Good evening everybody thank you for attending tonight this is the board meeting for Pajaro Valley Unified School District for March 9th, 2022. I want to welcome you here tonight and if you have any need for translation that we have a translator sitting here and her name is Orania so if you need a translation kit you can get it from Orania thank you for being here if you would like to speak tonight on anything on our agenda excuse me if you'd like to speak tonight on anything on the agenda you need to turn in a speaker card prior to that agenda item coming before the board the other thing is it's very important on your speaker card to put which agenda item you'd like to speak to because if it's not listed there we don't know which agenda item that you'll be speaking to so for Joe non-agenda thank you so every speaker tonight we'll have two minutes we have a tracker up above that will keep track for you and getting we'll give you a 30 minute warning I'm sorry not 30 minutes 30 second warning and thanks thanks for being here we're going to start out tonight with the Pledge of Allegiance and we'll have trustee home lead us tonight in the pledge our next item will be item 3.3 our superintendent comments and dr. Michelle Rodriguez yes started off yeah thank you so much so we have a lot of exciting things that are happening one I just want to direct your attention to an action item that we're going to be having tonight so we are planning on doing some significant stipends and signing bonuses for additional staff we are fortunate I guess in some ways that we do have school districts around us who are experiencing layoffs so we're actually going to be able to capitalize on that as well as now with our latest settlement we are the highest pain in Santa Cruz County and so when you look at the signing bonuses you can get up to seventy five hundred dollars and so we're really excited that this action item is coming forward if you can scroll down just to the bottom for me one as we always mention something that's really important is the fact that we pay almost a hundred percent of health and welfare so we often talk about net pay being really important and so if you look at what happens after net pay so you can't always just look at the salary schedule sometimes you have to look at what your actual take-home pay is and you'll see that we're significantly higher than the other school districts around us and so we are excited about that secondly I just want to talk about the we we were able to be part of a forum yesterday with the U.S. Department of Education around the great work that we're doing with the digital divide and digital equity and so Dan Weiser was able to be there with me as well as Brenda Guzman who is part of our parent coordinator team and we were able to really showcase the work and influence the federal government on the work that's happening with Internet connectivity and the digital divide so we're proud of the work that we continue to do here for our students thank you thank you Dr. Rodriguez and congratulations for being selected to represent Pajor Valley and California really with the U.S. Department of Education that's really quite an honor next we'll move on to governing board comments and we'll start with Jen Holm. Thank you I attended the second harvest awards dinner last week and special congratulations to the Aptos junior high team who were honored with a hunger heroes school spirit award for bringing in tens of thousands of meals other schools in our district were also honored including Rio de Mar elementary Aptos high Pajor Valley high and Marvista elementary and so I just wanted to express my appreciation for all the students family and staff that made the holidays a little easier for people in need. Thank you. University Oscar Soto. Good evening everybody I'll defer my comments this evening thank you and I forgot a very special trustee who's sitting next to Jen Itzi this is our student trustee do you have anything to okay thank you Itzi Sanchez trustee Roscoe I'm sure just really briefly I just want to congratulate where Watsonville Wildcats soccer team they've had an amazing season and so we're all just very proud of the entire team and of course we want to also thank the coaches who have been there for our students along the years. In addition to that I along with Dr. Michelle Rodriguez I was invited to participate in a forum panel conversation with our empower Watsonville youth group and so the discussion was based on policy making and how they essentially their questions were around how they can bring policy about how can they really impact policy to really address key issues whether they're community that are of concern to them so it was really nice to have a conversation with youth here locally. I'm also part of the green team we had a pretty productive green meeting a couple weeks back or last week and so just for the community watching and for you all here present if you haven't taken the opportunity to complete our survey make sure that you do because I will be essentially informing our projects moving forward and lastly just a reminder that we do have the Paro Valley Education Foundation gala on May 13th and