001Wait. Well, I knew this. I knew this was going to happen. That's why this Where's my purse? I my purse. Yeah. You know, I needed a roof for him to read out. I'm sorry. Okay. Okay. Um, can everyone hear me? Okay. Clap once. See if you can hear my voice. Clap twice if you can hear my voice. Thank you. Um, I now call this meeting uh for the Robola Board of Education on Thursday, April 24th uh to order. Please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance 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. Okay, thank you. It's very rare that we have such a full boardroom and um normally I
002know that that is a often a really good thing. I know that tonight um there are some specific reasons why our boardroom um is full and um I would just like to say we uh appreciate all of you coming and we do want to hear from you. Please remember that this is a board meeting and that we do have to abide by certain rules and regulations and civility. So please be respectful and please keep conversations down and yeah [Music] um let the record show that all members of the board are present account with the exception of trusty deloo. Uh, let's see. Sorry, I haven't done this in a while. Uh, report of action taken in closed session. There is um there was no action taken in closed session. We have decided to amend the agenda
003and we will be removing item 7J which is a request for proposals for a recommendation for expanded learning um providers. Is there a motion to approve the amended agenda? So move second. There's been second moved and second. All those in favor say I. I oppose extensions. The agenda has been approved as amended. Can you explain what that means to people? Sure. So we had some public comments on item. So because it's allowed to speak it on section where it says um items not on agend again please keep the chatter down. Sorry. You know, we're dealing with some actions that we have just not had to um do in um a long time or wherever. Okay. So, we have pulled item 7J from the agenda and we will not be hearing that item tonight and I
004know that many people have come to speak on item 7J. That's the majority of Yes. Let me finish. Let me finish. Okay. Just let him finish. Why would you guys Please, please, please, please. If if if y'all could just give us a minute to finish. Just give us a minute. Okay. Finish. That'd be much appreciated. Okay. Okay. Why is that? The reason why we chose to pull this agenda item is because we did not feel like we would be able to vote on this and come to a conclusion tonight. Okay. Okay. So you don't even want to hear from the parents. That is not Please sir. Please sir. Please sir. Okay. There is there there is sir. Please. Okay. I'm trying. No, you're not. Yes, I am. Okay. We do have public We have a
005public comment section. Let's take a recess. Okay. I'm going to call for a recess. We do have a public comment section for items that are not on the agenda. Everyone will be able to speak at that item. Mr. Coriece will also still be able to speak on while you are here. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Weeks. Again, there is time for everyone to speak even on an item that is not on the agenda. I'm going to call for a quick recess because I believe a recess is in order and needed right now. Okay. Okay. I'm calling for a a fivem minute recess. [Music] Okay, I convene the meeting again. I am about to convene the meeting again. We need civility in these meetings. Civil civility to us. Just agreeing with you 100% going on. The kids
006are already Exactly. So stop going away like children. You're saying giving us the respect to say why we just like to come out and say why are getting up and saying we're going to a recess and as you're walking away Okay. Okay. This meeting is is back in order. We do need civility. Please let me speak. Please. We need civility. Okay. Now, as I mentioned, there is a time for public comment. We want to hear from everyone. We have decided to pull this item from the agenda, but we still want to hear from everyone. Whether it's on the agenda or not, we want to hear from you. Okay. I'm not Please let me let me respond. Please let me respond. Pulling the agenda item has nothing to do with the way anyone was going to
007vote. Pulling the agenda item. Well, I'm not we we decided to pull the agenda item. It has nothing to do with the way anyone was going to vote. We just did not feel like it was appropriate to have the agenda that have the item on the agenda tonight. So, we decided to pull it. That's not a reason why. And that is perfectly fine. Well, no, it's not perfectly fine. You didn't give us a reason why. You gave us a statement of you just decided you didn't want it. Why did you not want it? Why are you just going to sit there and smile at each other? I think I all you're going to do is give a political answer please. Excuse me, sir. Excuse me, sir. Go ahead. Um, we all have migraines at this
008point. And so, excuse me. I think it's also really important to understand that. No, it's not. Excuse me, sir. Please stand. Yeah. It's yes, it's it's it's important to understand um that we are all human beings here first of all. Um and if we want to be able to hear one another, it's important that we allow one another to speak. Um how we're showing up in this space, we're trying to show up with a calm demeanor and with a respectful demeanor because we do see that all the families are here and we are trying to show up with the best with the with the most amount of respect that we can give to you. Um but I think that it's very important to understand that if you want to get respect you have to give
009respect and giving respect is allowing us to conduct our meeting right I've been here my seventh time doing this and I'm gonna tell you guys right now we're not anywhere to interrupt you'll never answer the question you won't be able The question is that important or yes or is it you getting to speak and speak your mind? We're all here. That's not going to get why our kids matter. What's going to get to that point is us expressing our concerns. So can we please just move forward? That way we can all start expressing our concerns. Otherwise, like you said, we all have families. I mean, we we don't want to be here all night. So, if we could please just allow us to get to the point we can start expressing our concerns, I feel
010it would be great for everyone involved. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Weeks. Really appreciate your comments. Okay, we are moving on to the public comment section of our agenda. Okay. Members of the public may address the board of trustees regarding any agenda item during board consideration of that item. Please note that if you wish to address the board of trustees on any agenda item, you should do so when this specific time is called, we do have um and I acknowledge that this item has been pulled. Um to submit a comment in person, please complete the public comment card. We do have these and you can also provide your feedback online via assembly gamut and the live chat feature on YouTube. Comments submitted online will be read by the board assistant and all the remarks are
011limited to a duration say one minute there duration of one minute. Okay. I realize that this item has been pulled. So we are hearing comments on this item that has been pulled. say yes. So just for clarity because item J is pulled all the public comments for item J are now eligible to be spoken during this time because it is not an agenda item. So okay and do we have more? Yes. Do you want to do these first? Yes. Okay. Okay. So, Patricia Montano, please step and please speak into the mic because those online will not be able to hear you if you do not. Wait, sorry. Hold on. Um, yeah. Yeah, it has to be Yeah, it has to be in the Yeah. Yeah. Hold on one second. Ma'am, we are here because uh
012we we hear that we you are removing star from our community. And um I want to say that it's very important for us. My three kids have been in STAR. My oldest is in college now. He used to be he used to work in Star. So it's not only that is like um star is not only a place where they babysit our children is a is um well it's also a big part of our community is comfort safety and security for all of our children and also a roller neighborhood. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Joshua Weeks. You guys are killing me. I'm sorry. There are a lot of people here. We we have to we have to limit. I want to first thank all the parents and staff and everyone for coming out tonight.
