't know how this program really works, how long we've
048had it, how many students that we have that really need this and how is that determined? There's a lot of questions on there. >> Great questions. Thank you for happy to speak to that, Trusty Underwood. So, these are for special education students in need. We have a small amount of students. I think about 12 this year. This is something we've done for many, many years where we have students who require physical therapy to access their education. So, it's some of our more students with more severe physical disabilities who require that service through their IEP. >> Yeah. But how many students are we talking about in the district? We got 4,000 >> right now. We have, I think, 12 students in our district. >> Okay. If we've got 12 students in the district >> and we're
049allocating up to 391 hours. >> Does that make sense? >> Yeah. So, there's direct service hours, there's consultation time, there's IEP attendance, report writing and assessment, things like that. >> All under the umbrella of >> of our opera for for our correct our IEP students. >> Correct. >> Of those 12, how many are actually You mentioned something that there's a special need to you repeat what you said about >> I'm not sure. Uh they all qualify for this service under IDA and special education ed code and law. So it's required for them to be able to access their academic environment. And I I can speak as a special education mom and just reiterating these teams come together and create plans for these students so that they can access their education. Obviously, we've got two educators
050up here, but but when they're offering physical therapy, in my experience, um it's because our students absolutely need it um to access their education. So, I trust our staff. If this is what's in their IEP, this is what our students need to access their education and it's required through IDA um through through the law. Then, >> see, Jessica, I I know if students need that, we have to offer that and that's very important to me. I just thought 391 hours. I just that that just kind of blows my mind. >> Yeah. >> You know, for 12 students, >> I believe it's an up to that amount of hours, right? >> So, it als it's providing a cushion totally >> for other students that could come in. >> It's a pretty good return. >> It's not
051that, >> but that's the concern or the hours a lot. >> Yeah, exactly. I didn't know how many students were talking about. I I thought it was just going to be a handful because of my experiences in education and teaching. And I just think that is a lot of hours we're allocating. >> Uh I really do. 391 hours. It just doesn't seem >> to be to make sense to me. >> The need is there. We need to fulfill that need and obligation and give students all the support they can. >> But at the same hand, if you would have said it's about 50 students, I I could say, "Oh, okay. That would make some sense." But 12 in that amount of hours doesn't make a lot of sense to me. >> And it's an up
052to that amount of hours. So that's based on the averages over previous years. We can have some other students come in or out throughout the school year. So sometimes it goes up. Um so that's why we just write it up to that with a hope that we don't need to get to that total, but we usually do get pretty close to that. >> And if I'm reading this right, >> correct? Sure. Okay. Are there any other questions on this item? Okay. Thank you for for jumping up here and answering those questions. All right. Do I have a motion on item 8.17 >> motion to approve? >> Got a first by Trusty Duncan. >> Second by Jeff. Any other questions or comments on this item? I appreciate you pulling an item and asking good questions. I
053think it's important for us to have this kind of dialogue and for the community to understand what all that means to >> with that being said, all in favor say I. >> I. All oppose. Hearing none. Motion passes 5. All right. We're cooking now. >> Going to move to item nine. We are in action items. But before we get there, >> um, >> Trusty Jeff. >> Yeah, I had I'm sorry. I had my in my notes, but I wasn't paying attention when I was talking earlier. Um, with with respect to pays, I know we already voted. I'm not asking for a revote or anything, but um I did have a question, Peter. So, it looks like um we're we're spending around a million dollars to mid plaster schools for transportation. Does that sound right? >>
054How many of our students are are using the bus? Is it a good percentage? I'm >> No, we have Well, the biggest cost comes from the special ed. We have about 10 routes that we serve as special ed students between our district, Lumis, and um Kfax Elementary. And I'm talking about um special ed kids who are required to come to Plaster for a program. They live out of Plers's attendance area type of thing. We have about um our district alone, I think we have three or four routes. And I say that because we share some routes like with Forest still divide. They do the elementary kids and then come back to the high school kids and they bring the confluence kids down. Uh same thing with Koffax Elementary. So I can get you the exact
055number. I don't know off top of my head. Right now >> it's a couple hundred. >> Does it seem uh normal for um that year over year around a million dollars or whatever we're >> it's going it's just been going up >> um the last couple years. The cost of say diesel fuel that kind of thing. It's not necessarily labor per se. That's kind of been steady, but it's just the cost of everything, repair, tires, that kind of stuff. It's unfortunate last few years that the amount of money we get from the state used to cover our costs about seven eight years ago and gradually it's been it's been going up. >> All righty. Action item 9.1 certificated personnel report number 125 through 26. >> Yes, Madam President. Um, as you can see, it's a
056jam-packed um, certifi uh, certificate of personnel report. We have a lot of teachers um, that are doing a variety of things and we we really appreciate all these um, different activities that they've agreed to do. Um, we also do have a um, resignation of a teacher. We always do want to thank them for their service. Um, and on the behalf of the superintendent, I would recommend approval of the certificate certificated personnel report. >> Do I have a motion? >> I move approval. >> Got a first by Trusty Underwood. >> Second by Trusty Duncan. Any questions or comments? Hearing none. All in favor say I. >> I. >> All oppose. Motion carries. 50. >> 9.2 to classified personnel report number 12526. >> Pretty sure this one might even be longer because we do have all the
057volunteers on this as well. So we have um all of our um positions that people are agreeing to take with us. Uh all of the stipen positions for the sports um as well as um like I mentioned the volunteers as you can see is quite a long list as well. So, we have a broad range of people that are helping and supporting our students. Um, we also have a few student workers um that we always want to appreciate. They're um supporting their peers. And we do have a few uh retirements uh one retirement, a couple of resignations. We um Jod has been a long-term custodian with us. We do want to thank her for her service as well as um Sabrina and Madison. Madison is actually changing her role. she is she resigned to a
058point five of the U mental health specialist associate and is transitioning to support um confluence under a temporary assignment. So on the behalf of the superintendent I would make recommend the approval of the classified personnel report. All right. Do I have a motion? >> I'll move to approve. >> We have a first by Trusty Jeff, second by Underwood. Trusty Duncan, I did see your name on that list as a shop round. So, assuming you will be potentially abstaining from this one. Um, any other questions or comments before we go to vote? All in favor say I. >> I. All oppose. >> We have enough. Is that what I heard? Yeah, >> I heard nothing. >> All right. We motion carries 4. >> All right. And I just a huge thank you to all of the
059drivers, all of the coaches. It's a massive lift. We so appreciate you. We couldn't do what we do without everybody. Um, all hands on deck there. So, we appreciate you. We appreciate you, Trusty Duncan. Okay. Item 9.3, teaching outside the credential pursuant to education code section 44258.3. >> Yes. Um these are a couple of newer hired um teachers that we were unable to get in the um June board meeting because we hadn't fully onboarded them yet. Um they are um offering to provide some additional um activities outside of their credential area. It is very typical for our special education teacher at Forest Hill to provide read 180, math 180 um classes to not just the special education but to the general education students that require that additional support. So we they this is voluntary. They've
060been reviewed to make sure that they have the background and knowledge to support um providing these um classes. And on that behalf of the superintendent, I would recommend the approval of these local board authorizations. >> Do I have a motion? >> Second. >> We have a first by trustee Underwood and a second by trustee Duncan. Any questions or comments on this item? >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> All oppose hearing none. Motion carries. 50 9.4. side letter of agreement between the PHSD and associated teachers of Placer addressing the shortage of RSB teachers and compensation for an increase in case loads during the 2025 2026 school year and a side letter of agreement between PHSD and associated teachers of plaster to address the sort oh it's just repeated twice and complete waiverss through
061CDE will be paid by taking on additional students beyond their identified case loads all right >> yes um so it is quite difficult at times at the beginning of the school year um to actually know which students will show up, but our case loads on our RSP cases um case carries are quite high at this time and a couple of them are over. And so um versus being able to hire a part-time special education teacher. So we really appreciate the special education teachers that have volunteered and our union partners in working with us in developing thisou in order to ensure that we will support students appropriately. Um if the numbers get too high then we will have to reconsider and look at trying to hire for that position. But at this time um there's only
062we have about an overage of four students and so um maybe six but right in that range but a variety couple of different schools. And so what we'd like to do at this time um is allow them to voluntarily choose to enter into this agreement to to take on these additional students. So, our union partners um agreed with us and on the behalf of the superintendent, I would recommend the approval of this side letter of agreement. >> Thank you. >> Do I have a motion? >> I'll move to approve. >> Have a first by Trusty Jeff. >> Second. >> And a second by Trusty Duncan. Quick question on this. Um I just want to make very clear that even with the addition of these students um and the teachers voluntarily taking um on a larger
063case load all of our special education students IEPs will be met. They will be supported. There's no concern or issue around them having the access and services through their teacher with the additional students. >> No. And if at any point that was part of our conversations is always part of our conversations. we need to be alerted to that if there is ever a concern with that and we will reach out and get somebody else. Um we do have a couple of retired special ed teachers that have stepped in for us before for a short period of time until we can get coverage that's needed. When we have done this, this is not our first year. We've not had any issues with the coverage or any concerns um identified from families. >> Great. Thank you. All
064right. Any other questions, comments? All in favor say I. >> I. All oppose. Hearing none. Pot motion passes unanimously. Yet again. Item 9.5 memorandum of understanding agreement between the PHSD and associated teachers of Placer ATP regarding the elected union officer release time. Theou between the PHSD and ATP which addresses elected union officer release time based on education code 44987. >> Yes. Um we are uh entered into this agreement with our union partners um to allow the ATP president um she received a grant um to cover for the cost for her to be able to have some release time to better serve her membership and provide support at all the schools throughout the district. And this is theou that is that agreement of allow of having that occur and just the details of how that's handled
