001Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. We're going to go ahead and reconvene back into open session at this time. Um, welcome everyone. If you'd all please uh join me and stand for our flag salute. Ready begin. 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. Thank you very much. I apologize for our later start than normal. We'll begin with roll call. Um, Miss White, Miss Bibo, Miss Hunter, Mr. Flity is not present this evening and our superintendent Mr. Schumank. Well, thank you very much. If I could please get a motion for the adoption of our agenda for agenda item number one. >> I move that we approve the agenda as presented. >> Thank you.
002Is there a second? Main second. All in favor? I oppose. Passes. Thank you. Um I have no um nothing to report from close session at this time. We'll moving on to our superintendence report. Yeah, good evening. Nice to everyone back to the uh start of this new year. Um all this is getting pulled up. As you know, this report tonight is see if I can advance. There we go. Just tied to our um overall theme of culture of excellence and our our board goals and of course uh something at the end just to make you smile. So I just uh on this uh this culture of excellence and continuous improvement. We just finished uh our district services survey and as as a reminder this is an opportunity every year for every employee in the district
003during November and part of December to pick every single department self- select every department that they've interfaced with for an entire school year. So if I've worked with transportation and I've worked with food services and I've worked with the superintendent's office I get a chance to evaluate those three. If I worked with every department, I can evaluate all I think there's 12 that they have a uh opportunity to uh evaluate and that uh data is uh goes through stutter and that information has been provided back to us. Scores were I I I tease about this a lot. You know, the five is a perfect score. So if everyone ranks you a five on everything, which is impossible. I get that. But you know, we're we're talking scores that are 4.2, 4.4, 4.6. really high scores.
004Uh higher, she was sharing with me and I've shared this with you in the past, but I'll say it again. You know, Google gives their employees unlimited PTO. You can work from home. Parking's free. They got buses that'll take you to the airport. They'll do your laundry. They got ping pong food. They've got a chef. You They got They do everything for you there. Our scores are higher in general across the board than Google is rating their employees. So I I every year I get these scores and I look at them and I go, "Oh man, I just feel like they should be higher and then I have my meeting with student and I go, so our next job is to celebrate where we did really well." And then we also had scores that were
005lower than we would want them. Um, and anything below a four is an area where we just say, "Hey, this requires some attention to very very few of those with all the departments put together. So our next job is I'll be meeting with each of the department heads to share their data with them to share the feedback. Um and then uh they're going to start doing their feedback loops with people that took the survey and they're going to start with our principles on um I guess it's in three weeks in this room. They're going to each model what it looks like to ask for feedback and they're ask they're going to ask the principles, hey thank you for ranking me our department very high on accuracy. What can you tell me more? What does that
006mean to you? Like why did we get that score? Because I want to make sure I share with the department what what we did well and then I and and I noticed that we got rated lower for timeliness. What does better look like? Like tell me where we're missing the mark. And I I will tell you it's they already know probably what the issue is, but it's going to be good for our site leaders to say this is where I'd love to see your department get better. So we're going to do it in a really safe environment and um and we're going to try that's going to be a little different this year. here. We just decided to try that out. But um and again, this is we're just setting really high expectations and then
007we're using data to track it rather than me just coming in here and saying, "Hey, that I talked to each department lead and everyone's doing really good." And then and then I don't have any data to support that. We we have um the we have data to share that. That's not data that we make public to everyone because I don't want departments going and comparing and and and feeling like well my score was 3/10en of 1% less than than food service. That's not the goal. The goal is just like take the data and then just figure out how do I get a little bit better. Um on student support I missed this one. It was the same night as my wife's birthday. And I was, for the record, if she's watching, I'd love going to
008my wife's birthday. But the the um this was at uh rescue. This is our community night. As you know, we do one of these a month. Um and this December was they're always they've been very wellreceived. We have 70 80 families that come and as you know, um reserve all uh access to all kinds of um uh service providers in the county. They get a free meal that night. there's an activity for their kids to engage in and they walk away literally with multi as many boxes as they want they get. So they walk away with a tremendous amount of food. Many of them take two to three boxes. It's all from Nugget and Trader Joe's. It's it's nicer food than I have in my um kitchen. It's very it's fresh. It's um um a
009lot of meat now. We've started including a lot more uh meat products that the that they're willing to donate and that comes that comes through Bayside Church and Aspired Kids is the one that we work with on the on the meal for the evening. This we partner with Project Elf and Jen and uh her small but mighty team of Jen and Soul are uh leaned in with Project Elf and Aspire Kids, the Flity Foundation and Bayside Church and and our community, our district community to provide gifts for many of these families. We gave well I I want to say I'm going to probably say this wrong. We gave almost 200 gifts. I'll just say that out and they are very nice gifts. I mean we were giving out bicycles um jackets. I'll I wanted asked
010my wife to get me a picture and she just couldn't get a great picture but she has this one boy in her class. We were able to adopt different kids. She's got this child in her class that just hasn't had good pair of shoes and hasn't had a jacket. So, they were invited to come to this and of course we we knew they're able to um teachers and staff can submit what different kids need. So, this kid got a new jacket and new shoes. And she says he could care less about his book, his backpack when he comes in the class. It's a little bit of a train wreck. And but that jacket gets hung up. She says he gets really upset if anyone scuffs his shoes. Like these are two moments of pride for
011him. And um I just thought it was really illustrative of the fact that not only did we just give out gifts to kids, but like down to the point like we knew what size they wanted, what color they wanted, and exactly what they needed. So this is just a a small picture of that, but really proud of the work that our uh team is doing in this space for sure. Uh if this picture looks familiar, it's this room. staff support. Dustin and Jen are doing a incredible job with leading our math uh our elementary and our middle school math teachers through um understanding the math framework and then leaning into uh working with vendors to identify what products are out there and then down selecting to a few that we're going to be piloting. I
012got to join um a really rich conversation with when one of the vendors was in here and you can just see by these pictures, they're they're very engaged. It's fun to see, I'm not a math guy, that's why I'm a social studies major. I always say that. Fun to see our teachers just talking about math, the love of learning and inquiry and you know how the problem solving aspect of it versus when I went it was just about getting the right answer. Um so lot of work going on with that and we're going to start piloting here soon. We'll be piloting in the spring and hope to bring a recommendation to the board probably eight. We'll see Mayish is what? Yeah. Yeah. again uh this commitment to community. This was also this is another tangent
013event that Oh, right here. Do you want I should have you talk about this. Just a a real great job with partnering with CalFire. I believe your son is a CalFire >> ship at Marina Village. Um, >> oh, you introduce yourself too. >> Huh? >> If you introduce yourself and then sit so people that can't see you. I'm Kathy. >> I'm sorry to put you on the spotlight this, but I forgot you're >> Kathy Avalone. I work at Marina Village. My son works for CalFire. And so through leadership, we um did a fundraiser and toy drive. And so I don't remember the numbers now, but it was like what $350 and a few hundred gifts. >> Alto together we had like um 500 toys donated. And so the day that we presented our check and
014then I had helped fund raise with uh station 43, we were able to present to them like almost $20,000 in gift cards, which was double from the year before. Um and the day that we presented them, they had just run out of their funds from the previous year. So anyways, it's setting them up really well for this year. So anyways, it was really fun. So Oh, it was competitive kind of. So each of the top sixth, seventh, and eighth grade classes that raised the most money and brought in the most toys, station 43 came and did like a doughnut party in the morning. And so the kids got to go out and hang with the firefighters. And yeah, it was really fun. So >> Kathy, thank you. I sorry I put you on the spot
015like that, but I didn't realize you were going to be here this evening, so it worked out perfectly. She said that much better than I can. And I got to as they were leaving, they got to they're blowing the horn, had the lights going on. It's just a just a fun way. And I just love the fact that we're we're actually leaning so much into the our community. Uh fiscal accountability, as you know, the governor's uh budget has been produced and now um you know, there's just a there's a lack of clarity on where this goes because just that's how state government works. So there'll be a lot of negotiating between the governor's office and the uh legislature over the next few months. Um I if you you may have seen this but the legislature
016this this budget is has some things in it that really require lengthy discussion and um there's been a lot of energy to try to move up the conversations that they start having with the legislature and the debate because the legislature does not get paid if they don't pass a budget by June 21st. I I forget the the exact date. So they would like a lot more time this year. So, that's the current argument is how much time are they going to have to actually sit down and debate. Um, at least is going to be presenting some uh budget information. We'll keep you updated as we go along, but we've attended uh as you saw in last week's update, we attended some uh budget workshop up at EDCO that was enlightening. Nothing earthshattering in there, but
017there's quite a bit of conversation behind the scenes with the legislature about some items that might be very helpful to districts in the state of California, but that we'll see if that gets passed. They're calling this his legacy budget. He really want the governor's he really wants to be able to have a budget that he's able to point towards and u supporting education is high on his from what we hear his national aspirations is be able to point to the funding for schools. So, we'll see where this ends up. It's gonna be buckle up, I guess, would be the And then, uh, the last piece here on the I think this is our last one on facilities management. Many of you, uh, live over in Waterford or have sent me pictures. Um, Jamie was kind
