001So, get on that. Oh, no. I didn't. Yeah. Um, what's Colleen is going to be late. She's stuck in traffic, I guess. For our um item uh under superintendent item, superintendent search. Oh, sure. Sure. Okay. So, we're going to go ahead and call this meeting back to session. I just want to confirm with Carlos. Do we have audio going at this time? I heard some feedback last round that Thank you. Appreciate you. All right. Get our act together here. Now, I don't know that it's appropriate to jump straight to the public hearing and then go back to our report out. We can do what we need to do and come back. Thank you. Okay. Okay. So, we're going to jump to the Okay. Okay. Yes. Okay. Perfect. Alrighty. We're going to go ahead to item
002four. We're reconvening and open here clearly. And just want to let you know that this meeting is being audio and video recorded. And housekeeping. Restrooms are available during uh the open session across the hall in the Gold Country meeting room or across the hall the parking lot. And uh in regards to item 3.2, Trusty Duncan. Yeah. 3.2. Um u so in three sorry 3.2 we uh we had uh time with legal counsel today. Uh we had a conference to discuss uh uh with our district lawyer as well as potential private investigator regarding anticipated litigation. and the board decided to retain uh said uh private investigator moving forward with scope of work and to begin our investigation. All right. Item 3.3. We had conference with legal counsel regarding existing litigation. Um one case uh on first
003case Butler v. Plaster Union uh school district our board discussed and provided direction to council. Item two or case two uh regarding solar we just discussed and no direction was given and we ran out of time. So we are going get ticket to reconvene and closed right when we're done. So um we will report out the remainder of the closed session items at that time. We're going to go ahead and move forward to item five. Organization welcome and pledge uh pledge of allegiance. Trusty Duncan would you please lead us. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Alrighty. Item 5.2, approval of the agenda. The board shall take action to approve the
004agenda. Are there any changes at this time? Hearing none. Do I have a motion? Motion to approve the agenda. Second. We have a first by Trusty Duncan and a second by Trusty Jeff to approve item 5.2, the agenda. Any discussion, starting with the student board? I I board I I motion passes unanimously. Item six, public hearing 6.1. Go ahead and public hearing. uh in session for the Plaster Union High School District initial proposal to associated teachers of Plaster CTA NEA 2025 2026 and it is 538. Yes. Good evening, Madam President. Um on the behalf of the acting superintendent and um the recommendation for the openers for uh for negotiations with our union partners, our uh ATP CTA union partners and these include the articles that are being recommended for opening on the behalf of the
005district. Thank you very much. Do we have any public input? Seeing none, gonna go ahead and all is well. Okay, I think we're good. I'm going to go ahead and close that. We're going to go ahead and now open our second hearing. I just get to play with the mallet tonight. It's going to be a fun night. Uh 6.2 public hearing. organ sunshine of associated teachers of plaster ATP opener with the PUSD 2025 2026. Yes. Um our ATP union members have submitted these as their openers for negotiations. So on the behalf of them I have submitted this for the public hearing. Perfect. Is there any public input? Hearing none. going to go ahead and close that public hearing as well. All right. And I believe we still have we're still waiting for our speaker for
006item 7.1. So, we're going to go ahead and table table that until she arrives. With that being said, we're going to go ahead and um information items 7.2, federal executive orders. Let me pull up my computer here. All right, pull up my notes here. Thank you for your patience. So, the purpose of this item on tonight's agenda is uh to begin the discussion uh due to the fact that some of these executive orders will impact our district and our policies. Um, as you know, I'm a CSBA delegate assembly member. And I contacted our regional director, Renee Nash, who's a trustee with Eureka uh Union School Board, also our CSBA Pacer. I don't know if you guys have had the pleasure of meeting him yet, but he's wonderful. His name is Michael. And Renee ended up
007connecting me with Josh Daniels. And Josh Daniels is CSBA chief um for policy and governance technology services. and we emailed yesterday because I inquired you know what CSBA has done or what they're tracking if they are uh creating some changes for us um you know in regards to the executive orders and I just wanted to share uh briefly what he said he said I can't speak to the other departments within CSBA but within gamut policy department we are definitely tracking the executive orders and related court cases I'll add which there are many um back to his text We are following our normal process in flagging which policies may be impacted and when an impacted policy is included in an update packet. we look at the changes in law or in this case the new executive
008orders and determine what changes if any are necessary and I will definitely be chatting uh with Josh here uh soon um just kind of go over these but I wanted to briefly uh touch on the executive orders that have you know brought some attention and that will definitely uh be impacting education and we're also tracking those um and so with that um executive order 14159 immigration. Um now this one doesn't directly impact our schools, but it's been discussed. Um I'm aware that um there's some concern with some of our families. There have been um some protests regarding that. There's been some direction uh that I'm aware of that was given to staff if we do have law enforcement on campus. And so while that one may not be exactly connected with school, there has been
009an ongoing discussion. Did you want to share anything on that, Dr. Camdetti? Sure. Um, in terms of of policies, we do have two policies in place that have been around um since at least 2018. We have um BP5145.13 and a corresponding um AR. Basically, we are meeting the needs of our students um through ED code 48200 um and ED code 234.7, which basically says our students are entitled um to a safe uh education. Um and just like any other guest uh guest that visits our campuses, um our students are protected. Um so in the case of of immigration as the concern of an agent coming on our campuses um AR 5145 and the BP correspondent I'll I'll summarize them basically as this um there's no sharing of of immigration information whether it's collected or unable
010to disclose. Um and there's no access without a warrant. And so we've um talked to our principles and our um support staff to let them know that this goes for any other um law enforcement agent that visits our campuses, they need to provide um a judicial warrant. Um they need to provide their badge number and the organization that we're with. Um if in situations where there was um access and they supplied a a valid judicial warrant um staff would be notifying me and I would be notifying our council um to give um the proper procedures of what we would do and then families of course would be uh notified the parent under the under the law. So we do have policies in place that didn't come out about from the recent executive order. They were
011already in place. So, we're still continuing to follow our ARs and our BP. Yeah. Perfect. Um, I just want you guys uh board to know that obviously this is a discussion item. So, um if you if you'd like to wait till the end of um reading off the executive orders to provide, you know, feedback or discussion, uh that's totally fine. Or if we want to hit them kind of one by one, um you guys let me know how you want to u go about that. All right. Um the second is executive order 14168 uh gender ideology defending women from gender ideology extremism and restoring biological truth to the federal government. The next executive order is 14173 illegal discrimination ending illegal discrimination and restoring merit-based opportunity. The fourth is executive order 14190 ending radical indoctrination. Uh
012the fifth is executive order 14191 expanding educational freedom and opportunities for family. And the sixth is executive order 14201 keeping men out of women's sports. And obviously we know that that impacts uh title 9. Um, and I wanted to um acknowledge that a letter was sent from the US Department of Education which requires uh K12 ELEAS to certify and sign that sign that we'll adhere to specific executive orders or risk losing federal dollars if they're not followed. Um, and it wasn't just this uh letter that was from the Department of Education. Um, this has been a similar uh conversation with all of the executive orders that are impacting education whether or not we will um receive federal dollars if we're not following executive orders. So, prior to sharing any of my feedback, I'd like to
013open it up for discussion amongst um the board about their thoughts and feelings. And I also want uh you guys to know that it's important to me as a board member. I'm not here to represent myself. I'm here to represent our constituents, our students. And um we are tracking these um executive orders and we are listening and we want you to know that we're being responsive uh to the community's feedback and um and that we are, you know, having internal discussions with staff or I am having internal discussions with staff. We're limited to have discussions with one another based on the fact that you know there's something called the Brown Act. So you can only discuss any particular item with one other trustee. So, um I believe that, you know, we sought some legal advice
014um today and I'm sure that that will be ongoing as CSBA provides some amended language um as well. So, I'm going to go ahead and we'll come back to unless you guys would like me to address this um letter from the US Department of Education first, which I'm happy to do or I could have Steve do that as well. Would you like to touch the the letter from both um the US Department of Education and the letter from California Department of Education? So, we well, when I say we, I say um California um school districts. Uh I haven't been sent this directly, but there was a letter that was sent to uh county offices and from the and to the department of education, the CDE on April 3rd, and that was the letter that outlines
015uh what uh Trusty Spade is um referring to in terms of notifying or validating your compliance with um title six um the day after. And this just so the board's aware, this is just kind of the the ongoing pattern that's going going to happen that we're going to be um faced with. So the day after from uh the Department of Ed, the California Department of Ed, um a follow-up letter um I believe you in your packets, you have the original letter from the United States Department of Education on April 3rd as well as the follow-up letter. So, um, at at this point and with my conversations with with legal is is that the um state department, the CDE would be notifying on our behalfs. Um, when I say our, it's um the county and um
016the districts of of California at this point. So, uh, based on that, um, information through California Department of Ed, you know, I certainly have some feelings on that. Um, I had some questions which I let Steve know. We're gonna have some conversations around that. Um, and I'm gonna scroll down here. Okay. So given the fact that uh the California Department of Education um has to my knowledge has have they reviewed our specific policies for PHSD? Yes. Um so all of them I'm I'm not sure but uh what I can I we can go back a year to January um 2024. And so the California Department of Ed under the federal program monitoring that Plaster Union High School went through, we were um awarded, recommended, uh winners of the FPM review, uh which is a incredibly
017tedious process. And we uh in terms of of items that would relate to this, we were identified to participate in areas of adjusted cohort graduation, adult ed, federal stimulus monitoring, um CE or comp compensatory education, which really is title one federal dollars, English learner, uh PE, student support and academic enrichment. We made it through our our um I would say monitoring audit with flying colors. We had four findings in C or title one that were all resolved within a couple weeks. In PE we had two which are resolved as well. So answering your question, has CD reviewed our specific policies? Um the answer is yes. Do they review every single policy? I I don't know. But what I do know is that in order to ensure compliance with state and federal regulations, they have established
018multiple systems that could be program compliance monitoring um which would be through ESSA um or IDEA with special education and title uh title 9 for non-discrimination. Um there are audits the CD um would trigger and that may require them to do more investigation and pull out particular policies that apply to one of those areas. There's program reviews, um technical assistance, and then each of our um federal dollars, and I know Sue and Peter are here as well. There is a tremendous amount of annual reporting that happens um that we're required to do. And then we have the state accountability systems. And so as your data is showing discrepancies in terms of how your students performing, that may trigger additional reporting on on a specific policy. Um so yes, they review our policies in lots of
019different ways, but every single policy of every single school district that is yet to be determined. Yeah. Yeah, it was an excellent answer, Steve. Thank you. Um, can how can CDE certify that our LEA has met the criteria to certify that we're compliant in this particular case if they may not be reviewing every policy? Yeah. So, what I what I know is that what we're doing with our federal dollars, like I said, are annual reporting and so then therefore they validate. So, some of the federal monies that mostly PHSD is is dealing with is our title one funds. Last year we switched from targeted assistance and the board uh was brought our switch to schoolwide program and then the other one which may or may not be aware of the board is Perkins which is
020also federal dollars which is CTE. Both of those in particular have annual um compliance monitoring to make sure that you're meeting the needs of what they're called the asurances in those particular uses of of funds. Um I don't know if Mr. E or Sue want to comment on any other sort of criteria that we meet for our federal dollars? Anything that I missed? I mean, the only other thing I can think of is that in terms of a compliance, we have teachers have to fill out federal time cards every year that show that they're being paid by federal dollars. Um, also to mention too, if people wondering, well, you know, what money is being spent when Sue does first interum, second interum, when we do budget development, you'll see it on there in June when
021we show budget development. We'll show where federal dollars we're expecting and where it goes out. Right. So, um, you know, specifically with this, uh, directive, it was mainly not around the other executive orders. It was mostly um, you know, obviously around diversity, equity, and inclusion. and um and so specific to that um have obviously they haven't reviewed our policies in light of um SFFA versus Harvard case I would assume. Correct. Um and so with that in mind, um obviously we have uh we have uh board policy 0415 regarding equity and whether or not have we asked CDE if that policy has will comply with title uh six and the civil rights act and SFFA Harbor. We have not. How can we ask the C and then this is kind of rhetorical. How can we ask
022the CDE to speak on behalf of a thousand school districts across the state of California, let alone our LEA, without first reviewing them first reviewing our board policies specific to this issue um admin um administration regulations and so forth. Yeah, I think it's I think it's almost impossible um for the CDE to 100% speak and certify on our behalf without going through our catalog. Also, um do we have plans uh to ask if the CDE if our that specific policy or any others that may be flagged by our team complies with federal the federal executive orders? Um like I I mentioned earlier with speaking with council, they you brought a good summary of how CSBA brings our policies forward. Um we get quarterly updates and so we target policies that are required. Uh the policy
023you're referring to is 2021. I'm not aware of those would have been a board direction. That's my understanding. Um so we can we can provide our policies to attorneys anytime we want to have them look at it. But in terms of like a a portal onto CDE to say, hey, how does this pan out? There there's nothing that I'm aware of that that does that. Yeah. So assuming if CDE is planning to uh certify us um my question is um are they also going to absolve us from liability of federal uh the federal government finds out that our policies are not in compliance with the executive order title six and SFFA versus um Harvard? I am not able to answer that. Yeah, I um and if not, you know, and we can assume that they're
024not going to assume liability, then it's going to land with us. Um would be my guess. So, I think that the responsibility is ours. Um and obviously there's there's a 10day uh turnaround with this uh request to certify. That's not going to happen. Um you know, we go in spring break in one week from now. But I do think that this specifically um this certification requires um some investigation. We're going to need to investigate uh which policies um are going to need changes in order to be compliant. We have a number of title one schools in our district and I do not want us to lose federal dollars um for our programs. So are there any thoughts on that specifically? and we can go back to any of the other um executive orders as well.