013Um it really shows um if we want the school board to hear us, communication is key right now. Communication is I feel like breaking down. We had no clue until this week that this was even up for proposal for us to lose Start. Uh Start has been here since um I' I've been in this district for about almost about 15 years and Start has definitely been here before me. Um it's not just a part of uh they're not just employees, they're part of our community. Um I have students that I've taught that now work for Stark. they know our kids and to say that they're going to be completely gone and then have people come in that do not know our community, that do not know our kids, that do not know our family, I
014feel is a great disservice. You can see right now tonight all the support. So I just hope you listen to them loud and clear to know understand that start is an important aspect to our community and if we're going to have a program or if we're going to have the committee I feel that others parents and teachers should be a part of that committee. Thank [Applause] you Desiree Miller. Hello. Thank you for hearing me today. Uh so my name is Desiree and my son's name is Aiden Malar. Uh we moved uh from uh South Sacramento uh here to uh close by and started Taylor Street Elementary School. And since my son has been coming to the school district and the afterchool program, the start after school program, he's been thriving, you know. He used to
015just be on his little game boy and he didn't want to do sports. He didn't want to um play with other kids and none of that, you know. And he was in another after school program in his old school. Okay. But like since he's been coming to the start program, I I he's a whole new kid. He enjoys soccer and volleyball and playing with other kids and you know they've done an amazing job. Like he was making catapults the other day and uh you know I can really tell they they they really care about all of our kids and they're doing an amazing job. You know they really they really are. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Can you help me out with this? Can you check the microphone? Alicia Hefner. Hello, my name is
016Alaci. I'm the mother of Abriana Teneza. The Start program is a good program for all kids. They get to learn how to prepare meals, cook, dance. Um, now my daughter told me she did karate today. You know, the start program is the best. You know, we have to work and then with the start program and the time they get out, it's good for parents. Without the start program, we don't know what we would do because we don't make enough income to be able to pay for child care. Without the start program, a lot of parents will suffer. They'll probably ending up have to lose their jobs and not go to work because they don't they can't afford child care. So, I'm asking you guys, please keep the start program and don't ruin it for the
017kids and parents who cannot afford childare. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] By the way, the the chimes that you hear, that means that the minute is up. Um, I'm not going to try to be rude and cut you off. I'll just try to get you to wrap it up if you hear those chimes. Uh, Fong Low. I'm a parent here. Uh my three my all my children came to Roba. Miss Cara and her team is awesome. Uh cannot take start away. They've been helping my kids to be just civilized people at home. They're more scared of Miss Carla and her staff. And so I just say if the funding needs to go anywhere, they deserve a raise. That's all I got to say for all the star staff. [Applause] Uh Danielle Sturgeon. Good evening. Thank
018you for allowing us to be here tonight. I come today speaking as a vested stakeholder with the Robus School District for the past eight years, working through the START program that has been here in this community for 20. We were told that our program does not align with the district's needs. However, as Mr. Weeks previously stated, we have former Rob students who are now Start staff. We have credentialed teachers who started their career based off the platform of working with start. One of your current vice principles was one of a start members in this district as well. I find it interesting that some of the programs that are up for bid in fact are current enrichment providers for us that we offer during this time. I feel that we need proper evaluation of our program
019and that if a decision is to be made about our program that all the stakeholders need to be vested in part of that decision, the parents, the students and your faculty and they were not included in that process. So I ask that you please speak with every And before we continue, I do want to acknowledge that I know it is very difficult for some people to um come and speak. So I do appreciate all of your input. Mr. Martin Ramirez. Good night. Uh, good afternoon. Just want to say as a as an educator, as a community member, as a parent, I feel that your leadership is not in touch with our community. for for for your leadership to make this kind of decision without communicating with our community does not look good. So, I really
020hope that you reflect on your leadership so we can actually go back on the track and and and and keep programs like start because positive relationships. [Applause] All righty. This individual wanted to remain anonymous. Um the comments are if the district loses start, we will be losing a huge part of our community. I've seen my students benefit from being in the program over the last three years. My students have grown academically. socially, social, emotionally, and I've been there. Uh, I've been there and I have confidence in their growth. The Start employees are pillars in our communities and bring resources to all our families. I know the whole school community would be hurt, heartbroken to lose start. Um, start employees work with teachers to see what rob students need and provide support based on students in
021the needs area. Thank you. [Applause] Is there a representative from the Glennwood Parent Teachers Club? Um, hi, I'm Maria Smith. I'm the president of the Glenwood Parent Teacher Club. And my name is Sabrina Oliver. I'm the treasurer for the Glenwood Parent Teacher Club. And we just want to express how invaluable the START program has been for for um us as parents and for our students. Um they provide uh so much support and services to our students. Um I know at Glenwood we have a Girl Scouts program that my daughter just loves. Um there's sports programs and um the dance program. All kinds of different activities that our students are able to participate in in addition to the afterchool assistance, homework help, things like that. The start program essentially helps our school be able to thrive.
022It's there for parents that want to come to parent teacher club meetings to school council meetings. They are our kids are already enrolled. They can stay there. We can have our meeting there. They help us with every little thing that we need. In addition, they also help the school when there is every kind of afterchool event. When there's our multicultural night like tonight, you know, they're out there. They're helping. They're adjusting. They're making what they can happen. So, we just want to say that our school would not be the same. Thank [Applause] you. We're getting down to the last um few comments. Are there before are there any others who want to give comment cards so we can put them in queue? We're not really taking um um by the hand. We need you to
023submit a card. We need everything on record. So, do you want to grab a card and submit one? We have these. So, these are on section. these are all these other town. But I believe I put down where I didn't want to speak. Oh, okay. I did. I I did put a card. Okay. Yeah. Do you want to speak? I do want to speak. I'm sorry. Okay. Okay. This is Yes. Okay. Okay. Miss Brenda Flores, please. Please keep the shutter down. Miss Brenda Flores. Is that Brenda? Brenda Flores. Hello, how are you? My name is Brenda and I have four kids on start. And I think that you guys don't haven't thought of how you guys going to hurt the kids by taking start because start is not just like they said a babysitting. My
024seven-year-old don't like school. He hates school. He when he get out of start when he get out of school he's so excited to go to start and what can I say about the teachers the teachers are awesome I get off work and all I have to do is check to make sure they did work cuz start does help them and you I feel like you guys are not thinking about the kids before you guys think about the parents think about the kids I told my nine-year-old hey start might not be here next year she was sad just by even thinking about it that's She's not going to be able to go to after school program. You guys want to bring a new one for what? The teachers that we have now at STAR know every
025single kid in that program. Just think about it, guys. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Will. Um, Bennett. Hello. So, I'm actually on a slightly different matter than the other parents, but it seems like it's aligning just fine. Um, as I talked to the parents earlier with the CCS PP funds, the community site funds that you guys are getting granted. Just so we're aware, it's a $1.6 million grant that's coming from the state. You guys plan on spending $6.5 million over five years on payroll for the grant. So, I just want all the parents to hear to know, as we said, obviously they don't even have the funds. So on their own on their own website, they're the district funds per year, $849,000 to cover payroll per year for these 10 people you guys feel you
026need to hire to tell us how to spend your funds. So congratulations, board. Thank you. You're getting rid of the start program to pay for six people to come and tell you how to spend money. Um, as I said earlier, I mean, Raone, Ramon, I don't know. Were you able to get that on paperwork and figure it all out, or should I cancel the program and do everything I can with the parents to make sure that the $849,000 in district funds to pay for payroll back to the district and you guys can restart the start program? Answer. Okay. Thank you, sir. I'll provide a quick answer just for clarity. We have not been awarded. I understand you haven't been awarded funds, but that's Please, sir. Please, sir, let us speak. preliminary award speak. We have
027not been preliminary awarded. We submitted an application for a community schools grant and then we will not know until May 31st if we were awarded that grant. Please sir, let her finish her response. Sir, that's why I'm asking now is you guys want to spend $849,000 a year according to your application if the funds get approved to pay for payroll which means you had to cut the start program to pay for people. Let her finish her response. Your time is up. Let her finish her response. Unfortunately, that's inaccurate and I do want to respect the time. That is an inaccurate. Your time is up. We have the funds. We We have not been awarded the community school grant funds. If I have anything to do with it, I do. Thank you. So, just for clarity,
028we had submitted the community school grant fund for all five schools. We will not know until May 31st if we are awarded that grant. And if we are awarded that grant, that um grant will be coming to the board for approval. And each site has um has a steering committee, right? That will oversee the community school grant at their site. And how much? And just for clarity, that has nothing to do with the ASUS or ELO funds. Thank you. Okay, Juliana Vasquez. I think that it's again really important to just continue to show respect to one another and I am I I am doing my best to show you respect. Um and it would be much appreciated if you can show the people who are sitting here respect. Again, like I said, we're all human