018enough as she was leaving for a a volleyball tournament, I think it was this weekend, to just shoot me a quick text. I didn't get a picture, but the corner is looking amazing. So, I drove over there. this we're Jamie indicated today that they're closer probably even close to being done at this point. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, and what I wanted to highlight on the facilities management piece to this too, this could have easily gone into the community into the community one. Kathy's picture was way better for that. But just that um we are being thoughtful like this is a corner that's needed to be upgraded for quite some time and it's never been in within our budget to be able to tackle a project like that. We'd be chasing all over if we try
019to beautify every aspect of every campus. But this was a partnership we were able to do with Waterford HOA. Lisa, I don't know where you find the time to dive into these projects and get them across the finish line so successfully every single time. Jeremiah, if you're listening, same thing. This is one of those examples where this is a great partnership with the HOA. I think they're happy with the outcome. We're happy with the outcome. There's a lot of clarity as we went through about who's going to be responsible for what? And we end up with a really nice uh product at the end. So, I think this is going to I know what's going to the next one is going to be the corner of X, Y, and Z school. When are you going
020to do that one? But it's nice to get this one done. Oh, and the last uh this is something to make you smile. We had our 100th day of school. I I've shared with you over the in the past I I was a middle school high school teacher. Hunter day of school was just like well that's January 12th or whatever you know but it's a bit it I'm married to a kindergarten teacher. It's a big deal. This is up at Green Valley there. I got we got sent so many pictures. Hopefully you got to look at Monday memo. But I just I think it's really incredible how our staff gets so excited and the kids that dress up they look they're just adorable. Our TK uh many of them have started doing the 50th day
021of school. But I noticed this year that even many of those were also celebrating the like why not let's celebrate the 100th day of school as well. And I dressing up as centurans is kind of cool. Um and I think that's it. All right. Thank you. >> Great presentation. Thank you. Let me open to any questions our trustees have for our superintendent on his presentation. Seeing no questions that has us then moving on to um excellence. And this evening we have Mr. McGinness here from Rescue Elementary School to share his presentation. Welcome Todd. Hey >> everyone. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So this year um I always like to try and bring just some new things that are going on and you can just assume all those day-to-day things we've always done are still happening. But
022just to highlight um things that have been happening that are that are new. Just some basic things to go over. Our our class size of 525 with an average of 24.4 has stayed pretty steady. Um which is good because all my classrooms are full so I can't take anymore. Um so but it's throughout the last couple years it's interesting because we don't have any new development but um the amount of like when I look outside my TK class, my kinder class for parent pickup, seeing these little babies um just the continual flow we're getting as students is impressive because we don't have new development out there. Um, but people are still trying to come to our area. Uh, which is nice. So, it's holding all of our our classes in place. Um, we still have
023we have the two TK classes. They filled up really quick this year. So, 20 and 20 and it's it's pretty much stayed that way. We had to overflow some students. We've upped um our special education. We now have one and a half teachers to handle our case loads. Um, so it's been nice that our special ed department and with the district's aware of that and they're there to help us um accommodate all those kids and and PE is still running the same. I'd say the thing in there that is different is I really we opened up our art program more so we use the prop 28 money and I have my art teacher there um instructor there Tuesdays and Thursdays. So kids are getting more art this year and they're having a ton of fun
024um in there. She actually kind of really does some silly stuff, too. And and they're laughing and they're having fun and it's great to just go in there and uh listen to her if you ever come by. She's she's really creative individual. So, that's something um that's been fun this year. And then also, we had a new music teacher come and she's been great. Kids love her. Um she's been working out really good with us. She's very flexible. She's, you know, on top of stuff and and the kids love her. So, that's been some changes for this year. Um, always at the beginning of the year I set out goals with our staff and so we've been doing a lot of work on our MTSS. So I'll highlight some of that some of the things
025we've done this year and we're really trying to refine that because that is new for all of us and it takes a long time to really get something that you think successful and useful and we're always working on our our best practices for assessments as well and trying to maintain um we did improve this year in quite a few areas so we're trying to maintain that you know figure out how we can do that. Um, we can I have a new PTC this year and we're we're a small but mighty group. It's hard to find PTC people. So, we have a lot of dual working families and it's hard to find people that have the time to do it and I get it. But, we do have a lot of parent support. It's just the
026availability to do that. So, my small mighty crew has been working hard. So, we kind of did a welcome back event um as soon as school started and we decided to do kind of a a hoown event. We had snacks, we had games, we actually had a petting zoo. So, it was a real hoown. And you can see the kids all dressed up. And this was this was the first time we've done this, but I definitely want to do it again as Dustin's going to try and play how this went with our line dance instructor that we had. Even the parents got in there. It's pretty funny. of all those all those cowboy and cowgirl boots swinging it there. It's really funny. >> Yeah. So, we brought an instructor in and she went through several
027several dances with the kids. And the only thing we realized when we were done, we should have had her for longer. So, now if we do a hoown next year, we know, you know, and maybe bring them in. I think we were melting a little bit cuz it was, you know, August. Um, so we learned and we liked what we did, but we're going to maybe uh amp it up a little bit next year. But it was a good welcome back to welcome all the families back and just real simple. We didn't go too over the top like we did in some of our other events. So other things that my PT season, we did a harvest festival and it was somewhat close to Halloween, so it it uh you know pushed up against that.
028Um we had a spooky trail walk inside the multi-purpose room. Uh we had art projects, we had pumpkin carbon contest. I have some other pictures of that. You really I didn't have a picture that showed the full scope, but games went all the way down the left to the jumping and then all the way up the right. And we give out stamps this year at the games and then they turn them in at the very end at a prize booth. And so that was different. We learned a lot there, but it was new. And then all the games, a lot of times you wrote out a lot of the old games. All the games were new. Very creative. I don't know if it's it's maybe kind of disturbing for some, but Splat the Rat was
029my favorite. And she drops the rubber rat in there and the kids got to whap it with a bat. It was just cracking me up. I mean, I saw a lot of new games where that one was just, you know, it was entertaining. So, um, and we had a the turnout was giant for this. I don't know. Um, I think you guys were there, but the turnout was big. Um, and we also did a nightmare before Christmas, so we broke out the Christmas trees early and had Jack Skeleton and all his friends, which was nice cuz then we left our Christmas tree and our snowman and then we just wrapped them into the next event. So, we were we're thinking smarter and we had some of the animals. Um there may have been yeah a
030cow patty or two dropped on the field for bingo. But I think that's really bringing we're trying to bring rescue does kind of have that flavor. Not the flavor of cow dung but um the flavor of country and being out there with because we have cows right across the street. We got horses on the other side. So we're bringing that into our school and and our kids are just used to that. So they really enjoyed it. Um and then yeah more more different games all all with kind of a Halloween type theme to them. So, that was a great event and very well attended this year and it was different. When we roll into our holiday event, there's a couple things going on. We always have a special relationship with the rescue fire department. Um,
031they are willing to anything we ask them for. If we having a barbecue, they'll come barbecue with us. They're just a really nice group of people and they really enjoy our school and being kind of our neighborhood fire department. So, they came and they brought a Santa with them and tore a whole bunch of the classes and brought them with the sirens. Um, and that was just a a special morning the Friday before we went to break. We also did an evening event and this was new for us as well. So, we did a reading with Santa Claus. Uh, there's no kids hopefully at home, but if you know uh Dustin Bailey, that's his father who is like a perfect Santa Claus, real beard, all of it, the voice, everything. We poor wore the poor
032man out because his line for pictures was over two hours um that night to get pictures with Santa. But he's such a great sport and what a good guy. And the whole Bailey family helped with all the kids got little gifts up there. We figured out Guz is also not a great gift to give. But we saw parents walking home to their cars and like you're welcome. Enjoy that car ride home. It's a good one. But you can see the kids also got they got all the little kids with the with the glasses and the noses. It was just like little, you know, TKare girls with his little noses was cracking us up. So they got all these fun gifts. Um, but there was also multiple craft tables and we had cookies and hot cocoa
033and the kids all sat down while um, Santa read a story to them. So, just a good way to kick off the holidays and it was all inside. Um, and I'm going to highlight a lot of just using our multi-purpose room now because last year was was we had to be very creative not having it and now we are we're just full boore with um, that multi-purpose room. We did a fun run and our fun run was kind of typical of our last ones that we did. uh with that fun run and our advertising for what we're going to do. It was really a makeover of our blacktop. So, you can see on the right uh we replaced the backboards and hoops. So, we have these nice new um backboards. A lot of our hoops
034were bending down. So, over the years, they probably been there 20, 30 years, I don't know. Um but they were bending down. So, it was time to upgrade those. And then we worked with the artist that's done some other um black top projects in the district. So, they're going to spruce up our black top. Now, I don't have pictures of that because we ran out of warm weather. So, you have to have it was 70 or 75 degrees weather overnight consecutively for days in order for this paint to work. So, we weren't going to risk we had, you know, we got everything ready and then the weather kind of caught us. And so we're just waiting in the spring to see when we get that consistent weather. And then we're get we have the bids.