065and managed. Um, so on the behalf of the superintendent, I would recommend the approval of thatou. >> I had a quick question just in bullet two. Uh, it says that there'll be a reimbursement uh from ATP to uh to our district on a quarterly basis. Is that in perpetuity? >> No, it's just for this year. It's a one-year agreement. And so what it is is that um the grant went directly to ATP. And so it's for subcost only. And so once we have the days, we will bill them and then they will repay they will um pay us back for that time >> and then go to uh to reup on the grant the next year. >> I'm assuming that's the goal. >> Speak up. >> Sorry. And to uh to exercise the to to
066go for the grant again in the sec the second year. I'm assuming >> well that I'm not sure what happens next year. I guess. >> Yeah. I >> Yeah. So, I mean, that would be up to her to uh or the union to decide if that's something that they would want to do. >> Okay. >> Sure. >> So, the process is we we pay for the sub and then we're reimbursed quarterly. Yes. Based on this. >> Okay. Do I have a motion on item 9.5? >> I move approval. >> Have a first by Trusty Underwood. >> Second by Trusty Jeff. Any further questions, comments? All in favor say I. >> I. All oppose. Motion carries. 50. 9.6 resolution number 125 through 26 organization of district administration for the 2025 2026 school year. This is the
067annual organization of the district administrators and staff. >> So this is a resolution we do yearly basically clarifying all the different roles that uh the administrators take throughout the year, designating coordinators, etc. Um I would just recommend its approval. >> Do I have a motion on this item? >> Second. >> We have a first by uh Trusty Lake and a second by Trusty Duncan. I do want to make a quick comment on this. I had a conversation with Superintendent Omali. There were several grammatical errors um and some issues throughout it. Um he assured me that they would be cleaned up by staff um but that we'll go ahead and move forward with with uh this resolution at this time. As a reminder, all resolutions are roll call vote. So, Superintendent Omali will call the RO
068questions before go to vote. >> Yeah. >> Um, so if we can pull that resolution back up if you don't mind. >> Um, so I had a couple of questions. So, first is the what is the purpose of the waving the 24-hour notice. >> Sorry. >> Oh, that's on the consent agenda as well. >> Yeah. >> All right. And then my second question, if we scroll down, where's uh talked about uh financial approval. You looking for Here we are. It was about the uh who has the authority to approve expenditures. Is it I don't know if it's this stock or the other one. >> I think it maybe it's the temporary maybe it's um 9.7 the temporary transfer. >> Okay, >> it's on that one. >> And just as a as a heads up with
069the waving of the 24hour, it's my understanding that we can wave it. It's just kind of standard, but not that it's an automatic wave of your 24hour. It's not an accurate. Yeah. Yeah. Right. It's just about bringing it to our home. >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Thank you, Dez. We really need a microphone at that table, honestly. We go there just as much as we at the left. All righty. Any other questions or comments on this one? All right. Superintendent Ali, take it away. >> All right. Trusty Underwood. >> I. >> Trusty Jeff. >> Trusty Spade. >> I. >> Trusty Duncan. Trusty Lake. Motion carries unanimously. All right. Item 9.7, another resolution number 225 through 26 to establish the temporary interfund transfers for special or restricted fund monies to seek adoption of this resolution
070to perip permit interfund transfers for the year 2025 through 2026. So, Madam President, just the resolution um common business practice that most districts do allows staff with approval of the board to access money from other funds to help with cash flow. Um there's a procedure that has to be followed. You can only borrow so much. You have to pay it back with a certain amount of time. It has to happen within the school year. So, you can't do it like at the end of June or something like that. And you think about where our money comes in. We don't just get monthly cash flow. And so this is used to help basically offset that. But there's rules and regulations that have to be followed and guidelines and stuff like that. So it's not just Sue
071and I going down to the bank and taking out money from the ATM. >> Thank you. >> On behalf of the superintendent, we recommend approval. >> All right. Do I have a motion? >> I move approval >> by Trusty Underwood. Second by Trusty Duncan. Any other questions on this one? Well, shoot. That means we missed it in that other dock, huh? >> Darn it. Well, we'll Yeah. bring it up to staff afterwards. All righty. Um, just just as a flag point for the board, when I saw the transfers prior to joining the board, it flagged in my heart and mind, too. So, if it's feels alarming, this is a normal practice and everyone's tracking it. The funds do go back in there. It's just, yeah, we're we're paid weird on education and weird timelines. And
072so, all right, with that being said, um, Superintendent Ali, >> Trusty Underwood, >> yes. >> Trusty Jeff, >> hi. >> Trusty Spade, >> Trusty Duncan, Trusty Lake. >> Motion carries. >> Thank you. Item 9.8, resolution number 325 through 26, the adoption of a PAR supplemental retirement plan. Yes, Madam President, um as has been um mentioned at at previous meetings with the board and so forth, staff had been directed to look into a supplemental retirement plan. We did this five, six years ago uh with a group called PARS um and uh to help benefit this program. Right now, we have Ryan Nassio from them to do a presentation and we can talk more about that instead of hearing from me on that. So, >> thank you. Welcome. >> Thank you. Uh good evening, Madam Board President,
073members of the board, uh Superintendent Omali. Again, my name is Ryan Aassio. I'm a senior vice president with PARS, and I have a short presentation this evening on this early retirement incentive uh that uh we would potentially administer if the uh board approves the resolution. Um just some background information, PARS, uh public agency retirement services, sort of as our name implies, uh we consult and administer retirement programs and plans for public agencies. So, not only school districts, uh, special districts, community colleges, counties, cities, uh, on the educational side, we're probably best known for these early retirement incentives. Uh, and as previously mentioned, we actually did a plan, an early retirement incentive, uh, back in 2019 2020 school year. So, we administered that and that was a successful offering. Um, next slide is just a sampling
074of districts that we have worked with and and agencies uh throughout the state uh kind of both big and small. And that's sort of what PARS specializes in and working with districts to sort of meet their unique challenges or needs. Uh what may work for one district may not work for another. Um just a sampling of the 300 plus agencies we work we've worked with over the over our history. Um some in the county as I mentioned worked with the district. um uh 2019 2020 uh number of uh districts in the county as well. Uh last year we worked with Western Placer um worked with Kfax a number of years ago. Uh large districts as big as uh LA Unified and San Diego Unified to smaller districts. Kfax as I mentioned was a like a
075one or two person plan. So just a sampling of what uh we are able to to do a and what the early retirement incentive is is this is a supplemental benefit that would be offered to uh retirement eligible uh employees uh through a contingent enrollment window. Uh generally that window is about a 45 to 60-day enrollment window. Uh during that time, that's sort of when our services uh will be provided with the administration and communication to all uh potential eligible employees that may want to participate uh where if they are interested, they would submit their enrollment packet uh sort of an irrevocable letter for resignation during that period. Uh during that time, you know, we come out to the district, communicate the program, the eligibility, what they would need to go through to enroll. Um
076you know part of that process is providing information so that employees can make an informed decision so that they are aware of sort of the options what this potential benefit is. Uh again what may work for one person may not work for another. So that's where we are not there to persuade or twist arms. We want them to have all the information. We encourage them to speak with their family members uh financial adviserss underlying retirement system if they're uh considering retirement either through stirs or pers. Um, at the end of that enrollment window, uh, we would sort of, um, run a post analysis, provide those numbers to the district. At that point, the district would evaluate and determine, did this plan meet its fiscal and operational goals? If so, the plan would move forward. Um,
077folks would resign by the at the end of the school year. If the plan does not meet its fiscal and operational goals, the district has that discretion to evaluate and potentially resend the offer. and um the plan would uh sort of go away from there. And the proposed plan eligibility is um for the different employee groups are certificated non-management, certificate administrators, classified non-management including management and confidential employees uh with five years of district service uh eligible to retire under calsters or or calpers and also resign from the school district at the end of the school year. uh even though these are eligible uh folks to retire um they simply need to resign from the school district. Uh so potentially that offers additional flexibility to folks if they wanted to continue their working career at a
078neighboring district or another district uh but from uh your district they would be sort of off of your books and resign. And the plan design that we use is a percentage of the final salaries used to purchase an annuity. Uh that annuity would pay out um 14 different benefit options. So in this case uh working with staff we came up with the 70% of final salary that would be used uh contributions would be used on their behalf to purchase an annuity through Pacific Life Insurance. uh and then those uh distribution options which we'll cover in the next couple of slides uh would be available to the employees. So through the annuity there is 14 different benefit options on the next slide. Uh sort of your typical lifetime options. Um so if an employee lives 30
079or 40 years it would pay out for that uh amount of period. Uh there's also joint survivor option that they if they want to include a beneficiary. Uh and then higher fixedterm payments uh which we term options five through 15. These are paid out over a shorter period of time. Uh but they have uh that ability to to uh take advantage of that. Uh from the participant standpoint, these are all actuarily equivalent. There's sort of no better or worse right or wrong benefit selection. It's really what makes sense for their specific situation. And from the district standpoint, this is a defined cost. So regardless of the benefit selection the employee selects, it does not um negatively impact uh the cost of the program. That's that defined cost. In this case, we're looking at 70% of
080their final salary. So for example, if the employee selects a lifetime option, lives 30 or 40 years, their benefits exceed what have been contributed, uh there's no additional cost to the district. So that's sort of that uh mortality risk that's borne by Pacific Life Insurance Company. So in this slide here, we're just sort of illustrating sort of the average of the group for each of the employee groups uh what those potential benefits would look like. So again, every eligible participant would receive a customized enrollment uh packet and benefit illustration based on their specific age and salary. Uh for today's presentation, we're just using the average of the group to illustrate what those potential benefits would look like. And you know part of the service that PARS does is offer this upfront analysis uh looking at
081the employees of the district the demographics sort of based on where they are with age and service. And the idea with the supplemental benefit is that if there is um enough interest generated from uh participation or increased participation from this incentive uh that could potentially lead to savings to the district. So we're looking at that compensation differential between that outgoing retiring employee and their replacement employee. But our model also factors in all the various costs associated with the program. So the cost of the incentive itself, you know, in this case the 70% of their final salary. Um if there's retirement health care costs, um cost of natural attrition, meaning that if the district did not offer this program, uh folks would sort of naturally leave on their own. So we do not take credit for