025I think it would be a good idea to ask staff to go to go through those policies. Um but again, like spring break starts in three days, so they're not going to have a lot of time. Um so it's going to take a little bit of time, but yeah. Um did did anybody from either CSBA or legal counsel give us any idea as to when like if the hammer does drop like when that might take? No. No. question. Yeah. And and with my communication with their policy director, Daniel, yeah, they they didn't even provide uh you know, a list of what may be considered. Also, you know, the policy that I mentioned is not required in our our hand in our portfolio. There are some uh board policies or bylaws that are required by law
026to be in our portfolio. Um and many districts don't have that one um across the state of California. But I do think that we need to investigate where we may be out of compliance and that is going to take some time. In the meantime, it it appears that CDE was going to speak on our behalf. They're probably not going to take responsibility if we're out of compliance. So, we we're going to need to do some uh due diligence on our part to see where we're at and what may or may not need need to be addressed. Um but we could start with that policy, look at that and with legal um and and and start a conversation around that. Are there any other um of executive orders that anyone would like to address? Yeah, I
027I'll speak up. Uh I think the uh the men and women's sports uh is something that we've seen in the national news. Um obviously Maine uh was the in opposition with uh the president's executive order. It was really cool to see Nevada. So, Nevada was in the news. Uh, if you followed collegiate volleyball, um, several Mountain West schools uh, decided to forfeit against San Jose State for having a a a biological male participating on that team and, uh, it it was a big deal for them and they Nevada just changed their language back uh, so that it would protect women's sports. Uh, so I thought that was a big deal. I I don't know if which side California is going to go for if they're going to side with go with Maine or or the
028side of uh Nevada and their decision-m process, but I think, you know, there's a community that's in the majority of protecting women in sports. Uh and I think that we uh as we look at all these executive orders, we should decide where we're going to stand um as a district. And I think preserving fairness and safety in in women's sports is uh is an easy call. Thank you. Y anyone else? Yeah. Sorry. Yeah, please. Um to that point, I mean I just am wondering how many trans athletes we have within our district and to see if that is an issue because I mean like personally if I was playing like tennis against a male, I wouldn't um a biological male, I wouldn't be threatened at all. Like I wouldn't feel as if um I mean
029I'm playing someone that may be a little bit better, but that means I just need to improve my game, you know? So, I mean, I I guess that there's a lot of opposing opinions to it and I completely understand, but I'm just wondering how um in terms of, you know, in Nevada, it's a lot different obviously because that's collegiate level, but I'm wondering in our district specifically if it is a really big concern or if it's simply just not really Yeah, I I never looked at it that way. I look at one um and again you you should uh you should take a look at Venus Williams uh interview about playing against uh number one ma male in uh in in tennis and she talked about the major differences between men and women. Um even
030if one female gets hurt, if one female is deprived of uh placing uh or if one female doesn't make a meat uh I I have a concern uh and so I look at the one in most everything that I try to do. Uh and so um and at the same time I think it's really important that um we don't have to go too deep into this but everyone needs care and thoughtfulness and love and so I am saying I am I I I would say that we should look at what we should do as a district to protect women's sports but at the same time anyone that is uh uh identifying as an opposite gender we should love them and take care of them and see what we can do for them. So, thank you
031for that. Yeah, it's been interesting. I was on a Zoom uh through CSBA with legal counsel discussing this this topic and it's been interesting to see how the NCAA um which I believe they I believe I'm remembering correctly um correct me if I'm wrong u that there was only 10 athletes in the NCAA um at um but they had decided to fall in line with um the executive order to follow the executive order. uh CIF has chosen to go a different route, which um frankly is not surprising, but um but I hear you. Um I read in the news this past week, I'm I'm following all the the cases going on right now. There are there's so much going on legally in regards to these orders, but just different cases u throughout the country. Um
032but there is one case right now um of a biological male competing in Southern California on the women's team. And um you know and and I think about that um you know in ter I was I was a student athlete. I played basketball. I ran. I played volleyball. Um and and yeah you know and I and I'm raised with a bunch of brothers and while I might have my twin brother on basketball I don't have the rest of them and the rest of them can beat me in a race. Um so you know I do have concerns about fairness. You know polling across our country is about 8020 on this issue. So, um there's just biological differences and I I absolutely um I'm in agreement with, you know, protecting our our girls. Um are there
033any other thoughts or feelings regarding executive orders? Um we will be uh continuing to have conversations um about this internally um and seeking some legal guidance um on these issues. Emerson, microphone, please. No, it's interesting. I've been uh tracking the executive orders and uh it'll be interesting to see. I think we're going to be uh waiting to see how the state responds. We're we really have to we're kind of a limbo time right now. Um, so, um, these are interesting times and I was going to wait until the report out, but, uh, I'm excited about focusing on education and I feel like there's some some really cool breakthroughs when it I mean, this is an off topic. I don't know if now is the time. Yeah, technically we've got to stay on topic. Stay on
034topic. Uh, thanks. We're all tracking executive orders and we're waiting for further guidance from the state. Thanks. Beautiful. Thank you, sir. I think preemptively we should have someone look at the policies and kind of go through there and comb through there as best we can. Um but I feel like there's not a lot we can do until we have more guidance from above. I agree. I think this is why it was important to open this conversation so that we're aware every community. We are aware, we are tracking it and uh we are going to have some further investigation on it. Trusty Underwood. Microphone please. I think it's uh you turn on the microphone that that it won't pick up. Thank you. There's a lot of changes going on in education. No doubt about that. And
035um executive orders do concern me as they impact our community values. And that's something that we're just going to have to wait and see what really transpires. But, um, I think we're kind of like on hold. I don't think there's really anything that we can do right now. Uh, just wait to see what transpires and what type of input that comes our way. Thank you. With that being said, um, if you guys are in agreement, um, I'd like to provide some direction to staff. um if we could start combing through and and identify what may um obviously CSBA is going to be doing theirs, but I believe we should be doing our due diligence as well. Um as we're getting, you know, starting this process and I'm certain that other districts are probably doing the
036same. Um I have a delegate assembly call on Friday afternoon as we do every 3 weeks and um the hot topic is the federal executive order. So um you know perhaps CSBA will be providing some additional information on Friday as well. Um obviously there's a number of other things that are kind of you know comingled in in all of this um regarding the sexed and medical accuracy. There's an investigation going on about that about ambiguous medical um being very ambiguous with medical accuracy in the investigation. There's news articles about that about Furpa issues and secrecy. um obviously the sports and um and we're just going to have to provide um ourselves some time and our staff some time to look through these and see where we may need to make some changes. So with that
037being said, any further comments? Okay. All righty. Perfect. So we're going to go ahead and move back to discussion item 7.1 regarding our superintendent search and welcome Colleen. Thank you for being with us. I'm wearing your plaster green here. Is that right? Okay. Thank you. And thank you for adjusting. I took a wrong turn in construction and traffic and went via Davis all the way home from Elgrove. So, um I apologize. Um yes, Placer Green. But I'll I'll go ahead and introduce myself. I'm co-presenting with my colleague. I know he's on or listening. Hello, Scott. Can you hear me? We've been chatting over the last hour because I'm freaking out. Welcome. Um, so we'll go ahead and um I'll introduce myself and and let Scott introduce himself. Um, but thank you, Dr. Colleen Slatterie. I'm
038the assistant superintendent of human resources with the Plaster County Office of Education. I was here, I don't know, a few weeks or so ago with Gail. And um I do want to just take a moment and I say I love my work, but I'm very excited to do this with you and and help facilitate. Um myself, my late husband Steve, and both our boys are graduates of KFax High School. So, as a Falcon, this was the closest I could get. I like uh really excited uh to be here. 32 years I've been an educator in Plaster County. So I'm honored to I say come back home and uh and do this. So Scott, yes, my name is Scott Leman. I was in western classroom school district as a principal assistant. I retired in 2021. Um
039and then lost two and a half years ago and I served as their superintendent principal. Awesome. Thanks, Scott. So, we have uh we um did the um educational partner survey report. I'm hoping you and and everyone had a chance to look at that. It's 16 pages. I won't be going through every page. Uh but uh Scott and I met and what we did was we're just going to try and um hit some of the highlights in there. And so I'll go ahead and start that it gathered um insight and information from 148 respondents representing families, staff and community members and it aimed to identify the qualities, priorities and expectations for your next superintendent. The responses reflect a unified desire for a student centered, transparent, and future focused leader. And like I said, rather than going
040through the 16page report, we're going to hit some highlights, but of course, Scott and I will do our best to answer any questions for you um when we're done. But if you have questions as we're going, please please do interrupt. Uh the top priorities that were identified in the survey were academic achievement and student success. Uh maintaining and elevating placer union high school districts academic excellence prioritizing equity and support for underperforming student groups came out and expanding college and career readiness including career technical education and dual enrollment. Uh community and educational partner engagement was very strong. uh a desire for a very visible, approachable and collaborative superintendent. Uh consistent, transparent communication across all platforms was pretty evident and emphasis on listening to on to diverse perspectives and building consensus. Uh on the operational side, the
041operational leadership and fiscal responsibility was also a theme and they expect the partners expect strategic fiscal management amid rising costs and enrollment shifts. Uh support for continued investment in the programs and school facilities and transparency and accountabil accountability in budgeting. Uh finally on this top priority was inclusive le leadership and equity. A superintendent must be a champion for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Certificated staff in particular, which that was highlighted in here, uh emphasized a need for equity driven practices and policies. So, the next area on desired leadership qualities that really rose to the top. I'll let Scott um review those. Yeah. So, as we looked at many of the comments and there were many um and tried to encapsulate them, one of the areas that was desired leadership qualities of the person that you were
042placing the position. The top rated trait across all groups that spoke to it was integrity and transparency really speaks a lot to the person. In addition to that um it also showed that uh the leader needed to have visionary thinking and the ability communicate how that vision would play out in the future. Um, have a collaborative style that fosters strong relationship with all education partners. Uh, be an instructional leader, have instructional leadership with a deep understanding teaching strategies and adaptability and resilience. And that's the ability to lead effectively through change and uncertainty, which is a key component to any superendent is joining the district. I'm also going to share the next area we tried to um what would be the first thing the next superintendent should focus on. So we were looking at the comments.
043Um three came out very clearly and the first one was closing the achievement gap and the second was supporting retaining high quality staff and the third was strengthening relationships and communication. And the next area was some uh strengths to build upon. And uh three areas there that we saw was strategic leadership and a stable direction, effective operations and processes and strong community involvement and collaboration. Some challenges to address that we really saw. Three again, equity gaps in student achievement and resources. We keep hearing this almost in each section. adapting to technological changes and modern workforce needs and balancing traditional expectations with innovative approaches. And then the next one we looked at and um part of the survey when people wrote short answers was identifying with one of the various groups be parents or community or
044classify and among certificated staff. If you look at this section um they spoke very empressive instructional practices and then classified the management staff. They prioritize school safety, discipline, and operational efficiencies. And then the parents and communities members of the PI uh supported innovative leadership and openness to external candidates. And so really in summary, kind of a a final message here, but we're happy to answer any questions or anything and we'll talk about some next steps is Plaster Union High School District's next superintendent must be a visionary, ethical leader who's committed to inclusive excellence, strategic growth, and genuine engagement with all educational partners. This survey offers a powerful roadmap for identifying the leader, your leader who will champion student success and strengthen your district's future. So, Scott and I are happy to answer any questions and
045um that you have or even in more detail as much as uh as much as we can and uh then I can talk about next steps. I appreciate you guys putting this out for us and and gathering um the feedback and and being here to present for us tonight. And Scott, I really like your bow tie. So, sorry if I was looking past you, Colleen. I was trying to watch Scott. No, all good. Um I'll go ahead and open it up. Anybody else have any uh questions for Colleen? Well, really, I want to know things that are not on the survey. Colleen, um I I'm wondering if you guys are at liberty at this point to share how many applications have been received. I knew you were going to ask me that and I was
046thinking about it driving up. I don't know that that would be appropriate to say since it's still open. Sure. We do have applications. We like the sound of that. Yes. So I have been in meetings all day so I haven't checked today but we all as well. I had just had to ask. I knew I knew somebody was going to ask. Yes. Yes. Yes. All righty. I had a question just on the the demographics breakdown and just trying to understand because I I I keyed in on the areas of agreement versus the areas of divergence. Okay. Um and so on the equity and inclusion priorities, it was a strong sentiment from cert certificated staff, right? Okay. Okay. And do we have uh a further breakdown on on what that pie chart might look like? I
047don't know. I'd have to see if I don't know that we can drill down through Survey Monkey. There's, you know, only so much and we have to always be cautious because it's an anonymous survey and we don't want to try and Yeah. How was the question framed? I had a similar question regarding the the interest in DEI. Was it just a Gosh, now you're putting me on the spot on the exact question. I don't remember the exact wording of the question. I'm sorry. I did look at all of them multiple times, but was it just like a multiple choice question or was it like a a ranking of importance? On that one, it was there was ranking of importance, but it also came out in some of the Scott, help me if you remember, but
048on some of the um open-ended. Yeah, strongly agree. But then it was there were some open-ended responses. The unique thing on this unique thing on the survey, which was really a great success, was the amount of short or I should say long answers they were rather long answers also um which presumes and so and I when we were looking at how do we present that honestly just looking at the amount of comments we um wanted to kind of come up with some type of a synopsis so that's That was an area that was hit rather heavily um by those groups. There is a specific question at the end of the survey though that also so based on um no was there I'm looking at your page four there's um 143 answered does that mean that
049that was the there were looks like there were 148 responses total um or participants and sometimes I would skip is that accurate Sometimes they would skip if they weren't forced answers. Yeah, sure. Um I am thrilled that we had many responses, but I am I'm going to be honest. I'm disappointed that there's only 143. We're in a district of nearly 70,000 voters. And so to think that this little uh you know group, which I am, thank you guys for participating. It does matter to us. Um but I am slightly disappointed that we don't have a larger group because we're missing the large group. We're missing your feedback and so um I'm wondering so we there of of the total participants I think it is important to um yeah to note right classified only had 11%
050certificated had 28.9 and this is in all of the questions correct that just participated in general. Exactly. Okay. Okay. And yeah, parents, um, way to go parents at 53.1%. Um, and I do think it's interesting and I'm glad that we asked and that you guys included, um, where they were at, if they were within our boundaries, but we have surrounding communities, you know, at 11% and in other communities wherever they are, 2%. Um, that participated. So, I'm always interested what people um, have to say. But I am going to be honest, a little disappointed. I wish that we had 500, you know. Um, I wanted more, too. Yeah. Okay, good. Thank you. Yeah. Any other questions? So, the posting closes next Monday and uh we will um bring those. Obviously, we'll be screening with uh
051you and the board and we'll be bringing um this information. We'll bring some sample interview questions. Uh I think we talked about that a little bit last time. Um but perhaps some around the information gleaned from the survey as well. So Okay, great. And so um just so the board remembers, although we did receive an email from Kimberly Chase, who's awesome, uh next week the board will uh start being able to have access to those documents and we'll need to schedule some time approximately two hours potentially to review candidates. That's accurate. Yes, I think a few a few I heard I know scheduled. Anybody? So, you're scheduled too. Beautiful. Okay. Um and it's also my understanding that it will be at the Auburn site. Um which they've made it really convenient for us and I
052appreciate that. I'm um I won't be checking them out till the following Monday because I'm out of town next week and I'm really bummed. I told my husband I'm like, I really want to review that sooner, but I'm going to have to wait. So fear of missing out some people are going to get to read them before me and I don't like that but so a little bit of FOMO guys. All right. Um anything else? Yeah. Moving forward um assuming there's a lot of applicants. Is there a uh the narrowing down process? What does that look like? So that's when we will have a close session. I believe I don't it's Wednesday. Yeah, Wednesday. Um, we will have close session. We will bring all of the information. We'll have all of your notes from when
053you go in the next week or so. And Gail and I think we she mentioned a little bit. We will go through Scott, you know, we'll go through and we'll look and we usually line up pretty closely on ours, but again, it's your recommendation. Gail may have more information. I may have more information. Um, we'll share with you and then select from there. because of the evenings, I believe we can only have six candidates because we'd be going till late at night um doing more than that. So, so six candidates total for call back. Okay. So, yeah, the 23rd we're going to meet at the Auburn Auburn the 360 Nevada Street office. No, are we her? Oh, are we here? Okay, just the interviews are there the following week. Thank you for the clarification. There's
054a lot going on calendar to know where I'm showing up. I know there's so much going on. So, we're going to meet in the Gold Country Media Room, okay? Um on the 23rd and yeah, and there's there won't be any streaming. There is nothing to stream. It's just going to be reviewing candidates. So, anybody who's paying attention, that one will not be recorded. Um and then so then we'll provide direction to you guys at that time. And then the following week, we will the following Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday and then Wednesday for the finals. Okay. Perfect. Thank you guys very much. Yes. Thank you. It's our pleasure. We'll see you in a two weeks. All right. All right. Thank you, everybody. Thanks, Scott. Thanks, Scott. All right, let's keep this going. Alrighty, it looks like
0557.3 board policy audit. And let me pull up my notes on that as well. Okay. Essentially, um I have been tracking this for a while. Board policies, I think, are important. I think it's one of the only things that we do as a board. They're technically our policies. Um but I wanted to create an ad hoc committee to review um or update policies and kind of discuss what that may look like. Um the responsibilities for those who are joining that uh committee. Obviously, there can only be two in an ad hoc committee. This is not a standing committee. Um, but to just kind of filter through, see, you know, what hasn't been updated in more than five years or whatever parameter we set. um what policies are required by law, what policies are not required
056by law, and then potentially on a quarterly um that ODHA committee um could bring um suggestions forward or sooner depending on um what the uh committee is able to do in a you know, whatever time frame. And but I think it's important. And I mean, I was looking I've looked through many of our policies, and I um regrettably, I don't think I've read every single policy, but I've read many policies, and there are some that haven't been updated since, you know, 2012 um or later. Um and I just feel like it's quite cumbersome. Uh I I feel like if it if this just my feeling if it's not required to be there unless it's serving a specific purpose or providing direction or vision or something like um that that we feel is important as a
057board I think that they should be addressed and cleaned up so that it's a little less for our staff to have to muck through and us as we're getting CSBA updates or whatever it may be um that that we can kind of clean up our catalog so to speak. Any thoughts on that? My only thought is that should it be an ad hoc committee or a standing committee if it's going to be long term? I think [Music] that that's a great question. Um because I feel like if with with a standing committee we're required to do postings and hold um public meetings and this would preclude the the speed at which we might be able to filter through them with staff. Obviously, any decision that would be made would be made, you know, at a
058meeting with the full board, but that would prevent us from being able to have conversations. Tom, no, I think it's a good question. Uh, but I I look forward to this. I don't have any real insight, but then I think it's a good good idea. Okay. Any interest in parties to participate? I would be happy given the fact that I brought this forward to be on that ad hoc committee. Is anyone else interested in the grind? If nobody else wants to do it, I'll do it. I like that. Trusty Jeff, good for you. Somebody I know. Glutton for punishment. I know. I know it's a lot. Trusty Lake, you turned your microphone on and off. Signal. I was thinking uh some I think have a talent for being a policy wonk being able to like
059parse through uh language and uh Jeremy's already proven to be pretty competent at that and uh so I would I would support that. I like it. Any interest or thoughts on that? Uh Trusty Underwood? No, I support I'm okay with that. All right. All right. Well, um, with that being said, we're looks like we're going to form an ad hoc committee. Motion. Now, this is this just discussion. Um, but you don't have to have an action to form an ad hoc. So, all righty. We're going to go ahead and move to item eight, reports and communications. 8.1, Board Reports. Who's that? Everyone's very excited to speak tonight. I'll go. Okay. Uh well, first of all, uh it's good to be back. I've been gone for the last couple meetings due to uh work priorities. Uh
060which has also taken me out of the community a bit too, other than the things I can go to for my own children. So, with that said, I have attended a few uh Deloro uh women's lacrosse games, both JV and varsity, and uh it was really cool to see uh our varsity team beat Oakidge, which was a first. Uh they were at one point ranked uh I saw number three in the in the in the state of California. Someone told me number one, but I didn't see it. So, uh but since we then lost to St. Francis, but uh haven't uh and then went and then we went to Oakidge. I was there uh to support uh um the team and uh we ended up losing and so uh but uh we were tied with
061goals and that made a big difference. So we beat them by five goals at home and we lost to the to to to Oakidge by five goals at home. So um that was important if there was going to be a tiebreaker. Uh so fun to watch. Um, hats off to our coach there, Steve Weber. He's doing an amazing job, I think, as a uh a purist of theater programs. That is, uh, why our Deloro women's lacrosse is where it's at is because of the theater program that he created through Sierra Foothill League. Uh, and, uh, I have a daughter that's, uh, in in that right now in sixth grade. And I also have a daughter who went through it and is, uh, a freshman playing uh, uh, with Delaware of U lacrosse as well. So
062really cool to to to see what he's created and uh the program is a is a successful program now because of it. Um also I'm not going to steal uh Trusty Jeff thunder here because he's going to talk about the uh uh the grading system uh committee, but I will say that I participated uh with uh Trusty Jeff and we had a fantastic turnout. Uh very good discussion and I'll leave it there. Uh but uh otherwise uh maybe we'll have you go last that way after Trusty Jeff you can go straight into the committee report out. Trustee Lake. Um after a very busy uh month of March, um it's been a little bit slower couple weeks. I was down I was under the weather for about a week and um but uh feeling much better
063now. I know there's been some bugs that have been going around. Um but I did I was looking really looking forward to the um student voice at uh Forest Hill, but I was unable to make that. Um, so I look forward to hearing more about how that went, Zoe. Um, so what's what's been on my mind is I'm I'm like actively trying to um understand modern best practices in in education and and who is at the forefront of of this movement. And what's gotten me really excited is how AI is being incorporated into uh education. And it's and it's becoming like uh I think we're going to see a lot of changes over the next uh over the coming year with the advent of these large language models and and being able to help students
064in real time uh on a on a large volume scale like um it's exciting because you know we talked about the the Alex program and and different different things and I really appreciate Ruby your comments about KFax math and uh I've been tuning in to to some of his uh some of his lectures and um um I should have his name prepared but Mr. Schwarz. Yeah, hats off to Mr. Schwarz. He's a he's a brilliant man and uh really puts a lot of effort into his channel and it's very popular. Was it like almost 60,000 subscribers? And so it just goes to show that, you know, there's a hunger for for those who have a special talent to deal with the youth of today because I can attest with teenagers at home that this generation
065is very different than generations of the past and the the way that they learn is very different. And um and so I'm excited to see how basically students will be able to interact uh with a a a customized tutor. You it'll be as if you had a virtual tutor and it's going to be able to see and understand how you learn and be able to give you immediate real-time feedback. And that's something that just it gets me excited because I feel like this generation is is hungry for something like that. Um, so that's been on my mind. Um, that and uh, Deloro Golf is doing well. So, I'm excited. I'm excited about that and I'm looking forward to uh, upcoming tournaments with Lasser. So, and yeah, so that's that's what I've got. Thanks. Thank you.
066Is there a way to turn on some air in here? I'm watching people melt. Is it going to be loud? Sorry. just watching people. And yeah, I was uh invited to go back to Placer um from uh Coach Mononttoya. So he organized uh and allowed me to visit uh many different classes, had a good discussion with counselors so I could be open ears and take a look at what their concerns are, what's working, what's not working, um what their needs are that we might not be aware about. And um it's kind of interesting. I had some takeaways that I thought were significant. One of the first topics when I was talking to Katie Chamberlain was how are we doing on the budget? And of course we're struggling on the budget. You know, it's tough times.