035We got everything's ready to go to get that black top um redone and add some color out there cuz it really just needed a makeover and the poles are going to get painted and and everything. So we're going to be looking pretty good, but using our community money directly for those kids to make their environment uh nicer when they're out there playing. So you'll see that. You know, Jim will probably bring out some pictures later towards the end of the year so you guys can see that and we can talk about it next year. But great project through our fundraiser. Um, with the stage this year we did, we do always do holiday performances. Realized this year, I don't know why it just keeps growing and growing and growing. Uh, but we're going to have
036to split them up even more. So, I had TK went one day, Kinder went the next day, and one through five did short performances the next day. The one through five was standing room only. And I don't even want to Nobody got cited for parking, but it was risky. Um, so we're now I'm going to have to do like one, two, and maybe three, four, five on another day. We just can't. It's It's bad for the parent, but I did talk to some parents and like we'd rather come two separate days than like have to park down at the winery. So, um, one picture I really like is um those personal moments you see our teacher. The funniest thing when kids perform is to watch the teachers cuz they sit in the little chairs in
037the front and they're making the hand gestures and they're moving their lips and like I mean look at Britney's face. She's doing something with her face and uh it's just a kick to watch them um instruct these kids and everything they put into it. So it's like just kind of one of those special moments I think you see with teachers and how much they're dedicated to the kids that I really enjoy. Uh we we've kind of done different our veterans day used to be like a breakfast but then people want to change for that and then with going through transition with not having the MP and stuff we didn't have anything. So this year I rewrote how we're doing our veterans day. And so what we did um is our fourth and fifth grade put
038on a presentation for our veterans and they did so we'd have a guest speaker one of our students and they would talk about different things about veterans and then we'd have our fourth grade come up and do his songs and then we'd have a another student speaker and then another grade do songs and so it kind of went like that and I'd say it was about 20 minutes um really there was um you know some tears in the audience which was touching and uh after it was over you know the kids thanked our veterans And then um we had donuts and coffee with the veterans and if they had a student at the school, the students stayed behind too. So we could all chitchat. We ended up hanging around for quite a while, you know,
039having discussions and talking about different things. And the veterans were extremely appreciative of um what the kids did for them and how they recognized him and just thought they just felt it was so important this in this day and time to to be doing that. So they were really proud of our school. So, I was just proud of our fourth and fifth graders and how they stepped up and they were very into it. I'm lucky to have Daniel Hedman, which you can see in the left picture, playing guitar. So, we weren't playing, you know, a speaker. We have Daniel's playing guitar for all of these songs. So, we're we're just extremely lucky to have uh such a talented group of people, but great event. We had a we had a good time with it and
040we look forward to doing it again. Um, we've also been having some plays in. So, puppets and arts theater. This woman's a she's a one a onew woman show with all these puppets and she's it's really funny. I mean the kids are cracking up laughing rowing on the floor and then when she's done she pulls open all the curtains and explains everything to the kids. So she really um shows them how they did everything and they can ask all kinds of questions and she's really affordable. So she's a great one to have out. And then um I talked to Folsson Lake Junior College and this is a class at the college and the kids write this play and it was a full it had songs, it had everything. It was probably about 20 minutes um
041this pirate themed play that the kids came out and did and and the instructor from Fulsome Lake College that we had a lot of emails back and forth kind of seeing what this was going to be like and what to expect. uh another really fun uh event for the kids which I' I really want to keep that relationship going with them and have them back uh because they did a great job and it was very entertaining, very funny and I was really imp you know my expectation was here and it and it landed up here. So just a fabulous job from Falsam Lake College which costs nothing for them to come out and all we had to do is provide a space and some mics and some things and and they had everything taken care
042of. It was really a fun assembly. So, want to keep that going, but that was something we haven't had before. Um, our RAD group conveniently, rescue arts and drama. So, when we're going through and trying to pick the acronyms, you know, that was one of our our favorite ones. So, they're this is we have Britney Bole and Jenny Riley. So, I have two teachers heading up this program and they do have to do auditions, but we get as many kids in there. I think we have about 40 kids uh in the program that get in there and do this musical play uh that we have and they spend mornings practicing for about almost two months of practicing in the morning before we we get up there and we do the play and we did um
043the whole school got to see the play. We had to do it in two separate plays for the for them and we had to do a separate play for the parents early in the morning. So just to get everybody in here with as much as we do and again doesn't show great but you see those special moments. Jenny Riley's painting the nose, you know, on the on the little little one there. And then Britney's giving kind of a pump up right before the curtain open on the far right corner. So, just the special things that these staff do. And um for a school that hasn't really had this, and again, if you ever saw the stage we used to have that was just yeah, pushed out dangerous, the rescue fire department took it. So, good
044luck to them and their insurance. Um but like it was built on the floor and it took up more of the room. So to have this has been great. Even our light system pictures don't show up great, but it's great when you're in there. And then um the talent of the kids and we were all these songs were stuck in our heads because we saw it three times, but it was fun. But Dustin's going to play just um how these kids came with the teachers who are just teachers doing their thing, getting these kids together. and each each group with that so you see the kids dress in different outfits. So each group would come forward and sing a song. So it was it was almost a 45 minute 50 minute play but to get
045to make it shorter we'd have to cut kids and we try to get as many kids as we want. So, um, we're starting another one already. The audition paperwork is out, so kids are getting ready to gear up for the spring performance. Uh, that's been, um, a great new program that we have. Other things that were a result of our our improvements we did on our mold peppers room is now the rock climbing wall. So, we never used the rock climbing wall. It didn't really technically have the correct pads and everything for it. And so through that process, Lisa, you know, granted my wish to get the proper pads that clip up and hold up so there's not dangerous when we're playing basketball games and everything and the kids stay off them, but drop down
046and are the correct pads to have in place when classes go in there to use it. So that was um something that wasn't utilized, it's now utilized. And then the grass spot out front has held up really well, that turf. But you can see there's Mr. Hedman. He does a a kind of a circle time pretty consistently with his class to talk about how things are going and and so he's beautiful day. He takes his class out there on the lawn because the nice part about these turfs there and in my in my kinder area is all winter they're fine. You can sit on them. So in the past this time of year we wouldn't be playing on the lawn in kinder. We would not be playing on this lawn because it's a muddy mess.
047Um so now we can go out and utilize this space. So it's just brought more area for us to have activities at our school. my uh county program also has our classroom right there and there those kids are out there every day playing on that lawn because they almost have their little private private area. So that's been um just a great improvement for us. Moving on to some of our staff development we're working on next week. It's going to happen. So stuff that staff are looking for probably nothing new to you, but they're really looking for things that are going to help now in the classroom with the modern things that are going on and and behaviors we're seeing. So, responsive classroom uh is a program. A friend of mine that's an a teacher I
048really respect was talking about it. And so, I started researching, talked to the responsive classroom people. They're coming out to um the city next week on Tuesday. So, I have eight of us going out um to these classes. They're doing three separate all day classes. So, we're going to divide and conquer. So, we're um two of us are going to introduction to responsive classroom. So myself and Kelly Hutenheind are going to that one because she's my um MTSS coordinator to kind of get the overall big picture and then we have classroom management that works and strategies to stop disruptive behavior and my teachers were more than eager to go to that. In fact, I got my initial group first but then had more people say, "Hey, if there's room, you know, I'm I'm interested in
049that." Their website also has a ton of books and you get books when you go. So, we don't know that this is going to be the answer for us, but we're definitely going to bring back that information to the staff of what we think is valuable. And if we do think it's valuable, there's another training in March out in the Bay Area. So, then I got I got that next group ready to go. So, hopefully we like it. Um, from all I've heard, we should and then we'll be able to send more staff out there to that training. So, that's something that's been an ask of of our staff members. So, I think hopefully we meet that need that they're looking for um with that stuff the moment. So, we're uh getting ready to go
050do that. It's going to be an out and back pretty tough, you know, to the city on on a Tuesday. So, no vacation. Uh but we're but everyone's motivated to do it because we think those topics are important for us. Our with our MTSS u we have a couple things going on. First, we're always collecting data, first, second, third trimester data. We're seeing where kids are in their reading, where they are on their math, where they are on behaviors, and then that helps us realize which students are going to need the most effort in these areas for us, for our team. So, our team meets every other um Wednesday morning before school. We go through this data. We start there. We talk about what we're doing for academics. We're talking about um what we're doing
051for our behaviors. And this data just helps drive us to make, you know, instead of gosh, who do you think who do you think needs help? you know, it's all right there in the data. So, uh, again, Kelly Hooenheim's helping me collect that. This year, we hired our PBS coordinator, and that is Mr. Joe. You can see him there with the ukulele and the beanie hat. And Mr. Joe has we're really defining his role because this is new to us, but we really also like what we're doing and the teachers have given us positive feedback on what we're doing. So, he has a daily schedule where he goes out and sees multiple kids throughout the day. He's also on on our call list. So, it's kind of funny. Myself, the counselor, and Mr. Joe are
052all three on a text chain. And teachers have been instructed, if you need help, call Miss Kathy in the front office. They call Miss Kathy. Miss Kathy sends it out in the text chain and it's like, I'm with a student. Oh, I can go. And one of us has been there. I don't think there's been something for the whole year that we haven't been able to address pretty quick because between the three of us, one of us is on it and we're freed up and able to go. So that's kind of, you know, the teachers, well, who do I call? You know, I might be in an IEP, so they can't get me. Mr. Joe might be something, but the counselor is open. One of us has always been able to go and help our
053staff with kids and help kids get back to where they need to be in the classroom. And uh part of what Mr. Joe does, he keeps a lot of behavior charts and there's rewards. The reward he's working with, the student he's teaching, the students never played the ukulele. He's become very good at the ukulele. Um, earning rewards through his day. and if he doesn't earn it, he's really bummed because he really values that time and it's 10 minutes, right? 10 minutes of Mr. Joe's day, but it's a valuable time. So, just learning to do things um differently, utilize him in a way that's going to help kids. So, that's been really beneficial. It's really helped with a ton of the small stuff around school and has kept it small stuff, kept it from escalating to
054big stuff. Um, of course, I usually deal with, you know, the bigger issues and and Mr. Joe brings it to me. He knows that they're bigger issues. He's a he's a great guy and he really he told me when we were getting ready to do this job he goes I think I was born for this. So and he is he's he's been a coach in the community for years and years and years and he's a great guy. He's got kids at our middle school now. They went to my school. So we we just lucky to have them for academic intervention. Um we've used the really great reading has some intervention software. So, we have to pay for it separately. But again, um Dustin and and Lisa and Jim have been supportive um helping me get
055that and obtain those the support for that and the money for that. And then I have um with that group, I have Olivia and Haley there. And they work with small groups, kids that are identified through our benchmark data to really help them with reading. We got to do this at the end of last year and we received some great increases uh in the student scores um by the end of it, but we really didn't get a long run at it. So now we just started this at the end of the first trimester. We started it going into the second semester. So I think we'll get some really good data on how this is working. They see um groups every about 25 minute groups and they see them. So they say one, two, three, four.