029beings. We are working really hard. Despite what you believe or think, we are working really hard and it's very important that that you show respect. And if you know, if you are having trouble with showing respect that we are all trying to show you, then um you don't have to be here. Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. Um, I was informed today that the start program might be uh cancelled and I wanted to speak to you to so you could reconsider that. So, um, just wanted to make my voice be heard and let everybody know how invalu or let you guys know how invaluable that is to all of our parents, to all of our children, how much they learn, how much how much as parents we feel that our children are safe with the start
030program. So having another provider that maybe does not have the same standards as the city of Sacramento, I am not I'm very uncomfortable uncomfortable with. I really um feel sa I feel really safe to leave my my children with Miss Danielle. Um there was a point in time where my daughter was getting bullied at school. She didn't want to go to school, but I would tell her, "You're going to go see Miss Danielle." And I would make her go. So, I just want you guys to know how these uh the staff is really. Thank [Applause] you. Thank you very much. Joseette [Music] Williams. Um, I would just like to say first of all, um, we as as an adult have to show forth our actions even in these times to our children. How we carry
031ourselves and how we advocate. Even if we're on the other side, there is a time and a place and a character to hold up in this community meeting. Do I have just one witness in the building just once? Okay. So on the behalf of the Rapids Development Center, we wanted to express our belief that it is a mistake that we weren't selected or won't be selected and we requested that this this decision decision be reversed. Our signatures are affixed below in the support of the Roberts Family Development C Center's continuence as an expanded learning provider for the rural schools. And I also would like to say that my children have been to the start program. My daughter is 20 years old. [Music] Thank you. Thank you. Um, I have the first name Shayla. There is
032no last name. Thank you. So, my name is Shayla Minra. I'm a recent transplant to the the state, let alone the city. And I can't express how important the START program has been to both of my my kids who thrive on stab stability. And as an educator, I also know that stability matters for not just this the staff, faculty and staff, but also for kids. So when we were just given notice last week that the stability that my kids thrive on is potentially being cut with no no reasons why, no survey, and we talk about decorum and we talk about respecting parents. Part of that would have been giving us uh time uh notice in advance, giving us some type of survey or evidence as to why the afterchool program is being cut because last
033I checked after school programs not only help students with social and emotional support but it helps prepare them for the real world. It helps bridge the gap between the classroom and the home. It helps many parents who are work working who can't always pick up the slack that they would like to pick up. It helps students with their academic um success because it also helps them with the students and also foramilies. This program is to be there for the students. This program is what happens now has to go figure it out because not But it's not. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. I would just ask that something. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. And thank you very much for speaking on I'm trying not to be rude. I'm we we we're trying to keep these
034moving. Angela Miles. Hi. Um my kids have been in this district for like 20 years. Um, I don't think you guys should cut the after school programs because like we rely on that. My kids really rely on that. Um, but I also have a question about who governs your guys' funding and where's the accountability for all the money you get for everything you do here. And um, yeah, that's I don't think you guys should uh cut the after school programs and we really want to know where all the money goes and why you guys are trying to cut these programs. I'm just going to make one quick comment. So, just to provide some clarity. It's not going to answer all your questions, but there seems to be an assumption that we will not have an
035afterchool program, right? So, I want to be clear that is not the case that that we are not eliminating after school opportunities. Right? So, I know that doesn't address um Robert's Family Development Center or the Start program, but I want to make sure that parents and families are aware in the community aware we are not eliminating any after school program. And then, um I'm just going to pause right now because I want to respect you as a public comment and then um I'll go more into detail regarding the process during my time. So you you guys don't cut the program, but you guys want to bring new people that don't know. I I can't see you. I can't see you. But ma'am, if you have a com if you have a comment, please hear. Okay.
036Um, Scartet Herrera. Scarlet. Scarlet. I'm sorry. [Music] Do you know what you say? What' you say? Take your time. [Music] All right. I am Sabrina Herrera. I'm Scarlett Herrera's mother. My daughter has been with the school district for seven years, but that's not also including my 17-year-old and 16-year-old who's also been with the school district since the age of sixth grade. I just also want to let you guys know that if you guys are not taking the start program away, what are you replacing that with? My child has been happy being as a dancer and now happy as happy to be in karate and also has improved in her learning and she is a very shy child. So bringing in new stu new people into an environment that all of our children has been in
037the school district for over seven years as their star teacher comes when through that moment can control action. Our time is I can speak up for multiple parents have trouble and also afraid to talk to normal talking to changeing our Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. [Music] Okay. Sorry. We're just trying to make sure that um if these mics aren't on, they can't hear online. So, just trying to make sure I'm sorry. I'm having a problem. Is it Sabrina? Sabrina. Sabrina and Scarlet. Okay, that's Thank you. Sabrina. Christina Van Beek. Okay. Um, I believe this might be one that to be read. Okay. Um, Glennwood parent. Hi there. Good evening. My name is Dr. Dr. Fedora Ramirez. I'm a educator and I'm also a parent here at Glenwood and I'm here as a strong advocate for
038our start program. I'm sorry I did not prepare a speech. I literally had seconds to process this when I saw the text because I just was informed this morning that the program is at risk of not being offered this fall. I feel that, you know, to your point about humanizing and being in community with our children, with our parents, with our teachers, with our staff. I feel that we've been left out. My children are upset. My daughter has been in tears. The Start teachers and staff are like family to us. I I I know that we can reach out to all of you within a text away and they're so connected with the school. They're so connected with the community and the region really. We work closely with your staff that want to be teachers.
039We help prepare. I I also work at SAK State and so we advise your staff that come [Music] evaluation. Okay. [Applause] Do you want to check that back? I'm sorry. Cos Reed. Sorry. Hey everybody. I just want to start it say by um start is a home away from home for my kids and my son will be one this weekend and I pray that he gets to go to start with all of you guys. I don't think it's okay for the program to be gone. It's helped my son come from being this quiet kid to having these conversations that I have to be like be quiet. You have to stop talking now. Your teachers have helped him. My daughter's grades are phenomenal. They have all fours at this point. And it has to do with
040your start staff. They help with their homework. They help with these confrontations that they have at school. They help with their emotions guiding them. I'm going to stop talking now. Thank you. [Applause] Jorge Mendoza. Good evening, Board of Education Superintendent Chen. I I'm just in awe to see everyone here today. And this is really addressed to the board, right? It's been for so long that this boardroom I I watch the meetings every day, every every uh time there's a meeting. And usually there's the staff, the the chiefs of the of the tribe, if you will. But it's a testament to the board of education how concerned their community is to see something like this happen. Each of you have the power in the voices of these people. And I see President Dulus isn't here, but
041I'm grateful that all of you are. I really invite each of you to consider one thing. These are the people. The people that are concerned are the ones who put you in those seats to be their advocates and to speak for them. and of course all the legal things. Now, my biggest concern is, of course, for start, but that there was a board item removed from my understanding at the start of this meeting, which I would highly recommend that there be some counsel with your attorneys because according to the Brown Act of Education, which I'm sure many of you are aware, very limited as to whe matter. And I really hope for the sake of all [Applause] Kiwana Heel and Cameron McKelby. Hello. Hi. Oh, today I found out when I went to pick up
042my son that they were going to be removing Freedom School. The problem with that is that one of the reasons why we're in Robla district is because of Freedom School. The relationships that he has built with the community. We can be in a district that is performing better. But because of Robert's Development Center, my son has cultivated relationships, feel safe, and to think that I found out today It's a disservice that you guys are serving us. I know you want to believe that you're making these good choices, but this doesn't feel that way. Our children deserve more. And shout out for start. Okay. I'm um I'm not big on political speeches or anything like that, so I'm going to um try to be brief. I want to thank everyone. Okay, you have to wait a
043second for my remarks. Um, Marta. Oh, Maria. Maria, I'm sorry. Hi, my name is Maria and I'm a parent of a sevenyear-old in Glenwood. And every day he wakes up and our teachers are great, but he wants to go to the after school program to be in start. I don't want to hear replace. I want to hear that you're going to keep start. That is all I have to say. Okay, we do have some online remarks. All righty. So, um, Noli Rivera, teacher at, uh, Taylor Street Elementary. Dear board members, I'm running to express my strong support for the continuation of the start program within our district. In my nearly two years of working alongside this program, I've seen firsthand the incredible, incredible, incredibly positive impact it has on our students, school, and wider community.