067And when you look at class sizes increasing because they're over 37 per class, she said right now it's a concern you know that that uh many when I was teaching many people would say teachers are not as concerned about class sizes as they are about compensation. I don't believe that's true at all and it's really hard and very difficult. We had gone down uh to about 35 point something and now we're kind of going back up and and so that that was a concern that was mentioned. It was fun being back on the hill. The memories kind of flooded me, you know, and uh what uh it's true kids are different but the climate on the campus is really outstanding. It reminded me when I went into a sophomore English class, they were having a
068debate and the kids were all relaxed and excited, um, organized, and when the when the instructions were, okay, put your phones away, they went up, I hadn't seen this before, the phone racks, and they just kind of put them in the phone racks very nicely, you know. um no no issues whatsoever. And then the kids began their their debate on capital punishment. It was quality debate, well researched. I was very impressed. Um, it reminded me a lot of of what I think I can't say that this one classroom experience speaks, you know, generically to the entire campus, but it reminded me of Glasser's model. You meet the basic needs and kids are going to excel. And I really saw that the belonging, kids were engaging, friendly, polite, fun. Uh it it was a lot of
069fun. Very serious topic, but it was really fun, you know. The kids were enjoying that taking notes, you know. Um wow, that was kind of cool. A sense of power, you know, when when you're succeeding, you're going to feel powerful. You're going to feel good. And all these different debate teams uh that I saw reflected that to me. and uh a sense of freedom you know so I I have to say that that that was really an eyeopener then I wanted to talk about grading because that's a big concern and and what's happening and where are we going to go with that and is it important that we go anywhere because some people are using 100 point system some people are using the fourpoint system and I had a takeaway which was interesting that I
070hadn't thought about um the particular class that I was in. Wow. When I took a look at the uh the grading rubric and I took a look at the structure and all the work and research, teachers are working hard. They really are engaged and working hard. And um what we don't want to do is take them out as was said to me to a place that they're going to have to be doing something they're not comfortable with. So it was interesting. One of my takeaways is what's happening now. Some people are using uh the four point. Some people are using the 100 point, but we're working and using it as a department and we're working together and it's working right now. That's that's what I heard from two two staff members. So that's interesting um
071to me. So exciting. It was exciting to see kids. Um the climate at Plaster High School is awesome. Not that it's not awesome at Deloro and Coldfax because I know it is. I've seen that. But uh it was it was very enjoyable. It made me realize why I love teaching so much because the time in the classroom in the debates. Wow. Before you knew it, an hour's gone and everyone's enjoying the process. So, that was that was uh fun for me. That's awesome. My my senior at Plaster just had a debate this past week and it happened to be about one of the executive orders. I thought, man, you guys are not trying to stay out of it. They're they're in the thick of it with capital punishment and um transgender athletes in female sports.
072I mean, they're having these kinds of conversations at our school and my son had to prepare argument just this past week. Um thank you for that. Uh there there's really nothing better than being on a school site to remember like exactly why we're all here. It is the best. Um and we have so many hardworking, incredible people and I'm I'm super thankful for that. Um, I just wanted to acknowledge that, um, I've received some communications, multiple emails from constituents requesting us to consider a multi-chool agreement pathway as outlined in CIF bylaw 303 for both Deloro and KFax. I want you to know that I've had conversations with Dr. Camonetti about that. Um, and um, have done some research. Um, I've also had my one-person contact with Trusty Duncan on this. And what all I can
073say right now and at this point is that um we are going to look into it further. Um we are continuing to have discussions and at some point soon um we will have it on a future agenda item to be able to have a conversation as a board. But essentially we have some homeschool families who have athletes in the community. They are constituents who are wanting to participate. Um there's there's some complications. There's always trade-offs and um really no one is doing it. Um there's a number of reasons why, but um I do think it's worth having a conversation as a board about. Um I'm not sure exactly where it's going to go. I don't want to penalize our school districts. I'm not going to get in the weeds on it because it it would
074likely um or it could may all the special words that are in policies may um impact um divisions um with our schools um and not have the benefit of the entire population of that facility which um could really shift some things. But I do want you to know that that I have been contacted um by by a couple different families um regarding the superintendent search. Tom and I collaborated with PCOE um you know on the community and staff survey and the communications and I just wanted to again express my gratitude to PCOE um for you know doing a really great job and a thorough process and for Tom for being my wingman on that um and and thoroughly kind of flushing that out and making sure that we were going to get some uh good
075data through that survey. I wanted to also acknowledge the CSBA delegate assembly election results. um I have been elected to another term on the delegate assembly. Um super excited about that along with a new delegate um in Jonathan Zacherson who our board voted for who's a trustee with Roseville City School District. And I also wanted to appreciate trustee Fong. I've enjoyed serving with her on the delegate assembly the past two years. And that's all in that. Um, also regarding the Plaster County School Board Executive Committee election, um, I also received a letter from PCOE Superintendent Gail Garbalino Moika, and I have also won that election. So, I don't I'm not entirely sure what this this committee does, but I'm on another one. So, I just wanted you to know we're represented. We're going to be
076represented on that committee. Um, and I I'll be serving along with uh newly elected Julie Hut from Rockland Unified, Renee Nash, who I serve with in delegate assembly. She's our regional director. Alisa Fong, who's a former delegate, and uh she is fulfilling a short-term um position for this uh the rest of this year, the remainder of the year. And just wanted to congratulate all the newly elected uh executive committee and the and the candidates who did not win, but they were awesome. um and um support them and grateful to be serving in another role for our community. And regarding the state seal of civic engagement, I was told by Robert Lemon, who I do not see, but we had seven applicants, way to go and three of them are in this room. So, um I
077am really excited about that. I just think it's really a cool extra thing that's going to set you guys apart as you're applying for college as you know in your whatever field you choose. I just you know why not when you're when you're doing all the things anyway. So thank you for putting in that effort. Um it's my understanding that last year there were no applicants from Plaster County and now we have seven from our district alone. So, way to go. It's something totally to celebrate. As far as site visits, um I or trustee appointment visits. Um I I don't even know exactly how often they are and shame on me. Um but I think it's once monthly. I attend um something that's really kind of unique and cool um called a prayer breakfast and
078it's really with a bunch of elected officials in Plaster County. There were 27, not including myself, 28 um at a prayer breakfast. And it's really neat to kind of have a pulse on what's happening throughout our county. There's supervisors, city council, trustees, and just kind of share what's happening in our area. Um and and it's pretty neat. Um had some coffee with Elizabeth Lamelly. I wanted to share that I just appreciate um anytime community or staff reaches out to you know have conversations. I think it's really important and um so I appreciate you making that effort and uh I attended a lead meeting with uh Peter, Trent, Elena and Steve and the governance institute on um just on the 31st of last month and I got to be honest the board members were dropping like
079flies and I was all maybe this isn't my night. Maybe I'm gonna phone it in. I talked to Steve and Steve's like I'm gonna be there. I'll get it for you. And I I was like all I could hear was my mother in my ear. You know, there's just times where I'm like I can hear my mom going be where you're supposed to be. And I was all right. And I did. And it was it was really a really solid training. It was regarding navigating curriculum adoptions and state and federal accountability aka LCAP among amongst other things. It was super collaborative. There were a it was well attended by administrators and trustees in the area. Uh, so another kudos to PCOE for putting a really great training together. Uh, it really was great and I'm
080glad that you were going no matter what, Steve. You set a good example for me. Um, and I was glad that I was able to to attend that. and also student engagement at Forest Hill um was it's always interesting uh to hear your guys' feedback and I was sharing with the team there's always like I I there's always something we can do you know and so I was like you know what about this or what about the water filling station how much does that cost the kids care about on the other side of like what can we do um government's slow nobody likes to go to the DMV I don't want our district to be the DMV I mean there's times where we have to move with caution and there's times where, you know, we
081could make some things happen. And so, as a board member, I, you know, regularly I have witnessed through those student voice meetings. I'm sure Trusty Underwood could attest to this as well, that there's information that we receive at those that, you know, things happen through those meetings and um we do care about your voice and appreciate all the students who participated in that. So, before our next regularly uh scheduled meeting, I will have my delegate assembly meeting on May 17th and 18th. Um, but we have got some special meetings between then, so we're going to see each other a lot. Uh, and that is all for me. Trusty Jeff. Wow. Uh, it's going to be tough following that. Um, so first I want to uh to thank Trusty Underwood for bringing up the the concern
082that was brought to him u regarding class size. I've heard from a few several teachers in fact lately uh about that concern as well. And I know that that's going to be a tough issue to address with our fiscal situation that we're going into for the next few years. Um, but I definitely think that that's something that we need to work as best we can to get that number down as low as possible because, you know, any teacher administrator will be able to tell you that lower the class size number, the better the instruction is typically going to be. Um, so we hopefully we'll have we'll figure out some miracle solution to kind of address that issue uh to bring down those class sizes. um because once class sizes get too large like it's really
083difficult to b to make those uh really important connections with students. So I want to throw that out there. Um can I move on to 8.2? Oh please. Okay. Y go ahead. 8.2. So moving on to 8.2. Uh talking about the CBE grading policy committee whatever you want to call it. Um we so the way that we uh Trusty uh Duncan and I set this up is uh first we had the the survey that went out to the stakeholder groups um students, parents, staff, uh community members um and they had the opportunity to sign up for one of four different sessions. Uh they also um received an email for a short survey to complete. I think it was like a 13 question survey or whatever to be kind of discussed briefly at the beginning of
084each of those sessions. uh and then they were asked to sign up for one of those four sessions. So, so far we've had we've last Friday we had our first of the four sessions um which was brilliantly um led by Mr. Feffer and Miss McCoy um who's right there. Uh they did a great job of leading um leading that group. Uh it went a little bit over on time, but it was only because we had some really good conversations that were going on. Uh and people didn't want to leave. even like when the time was was up like there was a lot of people that stuck around. We're still talking. So that's a really um positive thing to see that people are so passionate about um their ideas when it comes to what our grading
085policy should look like. Um so we still have three more sessions coming up. Um each of those three sessions, the continuing three sessions are going to be with three different completely different groups of people. Um and we're going to get um the same thing we got from the first session which is at the end um basically we're walking away with a list of recommendations or suggestions from what that particular group would like to see from the grading policy u or practices and we're going to compile those you know at the end uh and then trusty Duncan and I will have um an enormous task of going through all that and trying to uh to draft a policy uh that we think is going to work based on the recommendations from all those stakeholder groups which
086are really really important. Um, one of the things that Trusty Duncan asked me um last week was to um to reach out to Rockland Unified. So, today I reached out to Principal Stewart from Rockland High School, my my former principal. Um, and Trusty Duncan and I are going to be sitting down with him and some staff members um after spring break um to kind of talk about what their policy looks like and what their um practices look like um and the you know, the pros and cons and what went well and what didn't go well with their system. Um, so we can take that knowledge back as well and maybe um potentially incorporate that into you know what what our district is doing maybe. I mean it's completely up to this board to decide but
087um that's kind of what what we have uh on the highlight. I our all of four of our CBE committee sessions will be concluded by the end of April. Um so that gives us the month of May to sit down and iron all this out and consult with legal and you know all that stuff that we need to do. Um and then hopefully um June um you know we might be able to come up with a a unified policy that the board can vote on and and get that out to the the staff. So yeah, that's the goal. Yeah, it was uh really cool uh to kick it off on Friday night. Uh we had some great conversations. I was able to be a participant there. Uh Dr. Kim, thanks for being there and and
088participating on on the first one. uh and uh just to hear the uh the respectful professional dialogue going back and forth and and healthy debate I thought was fantastic. And again, moderators, thank you again for the help there. Um and and look, I think the number one goal is to find what best what grading system best fits our community. uh and as much as we want to move this you know there's a timetable to this in some restraint and some respects that we would like to you know ensure we have a direction right but with that said we'll take the data as it comes and in my mind um we we will decide based on decide on coming to the board of course but decide on timing of that you know it might not be
089in the fall we'll see um or June to have something ready for the fall. Um because I think choosing the right grading system is what's most important, not the timing of it. So, thank you guys so much for your work on that. Um and I know it's only just begun, but uh I know you know just based on what you've shared, um how much time you've already committed to organize it and prepare it again. I think Alicia who's in the crowd tonight, I somehow when I read your name, it didn't like sink and hit that you were facilitating. I just think I'm a super fan. Um, so thank you for being willing to participate in that. Awesome. All right, we're going to go ahead and move to our 8.3 student board member reports. Okay. So,
090I have both my report and Ava's report from Placer. So, I will start with Ava's report. Uh, good evening. As we head into spring break, many things, many exciting things are happening at Placer. In these last weeks, juniors wrapped up their first round of testing. Uh, students completed both the performance task and the computer adaptive test for English. Teachers worked tirelessly in the weeks leading up to the testing to prepare students. Interactive advisory lessons, including Cahoot and practice tests, were presented to each of the junior advisory classes, giving students an overview of what to expect and how to best prepare. To reduce test fatigue, junior students will complete the next round of testing after spring break with the science and math sections. To encourage students to do their best, incentives such as grade bumps, senior
091parking spots, gift cards, and teacher prizes were given to students showing good effort in participation. In other news, our math and English departments are meeting with local feeder schools in the area to address how we can support incoming freshmen and meet their needs academically. This is a practice that was very consistent before CO 19 and is something that Placer seeks to reinstate. Counselors have completed their course requests with students and we are now in the process of building our master schedule for next year. As for sports, our teams are continuing their seasons into the second half of the league. A new school record was broken for our track and field with senior Baylor Kelly completing the 300 meter hurdles in 39 seconds. Two Fridays ago, we also had the opportunity to recognize all of our
092sports at our spring sports rally. Um, also coming up at the end of this month will be our Asian-American Pacific Islander Festival hosted by Vault on May 1st, which I invite you all to attend. It is a wonderful community event that honors the rich cultural heritage, traditions, and contributions of the Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities. Last year, there was music, food, performances, and various activities to celebrate the diversity and vibrancy of these cultures. We look forward to seeing you there. Um, I am also working with Mrs. Jackson to ensure that we are prepared and ready for not only the upcoming student voice meeting on the 30th, but also for the Plaster student engagement on the 22nd. As for Maidu, CASP testing is underway and going smoothly. Recently, Maidu launched the new Maidu spirit store in
093partnership with Dancing Dog, Inc. in Auburn to celebrate the launch of the early college program. Thanks to recent marketing efforts, several current Maidu students, as well as students from other schools, have already expressed interest in enrolling in the early college program for next year. In addition, Mighty will be offering several new dual enrollment courses through Sierra College ne starting next year, giving students even more chances to earn college credit and career certificates while completing their high school diplomas, helping them save thousands of dollars in the process. It is also very exciting to see Maidu growing and thriving with the highest enrollment it's ever had since it opened in 2018. Students at Confluence are also nearing the end of the school year on a great note. Last Friday, students participated in the annual mock interview day.