082that. We're simply trying to increase participation above and beyond that. And that in uh captures as well the future loss. So folks that would have left in the next three, four, five years, we're simply expediting their departure. And lastly, if there are uh positions that are not replaced as a result of this early retirement incentive, that can be increased savings to the district. So that's all part of our model. From that, we try to determine is there an overall net savings or cost associated with the plan. So looking at the um demographics and the group, you know, I mentioned the eligibility of five years of district service as well as eligible to retire under STRS or PERS. Uh we identified 146 employees that would be eligible. Uh 65 teachers, 61 classified non-management. Looking at the
083demographics as well as uh using our expertise and experience on the level of the benefit, we would project uh 28 participants that would participate. 14 coming from your teachers, 11 from classified non-management. Our model is simply using the um average age and uh uh age and ser uh salary of the employees. We don't know your specific employees. So these numbers uh could may change slightly. You know, obviously you know your employees better than we do. We're simply using our projections and and uh expertise on what we think will happen. So assuming that you get that participation from the previous slide of 28 employees, if the district were to replace all 28 of those employees, uh these are the fiscal impact that we would expect over a 135year period. Where teachers there would be a slight
084cost in the first year of about 58,000, but over a three and fiveyear cumulative period, there'd be savings. uh for your other groups, you're looking at a cost um sort of typical of what we see when we run these analysis simply because you don't see that same salary differential that you do with the teachers based on the uh schedules and stepping columns. So um at full replacement again if you if we're projecting 28 employees across all groups and you replace all 28 uh there would be a cost um projected over five years cumulative of about 235,000. But uh the next slide we kind of look at well you know if the district is in a position to not replace positions that can flip the those numbers where there would be savings associated uh with the
085early retirement incentive. So even the teachers that had slight savings over uh at full replacement of all uh positions I think we projected 14. If the district did not replace one of those positions, meaning he brought back 13 of those 14, that would increase the savings to about 679,000 over five years. And then we just kind of do the sort of the same thing with the other groups. If you're in a position to not replace one position, that would uh uh change those costs to a savings for those specific groups. So that's where sort of the flexibility of the early retirement incentive comes into play where you offer this contingent enrollment window, see who sort of participates. We would run the analysis based on actual enrollment and participation. Provide those numbers to the district to
086evaluate and then you can kind of see where if there's u availability to not replace or etc based on actual participation. Uh the last slide is just the proposed timeline. Uh so the process starts with a adoption of the resolution in tonight's board meeting. Um and then September uh beginning which is just a couple weeks away or a week and a half that's when essentially the enrollment window that contingent enrollment window would open up. Uh we would look to come back to the district with PAR's representative for an orientation meeting in mid to late September. uh we'd actually come back to the district uh towards the end of the enrollment window late October for a one-on-one meeting, what we call our employee workshop, where participants have the option to sit uh one-on-one with a PARS
087employee, ask any last minute questions, physically turn in their enrollment package. Uh the window closed would be October 31st. At that point, uh, again, PARS would run the analysis based on actual participation, provide that analysis to the district to evaluate did the early retirement incentive meet its fiscal and operational goals, and that's where the uh the district has at the discretion to either approve or resend the the plan. So, that would take place at the next uh subsequent board meeting in November. Um, assuming if the results were good, the plan moved forward, it would be approved through an action item. uh at the end of the school year on or before June 30th uh folks would resign from this from the uh district and their first benefit check would uh commence on August 1st. So
088I covered a lot of information very quickly. I was trying to be as concise as possible but I can pause for any questions. >> I have two questions and thank you by the way. I appreciate the presentation. Uh number one uh is 70% of the base salary is there a cap on that? Have we >> a cap on the on the >> that it can go you know whatever the highest uh teacher salary is. >> Uh not it'd be on the specific employee salary. So whatever their salary is for the school year. >> Got it. Okay. But there's no caps on >> uh we did not look at capping the benefit or we weren't instructed to look do so. >> Okay. Um and then can you go back to the second to last slide? >>
089Um the next one. Yeah. >> Provides the provides your in the instruction >> instruction uh the information for the employees >> uh or the direction like the strategy on whether to do like a like a flat amount of benefit percentage. Yeah. Yeah. So that's in discussion with uh staff uh kind of broad picture you know we look at kind of a range of potential benefit levels. Sort of the rationale is the higher the benefit level, the greater the participation we would expect because it's more attractive to folks. However, you have to offset that by potential cost of that benefit level and then kind of go from there based on sort of what the goals or challenges the district is facing. Um I believe the plan that we offered previously in 2019 2020 was a 70%
090level of benefit >> and a percentage of salary. >> Yeah, a percentage 70%. How often do you see like a flat rate versus a percentage of salary? >> Like a flat dollar amount? Um, >> it's not as common. >> Yeah. >> Like 5% of the time, 10% of the time. >> Yeah. Maybe five or less than 10%. Yeah. >> Why would a district decide to go in that direction? >> Uh, it could be a number of reasons. um maybe they're limiting trying to limit costs or they're just really trying to offer something at a break even um sort of net benefit. So that would potentially limit the cost, but that's where you kind of have to weigh the u kind of pros and cons of the benefit level. So that as you get lower with
091the benefit level, the less attractive it's going to be. So we would ratchet down our projections on participation. So in this case, you know, at the 70% level, that's where we're landing on, you know, the 28 total folks. Uh what was it? 20 14 teachers. So the return on investment really comes into play if if we're replacing, >> right? >> So what's our data and history as far as past? Because the slide before this is a negative, right? And and so it only works and And I get why we're going through the analysis that we can then make that decision if we want to move forward. Um but how just curious to go through all this. There's time involved. How often do we see those numbers play out? And obvious obviously we wouldn't be doing
092this if we didn't think we had a real chance not to not replace a position at least four of them in this. >> So um I can answer part of that and maybe Peter answers part of it. Not only did in 1920, not only did we do this and we didn't replace all the teachers. It was only for certificated staff in 1920, but we also had an agreement with the union that we entered into that no teacher would be hired higher than a step 10. That savings alone is can be a significant amount of uh savings on column five. Yep. >> A step five. So, so if you think at 24 step 24 what the cost is step 10 and um we were able to fully replace all staff um within those guidelines and that
093in itself was a savings a significant savings from from 134 and we got nice good quality staff um in that year as well >> um in the sense of I cannot recall exactly how many How many? Um, we know we had 10 certificated staff that left. We had a school nurse. We had to replace the school nurse. Do you recall Peter? >> Not off the top of my head how many we had total, you mean? And then how many took it? >> Like Yeah. I just want to get the ROI. >> No, there were I think we were in the 30s, but only 10 took it after looking at it. >> Okay. >> Um, because it comes down to I think where you are in your life. You mentioned a question earlier about who talks
094with you. We don't do that. >> Yeah. you know, PARS does because they have the broader range of that. You saw the list of school districts that they've worked with. They can offer multitude of variances that people can look at in terms of why it would be good to do this and not. And so, um, you know, in looking at it, it helps saves us money. You know, we look at this number because this was kind of like, as Ryan said, 70% is kind of a common number. Western Plaster just did it for all of their groups as well. Um, so you know, we were kind of looking at the commonality and what we did last time. >> You know, >> I guess my my question on the cap is if you have a a
095higher paid employee, there's there's there's not if we put a cap into place, there's less incentive for that person to retire. But I would assume that your sweet spot is somewhere in the middle on on the folks that actually that take this because otherwise there's not a great you have five administrators take this at the same time, right? Because they're going to have a higher pay salary than accredited accredited employee. >> Well, that's why we do the report to see in the end, you know, if I'll be honest, if we don't meet this threshold right here at a minimum, >> yeah, >> staff's recommendations not to do it, >> not to do it. >> Pretty pretty clear and we talked about it, you know, several months ago that it has to be at least one
096from each category if not more or maybe a multitude of one or whatever to balance it out. >> So, look at that. And that was explained the last time we did it. Hence why we do theou as well to be very clear with staff especially when we did teachers is that you know because we have a habit you guys see we hire experienced teachers. >> Yeah. >> And that costs money >> and um so you do the this for you know maybe we want to look at not having some higher paid teachers bring in some good teachers who are at 10 years not at 24 years type of thing. So, but you know, when you look at this incentive for for certificate and so forth, >> maybe some people see as an opportunity right now.
097I don't know. I just know that at most if we go through this process and we find it's not working, we're out $5,000. >> That's it. >> I think for a study for us, I think it's a good use of money. >> Yeah. >> Based on what we're doing with our budget and so forth. And the other positive is, you know, when you sure we could go with natural attrition. We want to honor the people who have been working for us for a long time. The teachers been, you know, putting in their 30 something years. >> Thanks, Peter. Can I >> ask a question? Ryan question. >> So, just for clarification purposes. So, you're going to open the enrollment period for approximately 45 days. Then in November, you're going to come back to this board
098with the actual numbers that we can look at. These are people that have put in for it. This is their current, you know, salary or what have you or this how much we're going to save or lose. >> So, we're going to actually in November, we're going to be able to see some hard data and make the before we approve >> this moving forward. Right. >> Yeah. after the close of the enrollment window on October 31st. So either that evening or the following Monday, we would uh run our analysis, provide the uh numbers, which would be updated numbers of this to uh staff and then that's where you'd be able to evaluate and see, you know, who enrolled specifically, what do the numbers look like, is there an overall cost or savings associated with that?
