All right. Good evening, everyone. No, no, I had this over here. So, um, good evening. So calling our meeting to order. So welcome to our PVSD board meeting. We have translation in Spanish. So if you need that support, please see Ronnie Lopez. So tenemos traducción en español. Si necesidades el servicio, por favor, pase con... Oh, Magdalena. Sorry. Magdalena, Magdalena Maciel. Um, if you would like to speak to an item on the agenda, then please complete a speaker card and hand it to Eva Renteria prior to the agenda item. Each speaker will have two minutes.  And I will ask our student trustee, Ruby Romero-Maya, to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. It's America. And to the public, which stands one nation under God, a new visible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. All right. And we will go on to our interim superintendent comments. Thank you, President Holm. I'm not going to comment about what all of you are wondering about or what took place this week. We do have some good words from our president that I hope will be captivating. What I want to comment on is something that's inspiring but also very sad. And that is Jason Murphy. I don't know how many of you knew Jason, but Jason was a stellar teacher at Lakeview Middle School. He'd been in our district at least 25 years. And he passed away about six weeks ago. And he knew my son, and I might get a little emotional. He actually inspired my 31-year-old kid when he was back in middle school. And Jason brought that school together. He was a math science teacher, but he did so much with sports and fun stuff with the kids at Lakeview that he really was a school-wide asset to the culture. And I hope he's watching us now. So if we could just take 30 seconds of silence to honor Jason Murphy, I'd really appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Go Eagles. We'll go on to our governing board comments. And this is our opportunity for each board member to make a few comments. And I'd like to offer our student trustee an opportunity if you have any comments this evening. I'll wait until the next meeting. No problem. Trustee D'Serpa, did you have any comments? Thank you. Thanks everyone for being here tonight. It's really nice to see you. Many people in our community have been made aware that there is some hate groups coming into town on Sunday to deliver messages of racism and intolerance. And so as a board member, I just want to say that those things will not be tolerated here in our district where we appreciate inclusivity and tolerance for all people, and not just tolerance but celebration. So I'm sorry to have to tell everybody, a lot of people have been getting the emails, but we're not going to stand for that here in Pajaro Valley. Thank you. Trustee Soto. Good evening, everybody. Thank you for being here tonight. I'll yield my comments tonight in order to progress the meeting. Thank you. Trustee Ska. Good evening, everybody. Thanks to everybody's watching online. And thank you for those comments. Trustee D'Serpa, I agree with you on those sentiments. Big agenda item tonight, so I'll keep it moving tonight. Thank you. Trustee Flores. Good evening, everyone. Thank you for taking your time to be here tonight. I also will yield my comments. Vice President Acosta. Hello, everyone. Thank you and welcome this evening. And I am also going to yield my comments this evening. I wanted to address my gratitude to Mr. Schekman and the members of the community who alerted me to and other members of this board to a video that showed somebody delivering a racist rant to one of our students. The behavior displayed was appalling. And the district took immediate steps to ensure that these kind of actions are not represented in our classrooms or by our employees. And while this individual is no longer an employee of the district, I would encourage any staff, students or family members who feel they need additional support in processing this incident to reach out to our wellness team. And please reach out. I think I'll leave it with that. But I know that the board cares about you. I know I've had many conversations with Mr. Schekman over the last few days to ensure that people have gotten support. And I know that we're committed that people be treated fairly and appropriately. So those are my comments for the evening. And we have, so we'll go on to 3.5, our high school students board representatives We have, do we have a video or students from Aptos High? Hi, my name is Ryan Ortiz and I'm the new activities director at Aptos High School. I'm very excited to introduce to you our Making Waves Weekly Announcements, which is a weekly video podcast created by students and some select staff. That discusses events going on around campus, all the news that students need to know to be successful, fun activities, and ways to get involved with our students. So please subscribe at AHS Making Waves on YouTube. I'm Lily Martinez, your ASB president. Hi, I'm E'Evans, your ASB vice president. Hi, I'm Julia Nevin, your ASB secretary. And I'm sexy Garcia, your ASB charger. Welcome back and this is your Making Waves Weekly Announcement. Hi, I'm Gamble Kalemeyer. And I'm Austin Barr. And this is your Making Waves Weekly Announcement. We've had an exciting start of the school year with a fun rally, dance, helm kickoff party, the helm! And now we're gearing up for homecoming. Homecoming week will be the last week of September. There will be spirit days, claskets, parade on campus, and a rally that Friday. We'll also host a football game and we'll have a dance Saturday, September 30th. Meanwhile. Hey, let's go to class. All right, bet. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You can't pick up your Chromebook like that. You got to pick it up by its face. Okay, good to know. Chromebooks should be picked up by its base, not by the stream. If you do that, it will most likely damage it. And now it's time to meet some of our other Mariner leaders. Hello, Mariner. I am Dr. Allison Hink-Sloan. It's easier to just call me Dr. AHS. Same as at Prasai. We are so glad you are here. It is the start of the 23-24 school year. And our goal this year is to sail with joy, with trust and belief. Let's look out for each other and make this an awesome year. We had such a good time for our first-ever Helm Kickoff Party last Friday for our home opener football game. Students were hyped, spirited, and enjoyed a good time all together. We missed it. Here are some photos and videos from our first-ever Helm Kickoff Party. Prussia's next week on Wednesday, September 13th. Great opportunity for clubs to advertise themselves and recruit new members. Everyone is invited to come out and check out which club AHS High is offering this year. Find us on the flagpole at lunch next Wednesday. And freshman chose Princess and the Frog. He is trying to hold it together. Okay. My eyes are modern. Give me a minute. Okay. I'm not good at not laughing. That's it, Mariner. Have a great day. And remember to subscribe. Perfect. Okay. Give me a minute. I'm like laughing that whole time. And we have, thank you. Thank you, Mariners. And we have students from Renaissance High. Hello. Good afternoon, everybody. My name is Anthony. I'm the senior leadership leader of Renaissance High School. This one. I want to give a quick shout out to the student of the month for September, Jesse Espendola and Samantha Moreno. Congrats on your recognition. What's going on at Renaissance is map testing in English and developing occupational work experience program with a classroom support component. The changes for the 2022-2024 year is a superintendent, student advisory committee. Last time they had a really good dialogue, really good connection with the superintendent, and the students hoped to keep that, to keep the same. We've changed from variable credit to pass or no pass. Some students aren't a really big fan of that because they think that it's still the same system from their original schools. So a lot of students aren't really happy with that. And the role of academic advisors has changed. They have been stripped away from helping students, from choosing their classes and the classes that they need. And I think that's kind of a very big situation. After school programming, forthcoming. I think that's a very big thing that we need at Renaissance. But what we kind of need and it's kind of hard to kind of get is transportation. And we also have to change up our schedule. We have to enter earlier and also get out earlier, which is kind of like a little different than what we're used to. And quarterly student intake. So far they're taking students by, I think, semester. And I don't think that's really helpful for students that need to go to Renaissance, that need to catch up, have a friend that's supposed to be going to Renaissance later. And it's really holding him back from getting credits that he needs because he's entering till October, which is not a good situation for him. And then our garden update. Our new science teacher is improving our garden, which is a kind of good situation. We have partnered up with Aptosand and Gravel Nursery to get more gravel for the garden. We're planning carrots and beets, which is kind of fun. I'm in that class, so it's really fun to plant. To get to plant and know more about the soil and more about agriculture in general. And we're also cleaning beds that we have to be able to plant more things to have more stuff in the garden. And pizza and paint is a kind of like event that we had last year. A lot of students enjoyed it last year. And I went around asking this year to students if they would be interested in it, and a lot of them said yes. So I think it would be a good idea to have it this year. Sports, so far we have volleyball going on this year. And we won two out of three games versus New School High School. The first score for the first one was eight to 15. That's the one we lost. And then we won 11 to 15, no, 15 to 11, sorry. And then we won seven to five. And then the next game is Diamond Tech and New School on September 6 facilities. A lot of our maintenance and operation have been doing a really good job for us lately. They have been removing junk furniture for us. And they've also placed a mini library outside of our front office, which is really nice. And then in the picture shown right here, the bottom one is our basketball hoop. They recently changed the rim and the net for us. Again, maintenance and operation. And on the top picture is a picture of our field. A lot of students have had a lot of problems with the field. There's a lot of potholes and stuff. And as you can see, his foot is in the ground. And students are allowed to go onto the field, but they don't because they have a concern that they'll probably get injured in doing so. So no one's really on the field right now. And then he's a little bit more on our library outside or mini library outside. That was, I think that was at the end of last year. And this is now our little library. And then this is a picture of our senior field trip last year. And they went to Great America. And again, I went around asking people this time. And they said that they would love a senior field trip. So I think that's something that we should be looking into. And that's it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. All right, going on. I'm sorry. We have, if that was the end? Yes. We have one public speaker, Chris. Oh, okay. Yes, good evening. The only reason I'm saying anything is because some of these changes, the way they come, troubles me a little bit. The student leadership body did a survey last year of the student body and the teachers. And that survey was eventually stopped by the principal. And one of the things they were asking was about the question of credit versus no credit and variable credits. And 97% of students were in favor of variable credits. 67% of staff were. This is out of 10 of 13 homerooms who were surveyed. Also, the fact that these changes came basically in spite of any kind of consideration of stakeholders kind of troubles me. And I feel like it's not really serving the student's interest. Also, I can't help but recall Student Trustee Moriel. She specifically, another question was who should handle the schedule changes? The academic advisor or the academic counselor? And at this kind of school, one of the things that WASC has recognized is that connection with the academic advisor, that daily check-in. And the fact that you have that more personalized attention when it's one to 18 or one to 20 versus one to everyone in the whole school. And that position is part-time anyway. So you're not even going to see them each day. So I was a little troubled by that. And I wanted to make sure that the students had their voices heard. So I did want to share a couple quotes from that survey. One was, my advisor knows me better than anyone. They should do my schedule. Another one was from a teacher. We had advisories essential to student well-being and the size and the connection, the sense of community and belonging. I feel like as we get away from traditional renaissance, like if we're going to really do that and just become another comprehensive light kind of school, then I would say just change the name. Change the name and we'll be something else. But really, we should get back to what we truly are, especially if we're concerned about like test scores and stuff. If education matters, we need to go back to best practices. Thank you. All right. Going on to item, any other public comments? Yeah. Okay. Item 4.1, our approval of agenda. Can I have a motion to approve the agenda? Make a motion to approve. All right. Can I have a second? I'll second. Okay. I have a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 7-0. And going on to item 5.1, approval of the August 23rd 2023 board meeting minutes. Can I have a motion? I have a first. Second. And a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Abstain. Okay. Motion carries 6-0-1. All right. Going on to item 6.1, resolution 23-2407, instructional materials sufficiency report will be presented by Lisa Garry, our Assistant Superintendent of Secondary Education. Good evening President, Home Board Trustees, and Interim Superintendent, Mr. Scheckman. I'm here this evening to present the resolution on instructional material sufficiency. All districts must hold a public hearing by the eighth week of school to make a determination through a resolution that every people has sufficient textbooks or instructional materials. The Williams Settlement Legislation establishes the sufficiency standard for instructional materials. Instructional materials are defined as materials that are used in class or take home. And that they're designed for use for pupils and their teachers as learning resources and help pupils acquire facts, skills, or opinions, or develop cognitive processes. Instructional materials may be printed or non-printed. And so this evening I'm here to present the resolution that acknowledges that based on school visits and principal assurances that all students have sufficient textbooks and or instructional materials for the 23-24 school year. I can say that all students, K-12, have their board adopted curriculum instructional materials. We have on order and are still waiting for a few science kits, but they are not the actual curriculum, as well as for elementary and for middle school. And they're on order. The world language, we have it online. 