056They each see six groups of kids and each group has about three students in it. So that's a lot of kids. That's a lot of contact time. Again, the 25 minutes is just about perfect. If you were to do this with the kids for an hour, you'd lose them. And the and these ladies are great. Jim Jim know he's been in the TK classroom because that's where they came out of and he knows them. Um they're just really nice people and the kids really enjoy working with them. So um we'll be getting data with that throughout the year and I have some really good data. um by next year because we'll be able to collect two semesters of it. And then uh leadership. So Sydney Shaowski's taken over our leadership program. I've kind of had
057different people here and there take it over, but um Sydney's really invested in it. And so our leadership, so now they're in charge of our spirit days. That was our hundth day of school. And it was funny because um it's always been a Kinder thing, but the kids come up with our dress up days, our spirit days. And I think the cool thing about it is they were impacted as kindergarteners and they wanted to bring it back to everybody and they brought that about themselves. So obviously they had a good experience and and these are fourth and fifth graders and so they brought that in. So we had a lot of fun with that and we have spirit days about once a month two twice a month where we're dressing up um having fun. The
058prize card that's something new this year. So we use our Raider awards and the kids get Raider awards for all kinds of things and they can turn them in in their classrooms. most of their their teachers have um prizes, but some didn't. So, we decided to bring it out. So, every other Friday, we bring this cart out to lunch and my leadership students are running the cart. They helped us pick all the prizes that go on the part the cart. And the fun thing is we got a donation to kickstart this. I guess Jamba Juice, which we're we frequent it in our families, they had a a thing going on and it was like vote for your favorite community and we'll donate to them. So, the lady showed up. I didn't know what was going
059on. She showed up with a $500 check from Jamba Juice. And so I put in our news flyer and acknowledged them and I wanted you guys to see what what that purchase and we sent them a picture of the cart and everything and a write up of what we did with it. Um so they know what we did with their their investment in our school. But it was nice that that's what the we weren't advertised with. That's what the community voted for. So um it's it's just great to see their community loves our school. Every day I have our leadership students up doing the pledge with me. So, usually I'll do the announcements and then they go through and I, you know, teach them the ins and outs and let them know mistakes are okay
060and how to restart and and it's always fun because it's a one-on-one time with me and the student. We get to have a little a little chat about their weekend or what's going on or or just things that are happening in their life. So, I think that's a special time for those kids to be able to come up to the office and do that. So, we've expanded um more responsibilities. They they do the regular like candygrams and things like that, but the the store and being in charge of the pledge and they take our flags up and down every day, that's been added responsibilities um that Sydney Shakowski's brought on to our school. So, this is a fun topic. Don't don't judge these pictures because they're not it's just a rough draft. So, as you
061know, our uh when we did the gym remodel, we pushed out um the stage and we lost the mural that was on there. Um we know people enjoy that when they drive by and they see the mural there. So, our PTC has been working on what do we want to have there? What do we want to do? So, we want to pay tribute to the mural that was there, pay tribute to a lot of the melanmarks that are on there. Um, but also add some new ones, some other things that were big parts of the history of rescue. We are kind of the holders of rescue history where we're located out there. And so, what we're doing right now is we're getting bids from artists and we've communicated some of the things we want to
062see. And so once we get all those bids in, then I'm going to put it out to a vote to the community and the kids and the teachers to see, you know, what do you guys which one do you guys really like? Which one do you think really captures our area that we live in and that we go to school in? And then we're going to have that done. Again, it'll probably have to be done, you know, late spring um when we get the good weather. But, uh, this is another one that was done. Kind of a really different different look. Um, and still actually there was a couple mistakes in here I was pointing out earlier that are going to get fixed. Um, but we hope to get a couple more to see what
063we're going to do to recapture um the history of rescue and kind of bring back something that was there. A landmark that people like to see when they drive by on there. So, you'll you'll see more of that. Jim will probably keep you informed throughout the year or when you drive by hopefully, you know, late late in the school year. or we might have to do it over summer when there's not people walking around cuz we'll have to put up scaffolding and the music rooms right there and everything. Um, but that's something that's you're going to see coming up that we're currently working on with my small and mighty PTC group. All right. Well, thank you guys. Really always happy to come share what's going on here and and give you guys some more insight
064to stuff that you might not see. So, >> awesome. >> Any questions about what's going on? Yeah, let me open it up to our trustees. See if they have any questions or comments. >> Um, thank you. I always enjoy your presentation. I love that there is talk of the mural. I didn't know. Um, and I I love so much hearing how that is such a valuable piece to your guys' school and that area in our community. And so I love that that is coming back to some degree and that I like the process you went through of taking bids and you're gonna put put it out to a vote. >> Um I love that. The one major thing I just wanted to touch on and I feel like I said this to you last year.
065Um I love that you have so many activities for your children. Often those moments in the classroom um can just be unforgettable. Um we know they're important, but sometimes they can be, especially as the children grow and get older, right? that looking back they're going to remember that smash the rat moment, right? Or that game or any of that stuff. So, I I do appreciate all of the activities that you, your staff, and your PTO put on. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Great job. It was super informative. And like Jamie, I like I I love the mural. I I'm I'm so glad you guys are, you know, making bringing something back because I do think it's really important to the community. And I I mean I love seeing it every time I'm working something. >>
066Great. >> Appreciated the um push in PBIS system that you have going as a teacher. I just think that's so important to know that like you can get that support like that and and and it doesn't have to be a big deal, right? It's just hey can you can I have somebody come down here and just give me a little bit of support. So just that you have that system in place there I think is awesome. I loved hearing about um what I always love hearing about staff development and and you know what new topics are out there and what teachers are interested in learning about. So I appreciated that and I love the video. The videos are my favorite. Like I watch videos like that of little kids. >> I know that line dancing
067was it was just >> I can't wait. I hope we get to bring that back. >> Yeah. So I appreciate the the >> that addition. Thank you. >> Yeah. Um I I really appreciate as as someone that focuses on real application learning in my classroom. I loved seeing how some of your your kiddos have that opportunity to do some real stuff and >> um coming to the office and working with you and even learning about um there's value in mistakes as long as we don't repeat them, right? But we all make them and there's so much to learn from them. >> That was really cool to see. Um, I'm not sure if you saw me um making um dashes on my postit here during your presentation, but um to kind of kitty back what Jamie
068was saying, um as a teacher, um I know that sometimes content and subject matter, though valuable, um could be a little mundane at times for students, even at the youngest of ages. Um and I made um 16 notations that you use the word fun >> in your presentation. um >> you're not enjoying school, >> right? You do a great job making um going to school fun, >> both in your presentation um and the visuals that we saw. So, I really appreciate that. I'm sure the kids do, too. >> Yeah. And we have a ton more activities. You know, I didn't show it because we do them year after year, but it's important that you enjoy going to school, that you have good memories. That's why you want to come to school, >> right? Absolutely. don't
069chime in on this, but I just I just want to thank you for highlighting the numerous ways that that MP room is being used because that was a significant investment that we made in that community and just to see it. It's so fun to go in there and see it being used in so many different ways. You didn't even highlight all the sporting activities and the lunch and the before school, but it really is a a fantastic um >> attribute. It's been fun to see how you guys have used >> even this even the stage elevator, you know, we didn't have that before and I do have students that are that need to use that and now they have access to that stage. So, just all the little things have been great. >> Great. Thanks,
070Todd. We appreciate it. >> All right. Thank you, guys. >> Okay. Um, this has us then moving on to uh public comment. Uh, this item is placed here on the agenda for the purpose of providing members from the public and our bargaining unit representatives the opportunity to address the board on any items of business that do not appear on our formal agenda. Um, each speaker is given two minutes of time. Um, the trustees are not allowed to comment on items that are not on the agenda based on the Brown Act. Um but the board is not ignoring um any uh presentations at all and the public comment has great value and we can also direct our superintendent to follow up with items um from his cabinet to presenters and I believe this evening we might
071have a um presentation. So Kelly, yeah, this this is the best time. Um you don't need to worry about that this evening. Yeah, that's okay. Yeah, I just Oh, I brought them. >> I made I made copies. >> Oh, you did? Okay. Thank you. >> Sorry. Um, I'll try to talk really fast because I don't want to take up too much of your time, but you know what? It's worth it. And so I'm going to have to ask you just to hear what I have to say. Um that was a really hard presentation for me um because it was really amazing. And one thing when you lose a child is you reflect a lot and you go through scrapbooks. I was an advent scrapbooker. Thank God. um back in the film days, we didn't have
072digital cameras and smartphones and um go and but your echo of it's the 50s day and the talent shows and the fun runs, you know, we're not reflecting on um spelling tests and math tests. Um we're really remembering how special elementary school was. So, thank you for um not just doing that for the kids, but you never know when you're going to need to do it for a parent. Um, so it leads me what I'm here to talk about. My name is Kelly Nella. Um, wasn't that long ago we were here having a conversation about parental rights. Um, but now we're here to talk about something a little more close to home. So, I'm going to I'm going to try to um be professional, but um, as you see on the flyer, on November 23rd,
073we received a phone call that we lost our son. Um, now granted he was an adult when we lost him, but why I'm coming to you today and to our community today is because what really happened is the first time my son was exposed to drugs was in middle school at Rolling Mils Middle School in Elorado Hills. Starts with marijuana. Very common. It's just pot. All kids are going to experiment, right? That led to in high school he was part of the Molly and Ecstasy generation. um which led him to rehab at 17 years old. He was an Oakidge student. This was at a party with kids who were good students, good families. He was an athlete. He was popular. Um did okay in school. Gave some teachers a run for their money. Um we
074got through it and luckily we thought we'd got through it. He went on to college at University of Anchorage, Alaska, and then went on to go into electrical engineering. He loved his job, but his brain always still had a switch that started in middle school when he tried marijuana for the first time. Here's the problem. We don't get a first time sometimes anymore because there are people who are purposely lacing even marijuana with elicit fentanyl. If you look at the flyer, I have a little demonstration of how little fentanyl will kill you. Dead. You stop breathing and you're dead. We have a a misnomer out there that as long as you carry Narcan on you, he you'll be okay. The kind of fentanyl that killed my son is resistant to to Narcan. It's called the
075car fentanyl. These drug dealers that are out to kill your children and my children are two steps ahead of us. Purple fentanyl and car fentanyl is now so dangerous that it's actually that picture would have to be revised because it's actually about half the size of what you're looking at right now. Just a few grains is enough to tell your brain to stop breathing and you die. Other people died with my son. They were on a Friday night thinking they were having fun. Had a few drinks. Unfortunately, somebody decided that recreational drugs might be a good good idea that night and they all died. What we're not doing is we can educate children, but children often don't have the cognitive skills. Where we're missing the boat is educating our parents. Um, children are getting this
076through Snapchat. They're getting it through online video networks. They're getting it um behind the Town Center in Elorado Hills. They're meeting up in parks. Some of delivering it in plain sight in packages that are counterfeit Amazon packages and they are out to solicit our children. So after losing him and having to travel to Alaska and going through that nightmare, um people started asking me, are you having a funeral? I thought, "Yeah, we could do that and go to our beautiful church, Holy Trinity, and wear black and pray and cry and probably eat chicken salad after." I said, "But what is that going to fix?" So, I decided to do a town hall, which is the flyer in front of you. I'm blessed. I know some amazing people. I've worked with Michael over here. Thank you.