099Are you uh factoring in non-replacement of positions? You know, these are just sort of hypotheticals at this point because um we don't know. We're just using average age and salary of the group. Um, you know, for example, if you look at the teachers at one position, you know, we're looking at 600 almost 680,000 in savings that would potentially cover the cost of the other group. So, that's sort of the flexibility that you have to look at when you have the uh final numbers. >> Thank you for that. Um, so I I understand that part of this once they turn in their enrollment packet, there's a commitment that they will resign by June 30th. Is there any scenario that you've ever seen? Because once we get this data collected and we make a decision based on
100the numbers, what if they choose not to go through it? Has that ever happened? And >> who chooses the decision? >> Somebody who >> or someone who enrolls. >> No, once you enroll, you're sort of locked in. You're committed. Yeah, that's the, >> you know, understanding. So within that 45 to 60 day enrollment window, they can >> submit their packet, take it back. you know, it's just at the close of that enrollment window if they're uh >> Yeah. Okay. >> And it's pending, of course, district evaluation and approval based on operational and fiscal goals. >> Okay. I I wanted to just acknowledge that we we I did have community reach out on this. Um there was a concern about fairness for teachers and classified. Obviously, the 70% for a much higher salary is going to
101pay a lot more. um and and talked about the cap uh regarding San Diego Unified. They did have a cap on theirs. Could you speak to that? >> That I I don't recall the specifics. I know that it was >> we did the plan last year. Um I believe it was a 70% uh benefit level offered to all groups. Uh traditionally or historically, they've done plans in the past at a higher benefit level, 100%. So, but I don't uh recall or I don't have the specifics on the cap or why there was introduced the cap. I think my understanding is they were not in a position to cut as many positions. So maybe that's why they landed on a lower benefit level. So >> okay. >> So I think you know at this point at
102least from my perspective um I'm interested to see who if this makes you know a sense for us financially. Um it's no secret that our budget is tight and there's a tightening of the belt. Uh which is why we decided to move forward with even looking at some options like this. Um with the acknowledgement of of some u members of our community who are a little bit concerned about uh the disparity between potential payout. Um I see that and I understand that and so just >> yeah and that's a decision for the district. Um, you know, sometimes we have districts that have sort of me too clause. They have to offer it to everybody. Other districts will say, "Hey, we only looked at savings are only associated with one group, so that's where the savings
103is at." So, >> okay. All righty. Um, do we have any uh any other questions or are we going to move u do I have a motion? >> Move to approve. >> We have a first by Trusty Duncan. I'll second >> and a second by Trusty Jeff on item 9.8. >> I'm not super comfortable with it, but um for a couple reasons, but we'll see in November what what the actual numbers look like. >> Yeah, with caut proceeding with caution. Let's see what happens. Let's look at these numbers. I hear you. I feel that way, too. All right. 9.8. We have a first and a second. Any other questions or comments? Hearing none. Superintendent Ali. >> All right. Trusty Underwood. >> Yes. Trusty Jeff. >> Hi. >> Trusty Spade. >> Hi, >> Trusty Duncan. >>
104Hi. >> Trusty Lake. >> Hi. >> Motion carries 50. >> Thank you very much for your time. >> Thank you. Thanks. >> Appreciate it. >> All right. Item 9.9, another resolution number 42526, finding the proposed Deloro High School Boington parking lot rehabilitation project to be exempt under SQUA and adopting categorical exemptions. Number two, approving the project. and three authorizing filing of a notice of exemption project approval. >> Yes. So madam president apologize for the rationale. This is legal ease from the attorney. >> Um honestly um and and not to make it seem that way but the squa is a normal process we take we do projects. We did it for all the buildings when we did bond. >> Um this is just the board giving permission us to file this notice of exemption. We did
105it with the softball lights if they ever do that project. Um there is no CL well sorry is a 4555 I think a $55 cost to do the filing. Okay. Um the 1.8 that's mentioned is money that's already been approved by the board for all the engineer engineering we're going through. >> Um we are moving closer to the steps um in terms of the project and getting plans in place with DSA and I'll keep the board apprises that's moving along >> but this is just getting one of those final steps in getting all isolated before we get the plans in place and then eventually go out for bid. Um, in terms of the process, reading through it, it it starts a 35day statute. So, what will happen uh upon approval is that my assistant then
106will submit this into the county. Um, it sits out there and then once it meets the requirement, it'll be approved and sent back to us. >> Peter, can you speak to months ago you mentioned that there was a couple of different directions that the parking lot could go to focus on like half of it? >> Yes. >> Or the whole entire >> Yeah. currently. Well, um I don't know if I shared this. I apologize if I have not. We a couple things came out with the arc that was really nice. One, we have determined that we do have fiber that runs to the um scoreboard. So, it makes easier to run, say for cameras to the park. So, that's a good thing. So, we save a little money than not worrying about having to dig
107trenches to run that. Two, we had determined that as we mentioned before, there's path of travel issues. Well, the architect has determined that the path of travel can be that road that goes up behind the baseball field. >> The way it's sloped right now, it kind of steeps up and then levels off. Well, if they cut it out a little bit and slope it gradually, it'll meet the requirements that's needed for the path of travel, which is a big savings for us because otherwise you were talking a switch back somewhere in the stadium >> or an elevator system, which is much more costly. And so, that being said, our intent of plans is looking at paving the whole thing. It's always it's always been kind of looking at that maybe phasing it in and how
108much the cost and so forth. We're pushing forward to do the whole parking lot and you know the way it grades down and so forth because you notice that parking lot does slope as it goes down. >> Are there multiple proposals as far as design? >> No, right now the only design is just what we have. I mean from the architect is getting as many spots as possible from the football stadium fence all the way down to the farthest part where the trees start and then entrance to the parking lot. Like we're not we're not looking at a proposal of looking on the other side of the driveway because it gets close to the neighbor's area and it would be more expensive to try and level that out >> in particular just the entrance and
109exit where it tends to bottleneck. >> You mean in terms of like making a different entrance or something? >> No, I was curious if uh just what the proposal looks like >> as far as exits because you have the one coming straight down that gets bottleneck. >> I mean in terms of the the ramp right now for the path of >> No, no, no. Just the exit out of the parking lot. No, there's been nothing yet. It just shows I mean the renderings that we've showed the board before and I can show those again with you guys. It just shows the normal entrance just using the entrance before. I mean it'd be nice to be paved and lined so you can see clearly which way is in and out, >> you know, and maybe even
110putting a gate there, but I don't see us ever locking that parking lot. It's used all the time. >> Okay, it's exciting. >> The design was supposed to be very simple. Just make it nice, clean asphalt, get as many spots as possible and good clear traffic pattern. when you're when you're headed in into the parking lot and going up towards the stadium to the left. People use that as parking as well. >> Yeah. We would probably either put something up or trying like you know they put little wood I put like a bar not a barrier but they put like a 8 by8 post with wire cable. You know I'm always concerned people park there because it's dry grass. >> Yeah. >> But you know policing it right now because it's all dirt you know
111I'm I'm thinking that once the parking lot's completed that would probably be something we want to do since our our borders with that home. You know, knock on wood, we've been very lucky, but a lot of people like to park there and do their four-wheel and so forth. And, you know, they that's their own risk. That's not it's not an assigned spot. It's not delegated as a parking spot. And so, I just know this has been a long time coming because it's an area of need. Um, you know, maybe during a regular school day, you don't see it as a problem, but big swim meets, football games, all that kind of stuff. >> You wouldn't move. You wouldn't the parking lot wouldn't extend over. >> No, it would not move out where the current driveway
112is. basically where it's at because there's a natural drainage dish right there. >> Got it. >> Yeah, >> we would still keep using that. >> I could look at that, but your cost would go up exponentially. >> Sure. >> I was just thinking of total number of parking spots 432. Is that if you could add doesn't make sense >> because this is I mean as as a perspective just kind of resurfacing and doing the parking lot at the upper campus at Del was like 1.4 >> and that was already existing. >> Yeah. So trying to keep the cost at at a point where yes, I fully endorse putting that parking lot there, but not spending $10 million. >> Yeah, >> would be my recommendation. I'm not, you know, but you know, sometimes, you know, there
113are facility costs you have to do, but I, you know, that's never been an idea. We're looking more around three or four. >> Once this the seek was done and we're still going through the process, we'll be coming to you. I don't have a date yet, but sooner than later in terms of going out for bid because that that will be a process of going out for public bid and looking at design build type because it will be a bit expensive project. You >> mind sharing the rendering again? >> Yeah, I will. >> Thanks, >> Peter. Is any of this funding coming from the bond or >> No, no, it'll be coming from the developer fees and part of fund 40. The money that was I call it capital outlay money that was reimbured to
114us from the state from mod money that we spent. Okay. >> The bonds basically I mean with the last project we have the 500 wing is going to be spent. >> Okay. >> Great. >> The good part is you said that the the current road that kind of wraps around the baseball diamonds. That's that is >> that will be the path of travel. >> Yeah. Official path of travel. >> Yeah. >> Thank you for your work on this. I know that this has been a long time coming and a a huge ask of the community for for a long long time. >> It has been. Yeah. >> Yeah. I mean, and the fund's only beginning because when they start doing the paving, they're not going to get done in the summer, >> right? >> Yeah.
115>> Where do you park? >> Noted. All right. Do I have a motion on item 9.9? >> Motion to approve. Second. Second. >> We have a first by Trusty Lake, a second by Duncan, followed shortly after by Underwood, who missed it. Tie goes to the runner. Um, >> any other questions or comments? Hearing none. >> Trusty Underwood. >> Yes. >> Trusty Jeff. >> Trusty Spade. >> Hi. >> Trusty Duncan. >> I. >> Trusty Lake. >> Yes. >> Motion carries 50. >> Thank you so much. Item 9.10 resolution number 525 through 26 authorizing conveyance of the land 49 land uh surplus real property to the Bless and Share Foundation. >> So, Madam President, just another thing with a lot of wording, but very simple. It's just another one of our We're getting near the end. I
116do believe the final closing date is September 15th. Um this is just a resolution that's authorizing the conveyance of the land. So once the sales were basically conveying it to the person who's buying it. >> Hallelujah. >> On behalf of the superintendent, we recommend approval. >> All right. Do I have a motion? >> Motion to approve. >> We have a first by trusty Duncan. >> I'll second. >> Second by Trusty Jeff. Comments. Question. >> Peter. Um Where is this 1.138 million going? Is that going to the general fund or where is that going? >> So, um in speaking with the attorney, this money has to be dedicated towards um facilities for maintenance since we the the intent is to take that money and put it in the general fund in regards to where we put
117that 3% money for routine maintenance. So technically we always fund that through the general fund and it's 3% now part of that 3% we funded by this which would help our general fund in the end but as Sue is told as Miss Kane has reminded me she's not going to really be incited until the money is actually in the bank >> there right >> we have a first and a second on this resolution >> super any other questions >> question what is uh is that foundation have they indicated what they want to do with that And >> all he's told me is they want to build a home. I think I think his intent and this is my in talking with the gentleman is to have a a family residences for his family like a
118lot of people do. They they buy several acres of land and the in-laws live there, their daughter lives there with their husband and kids, that kind of thing. That's all I've heard. >> I know that um there's been quite a lot of work uh done on that land clearing. isn't a lot. You It was one of the reasons when we did our investigation, Emerson, over the years that it came to our conclusion that it's going to be too expensive of us to even make it viable to try and develop it. You need a bridge over the creek. Um it's going to be septic and wells because even trying to bring water or a sewer system is millions of dollars. I think the pumping station is down 49 or up towards, you know, um on the