I'm proud to announce that Senator John Laird would be our keynote speaker for the night so that's all I have for tonight thank you for joining us. Trustee Jennifer Schocker. Thank You President D'Serpa. So I too was at our district-wide green team meeting as Trustee Roscoe said it was very productive please do fill out the surveys because that gives us a chance to know what the students parents want done with their schools. I was also at the migrant head start committee meeting going over our different policies coming up new plans for the upcoming year and Barbie Gomez was honored last night at the City Council Watsonville City Council meeting for Girl Squad we do a lot of active work and in our community from raising funds we raised funds for the boys championship soccer rings we had previously raised funds for the girl softball rings as well as CASA and other organizations in our community. Congrats to our sports teams WH soccer boys go Wildcats the Grizzlies girls team and we know we have some wrestling champions from our girls Danisha went to States and came in second I was also able to visit Watsonville High School's campus with trustee Dodge talked to Miss Nunez I'm very jealous of her France trip and I want to join as a student and also visit a new school for their WASC recredentialing and went to visit the students during their science center visit on Friday so oh one more important thing we are doing a dress drive for special needs prom so please contact us if you would like to information on Facebook information all over but we're collecting prom dresses for special needs prom so we have porch pickup available or drop off at Church of Nazarene on Saturday March 12th thank you that's really great thank you trustee Georgia Costa I'm going to yield my time back thank you President trustee disturb an interest of how many we have in the house tonight and trustee Daniel Dodge junior I just wanted to also say congratulations Barbie Gomez for receiving your appreciation from the Watson City Council last night the things that you've done for the city of Watsonville raising funds donating your time that's you know it's a great thing and I'm proud to have been part of a few things that you've sponsored and I just like to say thank you and I'd also like to request if we can have a report on discussion Dr. Michelle Rodriguez and the team on the girl softball fields I know it's been an issue for a long time and I just wanted to see if we could give the community maybe a timeline of the last few years of you know some of the issues of why we we can't you know add lights or net or just something that we can tell the community why we haven't been able to upgrade the girls softball field at Watsonville High School they've been champions a long time and it's an issue I hear in my district so if we could do like a type of reporting discussion just to let the people know what we can and can't do with the field and I just wanted to say thank you very much and what a great one by the Watsonville High School soccer team I I attended their games I saw the people coach you know coach H Rowland Hedge path my classmate David Guerrero you know thank you boys you know thank you Wildcats I mean they've been winning CCS for decades but just just to see the heart that this team goes through you know we you know Watsonville High we don't have the best you know medical teams are the best equipment but one thing that makes us the best you know CCS CIF wise is we have a lot of heart you know we play for each other we play for a team we play for our school we play for our city and I just want to say congratulations you know team and I just also want to say thank you you know I'm not sure who put this together Gus pause or somebody but the way we sent off our team to play and was it I'm not really or somewhere but the way the city of Watsonville PV was deep the way we you know what's all fire department what's will PD you know trustee so to Richard Martinez you know the bus drivers the you know we did come out on top but you know we were there and I just wanted to say thank you to the city of Watsonville for letting our boys know that we were there and no matter what the result was we're there and we appreciate you so go cats thank you Watsonville City Council Mayor Ari Parker and everyone the other elected officials there to send our boys off I just want to say thank you and go cats thank you trustee Dodge Jr. I attended the Santa Cruz School Board Association where we meet with other trustees around the county and we had a great meeting this week the couple of weeks ago I attended the Pajaro Valley Prevention and student assistance meeting where we learned that the executive director has received another $500,000 grant and we're very proud of her she's making a real difference for the kids and families in Pajaro Valley with the expansion of services and behavioral health and substance abuse treatment so congratulations to Erica Padilla and everybody that works with her and finally hearts go out to the people of Ukraine who are having to flee their country with their many children and my grandparents were both born in Kiev and it's it's a hard one for my family