100% students have full access to the curriculum. It's a brand new adoption that you approved earlier this year. And we are still waiting for a couple of hard copy for use in the classroom. And so those are all on order and should be here. So this evening it is a public hearing and I will be back at the next board meeting to have the resolution passed. Thank you. Thank you. Do we have any public speakers to this item? Yes, we do. We have one. Chris Webb. Yes, so at Renaissance, one of the things that we don't have is a Spanish teacher. And I know people would probably say, well, there's a genuity. But that's maybe not the best solution for everyone. And I think it's kind of just morally not right to have a graduation requirement that cannot be filled with the human. Also, last year, starting last year, we started to get newcomer English language learners. So we've historically served as English English learners for a long time, but we have never normally gotten people who don't speak like any English. And I think if we are to be receiving students like that, then we should get, like I'd like to have my textbooks, at least one textbook for each of my different sections, to be fully Spanish so that I could support them in that way. Really, I feel like they should be at schools where there is all the resources that would normally be provided for someone so that we could fulfill their educational rights, such as like an ELD program, a new cover program. I think without those things, it's a bit of a misreferral. But at least if we are going to stick with it, I would like to have those other textbooks. Thank you. Thank you. Any other public speakers? All right. Any discussion from the board? And you said this will be coming back as an action item for the next meeting? Yes. Thank you very much. All right. Going on to our visitor non-agenda items, our 7.1 public comments. This is our opportunity for members of the public to address issues that are not on our agenda for this evening. Do we have any public comments? Yes, we do. We have two. Chris Webb and Marilyn. I'd like to express my appreciation for the interim superintendent and the board members who have publicly spoken in support of having a collaborative environment. I feel like that's a good move and I'm hoping that kind of sticks. I just wish that sense was transmitted to the people in between you and me. There's people in between us. I feel like my principle is collaborative and I don't put any of these changes that I think are maybe not the best. I don't put those on him. These are things that he inherited. But I do worry that if we don't become more collaborative, I do worry about longevity for admin who inherit things that maybe don't make the most sense. Also, there is a concern on racism that I have. And that is like we brought up the variable credit thing, which I am committed to because it rewards meritocracy. But in the absence of that, there's been some credit inflation and I don't feel like this serves the students. And I feel like if we were at another school, I wonder if they would do that. It makes me feel like the Renaissance populations may be taken advantage of. So I consider that a form of racism. If you deny people the class with a teacher, if you deny them a field, if you deny them, if you inflate the credits, one of the things I heard this year from a student who matriculated so a success is that he was applying for a job and the employer said that Renaissance students were the last to get hired. And that troubled me because that made me worry that like if we don't really commit to the education piece, if we're more about the numbers in the dashboard and not an authentic approach, that we are doing a disservice. So I just wanted to say that. Thank you. Marilyn Garrett, retired teacher from the school district. What I pulled off my shelf is a book. Vaccination, the silent killer, a clear and present danger. Lots of documentation by Ida Honorov and E. McBean, 1977. Nothing safe and effective about these shots. I have a document here called Myths and Truths about COVID-19. Contagious virus or 5G microwave technology question mark. And you have to think have we ever been lied to by our government or corporations? Can you think of any examples? We need to look deeper into what the official story is telling us. This says COVID-19 and the 5G connection, many epidemiological observations and biological studies indicate that the disease called COVID-19 is actually radiation poisoning caused by exposure to microwave used in 5G wireless technology. The epidemiology is that COVID-19 first appeared in Wuhan, China, where the city turned on 10,005G base stations. It spread to these other countries as 5G rolled out. The biology, COVID-19 and radiation injury, the symptoms are the same. Fever, chills, dry cough, extreme fatigue, loss of taste and smell, acute respiratory distress syndrome, multi-organ hypercoagulation, hypoxia, lack of oxygen, which also is caused by the masks. And there's a section in the exposure about myths and truths, about the ingredients and the COVID shots. And here's one, and this is pretty serious. Myth, wearing a mask can protect you against COVID. Not true. I have copies of this. I'd like everyone to have and study because this is an educational place, right? We study. And that was two minutes. Thank you. No further public comments? All right. We'll move on to our employee organizations. And now is the time where we hear from our employee organizations, and each will have five minutes. We'll start with PVFT. Good evening, board. Superintendent Sheckman. The PVFT is proud to advocate for the well-being of our members, staff and students. As the representative for the Certificated Non-Management Educators, we view our students as a central benefactor of the safe, sustainable learning practice we strive to create through the contract language we bargain for. Our working environment is our students' learning environment. I raised both my children in this district. So when I speak from a personal position, as of like right now, I do so with having been a resident of Watsonville and having these two byproducts of our school district. And it is a bonus for me that I have the privilege of having been able to impact the lives of many students. I think when I was trying to do the math that I've had like over 500 students during my years here as an elementary and secondary teacher. That's orgullo. Pride in having witnessed the dedication of hundreds of teachers who wake up every morning during the week to guide our students through their academic careers. Providing care and support as our students develop as young adults. Emotion. Thrill to see our youth become. Public education is a core foundation of our society. A place where students can begin to discover, discover who they are. As a writer, sociologist, mathematician, an artist, an athlete, a musician, and so on. So it is unfortunate that despite our great efforts and with our audacity of hope as we continue to bargain for our unit to provide a salary increase for our membership. One which we know is the reason why we were able to fill a majority of the vacancies that we had for classroom positions. This district, some of its people that make decisions, still continue with the audacity to make unfortunate decisions that negatively impact its people and students. We understand that declining enrollment is something that looms ahead. That we're living that and we're seeing those numbers. But to take valuable programs away, such as the arts for our elementary students, is unjust, es injusto. There are two people in this cabinet that are making rash decisions about staffing that is impacting workloads in an unsustainable manner. Using a staffing formula that whittles students down to numbers in a formula. People are already quitting or will not stay after this year. The PVFT believes the students deserve an enriching education in schools that demonstrate what it is to collaborate and treat its employees with dignity and respect. That's modeling. Our students, and the words of Whitney Houston, are our future. So I really hope that as this meeting continues and you see this incredible ending reserve that this district has now, that the programs that our students are missing out right now on are, that it just doesn't match for right now. When we talk about mental health, when we talk about the whole child. Thank you. Do we have any public speakers to this item? 8.2, CSEA. Do we have anybody from CSEA here tonight? Anybody from PAVAM? Good evening, President Holm, trustees, interim superintendent, Mr. Sheckman, cabinet, colleagues. My name is Rich Moran. I'm proud principal of Minty White Elementary.  It's an exciting time of the year at our site that all of our students are working here, I think, as site leaders, as administrators. It's an exciting time of the year at our site that all of our sites is educational leaders. We're already about well into five weeks of the school year, so we're already seeing the benefits of our efforts during our opening weeks. We've built strong foundations for education through our implementation of community circles, social-emotional learning, big emphasis on strong tier one and tier two efforts in regards to PBIS, as well as our academic routines and procedures. So all of that's meant to ground our students and the rest of our work for this year. We've moved headlong into the use of our curriculum, including the implementation of our new science curriculum. Twig, TK through two, TK through three at my site, because we had some extra volunteers. We're also finishing up our first round of universal screeners and assessments, and we're looking forward to using these data to inform student groupings, scaffold instruction for student access and success, create opportunities for productive struggle, and challenge our students to exceed expectations. Furthermore, many of us are relying on understanding the implementation of the MTSS process. These supports and accommodations are helping us to provide the extra support some learners might need in order to develop appropriate social skills, coping skills, attend to instruction and self-regulate, all of which, again, will further their academic success. Additionally, now that we're moving our students forward at our school sites, we're also in the midst of planning events to engage, support, and celebrate our parents, including family technology nights, family literacy nights. We have our pending parent conferences coming up as well, and I'm sure each of the elementary sites and secondary sites are also doing additional work, again, to engage and support our families. As educational leaders, as a district, we have a number of tools at our disposal, and I feel like we're improving our ability to wield all of those tools for the sake of our students. We're doing much for our students and our community, and yes, we have much to do for our students and for our community. And to that end, I'd like to take a moment to speak to item 912 and just mention that we're excited about the pending approval of Ms. Claudia Monjaras, as our assistant superintendent of secondary education. She's been an integral component of and a driver behind a myriad of these initiatives, processes, and supports, and I'm confident that her leadership will continue to provide the continuity, the urgency, and the growth that our students and families in PVUSD deserve for years to come. So I want to thank you for your time and thank you for your efforts and contribution to our community, and have a great evening. Thank you. Thank you. All right. CWA is tonight the night. Not tonight? Okay. Going on to our action items. Item 9.1, Superintendent Search, our proposed timeline, and the report will be presented by Mary Shackman, our intern superintendent of schools, and Eric Andrew. I was like, where'd he go? He's there. And I basically will turn it over to our colleagues from leadership and associates. They've been planning. I put it on the agenda, but they have the presentation. So thank you, folks. Come on, Mary. Come on. I thought you had this. First of all, thank you guys so much. I want to tell you how honored and proud I am of you guys for your comments you made earlier about hate and what's happening in your community. That takes a lot for you guys to say that, and I appreciate you standing up as a board making those comments. So thank you guys so, so much. Appreciate it. Also appreciate the words of the kids. You guys make sure your meeting is that. It's about the students and so on along the way. And so we really do appreciate that. And great comments that have been made by the various factors here. We want to bring to you a timeline. But before I do that, I want to introduce my colleague. Many of you have not met her. Do you want to introduce yourself, Blanca? I sure can. Hello, I'm Blanca Cavazos, and I did have an opportunity to meet you before when we presented our proposal. And so I'm very happy to be with you here again. And I thank you for understanding as to why I was not here the last time when my colleague presented. So thank you very much. I'm very much looking forward to working with you and getting to know you. And I'm also very excited to see your students here as a former high school principal. Nothing makes me prouder than seeing students up before the board. So thank you. So we brought you a timeline earlier and there was a lot of discussion. And during that discussion there seems to have been. We were trying to come up with our initial schedule as one of pretty a quick timeline. And typical of a leadership associate's timeline, it was not fast. It was just a matter of what we typically do. But after listening to a lot of the conversations that was going on that night, it became clearer to me that there's a number of the board members who wanted to slow the process down a little bit. We talked a lot about getting the community involved and how we were going to do that and making sure that we had time to advertise to the community members and to make sure we rally them to come out and participate in this process in the various ways. And so we created a new timeline. I do like to do a couple of changes. One, we're going to cross out to 26 and make that... Oh, it's good. Perfect. The other thing is that we will come back. I know Vice President Clerk Acosta wanted to make her comments regarding her characteristics and so on after we had done the public comment. And that seemed to be something that we had talked about. So we won't make sure that we've not forgotten that. The other thing we wanted to make sure we did was to ensure that we would reach out to the basic four communities that you talked about. And so it would provide opportunities for that along the way. So with that being said, do you have the timeline in front of you? We'd like to listen to your comments and thoughts. I'd like to see that this is a good timeline in the sense that it beats the season. For those of you who don't know, there's typically a search season. It usually starts at about January. It goes to June. So we're just a little ahead of that. So that gives you a little bit of an advantage of being able to get top candidates. And yet candidates who are going to announce in December will also have an opportunity to be a part of this process as well. So that's our thinking behind creating this timeline. Great. Do we have any public comments to this item? We have none. Any discussion from the board? Trustee Dodd, Jr.? I would just like to say thank you guys for being here this evening. One of the questions I always tend to ask when we hand out contracts or any type of funding. Who's speaking tonight? Are there any representatives that are going to be here? And so I'd like to thank you guys. Two or three times. I remember your colleague when she came and so I just wanted to say thank you guys for that. I recently attended a meeting with 20 to 30 teachers and classified workers at Ian Hall at a school that I represent with Trustee Scow. One of the questions that we received was how is the process going? What's the timeline? And so hopefully some of those teachers are looking at the timeline tonight. And they're excited. The community is excited to be part of