077Worked with Jim. So far, I have commitments from Buckeye, Elorado Union High School District, Motherload, Gold Oaks, um, Congressman Tom Mcccleintoch will be there, Senator Maria Alvarado Gill, Assemblyman Joe Patterson, Sheriff Jeff Jeff Lyoff. Our community cares, but we haven't had the conversation about what about the 85% of children who are as young as 14 years old attending this town hall. a story of a young girl who ordered a counterfeit Xanax through Snapchat and her mom found her dead in her bedroom. 14 years old. Another one, 17 years old, lived in the summit in Elorado Hills. Counterfeit percoet found him dead in his bedroom. So, we're going to have the conversation and what I'm inviting hopefully your district to represent somebody because we've got to figure out how do we come together not just as
078educating our children. Parents have to become even more hypervent vigilant than they used to be. Um, and I hope to give people the tools, the stories, and the hope that we're going to combat this and that no one ever it it doesn't matter how old your child is. Mine was 34 and I'm remembering him in first grade. And um, I'm usually a really strong person, so I'm sorry. Um, but it's that dangerous. So, I have to do this. Um, so I would encourage you um let your counselors know um especially at your middle schools. Um I live in Waterford. We do love the um new entrance. Um, but I see these kids and I hear these stories and the reality is they are they are experimenting. It may stop start with alcohol and marijuana, but
079guess what? We can't write it off. It's not the 80s anymore. We can't say I did it. Everybody's going to do it. Um, I smoked pot in college. I'm fine. One time is all it takes. So, thank you for letting me um bring this information to you. And um I'm proud to live in this district and um my kids didn't start till middle school, but um we're a great community and to have the kind of attendance of leaders that are coming to this says a lot. I have people all over the country going, "How in the hell are you getting these kind of people to come to a little town hall in Elorado County?" I said, "Because we care. We elect people who care." And I want people to know who's there. We'll be acknowledging
080each district, each person, and saying, "These people care." So hopefully one of you will let me know if you're coming so we can res uh recognize rescue. Um could be a teacher, counselor, one of you. And um let's have that conversation. So thank you, >> Kelly. I'll I'll be reaching out to you. um to get just some logistics and can you um also provide me with electronic copy so we can blast this out to her. Then thank you for being here tonight. I know the board's not allowed to comment from the dis but I know I can speak for them. Um this is a powerful presentation. We appreciate you leaning into this. You take care, Kelly. items that are on this evening's agenda. I will identify um the opportunity for public comment um and discussion
081as is moving then on to agenda item number two, curriculum instruction. and our assistant superintendent um Dustin Haley has the floor. This is a discussion item only. No action will need to be taken. >> Good evening. Um I'm grateful to present on our school dashboard for our school district. And um it's actually befitting that I get to follow Todd. He just he just stepped out but just he was able to acknowledge so many things that are happening at rescue and of course that's that's a near and dear school to my heart obviously as as someone who served as a principal there and just to watch just the amazing things that are happening but here I'm uh having the opportunity just to talk and to give a glimpse to the board just about um our dashboard
082for our district and I I know we always talk about continuous improvement um there's a lot of really good things happening in our district there are some areas where we have some work to do as Jim always says and some areas where we need to improve and I will highlight some of those areas talk a little bit about those uh no doubt you've seen uh the dashboard it's been available since mid November and here's my opportunity here just to kind of talk a little bit about that and so um in this presentation uh if the just uh pleases the board just to kind of talk a little bit about the dashboard for those that might be viewing that may not understand or be aware or familiar with it uh the the dashboard itself is uh
083an opportunity for school districts to um to highlight their performance and their performances in a bunch of different areas. And so it some view it as a report card um that communicates how schools and districts are doing because every district every school has its own dashboard page. Uh it establishes common standards and expectations for all of the school districts in California. Uh it does allow us to not only focus on the overall uh scores or indicators but also drills it down to student groups. Um it used to be called significant subgroups. We call them student groups today. Um and opportunities to just evaluate not just the overall but drilling it down to specific student groups. There are eight state priorities. Our school district because we are a TK8 district focuses on six of them. And
084in that focus, there's opportunities for us to evaluate our academic performances in English language arts and mathematics as well as we've added science this year uh to include information about our science California science assessment, chronic absenteeism, uh bless you. Um English learner progress suspension rate um and um yeah, and I already mentioned science. The two that are not included for us are high school graduation rates because we're not a K12 district. uh as well as college and career readiness again because that is uh something that the high school district or K12s are evaluated on. We also have uh local indicators where we actually ourselves publicly report and we score ourselves on how we're doing on local indicators and the board may remember uh these are the items on here uh basic conditions uh implementation of
085academic standards our school climate surveys parent involvement and access to courses. Those uh that is a presentation that I generally provide in June when we pass our LCAP. We look at what our indicators are. We have historically met standard in all of those evaluations and um I am at that time talk a little bit and usually have a continuum to share with the board on those. As I mentioned about the student groups, there are a number of student subgroups or student groups based on um a variety of groups there that are listed there. We do not necessarily have all of them as uh qualifying as u student groups for us. you have to have at least 30 students in that group to qualify as an indicator. And so that makes it uh whereas you go
086to different places in the state, some some districts have other uh student groups that others don't. Each uh indicator has uh what's called a 5x5 matrix. And the purpose of this matrix is it identifies how school districts are performing in that indicator. It has their status or their score, but then it also measures districts against themselves. So, you'll see certain like it might even be the state as a whole be a color based on a certain indicator and it'll be different and I'll share that uh just an example of that with the board. Different than what a district's working on because we're competing or I shouldn't say competing. Well, no competing. We're we're we're looking at continuous improvement. So where we stand and we're continuously looking to how do we continue to get better and
087improve and so you may see a district that has a a lower color and yet you may see the state or a different district that had they were scoring at a lower level but they made improvement so their color is at a higher color based on that. So there's a lot of good uh and there are some areas where improvement where we have some work to do. Our academics uh were scoring in either the green or the blue. Um chronic absenteeism in the yellow, suspension rate in the orange. And we took a step backwards with English learners. And I'm going to talk a little bit about that uh and some of the things we're trying to do uh to address that. In terms of English language arts scoring uh in the blue category, that is
088the highest level. Um it's blue or you'll see numbers later on numerically from a one to five. It is a five out of five is in the blue. You can also see um California's score there. They there in the yellow. And so we always try to do some comparisons. We do some local comparisons and then we compare with the state. Uh you can see there uh at the bottom there are lists of student groups and where they scored. Some of the student groups that are listed there we are evaluating. You'll see are connected to multiple indicators which I'll speak to as well. looking at the orange with English learner students um students experiencing homelessness and then students with disabilities for mathematics uh in the green uh being 23 points above standard which was an increase.