so our hearts are with them so with that I'm looking for an approval of our agenda oh I'm so sorry 3.5 high school student board report Aptos High School has provided a video it sounds like here they are I'm Chloe Chaucy your ASB president I'm Mia Argeletta your ASB treasurer I'm Alexis Bethea your ASB secretary and I'm Jackson Miller the junior vice president and to start off we have a ton of news from athletics our Aptos cheerleading team just went to the CCS championships and brought home the trophy and an amazing performance our boys basketball team traveled to play the number two seed at Oakland High School and they lost 56-50 but it was a great game and a great way to end their season our boys golf continue their hot start we beat Gilroy Los Gatos and Soquel our lacrosse team are in a hard-fought win over Salinas and they traveled to Stevenson and Scotts Valley this week to play their games our swimming had a scrimmage match against Arroyo Grande High School from slow softball started the year facing some pretty strong competition and they pulled off pretty big 4-3 win over North Monterey County over the weekend at the Watsonville tournament our boys tennis has had two tough matches out last week we beat Monivista Christian and we battling top-ranked Stevenson and our London league play but we'll take on Harbour and Santicers this week in our league action our track and field completed in their first meet this week at Aptos in the Santicers relays and we put on a great performance we had the highest overall team score and won that meet our boys volleyball suffered a or suffered a loss and we got a win last week a win against Soquel and a hard loss against Harbour which is a very close game and our beach volleyball will start competition or we'll kick off their season this Friday and for activities this Friday we have our last club carnival that will be down in our quad and next week we have our spring spirit week which is going to be our last spirit week of the year and we are currently in the middle of planning our lunchtime activities and we have also started planning from which will be April 15th and for arts we have the choir getting ready for their coffee house performance that's happening on the 12th I believe and the theater drama class is getting ready for their production of Soquel the musical they're doing rehearsals every week as well as building days on Saturday and they have launched their snap raise fundraiser which is raised quite a lot of money for the production of the musical already and then lastly for academic seniors are so continuing to hear back from their colleges as well as finishing up any scholarship opportunities that are available and the active program and college and career club have really helped out with that so overall a great start for seniors. Thank you. Thank you Aptos I've long been impressed with Aptos high sports program. They have the largest sports program of any school including the university and Cabrillo college anywhere in the whole county. The parents dedication to getting their kids to practices even when they were little and all of that is and the coaches and the assistant coaches and for many years we couldn't really pay any of the assistant coaches or the coaches. So now that our budgets are better those people are being compensated and but for everybody who is a volunteer who helps kids achieve in the sports area. Thank you very much. Okay now I think do we have her mind here from Watsonville. You're going to present now. Okay. Great. Thank you. Okay. So I'm looking for an approval for tonight's agenda. I would like to make a approval with one change on the agenda. I'd like to move item 9.1 ahead of item 6.1. Okay. And I'll second that motion. All those in favor. Aye. Aye. Anyone opposed. Motion passes 7 0. And before we continue. This is what I make sure that I have the correct agenda item for the speaker card Mark Morris. I'm sorry. It's okay. We're getting we're getting there. Yeah. We're just we're just correcting the speaker card. So I'm just confirming what agenda item you're speaking under the masks. Okay. Thank you. One that has a number on it. Great. Thank you. We speak now. No.  Thank you. Okay. Next up we have approval. I'm sorry. Approval of our minutes. Move to approve. Second. All those in favor. Aye. Any opposed. Motion passes 7 0. Thank you. And I think next we have item is at 9.1. Grace. So 9.1 is a resolution 21 20 to 30 to strongly recommend the continued use of masks at PV USD facilities and the report will be presented by our superintendent Dr. Michelle Rodriguez. Yep. Thank you so much. So in August 2021 the board did a resolution to continue to observe CDPH requirements and require masks within the schools. As I know everyone is aware that has changed and there was a decision made by Governor Newsom that as of this coming Friday at 11 59 so technically I'm not sure why they chose that date but so technically on Monday the 14th masking indoors will now become voluntary. So as as has been our stance we are continuing to follow CDPH requirements. So we too will wind up making it voluntary. However we are by this resolution we're doing one of two things. One we're