094Along with that, students are completing their internships with local businesses with their last day being on May 10th. As the next student voice meeting approaches, I believe it would be beneficial to discuss how we can improve school culture and climate, enhance college and career readiness programs, and ensure greater inclusivity for all students. And those are all of Ava's updates for Placer. Um, this is for Forest Hill Till now. Hi everyone. Things have been going well at Forest Hill. Our juniors just completed their state testing this week and makeup testing ended today. So, all of our juniors are very excited to have that completed. Our sports have also been going well, but have had to work through navigating a lot of changing schedules due to our recent weather. Our leadership class just put on a drive-in
095movie night last Friday where they showed Night at the Museum. The event went well and all the students who attended really enjoyed it. Leadership is also working to finish planning our prom, which is coming up soon after spring break on April 26th. So, everyone is very excited for that as well. The fun Friday volleyball tournament that we've been having just ended and it has been a wonderful opportunity for more students to get involved on campus and improve campus culture. We are currently in the process of figuring out another fun Friday tournament for students to compete in, possibly UNO or another sports tournament. Um, our National Honor Society chapter is planning a 5K color run to w to raise awareness for teen substance abuse and we would love to see you there if you can make
096it. The event will be held at FHS at 9:00 a.m. on May 3rd. Forest Hill FFA just attended the California State FFA conference in Sacramento last week. And all of the students who participated really enjoyed meeting people from other chapters and getting to hear from multiple keynote speakers. We also had our FFA Olympics event a few weeks ago, which was a roaring roaring success despite having to be moved inside due to rainy weather. Everyone had a great time and was super excited to compete for the coveted FFA overalls. In addition, for still had our student engagement last week, which went well. Our juniors weren't able to attend due to state testing, but the students who were able to participate provided good feedback and shared their thoughts on what's going well at FHS and what can
097be improved upon. Um there was a few things mentioned with our facilities as well as the grading. So that was really awesome to hear all the students thoughts on that. Um on a different note, we have our next student voice meeting coming up on April 30th and we are in the process of figuring out a topic. One idea would be to look at our California Healthy Kids survey data to see if there are any areas in which our schools andor district could improve their support for students. Um students can then create and provide input on a plan for moving forward. Another possible topic idea would be to have students identify ways in which the district can better provide help and resources to students as they are learning math concepts. After looking at our school dashboard,
098math seem to be the area that our district struggled in the most academically. So, it may be beneficial to hear students thoughts and ideas on what our schools can do to help them learn. Uh lastly, our seniors have been putting in a lot of hard work applying for scholarships and finalizing their plans for after graduation. I'd like to give a huge shout out and thank you to our counselor, Mrs. Cardulo, um who puts in so much effort into making sure that seniors are aware of scholarship deadlines and helping them finalize their plans for after they graduate. She does so much for all of our students and we are so thankful for her and of the and the counselor of the year. Yes. All righty. So, for um KFax news, hi everyone. Um, it's been pretty
099calm at KFax, um, so far with the main focus basically preparing for the end of the year and getting ready for spring break, which pretty much every student is very ready for. Um, we had our annual Olympic week to close out March and it was our best one yet, I got to say. Um, the seniors ended up winning by a landslide, which is probably why I think that way, but um, it was a great way to finish out our last O week. Uh, in sports news, our track and field team just hosted the CHS Invitational, which had about 15 teams participate, which was really great. Um, a lot of students made their way down to the track during lunch to help support our runners, which was a really great opportunity for our track athletes to
100get some support um, during their racing. Um, as for ESPback, which Zoe touched on as well, um, it's wrapping up for KFax with our last day being tomorrow, and the juniors are very, very happy that it is coming to a close. Um, we had our broadcasting team advertise and inform juniors on what ESPback testing looks like and how it helps our school, which was a really great way for them to understand the importance of it. Um, they also include information about raffle prizes for testing that we are getting. Um, from gift cards to a bowling night as well. Sorry. Um, and grade bumps for previous classes. Um, having the testing be split into two weeks has been really successful for our juniors as they're not really burnt out either and they have some time to
101sort of um, relax a little bit before their next week and it's been very successful in terms of um, all the other classes getting their morning um, getting to sleep in a little bit. Um, in other news, our spring musical is coming up on April 25th and will be the production of Hades Town. The drama department is incredibly excited about this production and will be be hosting a scavenger hunt throughout the week we get back from spring break um to promote the production and the winners will receive free tickets and a snack b snack bar voucher. Um I will be helping a lot with the promotion of that and I'm very excited for the musical as I've been a fan of Hades Town in the past. So it's really awesome to see it um that
102high school production being made. Um for the next student voice um meeting topic um I think a really good option would be talking about culture. So how can we improve culture at our school whether it's um increasing um inclusive events for our students or mental health awareness efforts those types of options that will be really great for you know making sure that students are feeling heard within um their classroom as we have so many diverse people within our district. So really you know making sure that we're appealing to all audiences would be great. Um, as for other events coming up on campus, we have an all-week spikeball tournament during lunch starting on April 28th. Um, that partners with the spikeball club to start enjoying a lot of the spring weather since hopefully the rain will,
103you know, taper off. Um, our prom will be on May 3rd with ticket sales starting this week, which has, you know, gotten a lot of people really excited for the end of the year. Um, staff appreciation week will be on May 5th to celebrate everything that our staff does on campus, which is a lot. Um and our Rosie Bowl, which is a flag football game against the juniors and seniors, coached by our football team on the 23rd with senior sunset following the event. Um come out and see any of these events as they're a lot of fun. Rosie Bowl will definitely be a hit. I'm really excited for that. So yeah, thank you. We've had a pretty busy April or pretty busy March here at Del. And one of the things that we just did
104was we had our senior plan survey that just came out. So all the seniors do this survey that says like where are you going after high school? So I thought it'd be a cool opportunity to share some results because they're actually pretty cool. So, um, 45% of our senior class plan to attend a four-year university right after graduation. And 80% of our senior class plan to attend either a two-year or four-year after straight out of high school uh, right after then. And 85% plan to attend either a four-year, a two-year or a vocational training school straight out of high school. So, that means that 85% of our student body as a whole have concrete plans to further their education, which I think is a pretty great stat. And then also 47% planned for their highest
105level of learning to be a bachelor's degree. 34% plan for a graduate degree. 7% plan for an associates degree. So that means that 89% plan to achieve some sort of degree after high school, which is even better. And only 7% plan for their high school to be their highest level of education. And the discrepancy there is because there's some kids who plan for vocational degrees. So I think that's 89% planning to go on into higher education is pretty encouraging. And to me that um as a takeaway like looking at that stat I just thought that that seems to indicate that Deloro is preparing students well to enroll in college and um looking at the majors and careers that they were intended to enter. They're heavily STEM focused a lot of health and engineering which is
106good because those are both expanding fields and they al also offer like good benefits and pay and this I think could be due to the wide variety of STEM classes that we have at Delo because we have a pretty extensive STEM program. So, I think that's encouraging, like we're doing well in that area. Um, and it also could be like an indication that we should maybe increase our liberal arts options too to get kids interested in those. And it can also just be reflective of students interested and talents. But either way, it seems like kids have the confidence to, um, look at college and also know that it's an option. So, that's both great. And then, um, the most popular major outside of STEM was business. And then I also wanted to just put in
107there, um, the data collection was voluntary. This is something you took at um like intervention. So, you know, possible self- selection bias in there, but not hopefully not too big of one. And then these are obviously only like intended majors. And then as far as sports goes, we had eight athletes qualify for the Stanford track and field invite over the week ago, which is a pretty selective invite to get to. So, we were really excited about that. And we had quite a few PRs, so that was great. And then our dance team also got fourth in nationals at the jazz um division. So, that was also really cool. And we also had our spring sports rally to celebrate as we're kind of going into the end of our spring sports. And we also had our
108ASL idol competition which is where ASL students will get a song assign assign a song assigned to them to sign. And um there's tons of different genres and it's always really engaging. It's popular with the audience and it's also a great way for students to show off their ASL skills. And also as we're kind of keeping the trend of trying to encourage political like uh activity in the high school group, we have two Congress people coming to Auburn next week. So our political club on campus is getting a group together to go and see that and then host a high school focused discussion afterward. So that should be super cool. And the color guard also plays first in the NCBA winter competition and percussion plays third. And then as far as the voice uh meeting
109topics, we were I was talking to a few students who were previous attendees other voice meetings and we were kind of looking at um the envision Auburn is like the thing that Auburn does for Auburn city planning and we were thinking it would be cool maybe to do something inspired by that um talking about like a plan for DO going you know into the next four or five or 10 years or whatever and call it like envision do or whatever. So that was like something that we floated around. And then also at Confluence West, their landscaping business is off to a roaring success. They've already done their job training opportunity for the tools that they're going to be using and they had their first job and it went really well. And they actually already had
110their calendar built out all the way through the end of the year with the rest of the jobs. So yeah, that was exceeded expectations. So it's going great. Yeah. And that's it for Marsha Dio. Awesome. Thank you so much. Can I I I forgot to say something. I've been away for so long. you just uh reminded me on Confluent. Thank you. That awesome report. I had a chance to go hang out with Morgan and with uh with Sean and uh I was just blown away at the level of thoughtfulness, care uh that they put together for those students um the environment there works. Um and those kids are thriving. So, it's a big testament to the two of them and and the support that they provide. So, they are amazing. And I am curious. Guys,
111I'm going to ask you more about that data. I want to know how many of your seniors participated. That was some really great data. Loved that. All right, we're going to go ahead and move to item 8.4, superintendent showcase of Forest Hill High School. Dr. Davenport and Mr. Everett and counselor of the year, please come forward. All right. Well, thank you for the opportunity to present on Forest Hill High School and as it is downloading, um, Trusty Lake, thank you for the quote, um, that you so kindly allowed us to use. I think that was probably the first thing you said about Forest Hill High School, so had to capture it. Um, so yes, tonight with me uh presenting is our amazing Forest Hill counselor and thank you Zoe for the shout out and PHSD
112counselor of the year and not counselor of the year but wonderful assistant principal and a CTE teacher uh 5050 at Forest Hill High School as well. And then Zoe's going to run up and do one little tidbit as well. So thank you all. I almost said next slide to myself. All right. So, um, one thing I just want to preface, we went through and looked at some data. Um, some of the data you see here is going to be pretty traditional, but we tried to bring a few little flares in there of things that maybe you haven't seen and maybe we hadn't really thought of until we decided to dive into it. So, just prefacing it with that. So, um, one thing which is nice, uh, when our district, uh, is in declining enrollment, um,
113one cool thing right now is that, uh, the wildfires are growing. And, um, if you see that trajectory there on the enrollment, um, as of right now, we have about 71 potential students for our incoming freshman class, which is about almost double what our senior class outgoing is. Um, as you can see, and there's another slide regarding the socioeconomically disadvantaged, we're right about 45%. Um, our race and ethnicity. See the breakdown there. And then this is kind of an odd one, but the last couple years when we did our analysis of male and female uh percentages, we don't know after COVID where the boys went, but they kind of disappeared for a while. And luckily, we're kind of back on the, you know, getting back to even footing on that. So, this is just in
114looking at there's you'll see throughout the slide tonight there are some comparables um which is really interesting in a district like say Roseville the comparables of the high schools there um pretty similar all in all but when you look at our schools they're so vastly different um in so many different ways but I do just want to point out that um our socioeconomically disadvantaged is the highest of our comprehensives in the district and I was so happy that the little twirly thing on the hat actually worked. But um for a comprehensive high school with about we have just under 200 students right now um we've got a relatively small staff and if you look at we've got 10 full-time teachers we have two part-time one is our auto teacher um who does one section in
115the morning both fall and spring and then Mr. Everett is another uh 0.5 teacher as well. Um, we do have an amazing staff in in general, but I wanted to also highlight outside of the additional support staff that's here tonight. Um, Nicole Porter is we share her with Kfax. Um, and we love her. She is amazing and wish we had her more, but we don't. So, we get the best out of her when we have her on Tuesdays and Fridays. And then also, um, Jordan Tucker, he is our cis B. Um, but he's so much more than that. and um the students. He is such a valuable resource for us in so many ways. So, just wanted to give them a a quick shout out as well as our very dynamic teaching staff. And I
116put those hats over there because in a small school, um there's no option but to wear multiple hats. Which one do you wear, Aaron? Which one? Good question. Do I I don't know if I can go back. I I'm gonna go with the twirly one. Good choice. Me, too. Just fly away when I need to. Um, so this is just kind of highlighting our CTE pathways and you'll see some of our CCI data and I think a lot of that is we've made some very strategic uh moves with our CTE and our dual enrollment. Um, so we've added three new CTE pathways in the last two years and my brain is always whirling on what we can do next and I think we may have an arts kind of media entertainment pathway um coming on
117maybe next year and if not um the following year. So, I'm not going to go through all of them, but I will highlight um I would say one of our newest or our newest and probably most exciting right now. Um no offense, Mr. Ever, because I know you have one of the CTE pathways up here, but um our fire technology uh with our wildland fire and our EMR, emergency response, just today sitting in the office and all of a sudden see the ambulance and the fire truck come up and I was like, uh oh, what what happened? But they were just here to present for the EMR class. So um always looking for ways to grow uh give students opportunities to um as much as I don't think our data would speak the same as
118collegegoing. We have a lot of students that go to colleges and amazing colleges but I think our CTE pathways are extremely important um when you look at the demographic that we're serving. And I will be back but I'm going to hand it over to counselor of the year. Thanks. Um, I'll I'll echo uh Erin's sentiment about the importance of the CTE pathways because as I meet with students to talk about their post-secary plans as we grow in pathways, I'm watching students start shifting their career trajectories to align with the pathways as they become exposed to different careers. So, you can see these are all of our DE courses offered. Um, each course is either part of a pathway or meet a graduation requirement. Um many students are accessing the lower tier that you see um
119the Mayadu classes. Each of these uh Mayadu dual enrollment courses count for general education credit um at the CSU or UC. So we provide a great deal of support for online students. Um my teachers visit FHS weekly or bi-weekly to provide direct support and instruction to students. And uh through uh the DE grant that last year was our first year, uh Katie Gangler, uh Wendy Baldwin and I partnered to support the dual enrollment students through weekly grade checks, communication with their students about students communication with their teachers, the dual the dual enrollment teachers about students in need of additional intervention and we ensure that struggling students are using their allotted school-based work time to improve their grades. So uh through this grant we also get support from Karen Garcia who is a dual enrollment leaison
120and she's been a huge help in coordinating with Sierra College on courses offered enrolling dual dual enrollment students which is quite involved and lengthy and providing up-to-date information and planning expertise to our students. Um our dual enrollment program has continued to experience growth as you can see. Um we have an average growth uh 68% over two years and this is due to the addition of new course offerings. Um each year we're getting new course offerings through um our seatbased offerings and also the myadu offerings, the coordinated support plan that we have through our dual enrollment grant and scaffolded progression of rigor to help students find success in these classes. So what is the scaffolded progression of rigor? Well, students are strategically placed in online classes with a scaffolded model in mind. So, the majority of
121students are introduced to dual enrollment through our a bio class which is seatbased with Katie Gangler. And then students are generally introduced to online dual enrollment through rise one. So, rise one class is a personal development class and the teacher is very supportive so it's accessible to most students. And then they often move on to other more rigorous dual enrollment classes. And then many students even choose to move on to take academic enrichment classes um through the academic the supported academic enrichment program that we have and they take classes over the summer or many even take uh dual enrollment classes on top of the classes that they take through PHSD during the traditional school year. So, in fact, it's not highlighted here, but from fall 2024 through summer 2025, um we have 15 students taking
122a total of 21 classes directly through Sierra College. Okay, so here you see our college and career indicators um uh or actually a variety of dashboard measures but the college and career indicator you could see that our score increased about 22% from last year uh to 85.1%. the English language arts improved almost 30% 30 points to 60 points above standard and you'll notice that our grad rate slightly declined and that was due to a total of two students uh one student who enrolled but never actually attended FHS and another student who enrolled as a senior with very few credits but we helped him um prepare for the GED and he passed it on his first attempt. So, um, each student who was continuously enrolled with us did graduate and math is an area of potential
123growth as you can see and Erin's going to speak about that in just a few minutes. Okay. So, um, our college of career indicator, you can see that we made 22% growth from the previous year in our college and career indicator score. And I would like to highlight that we are tied with DO for the high score and we are the only school in the district that has a higher rate of socioeconomically disadvantaged students meeting the college and career indicator than the general population. That's significant. Um so that shows that being so socioeconomically disadvantaged at Forest Hill does not put you at an academic disadvantage. Oh, no. There we go. All right. Good evening. Um, we wanted to I know we talk a lot about the dashboard. We talk about, you know, high stakes testing.
124We wanted to take a little different take a look at test scores. So, if you look at this um comparison of our feeder school and our scores. So, the way you would look at that at Forest Hill, um 49 points below, uh would be our eighth graders from last year compared to our juniors last year at 69 points below in math. Now, the reason we would point that out is, and I'm giving a lot of credit to Dr. Davenport, she's the out of the box thinker. How many times have I said that this year? A lot. and I'm the mime in the like you know in the box. So um she's going to talk in a few minutes about our math program and Alex and you've heard about Alex and we've heard a little bit
125about AI but there's some things coming I think in some out of the box thinking that that one we know they're coming in and this isn't to like throw anybody under the bus. We know they're coming into our score our school um low and so what are we going to do about that? So, um, just wanted to point that out. Before you move slides, could I ask you a quick question? Yes. So, the two bars are the past two years of students incoming or why are there two The two bars are So, the 49 would be the incoming feeder scores from the eighth grade when they took the math test and the 69 is our juniors that took it last year. Got it. Okay. So, yeah, it's not it's okay. Looking at feeder scores compared
126to last year's score. So for every school there you can see uh the math scores of the feeder uh class and the actual junior class and that's competency like their competent uh below competency. below competency. Yeah. And and above would be above competency. And I'll just hop in to say that um part of the reason we did this is just as we're trying to dig deep and analyze our our math scores, there's kind of this discussion of well, we get them at such a deficit. We get them at such a deficit. So, I wanted to take a look and I actually was pleasantly surprised that our deficit isn't the worst deficit. And not that we're trying to point anything out in a negative, but you need to look at data to have data drive decisions.
127And when we're trying to figure out how to fix math, this was one of the key areas that we thought we needed to look at and we needed to be realistic in just how low are we or are the students that we're getting. So yeah, and the feeder programs basically that includes like EV Kain and Bowman and um Lumis Union, Auburn, I mean Kaxel L just as far as the comparables. And then here are ELA comparisons. So you can see uh a little bit of difference there, but uh our feeder program coming in a little bit, you know, 14 points below standard, but then um their junior year uh jumping up 60. So I mean that's going to fluctuate. So Chris, when we're this is not following a coher cohort, right? So one way would
128be able to look at um you know that freshman and see where they've improved in their junior year would be an interesting point. Yeah. And I will say I tried to do that but co CO that year made it almost impossible. So that was I kind of jump ship on. So more more to come but interesting data nonetheless. Um a little bit of history. I I you know there were quite a few years here that uh and there's a few people in here that would know the history of Forest Hill High School. Um, but we've always prided ourselves in in holding on to our students. And so this slide just kind of highlights that we don't have a lot of transfers to Altad. Um, 20 years ago, this is our 20th year, right? Forest Hill
129High School. We had our celebration this year. And when I came to Forestdale High School, not too long after that, I was told that I mean the the challenge the mission of Forest Hill High School was to hold on to our students because there was a super high uh rate of students that were from the Forest Hill area that that went to Placer that um would end up in alternative ed specifically Chana at the time. So um so that was one of the the challenges that was given to the first principal at Forest Hill High School and our staff has embraced that over the years. So you can see from this slide that we do what I can we we can to fill those cracks to help those students pass over. Um, as I talk,
130I see students faces and uh there's nothing better than a student coming back, especially during that 20th year celebration and saying, "Man, I was a real uh something else, but uh I'm doing this, this, and this." So, um you think back at those times when you dealt with that student and uh you're glad that you you helped them through. So, so FHS uniqueness. Um, to go back and talk a little bit about those previous slides in our test scores, we again try really hard to being a small school, be in that gym, um, do our best to have all these offerings. And I'm just thinking, you know, 17 years ago, what we didn't offer at Forest Hill High School. And there's always those comparisons like we don't get this and we don't have that. We
131don't have these traditions. And and uh now we do. So um Spanish one and two combos, IM3 and pre-calc combo, auto and advanced auto pathway. Uh that also since we have that teacher for one period is a combo class. um art one, two, and advanced art combos. Um getting back to and Mrs. Davenport's going to talk about this in a few minutes about our IM1 um dealing with the data that we just saw um creating that year-long um class using Alex and different strategies to um intervene in those um students that need help in math. And then we do this year have honors credit for four courses. So students that finish at a certain level, teachers are giving them those honor credits. Just wanted to say real quick the uh when I was at Forest
132Hill a couple months ago, now the year-long IM1, I'm really interested to see how that works given our district is is needs the support in in math given the data. Uh it's exciting uh to to see the uh the creativity there to see what we do to there's been several Yeah. several meetings even in the last month of our math teachers, you know, how how do we want to to to uh make this happen and make it most beneficial for our students. So, and then student projects and I wanted to add a little bit of more history. Uh when I first came to Forest Hill was a brand new campus. Uh the the principal was adamant you don't we're not touching anything in this campus. This is brand new. We couldn't put things. If you
133go on our campus now, there's paintings, there's murals, there's things like that. But for a long time it was like we're not putting a hole in that wall and we're not doing this and that. So um and I would say in the beginning of Forest Hill High School there was a lot more hesitancy to on students part even to start new traditions and do those things. I mean there for a long time we were just like come on this is your high school let's do some things and uh there are lots of comparisons to Placer and a lot of those things. So, um, what you see now and what I see on campus are are students that are like Zoe that are just like, "Hey, we're we want to do this. We're going to do
134this." And so, there are a lot more student leaders and you can just that 20 years, you know, I like to think of, you know, we were little infants back in the day and, you know, we're growing into our own and creating those things. So, we're way past, you know, looking back and so there are a lot of projects and a lot of ownership of our students on our campus. So, I want Zoe to speak a little bit to this because she's obviously she's already mentioned NHS. We have our first FHS alma mater created this year. Uh we haven't sung it yet, but we will soon. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was a um so like Mr. driver was saying in honestly this has just been in the last two years we have had so many
135students really take an interest in not only improving our school but our community as well and I think the National Honor Society and the National Junior Honor Society that was established at the Divide School, our middle school um really have played a large role in pushing students to kind of get more involved and get out into the town of Forest Hill and help out with our local Lions Club or the Chamber of Commerce. Um and students have also done many projects in our school as well through the honor society. Um such as the alma mater we had um I think the four square court might not be through the honor society. Don't quote me on that. Um, we did have last year the Divide School mentor program where our National Honor Society members went to
136our middle school, uh, elementary school and worked with students in grades TK through second on like teaching them compassion and just kind of being a good role model for those younger kids. Um, we've also had new clubs including journalism club where we work with our town's newspaper, The Messenger, and write articles for that. And a lot of our community members really, really love to see the articles that students write. And one of our seniors actually this year is working on a project to install a permanent basketball hoop in our quad area for students to use uh during lunch and nutrition because it the one we have is not permanent and is very broken and we definitely need a new one. So it's been really neat to see him work on that. Yeah. The same spot.