044SAR is more than just an after school program. It is a vital part of our students lives. Many of our students attend SART, and it has become a space where they feel supported, cared for, and connected. The program site leader Lily has played previous illness. She builds strong relations with students, families, and is always present, offering her time, guidance long after school day ends. Her leadership dedication makes a noticeable lasting difference. I truly hope that the board will reconsider continuing to partner with Start if it is such an important part of not only our students lives, but our community and our families in which at the end of the day, we are all here to support. Thank you for your time without full consideration. All right. So, the following comments are from a live feed
045on YouTube. Okay. So, um as well, more time we always started late. Um how will the how will the board say so say they believe what they would not come with a conclusion if you guys haven't even tried to hear us out? And then you guys could conclude if you need more time to deliberate. Question mark. Uh anonymous. How are educators at mobile support to feel supposed to feel motivated to continue working when we're throwing away hundreds of thousands of dollars to a documented scamming organization? Um Espedral. Now that wasn't appropriate. Especially we were pull from the agenda. We showed up. We haven't we Why haven't you guys prepared to address this? Um, as Bill said, Mr. Weekes, Vanessa Hner, well, Miss Sam, we love the star program here at Glenwood and it's fit every
046single need of our community. Miss continues, definitely our school would not be the same without the star program here at Glenwood and Global School District. Noeli Roas, kids are the future. Why would this even be considered to be taken away? Absolutely heartbreaking. G3 G3, please keep the start limit benefits students and parents. Start helps students with homework, teaching them to cook skill, teaching them cooking skills, social and communication skills among their peers. My kids love Start. Anonymous stated the district will pay 300,000 for a shady summer school program that will start to cut that wants to cut Start. I mean, have you ever visited the start program? Have you ever talked to students and parents and staff? Anonymous, look at the people who showed up. I know you don't get any financial gain for start,
047but pay attention to how important start is to your families. Aren't you supposed to work with families? Continue. Did anonymous continues. Did the board ever even ask families if we wanted this change? Start is essential part of the global community. As you can see from the staff and families who were able to show up the last minute as well, we understand. We're here to advocate start to stay. Um, another comment said, "I don't understand why the board would want to replace our current after school programs. This is what is the point of that? It seems like there's shady business going on behind the scenes." uh continues. I kindly urge you to continue to support the start after school program. This initiative plays a vital role in helping my students remain active and engaged in continuous
048learning. The structure and resource start provides have proven to be both effective and rewarding for overall development. And Noah uh the children who start love it and enough to keep the program going. Start has been such a supportive program for children and families. Please keep start. And finally, Louis said is family. Okay. Thank you very much. Um, as I was starting to say, I'm not big on uh speeches. I'm not going to say a lot. I I do want to thank everyone who came out and everyone who um had the courage to speak. I know it is not easy to speak in public and to give your opinions. Um, as I mentioned before, this item has been pulled. I'm not going to um say why it hasn't pulled, just that it has nothing to do
049with the way any one member um had planned on voting and that it um that we were not ready to hear this item tonight. Um the board meetings are a way that we the reason why we have board meetings is so that we can get input. We have we make our we hear um the information, we get the input from people and we make decisions. Okay. Okay. Sorry. We hear the input and we make decisions. No decisions have been made yet. Okay. So, I do want to stress no decisions have been made. I'm I am really big on format. some trying to not show any one side or anything like that because we do have to um I do want to respect how people feel and how people may vote. I just want to reiterate
050that no decision has been made and the reason why we have these board meetings and the reason why they are in public is so that we can get input and the fact that this has been pulled from tonight's agenda means that there will be other opportunities to give input and for us to hear input. Okay. So, so I do and and it will be public. So, I do want to thank everyone for coming out and I want to thank everyone for giving their input and we did hear everyone and all of your words are very important. So, thank you. That being said, we do have a meeting to get to and other items um to get to. So, I will um provide the opportunity for anyone to make an exit if they would like to
051at this at this time. If not, we're going to continue. Okay. I'm I'm sorry. Hold on. The superintendent does want to make one comment. Make a comment. I need to follow the process. So, just so you know, if you would like to stay, I'm just going to give a little bit of a history during my superintendent report. I want to follow the process. Okay. So if people do want to make an exit right now, we'll pause for a minute or so. If not, we will continue. move outside of the of the boardroom if you can. Please move outside of the boardroom. Thank you. If you want to stay, they can stay. Okay, we are going to continue with the board meeting. Yeah, I think so, too. I think should be sending comments. Yeah, and I'm
052sorry. I I I do have to apologize to our superintendent. I probably should have given her the chance to comment before um giving everyone a chance to leave. My apologies. I'm sorry. I'm trying to I need to collect myself. Uh if you can please. Okay. Okay. So we are moving on to our reports starting with the Robbo Education Foundation. Good evening. I don't know if it's on or off. It doesn't matter. Anyways, uh couple of updates. I'm still working on getting the schedule set up for the fireworks booth. I will be setting up a meeting with you because I've had some suggestions made to me that to develop an electronic flyer so that this administrators can send it out on parent square. I've only got one of you signed up. I'm going to be out
053of town. I didn't give you permission to leave town and I know Ken's going to be. The other thing of note is that today I went around I collected the book orders for the terrific 10 students and that order has already been sent out. So I'm pretty much caught up with the exception of getting every slot on the fireworks schedule bill and PTC groups would be it. This is going to be a good opportunity for a fundraiser for the different uh parent groups at the different school sites. And I also need a right-hand person. She knows who I'm talking to because she was so valuable to me last year. So, thank you. Thank you, Robo Teachers Association. CSEA. Oh, I turned up superintendent report. And again, I apologize for that's okay. Thank you. Um, thank
054you for those that are still here and for those that are still online. I think it's important that I provide some clarity regarding the process. Again, while this may not answer your questions regarding Start or Roberts, I think it's really important that everyone understands what the situation was. So, I just have bullets and I'm just going to read it. So, for several years, um, the city of Sacramento has been awarded the ASUS contract to support Robo students. And um I'm not going to quote this, but I know Miss Danielle said for the last 20 years. Um Prop 98 language allowed for the ASUS contracts to be awarded to the LEAs or agencies. On February 5th, I was CCed on an email from That's okay, Ramon. um CDE um to the city of start uh excuse
055me city of Sacramento their um director informing them that the ASUS contract will be transferred from city of Sacramento to Robbo school district beginning 2526 school year. Why is that? because the language in Prop 28 was updated to reflect that ASUS grants must be awarded directly to ELEAS because this is public funds and it is a big amount um and we've never had um in the past had to um do a process to award this grant. I felt it was important to have a fair and transparent process. So, um, we issued what's called an RFP, a request for proposal. The request for proposal was posted on our website on March 24th. And all our current providers, including Start, um, Roberts and many of the um, I would say enrichment contracts that might have worked through
056Start, right, were informed that we were um, issuing an RFP. Um, when you issue an RFP, anyone is allowed to apply. So, the RFP was posted on our website as well as the Sacramento B. Again, all current providers were informed that this RFP would be issued. part of the process of the RFP um was a scoring rubric and I believe that um the RFP um which includes the rubric is posted on the website as well as to this agenda item. So all um questions, if any provider had a question regarding the RFP, they had to submit that by April 1st and those questions and the answer to those questions are also attached to this agenda item. Um the bid proposals were due on Monday, April 14th. So um we received all the bid proposal. Um
057a committee was created to review all the proposals and follow the language and the rubric of the um RFP. We received 26 proposals. Um the committee recommended the approval of the top six providers based on the rubric. So that is why um what you see today not what you see today is the recommendation of the committee based on the rubric of the top six providers. So I think that's important. Um again I want to emphasize we are not eliminating our afterchool program right we are not eliminate any options. I recognized that our current providers were not in the top six, right? But um I wanted to make sure that the process was clear and um alleviated any concerns for parents to that felt that there would not be an afterchool option for them for the