superseding the previous resolution which required the mask and then to actually three things to we are highly recommending that people still do it. It is optional but we're highly encouraging it. And so you can see when you look at the resolution you can see why we selected to continue to recommend it. If you go to the there for us which is the piece that I want to make sure that we focus on there are some things that we will continue to do. So one we will continue to work with San Cruz County Public Health. As was noted previously we're at 2% district wide we are we have a range of variation in our schools from 1 to 3% at this point so the variation is very low. I do want to mention to the board and and to the public that if we there are on ramps to add back on mitigation strategies. So it will not be this board's choice nor my choice but public County Public Health if we do have another reinsurgence will reinstate the mask. And so I want that just to be aware that that that will wind up happening. And can you call order. So everybody needs to respect the order in this board meeting. Now you're going to respect the board meeting or we're going to recess. Okay. We we moved 9.1 the resolution up before the public hearing so that's what's coming before the board now. If we so through this yeah so another piece that that we will continue do is we will continue to provide the in 95 mask to staff every 6 weeks. The next set will be coming out on March on March 15th. We will continue to provide surveillance testing twice a week and the new guidance actually came out today in terms of that from the state. So surveillance exposure testing will still be required if there are exposures. The difference between previous times and now is it includes required testing includes both vaccinated and unvaccinated students. We will continue to monitor air quality and we're going to be providing additional HEPA filters as required for immunocompromised students and staff and we already have at least one air filter in each classroom. Some already have to like special education classrooms and then we'll continue to work with our labor partners to identify additional mitigation strategies as necessary. We also want everyone to be respected so we want to make sure that people really regardless of whether they decide to wear a mask or not wear a mask to be safeguarded from harassment intimidation or bullying for their decision to do so. And so as I mentioned before it will be become voluntary as of Monday but we are highly recommending it as is also highly recommended by CDPH. And so thank you. Trustee Roscoe do we have any speakers to this item? We do so we have 15 speakers under this item. Should we read to reread the resolution first or should we just offer speakers? I think she did cover the therefore. Okay, great. So I'm going to be calling three people at a time so you can please just line up. That would be great. We have Marisol Gutierrez I believe along with Blake Gallick and Megan Bridgett. All right. Hello. My name is Blake Gallick. I have born and raised in Santa Cruz. I have three kids that go to school right now and I'm speaking to you as a father. All you guys are wearing masks pretty much for the most part. They don't work.   It's affecting their social health. It's really bad what we're doing to our kids right now and you guys need to take a look at yourself as human beings and look at your decision that you're making for these kids right now. It's horrible. I think we need to spend two years now. It's been enough time that we've given these kids. I mean there's no reason for them to wear a mask and we're on a slippery slope of where we're going as a society. You know if we keep going in the slippery slope and we continue down this route we're going to be doing vaccines that are mandated for these kids. I mean we don't have any idea what we're talking about. This is not study. This is not. There is no science behind longevity of studies of what this could do to our children. I mean we could be affecting our youth for generations to come. So I'm up here defending right now. Thank you. I'm up here to speak for my children and all the parents children that I've talked to that agree with me and they say it's ridiculous and that our kids should not be subjected to this mask for any reason. It's horrible what's going on. They're sick. They're getting sick anyways. They're what happened to the flu. I mean we don't even talk about the flu. You don't mean that the percentage of the rate on their survival rates crazy. I mean if there are people dying on the street and if there are people full of the hospitals right now I could understand I'd have a mask on right now. But that's not the case. This is how it been like almost like a show in this last few months has been a joke and I think that we're all out of the covid completely and we need to move on and get away from the mask and mandates. I mean let's go back to a free society where we have our choices right. It's ridiculous what's going on and I'm very disappointed in every one of you guys for any of you that make that decision. Oh my name is Megan and I've emailed I'm sure. Again I'm sorry hold hold