089Uh you see where the state landed in terms of being in yellow and then we're we're kind of all over the continuum with our student groups. Um red on the far end there with students experiencing homelessness. I'll talk a little more about that particular student group because we're going to be focusing on what's called differentiated assistance. Meaning that we have a group that while we're focusing on all of them, there is a group that's requiring a little bit more support because they landed in that red category in two or more of the indicators. So, it is an area where we need to address for science. This is the first year that science has been put on the dashboard. It is information only. Next year there will be a 5x5 matrix to um to compare with
090where we are this year to next year. And so currently scoring uh really really well. Uh I do want to compliment our teachers that are having their students take this assessment. Uh as the board knows when we talked about CASP only our fifth and eighth grade students take the California science test. And in each of those circumstances that assessment uh involves three years worth of curriculum standards. So, it's a lot and it is by far the biggest assessment the kids take. It's approximately 50 to 55 questions. Um, and it's done on on a computer and that platform, but they'll do five questions and then they'll hit next page and they're hitting next page hoping that it's please let it end, you know, and for some of them it's a it's a long arduous assessment, but
091um the kids work very very hard. for English learner progress indicator. We two years ago uh we were in the red and one of the things that Jen Lawson when she came on as our MTSS coordinator and focusing on EL was to redesate those students that were um dually designated meaning that they were uh not only English learners but also were uh deemed as spe in special ed in that category as well. And so through that we were able to make along with some of the imple uh intervention programs that she implemented and be able to make some clims and then in 2024 moved into the green where we made uh growth in that indicator. Well, since then and she let Gemini know this recently that you're not allowed to redesate students anymore. They have
092changed that. So that was an interesting aha for us. We're like really? So, I don't think that that necessarily played into the 10% decrease fully. But what also was an interesting view because we went in and looked at every student because this is based on the student performance on the ELPAC. And when they take that assessment, how this works is is that you're looking at students that are English learners and they need to grow in one um one level. So basically on a four-point level in terms of trying to be reclassified, they need to grow one level up. And so we had a number of students and it was primarily in our middle elementary grade levels. So in third and fourth grade where students were kind of stagnant. They it's almost like they grew and
093stayed made pace with the curriculum or with the standards they're learning, but they didn't jump enough to make a growth into one level. Hence meaning that we did not continue the growth that we' made previously. Hence the reduction and on that 5x5 and I can send the board this their specific 5x5 matricy um that there was a decrease meaning that they didn't go backwards they just didn't grow forward. And so right now Jen and I are collaborating on what sort of interventions can we continue to to utilize to support those kiddos that are kind of stagnant right now. And I know that um I'm thinking of uh Mrs. Bibbo that has talked about her ELS and just those long-term EL students. We're trying to prevent students from becoming LESS. And so that's the conversation we're
094having right now in that area. So, and one other thing that I thought was interesting as well that we as a district just need to focus on is is that if you look at all of our individual schools because they have their own dashboards, none of them out of all seven have e progress indicators as a significant student group. They don't have enough students to qualify for that. But if you add them all up, that's where the district as a whole has that as a significant indicator, which means that we have not a lot of students in our district, but they're kind of all spread out. And so we need to do a better job of working with those smaller pockets at those individual school sites to be able to address those needs. With chronic
095absenteeism, uh we uh were green last year. we moved down into the yellow and yet we improved. So I don't I don't know too many uh situations where you improve and you still drop down. And so the um the factual on this is I don't know if the board remembers coming out of COVID we were almost 20% of students at chronic absenteeism. We dropped from 19.1 to like 11.1. It was like a huge drop. Then we went from 11.1 to 8.6. And so we'd made this continuous improvement of multiple gains. We went from 8.6 6 to 8.4 continuing to grow and I know as you get closer it gets harder gets more challenging to do that but it wasn't enough to remain in the green because you had to make at least 3% improvement in
096order to continue that growth there and it's disheartening to me to see that because we continue to improve our school attendance and yet we dropped and if you look we share the same color as California that has more than double the chron chronic absenteeism at 17.1%. So that's um it's just an interesting kind of a thing because we are competitive with rescue. We want to I hear my inner Nancy talking about who cares about everybody else? It's about rescue and I do care about that except when I look and see that there are districts that have a lot more chronic absenteeism and we are going backwards I guess. Is it too early for me to um reveal that their matrix is flawed? Um it it I don't want to say the whole thing is is
097um challenging to accept right now because of so much growth areas but the the the identification of imperfection or the identification of shortcomings based on the changing colors. Um it doesn't align with the data that you're sharing. It's a little I guess that's the competitiveness of of me coming out. I I I start to lose a little bit of faith in this particular matrix as it makes no sense to me what what it makes where it makes sense to me and I do it's not the end all but I mentioned our students experiencing homelessness right if you look at the student groups there they're in the red and we are having if we look at at groups of students that is these are indicators and that's right it's identifying students that we really you need
098to spend more time digging into. And so where I can look at this and know that we're making as a whole gains, we do have students that are struggling to get to school and based on that we have students that are struggling to do well and that is impacting how students experiencing homelessness did in math. And so to me, this is we need to kind of dig further beyond what's kind of what face value. People look at what's on the front page. That's the front page. if you actually dig into it, that's where you get to see the the individual students. And I think that that's where we're living right now. That's why with EL students, we're looking at specific students. We're looking at how long have they been here, where are they going to
099school, what help are they getting, and really trying to dig into that. And hopefully, if we have the collective effort, that front page will improve. But I do see, and I'll talk about suspensions in a minute, and Jim might chime in on that one, but um we do have circumstances where there is a story that's not 100% being told, but um we know what that story is. And no matter what, we're looking at this stuff, right? We're looking at this information. So where I may see I may agree with you, um there are still nuggets and benefits we're taking from it. I guess >> you're a better person than me, Justin. Well, >> to weigh in for a moment, >> please. >> Really quickly, ju kind of just to echo that. I was I'm I'm
100a little disappointed in the and I'm disappointed in myself for not knowing this information about not allowing our schools to redesate students, although I kind of have an idea of why that might have happened. Um, but I do find it to be um, if if we're going to set a standard for a group of students and say that they have reached proficiency and then we're not going to allow them, we're not going to allow to redesate them, that seems extremely punitive and discriminatory for the state to be doing that because what that doing is it's hamstringing >> um, not just those students, right, from being to have the opportunity to be redesated, but it's also it's it's punishing them really at the end of the day if they're not and and then and then if
101they're not growing >> um, after they've and significant growth to be redesated and but it's also punitive to the district and it's punitive in terms of like it's it's it's not accurate data really at the end of the day it's not accurate and so I would like to just point out that our team has done incredible work with our EL students and and the and the I don't believe that data to be um at all representative of of the gains that our students have made or the efforts that our teachers have you know put put in and the work that um Jen and her team has done. So I I just want to make that clear that I think that that's it's unfortunate that our students are being represented that way and that that that
102it's reflected and our teachers and I agree with Michael 100% when I keep hearing >> I'm looking at this and I'm like that doesn't make sense to me. >> I would like to give the evaluation team that came up with this a ranking of Burgundy >> if that's possible. Well, and as I I think I said a couple of years ago, our precoid um at least speaking to chronic absenteeism um percentages was just under 5%. That is our goal. We we're continuing to inch our way back to that. Um some of the the challenges that we experience uh I mentioned students experiencing homelessness. We have a number of um situations where families will um will take trips, go on vacation, things like that. And they do many of them will get um independent study contracts
103which our teachers work very hard to create and to provide so that they have those um but if the work isn't done then it goes in as a an absence right and then so then that contract is essentially null and void right and that happens. So in terms of suspensions, um we were last year in the yellow and the year before that we were in the green. And so it feels like what's happening? Um similar to what Todd spoke to, um our teachers are taking a very big interest in how do we support students that are struggling with behaviors, specific things that are taking place. We're also trying to find um find our ground in terms of how do we ensure because you guys read about it. We hear about it every day. Schools need
104to be a safe place for kids. Parents need to have the um I think the peace of mind knowing that they send their kids to school and that they're safe and that they're learning. And so every suspension that um that happens is not a knee-jerk response. Jim and I read them all. um and we're able to identify with uh just understand why a student was suspended. Our questions always are what is the restorative piece that comes back after that? Because um as I think has been said tonight, there are mistakes that are made. We don't want to repeat those mistakes. What does that look like? And so, um, it's definitely, you look at 2.1%, we wish that that would be 0%. And, um, unfortunately, we've had circumstances where, um, our principles have had to make
105some hard decisions. And, um, California Education Code, um, offers, um, reasons students can be suspended. And we make sure that our principles are in align with that, and they're very thoughtful. They don't just they're not just tossing students. And I just I I like to make sure that I say that because again 2.1% we see California is in the green at 2.9% and it just you know that's improvement that the state is making. But uh when Jim came on you have some districts that have made a policy no matter what a kid does they will not be suspended. And that's a difficult message if something unsafe takes place that harms another student or potentially a staff member. And we're very sensitive to that. So, um, gonna say anything? Okay. All right. I I was waiting.