058upcoming school year. Thank you. question. I was just wondering even like in reference for the future like how was that committee selected and who was on that committee? I mean like I understand it's in the past that will change this but like for future decisions and things like that. Is there a way I guess you could answer that? Well, I you know um I won't say um I don't feel comfortable saying how this the committee is was selected but I will say this if you um have input on how we should do uh should select future committees we want to hear that. Okay. You can show up to a meeting. You can send us uh email. You can contact the superintendent. There are numerous ways of contacting us. Mr. Weeks, sorry. I can I just
059express the importance of the communication because just saying it's just posted online and it's if it's not trickled down the communication is not there. We're not checking to make sure we have this communication. This is when we get into things like this. I really feel that constantly it is a communication breakdown. Fact that I'm a teacher of this district and I just found out about it is not a good sign. I I really feel that it's the communication breakdown. you just post it, but we're not we don't talk about a staff meeting or it's not talked about it as a future board agenda or for the information because I have to I I didn't even know what RFP meant. So, as a the fact that I'm an educator and I don't know that I feel
060it's very important that communication really needs to be improved upon because if we just say we're posting it, that's not going to fix our situation for the future. We all know we want best for our kids. So just we could please work on that communication. I think it help. Okay. Thank you for your input. We don't Yeah. Um we don't um normally receive public comment like this. Um and they can't hear you online. So if if you know if you're going to make a comment, I would ask that you come up into the mic. Okay. Yes. So, I'm going to give the titles of the individuals on the committee, right? Um, it's very easy. We're a small district. So, our chief of technology was on the committee. Our director of curriculum and instruction or curriculum
061and assessment was on the committee. Our director of state and federal programs and EL program. Our executive director, executive assistant to the superintendent, and an assistant principal. Were you on it? One of the reasons why I I really um don't feel comfortable with um identifying people is because I I don't want anyone I we're we're here. We're easily spotted and I I don't want anyone else to be um feel like they're targeted. I have a question. So, I understand that you had a committee. Why were there no parents on this committee? the community. Where was that at? It's our children that are going to these programs. We're bringing you guys to be in these positions and you didn't think about the people who put you in your spots. Am I missing something? Do you guys
062like parents have to be heard as well? If you're going to have a committee, you need to have community members. A committee, not you understand. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, I know. Yeah. Sorry. Technically, we're we're supposed to have comic cards. We need to keep everything official. And um you know um when I was sitting in in um your seats, um the board gave me the flexibility to to speak. So, I'm trying to give other members of flexibility to speak. And um I know how important this is. Um and I know that others do want to speak. I will give anyone an opportunity to fill out a comment card right now. All we need is a name, a little bit of information. Yeah, I'm sorry. We are in reports. We are We are in reports,
063but I do want to give some some flexibility. This is such a charge item. Go ahead, ma'am. Grab the comment card. My question with that is, can you please grab the comic cart? This board was put together to make to put put together proposals that affect the community, but there was no one on the comm from the community and and the in this group. Then how how what's the term? It's like so how do we know that this is really what the decision that was made for the community is for the community if there's no one from the community in this? How how do we know that this that the decision that you made isn't skewed in some way and more so in the way that negatively impacts the community if there's no no one
064on this committee that is actively being represented from the community whether it's a parent or a a a teacher but I noticed it's the higher ups and there's no one from the community and then my other question is if this if this if these programs that are on the chopping block were in the top six so then why are they still being offered as potential summer programs because I'm just now finding out that Freedom School was up for not being being considered, but I was just told to go ahead and fill out an application just like you were saying. I sent my kids to Freedom School online in Philadelphia because that's where that stability and that relationship is. So then now to be told, oh well, you applied out here but it's not going to
065happen. Then what is the purpose? What is the purpose of having these things to give parents hopes up for something that's not going to happen? And then my other question or concern is you're talking about communication. You can send an email and follow people get back to you. That's not the case here. And this is shocking because this is such a small district because I've sent out information regarding other issues like racism in this school district and I haven't heard any followup yet. I've heard followup from the principal that the school in which this these issues are happening. He's been very communic communicative from the district. I've heard zilch and so like to to for that and with that being a big issue and the ball being dropped there how am I not to know
066that just say oh send this email or the information is posted and I'm on the website frequently but I again there's nothing like you were saying about communication again just saying it's posted unless it's being actively pushed out in the community and how are we supposed to know these actions or these committees or what have you are are are there unless you have a relationship with the principal Okay. Teachers. Okay. Thank you, ma'am. Um, can you please We We do need to keep the record. Okay. Are you good? Okay. We do have one more. Area mouse. So, similar to what they're saying, I want to know how was the committee selected, right? It does seem not equitable, right? You're not hearing from the parents to send our kids here, right? Cuz like we could all
067leave and go to Twin Rivers, right? And then you guys would have I don't know what you're going to do, but So, how was this selected? You know what I mean? You guys want to do all these things, but you don't want to ask us who it directly impacts, right? How was it selected? Secondly, you're talking about a rubric, right? Where can we see that to see how you guys determine what things fell into what places? Right. And then moving forward and also how I fill out a request for information for your district. Who do I submit that to? I will. Okay. And just for clarity, the rubric is online. It it's attached to the RFP on the website as well as this agenda item. Thank you. Yes. Okay, moving on. And again, um I
068know that this is this was a very charged item. Um when I was in your seat, um the board gave me flexibility to ask questions and to make comments. I do want to extend that um when we can. Uh we do need to move on though. Uh we do have one more. We have board member reports. Um Trusty Divine, nothing at this time. right now. I'm sorry. It's been a long day already. Um and I I have nothing to report. So, moving along to um our presentations. our first presentation K2 uh the 2526 K2 screening for risk of reading difficulties and uh which is Senate Bill 114. Good evening board members, superintendent 10 and audience on Jul I'm sorry I'm Mario Penman, the director of curriculum and assessment. On July 10th, 2023, Governor Nuome signed
069into law Senate Bill 114, which is asking LEA agencies to screen students in kindergarten through 2 grade for reading difficulties. The California School Board of Education was to appoint a panel of experts that came across from the state of California on January 31st in 2024. This panel was to compile a list of viable screeners for all of the districts to choose from. They did this and they gave us the screeners on December 18th. From here, we were to explore the screeners and adopt them by June 30th, 2025 of this school year. For the school year 2020 2526 and thereafter, all the ALAs will have to screen students K2 with this screener. One of the purposes of the screener is to flag potential risks of reading difficulties alongside other assessments that ed educators utilize to gain
070information on how students need their supports. The screening should be used to inform the broader process. This is not a screener to do go into um testing. Here in Robo district, we have already have this MTSS multi-tered system of support process. All of this is in the partnership with the families. We looked at literacy instruction focused on specific needs for our students. We do early intervention in tier one with the general education teacher. This program is moni progress is monitored for this student for six to eight weeks. After that, we we determine whether we want to do one-on-one or small groupoup tutoring or instruction um with the intervention uh tier 2. And then we further evaluate and do a diagnostic assessment if needed. I created a committee with the director PLSTs. Oops. Me go back.