137Is that permanent? Yeah. Yeah. It's in relatively the same spot. We've been looking at the sun like lunch and um all those things. Thank you, Zoe. Um there was just a huge donation given to uh the student from the fire um department or their association. So it was a fire association, right? The volunteer fire department. Yeah. And so uh we've he's basically we're ready to roll, I think, to do the purchasing and uh installing. Um, this year new also to the high school was the potty press. That's always a um a good thing to keep people uh in the know. Um we started this not too many months ago a monthly video announcement. Some of the leadership students wanted to do that. Um it kind of varies. We put that in our advisory. So there's
138links in there for the teachers too. Sometimes it's just a presentation and sometimes it's a video presentation, but those announcements to keep students at, you know, in know of what's happening and what kind of athletic events and meetings are happening, club events. Um, and then there is that divide mentor program. And I want to give another little shout out to um and some of you came in when you did the visit with our um dual enrollment um elementary ed course. I am like and this is like the third year. I am always so impressed just to hear the stories of the experiences these students are having. And I think on Thursday, are you a server? Yes, I am. Um I am in a fourth grade classroom at the Divide School and they're doing like a
139poem serving day. So I get to dress up as a waiter and serve the kids poems to kind of teach them about like lime ricks or haik coup and different stuff like that. So I just heard about that today and I was like wow that's going to be a great experience and um I'm waiting to I can't wait to hear how that goes. So another aspect of Forest Hill High School is our athletics. And believe it or not, in 2007 when I came to Forestdale High School, we had students. And so we had policies back then that didn't allow students to like play multiple sports and do those things. Um, you know, as we, if you looked at that previous slide, I think we were down in the 160. Um, it's hard sometimes to field
140athletic teams. So, we do have students uh 12% of our students compete in more than one sport in a single season. So, right now the spring is always the hardest. We have softball players playing girls soccer and also on the track. I don't know if there's three, but um have at least at least one one. So they're busy busy students and and so we've had to um that you know there's a lot of I guess the point is a lot of engagement and we all know when students are involved they're going to be more engaged in their academics. So 30% compete in multiple sports and then we have 60% of our students on campus who participate. So and that's not counting clubs or any of those other activities. So, um, another great example of just
141our culture growing at Forest Hill High School reaching maturity. All right. Thank you. All right. So, one thing I do want to highlight is um, we have traditionally had a single math teacher as we have in many of our other subjects. And one of the things, one of my goals was to make sure we had a math department. And so, um, we have one teacher that is board authorized. Um and then our sped teacher uh special education is also part of our math um department. So as Mr. Everett said, we've had a lot of meetings, a lot of discussions, a lot of um brainstorming ways that we can continue to improve and it and just drastically improve um what we're doing at math at Forestell High School. Um I'm not going to go into all
142of it really in detail, but yes, we have um piloted a year-long integrated one class. We plan to continue that pilot um next year with a few little tweaks here and there. Um but one of the things we're going to try to focus on um along with that integrated one, fill the gaps, fill that foundation, is really um try to target our incoming feeder students before they get to us. And so right now we have students that do come on our campus um during the spring term and they take integrated one with Mr. Barry, our primary math teacher. But we want to look for opportunities for students to start doing that through Alex in the spring next year and then test and see where do where do they fit? Are they ready to move on
143potentially to integrated two or are they um still in need of of more time. Then they can continue to do that over the summer and then test again. Where are you at? So giving those students opportunities because not all of them have parents that are going to be super engaged and helicopter and like we're going to get you to Forest Hill to take that math class in the spring term. We want access, equal access for all of our students. Then we're also looking to do a summer math bridge. Um we've had summer bridge in our all of our schools for quite a few years. We just it's not gotten a lot of legs. So we're shifting some of that funding to focus on math specific. And so our goal is to get a Chromebook to
144all of our students that would be entering our school anyways in the fall. Get them that Chromebook in the spring and get them started on Alex in the spring. Obviously, not all of them are going to do it, but hey, if we can get one, two, 10, 15, we're going to make a difference. So, that's pretty much our math plan. And then, yes, we do plan on following data pretty heavily um especially on that year-long integrated one class and see kind of how that those students fare in integrated two. and then eventually on the state tests. Question for you, Aaron. Yeah, you talked about you have se I think it was said 72 incoming freshmen. Um have you already reached out to see how many of them are going to be interested in the summer
145bridge program? Actually, we were getting through state testing this week and then um when we come back from spring, that's one of our heavy fasial in our flyers, our how we're getting the messaging out, communicating with the feeder schools on what that's going to look like exactly. Okay. but hopefully all of them because that's our goal is really we're going to open it up to everybody. And then I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this, but um I do think you know we ask our our families, we ask our students, we ask our teachers to put time into the healthy kids survey. And I think this was just when we look at you know campus culture in four years we've had increases in all of the areas that are really I felt
146key and important except for the one at the bottom. But I think if you look at it, that's a good thing. The question is, is school boring? And at one point it was 67%. You know, four years ago said yes, and now it was uh 40. And so we had a 27% decrease. That many fewer students think school is boring. Um, portrait of a graduate. We've talked about this before. We're we're making a big push to really integrate this into everything we do on our campus. when we have an SST meeting, not just talking about academic grades, but what is this student doing and or not doing that is impacting their grades, but it's these other intangible things that our young students, children need before they head out into the world. And I will say
147we have a student who everybody fingers crossed, she's an amazing artist. She's been working on an actual visual for our portrait of a graduate. She's just not there yet. So, this was um thanks to I think it was chat GPT in about 15 different tries. And when I tried to put a boy and a girl in there, then all of a sudden it threw up like these arches and said, "Welcome to Forest Hill." I'm like, "No, they're going the other way." So, um just uh we're really trying to integrate the portrait of a graduate that we spent a lot of time on a couple years ago in developing. And then I'm not going to go through every one of these. We've touched on a lot of it, but just these are just our goals for
148the future. We want 100% CCI. We want 100% graduate. We want 100% of our students getting a CTE pathway. We want to improve our math. Um we want to continue high levels of focus on our student voice and our advocacy. And um Trusty Underwood, I do want to point out I didn't highlight a specific side on character education, but I do want to go back to our community service piece. And I also want to just throw out a very proud goal that I didn't even know existed. I had to write it down as we were discussing the seal of um civic engagement. Of those seven, three, almost 50% are from Forest Hill. So I think when you look at character education, what our students are doing to give not only improve themselves, improve our school,
149and improve the Forest Hill community, I think that speaks volumes about character education. Yeah, I noted that as well. I was like, whoa, out of the seven, we've got three from forest still. You guys are doing something right. I mean, it shows in so many of your slides, but I just wanted to highlight um your dual enrollment um 68% growth. Um so awesome. And and also regarding your uh said population with CCI, I had this conversation with Steve about a week ago and I said, "You know what? I am so tired of hearing our demographics are different. You know, they're" And I go, "You know what? They're just a bunch of kids. They're a bunch of kids, capable kids. And I don't care if, you know, it has nothing to do with their intelligence. If
150they're in a socioeconomically disadvantaged family, it doesn't matter their color of their skin. It doesn't matter where they came from. They're ours. And we're going to own every ounce of them with us. And I don't I said, I don't want to hear any more excuses. And that's that's that was the conversation. I don't want to hear it again. I don't you know, when we're talking about other districts, they're just kids. They're just kids and they're totally capable. and you blew up the argument. Thank you for that and thank you for the hard work that your whole team is putting in. It's it's very obvious. Um you guys have a lot of great things going on and I'm so grateful. Thank you. Also, uh I think very commendable. I love the the proactive approach you guys
151are taking to math. I think it's going to I think it's going to show great results. I know there's other districts that take the same pathway where they just want you in math continuously to just build. It's a building science. So, it's awesome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Forestdale. Great job. Um I'll just breeze through these. Um you're hearing uh our schools getting into our ESPback testing or our standardized testing. Just as a reminder to our new trustees, um this is a one test shot they get at their junior year. um they get one opportunity for it and each of our schools over the last several years have just developed um a strong plan organizationally. Um try to motivate students without paying them money which you can't do but um you
152definitely motivate them in all sorts of ways. um and they're doing the very best they possibly can for the test that is a single shot um that they get and it um for the most part it is really more a reflection of our leaders caring and our teachers caring more than our than our students. Um but it's on the dashboard and our community look at it and it is the the metric that we're using to to measure our growth. So kudos to all of them. Um handful of our schools have already started and it was nice to hear the feedback from from Ruby about the format at KFAX. I think we're always adjusting based upon how students feel. I remember we gave exit surveys from kids like how'd you feel about the test? What could
153we do different? They're like it was hot in here or more cookies, you know, whatever that whatever that is. And and we've tried all sorts of things. So, um, large testing format, small group testing, um, and each of our administrators and our testing coordinators with Michelle Isham, um, are always looking for the best format to have these students be successful. Um, just again, new board members, get ready for the week of May 19th and May 26th. Just plan on being at a campus every night. It's the best time of the year. It's not that I think that's a song. Um, but that is we those are celebrations so we don't have to worry about, you know, the Brown Act issues, but we have our our senior celebrations, our scholarship nights. Then you get into our
154alted um graduations and our inmate education um graduation there. It's just there's something every night. Um the next um PCOE governance night, that's our teachers who make a difference. I I will be at teachers and make a difference with I mean there there's just not enough people and not enough um hours in the day, but it is outstanding. Um and so I encourage you to try to get to as many of those as possible. Um check your your calendars and and um attend those. And then graduations, I know that's an item tonight we'll talk about for for trustees selecting where they're going to go. Um I attended uh the CT business partners lunchon on Friday that that Trent organizing. We had a great turnout, over 20 local businesses that are really interested in and supporting
155our students and and building CT programs. Um, our next student engagement at Placer is the 23rd when we get back from spring break and then we have our last one at KFax on May 7th. Um, spring break is next week in case you didn't know and our campuses are are closed down and I hope all of our families and our teachers and our students have a wonderful week off. Um, and with it being so late, it's going to be May and it's graduation and we are done. And I know that our administrators um as much as we like our spring sunny weather, I think as a former site administrator, we are always hoping it was going to rain until um the week two days before graduation because it seemed that rain seemed to keep everybody
156in that raging disease of senior itis under control. So with that, that concludes my report. Thank you so much. I think you know it didn't matter the weather with my And then I think he had senior starting his junior year. So I don't know if we made made it to senior year. All right, we're going to go ahead and move to item 8.6, our Associated Teachers of Plaster, CTA NATP, President's Report. You are amazing. All right, nothing to report out on 8.6. We're going to go ahead and move to um item nine, our consent agenda items. Do we have any changes to our consent agenda? I'd like to pull 9.3. 9.3 District issued warrants pulled. Any other changes hearing? None. Do I have a motion? I move uh to approve the consent agenda item with
157the removal of item 9.3. A second. We've got a first by Trusty Spade, second by Trustee Duncan uh to approve the consent agenda item with the removal of item 9.3. All in favor, starting with the board. I I board I I motion passes unanimously. Alrighty. 9.3. Please go ahead. Take it away. So I'm not sure who to direct this question to. Peter maybe. Um I noticed on a couple of the different warrants, unless I'm reading it wrong, and please correct me if I am. Um it looked like there was a couple different spots in there where there was a an amount going out, but it didn't say who that was going out to. three different ones. Yeah, I think it was two of the three had that. Um, so for example, if we look at
158report 4225 first one there, thank you, Sarah. So, there's a $6,000 expense there that doesn't say who it's going to air filter supply. That first top one 6589. So, it's just keeping them in block. They're together. Yeah. The total amount was 77 and it came from two different funds. Oh, I'm sorry. Talk about further further down about halfway down. It's in the uh the gray shaded area 6694.5. Yeah, that would be P Gen Payment Center. So, it was a total of 52,000 and they took 20 24 and six because it came from different accounts. Okay. So, it's lumped together with the one above it and it shows the accounts coming out of it. Perfect. That answers my question then. Thank you. Great question. I always say, you know, it's it's a blessing to have fresh
159eyes on these documents because if you are seeing that, community members of the community are seeing it and they'd probably have the same question. All right, with those questions being answered, do I have a motion for item 9.3? I'll move to approve. A second. We have a first by Trusty Jeff and a second by Trustee Underwood to approve the district issued warrants, item 9.3. Any further discussion? Hearing none, student board. All in favor say I. I board I I all oppose hearing none. Motion passes unanimously. We're going to move to the action items. Getting taken some action. 10 10.1 certificated personnel report number 924 through 25. Alena. Yes, madame president. Um we are slowing down a bit with our hiring of our substitute teachers. Um, but we still have a few and, uh, we had
160some changes that were made and a couple of retirements that we always want to recognize those individuals, uh, Dan Galloway and Charles Pierce for their service to our district and thank them for that. On the behalf of the acting superintendent, I recommend the approval of the certificated personnel order. A question. Yep. Um, so Alen, if you can pull that back up for me if you don't mind. I notice on there in the change uh Jeff Walters, the VP at Placer um is stepping back into the classroom. So what is the plan for filling that or or is there a plan for filling that um VP position? That is a discussion item. We are looking at budgetary um items as well and we are um discussing that as a team. Yes. All right. Do I have
161a motion? I move to approve. I'll second. We have a first by Trusty Duncan and a second by Trusty Jeff to approve item 10.1. Any further discussion or questions? I just wanted to say since you pointed that out, um, Principal Walters was amazing and I just thoroughly enjoyed him at Plaster as as an AP. He came out to multiple um wrestling duel meets and MCEd like a boss and played walkout music for our kids. There was a night there where he wasn't able to be there. I am not him and I am not as cool and fun and my voice isn't as cool and I we sorely missed him. They're like, "What happened to him?" I'm like, "I know. I know. He's much better at it than I am." So anyway, you uh he was
162much appreciated by the team uh by myself, by my husband. Um and so we're sad to be losing you as an AP at Plaster and thank you for your service. All right, hearing nothing else, we're going to go ahead and start with student board. All in favor say I. I. Board. I. All oppose. Motion passes unanimously. 10.2 two classified personnel report number 92 24-25. Yes, madame president. As you can see, we still are working on our spring sports as well as our volunteers. They are on constantly supporting our students and our staff in providing these activities. Um we also have a long-term um instructional aid that has worked for us for a number of years with uh some of our most severe students in our district. and I um have so appreciated her and her
163work for our students and I want to um just give her that credit. Um and on behalf of this um acting superintendent, I would recommend the approval of the uh classified personnel report and thank Kathleen Kramer very much. Thank you board. Do I have a motion? A motion to approve. I'll second the first by Trusty Duncan and a second by Trusty Jeff to approve item 10.2 classified personnel report number 94 through 25. Any discussion, questions? Hearing none, starting with the student board. All in favor say I. I. Board. I. I. All oppose. Motion passes unanimously. 10.3 Updated job description food services manager districtwide. Yes. Um, Madame President, um, as we continue to evolve and evaluate our practices and our past, um, job descriptions, um, our current director of child nutrition and services noticed, um, a
164lack of some of the very vary specifics about the warehouse that also is a part of child nutrition services and, um, requested an update to the job description to be more indicative of all the activities and duties that these individuals are actually already doing um as the warehouse is a part of that program. And so um just to give detail and so um this was reviewed between her and assistant um superintendent Peter and on the recommendation of the acting uh superintendent I would recommend the approval of the updated job description for this position. Thank you board. I move. A second. We have a first by Trusty Underwood, a second by Trusty Duncan to approve item 10.3, the updated job description for food services manager districtwide. I do have a quick um comment. So, this was
165brought by staff. This wasn't identified by this was identified in the department by Crystal. Hi, Crystal. I just want to thank you for your initiative. I appreciate you being proactive and making sure that our job descriptions are reflecting the work that your team is doing. So, thank you for taking that initiative and bringing it forward. Appreciate your time on that. Any other comments, questions? All right, without further ado, starting with the student board, all in favor say I. I. I. Board. I I. All oppose. Hearing none. Motion passes unanimously. 10.4 for a teaching outside credential pursuant to education code section 44258.3. Yes. Um as we've discussed in the past with the local board authorizations, this is a um individual that has the experience, the knowledge to teach um the academic lit class, which is an
166intervention course for um students for general education and special education. Um, so the local board authorization allows her to teach it to the general education students that are in the class as well. Awesome. All right, board. I have a motion. I'll move to approve. Second. We have a first by Trusty Jeff and a second by Trustee Duncan to approve item 10.4 teaching outside credential pursuant to education code section 44258.3. Any questions or comments? Hearing none. Starting with the student board. All in favor say I. I. Board. I. I. All oppose. Hearing none. Motion passes unanimously. 10.5. Plaster Union High School District's initial proposal to Associated Teachers of Plaster CTA NEA 2025 through 2026. Yes, Madam President. Um, these are the articles that have been recommended for us to look at in our negotiations with our
167ATP partners. All right. I have a question. Yep. Go ahead. So, Elena, are you the lead lead negotiator for the district? Yes. Okay. So, here's my question. Back in February, this board provided you direction to open up for negotiations on behalf of the district, article 16, pages 2728 in the CTP contract section C. Why is that not on this list? Um I have discussed this with the president um Spade and I did send that out. We I did not understand that there was consensus given that the whole board was directing me to add that article. Are you are you serious? Yes. Like we had a whole conversation about it. I think we can certainly have this conversation um outside of this space at this time. This is specific to the items related on this list
168for approval. Are there any questions related to um this document at this point? Okay. All right. Do I have a motion? I have a question for Trusty Jeff brought up. Do we have an opportunity to discuss and add that at a later point? I think that um because it's not specifically on this list at this time, I think we'd need to have um a conversation which we can in closed we go back to close later regarding um negotiations. Okay. Okay. I move to approve item 10.5. Second. First by Trusty Underwood, second by Trusty Duncan to approve item 10.5, Plaster Union High School District's initial proposal to Associated Teachers of Placer. Any further questions or comments? Hearing none, starting with the student board. All in favor say I. I. All uh board. I. All oppose? No.