119way to to Bay River, >> whatever that road, not combi, is it? like >> the pines, what that road is when you turn right off 49. And so when we did our investigation, we basically threw up our hands and said, hence why when we looked at the appraisal and so forth, because we're landlocked, it's it's one of those if we would have known then, what we know now type of thing. But it was great when someone gives you a piece of land or we bought it for, you know, it's like great. Well, the growth that was projected never happened at the 49. >> Yeah. All right. Superintendent Omali. >> Trusty Underwood. >> Yes. >> Trusty Jeff. >> Trusty Spade. >> Trusty Duncan. >> Trusty Lake. >> Hi. >> Motion carries. 50. >> Thank you. Thank
120you. We made it through those resolutions. Are you still like glad you're here, student board members? Like sometimes these are very exciting meetings. All right. This is a better item. Not that the others weren't great. Um item 9.11, the Deloro tennis court reser resurfacing. >> Yes. So Madam President, um every 6 to8 years is the recommendation to do your tennis courts. I don't think people re well most people realize they're on asphalt or like a certain base. It's not concrete. So you do get to wear and tear more than you would on a concrete. Um the example I like to use is in Roseville, they did Washington Boulevard in concrete. Somebody said, "Why? Well, the trucks use it." And my daughter, who's an injured engineer, said that concrete's going to last a lot longer than
121the you see on your roads. Well, tennis courts aren't made out of concrete. Tom Isaac would destroy me if I built a tennis court out of concrete. Um Tom Isaac's a longtime tennis person I worked with at Plaster. Anyway, that being said, as you know, we've done the tennis courts at Kfax. We did the tennis courts at at Plaster, which required a lot more work >> um because of some ground fill um in working with um the staff and some committee members. Uh, I'd like to do a shout out to a gentleman named Paul Frank. I worked with him several years ago when we first did this when I got in the job. I think he's here tonight somewhere. Paul, there he is. And spearheaded this again to get this done. Unbeknownst to me, I
122was thinking we do this next summer. I wish they would have told me sooner that the girls have the SFL tournament this year for the whole thing. They should have said that to me sooner. I might have, you know, got on this quicker. Uh that being said, um we had Tom Paul helped get five different bids because it's under the threshold of us allowing just to go look for bids, not worry got for bidding. We're choosing A and B. We're recommending A&M. We've used them before. We like working with them. Their price is pretty commensurate with what we're thinking, what it was. Um you see the recommendation on there for 995 with the 10% contingency. Um I also like to throw in that we had a very nice meeting at Lumistown Council. They wanted to
123hear from the school district, so they heard from the school district. I had a lot of fun doing that, being on the other side of the podium. >> I bet. >> Um, and they have authorized a $50,000 donation to this. >> That's awesome. >> So, once this project is completed and paid for, I will submit that to them and then they will send us a check. >> That's awesome. >> So, on behalf of the superintendent, we recommend approval. >> Peter, when you say you've worked with AM before, Yeah. on on this specific project in the past, >> not this one, other tennis courts. We've worked with a couple different companies. We've used them before. We like working with them better. >> And so, quality has been good. So, yeah. you know, the quality. I think
124just the relationship, the responsiveness. >> Yeah. >> Cool. Sticking to the agreement. >> Super. >> So, I can say from my perspective, I'm excited about this project. Um I may be a little bit biased because my daughter's on the tennis team uh at Deloro. Um but I did want to say that, you know, athletics is super important for our um for all of our students. Um especially students like my daughter that are very introverted and quiet and um Miss Isaac and her husband and her daughter and her son-in-law. like they've been such incredible coaches and have really brought out um the best in my daughter. Um and especially this year I've really seen her seen her um flower out and it's it's really it's really amazing to see her uh her her whole perspective on
125things change because of her participation in tennis. So >> it's awesome. >> Great job. Just so staff knows or the board knows um I've been speaking with A and B not to let them know that they're the but in terms of timing they said about one to two weeks and then they can do this in September. >> Great. >> And so >> they can do it in se like next month. >> Correct. >> What? >> So based on that um pending approval of the board um I'll be calling them tomorrow. >> Wow. >> Um and I just want to echo Trusty Jeff things. My daughter who is at Roseville High School benefited from Tom to this day. I think she still communicates with gender at least over Facebook. >> But um yeah, something close to
126my heart as well. So I got, you know, >> yeah, agreed. Uh uh Anastasia who uh um Brit who lived with us, not not my daughter, but lived with us from Ukraine, she was on uh the team for a short while. And um you know, these coaches would wake up at 6:30 in the morning for six, seven kids that have never played tennis before. So appreciate what all the Isaac's do. So thank you. >> Awesome. >> And thank you Paul. You you worked on getting those bids. >> Did we get one from uh is it is it SNJ? Uh >> the different bids you mean? >> Yeah. >> I think we have Champion JB Bostic. Are you looking for the different names basically? First serve champion courts JNS amb >> um no it's awesome and
127there's been some great you guys have had some good participation and there's a lot of excitement that's awesome if they can get it done in September >> there's like uh 70 girls on the tennis team and those courts get like tons of views. We the community is like huge. >> So, it's exciting. >> Yeah. >> One of the reasons the town council, I think, felt obligated to donate because, you know, we don't lock the courts down. >> Um, people can rent them if you're doing like a tournament over the weekend, but the community can show up. We don't individuals who show up just to play. >> Um, the only thing I I know that um Deloro and the Isacs, I say that, are have to deal with is people want pickle ball. >> They can
128deal with Is she shaking her head? No. >> Who? >> Wait, who can deal with that? >> Isaac. Jen Isaac. >> Not us. >> Not our jurisdiction. >> Well, you know, changing out a tennis court to pickle ball is very expensive if you're just going to leave it that way. They do sell temporary lines and things like that, but it's still set up and take down >> and so I know people have been asking um not directly through me. I know that when Lumis Town Council passed it, the mayor came up to me and said, "Hey, who do I talk to about the pickle ball courts?" And I shopped them off to the school. They tried doing it to me when I was at Plaster as the principal. I'm like, "We're not turning the tennis
129courts." I'm sorry. That's not You have pickle ball courts off of Richardson. Um, these are the only tennis courts I think in the Lumis area. So, to convert a few to pickle ball, I would be against it, but I'm not the final say. So, >> well, I'm not getting into that one, so I'm going to stay right on out of it. >> That Paul, >> no pickle ball. >> All right. Do I have a motion on 9.11? We've got a first by Trusty Underwood and a second by Trusty Duncan. Thank you to all who have worked on this. I think that this is great. I am stoked to hear that this turnaround is going to be next month. And a huge thank you to the town council who is essentially donating half of the cost
130of this. So, thank you for those members of that council that moved this forward to support the kids in the community. We appreciate you, >> Jessica. I would be remiss not to say at Placer the girls have had championships after championships after championships and then when they would meet the elite schools like Davis they would win. So uh it's it's awesome to see that type of competition and success >> at all our sites. >> Absolutely. Yeah. Thank you. >> Any other comments, questions on this? Think we're golden. >> I got to add one more thing. principal of Plaster wants me to make sure that you mention it's it's another Isaac Ashley Isaac who's the coach at Plaster. So >> that's true. >> Yeah, look at the Isaac's. Way to go, Isaac's. We support you. Thank
131you. All right, we've got a first and a second. All in favor say I. >> I. I. >> I. All oppose. Hearing none. Motion passes unanimously. Item 9.12, the new PA intercom bell system installation for Delaware High School. Hooray. So Madam President, this is just again carrying on from when we did plasters, when we did Kolfax. This is the estimates and quotes for the PA install and Bell system install at Deloro High School. The next one's for co uh for for we'll talk about in a second. Um you see uh team one's bid for the install and then you see the Ultralink for the cable install. Um, we added a 10% contingency for a total cost of $261,000 and that'll come from fund 40 capital outlay. On behalf of the superintendent, we recommend approval. >>
132Is this the same >> same company >> company we worked with for umer? >> Yeah. And KFax? >> Yes. Okay. >> The implementations >> and have we completed the implementations? >> At Plaster, we've completed it. They're still working the bugs out according to Jamie. They're still doing testing as an example on that first day back on Thursday. Um I loved how loud it was. Apparently some of the neighbors didn't. Um me personally being the principles like you lived by the school was built before you got there. But anyway, >> this place >> um >> but the implementation's going well enough >> as I think what's what they're excited about is a few of the bugs, but that they actually have great working clocks and then the bells work and that they know they have a
133system they're going to be able to really utilize for safety and so forth. And did did we get some type of a volume discount since we're giving them >> um I don't know if we got I would say yes, but I think the discount overall is just you know team one does our phones, they do this, everything's integrated now. >> Yeah. >> And um I would say yes overall in terms of the service and volume discount because we're going with all the schools. Um the great thing that we also did too is we bought strobe lights or lights with this that go in the rooms too. So instead of just using the speakers, you can actually use a light and it's LED so it can be different colors. truly plays well with some classes that
134don't like having loud volumes or flashing lights. You can just have a solid light come on. So, those are some of the safety protocols that we'll be working with the safety team as we establish a district standard for that >> and disco parties. >> Always a reason to have a party. >> I'm still waiting them for them plaster to actually record music to play during the bells instead of just the bell sound. But >> I think they're still waiting on that one. >> Like to hear them be the first. All right. Do I have a motion on 9.12? >> Move to approve. >> We have a first by uh Trusty Duncan and a second by Trusty Jeff. Any further questions on item 9.12, the new PA for Delora? >> Hearing none. All in favor say
135I. >> I. All oppose. Motion carries 50. >> Item 9.13, new PA intercom bill system installation for Forest Hill High School. >> Madam President, just mirroring Deloro. Same thing obviously a lot less smaller campus. Again you see the bid from team one and then the cable install some contingency and again funds coming from fund 40 capital outlet. On behalf of the superintendent we recommend approval. >> Do I have a motion? >> Move to approve. >> We have a first by trusty Duncan a second by Trusty Lake to approve item 9.13 the new PA intercom system for Forest Hill High School. All in favor say I. >> I. All oppose. Motion passes unanimously. Item 9.14, skylight installation at Forest Hill High School. >> Madam President, I'm gonna have Mh. Director of maintenance operations facilities, Don Manning,
136come up to present this one. The next two, actually. >> Thank you. >> Hello, Don. >> Green looks great on you. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. Oh, sorry. Um, the skylights have failed. The, um, seals have broken. They're original to the campus. Balls have hit them. People have been on the roofs. So, we are recommending replacement of all 19 skylights that are currently leaking on campus. >> Yes. Speaking of green is good. Mine was off. Um as do all skylights. Um bad uh features in skylights. Beautiful but not functional. Um as a construction company owner. California has downgraded other products which seal things properly and you can't get proper cocking for any of these things anymore. Thank you California and our legislature. Um but it's a problem. I I wish that these just could be
137removed and replaced because this is going to happen again in a short number of years. Just this is how they work unfortunately. >> Anybody know anything about this? Because doesn't it just come down to the flashing? I don't understand. >> It's flashing, but it's also cocking. I'm I'm not a skylight expert, but I do know. Um yeah, not my lane. I'll leave that to my husband. >> It actually is a gasket that goes around it. It's an oil based product, so it eventually dries out which shrinks and you get leakage. >> Uh because it has Is it like the option to open? >> Not on ours. No. But on even the normal ones, the way it connects to the part that you seal with the roofing >> is a rubber gasket that goes around and