one second. I don't want that beeping interfere with what you're saying. You can start I'm sorry. I've emailed you all and talking about the mask mandates vaccine mandates everything and what I get from you guys is basically all schools in California both public and private are obligated by law to follow the mandates established by the CDPH. So let me ask you something. Can I see a show of hands that has seen the law passed by assembly in state signed by the governor which requires you to follow the CDPH guidelines. Anybody anybody and why don't I see anybody's hands because you know what there is no law. There's no law. There nobody signed anything stating that these children have to follow these guidelines. And but you know it is law is California Education Code section 49 05 point a a 3 that states educational providers shall not do any of the following use physical restraint techniques that obstruct a pupils respiratory airway or impairs pupils breathing or respiratory capacities including techniques techniques in which the staff member places pressure on pupils back places his or her body weight against any pupil. So what you guys are allowing the teachers to do is now practice it's practicing medicine. You guys realize that it is a medical device is a mask and by telling these teachers that they are allowed to tell kids to put their masks up and I realize yes it's going away but after it reaches a certain point we all know what your guys's intentions are is to put the mask back on the kids and we're here to say it's not going to happen. It's not going to happen by law. You cannot tell these kids that they have to do this. There's no law. So we're done. It's mighty soul here. All right. So we have next we have her mind followed by Caroline West and Elizabeth or I'm a little nervous. So please don't be too harsh on me everyone. Good evening members of the board. My name is Herman Rafael Gonzalez ASB co-president of Watsonville High School. I mentioned this all because apparently two adults titles are important. I come here today to speak to you all about the abysmal state that our schools are in with regards to masking once again reiterating to everyone that the resolution that is to be voted on tonight is with regards to strongly recommending masking and not to requiring masking as per the state of California. So all of you in the audience disgusted that the PBSD is to mandate masking. Don't worry. They are not. You can go home. The entirety of the resolution that is to be read tonight as some point recognizes that not only is masking a simple and effective way for our students and staff to protect themselves but also to ensure long term protection as the science has shown. I have seen the insanely long line spanning from our nurses office almost to our cafeteria a line of over hundred fifty feet. And yes I did measure. I have been in classrooms freshman classrooms with only 10 students in it because everyone was out with covid. In fact I even quarantined in fear because I am immune to compromise the full 10 days because I caught covid while at school. I promise you all not requiring masking creates a decision that cannot be changed within a minimum of two weeks the time in between board meetings. And I understand that you are following CDPH guidelines and that is commendable. However I promise you all that in a pandemic as fast moving as this one two weeks is far too short a time. As such I implore you all to go further with a lot of precaution. I implore you all to take all of this into account and when the time comes for another wave to rip through our community infecting our children. You make the quick decision to mandate mask with the sort of quick trigger mindset and prevent the spread of covid-19 protecting our community even possibly faster than the state mandates. Thank you. Okay. Seriously everybody we're going to be respectful to differing viewpoints. Excuse me. We're going to be respectful to differing viewpoints and we're not going to be heckling or bullying people for coming up and expressing a viewpoint that is differed different than yours. And if we can't please play by those roles I will recess the meeting. So if you'd like to speak tonight I would ask you to be respectful of other people's opinions. Deep breath. Hi I'm Carolyn West. Hello Dr. Rodriguez President of Serpa trustees.  I basically what he said I'm a school nurse and so this is my life. I'm not speaking theoretically. I'm not speaking metaphorically. I'm not any event. This is what I do every day all day every day. The science does support masks and I am bothered by people criticizing a student that comes up and speaks because they say we're here for our kids. Well he's one of our kids. So just and I know that we're going to have to go with the CDPH guidelines. I understand that. I think that I support that people choosing to wear masks if they want to. I have autoimmune conditions so I have to be really careful with things. I work with a lot of students with special needs and I do respect that. I also agree that we'll need to be able to pivot and respond very quickly when things change. I'm in touch with public health like daily talking to them