169Motion carries 41. Item 10.6 Six, Sunshine of Associated Teachers of Placer opener with a PHSD 2025 through 2026. Yes, Madam President. These are the presented um area articles that ATP partners have presented as their wish for their openers for negotiations. Do I have a motion? Move to approve. Second. We've got a first by Trusty Jeff and a second by Trusty Lake to approve item 10.6, Sunshine of Associated Teachers of Placer ATP opener with a PUSD 2025 2026. Do we have any questions comments? Starting with this Oh, uh, Lake. No, he's on the board tonight. I think that's his first tie to the runner. Tie to the runner. All right. Um all in favor starting with the student board. I uh board I I All oppose. Motion passes unanimously. Item 10.7U between PHSD Plaster School for
170adults and Sierra College inmate education. This is exciting. Turning it over. 10.7. Um Peter, go ahead. Yeah, hang on one second. I'm trying to pull it up here because um if you have any further questions, I'm going to bring up Stephen Castright, the principal. But this is basically a newou and a lot of MUS come out of the adult school working with different corporations and other businesses to encourage educational initiatives. Um we've done a lot of work with the jail. This is now a a trio basically of the jail both jails plus carvac county PSA and Sierra College. And um it might take no cost to anybody. It's just a multi- agency type of effort to build inmate more education programs within the and in coordinating with Sierra College. All right. So then they're able
171to get postsecary. Yeah. Like as an example, I mean different things. I I just talked to Mike Paul today because they're interested in bringing him back as a wealthy teacher with that program for Sierra College. Again, um Stephen K more of those, you know, the more details about what it just it just enhances the program that's already there. Yeah. And offer even more opportunities for those people who are incarcerated or in jail. Thank you. I actually would you please come up. Thank you for being here. I love that. Is your mic on? You turn that on. We don't want to miss one thing you said. So, first of all, let me introduce myself to the new board members. We have notic officially met, but I did send you an email about PSA and a lot
172of the good work we're doing. Um, in this matter with Sierra College, I like to think of myself as Cisphus. have been pushing this rock uphill for seven years to get Sierra College to provide services to our inmate population. They like anybody else wants to better their existence and um Sierra College finally saw the light. Um, one of the problems was that Sierra College had not received um any funding from the state which was readily available for community colleges to provide inmate education in county jails. State system already has community colleges and four-year schools in their um state system, but county jails uh with realignment that happened about five years ago have taken on more of a long-term population. And so we've adjusted and adapted to meet those needs. Um an example of that is
173that Pler County Sheriff's Department um received funding. Oh, it was about 5 years ago to build what they call a vocational center. I keep reminding them no, it's a career technical education center so that I can bring them up to date. And this question with Mike Paul, I reached out to Mike Paul originally and said, "Hey, I know you're retiring. Would you be interested in going to work in the jail system?" So, we've been doing a lot of work in that program. We serve over between the three jails, we serve over 850 adult students. And um data has shown over and over again, you can read this in coalition on adult basic education, you can read this on federal papers that um a student who's in inmate education who receives up to 80 hours of
174education certification is 85% less likely to recivate. So if you want to save taxpayer dollars, provide education and services in our programs and they're capable employees coming out when we're lacking employees in businesses and industries. So we have partnerships going on. Love to have you take a tour of what we've done out there. We have one of the first online inmate education programs. It's called Nucleios. And they don't have to be in a classroom. They can take class time, meet with the teacher online while they're in their tank. They can grab a Chromebook, pick up uh one of they're they're they're shut down so that they can't get to the outside. We've taken care of those matters, but they can take classes, they can meet with a teacher, they can meet with Golden Sier Workforce
175Board, they can meet with EDDD, and these are all through an inner system that's closed down. We were one of the first in the state to provide this service for county jails. I could go on all night, but we'd all like to get home at sometimes. Any questions? Yeah. What does it look like? Does an inmate have to agree to to enter and roll in in a program or is it kind of pick and choose? So they request so what they have is they have a system. I don't know how they came up with this acronym, but they have what's called the kite system. And so once a um an inmate is enrolled in the any of the jail programs, then they are told informed of their ability to make requests for programming. And so
176they'll send a kite that says, "I'd like to take classes." And then what we do is we have a counselor that works inside the jail. She's there one day a week. She's bilingual, wonderful human being. She just got permanency this year. Um she goes in uh once a week and she'll meet with the prospective students to see what their needs are. So if they've already got a high school diploma, then we'll look at CTE opportunities that we have. One of our most um most visited programs is our parenting program. Believe it or not, we have uh had over 150 adults in just the two years we've had the program complete the program. It's it's um certified through um Sacramento County Office of Education. Um and we've had um success with that program. So they'll ask
177and we'll see what their needs are and then um we'll enroll them in different classes that we have available as it meets their schedule and their timing. With the nucleio we can enroll them as long as we are um able to through our sheriff's partners. We can enroll them in classes. They can take you know they're sitting there 247 so they can be taking those classes as long as the tank that they're provided in gives them access to those lockdown Chromebooks. they can take classes at midnight if they want to. Um, we also are working on getting library services in there for them. Of course, it has to be downgraded so they're not learning how to make a nuclear bomb while they're in there, but um, we're also been in negotiations with the count the
178sheriff's office to bring a truck driving school into the uh, inmate program so that they by the time they complete on their way out, they can already have that class A license and have a job on the way out. Pretty awesome. Do do so how much time can they spend on their own education? Is it is it uh It depends on what they're doing. So some of them depending on their classification, some of them are assigned to work tasks in the jail. They get time off for it. They get paid for that. Um some of them are not. So they can spend, you know, eight hours a day in some cases. And it depends also on where they're at in their own learning skills. So we come across a lot of them. No, this shouldn't
179be a surprise to anybody. They're second, third grade reading and writing levels. So then we have to create remedial opportunities for them and work with other partners. Great opportunity with inmates. I know school program is popular. Yes. you know, I think but to to go beyond high school, do you think that this program is going to really meet a lot of needs? So, we've had this this community college program. This is our second semester. Um, and the first semester we had four students and this semester we have 15 students that are enrolling. And this is a nonredit class. Our goal is to get uh credit classes, dual enrollment classes because if you are working on a high school diploma and you are in a K12 program, which we are part of the K12 system, you
180can be in community college dual enrollment. So, our long-term goal is to get Sierra College to see the value of dual enrollment classes for them and then begin the process of enrolling them into Sierra College for credit classes so that when they roll out, they're already in the system instead of making it one more hoop they have to jump through. The ability to recidivate, let's put it this way, it's easier for them to go back to jail than it is for them to stay out of jail. they only have to be within a hundred what is it 50 yards of another um former incarcerated and they'll be picked up and sent back to jail. So the incentive to be successful is a much lower bar than it is to go back to jail. So we're
181trying to make it easier for them to stay out of jail. I can tell you just from my visits um I've been there three times now. I think at least three times. At least three. At least three. Um the work that they're doing is incredible. Um I've attended the graduations. I always cry either there or on my way home because it's just it's really incredible and I think that um our staff is doing such an amazing job and they get emotional. You know, there's a tradition they share, you know, if they want if they choose to share part of their story at the end of graduation. And sometimes they've never had anybody believe in them. And these, you know, counselors, they did it just to, you know, earn good time to shorten their sentence. And
182then they found that, you know, they were capable and and some of them were graduating at the same time as their younger siblings or their child. And they're like, you know what? I I never thought I was going to get this and I'm 40ome years old and I'm doing it. So I I'm glad you brought up the recidivism rate. I was going to ask you if you didn't say it, volunteer it on your own. It's incredible work that they're doing. Um I'm so proud. We talk about our comprehensive sites all the time. We don't talk enough about PSA. Um you guys are doing a phenomenal job and I'm just super proud that that's under our umbrella. It's super cool. Um I encourage we're going to talk about graduations, but I encourage you to attend the
183inmate graduation. It's a lifecher. Well, and if I can put a shameless plug in for the rest of what we do quickly. Um and President Spade was the first board member for PE for Plaster Union High School District to ever attend um uh inmate graduation. So kudos to her. And then from her other people said, "Oh, we didn't know you could even do that." And we got other board members coming. So thank you for taking that leap. But we serve over 5,000 students throughout the eastern plaster county. We stretch from Newcastle to Truckucky and we cover all of Nevada County as well. So, we are a small school district basically. So, um come and see what we do and um I know um Trusty Jeffy's um brother uh brought his son out to see our
184truck driving school and he almost enrolled in our truck driving school. So, thank you for the time. Thank you. Appreciate that. Approval. Thank you. Second. Thank you. All right. We've got a first by Trusty Underwood and a second by Trusty Lake. Is that the voice I heard? Okay. Wait a minute. kind of missed it. Um, any further questions or comments? Hearing none, starting with the student board. All in favor say I. I. Board. I. All oppose. Motion passes unanimously. Um, item 10.8, Plaster High School Earl Crab Gym Wood floor replacement. I'm excited about this. Yes, Madam President. So just coming off high school intercoms thank you um intercoms gym floor and HVAC the HVAC and the 600 has already been approved that's still on track to be completed over the summer intercoms is still being
185researched but this is a gym floor replacement and so um you'll notice the price went up a little bit because they realize in doing their little bit of their investigation of some of the flooring underneath has to be taken care of so that we meet threshold needs where the new door where the doors are in the gym and so um over 50 years old the floor um it's been sanded and all that kind of stuff and we're getting a point where you see the nails pieces are being replaced and so it's it's time for a new floor. So on behalf of the active superintendent we recommend approval. Peter, how long does a floor usually last? I don't know, David. Should Should it last 10 years? I'm just curious. The floor we had before was over
18640, 50 years old. So Oh, it's that old. Yeah, the original that floor is it's not original at the gym, but it's it's been there for a while. And um you know, the the company we're going with, we're not buying wood floors from SNG carpet. You know, this is not what you Nothing against SMG, but you know, you're not buying some, you know, the laminate off the shelf at Home Depot. This is right more sturdier. Um it involves they're going to be taking everything off going down to the subfloor. They have to do um some trimming of the subfloors because the new floor is a little thicker. So it's got to meet the thresholds of the doors. Um if you've ever noticed the volleyball standards are not at midcourt. So they're going to fix that.
187Now for those who have watched a volleyball game, it's not at midcourt. So they're going to take care of that. Um and then of course um putting in and painting the designs and things like that. And I can show the design later during Friday back. Would this be scheduled before summer? Um, it'll probably be a summer project, okay? You know, because we don't want to do it during school time in PE and things like that, right? So, but it will take several weeks. It'll it won't be something done in a week. It's going to take a while. And and there's a historical or several probably historical components to this that probably increase the price on it a little bit. No, not necessarily. there because historical it didn't it when we made that when we did
188it when it became an historical uh dedication thing or um yeah the building it was more about the windows and design because the floor is more of a a substance of how it works. Okay. And so like if we were changing the windows and we went through that whole that's why you see the kind of windows that you see now and not something different. Um and you know the structure of the gym didn't change in the inside or outside. We've actually brought it up more to what it was supposed to be that art deco type of look. the floor. It'd be kind of like a foreigner house. It has to serve a purpose and that that that would not be there. I move approval. Second. We have a first by Trusty Underwood and a second
189by Trusty Duncan to approve 10.8 Plaster High School Earl Crab Gymwood floor replacement. Just a comment. I'm really excited. Safety is always important. Uh but it's high time. So, any further questions, comments? Hearing none. Um all in favor starting with the student board. I board I all oppose hearing none. Motion passes unanimously. All right. Item 10.9 resolution number 17 24-2 in support of the board naming the stadium on the Kfax High School campus the Tony Martell Stadium. So I appreciate the board's patience at the last meeting and making sure they heard the first read on this. Um, if you've seen the last agenda item, there was several letters of support for naming the stadium at Tony Martella Stadium. I'm not going to go to a lot of detail um from before of the accolades for
190coach Martell and his teaching career here at Kfax High School and within the Plaster Union High School District. But without further ado, we we recommend approval of naming the stadium at Kfax High School, Tony Martell Stadium. Approval. Second. We have a first by Trusty Underwood, a second by Trusty Duncan to approve item 10.9 resolution number 17 24-2 in support of the board naming the stadium on the Kfax High School's campus the Tony Martell Stadium. Quick comment. Um, obviously the timing of this was important because we are preparing to do the field and so I again I appreciate you guys um hanging out a little bit later last meeting um to make sure we could do this as well. All right, this is a roll call vote. So take it away Dr. Cavanetti. Student board I
191I actually we don't have a first or a second. I think we had one first. Yeah. Who was that? It was me. You and you? Yes. Thank you guys. I'm out of my rhythm. Here we go. Student board. I Underwood. Hi, Duncan. Hi, Spade. Hi, Jeff. Hi, Lake. Hi. Motion passes. Beautiful job. Thank you for keeping me on track, guys. All right. Item 10.10, BP21, Superintendent Contract Update Board. Um, if you'll go ahead and look in your folder, there should be a couple of drafts, one of which is now um amended language. So, after reading uh this board policy update, um most of it was pretty straightforward. However, based on the training that we had um with Pete from Jessup, I felt like it didn't clearly articulate the distinction of the roles. Um I know
192CSBA often uses uh the superintendent and the board as the governance team, but the governance team is actually the board. It's the people who were elected uh performing governance. And so I wanted to make sure that uh we articulated that properly. We're a leadership team, but um so my recommendation um so just for readability purposes, I showed you the first with the changes um in paragraph one. Um but the second it would read like this. Uh the board of trustees believes that the superintendent's employment contract should establish the framework for collaboration between the board as the governance team and the superintendent as the head of the administrative team. Together, they form the district's leadership team, working to achieve district goals and objectives. When approving the superintendent's employment contract, the board shall consider the importance of
193a stable district administration, the effective use of district resources, and the board's responsibility to ensure accountability to the public for the performance of the district's schools. You guys have any questions regarding my amendments or suggestions? I think it's a clear it's a more clear uh explanation separating the roles between governance and administration. So I uh I think that it's a a good improvement. So thank you for making that clarification. Thank you Trusty Lake. Do we have a motion motion to you get it? Motion to approve. I'll second. We have a first by Trusty Lake and a second by Trusty Jeff. And just point of clarification to amend the policy with my changes to paragraph one. Yes. Yes. Okay. All right. Any further questions or comments? All right. Starting with the student board. All in favor
194say I. I. Board. I. I. All oppose. Hearing none. Motion passes unanimously. Item 10.11 B uh board bylaw 9010 public statements. This was and board we'll take them one at a time for a vote, but um item 10.12 BB9012 was part of the ad hoc committee by Trusty Jeff and Trusty Lake. So I'll take it away. Um, so for board policy 9010, can we pull up the um, Trusty Lake and I did spend some quite a bit of time going Oh, sorry. Trusty Lake and I did spend quite a bit of time going over these two board policies. specifically right now we're talking about 9010 um and made some adjustments um to that policy um after taking into consideration some of the the um concerns that were brought up especially by Trusty Underwood um so
195we wanted to make sure that we addressed those concerns for him. So this is the policy that we came up with and after drafting it we ran it by legal um who uh gave us the green light. Y thank you guys for your time and efforts to work on that. Yeah, thank you. Do we have a motion? Motion to approve. I'll second. We have a first by Trusty Duncan, a second by Trusty Spade to approve item 10.11 BB910 public statements update. Jessica, the very comment, the very first paragraph is crossed out, right? Yes. Correct. I think we'll move I'll move to table and that was technically I believe what that's saying is board members can't freely express their feelings. Um so the first the first uh strikeout was from CSBA I believe and then the
196second section was what CSBA replaced it with which is in the bold. I should have said this and I apologize. the additional language by the committee was um in blue. And so um they indicated in the third line of that um having board members discuss their personal views and express their constitutionally protected right to free speech. So I think that that encompasses that no you're absolutely um you know able and and should there's other changes and there's more too. Yeah. Lower. Do you want to read that out? The statements by individual board members. Yeah. Or either um statements uh by individual board members uh the board recogni Sorry. Sorry. Can we go back down to that section? There we go. Yep. The board recognizes that as elected officials, individual board members have the right and
197responsibility to talk to members of the community and stakeholder groups regarding matters of interest to the board there. Um and then again going down to the part in bold, that's what was CSBA's recommendation. Um and then of of course the the area that's embold is what Trusty Lake and I kind of came up with as far as um modifying that language as well. So we kind of broke it up into the individual board uh board members and then the board spokesman. So it's kind of you know broken up in that way. Yep. Nice. Yeah. I think you guys did a great job putting that together and and clearly articulates that, you know, clearly, you know, the the authority rests with the board, but there are times when we're not going to agree with one another
198and nor should we agree all the time, frankly. Um we're not represented to be one body. We're individual people that are representing different different uh points of view and um there's going to be times where we disagree and you have that right that's protected under your first amendment and should express that. Um, and I appreciate that there there's language about showing restraint as a board uh spokesperson. I think that that's important and uh remembering, you know, proper decorum as elected officials just in our communication with the community. So, we have a first and a second on uh BB 1011. Do we have any further questions or comments? Hearing none, starting with the student board. All in favor say I. I. board I I all oppose hearing none motion passes unanimously item 10.12 BB910 board member
199electronic communications trusty Jeff or Lake All right so um sorry you're good so uh Trusty Lake and I sat down and discussed in addition to the previous um board policy we discussed uh board policy 9012 we spent quite a bit of time revising that policy and then once we had that policy revised we ran that policy by uh district legal who had no significant changes um that or no changes that needed to be made to that particular policy. I would actually move to table this um because the uh the proposal that's brought before us to this uh attached to this agenda here is not the proposal that uh Trusty Lake and I brought forward. Um there are there are actually some changes here that were made um that were not in our original proposal. So