138it will eventually in time shrink and break and you'll get leaks that way. >> Is there another There should be a design where you have a flashing that's sealed and then a light that goes over the top. >> If we possibility to leak. >> If we were to do that, then we'd be looking at more money right now. These are original with the building, so you're looking over 20 years old. >> Yeah. >> And so most windows like that always get replaced anyway. Unless you decided to just roof it and get rid of the skylight, that'd be the only way to really secure no leak, >> which cost is probably more expensive to do that >> significantly. Yes. >> Is it only the gasket that needs to be replaced? >> No. A lot of them
139have actually cracked. Um, kids have been on the roof and stepped on them. >> Oops. >> We had snow snow midden up there which cracked several of them. Um, so this is >> what needs to be done and it's actually being done by a roofing contractor. So we know that the flashing >> around them will be a good solid product from the contractor that we've been using for our roofing needs. >> And this is coming from routine maintenance. It's not hitting the general fund. It's part of something budgeted >> when we look like doing roofs and so forth. >> So it's been something on on maintenances list for a while. >> I agree. It needs it needs to be done. We don't want any further damage. I just have to be irritated because this is
140what skylights do. It's like we signed up for this. So anyway, >> all right. Do I have a motion on item 9.14? >> I'll move to approve. >> Second. >> We have a first by Trusty Jeff and a second by Trusty Duncan. Any other questions or comments? Thank you for bringing this to us. All in favor say I. >> I. All oppose. Hearing none. Motion passes 50. All right. Item 9.15, backup generator installation at Forest Hill High School. >> Um, Forest Hill High School currently does not have a backup power source with the ongoing power shutdowns as far as weather concerns and other things with power supply companies. Um, we don't want to be in a situation where we would need to stop education in order to accommodate schools being closed, loss of product for
141food, >> um, and then also the educational hours. So we are recommending installation of the um generator and automatic transfer switch for Forest Hill High School. >> On average, how often are we losing power to that point on an annual basis? >> So in the last couple years, at least half a dozen to a dozen times a year because of the PSPS and snow. Um this year we'll see because it's the PSPSes have got they've got a little more localized in terms of not just broadbanding it out there. Um the plan just for a little brief history this was planned several years ago was just a matter of getting the right generation the permits that's why you have two at KFax and one at Forest Hill. Um the other reason we like this well one
142this is coming from capital outlay so again not general fund money that's already been earmarked for it and was approved by the board a while ago in terms of the money. It was actually $400,000 we approved so we're coming in under budget technically. Um secondax and forest still serve as Red Cross first aid stations things like that. I just worked with Chris Everett to sign off with the Red Cross that it becomes one of those stations in case of emergencies. Both fires at the Koffax and when that Forest Hill was used as a staging area for EMS. And so now you have a site that not only is a staging area, but you'll have electricity, you'll have internet, you'll have showers, you'll have a cafeteria and not just for EMS, but for the community as
143well. So that was always >> what's approximate excuse me cost to a project like this? Well, the bid we have from Norris is $253,000. We put a little contingency of 10%. So, a total of 278,000. That includes the pad, the fencing, and the generator and the permits. >> So, >> do each of our sites have >> No, just those two. >> Those would be the only two. >> Yeah, Delo and Plaster are not going to They may have power once in a while, but it won't be because of PSPS or weather. Those are just random ones. >> Makes sense. Are you saying that we've had a dozen ines >> up until like the the year the year prior before that porcel had several last year? Not as much, but we had snow again and some
144other things they were out for several days >> and then with the fire and so forth. You were Yeah. >> home. >> Well, when we had the the fires, they went to we moved all the kids to the Elmech to go to school. I was just gonna add too that we have a number of days where power goes out to your point that students either have to wait and have a late start or they go home early. So there is a financial aspect to it from an attendance standpoint as well. >> How many students again? >> How many do we have? Yeah. >> Okay. Two. Yeah. >> People that can't hear um we our principal is in the house. anybody listening in sharing some data um about students missing uh the beginning of school or
145potentially having to leave early based on u no power and that so that there's a potential cost you know um impact if we didn't have a generator that could be mitigated by having this >> decent summarization here >> is this um generator capable of actually powering the entire school normal school operations all >> that it's as if it's it own power source correct that was the intent >> just to um reiterate something that that Peter mentioned earlier about the site being used as an emergency resource. Um the robbers fire which is in Auburn I think it was 2012 uh when I was in the National Guard. We actually were stationed at Forso High School. >> So it is used for that purpose for sure. >> Yeah. Yeah. I remember when this was brought before the
146old board or the new board. um when this was brought before us before you know they always you know bring up different um ideas for you know where we could put little pots of money and this this one came up I I feel like you know we're talking about speakers and and the intercom systems this is definitely a safety issue for me too. I feel like this is really important not only to be able to keep our kids in school, but if something was to go sideways and they're so far out there, not only is it being used for emergency responders, but um just a safety aspect for our staff um and obviously for our students and families. >> So, I I'm in support of of this backup generator installation. >> We've got a first
147by Trusty Underwood and a second by Duncan. >> Just a a quick question. Is that fiveyear extended on top of like a normal threeear? So eight total or just five year of warranty in general? >> Question. >> It's a fiveyear warranty. >> Okay. I was just doing math. It's like you get a if you're at six days like you probably get a return on investment on this within 10 years. So I just want to see like the life of these generators. >> Thank you. >> Do we have the same installation at Kfax? >> Similar, not exactly the same. This has an automatic switch over. >> KFFax is a manual switch over. >> Okay. And how long has the KFax one been installed? >> No. No. Where's So five years, right? >> Still functioning. >> Did
148I think it was happening around CO >> and because we were getting, you know, the PSPs happened a lot up there. >> Okay. >> And they have two of them, >> right? >> Campus was obviously larger. >> Okay. Is your concern potentially that there would be a cost savings if this warranty goes out in five years because our cost savings at the 10? >> Yeah, I just wanted to see like we get was there an extension or what was the cost of that? Like >> these are expensive to >> maintain. >> Do we know if there was an option to have an extended warranty, but I'd be happy to. >> Okay. >> Be interesting to see. >> Of course. >> Rusty Lake. Yeah, it's a huge expense. Um there's no question that it can be
149used not only for the school but for the community. All these things make a lot of sense. >> But uh 200 how many students? >> 16. >> 216. It's basically $100 a day per student approximately. So you miss a day of school. >> Seems like a lot. I mean >> you don't see the the saving potentially. It's not a I wouldn't say it's a uh financially it's not a good investment. You know, statistic I mean you could afford what would you say in the last couple of years on average how many days of school were missed because of a power outage. >> Don like go ahead. I mean, except for last year, the years prior, I'd say well over a dozen >> dozen days. >> Yeah. From school closures and PSPS going back to 2020.
150So that's when it started when when >> a fire, right? Because they have to move anyways. Yeah. >> Because the PSPS thing is still not out of it. We just haven't had the weather. But as soon as it gets hot, dry, and windy, they shut things down. And um it doesn't it doesn't it doesn't they they did some kind of micro grid but they never use it up there. And so we like >> the board made the decision a long time ago for that school to maintain functionality because it is a community centerpiece >> you know because when the power's out there it's not just I mean Wharton is the only place I know that has a generator unless people have their own individual one. >> Sure. >> And so >> we're talking about like
151a big diesel generator. >> Correct. I mean >> what's the life expectancy? Oh, I would say 25 to 30 years >> at least. Yeah. >> Right. >> As long as we continue to maintain. >> That's the case. Like I I mean I'm doing like what $14 a pupil. Is that what we are? >> Is that Yeah. Per day. >> No, pupils about 60 bucks a day. That brings us give or take. >> Oh, and that's a pretty Oh, 100 is high. It's not 100. >> No, it's about $60 a day we get per pupil. Well, it was 55 a couple years ago. Maybe it's a little bit more now. >> When you try and break it down and do the math, people, you know, you look at 15,000 per kid, you divide by the 180,
152so it always fluctuates. >> We're just doing the simple math. >> Yeah, >> makes sense. >> We have a first and a second. Any other questions or comments? >> All right. All in favor say I. >> I. >> All oppose. passes 5. >> All right. Item 9.16 superintendent evaluation tool >> can speak to this. >> So in our special workshop on July 2nd uh we discussed a superintendent evaluation per our board policy um you know we have to have an agreed upon structure to evaluate our superintendent. In the past, we have done it slightly differently and we this uh tool was was uh brought to us by our facilitator at our meeting. Um this tool is used by other districts uh not just in Plaster County but in other states. And so we took their
153their form and uh Trusty Jeff and I went through it line by line to make sure that it was representative of you know what the conversations that we had as as a board and uh broke it down. Um there are five different components that we will use when evaluating our superintendent um based on personal goals that the board has created for him and and just kind of a basic analysis um so that we can give proper feedback in each of these areas. Um and so won't bore you with the details, but if you'd like to read through it, I think that the community should. As far as I'm aware, Plaster Union High School District has never had a tool forward- facing for the community to see how we were evaluating our superintendent. Previously, we had
154um a facilitator come in and the board would provide some feedback. Um but there really wasn't a way to share, you know, highly effective, not effective, you know, there there was not really a way to give I felt proper feedback. And I think that this uh will help uh help us to hone in on areas of growth and where we're finding success um so that you have good feedback from the board. Um and at the end of that form, although we're not still there, but at the end of that form, there's um an additional sheet. So if there was something that we needed to work on um that there was something there for us to use um in facilitating kind of a roadmap back um if we go off course. So, I think I think
155it's a great tool. I don't know if the board has any questions on the tool or if there's anything more that you'd like to add, Trusty Jeff. >> Um, no, like um Trusty Spade mentioned um we went through this in a lot of detail. Spent a couple several hours actually going through this. >> Um and uh we feel like it's broad enough that we can address any issues that come up, I think, which is I think was important for us. I it's uh well, thank you. Thank you both for the time and effort. I mean, there's a clear pathway as far as dates. Um to have something that's transparent to the community is fantastic. U so thank you both. It's great. >> You're welcome. >> I looked it over. It's nice work. >> Oh, good.
156>> So, it'll be good >> a little easier than uh the comprehensive form that we initially reviewed. So, thank you guys. You're very welcome. The form that's up right now is just the annual cycle um so that the community knows when we're going to be doing all of these things. You guys know exactly when we're doing it. Um so in June we set our goals for the superintendent in October. Um I know that Superintendent Omali and Sarah have been working on a way and I know Dez did some recon to figure out the how another district was operating and what made most sense to share the message out. This is something else that our our district has not done. The strategic goals, it was a paper that floated through the office, but it never made
157it to the community. So, outside of the LCAP, no one knew what we were really working toward. So, I felt like um again that this was another way to just make sure that the community understands uh what some of our areas of focus are. um unlike your uh speech at the back to school night, he he talked about discussing his areas of focus and then up on the slide um was like a million teenytiny little words um as a joke um that he did not go into detail on, but you so the community will know what's going on there. January, we'll have a mid-year review and um and a quarterly check-in in April. And then in June, we'll have our our annual review and then work on new goals. So, it just goes right back.