this process and I would just like to say thank you guys very much. I'm one of the trustees that agree with others that there should be a long process to get the community involved. At least the area that I represent. And I just wanted to say also to our interim superintendent, I know we butted heads a couple of times already but I like to say thank you for having communication and also visiting sites. I think that's important and hopefully we continue to work together this year that you're here and I look forward to it. So I just wanted to say thank you. Trustee Scow. Yes, thank you very much. I think this is a pretty solid timeline. Just a follow-up question about on the specifics of reaching out. The high schools, town hall, is there going to be are you going to come back with some specifics on that or do you already have that in mind or is that coming back to us? Yes, so we will move forward actually. We will work with the board with creating the groups that who you want us to reach out to. I think we have the opportunity to pass information. We will take a look at that send it back out to you to say do we miss anybody we need to reach out to and then we'll create a list and we'll work with our admin and your admin and they'll start to schedule the various groups along the way. Once that's done, we will create a report to you that basically will tell you here's a summary of what we heard on the online survey. Here's what we heard from our focus groups and part of that will be used to come back and create a position description based on what the board and the community says they wanted to see their next superintendent. So you'll be informed along the way. Once we start the community outreach, we will start getting information back to the board probably about every 10 days to be able to say for example on the online survey we've got 342 responses already. In terms of our outreach we're doing zoom outreach on this day we're doing in person on other days and so we'll be in constant communications about every 10 days you get something back from us saying here's an update and that you can share with the community at that point. Can you scroll down a little please so the audience and the viewers can see, I mean the other way please so they can see through towards next year in the spring upwards. Thank you for that good specific directive that was clear and understandable. A little more with January 12th. Okay perfect right there, thank you so much. Okay so it looks like there's some room, I think last time I said I think it would be great if the best candidate wants to start I want to find the best candidate if they want to start in March if the best candidate wants to start next June we have that flexibility because we have a beautiful contract with an excellent interim superintendent and so we have that flexibility so I think you built that in with this timeline knowing there's some possibilities there and so I think that looks good to me I'll turn it over to my colleagues. Any other comments? Vice President Costa? Thank you. So I do believe the timeline that you've come up with now is better than the previous one presented and to your point of what you said you think it's better and I am still going to be on the other side of the fence with you that I don't believe it's better as someone who works in education you know flying these positions December and January is just really it's just not the ideal time January, February much better but if you there's a board majority here that's fine with this timeline as presented I will support that with a few caveats yes and thank you I appreciate Eric you mentioning about my right I as to my point the last time we have that something that happens every two years and we're coming on to that in 2024 and the board that may be here after December 2024 may be a very well different board the board that may be here in December 2026 may very well be a different board hopefully whoever the superintendent will be the permanent will still be here and so I really don't feel it's this board's superintendent it's this community's superintendent and that echoing that again and again you're going to hear me I know I'm tired of hearing you say it Georgia but you know I just it's our community superintendent and so and having that input and I think that you've heared and heard that now from this board that we really want that a majority of the board any who so and I appreciate your comment about what I said at the last meeting about that not wanting to put my comments out there until I hear that and I have that constituency base and our stakeholder base that gives that feedback and also we unfortunately due to emergent reasons that evening had two board members who couldn't be here so we haven't heard from there because of very unforeseen things that happened that evening so I see it's not sketched in here but I heard you articulate that we'll it will get in here before we move to that process to bring that back after we've had the time to review and then I think to Trustee Bellano-Skow's point you that was another question I had with well we're when I said I don't see that etched out here when are those community meetings town halls meetings happening and whatnot but I think you've um if you scroll down up sorry Adam I'm kind of with you I was with you the other way I mean are those going to be just those dates I mean you're going to reach all those on the seventh eighth and ninth? Correct and if we need to do an extra day we'll do an extra day because the days will be based upon what the board says they would like to see in terms of groups so we don't have the groups yet so typically we do it in one day and basically what happens is two colleagues are in two different rooms and all day starting 30 minutes apart we started maybe eight or eight thirty and we go as long as we can to five and then at five o'clock we have a town meeting so that's typically how we've done it we've had a lot of success doing it that way we've actually given you three days minimally to do the same thing so we feel like the groups will be able to do that we'll be able to hit if you had 30, 40, 50 groups we think in those three days we'd be able to hit everybody and we are finding also across the board as we talk to our colleagues we had a meeting just this week and that more people really prefer to do the survey they really like doing the survey and if you think about it they can do it at any time and so you'll be getting those numbers not just it won't just be numbers but it will also we will share with you what percentage of those numbers were from staff what percentage were from parents just so that you can as we go through the process you can get a picture of who is participating we will also share with you the numbers of the that are in the groups that we're meeting with on zoom and the numbers of people that we're meeting with in person so that you can again start seeing who it is that's participating in these different types of meetings and in those numbers will it have the percentage of result for the input for each group you know for the characteristics I'm thinking that's what you're talking about they'll get the same the very same each group gets right we saw that that Eric presented and so so it'll be broken down for each group and what group said this to question one two three four correct that's from that's for the online survey not for the focus groups the focus groups will be group one teachers here's what they said group two classified here's what they said group three students here's what they said and oftentimes as we've mentioned we typically have between 20 and 40 groups so you get a chance to see here's what some of them have said along the way keeping in mind oftentimes there's there's some confidentiality issues so people want to know okay if I say this as a teacher is there going to be any repercussions so we do want to keep that in mind as well but you'll get the list that says here are the groups here's what they said and with regards to the Town Halls we had talked about at a minimum for possibly five different Aptos is one Pajaro Valley High School is another Watsonville High School is another and Pajaro Middle School and then even Renaissance High School I believe deserves that you know recognition so and what we typically do in those settings we just go to the school so during that time frame we say okay we're going to be at this school on this day because we want to make it convenient for the students we'll go to this school at another time and so we do that literally in person at the school site and that's good but my question to that would be how are you engaging the parents if the parents are working during the day that's why we have the online survey that's why we have community meetings in the evening okay I like I said I'm still not a fan of the December 4th January 8th I would prefer to see that like January 8th and February something I don't the beginning of February I can't think of a date in the beginning of February but I don't know Valentine's Day February 14th I don't know I mean that would be my one caveat ideal to this for the advertisement and recruitment portion of it and other than that the only other thing I'd like to add is that in looking to make a motion about approving this that this isn't like something that is like literally set in stone that it could have the caveat of that you know per the board's discretion there can be manipulation and change to it per the board here's the reality this is for the board but it's also for the candidates in our recruiting they're going to want to know what is the timeline what are we going to be at recruiting when are you going to have the deadline and some of those types of things and as I mentioned earlier if we go through the list and we say hey we need another day or we need another meeting we make that change so some of this will be on the run this just gives us a guideline of here's where we're going to go and here's why we want to do it this way and we've had a lot of success doing it this way but there's very few timelines that are etched in stone because there's always some nuances in the community that we want to make sure we do that don't. I hear that so then my request would just be that if we could change the date from December 4th and January 8th to January 8th and February 5th December 4th, January 8th are our that's when we advertise in our etcal magazines that's where the candidates are going to be seeing here's our position here is the position description here is the salary range that's for them not for us or the board yes but you're closing the deadline to apply for preferred deadline application as January 12th at 5pm so okay then how about we've already been contacted candidates that want to know when is this going to happen sure and I'm also just alluding back to what Eric said and it is it is a fact known that January and February are the ideal times that most of the prime candidates are looking and if those candidates are still looking and interested I think they'd be willing to look to apply if not by the January 12th then let's say February 16th I don't honestly see that a one, two, three, four week, five week bomb is going to make that dramatic difference so we, I'm sorry I've heard your point I just want to hear them so our response to that would be this that we will send this out to over a thousand current superintendent and assistant superintendents immediately people are always looking ETCAL comes out twice a month people start reading the back page first so anybody in the field and you can ask your own colleagues here in the field knows this comes out every two weeks and they look for jobs specifically in terms of that timeline and so on we think it's a solid timeline we do based on our experience great and I want to open it up to other comments we can wrap up to follow up if we have some trustee to serve it did you have some comments yeah I think this is a solid timeline this is what you do you guys are experts at this I feel like we've already moved the timeline in response to some trustees asking for that to happen and this looks great to me and we also know that for some reason if we don't get qualified candidates that we could go out again so I'm very comfortable with this and I'd like to make a motion to approve tonight I also wanted to say that at the last meeting as a board we discussed pushing it back by a couple of weeks and with this timeline we talked about trying to actually find somebody by January and this new timeline pushing it back by a couple of months and at first I had some apprehension about that I'm missing out on good candidates and I was concerned I was concerned about the impact that would have on our district I know we have a contract with you but I appreciate I've had conversations and I appreciate the reassurances that I've had and the additional information I've been able to get and it's like I feel assured that we'll be able to find good candidates and I appreciate the compromise that this offers and I think it's in line with what was discussed at the last meeting so thank you is trustee dot junior? I know we have a motion, I just wanted to make a quick comment hopefully our student trustee I know she has a voice for the high school I know my daughter she intends once in a while I know she has her own opinion too hopefully trustee Soto represents another county and sometimes that tends to get overlooked so hopefully trustee Soto can let you know about the schools he represents in Monterey County and I know he'd be happy to tell you that and I just wanted to quickly if I can ask if you could somehow reach out to the Watsonville City Council I know my trustee area I have the supervisor in my area and I share a district with five out of seven Watsonville City Council districts and so they all have their own opinions and hopefully so I just wanted to say thank you any further comments trustee sco I just wanted to make a suggestion on the community meetings and at the last meeting you might have heard some comments from me suggesting we should have some ownership of what I meant the marketing of that the district should have the full weight of the marketing and if there's a way we could provide we always talk about for those watching we would love to have the public come more often we already have the public show up so if there's a problem with child care if we need to get some pizza there I'm for that so we can make these meetings more accessible because we hardly have parents come to our meetings and we like to have parents come to our meetings so I just want to just want to throw that out there that I would be supportive of that thank you I just have another follow-up question from the last meeting actually another group that was identified was in our Hispanic community the Wehawken Group and with their dialect and language I don't also see that being addressed here in this new timeline well they will be part of the seventh, eighth or ninth group and so we'll reach out to that group we're one of those set groups that are there alright we have a motion on the floor do we have a second I'll second it alright all those in favor aye any opposed motion carries 6-1 alright item 9.2 salary or superintendent salary range report will be presented by well the report was put together by Eva and I and we get to say carry on but now the topic is salary thank you so much you're welcome I think we sent you a few examples of salaries in your community and this is where the board comes together to determine what they believe is a salary range for the next superintendent again this is just a range but we want direction from the board as to what you feel is a good salary range for the incoming superintendent do we have any public comment to this item yes we do we have two Bill