071Um PLSTs, a couple of intervention teachers, three K2 teachers, and a principal to discuss the screeners that the state gave us to choose from. There were four choices that you see up here. Amira Learning, Amplify Education, UCSF Dyslexia Center, Stanford Brain Development and Education. We met with the vendors and research the screeners and decided on one of them. Some of the considerations that we were um looking at was the time and length of the screener, how user friendly it was for the student and the teacher. We looked at the data management system, professional learning options, information given to the families and technology needs. So after thoughtful consideration, we chose Amplify. We also have Amplify already in one of our schools at Glenwood and the committee went to Glenwood to see that in action with our
072students. There is also a data system that allows a teacher to see reports students complete the benchmark assessment. The dashboard on the left shows overall as a class on how they did in each skill area. The second one shows a breakdown of each child and how they performed performed in each area. The system automatically groups the students based on results. teachers can see the that each group is associated with one main skill that they need to work on for each of those students. That the that way the teachers can target their specific areas of needs and small group instructions throughout their school day. There is also a nice part of this system is that they have a home connection where a letter goes home to the families and gives them information about the tested areas.
073There are directions on the letter that give parents specific ways and to help their children and foundational skills. So overall, the committee was very pleased with this screener. So following the timelines of the Senate Bill 114, we were asking the board to adopt K2 screener for our district for a one-year contract. We wanted only one year so that if other screeners came about, um, we had options to look at those in the future. Any questions or comments? Any questions, comments? No. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Charter school 2024 25 charter school update Marone Learning Academy. Uh, good evening everyone. Oh, back. I'm Yeah, coming for both. Doesn't matter which way. Okay, that's fine. Uh, good evening board. Uh, thank you for having us today. Um, my name is Kathy Obach. I'm the community
074liaison for Maronei Learning Academy. So, I'll be um sharing updates on um behalf of our principal, Dr. Garcus. So, just a little bit of a overview on our program. We offer a personalized learning model through one-on-one support, flexible schedule, and wraparound services. Um with that, students are given the flexibility they need to succeed. Our school is year round. Um therefore we serve students um ages 14 through 24 in partnership with workforce um organizations. Um most of our students do course uh work on Google classroom. Um aside from that we offer dual enrollment opportunities, CTE pathways, work readiness opportunities through workforce partnerships to help prepare students for post-secary success. Updates on our enrollment. We are excited to share that our enrollment has increased significantly this year. Our current enrollment is 515. Uh the green uh bar
075graph on the bottom right reflects our enrollment from month to month and the blue indicates um last year's enrollment. Um so this is small um but mighty. Um our grad rate right now is currently at 80%. Um our average ADA is 79%. Um our staff are continually focusing on working with our students on completing more core credits. Um our staff continues to inform our students and their parents about our two core um credit expectations. Um on the left is a visual um of our student population. You'll see that we have 20 uh 23% of our student population are EL students. Um 2% um are former or current foster youth. uh we have 7% that are um experiencing homelessness and 80% are of low socioeconomic status and our sped population is at 22%. Um also on
076the left is a visual demographic of our higher population of Hispanics and African-Americans. Um this is a visual of our core credits and graduation rate. So we are continuing to focus our on engaging our students to complete more core credits. Um many of our students do come to us deficient in core credits and a lot of elective credits. So um it's important that our students um increase our core credit completion. So that's why we um changed the expectation this year to um make sure that they focus more on core. Um our core credit completion is 1.89 which is an increase compared to this time last year. Um and though we still have a ways to go, we're happy to see this increase. Um in regards to the graduation rate, um we have had so far
07726 students graduated in the winter um graduation ceremony and we anticipate more students for our spring graduation. In regards to academics, we currently have um 40 staff. Um, we are hiring additional staff as enrollment continues to increase. We're currently seeking a sped teacher and an English teacher. Um, in regards to the NWA spring testing, um, we just started that, um, testing. We typically test our students twice a year, uh, one in the fall and one in the spring. Um, our fall student reading growth was 49% and our math growth was 51%. Um, for ELPAC testing, we have 90% of students that have tested so far. Of course, we don't have results for that just yet, um, because we are still kind of in the testing phase. Um, for our CASP and CAST testing, 92% of
078our students have completed the test. Um, in regards to also academics, we've, um, partnered with the Sacramento Cultural and Linguistics Center. um we have partnered with them to provide an additional ESL intervention class for our um increasing um EEL students and students that are new to the country. So we're excited about this partnership. Um and then we have also partnered with School of Rock which is um an enrichment program for our students um at the request of our students. Um so they wanted more enrichment programs. So we're excited about that partnership as well. a couple of school events. Um we are we recently had a community resource fair that was open to the community uh where we provided resources to family and had um organizations um present there. So here's a couple of pictures from
079our family night that we do host quarterly um and our parent and advisory committee. Um, with every ELAC presentation, we try to do something engaging. Um, and then also awards ceremonies for our students as well. We're excited to have prom this year, which is actually going to be tomorrow. It's open to all grades. Um, so we're really excited for that. Um, and the only expectations we required of our students is that they meet the minimum core expectation. Uh, other upcoming field trips are going to be the camp for life field trip. Um we completed our college um field trip and then um of course our next big event is going to be graduation which is May 31st. We continue let's see here. So that's our couple more of our field trips that we've had and
080this is where we um have partnered with to host our graduation. So, we continue to identify ways to engage our students in both academic and non-academic activities to increase academic progress, retention, and engagement. So, that concludes my presentation for Maronei Learning Academy. I'll now be doing a um a presentation um update I guess an update on for PO Grande um which is an online elevate online school. I have a quick question. Is the Marone um sorry Marone Learning Center a hybrid program or is that all in person? It it's hybrid. So Marone Learning Academy um we require students to be on campus at minimum two days a week and the rest they are working independently online. Okay. Are there any questions um regarding Maronei before we move on? Other questions, comments? Okay, let me officially
081call um Grande. Go ahead. All right. Thank you. All right. So, I am speaking in place of Lindsay Reese and Jenna Unis, uh the school principal. Um they apologize. They um could not stay for the entirety of the event. Um but here, um this first slide here depicts their their mission and vision and um slows. Um they have adopted the acronym grit which is growth mindset, resilience, independence and transformation. This slide overviews our current program. While our school delivers 100% online instruction, we do do an in-person graduation twice a year and that's in the winter time and the springtime. So the curriculum that they use to teach their students is Strong Mind. Um right now they have six credential teachers, two sped case managers, a community liaison, um and a school counselor and two tutors
082on their staff. So in regards to demographics, um you'll see that 65% of our their students um are ages 15 to 18 years old and 21% of the students are in the grades 6 through 8. 60% 16% of the population is special ed students. 12% are multilingual learners and 65% are socioeconomically disadvantaged. This chart depicts enrollment growth um over the past year. Note that the enrollment has grown almost 200 students since last July of 2023. As far as the LCAP goals um progress um they have increased in Lexile and quantile scores. Um we have increased in credit completion. We have increased graduation rate. So as you can see from 2022 to 2023 they have 10 graduates and then in 24 25 so far it's 33 graduates. And so that does not include of course the
083spring graduates that are soon to be completed here. For LCAP goal two um we have increased uh in the CCI indicator from four to 6%. We have increased A throughG grads as well and we have increased our CASP proficiency and also have maintained a 95% participation rate. For goal three, student retention, we have a retention rate of 99%. We are increasing an attendance rate and synchronous instruction rate. And then we have few discipline issues with 0% suspension and explosions. For goal four, we have increas increased in um pack and elac engagement um and have the in high annual survey participation. We um have a strong safety, connectedness and engagement scores. We are exceeding um budget projections and are on track to continue growth for next year um based off this report. And with that, thank