158There's not two quarter ones. We realize it ends quarter one and begins quarter one. It's the same meeting um that we'll we'll set that and restart. All righty. Uh we wanted to formally adopt these just so that the community would would have access to them and uh see them on the agenda so you know how we're operating. So, do I have a motion for item 16, the superintendent evaluation tool? Move to approve. Second. >> We have a first by Trusty Duncan and a second by Trusty Lake. Any other questions or comments? All in favor say I. >> I. All oppose? Hearing? None. Motion passes unanimously. Item 9.17. This was another um item that we worked on at that special workshop and we discussed a lot of different things and we felt like this in encapsulated
159um the focus but you know in in a broader term. So this could mean several things but this will help us keep our eye on the prize by setting these expectations. Um a comment that was made by uh Dr. Camonetti was as we were talking about things that we wanted um is that our our district would be a second to none teaching and learning experience and that resonated and we felt like that was appropriate to stick at the front here. exceptional teaching and learning. Uh we are committed to delivering a teaching and learning experience that is second to none. Innovative, engaging, and deeply impactful. Prepared for life. You hear a lot us saying college, career, and life ready. Bless you. We thought we could do a little bit better um by, you know, specifying that
160we want every student to graduate per uh Trusty Jeff. The goal is to graduate, right? Every student will graduate ready to thrive in college, pursue meaningful careers, and lead fulfilling lives. Um, the third is safe and supportive schools. Our schools will foster environments where every student is safe, supported, empowered, and able to reach their full potential. Uh, well-rounded education through highly quality high quality curriculum, extracurriculars, and outstanding educators and staff, students will gain a rich balanced education and school culture. We've talked about sports a number of times up here and and how impactful those are. So, we wanted something that could >> to that point. Can I can I interject something? I'm having regret because I saw Jen Isaac leave and I didn't see her because she was hiding behind >> Nick. Nick and I
161wanted to ask her specifically if when they travel to I'm sorry I'm like focused on these tennis courts but when you guys go to these other schools and compete and for the record I'm a huge fan of both sports tennis and pickle ball but it's pretty it's pretty obvious that pickle ball is a is like one of the fastest growing sports. >> It's very social. It's very interactive. Um, I'm I'm remissed because I I wish I would have brought it up earlier, but is it a big deal to put like the softer lines going across the other way? You don't necessarily change >> the tennis courts. >> Do you guys see that at other schools? >> Not until it becomes a sport for CIF and then the world change. >> So >> that might be
162a eventually become >> would be a great extracurricular. But since pickle ball is not on our agenda, I'm going to bring us right back to this document. >> Well, technically talking about extracurricular activities. >> Touche. >> You know, >> may madam president just because I don't disagree with Tom. I just know that I mean with Emerson, I apologize, but when I look at what they've done in Roseville and so forth, they're not converting tennis courts. um like at Lifetime they literally just took out they they took the tennis courts resurfaced them and made them all pick them all. They didn't try and >> back and forth that it was too much over there and they said you know what they instead of having all tennis courts they literally resurfaced half the area and then on
163an area where there might be >> two tennis courts they have them angled and have four or five pickle ball courts. >> Yeah. >> The nets and all that kind of stuff and being in the kitchen or whatever you want to call it. just it was too much trouble to try and do that. >> That's what I was told. I just when I look around at where they've done everything, they recon converted all the tennis courts off Richardson into pickle ball. >> I'm not I'm not suggesting that at all. >> I know. >> My only thought and comment is that I I I drive by different parks and I see tennis courts and people are playing pickle ball on the tennis courts. >> So true. >> Um and so you seen the tennis courts and
164you can do cross pickle ball courts. you have to have mobile nets, but you don't you don't really disturb anything regarding the the the normal tennis court. So, I don't know. I just it was a it was a question to see if if any other schools in the area that you guys travel to if you see this going on anywhere. >> I will make all the ads check into that. >> All right. Thank you. >> It was a valuable question. I just had to give it. >> Do kids play do kids are kids do you see more students playing it at school? PE. >> Yeah. >> And PE and they're doing in the gyms indoors. >> Indoors. Yeah. >> Do for lines. >> It's imaginary. Yeah. >> Tape them usually. >> The best debater wins.
165>> All right. Fair enough. >> Sorry. >> No, do not apologize. I think it's hilarious. Okay. So, well-rounded education. Um, we talked about that transparency and accountability. That's something that's come up a lot with this board that we will lead with integrity utilizing sound governance and business practices while remaining open, transparent, collaborative, and accountable to our community. So, is there any feedback from the board on these? >> No, I think you call them board values. >> I like that. I don't mind that. PD board values. Just throwing it out there. >> Living that summer. >> Yeah, >> I like that as well. >> I think values versus expectations. When I think about expectations, like this is what we expect to produce and and provide versus like this is what we believe. um you know so
166I I see more action and expectations um because this is what we're striving for and this is where we're striving our focus but the belief is you know values are important too so any thoughts on that uh I mean they're they're pretty connected Yeah. Wondering values and expectations. >> So, is this going to be a document that we plaster everywhere and tie all our decisions to hopefully? >> Yeah, I think that's, you know, that's certainly the goal. I think it's important for it to for it to be forward facing so that let's face it, nobody's looking at our board policies unless they're they're digging for something or or they need to reference it because something's going sideways. Um, typically, you know, I feel like this would be an easier, more accessible document for people to
167know like where where our focus is. And then as we're making our decisions, hey, this is tied to exceptional teaching and learning. We're going to provide the X training and That's the case. It's more than expectation. Expectation is like this is what should happen. >> Yeah. >> Right. Whereas a value is like >> belief. Yeah. >> Expectations is better. >> Okay. How do you feel, Trusty Underwood? >> Um I think it's pretty good overall. I don't like the well-rounded. I'd rather have a comprehensive. The more comprehensive >> that better, >> you know. >> Yeah. I I'm in agreement. >> Okay. Other than that, I think it's pretty good. >> Okay. Comprehensive idea as well. >> Yeah. Yeah, I agree. >> How do you guys feel about that? >> Instead of well-rounded comprehensive education, >> it's
168better. >> I think so, too. Okay. If there's any other questions, comments, do I have a a motion on this? >> I move approval. Second. >> We have a first by Trusty Underwood and a second by Trusty Duncan. So, we're moving to approve with that amendment. >> We are moving to approve with the amendment that well-rounded will be comprehensive and that yeah, we'd like a copy of this at every site and have it referenced in our our agenda and as we talk about items and issues like I'd love to see where they where they're tied in to these expectations and how they're moving this vision forward. >> Okay. Awesome. We have a first and a second. All in favor say I. >> I. I. >> I. All oppose. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you for your
169work with me on that. Uh, Trusty Jeff and team. We we we went had a couple of iterations once it went back to Omali and the team and Dr. Cametti. So, appreciate you guys' feedback as well. All right, moving to item 10, staff reports and discussion items. Is everybody doing okay? Do we need a body break? >> Let's let's recess for five. We're going to use the restroom and we'll be right back. We're gonna start this back up. >> Sorry, five minutes turns into 10 when we're all like high-fiving in and out of the the bathroom. So, thank you for your patience. And I had a little stretch break there. All right. So, item 10.1, proposed adoption of textbook. I'm not even gonna say it. Hello. >> I'm in a unique position tonight. Um I'm
170here to present a textbook that I can't read a word of. Perfect. >> So that's where we're at. >> Um the situation is that Emma third third edition, which was our current adoption, um was no longer being supported by VHL. So we had to actually move to a new textbook. This particular textbook is taught um for Spanish 4, it's a DE course, Spanish for Spanish speakers. And so um I got a copy of it. I contacted the two teachers, Laura Sers and Susanna Munos, who um are the teachers that teach those courses. One's at Mighty and one's at um Placer. And they surveyed the text and felt it wasn't significantly different. I do have and I apologize for not putting this on the board agenda. So I'm going to just speak it, you know, just
171read it verbatim. Some of the enhancements that are in the fifth edition so that you're aware of some of the changes. So it has integrated viewing activities. Um these are dramatic short films by Hispanic film filmmakers within the textbook. And our teachers actually prefer usually to use the online version of the text, but we did order or we if it if it is approved, we will be ordering items in order to make sure that students that would like a physical text have it. Um, new communication goals and can do statements to motivate students. Expanded review sections to help students understand where they're at with their understanding of the Spanish language. um increased representations in readings um with a greater focus on diverse for voices and perspectives in the literary and cultural readings within the text
172um grammar tutorials and interactive videos. So this will be available for preview at the district office um if anyone would like to take a look at it. It is also linked on our district website with a um a hyperlink showing ex exactly going to the publishers website about the addition. >> Awesome. Thank you so much. And that is all that because we're not there's no action first read >> not me instructors. Yeah. >> Oh, awesome. >> Um I will invite the instructors to be here at our next meeting in case you have any questions. Excellent. Excellente. >> All right. All right. 10.2 board polic or board policy 5116.1 intrad district open enrollment annual review. >> Yeah. So as you know board and madam president we reviewed this already. We just stuck it here because we
173want to develop the board governance calendar so we don't fall through the cracks again. Um, as you know, you guys took action and changed the open enrollment policy, slightly tweaking, allowing some movement from bigger to smaller schools. Um, and so in the future, uh, we'll have this meeting and this review, uh, at this time, uh, in August for for you guys to review the policy. So that's it. Just wanted to make sure that it was there. You guys already reviewed it, but we're just getting in the practice of making sure that we annually do it every year in August. >> No, thank you so much for doing this. Um this was one of those policies that yeah that we identified that was an annual review and I realized that I had never reviewed it since
174joining the board and so um you know we had discussed whatever what any other annual review if we could make sure we we pull those and bring them forward. So thank you for putting it on the agenda today so it's part of our practice for for next year as well. >> Okay any questions on that guy 10.3. >> Okay. Uh also another annual review uh required by law is the extracurricular and co-curricular activities. Uh I wanted to because it was also evolved in in your board >> values expectations. What are we switching to? >> Yes. >> Uh >> the debate. Yeah. Yeah. Expectation. >> And so there's the code that requires us to review the policy. It must include language about satisfactorily uh uh educational pro uh progress of 2.0 along with the amount of
175credits a student has to make. Um and your job is to annually review uh the ed code. Uh attached in the board agenda was the board policy that talks about this. So if you've had to take a look at that uh please do. I also thought it was important to take a look at that data. So sorry if you can go back to the data. Just wanted to uh throw this out there because all of our sites are really impressive with the amount of involvement that they have. So we'll take a look here. This is the number of students participating in sport. I don't have for forest still uh because the data I was gathering was from Aries and when they transferred between registars they that was something they hadn't yet uh started to do
176was load that in the activities table. But um according to Aaron I believe about 60% of her student body Yeah. And they're they're the opposite of what our trend is. We'll talk a little bit about that, but as you can see, uh basically close to half of all of our student body is involved in sports on a yearly basis and um uh and they're playing uh with quite a few multiple sport athletes there obviously as well. So, a good number of our our schools are are involved. Go ahead and scroll down. We'll talk a little bit about the differences between male and female. is a little interesting. Uh, one of the side notes that I've learned as I've collected data is that boys there tend to be slight more boys than girls in school in
177the enrollment data. So, at all all of our schools typically there are more boys than girls. Um, and so that white might be one of the reasons why uh the numbers are skewed a little bit and not closer to the 50/50. The other reason is when you look at the data uh football just plays so football has so many kids compared to all of the other sports. So like Deloro had about 140 students playing football this past year um in all three levels. Even though we've added flag football, they had about 60 girls playing fat flag football and it's growing from what I hear. They they're you know able to field, you know, freshman, JV, and varsity teams. So those things will continue to grow. Um so that that's probably the biggest discrepancy there is