Beecher and Chris Webb good evening how many of you believe that Dr. Rodriguez's salary was 223,000 a year I'm shocked I don't believe it because I know it was more than that so if her salary which is on these pages is wrong how do I know if your salaries are right I don't I don't have a lot of faith in them also 16 of these schools have less than a thousand students why would we even look at what they pay because our district is so much bigger I mean the bigger the district you've got to pay more for a superintendent why are we comparing ourselves to Gilroy or some other districts that have comparable size and what do they pay the other thing that's missing in this comparison is what kind of academic performance are these districts having I think that's kind of relevant now when you were sworn in as trustees you took an oath to provide our students the best education that we can provide and pursuit of that you need to hire the best candidate available if you're trying to save some money by having a real low ball set of numbers $200,000 it's a fool's errand if you save $200,000 by doing this that amounts to $200 per year per teacher you haven't saved anything to try to fatten up the teachers if you're having serious surgery you do not find the cheapest surgeon you find the best one that is why you need to hire a superintendent is the best one that's out there and you've got to be willing to pay top dollar because our students deserve it and you have an obligation to provide that thank you I'm forepaying top dollar on this as long as we get positive cultural change and somebody who's not just going to go with the status quo that's proven faulty too often we change leadership and then we just we don't really change our processes so contingent on that and contingent on leadership where they're in touch with the circumstances we have meaning like we recognize there's a teacher shortage we just asked a lot of our teachers last year in terms of subbing it was maybe not the most respectful thing to attack them for using their PN days around the holiday maybe we should be focused on having paying somebody who's wise enough to realize that we want to retain people we need to be doing that we need to find ways to innovate and be different also when you do those things you basically force a culture of lying from your staff maybe they don't use a PN day they use a sick day instead and that just makes it harder to find subs so it's not collaborative in that way the other thing I would say on the salary is that the car allowance the car is like a symbol of what we have with our leader and I'd like to see us be a green district innovative leading so I would like to see that we don't pay for somebody to drive around a car that maybe is just like old fashioned not green also with that one other thing I would say is if we on that PN day thing if we were to keep attacking teachers for those and the new superintendent did that and favored that kind of leadership that kind of thing makes me want to do a sick out just throwing that out there so thank you thank you do we have any discussion from the board Trustee D'Sirpa so who gathered this information was this you guys or was it our district it was about a year old so it probably we take a look at it superintendents and you guys have experiences have received between a 5 and a 10% raise over the course of the year this is a base salary does not include any of the other benefits such as your health benefits such as your car allowance some people have phone allowances some have insurance policies so this is just some have stipends for doctorate degrees et cetera so this is based solely on salary and this is information that is this is information that is gathered by the state and so it's not information that we gather we got that from the state and then we pulled out the districts that were relevant to this area thank you and it's important to note superintendent salaries are location location location very little to do with the size of a district really doesn't if you were in Santa Clara County the average is going to be between 270 and 330 even the smaller districts if you go to San Mateo it goes up more if you're in LA County it's the same thing so we basically took from the state's database the districts that are kind of in the area to give us a sense of okay here's where the people around you are paying at that point trustee I know with the Vice President Acosta yeah well I fact checked you and you are correct because the backup did show that this was for 2022 2023 school year and our former superintendent was making 222,832,000 that is also what's on her contracted dated August 24th 2022 222,832,000 so I do trust your numbers thank you and I do have some input with regards to the numbers and my thought process in going through this and also feedback from constituents that I've already spoken to that have reached out to me to give me their input and thank you for elaborating on how you came up with that 7% right and sort of an average between the 5 and the 10 which I think is fair and respectable and that these salaries did not because of 2022-2023 school year did not reflect the potential 7% which could have been 5 could have been 10 7 conservatively perfect and looking at these one of the things that was brought to my attention by some constituents was also popped out to me I do have a concern and an issue with a superintendent of school of a local school district making potentially more than the county COE superintendent of schools right so that was something that was flagged so I looked at right specific to Santa Cruz County Office of Ed our superintendent of schools in 2022-23 making 237-38 and with the 7% that's about 16 and a half thousand pay raise at 253-630 would be respective at this point and then looking at Carmel and and looking through the rest of the schools in Santa Cruz County the schools pay the local school districts that sit under that umbrella pay below what the county COE makes and looking at Monterey County to the other side there were only two school districts that were outliers to that which aren't really comparable to PBUSD based on their budget formula and specifically Carmel that makes more than the Monterey County COE superintendent of schools so my range is definitely to be in respect of below that I don't believe that a city superintendent of a local school district should be making more potentially than the city superintendent of the local county office of education so that was a bit of my thought process there and I'm going to before my president gets after me again I'm going to turn it back and let her call on somebody else do you have anything they want to add I know at the last at the meeting we had we talked about a range of 240 to 270 but we could certainly adjust if someone wanted to make a motion to that effect I would like to thank you president home I'd like to make a motion I would like to look and I think we had that conversation about looking at this range because I don't think we could say that because we don't know who this person is going to be what qualifications they're going to have do they have their ED do they have a PhD do they only have a masters experience all that do they fit all this criteria that the community has come up with right so I think a range is appropriate with that guidance and given my already previous comment to this subject that a range somewhere between and so do you want me to say it as a motion or should I say what I'm thinking between between 225,000 and 250,000 cap I think is fair as my thought process so I'll I'm glad to make that into a motion and let it maybe be shot down do we want to discuss it I'm okay with that range if we find somebody we really want and we can we can negotiate that later if we need to negotiate later we don't tie our hands I think my understanding please correct me if I'm wrong Eric it's only happened once or twice isn't that what I mean the range that we put out we have to be within that parameter is that correct you need to be close to it sometimes boards will go up or down depending on so we have that flexibility okay not to jump on you but we did have some other hands I would just like to second trustee classes motion let me formalize that into a motion first so I'll make a motion to approve this item 9.2 with a salary range of 225,000 to 250,000 well I like to second that motion but I think you're being generous but I'll second that motion all right so I do have we do have more comments before we take a vote go ahead trustee we're you to prepare to come forward tonight with a recommendation about what the range should be no we don't do that because we don't know your finances and what other conditions are happening in the district that could affect it so we typically do not get involved we leave this totally to the board and then once the board makes this decision that we can say that makes sense to us or that let's say it doesn't it's a total board's decision well with all due respect to trustee Acosta the superintendent of this district has far more responsibility than the COE superintendent period and I love Ferris Sabah and everything that the COE does but being a superintendent at this district is I think a much bigger job so I I will support the range as long as we know that it can be negotiated for the right candidate who's making more who's down in San Diego who would like to come here I think we should be able to change our minds on the range if that's the candidate that we want and I also just want to this is just the salary yeah salary only, base salary yeah right to your point this does not include the stipend, that potential and all of that okay okay just a quick comment I agree that of course we want the best superintendent that we can get for our students but we also have a responsibility to make sure we can afford to pay our teachers what they deserve and our CSEA workers what they deserve and if we're going to just give this outlandish salary then we won't be able to do that so I definitely agree with this range and also feel it's a little generous but like I said I'll agree with this all right well and I just like to add we do have an item further down the agenda right about a special studies session that our current superintendent has proposed and I think that bringing this back as part of that conversation at that special studies session would be a good so the board can have an analysis of what the impact of this potential salary range will be on the fiscal level to this district well we have a first and a second and if there's no further comment then I'll call for the vote all those in favor aye any opposed motion carries 7-0 thank you very much thank you and again that number is alright thank you so much thank you everyone alright 9.3 resolution 23-24-06 recognizing Latinx heritage month report will be presented by Lisa Aguirre assistant superintendent of secondary education thank you good evening president home board trustees and interim superintendent Mr. Schekman I am honored this evening to present to you resolution 23-24-06 recognizing Latinx Latinx heritage month this annual observance serves as a powerful testament to the invaluable contributions of Latinx Latinx individuals and communities to our nation's rich tapestry is an opportunity for us to honor the diverse histories cultures and achievements of Latinx Latinx in the Pajoto valley our community in the United States and to reaffirm our commitment to inclusivity and diversity in challenges barriers and racism Latinx Latinx communities have continued to demonstrate resilience unity and a commitment to shaping a brighter future for themselves and for all Americans the term Latinx derives itself from gender inclusion and subsequently changed to Latinx to include gender and indigenous communities I am going to read parts of the resolution resolution 23-24-06 states Pajoto valley unified schools district takes pride in joining citizens throughout the country in recognizing September 5th through October 15th 2023 as national Latinx Latinx heritage month and whereas the 2023 theme for the month is prosperity power and progress recognizing the significant achievements of the Latinx Latinx community in the economic and political industries and whereas the Pajoto valley unified school district in its continued effort to honor Latinx Latinx heritage and during this month enhance equity and diversity through art literature and celebrations of the diversity within the Latinx Latinx community and now therefore be resolved that the Pajoto valley unified school district continues to partner with our community for events and to provide activities in the classroom where students talk about their identity and continue to identity and culture and continue the historical traditions that have been part of our community as in the ethnic studies courses do now therefore be resolved that the Pajoto valley unified school district will acknowledge supports needed for all of our families including farm workers to ensure that the children of our families will have access to equitable educational opportunities now therefore be resolved that the Pajoto valley unified school district will highlight local Latinx Latinx cultural artists storytellers historians potentially use literature that reflects our students whenever possible now therefore be resolved that the Pajoto valley unified school district proclaims September 15th through October 15th 2023 as Latinx Latinx heritage month and is pleased to share in this special annual tribute by learning and celebrating the generations of Latinx Latinx who have positively influenced and enriched our nation, our society and our community thank you and starting tomorrow on our website we will have the resources for our community for our educators and for our students to use throughout the entire year within the classrooms and without to continually celebrate and honor our Latinx Latinx community and with that I ask for approval of the resolution thank you thank you do we have any public speakers to this item? we have none do we have any discussion from the board? we don't want to put you on the spot but if you ever have any comments please feel free to comment as you wish you're welcome we'll make a motion to approve yeah thank you I'm going to support this the spirit of this is very important and it's just my observation and it's personal maybe but four of us on this board have Mexican heritage which is a pretty cool thing it's a cool district Latinx and Latinaire are more university oriented terms that are not often heard in our communities but I understand the spirit of why they're being used but they're certainly not something we hear in the community but I will support this in second the motion any other comments? alright I have a first and a second all those in favor? aye motion carries 7-0 alright going on to item 9.4 approve resolution 23-24-08 acknowledging September 10th through September 16th 2023 as suicide prevention awareness week and September as suicide prevention month the report will be presented by Christy McLean our coordinator of counseling programs good evening interim superintendent Mr. Schekman President Holm and PVUSD Board of Trustees my name is Christy McLean coordinator of counseling programs and I'm honored to present this proclamation to you today the week of September 10th through 16th 2023 is National Suicide Prevention and Awareness Week and September 2023 is National Suicide Prevention Month PVUSD is dedicated to reducing the stigma around mental health issues and suicide creating safe spaces and providing support for students at every opportunity school counselors in PVUSD utilize September to educate students about resources and ensure students know where to ask for help and recognize when their friends may need help this resolution is yet