084you on behalf of the area superintendent Ree and Principal Unis. I will now end this presentation. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any questions? Comments? Can I make a comment? I just want to actually What kind of CTE programs do you guys offer at Barone Barone Learning Academy? Yes. Okay. Yeah. So, the CTE programs um we uh currently have Chase, if you can help me out here. Um for the dual enrollment, we have child development. Um we are working on finalizing a clinical site um with Synergy. Um, we're hoping to, um, once we find a clinical site, we'll be offering a CNA program, um, for our students as well. Am I missing any? I didn't. Oh, yay. I just wanted that on the record in case there's any parents watching and they wanted to know
085what would be available after the Rob elementary. Yes, definitely. So, thank you for that. I just want to thank you for coming and presenting. I know um just for the audience here and online it might be wondering well why are two uh charter schools that really support secondary presenting to us right presenting to us. So I want to thank you years ago where the school district authorized uh Maronei and uh Pesio Grande. So uh part of the requirement is to provide an update. Um they've been a great partner. Um, and I believe there's conversations that um, the current district that you guys are housed in, which is San Juan Unified, will probably take the oversight. That's what I'm understanding. Yes. So, I want to thank you, you know, but just to provide some clarity why
086we have two um, uh, charter schools authorized by us that are not um, really um, supporting elementary school students. So I know when you had said your enrollment increase, Mr. Castillo was like, "What are you taking our students?" And um recognize that both um both programs really support the secondary students. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Item D, first reading, revised policies and regulations. Is that you? Oh. Oh, okay. Some Sorry, it's under presentation. Okay, moving on um to the consent agenda. Um is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? No. Second. Motion to second. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed? Abstain. Motion carries unanimously. Moving on to action items. Item A, uh I'm sorry, section seven, item A, approve, um service service agreement with Marzano Resources for the development of the
087district's instructional model. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Second. Motion and seconded. Any comment? Good evening once again. Okay, here we are. Before I get into the instructional model piece, I kind of want to um give some kudos to teachers and principles and our amazing PLSTs for the work that they have embarked on last year with the um peer observations that we've done. We're trying to kind of shift our culture of teachers and their learning and working together to gain some knowledge about their craft of teaching. And so we open their doors. This was a very uncomfortable thing at first for some. Um, it's anxietyfilled when people come visit you and watch you in your classroom and there's some kind of sense of stress. Of course, I know I was a teacher and
088I felt it every time somebody came in. But we're trying to build a culture of teachers working together and talking about their first instruction to help themselves grow number one and to have that opportunity to help the children number two with their achievement. So we started last year with peer observations and what that means is we open the doors for teachers to go visit their teachers whether in their grade level or grade level above or grade grade level below. The point of this was to choose some specific area. We did this with Bell Avenue and Taylor Street schools last school year. They had two rounds of visits where they would work with the colleague. They would talk about the strategies and um structures of their lessons they were going to they're going to work on.
089they would be allowed to go visit. PLSC's would u release them to go visit their colleagues. They'd watch a 50inute lesson from the beginning to the to the end. They also had an opportunity to debrief and talk about that lesson with their colleagues. This is the first time in Roo's history that we've kind of done this. The teachers embraced it. Some teachers said, "Hey, can I do more of this? Can I visit other teachers in other schools or other teachers at my school site?" And we said, "Of course, you just need to talk to a PLST." So, that occurred. That was one of our outcomes that we really really liked. Um this is obviously going to take time for that comfortability to sink in. But we feel that if we continue this work and have
090good robust conversations about our instructions in our classrooms, that'll be beneficial to everyone. We started doing that um with all five school sites this school year since it went well last year with Bell Avenue and Taylor. All five schools had two observation opportunities throughout the school year um at each school site. They all had their own uh specific focus area and that will that went very well as well. Of course, it was stressful at the beginning, but they're learning to to know that this is not evaluative. This is just for their learning and their growth and they're having really good conversations about their first instruction. What we did also notice was an outcome of not everybody was on the same page. Some people were talking about strategies that they wanted to utilize and some teachers
091were talking about other strategies that they wanted to utilize and also the structure of the lessons could be different. That is never good for a system and that's where the instructional model piece comes into play. The instructional model is a framework and a foundation for tier one instruction. It broke brings coherence as I stated last time where everybody knows this model from K all the way through six. They know that the instructional strategies are researchbased and if you go from school to school to school, everybody should have an understanding of that model and be able to describe it to you um for their for their district. We also had an opportunity to have growth goals from this instructional model. We have an opportunity for them to choose areas like engagement, direct instruction or assessment during
092their their their lessons and have growth growth models um goals for that. This can be embedded into our peer observations which we plan on doing next school year. The Marzano design areas the Marzano design areas are also aligned to the California state teacher profession standards. This is a very important piece because the teachers are supposed to be working on the CSTPs over here on the left. The Marzano instructional model gives you all of the techniques and skills of re rearchbased instructional strategies to help you be successful with those CSTPs. That is also important because the district is moving possibly with the union to put CSTPs as an evaluation process which makes a lot of sense for teachers. So this Marzano model will support the evaluative system at the end of the day and also help
093in peer observations. You allowed us to meet with Dr. McGee which I really appreciated. She was from the Marzano resources. We had a training with her on March 17th. She did an amazing job with an overview and purpose of an instructional model. She gave us the structure of Marzano's model and all of its components which is a lot. She talked to us about a implementation process for the district and we discussed elements which we would want to proceed with for 2526. When we were done with the um training we gave her an evaluation and as you can take a look in every area up there she has 4.9 4.8 5 4.9 4.9 that is out of five. We had about 25 people in this um committee that was was being trained by her. Everybody was
094completely engaged with her and her training. She was very informative, witty, organized and thorough. I find that to be a very high number for any presenter. I've been doing this for 29 years and I've seen a lot of presenters and scores never happen like that. I do believe that that occurred because she embedded the Marzano strategies all day long and modeled what that those strategies are all about. Everybody in that room, every adult wasn't on theiru computers, they weren't on their phones, they were engaged with this model the whole time. So I was very impressed with uh Dr. McGee. So where does that take us? It takes us to the possibilities of having us discuss with our staffs in the spring, which is now, about what we plan on doing next school year with the
095instructional model and the why we are doing that and how it flows into our system now. And then also meeting with the community to talk about probably the first PL day in August. We hope to do one in November and one in March. And of course, with any good initiative, you're going to need a couple years to get this going. So, we'll probably looking into the volunteer of 26 and 27. I was so excited about Dr. McGee that I asked the company to please hold those three dates for me just because I wanted her to be with us with when we're working with our sites. So, hopefully we go in that direction because I feel this is a very fruitful endeavor for our instructional site and supporting our teachers and more importantly those students in