178football is about um the highest uh is always the the most amount of athletes uh in out of all the sports. Uh certain schools have different large programs like for example the program at Placer it's proud track program um has well over 100 athletes there um who participate in in track uh which is a long-standing tradition at placer uh Delo's second largest sport anybody want to guess in terms of athletes soccer you got probably three levels at both sides in a pretty big program feeder program there. So they typically have over a hundred something athletes playing soccer. So um so that's probably um why the discrepancy exists a little bit is the football uh dynamic. Uh go ahead and scroll down. Uh and I threw out this other data because it's not just sports. There's
179a lot of great co-curricular activities that we have. Band, choir, drama, dance. Over 700 students districtwide participate. And I couldn't get exact numbers. I was pulling numbers from different programs and different activities. So, so it might be even more than that. And uh along with FFA, there's o over 700 of our students who are um involved in FFA. Uh those two are the biggest co-curricular activities in terms of having a class associated with the activity outside of the classroom. So, a lot of great uh activities and opportunities for our students to be involved. Uh each one of those programs do an amazing job as you you guys well know. Thank you. I'm curious, state averages for the the top graph, just the number of kids playing sports. Sure. How do we compare? I'm just >>
180Yeah, I don't know if I don't think like I'd have to call make calls to other people. >> Not the top yet. If not, nobody. >> Yeah, I don't I don't know. I'd have to get some digging into what those uh those more curious. I mean, like these are more than half. That's great that the kids are participating. >> Yep. And thank you to all of our coaches and volunteers and all the people who uh do so much like the Isaacs and who were here earlier. >> Cool. Okay. Thanks, guys. There was a there was a speaker at um the first annual education conference that I went to for CSBA and she had written a book called Educated and um without going into too much of that she had she really you know didn't have
181access to school and um and now she has upper level degrees but she she didn't know how to do anything in school. she she wasn't supported to be in in an educational environment by her family and um but she really wanted to sing. She really really wanted to sing and she did this activity with the whole group where she she had everybody sing in harmony and she gave everybody a note. Um but that that was her purpose to go to school and so many of so many of these kids um educated [Music] all day long but in the afternoon to get to go play a sport to to sing to dance to do theater to do something that's enriching is so vital. I mean, some of these kids are only there to compete or to
182do something else. And if that's their only win in the day, you know, it's it's such a valuable and important piece of building culture and community on a campus. You're not always bonding over math equations and right, but but you know, winning and losing on the field together or creating something beautiful um is so important and it it speaks to my soul. Um, definitely as a musician and as an artist and as a former athlete, like it's super important. Like that's what brings people together. So, um, thank you for that. Um, and and thank you to again to everybody who's doing great work. Okay, >> Trent, quick question. Um, at Plaster, we've got in terms of our title one student body over 350 students. Is that correct? I don't know the exact number. >> Here's
183where I'm going with this. >> Yeah, >> I like this graph which shows 60 or 65% of students, you know, are involved in sports. Does that percentage >> I can get that for you, Dave. >> What is it as high? >> I don't I don't have it off the top of my head. I'd have to I'd have to >> I'd like to know that. I could kind of look into that. >> Okay. Title one participation. Great question. >> My fear is >> uh because of monetary issues or whatever, you're going to have a much lower percentage. I hope that's I'm wrong because I like I think sports are vital. >> Yeah, we we we provided that data um a while uh it's been a while a couple years back to the board uh regarding all
184of the different groups uh who are participating. So I can get that I can get that. If you can there is something in the policy that dictates or notes that that no student will be prohibited to participate based on on income and I know >> um and that's education code. Correct. >> Correct. >> So I know that there you know scholarships through boosters and others. See, I know that's a policy, but I I think a lot of a lot of families that socioeconomically >> are are deprived >> are not going to want to ask for additional funds to have their kids participate. >> I I I believe that it's true. And if that is true, >> then some of these kids might be being deprived of this, >> I mean, of participating. I just wanted
185to know what if the average was about the same >> that would be great. Yeah. >> But if the average was much lower, that would concern me. >> Yeah, I think that's important information to have for sure. I do think our I I would assume and I' and I feel like I've heard um and seen principles and others on staff really do know some of these kids that are athletically inclined and and bring it forward. I know that as my husband's, you know, one of the coaches at Plaster, he's coached there for, I think, five, five years now, something like that. Um, that when we've had athletes come in that couldn't afford wrestling shoes, that we found a way. Like, we always we always find a way. Um, the booster club even found a way
186to um provide scholarships for some kids to go to camps this summer that wouldn't have otherwise been able to go. So, I think between admin, teachers, coaches, they're identifying some of those kids that couldn't participate. But I do think it's important for us to have that data so we know if we're missing Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Item 11. This is our public comment on non-aggenda items. This is our opportunity for the public uh public comments to be received by the board and this is a time for members of our public to address our board regarding items not on the agenda. Completing the blue public participation form is preferred but not mandatory. And this form could be obtained right over on the table in the back um should you like to fill one out. Um in the
187interest of conducting a public meeting in a timely manner, individual speakers will be allotted three minutes to address the board with no more than 20 minutes per topic. This is a comment period only. The law California Education Code section 35145.5 does not allow the board of trustees to take action on any item not explicitly posted on the agenda in advance. The board values public comments and wishes to convey that although board members cannot take action on on items that are not on the agenda, they listen carefully and appreciate and value input from the public. I'm going to call these in the order that I received them. We have two public comments um on a blue cards. So um we will start with LMLs Garrett followed by Angela Millard. Lills, welcome back. Oh, sorry. Your item
18812. Stand by. Thank you. So, we have one on this item. Angela Millard. Thank you. >> I am a parent of a DO student who's a senior. I am also a teacher at Forestto High School. And so, I'm just bringing before you guys just a concern that we have as a staff about our groundskeeper. We had a groundskeeper resign last year. Um, and that person has not been replaced with a full-time staff member. We have been filling I guess here and there and it hasn't created the really safe situation on campus in the sense that we now have things overgrown. Our baseball field is overgrown. As you know, we have fire concerns in our area heading into fire season. So, um, we have broken sprinklers that's exacerbating the problem of having that concern and we're
189just wondering if there's something being done about it and that you guys know that this is something that's still on the fence that has not been filled. >> Thank you so much. We are definitely aware um there's been some transition there. If a staff member could just speak to it slightly, I know that there's been some some work going on to to filling that vacancy. Can we just give a a blip where we're at in that process for potentially filling that slot? >> We've posted we're posting jobs for substitute grounds and then a grounds position there. The person that was supposed to be moved up there um was not able to fill that position right away. That was supposed to happen before school started. Yeah. >> So, we're now posting for that position. >> Yeah.
190>> So, it'll take a couple more weeks, but that's why we have had that transition. >> Yeah. Things are happening. I'm so sorry that that you guys are having those issues right now. Appreciate you coming tonight. Okay, item 12. This was a request for an agenda item from a member of the public pursuant to education code section 35145.5 and board bylaw 9322. Mrs. Morgan Dickerson requested that an item be placed on the board agenda regarding gun violence prevention and safety school envir safe school environments pursuant to education code section 35145.5 and board bylaw number uh 9322 subject to approval by the superintendent and board president. Any member of the community may place matters directly related to the business of the district on the agenda of a board meeting. We have a public comment on item
19112. Lamel's carrot. >> Good evening. >> Uh earlier tonight you mentioned the expectations and I'm glad you pre prepared those. Um and within that you say our schools will foster environments where every student is safe. And it goes on to say, "We will lead you with integrity and accountable and be accountable to our community." Um, I've sent emails to you all, all of you, uh, regarding a situation directly involving gun violence in your schools with threats to a student. Um, and to my knowledge, there's been no action taken either by staff or by you all. That's to my knowledge. Maybe that there has been something. Um, for you to understand the severity of this, I would like for you and the public to hear and understand what a student in your schools [Music] This is
192while a student is holding a gun, an AK-47. You can see the video for yourself and directing it at another one of your students. This is a student in your district. This is a student in your district who was on a football team with another student in your district who happens to be an autistic child. And this message was sent to him while he's holding a gun with a face mask on. And I've sent this message to you all in email asking you to take this seriously. No person should witness, deal with, have to suffer anything like this. This is the exact type of thing that happens in schools across the nation when students then show up and use gun violence to terrorize an entire population. The fact that you've taken no action, the fact
193that this has lingered this long, it should be embarrassing to all of you. This goes 100% against the expectations that you just presented and voted on. You owe your families better. The child who's now afraid to go to school because of this is just one of several. There's another video. There's another picture with multiple guns being pointed at a head. You should want better for your students. And so I I really hope you rethink your expectations or rethink the actions that you've taken to date and to actually take action on this. No student deserves this. No student. >> Thank you very much. >> Item 13, board calendar coordinating announcements. Item 13.1. Jump over here real fast. Um just real quick. Um, tomorrow Maido Virtual Charter Academy is having a back to school night virtually. And
194also tomorrow, I don't know that my husband remembered it was our anniversary when we committed, but I'm very excited to be at the the Placer versus Doo volleyball game tomorrow night on the beautiful new floor. So, we're going to be there. My husband promised that we'd eat at some point in that night. Um, uh, but I'm excited to be a part of that. um and did get to watch our girls compete tomorrow night. Um also next week on Monday, um August 25th, there is a uh Plaster County Office of Education is hosting a part a two-part session from 5:30 to 8. I don't know if any of you all signed up. I will be there regarding maintaining order, student discipline policies in California schools, and also navigating special education, a guide for school board members.
195So, if you're able to attend that next week and then um on September 5th, there's the Placer versus Delora football game at Placer. There's a million events going on everywhere. I just went through um probably just some of the ones that I'm I'm going to hit. Um but it's a great community event. Everybody comes out. It's a it's a blast and it's back at Placer. So, um hopefully you guys can attend that. Um our next regular board meeting is on Tuesday, September 16th. And just wanted to note um that the Plaster County Office of Education annual trustee dinner is on November 3rd. Um it's a really and it's it's in it's being held in Auburn at the Ridge Golf Course and um if it's not on your schedule already um please put it on your
196your calendar uh for our board members and our superintendent. Um it's a night where we can come together and and break some bread and connect with other trustees in the area. Um typically full boards attend together. Last year was a very weird year um for our district and uh so it would be lovely if we could attend that together. So if you can put it on your your calendar and I'm sure there will be uh confirmation um for attendance coming shortly and I'm sure Dez will shoot that out to all of us. So, is there anything else that you guys would like to flag um as far as coming up? Um events, anything on the calendar? Okay. All righty. Well, with that, do I have a motion item 14 for adjournment? >> I move to
197adjourn. >> We have a motion by Underwood, >> second by Trusty Lake. >> All in favor say I. >> I. Let's go. >> What is happening? >> Good luck.