daily. They do expect another surge. It's going to happen again most likely after spring break because that seems to be the waves of things. So I just want to say that I wish we could be a little bit more not aggressive but assertive with this. I think we could continue with the masks. I wear a mask all the time. I've never had any kids complain about wearing masks. I never hear anything about this. I've been a nurse for 28 years. I've worn masks off and on throughout my life. I'm still alive. I haven't had any brain damage as far as I know. And so I just want to say that I do support. I support the resolution but I also support that if things change that we can pivot very quickly. Thank you. Do we have a list of a thorn. And then after a list of it we're going to have Damon followed by Kristen Hurley. Hello all. It's so nice to see your smiling faces above the masks. I know they're there. Anyway I am Elizabeth. You know I am a school nurse. So the thing that I want to mention is I agree. I am going forward with the CDPH guidelines. Thank you very much. That has always been our stand. I would like to see just a variety of sizes of N95s. Dr. Rodriguez instead of just the one size fits all because it isn't one size fits all. So if you could get a small medium and largest for my teachers. I have teachers who are immunocompromised as you have heard that the nurse that came before me that the student that came before me. These people who are teachers in the classroom that are also immunocompromised. They don't have a choice. They can't teach from home. So they're going to be in a classroom at Watsonville High in front of a kid kids without masks for two hours. This is a concern. I have had teachers tell me because I'm also the union rep for Watsonville High that they are going to go out on medical leave. I have one pregnant teacher who is seven months along. If she catches covid while she gives birth they will take her baby away from her until she gets covid over her doctors already told her this. I have kids. I have had kids who have told me that they are very afraid of coming to school. So we're going to see a drop in attendance maybe not a lot but but we will. I think that it is respectful to be kind to everyone to be kind that everyone gets to be able to say. So some of the teachers at Watsonville High have had conversations with their students to say I want to stay here and teach you. I want to teach you but I'm going to need you to wear masks in order for me to stay in the classroom. Is it are you okay with that? If you're not okay with that that's okay too but then I can't stay in the classroom. These are the things that I'm concerned about. That's just kindness. That's just kindness and respect. You don't. Thank you. So good evening. My name is Damon Hancock. I'm a concerned parent. Sorry I got a whole bunch of stuff here. Just want to bring your attention. I know you folks are aware of the resolution itself and how it reads is what I'm concerned about. There's two different points. Page two of the resolution states under the final therefore if you read down the second to last therefore says all staff students familiar families will not be strongly sorry will not only be strongly encouraged to wear masks but will also be safeguarded from harassment, intimidation, bullying for doing so. I don't think that this resolution should ignore anyone regardless of face covering. So harassment, intimidation, bullying should not be occurring or permitted regardless if a person is wearing or not wearing a face covering. Second point is the resolution the body of information that the sorority has put together says that they're following California Department of Education, Cal OSHA, CDC, local public health orders at San Cruz County Health and also obviously the governor's orders. So my expectation is that you folks will contact your teachers, your individuals that have direct contact with the kids and you will make sure that they are adhering to the law which is the fact that this is now as of what we're saying Monday it is voluntary so that there will not be repercussions for our children should they or should they not choose to wear a mask on their own volition and likewise failing to follow this order like requiring face masks in the face of that is unlawful and they could face repercussions leading all the way up to you folks. Oh wow that stops I'm going to call the other two speakers after her so we have D followed by Elisabeth McCollum. Ready set go. Okay I'm going to read from this paper I have my hand but first I wanted to address the couple of people that just spoke before me the student and he kept your name and a couple of nurses. You said yourself that half your classmates were out with COVID over the last couple of months. Does that lead you to possibly consider the fact that the masks don't work. I don't know and I further more for the nurses that spoke has anyone outside looked outside our little California bubble to most other states in the nation where there are unmasked I'm trying to speak to the crowd here there are unmasked kids and teachers and community members you name it running around like normal our rates in California are