another way to ensure that students and members of the community know that if they are thinking about suicide they are not alone and that there are resources for them with that I will read a few portions of the proclamation whereas the week of September 10th 16th 2023 is National Suicide Prevention and Awareness Week and September 2023 is National Suicide Prevention Month when millions of people around the world join their voices to share a message of hope and healing whereas talking about suicide reduces the stigma and may help those feeling alone to reach out for help and whereas help and support are available 24-7 via phone call text or chat from the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline whereas according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention among teenage girls 30% said they seriously considered attempting suicide up almost 60% from a decade ago and whereas according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention almost half of LGBTQ plus students said they had seriously considered a suicide attempt and whereas suicide is preventable as 9 out of 10 suicide attempt survivors do not go on to die by suicide and whereas school counselors mental health clinicians administrators, staff and our mental health partners offer a range of services which prevent and intervene amongst PBOC students now therefore be it resolved that the Pajaro Valley Unified School District is committed to recognizing suicide as a preventable, national state and local public health problem supporting the declaration that suicide prevention should be a priority developing and implementing strategies to increase access to quality mental health, substance abuse and suicide prevention services training 100 plus staff members in applied suicide intervention skills training creating a suicide safer community both within our schools and our neighborhoods so therefore be it resolved that the Board of Trustees of Pajaro Valley Unified School District recognize September 10th, 2023 to September 16th the Suicide Prevention Awareness Week and September Suicide Prevention Month so with that I ask for approval of this resolution thank you do we have any public speakers to this item? Yes we do one Michael Berman Good evening President Holm members of the Board, Superintendent Shekman and members of the community I'd like to state my appreciation for this acknowledgement I attended the assist training for suicide prevention in July and was frankly very anxious and fearful about the topic of suicide and I still am though I feel equipped with tools and strategies and the training taught me how important it is to name that which creates the sphere so thank you for considering this resolution to recognize suicide prevention awareness week and month and I highly encourage all of my colleagues in PBUSD to attend the assist training that Chrissy offers thank you very much Any discussion from the Board? Trustee D'Serpa? Thank you Chrissy this is a very important topic in particular for our kids that are on GLBTQ I'm questioning so I appreciate you bringing it forward I'm a mental health professional much of my career I spent with people that were feeling symptoms of depression and anxiety and I never really learned to ask directly until I went through a training probably about 10 years ago and now I've trained all of my staff to ask directly because you'll get an answer sometimes that you don't want to hear but you can intervene so it's very important to ask people directly do you feel suicidal or have you thought about it people will tell you and then you'll know how to move on from there and give them the help that they really need so anyway, thank you for bringing this forward and I'd like to make a motion to approve Any further discussion? I just wanted to add for such a long time there was such a stigma and so many misconceptions about suicide and the factors that led to it and what Trustee D'Serpa spoke about it's just the idea that if we avoided the topic that it would somehow make it better close friends of mine have been affected by partners or loved ones who died by suicide and just the impact that that's had and for people I know who are survivors and just the isolation that was leading them to an attempt and again what Trustee D'Serpa said it was just the question that somebody asked was it being seen and heard and it is an uncomfortable topic and Mr. Berman I want to acknowledge the bravery and being able to say it's like yeah this is an uncomfortable topic especially for a lot of us who grew up in a time in an era where you don't talk about mental health as a health issue and it is so important to talk about this because this conversation does save lives and maybe the life that we make a difference on by having these conversations who knows what that leads to in the future so thank you we have a first and a second I'll go ahead and call by all means thanks Chrissy for bringing this forward I know tonight it pertains to students and that's what we're recognizing but I'd also like to acknowledge the veterans out there that are affected and I heard a commentary from gentlemen saying that you transition from military life where you're 25 years old and you're in charge of people's lives and millions of millions of dollars worth of equipment and any transition or that lifestyle and you're stacking sodas on a shelf you know so that level of responsibility kind of drops and takes a chip at your ego and you know it causes things to you and there's a lot of people out there that have gone to many theaters lately in the last 20 years as much as we've been involved with all over the world there's thousands and probably millions of veterans out there dealing with this kind of situation I personally have some friends that have transitioned out as well and we'll get together every now and then and talk about things but it's a pretty serious subject and it needs to be recognized it needs to be talked about and it needs to be handled so thank you alright we have first and the second all those in favor? aye any opposed? motion carries 7-0 thank you alright 9.5 our bond oversight committee presentation and measure L audit presented by Clint Rockard thank you Board of Trustees present home and Superintendent Checkman yes I'm here to present both our bond citizens oversight committee presentation that was approved by the committee at our last meeting as well as our measure L bond audit so I'll start off with the audit just briefly we did have actually a very good audit unfortunately there was one finding it's not actually too bad of a finding in terms of what happened what ended up happening is a payable should have been set up for the prior year due to a project that started in June and actually was completed in July so typically the way that we think in a school district is if we receive it in that year we pay it in that year unfortunately projects are a little bit different you have to actually look at when they started and when they finished how much work was done so the auditor did deem you should actually have set up a payable so no dollar amount was incorrect everything ended up being the same just moving it from one year to another so that was in there Colleen when she was still here did work with our manager of accounting to kind of explain that process to her so that moving forward she knows when it comes to projects just make sure that we're really looking at when they start and when they complete so with that I'm going to move on to our bond citizen oversight committee presentation I do hiding in the back have Richard Reed who used to be with us you may remember him as our director of maintenance come on up Richard right now the chair of our citizens oversight committee so he's here representing the committee alongside me and again this is a presentation we have to do every year it's required by our bond it actually goes to the citizens oversight committee first which it went to on July 18 they approve it to be presented to the board so the board's informed of what we've been doing with measure L I don't think Richard's going to say anything he's just going to stand and look pretty he does that well but he wanted to be here for moral support so I do appreciate it there's an update on if you're not aware of who sits on our bond COC these are the individuals Bill of course jetted out on us to not also help us present but he was here and all of the individuals we've really appreciated their support in helping us with this committee so just to talk about the projects that we've gone through in 2223 and what we've completed here's a list I won't go through them extensively I will kind of point out some I know the minty white portables we've been waiting for a very long time Richard was very excited I know to see that get completed and rolling hills the bleachers just shout out on that one because that was one of the very first projects that our director of purchasing which Ariana oversaw so I know he's very proud of that one but a lot of great projects actually completed in 2223 just to give you some visuals of what we get to see we get to see Alianza's new portables here we're going to see Bradley's new part a lot which was quite the project we had a lot of work with the city on how we started it but looks a lot better now has a much better streamlines flow of traffic for our students and parents Hall Elementary which I love the beautiful shot they got of this I think Sergio and his team have really enjoyed the drone they've been using and getting nice drone shots but they do look pretty amazing but Hall I mean what a difference if you saw Hall prior you remember I know Trustee Soto does big change from what it used to look like as I mentioned Minty White got those new portables in there much nicer you can see top right was that old portable that you know I don't want to try and date it but you can see the new ones there look much cleaner Renaissance High we were able to paint do the painting and the paving again we get one of those nice drone shots showing the new parking lot as well as the painted buildings as I mentioned the Jim Bleachers old ones on the left those new ones with the rolling hills colors on the right look much better actually usable students love them I'm looking at our current measure all projects that we have designated right now right now we just have Starlight doing their shade structure and Cesar Chavez doing the hillside stabilization the reason we don't have a lot of measure all projects at this moment as you all know you approve those Essar projects that those have a much stricter timeline so trying to jump and get those done is a little bit tighter we do have some other projects that are in the works we're talking about that aren't looking at them it's just these are the two that are actively going right now and have someone assigned so looking at the remaining funds here's what we have for the sites couple ones I want to point out Cesar Chavez has quite a bit of funds left they are looking at doing some black top repairs if you remember going to Cesar Chavez recently their black top kind of has a unique basketball court where they have roots popping out and it's I don't know if they were trying to invent a new type of basketball game like traps and things like that but that's kind of what it looks like unfortunately the damage is due to trees and very large trees and of course whenever we're dealing with trees it's a very delicate situation of how we can actually repair the black top but also keep those trees going so that one's been a bit of a tough issue to look at the other one I just want to point out which is great is Watsonville High we are looking at using some of those dollars for their field alongside their Essar project and then Rowling Hills we're actually in the works of the city they actually just passed through their COC the ability to help us build a field at Rowling Hills so in conjunction with them they will actually be putting up millions of dollars to be able to build a field there for the community as well as our students that'll be brought to the board before we do anything with that project but it's great to see that they're willing to actually help out and then we'll use some of our remaining measure L projects for that as well funding and that's it and if you have any questions we're both here happy to answer great do we have any public speakers to this item we do not any discussion from the board Trustee Flores I have a question actually can you go back one slide of course I'm just why isn't each a hide on there I'm just curious are they do they use up all their money correct okay correct so these are the ones that have remaining measure L funds that didn't end up using all of their funds and how was it decided how much each school would get that wasn't here then that's good I was determined during the measure L 2020 2012 bond I wasn't here either but yeah they allocated based on student numbers as well as needs for each site some sites just have projects that they were they weren't necessarily as complex or they knew exactly what they wanted to do and were able to get them in that's why some sites ended up finishing earlier than other sites for example for the board members who remember wanted to do a like a performing art center and we're keeping some of the money for that but the field they end up doing came in a lot higher than they anticipated and then the performing art center when they got the quote for it was almost like 12 million dollars and they said oh we don't have enough measure L for that so then they kind of got in this weird spot where they have a lot of measure L remaining but nothing on their list of desires kind of fit in that dollar amount Vice President Acosta I have a question our old Salci Puedes campus isn't on there either is that because funds were used up or there's something different because there's two charter schools based on our facility? Yeah, Alianza and WCSA used their measure L funds so earlier and I'll just go back real quick Alianza actually got new portables last year and they used the remainder of their measure L on those portables and that water tower that was put out measure L I believe back when it was put in it was Okay, thanks Trustee Lads Junior I'd just like to say thank you Clint for what you've done for the Watsonville area you've moved right away with the field as soon as you work in the field those portables in many way and I just wanted to acknowledge you and say thank you for that and Mr. Moran you still have a little bit about money I think you might have left so there you go, thank you Anyone from this side? Thank you for this presentation it just I just can't help but ask can you remind me where we are in the process in talking about bond another the next infrastructure bond? Yeah, absolutely So as you may recall or not a few board meetings back I can't remember exactly what it was Dale Scott came up with kind of the timeline what it would look like if we wanted to go out for a bond what he's done actually last month they started doing some straw pulling so going out asking the community would you be in support of a bond for 2024 for PVUSD they have gathered all their data they're working right now to kind of consolidate that data so we can bring it back to the board to share with you what the voters interest was in the bond that'll kind of determine next steps of if the board wants to continue forward or not so the board hasn't made any decision to go for a bond or not just a decision to pull the community and see interest and I know there have been concerns about the roofs at some of the aptus junior high buildings particularly the ones that are not the gym itself but the buildings that are adjacent to the gym like some of the classrooms like the arts classrooms and I think some of the science