096their seats. That's all I have. Thank you. questions, comments. Okay, thank you. We'll go a vote. All those in favor say I. I oppose. Abstensions. Motion carries unanimously. Item 7B, the disposal of surplus property. Is there a motion to approve? So move. Second. A motion and second. Any comment? This is um we need a board approval to dispose of any any equipment and this is mainly because we are replacing a lot of the furniture of uh preschool and also at the main main avenue for the new new facilities. We given the permission we will try to sell this uh this equipment on online and if we cannot sell then we could dispose and get it. Thank you. All those in favor say I. Oppose. Abstensions. Motion carries unanimously. Item 7 C, professional consulting services agreement
097with Caldwell Flores Winters, Inc. for State Aid Services. Is there a motion to approve? Second. It's a motion to second. Any comments? Yeah, this is um a contract that we have u with um CFW for um getting revenue to the district for facilities for applying and in summary is um they get like um 2% of the they don't have a facilities department but they fulfill us applications with a with a state and they have been um very successful so we want to continue in the future with them. All those in favor? I'm sorry. Any other questions? All those in favor say I. I. Oppos. Abstensions. Motion carries unanimously. Item 7D. Facilities project management services agreement with the Helen Institute. Is there a motion to approve? Second. A motion. Second. Any comment? Yeah. So, um, our
098district, we have, um, currently several projects that we need to get them to the finish line, including, um, change structures, um, um, playgrounds and and fields and, um, we need some some help to help in managing that. Um, CFW is no longer with us managing this these projects. So it's a a temporary contract, you know, it's from now to the end of August just to help us finishes those those um those those projects. We I want to say that the district did a RFQ to um um have facilities management. We received 10 and we are doing um a review process on on on Monday. So this is just a temporary um help to help us finish um Mr. that's his background and he knows the district and that's the recommendation that why why we're doing
099this. Thank you. Any questions, comments? All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Abstensions. Motion carries unanimously. Item E. Contract proposals for drainage and waterline trenching projects at Bell Avenue. Uh yes, uh Bella Avenue and Glennwood. So this is Is there a motion to approve? Second. Motion second. Thank you. Need to learn to be more patient. This is um um regarding our playgrounds. Um I just want to give you an example something. When you start construction, we find for instance at Glenwood underneath the playground, the current playground, there was some pipe and drainage that we just never expect that the the area used to belong to the city of Sacramento and they give us the the the area and something that we find out. So this is um unexpected, truly unexpected. And as Wayne as
100in Bell Avenue where this we needed more more drainage so we could um our our playgrounds are ready to be used. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed extensions. Motion carries unanimously. Item F, agreement for change order number three to Clark Sullivan Construction for the Bell Avenue new preschool and transitional kindergarten classrooms construction project. Is there a motion to approve? Second. Motion and second. Any comment? So this will be the last change order. The next one for the our our preschool um our our four classrooms are are preschool Bay Avenue. There were some additional work that we need to get us to the to finish and that's that's uh is for a total of the that will bring us to the total of 2.593 millions for the total project. Thank you. All those in
101favor say I. I oppose abstensions. Motion carries unanimously. Item G, agreement for deductive change order number four to Clarksville construction for Bell Avenue new preschool and transitional kindergarten classroom construction project. Is there a motion to approve? Second. Motion a second. So this is the we're getting the money back that you uh the last portion and so that in order to to close that that's that's what this amount is. Thank you. All those in favor say I. I oppose abstensions. Motion carries unanimously. Item H. 202425 expanded learning summer contract for Helen summer camp program. Is there a motion to approve? Is there a second? Second. Okay, we do have a public comment on this one. Mr. Weeks. Yes. Hello again. Um, so, um, the reason why I wanted to speak tonight is because, uh, the last
102time I spoke, uh, once again, I've been up here many times speaking out against this program. And, um, I I wish that he was I wish the uh, the person who ran the program was here. I also wish Mr. Loose was here because, um, we talked about communication and talking about that we would check up on this situation. Uh it's been uh quite a bit of time and I've heard zero nothing zilch about anything and uh the only thing that I've heard is or seen is that now we're promoting a summer school program for $300,000 to work with this program that constantly h has had um red flags and things pop up that have not um shown it in its best light. But right now, it seems that um even though it looks like it's
103not going to be permitted for next year, it seems that we were uh it's proposed for a $300,000 contract. So, what I just want to say is when I visit an afterchool program that we've had it in the past, uh the things that I expect is uh engaged learning. Uh I expect to see bright eyes that are solving problems, that are collab collaborating, that they're doing real science, mathematics, the reading. But instead, when I visit these programs and I visit his programs, I see that uh they're learning um not um through who is presenting, but they're just looking at their phones. They're flipping through. Um he has a self-published book that he wants to use for his curriculum. And if I don't know if you guys have seen the breakdown, but I don't understand why
104his book and his breakdown, he needs $15,000 for his curriculum, $45,000 to oversee it. Um the breakdown for his staff members if it's four hours a day is about $68 an hour for young people just watching students on their phones. If it's eight hours that means it's $34 that he's just watching students on their phones while I have and I've already presented multiple times with teach uh individuals not watching our students them not being safe people sleeping on the job. And I have photo evidence. I have addressed this. I've talked about this, but it's surprising that this is being brought up even as an option. It is a frustration because I've been up here many, many, many times. Now, uh we are students are of our students time. Um we use taxpayers dollars. We use
105ELOP to fund these and investigating sick figures in an unacredited program with no independent evaluations. Measurable outcome is a gamble for our children that we just can't afford. Worse still is the contract overlooks proven lowcost options that we have done in the past that we can still do today. Every dollar we spend must translate into critical thinking, real world problem solving and joy in exploration. Our students deserve a summer experience that makes them builders, thinkers and collaborators, not acronyms, pages of pages upon a self-published book that seems that is full for greed to get them money not for our students. I am upset to see that there I've never seen an individual in so handed so many cookie jars. I cannot believe that the Helm program is now stated to do construction as well as
106summer program as well as I don't understand how a summer program can cost $300,000 but a year-long program can cost $242,000. That does not make any sense. So I feel that I ask that we stand with our children tonight. I want for us to champion transparency, accountability, and have programs that will truly inspire our students. That's what I ask. Let's invest in our students future, not in empty promises, statements, or thing that's on or something that's on a flyer that is not done. Thank you guys for your time. Thank you for all your work like you always do. And once again, I appreciate you all. Thank you. Any other comments? All right, Stacy Draper. So, Helen provides after school care as well as general contract services and a comment. Okay, any other comments? All those
107in favor say I. Oppose. Motion fails. Item I 1.0 FTE ASUS ELOB coordinator position and job description beginning in the 2025 2026 school year. Motion to approve. So moved. Second. It's a motion and second. Any comments? Hi. Yes. Good evening. This is a new position to the district that will help us um in coordinating efforts among sites for our ELOP or after school programs. It also will help us be compliant with the grant requirements that are alongside the funding sources for those programs and then give us an opportunity to ensure quality of the programs and measure the effectiveness of them. Comments, questions all um a comment. I just want to make sure that um this position doesn't have any um impact on the whichever after school program is chosen for the upcoming year. This this
108position doesn't like impact or influence that. Just provide clarity. This is a district position because um like I mentioned before the ASUS grant is now awarded directly to us. So there are requirements, reporting requirements and oversight. Um, and so this individual will oversee the ASUS grant, the LOP, as well as whatever providers. I'm not sure if that answers your question. Yeah, it does. Yeah. All those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Extensions. Motion carries unanimously. Item eight, board member requests for future agenda items. Trusty Divine, not at this time. Trusty Cardona, nothing to request. Trusty Hamilton Starks, nothing at this time. And I have nothing. And uh with that, this meeting is adjourned.