106I was waiting. Okay. Okay. So, did I cover did I cover any thoughts that that Okay. Okay. Okay. So, this is this is kind of a grid of of all of those um areas, those indicators with those student groups. And as you can see, and as I spoke to, if you look at our academic uh assessments, you can see a lot of green, a lot of blue, a lot of good. Um, and then if you kind of move over towards the right, we're looking at chronic absenteeism and suspension data. It is an area where if you get to a certain number, you know, a certain percentage number, that's that's how that is identified based on that 5x5 matrix. So if there is an increase in those that means an increase in in absenteeism or an
107increase in suspension data based on what that number is that goes up. Some of those student groups or I mean they're enough for it to be um significant enough district-wide that there's 30 or more students but you suspend one student that number goes up that percentage goes up a lot right versus if we look down you know at at at a significant group maybe that's not the case. It's just something that's uh like I said, we're not we're not ignoring it. We are very aware of it, but we're digging into more of the why behind those areas. Yes, ma'am. >> Some of the box is just white. So, we've got students experiencing homelessness like that third box in science. Is that because none of those students took the sign? >> I think. Yeah, because they
108didn't. because it's only fifth and eighth grade students that would take that. And then if we're looking at African-Americans where those are white, you're going to have, remember, you're only going to have students that are in grades 3 through 8 that are taking those, but yet we account for all of our students for attendance and suspensions, right? So, so you're you're accounting for TK through 8 versus 3 through 8. So, it may not qualify to have a student group under that indicator. That's a good question. It's not a dumb question at all, but that's why. Mhm. Does that make sense? Okay. Mhm. So, looking here, you can definitely see um and I I debated I have to be honest. Um I debated whether or not I was even going to include this slide, and I'll
109explain why. So, um, so this was information that was gathered from me from the county that utilized trying to identify 18 similar districts so that we could kind of do some apples to apples comparables with how we're doing and our indicators versus how others are doing. And out of the 18, you can see English language arts and science. We're number one. That's exciting. That's that's that's cool information. But then you go down towards the bottom and we're towards the bottom in some of those areas. I clicked on the link that gave us the list of those districts. Buckeye's on that list. And I'm glad that they are because out of the 18, they're probably the only one that was listed that was closer or similar to what we are because this is based on um
110percentages of um of our unduplicated rate and our um school population. But when I dug into it a little further and looked at other dashboards, I was looking at um districts that um like Menllo Park and um and Salana Beach where, you know, the average home prices were like, you know, $3 million. And it just it wasn't a it wasn't a good comparison to what we're trying to do with this. And so I told Jim, I said, I'm not sure if I want to include this, but I'm going to include this because it's good to look at what other districts do. And if we stick our with just ourselves, then you know that that limits growth that we're trying to accomplish. So I'm certainly looking at those districts, but also being mindful that we need
111to be comp uh we need to be careful about when we do comparisons that, you know, Buckeye's a district that's our neighbor. They're very close in proximity. We're very aware. We talk all the time about what are they doing well. They talk to us and that is a great opportunity for us to do that that piece. But I also, you know, some of those places where you have a lot more resources that are being infused into schools that aren't a part of what the state or the nation allocates in terms of funding. So, they're able to do more because they have more, if that makes sense. >> Yeah, Dustin, I have a question if I can. Um, how many data points of similarity um were in the evaluation of um like districts? Um well let
112me first start with how many data points of similarity was used to calculate um how close a district was like another one. Do you know? >> So two um so right now just two and it's listed there. It was listed as if they have an enrollment between 2000 and 5,000 and an unduplicated rate between 10% and 40%. Those were the two data points that identified those those one duplicated unduplicated is that is that comparison. >> It's a pretty big range. >> Yes. Range is very big. Yeah. Yeah. >> Okay. So, yeah. So, too >> what I'd like what I'd like to offer what I'd like to offer is just to be able to share that link so you can see those districts. And I'd love to if you have an opportunity just to kind of
113click on them and just kind of take a look and what you see and then share any thoughts or questions you have with me or with Jim because I'm I'm interested. So >> a number of who came up with this evaluation. >> We're going to protect the innocence. So >> So I mentioned differentiated assistance. So we have one group that's students that experiencing homelessness. they've qualified uh under two um indicators in the red category. And so uh when a district is designated in DA or differentiated assistance, um we have an opportunity to work with the county to create and identify how are we going to support those students. And we're already doing that work um within our um with just in our own cabinet and with our own leadership. And so that's something that's happening.
114But that is something that um districts are responsible for doing if they have any indicator where it is has two in the areas of of that are in the red category. And so that is one we will be exploring and and working towards. And last but not least, um this is um a good segue to our next month's um general board meeting where we'll be bringing to you our um LCAP midyear update where we're able to talk about how we're doing with the LCAP that we pass every year, uh the funds that we provide, the goals that we set, and the um the assessments or the um the analytics that we use to evaluate our students. And so part of what we're having conversations about and what we will continue to have conversations about going
115into the spring with our LCAP is how do we support our English learners? How do we support our students with that are uh experiencing homelessness being that it is showing regardless of the the model of this there is a need and there's there's is important that we evaluate and that we focus on supporting those students. And so we will have an opportunity just to give the board an update but also to talk a little bit more about that. Any questions for me about about this presentation? >> Listen, thank you for for that presentation. Let me open it up to um our board for any um comments. Once again, this is just a discussion item. >> When you say something and you think you um when I when I meant socioeconomic, I meant the overall socioeconomics
116of the district. Yo, >> not I understand the unduplicated children, but just like when you're like as you mentioned >> um when we're talking about Menllo Park >> as a particular comparison. I did I think that the there are some identifiers that are a little bit different there. That's kind of what I meant by I I recognize unduplicated as single funding but >> in general. >> Yeah, >> just to clarify. Thank you. >> And I thought it was fabulous. Thank you. >> Thank you. We've expressed our opinions on those that >> anything. >> Yeah, I I know I I threw a couple of haymakers out there in punches. Um, but I do want to say one thing and that is I I've been in education long enough and I've been around some school districts where
117they strive to accomplish a particular level of success for their students. These test results come in and then they move on. Mhm. >> Um that is not the DNA of this district. I sit here and I listen to our superintendent and his leadership in cabinet and they constantly strive for excellence and they hold everyone in this district accountable to making sure that our kids get the best education they can get and I'm extremely proud of Rescue and the hard work that they do. And I don't believe the colors that we saw on that screen indicate such. And I just want you to know I um I appreciate what you do um and the hard work that our teachers do and our classified staff and our support staff um and I think in fact we do
118um achieve great excellence. Room for improvement always, >> but those cuddlers don't indicate what this district is and it's a special place. >> Thank you. Thank you. And I hope when you leave tonight it's not just about the color because that that status and change really can mess you know like where we improved but they wanted you to improve by.3 some I don't know where that number got determined by just it doesn't land right with you but I hope you do when you see it if you can strip away the color aspect of it there's some really positive things and I want to compliment Dustin because he's he was very gracious in the that the slide with the 18 comparisons this is the most in-depth presentation I've seen and I know Ed Co was helpful
119with buying a lot of data, but this really drilled down into some very specifics that that I've never seen at a presentation like this, but the 18 slides or the 18 comparables. Um, we were we had quite a few and I ultimately left it up with Dustin, but you know, you had shared with us that you wanted these pres you wanted us to feel be able to be vulnerable and share like, hey, we like my interest wasn't can we just cut those bottom ones out and just put the two where we scored number one. Let's just share that would have been like a normal presentation. Oh, also we compared ourselves against 18 other school districts and we were first in ELA and first in science and then moved on. And I think what you saw
120tonight is a is an acknowledgement to what we heard with the board and I appreciate the comments you made because it does create for our staff that are listening to like this is a safe place to say we're crushing it here and we have some areas of growth and there's some areas like maybe I will skip I'm going to skip the suspension. I'm not that's not an area where I'm really focused on um we get day-to-day data on that and that's where we address that. So that's an area where that's we're not I'll just be honest we're not focused on but um the rest the rest of it we are leaning into that and so I appreciate you being the first to go model the vulnerability piece. Uh it's appreciated. >> I do very much
121appreciate the real and the raw. We are so lucky to have amazing top tobottom staff boots on the ground adults that are working with our children. But the real and the raw is is is true. And so I appreciate, hey, let's what what do we if we're going to lean into continuous improvement, then let's be honest with it. We know there are aspects that we need to focus on and that's okay. >> Let's continue to improve. And while we're picking this apart, I I just I don't I actually I I struggle with and who's watching too, I struggle with the absenteeism, sorry, I struggle with the absenteeism piece at all because um so much of that is outside of our control. We can nudge, we can beg, we can we can only do so much,
122but we don't have a ton of control. And if in Melmo Park or, you know, Salana Beach where they have a freaking driver who, you know, gets their kid and brings them to school in their Maserati. I mean, you know, we're in a we're to Michelle's point, we're we're not situated the exact same way. And and um so I I don't know. I just even I just think there might be even better things to evaluate a district on. I just don't think that that is such an important metric evaluating the district because the district doesn't have full control over it. But I also don't work for the education department in the state of California. So leave it at that. >> With that being said, um are there any other comments? Okay. Uh that then has
123us moving on to agend agenda. Are we good? Yeah. Okay. Agenda item number three. um regarding our um our library >> and you've got this presentation as well. >> Yes, sir. >> This is an action item. >> So, annually I I have the excuse me, the privilege of bringing the board our updated district library plan. And so, in the board packet is a list of the the library plan. Uh, and just as a reminder, um, in the plan itself, it it speaks to, um, really the requirements are fairly low as far as like bringing this to the board. Um, we have a library committee that is designated to meet. It's a minimum of once a year. We actually meet about five or six times a year um, and at least once a trimester um, to