classrooms and what are the plans for the remaining measure L funds because I know that what's left is not sufficient for the roof project but what options do we have yeah so I've talked to her Linda a bit about this for example the NPR one of the roofs they could do would be about 300 to 400,000 to actually do like a weather well coating on it so not to replace the entire roof but to recode it to ensure there's no leaks or damages that would be an option potentially for some of the other roofing of the roofs at aptus junior which may fit in their measure L I know her Linda has been meeting with the school site council to kind of discuss the options so really right now their measure L is sitting with their school site council of what would you like to look at once they make a determination if it's within the scope of original measure L we'll bring it to the COC more as an informational item if they want to do something that measure L really wasn't intended for by the voters originally that's where we'll bring it to COC and actually ask if they can use their dollars for that okay great so I can't remember if you mentioned that in your initial comment so my apologies but we've had tours of the measure L projects are we planning on doing that anytime soon? so we haven't planned tour though I would be happy to set one up and as well I think faster projects would be really good to see as well because I think the board did a great job of assigning those extra dollars to be able to put into our facilities so I think showing off some of the good work that that did those aren't the showstoppers we like to be a lot of them are more structural it's still sometimes nice to just see where those dollars went and how they've improved the campus the first tour I got to go on was when I was just still a candidate and I wasn't a sitting trustee but even going on some of those tours as a sitting trustee before the pandemic shut things down but those tours were so good at just also giving trustees and other community members and stakeholders an opportunity to really see our sights the good that we're doing and also kind of see like oh those are some things that need to be worked on you know it's but seeing it all in one having that one day kind of see that get that bigger picture that comprehensive picture was really useful and I'd love to see that do I see couple questions so are all of the Essar dollars already assigned and spoken for and basically spent? yeah so they haven't all been spent but they've all been assigned based on the needs for each site that were determined by our maintenance operations as well as our planning department we brought those to board showing kind of the major three at each site and we based on the dollars that we had allocated tried to allocate as evenly as possible but based on the major need for each site in terms of forecasting do we expect any further dollars like Essar to be coming from the state or federal I cannot say I don't know if we'll see any more that we always get the OPSC dollars unfortunately as I mentioned before those are a match so it requires it requires us to do a project and then actually submit to try and get the dollars back the nice thing is with the some of the Essar projects we actually are able to put those in and actually request the match but OPSC typically has a five year wait or so on project I mean we just got some money back from an HA high project that was years and years ago so that was my next question because I know a lot of these shovel ready projects we I thought we had submitted submitted for the I guess for the match I thought it was to the DSA but now it's you're saying it's OPSC the office of public school construction okay because I thought like for example the Pajaro Valley field and all of those projects were in line to to get some money back I'll have to check which projects we still have in line with OPSC I can I can find those out okay yeah it would be great to maybe have a down the line of further report on that just to see how much money we've applied for can we apply for any more and when the money comes back in can we then use that money for further projects yeah and typically just for the board's information OPSC dollars typically when you get them back they have to be spent if if we actually spent the money first if they're reimbursed they're typically used in like of what the original dollars were used so if we use general unrestricted on a project you can take OPSC back and use general unrestricted if we use measure L you have to then really use the dollars more on construction or upgrade so that's the way if we see any OPSC dollars most likely they would come back and go back into facilities okay because I know we still have a tremendous amount of facility need absolutely so anyway thanks for the presentation and I'm glad there was just that small finding that's one of the first findings ever I think in the 12 years we've been getting these reports right yeah we do our best just a quick question you said that Erlindo could go to sites and kind of explain the process again to spend the money so for school site council I'm happy to do it yeah but Erlindo went to Aptos Junior specifically to kind of explain to them what the options were in terms of dollar amount what could I spend that on but yeah we're always happy to go work with the principal because you know I know the principal Radcliffe is kind of new she's been there for you and I always try to talk with like hey you know you have this money for infrastructure you guys should get together but I think maybe if I could connect with you too maybe you could kind of get it going so I just yeah absolutely and we can also pull the original measure out kind of the projects that were designed for Radcliffe and kind of look at are there any of these projects that you still want to pursue at school site council but that would be great so thank you can I get a motion? I'll make a motion to approve I have a first, do I have a second? no second I have a first and a second, all those in favor? aye any opposed? motion carries 7-0 and just one more comment, thank you very much to the Bond Oversight Committee who's been essentially overseeing this bond for the last 12 years in particular we've got two former board members on that committee and Bill Beecher who I think has been there from the very beginning and thank you to Mr. Reed for coming tonight and for serving on the committee these are all volunteers, thank you all right moving on to 9.7 resolution 23-24-0 oh thank you I'm getting ahead of myself, I'm just trying to move this along all right it's a minor one right? all right 9.6 2022-23 unaudited actuals and it's our CBO and Jenny Im our director of fiscal services thank you President Holm, Board of Trustees and Superintendent Shekman yes we have for you today the 22-23 unaudited actuals report oddly enough I don't actually I'm not going to present it Jenny has worked tirelessly over the past few weeks working late nights and weekends so this is a lot of her energy and effort so she actually wanted to present and talk about it so I'm going to step aside and allow her to do that thank you and I think you and Rich will be able to trade positions where now you can sit pretty so good evening President Holm, Board of Trustees Superintendent Shekman my name is Jenny Im, I'm the director of fiscal services and I'm here to present our 22-23 unaudited actuals report so first I wanted to give a quick overview of what our fiscal timeline looks like so if we go back to June we brought our 22-23 estimated actuals to board it's called estimated actuals because at that time we're still working with a projected budget at the same time we brought the 23-24 adopted budget so now we're in September we're bringing the unaudited actuals to you for review and approval it's called unaudited because we've closed the books, made our closing entries before our independent auditors are on site to review next up in December we'll be bringing our first interim to you that includes updated planning projections and planning factors from July 1st to October 31st so at that point we will see some of the impacts of the decline in enrollment that we're seeing in the current school year in March we'll have the second interim budget update and then in June it starts all over again we'll bring the estimated actuals and then the 24-25 budget so this is just another visual representation of what the budget cycle looks like and the cyclical nature so I just wanted to go over the purpose of the unaudited actuals report it's to show the year-end summary of our actual revenue expenditures and our ending balances as well as our reserves so after the board reviews and approves it goes to the county office of education where they also do their review certified to the California Department of Education independently of that we have our auditors come on site, they'll be back on site in the fall to do their review and they submit to the state controller so I wanted to just do a quick overview of where we landed on the unrestricted side of the general fund in the very left-hand column where we were at estimated actuals and then we have where we landed with unaudited actuals we have the change in dollars and then we also have the percent change up top we show revenues and we see for total revenues we had less than a 1% change most of that was due to additional property taxes that came in in the final county treasury J29 that we trued up at year-end we also had additional unrestricted lottery revenues that came in fourth quarter that we booked that GASB entry that we're seeing that is a brand new entry that we are required by our auditors in the county office to book going forward so what that is the fair market value calculation that is the difference between the pooled investments of all of the school districts held at the county treasury in the bank the change in investment value because of changes in the stock market so this year for 22-23 the estimate was a decrease of 3.7% it's basically a conversion entry so we book it and then we reverse it right in 23-24 so it's not impacting our actual cash moving down to expenditures and unrestricted we're seeing less than a 1% change from estimated actuals for total salaries and benefits for books and supplies where we are seeing a little bit of a variance is for services and other operating expenditures we're seeing a negative 6.78% decrease that is mainly due to a big chunk of that 350,000 is because our legal and insurance costs came in lower than projected as estimated actuals so some of that is due to just current administration needing legal services a little bit less than in the past years additionally that includes unspent site discretionary allocations as well as departmental allocations and then just a year and true up of any open requisitions that we're still encumbering funds so if we go all the way down to the bottom we can see the net impact to the ending balance and unrestricted so we're seeing that there was an increase of about 2.7 million which equates to about 5.81% most of that is due to the increase in revenue that we saw as well as a decrease in the unrestricted contribution made to the restricted side which is mostly for special education on the bottom that audit adjustment that is to establish the 21-22 starting balances for that fair market value previously it was recorded in the audit report as a conversion entry starting this year it's going to be recorded in our governmental funds as part of closing so I wanted to drill a little bit more into what makes up our ending fund balance what are the legal requirements that we have to have as a school district so if we look online to the ending balance we're landing at around just under 49 million on the unrestricted side so right off the top of that 49 million we have to maintain a 3% reserve for guarantee for us this year that's 3% of our total expenditures plus any transfers out so that comes out to a little over 10 million dollars the important thing about this is we can never utilize these funds if we want to maintain a positive certification so part of what the county office and what the state look at when they do their review is to make sure that we are able to maintain fiscal solvency and not only the current year but two years out it's a requirement three years so by maintaining the minimum reserve that's an indicator to the state and to the COE that we are not going to be experiencing fiscal distress if our multi-year projections at any point show that in the current year or two years out we can no longer maintain our minimum requirement depending on the severity and how many years that's impacting that indicates not only fiscal distress but that we are on our way to fiscal solvency so that means an automatic qualified or negative certification so that's just the importance of the REO in the blue up top that's 6.8 million that is an additional 3% reserve that was committed by the board back in 1617 it stays at that 1617 level going forward and it stays in our unrestricted fund balance and we can kind of think of it as if 48 million is our total unrestricted fund balance so 6.8 of it we're just setting aside in its own bucket for emergencies in the green we have the 5.8 that is tied to the board approved MOU for the four extra teacher days in 2324 through 2425 this amount is also set aside because it's essentially been promised through a resolution and then in the orange the 4.6 million that is tied to the additional concentration grants that we received in 2122 because of the timing of when we received these funds from the state we weren't able to utilize those in that year so by law we have to set that aside because we can only use it for certain positions so we have now for unassigned just under 21 million and I heard the comments from the public and you know when we look at that number just as individuals our gut reaction is that is a large number but what I implore you is to look at our budget and look at the scope and scale of our total budget so in our general fund for 2223 if you look at our unrestricted plus or restricted expenditures that came out to just over 329 million dollars if we look at it in a monthly breakdown for 2324 for example our monthly cost alone or 24 million dollars that's just salaries and benefits that we're paying out and if we're considering all of the other operational costs associated with keeping the lights on making sure we're providing services for students, paying our staff that comes out to roughly around 30 million dollars a month depending on the month so when we look at the fund balance we need to make sure that we are able to meet our fiscal responsibilities in the current year but like I said in the subsequent two years and that's kind of the gift of the multi-year projection that we see at the interim and the adopted budget period it lets us look forward to years even though it doesn't come to fruition maybe 100% because planning factors are always changing it gives us that time to make those thoughtful decisions beforehand so we can make the decisions now to maintain fiscal solvency in the future and earlier the possibility or interest in maybe another bond maintaining good reserves and having a positive certification is very important to maintaining a high bond rating as well so now I'm going to head over to the restricted side again we're going to go over the revenues first so in federal revenues that 10% variance that's tied to restricted grants that are subject to unearned revenue so if you recall from our budget study session these are grants where we can't recognize revenues received until there's a corresponding and qualifying expenditure so what we did was any services that we couldn't meet this year we've moved it over to 2324 for both revenue and expenditure where we're seeing