200I think we need to get that corrected before we can discuss and vote on that. Point out the the change. Yeah. So for example um in that uh one two three the fourth paragraph there towards the end board members where it starts with in blue a board member shall not respond directly. That whole piece is different than what we had uh the way what we had proposed and written. So go sorry go back up. Sorry could we? So are you saying that the blue is new and what's what what was shreken is it shows that the writing the blue is you know is is the new verbiage supposedly the new verbiage that that we are proposing but that's not the verbiage that that we had written down your ver your verbiage is what's struck above
201it. No no it's not on there at all on there at all. Would you just so if you do you have it on you right now? Yes I do where it would ended up so under jurisdiction of the board. Okay, start right there. So, uh where it starts with a board member shall not respond directly including comments blah blah. Yeah. So, we had written electronic communications shall be used in compliance with the Brown Act. Additionally, using digital icons such as likes or emojis that express reactions to communications made by other board members regarding matters within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board should not be used if a majority of the board may see this graphic reaction. In accordance with government code section 54 952.2, to I'm comfortable um knowing, you know, we would just
202confirm that that language was inserted in here um as an amendment similar to the policy that we brought forward that there's going to be an amendment that we just fix that language and that just as a confirmation that was confirmed by council that section was that the full Yeah. I I don't know how that one I I mean it no problem with the whatever the copy was. Yeah. what it was was passed through legal. Okay. Yeah, I'm comfortable moving forward if just inserting the language that you read. Okay. Sure. But what I guess just from a fidelity standpoint like how who changed it. Um so I think when we share it with staff, I'm not sure which stuff I don't know if uploaded in are you saying I mean it could have been during the
203the copy and paste with right you have you have blue language now that's that's trusty language. you have bolded recommended. So, it's pretty possible that during the copy and paste it. Yeah. Sure. Sure. Um, yeah, the difference just sounds like it was any board member versus a majority of board members, if I pick up on the language correctly. Jeremy, could you speak to the significance of the changes what you read? Um, because we don't have it in front of us. So it it it is worded kind of differently and we did specifically use the terms likes and emojis for to make a point. I hope that um that was that was excluded. Um and we also had the term in there um you know if should not be used if a majority of the board
204may see this graphic reaction. Do you have any concerns around that? because we may not know if a board member may or a majority may see it or not. For instance, if it's on Facebook or on um Instagram and we stumble upon something and you know, we don't know who's going to see it, but there's a possibility that a majority would see it. Could you read that line one more time about the majority uh what we had originally drafted? So, I'll just read the whole thing again. Okay. So electronic communications shall shall be used in compliance with the Brown Act accordingly or additionally using digital icons such as likes or emojis that express reaction to communications made by other board members regarding matters within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board should not be used
205if a majority of the board may see this graphic reaction. Okay. Are there any other questions on that? Yeah, I have a comment on that. I'm uncomfortable with this because if someone posts something on competency based education and grading rubric, their opinion on what's going on according to that paragraph, I couldn't comment on that because that's within the board's prerogative. I don't like that. I think I should be able to comment on competency based education if that were there. So I can't I can't concur with this. So are you referencing if anybody in the community or a board? I'm just saying if I saw a post on competency based education where a person let's say was very critical of that and um what we're trying to do and I wanted to comment on that and
206that's within the board's uh agenda. This is saying I couldn't comment on that and I don't I can't agree with that. Yeah, David, I I completely understand where you're coming from. And the only reason that we had that in there was was guidance from legal counsel regarding the change to government code section 54952.2 um which requires uh requires that type of language. Yeah. What this is saying is you can't comment on something you see that's related to board activities. I I there's limits to that's censorship. I can't talk. you and I are on the same page, believe me. However, um like if you're if you're commenting on um your own Facebook page and you know the majority board is not, you know, a friend of your on your, you know, so we can't view your
207your posts like that, then that's not an issue, right? Um it's I think it would be as the the attorney kind of talked about it um with us is that um if you're commenting in a in kind of a more public forum um like a community post or something like that where you know other members of the board might actually see it. Um basically long story short it's kind of a a Brown Act issue that's come up recently with some legal cases. So we were required to have language similar to that in the in the policy whether we like it or not. Like we're we're required to this went all the way to the Supreme Court. a version of this, not this specifically, but it was so there was a case and I believe it's
208out of Southern California, and I know this because uh CSBA wrote an amus brief on it defending trying to defend um uh our rights um as elected officials because we're still citizens of the community and we have thoughts and feelings and opinions. The pro well the the problem well there there was a win on our side and that was that you could express yourself on your platform as you uh but not a public platform. So it's your private platform and you could express your opinion on whatever it might be. Um, and you would be able to decide whether or not, you know, in this scenario, there were a number of people, what my boys would call spamming the thread, just like non-stop commenting. And so, this elected official blocked that person. So, it wasn't exactly
209a Brown Act issue, but it was about um communications and censorship. And essentially the Supreme Court created a test um um a three-pronged test where they could determine if this was your private page um and if you could censor someone or not based on the if you were posting about something within your subject matter jurisdiction and if you had a disclaimer that said I am speaking on behalf of myself this is my private page this is not you know that where you protect yourself or you open yourself up to litigation and that's essentially what came up through this to you, but I see this as censorship. If I see something related to education and and it's significant to me and I want to post my opinion as a personal uh individual outside of the board,
210I want to be able to do that regardless of whether I'm on the board or not. I want to be able to say that, you know, I can't agree with this. So, it's not preventing you from being able to share your personal feelings. What it's trying to do is not build consensus outside of the boardroom, the exact same way the Brown Act works for all of us. So, we could say we're censored with each other. Um, but that's not realistic. The goal is that this type of dialogue happens in the front of the house. But I read the paragraph very carefully. It says if there's something related to the school per se and someone else has posted a comment on that, I can't respond. That's what it says. The goal is not to build consensus
211outside of this room. It would be the same thing if I called you about this item and then I called, but it's that's such a stretch. Well, I I I disagree. I get not wanting to feel censored, but I do understand the purpose behind this and the intent was to not violate the Brown Act and to protect the board, to protect yourself so that we could make sure that we're coming to consensus in the boardroom and not on social media or any other back channel. So, for that purpose, it does make sense to me, but I but I respect that. Real quick, um, Trusty Jeff and like I sent you their suggestions on March 11th. that that is what is in here. So I if you had altered what was back from legal that that
212didn't get relayed to us. So what you're seeing here is what legal wrote back that I I forwarded you both on on March 11th. So just just for clarification that's all we had in terms of the edits. I took your original draft that was sent to legal and then those were the comments they brought back that I I My guess is that and that's why my guess is that the majority of the board was a red flag. It's illegal. So that's that that's that's the only discrepancy really. Yeah. So, but what I'm saying what I'm saying is is that that actual blue board member shout it was the actual page. I'm just saying why they Yeah. Why they amended it is my guess. Yeah. Yeah. You're saying they amended the language we submitted? That's what
213you're saying, Steve? I'm just going based upon Yeah. the the draft that I've I forwarded to legal counsel based on your direction and the the feedback they gave back I was forwarded to both of you on the 11th and that was that's what's before we we didn't have any other revisions based upon that. Okay. So if that's the case do we feel comfortable moving forward with what legal concerns we can we can uh table and you know revisit. Yeah, I mean as I still have concerns about what what is written in blue here. Yeah, I mean that yeah, I'm I'm fine with that. Let's send it back to the ad hoc and um whatever clarifications need to be made with council. Okay. But I understand the purpose and I and I just, you know, obviously
214we need to be cautious on social media. It's it's a different era. We'll make sure that your your concern, David, is uh thoroughly looked into to see if there's a a way to not feel like censorship. My concern is it's this is taking away this is my concern. I'm on social media. I see someone posting something I think is totally inaccurate regarding an educational issue, something related to the district. And I'm not going to say as a trustee, you know, I want to comment on that particular subject in terms of what I believe whether the person knows me or not. I want to do that because it's something that's significant to me in my educational beliefs. And so this is saying I can't do that. So I can't support it. That's what it's saying. If
215it's my post, I can do it. If someone else posts, I can't I can't I can't I won't live with that. I can't. I think Yeah. I mean, legality is probably going to trump all this, right? And so, I don't think I in high respect and I'm with your opinion. I get it. But I think legality is going to trump it. So, I say we table this. Yep. And keep moving. Yep. I feel good about that. So, we're going to go ahead and idle um idle um table item 10.12 for further review by the original ad hoc committee with trusty Jeff and trustee lake. Moving to item 10.13 BB 9224 oath or affirmation. I have another short amendment. It's a one-s sentencer. It was just a hot mess reading u what CSBA recommended and it
216didn't make sense. It felt out of order and and I read it I don't even know how many times. I'm like I can't make this sound right. And so I said forget it. I'm going to use the same language and reorganize it so it reads more smoothly. And I came up with the bottom section in purplish blue that says, "Prior to entering upon the duties of the office or exercising any function of a board member, each member of the governing board shall take the oath or affirmation required by law instead of the nonsense in paragraph one. Makes sense. Do we have a motion or further questions or comments?" Try to read that first one. I'm telling you. Yeah, it's a little ugly. Move to approve with your amendment. Okay. Um as indicated. A second. All
217right. We have a first by trusty Jeff and a second by trustee Duncan. No oath of affirm um affirmation. So she she crossed out. Thank you. So we're just kind of do anything with this. We tabled that one. We tabled. Okay. I missed review. Oh, yep. We'll try to get something back. Try to get fixed for you. Alrighty. So, we're going to um we've got a first and a second for the oath of affirmation. Um item 10.13 with the amendments I proposed. Um any further questions or comments? Hearing none, starting with the student board. All in favor say I. I. Board. I. I. All oppose. Motion passes unanimously. Item 10.14 BB9260 legal protections update. Steve, this is just part of a update process. Uh for 9260, you can note the changes in bold. Um the
218key items under um 20 USC there did not change one through seven. Um it's really the narrative there. Protection against personal liability. I did appreciate the strikeout of the replace with the. So I giggled. Solid update CSBA. All right. Any further questions or comments? All right. Uh, do we have a motion? Motion to approve. Second. We have a first by Trusty Duncan and a second by Trustee Lake to approve item 10.14 BB9260 legal protections update. Any further questions? Hearing none. Starting with the student board. All in favor say I. I. Board. I All oppose. Motion passes unanimously. Please. Item 11, staff reports child nutrition update. This is always a highlight when we get to have you, Crystal. You're a great presenter. No pressure. And I appreciate what you do. Come on down. You and your
219baby boy. Welcome. Busy. Okay. Um when's your due date? Uh June. Uh early mid June. But I don't think he's going to wait that long. I think he's got a different agenda. So, uh, thank you so much for having me. Um, and with the interest of time, I will try to make this as quick as possible. Go ahead and go to the next slide. Uh, so we're just going to review a few things, uh, just to kind of share what the nutrition department has been up to, what some of our goals are. Um, and then we are going to we're going to double back a little bit to some information we shared last year in respect to our new board members who would like to provide a a bit of a scope of the ins
220and outs of nutrition services and kind of share with you how it works. We'll talk about second chance breakfast, our freshly prepared meals, and increasing our meal access. Go ahead, Crystal. Yes, ma'am. You take all the time you need. We've got almost an hour and a half before we have to make a motion. You're fine. Do your presentation. Oh, thank you. You're good. Um, so I think it is important to know and understand how the nutrition program works within the confines of a school district. We're kind of an entity within the district. We are supposed to be self-funded, which means that we take no contribution from the general fund. Um, so that means that all of our labor, all of our benefits, all of our food, all of our supplies, all of our equipment, every
221fork and spork and napkin comes out of the reimbursement that we get from the meals that we serve. Now um for some time uh there was a a long period of time where unfortunately there was a deficit in that and with the inability to carry over bad meal debt which is um the debt that students acrew eating meals um during before universal meals when they would then be charged but not required to pay. uh that was called bad meal debt and at the time those things had to be covered by the general fund. Um thankfully universal meals came around and has changed a lot of that policy but to share with that it is still the same process. we a student comes through the line, selects a meal that is qualified as reimburseable um and
222then we get money for that meal and that money covers all of the operations and supplies and food for our department. So there's a little breakdown on this slide for you to kind of share um where we're at right now. And so right about now uh it was during co we were getting a little extra money and it's gone down. So, if you average about how much money we get for breakfast and lunch, we get a little more for lunch than we do for breakfast. Uh, we get about $4.62 per meal. Um, currently our labor cost for our department is about 64%. So, that's $2.95 of that $462. Uh, a milk costs 38. A serving of fruits or vegetables for fresh costs about 36 cents. Um, and then currently a cost for a slice of
223pizza is $1.25. Cheeseburger is 61. Um, and then if you have a bowl, a tray, and a utensil that is 18. And so that brings um now the meal cost for that is $226. So you can see how quickly that can add up in what we have to spend with what we are receiving. Now you'll see on this slide that that cheeseburger is 61 cents. And you go now, how are you serving 100% beef burger on a freshly delivered bun, the slice of cheese for 61? Well, that's where our USDA commodity comes in, which is why we are super grateful to have our warehouse that has our um newly modernized walk-in freezers. We were able to use our kit funds for that along with some contribution from the general fund. Um and we are able
224to utilize that beyond what we get. So, we get commodity commodity dollars. Think of it as like monopoly money. We get a bank of money at the beginning of the year. Actually, we got the money in February and I had to already allocate it for this next school year and plan ahead on how much we were going to buy and when we were going to get it in and what that was going to look like. So, um, but once we open the door to that, what happens is there's often surplus commodity and they charge us, um, $1.95 a case for that extra commodity that is in our Sacramento hub. So, um, I recently picked up 80 cases of ground beef for $1.95 a case. So utilizing those items and utilizing those things and that's why
225we are doing and we'll talk about more about the scratch prepared meals um focusing on those items and um not joining a co-op and or purchasing directly from the USDA really helps us manage our bottom line and what we are doing is purchasing ingredients instead of food and we are making the food with our ingredients. So that is kind of what helps us keep and manage our um cost and for that reimbursement. Um I know you guys hear talks about you know federal and universal meals is from the state and what does that mean? So a free meal if a student qualifies for a free meal regardless of they all get a meal for free right now and that means that nobody uh in the household has to pay for it. If a student qualifies
226for a free meal, 100% of that reimbursement comes from federal. If a student qualifies for a reducedpriced meal, um part of that reimbursement comes from the feds and part of it comes from the state. But if a student is a full paid and does not qualify for anything, 100% of that bill is being picked up by the state right now. And that's what Universal Meals is doing for California. Um, just so you know that on the eligibility scale, what tips a family over from being free meals to not for a family of four is $40,000. $40,560 a year. So, if you make $41,000 a year as a family of four, you do not qualify for free meals. Um, we'll talk about that on the other slide later. So um anyways so so we are working
227to um manage our food costs so we can uh continue to operate and not in a deficit in a positive uh balance and make sure that we have enough staff to feed our kids and enough ingredients and good food to feed our kids. Next slide. So, Second Chance Breakfast or as you may have heard of it, they call it nutrition break. And this is a golden gem in our district. And um I want to continue to thank the administration for supporting um second chance breakfast because it is 30% of our revenue. For school districts that don't have second chance breakfast, their breakfast revenue is about 10% of their overall. So Plaster High for example, we serve about 430 lunches. We serve about 390 breakfasts a day. And most of those happen at nutrition. Those kids
228come in, it's like a magic trick. We serve 400 kids in like 5 minutes. Um and uh and so because of that time that is being made and put in that bell schedule, those seven minutes do so much for those students because we know I mean we were all in high school one time. I don't know about you, but I didn't eat first thing in the morning and if I had to wait till lunch sometimes that was hard and students who are hungry and they're you know stomachs are rumbling, they have a harder time focusing in the classroom but they get that um opportunity for breakfast. Now, we do offer breakfast before the bell at all of our sites. Now, they get one free breakfast a day, so they have to choose where they want
229to get that meal service at, but nonetheless, they have access to that breakfast at two times during the day. Um, the photos that you see in these slides are photos of of our food. So, um, that is actually a breakfast chiso pizza. It's a turkey and pork chiso blend that we found. Uh they chop up fresh vegetables and put it on a pizza and the the students students like it and the parfets they love the parfets. When is when is second breakfast served between first and second block? It is it is yes I like 9:57 I think. I don't know where that is in the schedule but it's around 10 o'clock in the morning. So they have that and then lunch is served at about 11:45 12:00. So, it's a nice break and they're able
230to access that breakfast. Um, we made a commitment. We started a couple years ago to make sure that we have a protein focused item on our breakfast menu and we've continued through that commitment. Um, even as the price of eggs go up and things are more challenging, um, believe it or not, those uh, yeast rice donuts that you see there that we've beautifully dusted in powdered sugar, um, they have six grams of protein in them. So, uh, trying to make sure that our students have access to not just a meal, but a sustainable meal, something that's going to carry with them. Um, next slide. So, freshly prepared. Um, I think you've you've heard us share our mantra. One of our things that's super important to us is that uh we only want meat in our
231meat. So, if it's chicken, we want chicken. If it's beef, we want beef. We don't want any soy fillers or um byproducts added into our product. We really want to serve our students a quality product. Um, and thankfully, a lot of that comes from the USDA. Uh, our burgers are 100% beef. Our ground beef is just that. Um all of our uh chicken products and even our um lunch meats are a great product. Um and that is important to us. We do purchase uh from California and we try to purchase locally. We do have Spork Food Hub that we've worked with intermittently. Um you know, we talked about cost. We did for in supporting for esback testing one of our menu items. We tried to do a special menu item that's for the juniors only.