124talk about a number of things. But the purpose of the library plan, it's to identify the goals of our library program. And this year the main focus of the library plan was to update the goals to reflect the new or updated board focus goals. So if you look in there you can identify that the board focus goals are listed there. And it speaks to uh the role and uh the the role and the goals of the library in providing for not only our students but also for our staff and families. And I've often said uh that our libraries are the heart of our schools. And I don't think anybody would really debate that. If you look at our elementary schools, um, kids absolutely love love love visiting the library. And even in our middle schools,
125if you go at lunchtime, our middle school libraries are packed with kids that want to go there. And, um, it's just impressive to me that that our librarians are the ones that make it. It's not it's not that. I mean, when I was a kid, the stereotype was you, you know, it's got to be silent and they're saying, "Sh, this is a library." And that's not that's not what happens in our school libraries. Our librarians want our students to visit. they want them to check out books. They often have games or activities for them. Um they sponsor um competitions like the battle of the books where we have groups that read certain books that are on the list and then they go into these competitions where they're asked questions about uh the content of the
126books and it's just it's it's so much fun to watch. So that's a piece of it. And that doesn't even speak to their like they are such an integral part of how they support teachers and providing u curriculum materials for them. Everything that I order gets delivered to the librarians and they have to sort through them and provide them to new teachers. Any things that are coming to teachers um where they're getting replenished consumables. Uh right now we are uh engaging in a math pilot and so if we adopt a math program they'll get pallets of just materials that they have to sort and have for kids and have for teachers and uh all the different things for that. So it's it's an incredible undertaking that they do. They run book fairs um to um
127to generate funds to help them uh add to their collections and uh to provide um additional things for them to provide for kids. It's just extraordinary. Um, we have seven incredible librarians as well as Rhonda Pequard who works in our our tech services department and is kind of like that that intermediary between the librarians and me. And uh, I'll just say this, not there aren't many districts where every school, including elementary schools, have their own librarian. You'll have um neighboring districts where you'll have a librarian that splits two schools and they're only able to check out books and check in books and shove them. and that is all they do and that's not what we have. Um it has always been a priority in this district to have a librarian at every school site because
128that this district recognizes the importance of that and what they do for their their sites. So this plan identifies just the focuses on goals. And then probably the most important piece you'll find in there is towards the back where each site um illustrates just their overall um their collections, their updated collections that they have, any weeding that they've done, any additions that they've created or added to their library collections. They they show just the historic um growth of that and it's it's incredible just to see. Um and this isn't in there, but I think it's worth mentioning. Um Jim and I have had several conversations with our librarians with regards to ensuring that all of our books are appropriate for kids and safe for them. I know that that's been a huge um hot topic
129um as far as what's in our schools, what's in the schools in California. Families are concerned that their kids are reading inappropriate books and content. Our middle schools have books that even though they are appropriate, we have them on a checkout process where we have to get parent permission in order for kids to to be able to have them. And so they have a really strong pulse on what kids are reading, if it's popular, they're reading it first and making sure before they add it that they know what's in it. And they just do a really, really good job of making sure that the collection has relevant books that kids are going to want to read and as they get older that they continue to want to read. And that's the whole goal. we're teaching
130a love of reading. So, um, so this plan here and, uh, what I'm asking or what the superintendent's recommending is just for an approval of the library plan. It's essentially just showing and allowing just that's the plan that they continue to execute and that we discuss as a library committee. >> Thank you, Dustin. Um, can I please get a motion on our I'm sorry, is there any uh additional discussion? It doesn't appear there's any public comment on that either. So with that being said, if I can please get a motion. >> Stricks 2025 20226 library plan. >> Thank you. Is there a second? That was second by Miss Whites. Motion made second. All in favor? I oppose. Great. Motion passes. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Um, this end has us moving on to
131agenda item number four, business and facilities and our CBO has the floor on the audits report and financial statements. This is an action item as well. Hi, good evening. Um uh I'm here tonight to discuss our audit report. It is the final wrap-up for 2425. Um there's a lot of good news in there. There is some things in the spirit of continuous improvement that we are making some movement on and um I'll go through what I have provided is a summary. So I think everyone got a very um bound book with about 90ome pages in it. Yes. Um this takes you to the page numbers that have some of the important topics on it and a summary so you can just kind of go through. Um what I'm highlighting is that our financial statements were
132presented fairly. Um essentially the auditor agreed with everything in the way in which we closed it. We didn't have any material weaknesses found. Um we did have one finding and that was in relationship to our expanded learning opportunities program. So, our ELOP with this funding, we are required to provide um within our school year, our 180 days of school, a 9-hour day, which we do that in collaboration and partnership with our Eloretta County Office of Education and the extended day program. Um, in addition to that, we have to offer 30 additional days outside of our 180 days um of nine-hour days. We do that in combination with our summer rise program. We do that with our um winter break and our spring break. And while we provided all of that in 2425, what we didn't
133do was provide transportation during winter break and uh during winter break, we did provide transportation or offer transportation during spring break. But um if you remember, this was a similar finding from the prior year and I didn't have that information in time to coordinate it for winter break uh because our audit report wasn't done until December and by then it was all a little too late. So we did provide starting in spring break last year and this year we did cover winter break. So we should not see this particular finding anymore. Um the unfortunate thing is I did um chat with our attorney just to discuss what um an appeal might look like. Last year's um was a little bit higher because it was a longer period of time uh than this year's, but um
134I did chat with him and really what it comes down to is because in order to access the program, transportation needed to be offered. And so he didn't really feel like an appeal was going to get us very far. other than spending a lot of his money to potentially not really gain. And the amount of funds that were um um in the penalty from last year didn't really justify spending an attorney to to try to get that appeal. So, we already had it incorporated in our budget for this year, which was last year's penalty. we already have this penalty included in our budget for next year or for this year and for next year. So, the penalties have already been accounted for within our budget. So, I'm not overly worried um about it impacting our
135budget at this point. But, I will say that um our transportation department's been very good about coordinating and collaborating. Uh we're working with EDCO to ensure that they're giving us timely information on their registration windows for these particular breaks so that we can ensure we're making the offer and we don't have any future findings. Um >> find out what page we can find um that on. >> Yes, 94. >> Thank you. Uh the other things that came up in the finding related to the ELOT program were both related to um the Elora County Office of Education. Um neither of those were a um penalty finding, but they were more of a compliance finding that demonstrates that we didn't have um we the Elorado County Office of Ed is having difficulty demonstrating via paper that they're
136meeting the proper ratios. they are meeting it and they're providing documentation. But what's different about an after-school program versus an inschool program is that we have one teacher assigned to 20 students and we can very clearly identify our ratio as 1:20 or and here's an aid. So for TK it's 1:10. Very easy for us to do that in our afterchool programs because students don't come every day. Sometimes they come Monday, Wednesday, Friday. They come varying days. They don't staff two student um exact students to it. They rotate, right? So, as they arrive, okay, these first 10 go to you, the next 10 go to you and then they ratio out that way and then as students leave throughout the day, staff are sent home and they maintain the ratios. That's very difficult to to document
137and demonstrate on paper. Um they are working with B but County Office of Ed to figure out how other county offices are demonstrating that because our auditor did recommend that um BU County does a very nice job of here's a binder and everything that demonstrates what they need. And so um our county office has actually reached out to them and was very appreciative of that recommendation. And so I'm hopeful that this next year they'll have um a little bit more ability to document that. Um and then the last thing was there was some new language that we had requested that the county office add. Um I didn't they didn't revise their prior year agreement that we already had for 2425. They did revise it for 2526, but they hadn't revised it in time for our
138audit for the prior year. So, um, again, that's something that's already been resolved. Any questions? >> Doesn't appear there's any questions and also no public comment on this. So therefore, um, if I can request a motion, please >> approve the auditor's report on the 2425 initial statements. >> Thank you. Is there a second? >> Motion made second. All in favor? I oppose. >> Great. Motion passes. Thank you very much. The Senate has us moving to agenda item number five. Um, which is our budget guidelines for the 26 27 year. >> Yes. >> Um, so these budget guidelines are probably going to look hauntingly familiar because they are the same guidelines that we use for 2526. Um, I just want to highlight a few things just as reminders. Um, we do annually review what the reserve
139is. um state recommendation or state mandatory minimum reserve is 3%. We have annually um just to ensure that we're meeting payroll obligations and any um just to ensure that we are we have a healthy reserve. We do assign a 10% minimum reserve for a general fund. Um we do use one-time dollars for one-time funds. We do have a multi-year uh for 26 27 27 28 and 28 29 when we bring this back in June. Uh we do have an LCAP that also matches our budget and ensures that we meet our um um LCAP 8 state priorities. And um the last thing I wanted to say um um just as we go through um is that we also have added starting in the 2526 year that we will put savings due to the implementation of solar
140at all sites. Um those savings will be transferred into our special reserves capital facility fund 40 each year. Any no public comment on that? Any discussion to that? With no discussion, then it has us move this to action. Please I get a motion. >> Move that we approve the budget guidelines 426 school. >> We is there a second. Miss White seconds that. All those in favor? I. All those opposed. Great. Motion passes. Thank you very much. This has moving then on to consent. And if I could request please, we begin with just number seven because this requires an abstension from Miss Bibo. Um this is our study session minutes for January 13, 2026. I can get a motion on um adopting that. >> January 13, >> perfect. Thank you. Is there a second? Motion made
141second. All in favor? Oppose? Abstensions. Thank you very much. This then um we need to pull number 15, please. If I can get a motion on that. >> I move that we pull item number 15. >> Great. Is there a second? >> I second. >> Motion made and second. All in favor? >> I oppose. Great. Motion passes. And then can I please get a consent on 8 through >> and six? >> Um Sorry. Six 8 through 14. >> I move that we approve >> of consent. 8 through 14. >> Yep. Second. Is there a second? Motion made seconded by Miss White. All those in favor? I oppose. Great. Motion passes. That has us moving then on to adjournment. Miss White. 8:24