the largest increase is in other state we're seeing an increase of 25 million those are mainly tied to two new block grants that we received from estimated actuals we couldn't book it at that time because the state did not release the resource code so it wasn't even available in the reporting software going down to expenditures we can see salaries and benefits came in right around 1% mostly tied to EWRs books and supplies that's mainly tied to the science twig textbook and curriculum adoption it's really the difference between receiving the delivery on June 30th or July 1st so if we received the June 30th we could have booked it as a 2223 expense but we did it so we're going to move it over to 2324 so services that's tied to the federal revenues and moving it over to 2324 so we can kind of see down at the very bottom the net impact to the restricted ending balance was about 30 million increase from estimated actuals again tied to those block grants and I'll be speaking to that more in the next slide so here we have a high level summary of some of our largest one time grants that are still remaining the ones highlighted in yellow are subject to earned revenue so those revenues that we received they have not been recognized in our 2223 on audited actuals we will see that reflected in 2324 so the other remaining block grants that I want to kind of talk about is because these are one time grants that we received either the full amount or most of the amount upfront we are reflecting in a restricted fund balance the funds meant for an earmarked for multiple years so we can see for the block grants they're tied to either four or five year strategic plans that have either gone to board and been approved or been approved by administration so we can see just with these block grants here if we look at the total restricted ending balance about 40 million of it is tied to one time block grants about 11 million of it is tied to ELOP 2.5 to the literacy coaches and reading specialist grant 2 million to restricted lottery and 2.5 to food nutrition related grants this report is an action item so it's respectfully requested that the board approve the 2223 and audited actuals next steps will be bringing for Centrum to board in December and the auditors will be here in the fall to conduct their audit and one thing I just wanted to quickly touch on is when we look at the adopted budget multi-year projection I'm sure we remember in the out years in 2425 and 2526 on the unrestricted side because of declining enrollment that we are starting to deficit spend so at adopted budget we were projecting to deficit spend about 3.6 million in unrestricted and in 2526 about 7.2 million and this is factoring in a higher enrollment projection for 2324 so I just wanted to kind of touch that the reason we have those reserves again I know it's one of the most challenging things it's to balance the needs of our students in the current year but also maintaining fiscal solvency in the multi-year projection as well and I just wanted to say a big thank you to our fiscal team we should be proud of the dedicated and hardworking staff we have who close the books for 2223 and finance accounting and payroll and benefits and I wanted to open up for any questions Thank you very much Do we have any public speakers to this item? Yes we do Nellie and Roddy Good evening President Holm, Board of Trustees Superintendent Shackman somewhere Okay so thank you Denny and for that presentation and all the work of the finance department in putting that together so what I want to talk to you guys about tonight is the ending fund balance something I've talked to you about quite a bit in the past so what has been highlighted in the slides that have been presented to you and explained a little bit more in detail right are things like the restricted ending fund balance so in one of the slides it was about 59.8 million and then the explanation attached to that dollar amount right are funds being tied to specific things like a grant or a categorical program or supplemental COVID funding one-time monies etc what was not highlighted though in that presentation is the total ending fund balance so if you look at line 2 on page 13 of the SACS binder the total ending fund balance for the 2223 unordered actuals that is both unrestricted and restricted is $108.6 million $108.6 million what I do in my current role is I negotiate for the Pajaro Valley Federation of Teachers I felt like we did a really excellent job working with the district in this last round both on contract language as well as on a on salary raise for our membership that was for the 2223 and 2324 school years but we are going to go into re-openers for the 2425 school year and I know I've stood up here and I've said it a number of times money is not everything but it is important and I hope that you are thinking about that number and remembering as people have already mentioned people are still leaving this profession teachers have still left in this school year so remember that number and remember where that money needs to go and that is to our students and those who serve them thank you good evening thanks Jenny thanks for your thorough presentation actually was the first time actually that I enjoyed listening to a budget report but so you know we look at numbers and we do it because we hear and we see the realities in our school sites and amongst the people that we represent where some teachers are unhoused and so we do worry about that and we think about also our members who are faced with major medical issues so those it's important health benefits and the salary that we earn as educators in this area so one of the things that we have under our unrestricted portion of our ending reserve is that additional 3% that I think was like voted on I don't know like in 2019 or something like no not 2017 I don't know many years ago now but that was something that you all have the ability to change so essentially if you're just looking at the unrestricted ending reserve taking that 3% that 3% that keeps you solvent and that keeps you in good standing but the district is still 20 and so I took out if you take out our optional days of the coach monies that were on there and I'm ignoring that additional 6 million 3% because that actually can change the district still has close to 28 million over in that reserve in the unrestricted and so it's I don't know if it's something new this year where they're taking better account of the existing reserve for the restricted funds was like 16 million but now it's close to 60 so those are things that we look at and we have questions but I hope that as we move forward in this reopener year that you all continue to take into account that the employees in this district their livelihoods matter thank you Any discussion from the board please go Sure, first question on the numbers for the reserves are these any different than what was presented at the last meeting or is it the same because didn't we just certify the reserves at the last meeting? So those were tied to the adopted budget so if we look at let me go back so if we look on the unrestricted just because I have a screenshot of that from form 01 in the sex binder so on the sorry I don't think I have a screenshot I'm sorry if you look in your sex binder in form 01 for adopted budget so what was presented in the reserves matches what was presented for adopted budget and it's also reflected in the sex binder so when we go into first interim at that point administration, cabinet will be working together to kind of figure out whether there needs to be any shifts that have to be made Okay next question is about using funds moving funds I think you said something about putting some of the ESSER funds in the restricted did you say something like that in the balance let me go back so the ESSER funds are always in the restricted side of the general fund but what happens is because ESSER funds are federal funds so they are subject to earned revenue rules so if we receive revenue that we don't have a qualifying and allowable expenditure to offset we can't recognize that revenue so we basically have to book it as a liability which is earned revenue so for the ESSER funds here we can see there was about 10.3 million that we had actually received cash for but we don't have a qualifying expenditure to match so we moved that over to 2324 and most of that is just tied to capital facility projects that weren't completed in 2223 so how much flexibility do we have in moving money between restricted and non-restricted does it depend on the specific funding source every time there's zero flexibility so when we get so when the reason why in the general fund we have unrestricted and restricted separated is because the restricted funds are generally grants that are tied to specific purposes so one of the conditions of applying and receiving a grant is basically promising that we are going to utilize it for those specified intents so there is absolutely no way that we can move restricted over to unrestricted without it being a major audit finding how much of the money is there any correlation between restricted the grant money is there a general pattern with that money and money we're using during the school day or after school is it mostly after school so actually most of the restricted funds they're tied to what's happening in the school so I kind of want to highlight here and I'm really really excited because I think the district and with the board we did a great job of coming up with these strategic plans so we can see what the arts, music and instructional materials block grant so that was brought to board back in December I'm sorry that's a typo should be December 7, 2022 to approve for use through 2526 I have a copy of that plan so we're utilizing those funds for textbook adoptions for world languages middle school mathematics science, high school English to purchase new instruments development of a marching band at the comprehensive high schools, new uniforms transportation where we created individual purchase orders per teacher so they can order supplies updating library collections expanding safety music so so that's just an example of one of the plans so these funds even though they're sitting and are restricted it's meant to be used over multiple years based on a plan that's been built and brought to board so I think that's one thing I really want to highlight is these funds are going towards our students they are being used I think I believe in an appropriate manner right now because we receive the funds up front they're basically inflating our restricted fund balance in the moment but they're meant to be used up over time we're doing multi-year budgeting so sometimes we hear what we're in deficit spending but we are planning for that and we're not actually building a deficit in fact the reserve is 2 million higher and I think that's kind of where we have to differentiate restricted versus unrestricted so on the restricted side with these multi-year block grants that is built into the budget on the unrestricted side when we talk about the deficit spending that's where we don't have a multi-year plan so as we see the historically declining enrollment as we see costs of employees start to rise we're starting to see that on the unrestricted side so overall I just want to say if I had your job and your positions and you were presenting the board and the fact that the reserves are bigger than initially projected I think that's a great thing like your jobs are to make sure we have money and that is very important our job is to make sure we're spending money wisely and we're spending enough money and we're going to have those who are tracking the arts item, the arts teacher from Saga that will never end, hopefully that will be resolved at the next meeting and we can talk about ensuring we're spending money obviously not to put the district in financial jeopardy I don't think anybody wants to do that and there's a lot of room for negotiation and reasonable minds can disagree so overall I just want to say thank you we have a lot of money, we have a lot of needs, we're a big district and I want to turn it back over to my colleagues any other forward comments in my own role of managing grants that are smaller in scope than what our district is dealing but just I manage a couple of grants in the order of a few hundred thousand dollars and just the challenges of conversations with people about yeah but we have all this money we should do it but this is what I can do with it and it's challenging it's really it's an incredibly challenging conversation to have I really appreciate the way that you've clearly outlined you know some of this information I think that really helps especially for our members of the public who don't necessarily follow every board meeting but I think this is an important topic and I think it was very clearly laid out and so thank you for your work on that thank you President Acosta I do have a comment really just much more of a comment that I wanted to acknowledge our director of physical services Jenny Im on her fabulous first presentation to our board and congratulate her thank you I'd watch out for her Clint she got a run on you Clint has been amazing and I just want to thank all of his hard work and thank you to the board that was a great presentation Jenny thank you one of the most clear I think we've had in a long time so thank you thank you I'll entertain a motion motion to approve I'll second we have first and second all those in favor any opposed motion carries 7-0 and now we're moving on to resolution 23-24-05 our GAN limit Jenny, please thank you so this one will be a pretty quick one so this is resolution 23-24-05 to set our GAN limit so just to kind of go into what the GAN limit is it originates back in 1979 and then tent was to make sure that government spending did not grow faster than the growth in population and inflation so the GAN limit does not impact school districts spending in any way but what it does is it informs the state on if they need to change the state appropriations limit for the next year so the GAN form is part of the SACS binder on audited actuals and what our calculation shows this year is that there is no increase to the GAN appropriations limit coming from our school district so I respectfully request the approval of resolution 23-24-05 for our GAN limit this year any questions? I'm just double checking that we don't have any public speakers President Holm had to step out for a second she'll be right back so we have no public speakers so we'll bring it back to the board does the board have any questions and or comments? I have no question would like to make a motion to approve the GAN limit that's presented I have a motion to approve I'll second and I have a second and all those in favor please say aye thank you so much and that vote will carry 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 5-0-2 thank you thank you Jenny again okay and then moving on to action item 9.8 approval of job description for director of migrant education and this report will be there she is by the way this is superintendent of secondary education good evening once again I'm here now to present on the job description for the director of migrant education the August 23rd board meeting I brought forward the draft to see if there were any comments, questions and so this evening I just bring forward the same exact proposal for the language of the director of migrant education for this evening for your approval. wonderful thank you and we do not have any public comment on this so I will bring it back to the board for comments discussion yes trustee dodger junior thank you very much so currently it's Luis Medina that is correct this is not a contract this is just the job descriptions to entail his duties on a daily job so it says