232Um and and it's for them to come and have something special so they feel motivated to go in and be successful in their testing. Um and not doodle faces in the little circles that they have to fill in on their testing sheets. Um and we did a build your own parfait bar at two of our uh sites already. And we purchased raspberries at $65 a flat for 12 6 oz raspberries. So, as you can see, we have to pick and choose and how we do things because that's not a sustainable, but that's important to us. That event is important to us and to invest in those students. Um, but making freshly prepared meals is super important. All of our salads and sandwiches are made by hand by our staff every day. Those muffins are actually
233muffins that we bake in house. Uh our pizza is delivered fresh from Papa Murphy's every day. We bake that and serve that to our students. And then along with our specials that we are making, we've got a a variety of Asian bowls. Currently, we're doing a Korean beef bowl on Wednesdays. Um and every once in a while, we put in a throwback that is not quite as freshly prepared. We put mini corn dogs and tater tots on the menu for this cycle menu. Um and uh the kids are super excited about it no matter what uh what age they are. So we operate in a cycle menu as well which is where we have a oneweek menu that repeats itself for about six weeks and then every six weeks we fluff the menu. we change
234the salad and we add uh we have a chef salad on the menu during the week this time. And uh maybe we were doing a orange chicken bowl and now we're doing the Korean beef bowl. So we kind of keep some of our themes but we change up the menu during the winter. We do a lot of um homemade Alfredo and homemade beef marinara. Um more of those comfort foods. And as we get into the warmer season, we try to brighten it up and have those uh colder, fresher items to keep the students engaged and keep it exciting as much as possible. Um, let me check my notes and make sure. Uh, 90% of our meals are prepared, our menu items are prepared in-house. We only have a few things that are a heat and
235serve item and most of it's breakfast and that's where we're really working to put our focus in moving forward. Um, next slide. So, it's important for us to be present with our students. Um, and so there's a lot going on all the time. And so, um, you know, we were just talking about the testing breakfast for the juniors, making something special for them. and that falls under the universal meals. So, they're able to come and get that free meal and we're able to get that reimbursement. We have turkey feast which um a handful uh of the board have have been able to attend and I'm looking forward to next year for those who haven't been before to be able to attend. Um it's a incredible cultural celebration that we would not be able to do
236without universal meals. Um, every student gets to participate no matter what and they all get to go through the line and put all of their goodies on their plate and get that uh cookie at the end. Um, and we partner with our athletics. Um, you can see is a a Deloro football player here and we partnered with the football moms to help provide the additional components for a compliant breakfast. So that way on game day, these students can have a substantial um healthy breakfast. So that way it'll carry them through the classroom and then give them a good nutrition base to support them on the field as well. Um we like to do all school events with barbecues. Um we started a new tradition or a new type of all school participation. Um, I think
237at the end of last year, we started it with KFax doing a tailgate party where we serve boneless wings and it comes with the carrots and the celery and they get to choose their sauce. Um, and um, and serve those with little uh, all fruit sorbet cups that are served as a treat, but they're all fruit, but don't tell the students that. Um and so and and supporting the student voice and other campus uh club meetings with lunches so that way they can have lunch on campus during their meeting uh and not miss out on their meal. Um next slide. Oh, okay. So I have a slide in here that didn't make it on there. So I will just share. So, a big part of what we're doing is um is our meal access and
238advocacy and and making sure Oh, there it is. Did I wash right over it? I'm sorry. Yes. Uh so, our meal access is super important and um how we're advocating for that. So, we had the opportunity to be out at the parent nights, some of the parent nights this year, and that was um a huge opportunity, especially on the nights when the incoming eighth graders were on campus, cuz it wasn't just getting them to see the food, which they're excited about because they're coming from the elementary schools, but to also show the parents what's being offered, and we offered samples to the parents. We wanted the parents to try the food that the students were getting so they could see what we were offering. And so we could, you know, remind them that when their
239students say, you know, well, I have to have money for lunch. And it's like, you know, they can get lunch off campus and they can get lunch on campus. If a student walks up and is eating something from AM PM or wherever, I don't care. We're still happy to feed you. We will still give you a free meal. Please let us feed you. Uh, but it gave us the opportunity to also reach out to parents and let them know also that the meals are still free. It is surprising to me how many families don't know that the meals are still free. Um we're now reaching more classrooms with field trip meals. Um super uh grateful to be a part of the informed K12 notification when a field trip gets approved in that initial process. Um
240I get a notification on the date that that's happening and the teacher and we're able to send an email and say hey let us send you with meals. we will have them ready to go graband go meals and you guys can take those with you because they still need to have access to a meal that day. Um and that has been a really big success. And then you know advocating for those meals is not just here in our community. Um it's also within our state and within our capital. Um, I was in Washington DC uh last month and we were meeting with people in the capitol to continue to advocate for um the access to meals for students, the continuation of access to funding that we've been receiving and ensuring that um we keep C
241intact where it's at. even though we don't qualify, um a lot of our surrounding school districts really depend on that funding. And then I actually was just um at the capital this morning here in Sacramento wrapping up the legislative action conference for California where we were again meeting with senators and um assembly people and just continuing to advocate for our students and share our stories about the impact that they're having uh the meals are having on our students. And it is wonderful feedback to hear that they don't have a plan to take any of that away. They are they are in full support. Um and so that is it is great to hear and um and great to be a part of the advocacy that's going on. So um go ahead and go to the
242last slide. I checked it. The QR code works this year. So if um if you if you have any power in your bank left um feel free to scan that QR code. We got a little survey um and it's mostly just some curiosity feedback about perception on the nutrition program understanding um and just a just a little feedback just some fun. So uh thank you so much for your time and letting me share about what nutrition is doing. Question. Yes sir. What do you guys do with your leftovers? So, thank you. So, we uh our menu is developed to with a goal to repurpose a lot of our leftovers. So, the goal is to have none. So, once we are getting towards the end of let's say lunch service, um we see the line dying
243down, we will often pull back our cold items because they can be held over. Um because I'm not going to reheat a cheeseburger and serve it to a kid the next day. like we're we're we're not doing that. Um and so we will pull back our cold items because we can put them out again the next day and then push the hot items that we have left for the the and the students coming in. Um items like pizza that's left over, we actually cool that down, wrap it up, and we serve it as cold pizza for breakfast and all of it goes. we're preparing them for college, you know, trying to give them the tools for success. Um, and so that that is uh anything our Asian bowls that are left over, we turn those
244into wraps and the next day. So any Asian bowls that are left over, we cool those down, put them in a tortilla, serve them as a wrap the next day. So the goal is to repurpose our food where we can. Um, leftover chicken burgers, crispy chicken sandwiches. uh we will dispose of the bun and then we cut up the chicken, make a crispy chicken salad with it the next day. So um we try to have no waste as much as possible. Um there are some times where maybe maybe it slipped through that, you know, the junior class is taking a field trip somewhere and we got a whole bunch of leftovers. And so we will then pull those leftovers together and following the guidance for SB 1383. Um we will donate those to a local
245shelter. And then items such as like milk and produce that we will probably have some leftovers of at the end of this week. Um because it's going to be spring break, that product won't carry through the week. Um, which if you think about it, just a side note, what amazing work that the staff do on site to manage live inventory. I mean, they order from multiple vendors during the week to order enough to get through the week to minimize how much waste goes out. It really is incredible what they do. But we anticipate um some fresh produce and milk that won't make it through. So, we will collect that on Friday and we will donate that to the Auburn Interfaith. So, we have some partners in the community for those items. She did not disappoint.
246She never does. You're amazing. Um, and what all the things that you do. Um, real quick, you did touch on the fact that you guys are feeding other school districts. Could you touch on that? We are. Uh we are fortunate to support the meal service programs at two of our feeder schools. So Kfax Elementary and Alta Dutch Elementary. Um and we have uh one of our staff on site there at KFax Elementary. And so we are able to provide the meal service program for them as well. Um where they would be left with maybe not as um high quality options. And so and then we also get to do turkey feast for them to bring them into that cultural fold um as they as we are then going to you know greet them into PUSD
247once they um level up and come on in. So it's a great opportunity and a great privilege to be able to serve our kids. regarding your meal access and advocacy. Um, while I didn't take the opportunity to try the food at KFax, your your stand and it and people were eating and I just thought this is so cool and I was too busy chitchatting and it was shut down. I'm like, one of these days, one of these days I'm going to go. Um, but yeah, I think it's really cool the outreach that you guys are doing. And I I just wanted to thank you for your advocacy. I think sometimes people get confused about what our role is um in a district or on a board that there there's always something tied to the legislature.
248It's typically our funding. Sometimes it's other things too, but how important that is um as elected officials, but as our staff, I'm so thrilled to hear that you were in DC advocating there. You know, when we talk about money, and I'm and I'm not one to, you know, encourage raising taxes ever, really. Um very rare, very rare. Um, but I think that the universal meals has been great and and I and I can speak, you know, and I shared this before that, you know, as a child, you know, I was one of the kids that was on a reduced lunch with um a broken family and, you know, not not much to be able to do. And I remember the two different lines, the poor kid line and the line where kids didn't have, you
249know, they could get whatever they wanted. Their options were different. It was embarrassing. Um there was times, you know, where, you know, people would make choices not to eat at all. And I'm just if of all the things that we could be paying for when they're in our care, I am in full support of feeding the kids and you do it so with with expertise, recrafting all of your things um to make sure that, you know, we're able to not have waste and stay within the budget. you guys are crushing it and um and so I just I value the work that you do and and it it has not gone unnoticed since um I've been able to witness all the wonderful things that you're doing and I just sincerely appreciate it. Well, thank you.
250If anybody would ever like to join us for breakfast or lunch, it's on me. So, please come feel free to come and participate and um see what we have. We would we would love to feed you. Um just really quick, sorry, I wanted to thank you too. Um so for modu at KFAX, like we went to Berkeley for a conference and you um the site staff there, they made um little graband-go bags which were like really helpful cuz we had conference pretty much right when we got there. So we didn't have time to eat. So that was really helpful. And then also the muffins that you guys make are so good. Yeah, just really wanted to highlight that cuz the lemon muffins, every time I see them, I'm like, "Oh my god, they're amazing." But
251yeah, thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Awesome. Thank you so much. Thank you. Uh President J, just so you know, assembly is down. We're having it seems to be assembly problem. So, our viewers at home might have a trouble pulling up our agenda and we might lose it. Luckily, we're towards the end of the meeting, but um if Sarah has to change screens, we might lose some just so you're aware. No problem. Thanks for the update. Right in time for public comment, which doesn't need a presentation. Oh, and we do have one. Okay, great. Um, we're going to move to item 12, public comment on non-aggendaized items. Thank you so much, Desiree. This is an opportunity for the public comments to be received by the board. This is a time for members of
252the public to address the board regarding items not on the agenda. Completing a blue participate public participation form is preferred, but not mandatory. Thank you. Uh, this form can be obtained at the meeting. Um, in the interest of conducting a public meeting in a timely manner, individual speakers will be allowed three minutes to address the board with no more than 20 minutes per topic. This is a comment period only. The law California Education Code section 35145.5 does not allow the board of trustees to take action on any item not explicitly posted on the agenda in advance. The board values public comments and wishes to convey that although the board members cannot take action on items that are not on the agenda, they listen carefully and I can guarantee we do and I appre and we
253appreciate and value the input from the public. Heather Haskins. Oh, please. Thank you. want us to pass it down. You're on the move. Sure. Sure. This is awesome. Student board, too. Oh. Oh, sorry. Yep. One more. Okay. Um I'm Heather Haskin and first of all thank you esteemed Ford for your time tonight. Um I am the mom of proud mom of four amazing kids and um the founder CEO of the National Down Syndrome Coalition and many of you know my son Malachi who has the superpower of Down Syndrome. Um he's a graduate of Placer thanks to the new diploma pathway that was approved. um and currently attends the district transition to adult living program, also called tall. Um so tonight, I'd like to bring to your attention um something positive um and tell you what
254the district is doing well um because I think that it needs to be said. I think I sat in enough meetings to see that you receive um some negative feedback. So tonight I want to give you some positive. Um, I wanted to let you know that um, the district's tall program is an exceptional program and it's being run by an outstanding um, teacher and staff um, Alicia McCoy. Um, she goes above and beyond to teach all the students in the tall class that my son Malachi attends. And um what I'd like to highlight is that on March 21st, it's considered World Down Syndrome Day, but also California Down Syndrome Awareness Day and Malachi's Extra Awesome birthday. He was um extra awesomely born on the day that two years later they chose to be World Down
255Day. Um so on that day, he was um recognized as a guest of honor at the Capitol. I've been working the last few years with Assemblyman Joe Patterson to organize um the resolute bill um ACR41 to recognize and honor people with Down syndrome in the entire state of California. So, um Alicia and all of her amazing team organized um awesome t-shirts which I showed in the picture that literally um grabbed my heart because they totally celebrated down syndrome and just appreciated it. And then she organized I helped organize them coming to the assembly floor and for some of them that was the first time they've ever been to the assembly floor. There were as also um three other young ladies uh with Down syndrome in Malachi's class that um I organized to get certificates as
256well for um and they got recognized and I can tell you that um it blessed my heart to see how happy they were and they got to meet the assemblyman Joe Patterson um receive certificates go look around the capital learn what they do um but also I just want to recognize the program as being exceptional because they see the students not only as young adults but as capable and Alicia really goes above and beyond to take the curriculum to a level to continually improve and help each student achieve their greatest success towards independence however long it takes and I just completely appreciate that and it's just a great program and I thought you guys should know and um I just wanted you to recognize what was done for Down Memorial Day and how she made
257it happen for all the students. So, thank you. And can I make one suggestion? Sorry, please. Um, I would love to see parents or students be able to nominate teachers or staff that go above and beyond with like a ballot box or something. That's traditionally, I've been told, um, something that teachertoteer does. But I think that teachers need to be recognized for their exceptional service. Staff needs to be recognized for their exceptional service. And I just wanted to suggest that that would be a really awesome thing if parents and students could do that. So, thank you for your time. That's awesome. Thank you, Heather. I want to say thank you so much. I know you and I have had opportunity to sit down before and talk um at length. Um thank you so much for
258all that you do um supporting special education. Thank you. I appreciate that. It's my honor. Thank you. Thank you so much, man. That's a great way to end the night. Feeling it. Um item 13, board calendar coordinating and announcements. Um we have a number of events coming up. Uh namely spring break and I will be out of the area. So I let Dr. Camdetti know and Tom who are also out of the area but will be likely to be reached if nothing happens. Hopefully nothing happens but um that they are on deck. Knock on wood. Knock on wood. Uh yes. Um, regarding the student engagements, the two that you had mentioned, uh, KFax and, um, Placer, um, obviously we at student engagements based on the Brown Act training that we had with DWK that we
259can't all be listening to the same thing at the same time. So only two board members are permitted. Um, do I don't know if you have calendars in front of you or we're able to coordinate at this time um, those meetings. Steve, would you please? So, uh, student engagement at Placer the 23rd, that's the Wednesday, um, right after spring break, same day as our, um, close session board meeting with PCE Wednesday, and that is at um 10 o'clock in the learning comments. And then Kfax High School on May 7th, Wednesday, as well. Okay. their availability for board members to attend either of those. Yeah, I think May as well. So, Lake and Jeff at um KFax, correct? I am happy to attend U plasters on the 23rd. Okay, perfect. So, Trustee Underwood and Spade at
260Plaster Student Engagement. Okay. And then, uh, regarding graduation attendance, yes, you bet. Okay. So, obviously graduation super important. There's lots of Bless you. Who was that? Peter. God bless you. That was intense. You all right? We're good. Okay. All right. I'm not Oh, science teacher needs to disinfect. Okay. Obviously, it's super important and I think um we have great tradition. Obviously, the board uh certifies the election. So, it's important that a board member attends each site. It's a tradition that we usually not scatter, but strategically choose a location so that a trustee can be at every site. I know that last year um there wasn't a representative at Forest Hill. Um, so that would be a highlight for them. So essentially, we hand the diploma and shake their hand. And so it that's a pretty
261cool thing. My son is graduating. I've had two years in a row where I have a a kid graduating. So I will be at Placer. Um, and so do we have any other takers or family relationship somewhere else that um would preclude your attendance at another event or you would need to be somewhere? I do. You mention the calendar. Oh, yeah. Sorry. It's right there. Saturday, May 31st. I'll be at Deloro. Okay. Couple families. Okay. So, Tom at Deloro, Kfax, Jeff. And where did you say Trusty Lake? Wait, no. I have Jeff twice. What am I doing? I'm writing funny things over here. Um 9:00 a.m. on the Yeah. which is such a bummer because we all have kids we love at all the sites and and they have friends at other sites and it's
262always such a bummer. Um but it is what it is. Okay. Um Forest Hill, do we have a taker? Yeah. Yep. Okay. That's awesome. Let's go Trusty Lake. All right. Um Trusty Underwood. Yeah. I would like I know you want to do plaster. There's five of us. I'd like to be a plaster, too. We can be both be at plaster. We have every site covered, so it'll be you and me. Great. That'd be great. Thank you. Yep. Awesome. Okay. And I would encourage you, if at all possible, um, to attend the other graduations, they're so special. Um, plaster school for adults is May 21st at Parkside Church, which is not far from here. Um, Mighty Virtual Charter Academy um is also they usually do them back toback and they they do have them back toback
263for Confluence and Mighty Virtual Charter Academy at Plaster on the 29th. So, if at all possible, I think it's a great opportunity to show solidarity as a board and support our graduates um at all of um the ones that we can attend that are not in conflict with one another. Yes. So, it's on the agenda. So May 29th for Mighty Virtual Charter Academy and Confluence. One begins at 5:30 and the second begins at 6:30. And these I'm sure does these are these all in our calendar already. I'm pretty sure. So if you're not using your Google calendar, definitely do. I survive with the Google calendar. I would not be where I'm supposed to be without the Google calendar. Okay. All right. Is there any other announcement or coordination at this point? I think we're good.
264Is there anybody doing foster school for adults on the 21st? Um I I would encourage all board members to attend those if that's possible. I will be there. Is any does anyone else have a conflict that night? I can. Okay. Jeff, we have representation. Hopefully we have all five. That'd be epic. Okay. Super. Well, we are going to recess back into closed. Good night, everyone. Thank you for your time. I appreciate it. We'll be back. Sorry, Carlos, Dez, and Sarah. Are is the sound working there? Thumbs up. Thank you, Carlos. Alrighty, we are coming back from our close session um and are going to report out starting with 3.61 stipulated expulsion 0312 CE 2425. Do I have a motion? Move to approve. Oops. Sorry. Move to approve. Second. We've got a first by Trusty Jeffrey,
265second by Trusty Duncan to approve the stipulated expulsion. And let me make sure here. Yeah. 3.6.1. Um, all in favor say I. I. I. No. David, we don't know where he went. Disappeared a while ago. Um, I know a search and rescue guy. Okay. Um, all oppose. I know one, too. All right. Motion passes unanimously. Item 3.6.2. We're punchy. It's late, guys. 3 3.6.2 stipulated expulsion 049F 24 through 25. Do I have a motion? Motion to approve. Second. We have a motion by Trusty Jun Juncan Duncan. Second by Trusty Jeff to approve 3.6.2 stipulated expulsion 049F2425. All in favor say I. I. I all opposed hearing. None. Motion passes unanimously. Uh [Music] regarding Lord have mercy, save me. Um making sure. [Music] Um we have nothing to report out on item point uh 3.5 and
2663.4. Um conversation uh discussion took place and direction was given to staff unanimously. Without further ado, item 14. Do I have a motion for adjournment? Motion to adjurnn. Second. We have a first by trusty Duncan and a second by trustee Jeff. You are late. However, all in favor say I. I. I. All oppose. Motion passes unanimously. Good night. Thank you guys. Thank you.