nothing to do with his direct employment he is a management position which is not on a contract basis this is for his position correct it is for his position so the previous one I believe it was 1979 it was first created and then updated in 1984 the last time that the state migrant came out and then also through different the FPM it was asked that the job description was updated because it had not been updated in a long time so this is updated to reflect the director of migrant education at different districts throughout the state okay I had a bunch of questions for him but I just wanted to say thank you Luis Medina I know he's from he's gone to the Paro Valley to find school district and he's a wildcat as me as well so I just want to say thank you Luis for all the years that he's dedicated to our district not just as the director of migrant aid but as a teacher guidance counselor and I just wanted to say thank you Luis he's amazing he's at home listening he's ill this evening thank you I would like to make a motion to support this agenda item and I'll second that and President Holmes back I'll turn it back over to her thank you I have a question about the salary range is that is there a room to go up or is that what does that mean? it's the same as that salary schedule that was before so the salary schedule does not change with the job description so it's the one that was previously approved by the board and he's a director level position yes it is and it's a combination of that level and how many years they've been in the position their salary range that is correct all good any further comments? Trustee D'Sirpa just with appreciation to Mr. Medina he's great so we have a first and second I think so I'll echo my colleagues statements of appreciation because he's done a couple jobs and if there are no further comments we do have a first and a second and I'll call for the vote all those in favor? any opposed? motion carries 7-0 moving on to item 9.9 approved job description and certificated management 2023-2024 salary schedule our coordinator Child Welfare and Attendance report will be presented by Alice Niazala our assistant superintendent yes thank you president Holm board of trustees superintendent Mr. Sheckman so before you tonight I have a job description and a salary schedule with the addition of this position so the district received about a $2 million grant for the learning communities for school success the purpose of that grant is to target our most vulnerable students who are having challenges with attendance behavior, social emotional learning and there's also some pieces for parent engagement this position would be focusing on it's about 33% of our population that are chronically truant and so this position would be putting in systems that we can maintain after the grant is over that are addressing the needs of our like I said our most vulnerable basically our tier 3 intervention of our students who are having significant attendance this position will live under student services so it's in alignment with the coordinator already of student services so it would be reporting to the director of student services also outlined in the grant is the addition of a mental health clinician as well to work at supporting and providing services to these students so there's the job description for the position and the salary schedule reflects the placement I think range 39 with for 222 days so I respectfully request that you approve the job description and the salary schedule thank you do we have any public speakers to this item any discussion from the board trustee doubts junior so we're creating this position for two years correct 3 3 yes do we already have someone in mind who's going to do this position or no no we're going to run a fair and impartial process so you know some concerns that I've heard from a constituents you know hopefully this person can be bilingual hope you know hopefully this person is working with the families and the students and not just directly here from the towers and if they are working from the towers do we plan to hire any analysts that are going to actually work for the families oh that's a great question yeah so I mean their home base will be the district office but we have two attendance I don't know if they're analysts but they're specialists that are designed directly to do home visits so this person would be overseeing those two employees that we have already to get out and do more of that tier three intervention and getting out to the families and the homes and working in the community that way so that is the intention behind part of this position thank you any other comments Trustee D'Serpa the perfect person for a position like this is a social worker with a master's degree who understands how to work with families and what the resources are so I see that you have to have a counseling degree or some type of right, mental health professional yeah of equivalent yeah make a motion to approve Trustee Scow question who is this person to report to the director of student services Ivana Carras a second alright I have a first and a second if there's no further discussion I will call for the vote all those in favor aye any opposed motion carries seven zero moving on to item nine point ten approval of ethnic studies consultant contract report will be presented by Claudia Montadas director of ELA history and ethnic studies there now it's on hi good evening before I start I do want to hand out a copy of some stuff to you guys because at one point it's going to be really small in there and I want you to be able to read it so good evening Dr. Holm board of trustees interim superintendent Mr. Scheckman and I'm here to bring forward the contract with community responsive education I would like to start with a land acknowledgement this is a common practice within ethnic studies classrooms and it's meant to acknowledge the land we live teach and learn upon while addressing the inhabitants who have been there prior to colonization so I would like to begin by acknowledging that I am a settler on the land that I reside upon and the land that I teach on this land has been the home to Amamutsan people and they are still here right so moving forward I'd like to talk a little bit or start by talking a little bit about where we began with our ethnic studies work it came out of the secondary equity audit where our starting point was looking at graduation rates, DNF rates and attendance rates and looking at those pieces that's where we decided to start to build our first ethnic studies courses through our English departments and getting started at the time because we were looking at about five years ago, six years ago when we started we reached out to Christine's leader and met with her she recommended the rethinking ethnic studies book so that is one of the books that we started with when we were looking at initial resources around pedagogy which lo and behold later for us it came to be a good thing because it's actually referenced four times in our in the CDE model curriculum ethnic studies model curriculum as a resource and I'll talk a little bit about more where that comes in we were also looking at what was available on the CDE website at the time this was before even the 2019 draft was created but then once the 2021 draft came out we did start to look at that the CDE provided training like a train the trainer certificate which I participated in so I have that that certification and then we were also looking at UCSC courses that were already in the portal we started that at the very beginning and we continued to do that at any time we build a new course because as the model curriculum dictates in AB 101 we should be looking at courses that are UC or CSU approved as guidance so that's one of the things that we look at eventually we started reaching out more towards community resources so in other words Watsonville is on the heart is one of the organizations that we've been working with the last couple of years at the very least and then it was at one of our prior meetings it was recommendation to start reaching out to UCSC so we have been in touch with UCSC's history department working with Catherine Kathleen Gutierrez and with support on that and then the last two years we were working with community responsive education so how there we go so through this work for the last several years I want to kind of explain a little bit about what are the pieces that we've been doing internally and what are the pieces that are being supported by the community and the consultant so when it comes to training the outside consultant is the one that's helping us around the pedagogy piece which is essentially the how of the teaching that's the theory and in practice the lesson planning piece is actually done internally within our district so what that means is over the last couple of years working with CRE they've helped us create our vision our values start to begin to build out our framework our ethnic studies PVSD framework their work with teachers over the last couple years has consisted of developing a teaching philosophy each teacher was supposed to look at what their purpose and intentions were for creating a better world they needed to consider how to be community and culturally responsive and they looked at it through a lens of heart, head and hands meaning that heart was their vision and purpose hands was their action so what is their responsibility and how do you foster those relationships self determination community hope love and respect within your classroom and then the head piece is the commitments which is essentially the same thing as a mission statement one of the other things that they worked on was a critical auto ethnography that's where they look at analyzing their own story to understand their own life and how that connects more deeply with the stories of others basically focusing on humanizing the most vulnerable communities that we work with we then ended up moving into year two so did some more deeper work with culturally responsive education and activities in the classroom we got support with building out our scope and sequences and again that does not mean this particular lessons that means building out our scope and sequence so the packet that I shared with you if you flip past the first page it actually will line out our overviews for the current courses that we have the scope and sequence is a little bit different than that in that it takes you across each year by quarter and will list out essential questions and pieces like that we also worked with them and got support on how to build community in the classroom and then like I said before then we part of the work was around guidance on okay so what are you going to do who are you going to reach out to to help build bonds in the community alright so where does that lead us now in our ethnic studies development so the handout that I gave you does have our vision again I know it's a little heavy on the screen but I wanted you to have a copy of it so you could see it it is at the top of that first page document and our vision is to provide rich learning experiences that center experiences stories and knowledge of ethnic studies groups while also shaping a lens to understand and critique dominant power structures ultimately to eliminate racism and intersectional forms of oppression ethnic studies will provide a culturally and community run sponsored education that values the fields in and of Bahá'u'lláh Valley so the fields is one of the big things that we've received support around building that is on that same page so if you look down on that table the fields stand for freedom identity empathy literacy dreams and solidarity so those are our guiding values on the document that you have it does show what the teacher commitments are in response to each of those so you can see those are those agreements that we are working off of these are current courses in the pathways that students can take ethnic studies within our district anything in green means that they do not need a prerequisite they can enter that so those are all the entry points to be able to satisfy their ethnic studies and their graduation requirement and then the ones that are in white they do require a prerequisite so right now you can see that there are three ethnic lit and studies courses those are through English and the ethnic lit two and ethnic lit three are both honors courses they were UC approved for honors designation we have world history and US history this is the first year with US history and then we do have this as we are going into our third year with art one so one of our goals for this year is to identify another VAPA area to create out another ethnic studies course we have some teachers at PV High who are one in particular who is very eager to get started and work with us on that so we are hoping to be able to submit probably a dance class or something along those lines in December or February whenever it opens into the portal UC portal because all of these are UC approved on these next slides it just kind of shows you where we are in terms of how many teachers we have at each of the sites and number of sections which grades are getting served for access to these courses so this one is Watsonville High bless you this is Watsonville High we have a team of seven teachers across the three content areas three departments at PV High we have a total of four teachers this year which is a nice bump from last year and at Watsonville and at PV we do offer ELS 1, 2 and 3 at Aptos High we have ELS 1 and 2 we have World and US and then we also have Arts we have a team of five teachers there common questions that come up are what's the difference between that traditional English course and our PVSD literature lit and studies courses traditional English class if you remember back to school I know it was a while ago is that me okay I'll go really quick so this is the story plot you can see the rise in action we combine that with the problem solving practice which then takes us into a ethnic studies practice story plot so it's very similar but we are looking at it through an ethnic studies lens with the foundations of ethnic studies let me jump ahead on this one okay and then we do have just for your access we have compelling questions in English so you can kind of see how those build across the three and then we have history, traditional history classes versus ethnic studies ones ethnic studies ones focus on more than one perspective or experience in history this is another big thing we try and make sure all of our teachers understand the difference between equality, equity and justice and these are our compelling questions for history essentially the essential questions okay alright and then these were just pieces I wanted to put in because I know these had come up before in prior conversations around ethnic studies okay I'll stop since my bell went off any I'm done alright do we have any public speakers to decide? yes we do, yes we do sorry we have to Gilstein and Raj Shorenstein good evening president home superintendent checkman, trustees and staff I'm Raj Shorenstein co-chair of the Jewish community education forum I had the privilege of meeting with Claudia, Hilary and Ingrid and I think Pajaro Valley is very lucky to have such a dedicated, capable and certified staff to implement ethnic studies however I oppose renewing the contract with community responsive education why? Allison Tatango Cabales is the co-founder and principal consultant of CRE just a few days ago she signed a letter to Governor Newsom Superintendent Thurmond accusing them of attacks on liberatory ethnic studies their offense Thurmond had chaired a timely education to end hate countering anti-semitism webinar on August 23rd Tatango Cabales objected to stopping hate as a goal of education the gove