look no different than any other state in and out of COVID surges and unsurges and whatever you cannot show that other states have done phenomenally worse than California's world masked up here. The data suggests that there's absolutely no reason to wear masks so you health care providers should look outside our little sphere here and consider that okay back to my point at hand. The this is a cease and desist letter that I know you guys received power district. This was written Tracy Henderson representing Santa Cruz County parents united the cease and desist letter was sent to ferris a ball to your district a couple other districts and a couple other private schools in the county and I just wanted to let you guys know if you haven't read it personally you should read it because in this letter sites a lot of laws that are being broken and have been broken and Megan pointed out some of those there. This got these mandates are non binding up I'm up I encourage you guys to read this I'm going to send it to you guys tomorrow. Thank you. Hi. First time here I don't really know where to start with with all the conversations I really respect everyone's take on mask whether to wear or not I'm wearing them today. I have a child at school that I'm concerned about he's complains about not being able to breathe with the mask on at school these kids aren't wearing them properly. Most of us are not wearing them properly even me even double mask these masks if they're not fitted properly you're not fitted for them properly they do not work. I don't care what everyone says so the nurse if she doesn't have her a mask fitted it's not doing anything for you it may be helping some but it's really not doing what it should be doing so you cannot force people to wear masks that are not working for them properly that are going to help everybody from contracting COVID not only that we're building a bacteria in our masks if we're using them our kids using them what are we doing to our children if we're going to have respiratory issues does anyone bring that up no okay test your mask I want you to test your mask does anyone have to review the mask. I want you to see what kind of bacteria you are growing in those masks okay. I respect everyone that wants to use a mask go for it please do so consider if you're in a classroom in here we're wearing some of us wear a mask some of us not I'm wearing a mask you're talking to me masks are one thing yes use them if you feel comfortable use eye protection if you feel comfortable do whatever is comfortable to you you cannot force another person to do what is not comfortable or is not safe for them to do because you decide hey you need to do this you need to do this you know it's our choice you cannot take that away from us as you have been these past two years our kids lives are being ruined I was seven year old who's like he's just not enjoying his childhood because of your requirements so after Elizabeth we're going to have Tom come away followed by Jose Rodriguez is the time we're going to start now we're waiting for Elizabeth you'll be going after her so give me as one second okay thank you yes it's okay thank you seven board members hi everybody so I'm taking a little tact I just handed you some criminal documents and these have been filed in federal court I one of these I sent as a proposed criminal indictment to our DA Roselle basically the tact that I'm taking tonight is based on these documents because most people and most people in this room don't realize the lies that the pandemic is based on so if anyone would like to see the criminal proof it's it's actually shocking it's it's shocking that most people will never know I gave some to the student here he will know there's irrefutable criminal evidence here that this is based on crimes so everything that we talk about here from masks to jabs to distancing to everything is based on lies so before you fall asleep Mr. Dodge I really encourage you to read these documents because if you do you'll understand really the truth and what's happening and that decisions you're taking are from crimes that are being committed at the level of the California government and the federal government yes and I'm happy to provide my email to anyone who would like to see these documents so so basically your policies and your actions have been in agreement with the crimes and I don't I don't even think you know that's why I'm giving these to you and why the DA Roselle has them that's why the superintendent has them that's why Gail Newell has them every single city council member has them so everyone now is sitting on the crimes okay so so basically what I'm asking you to do is to read those and then make your policy decisions based upon the truth and inform everyone of the truth thank you okay so we have next up we have Jose Rodriguez followed by Tom Conway good afternoon guys well I mean first of all I'd like to thank you guys for trying to you know keep this peaceful because you know a lot of communities all over the country all over the world as you guys can see we've been buried this you know divisive and you know I'm completely pro-choice you know wear a mask if you want a mask but as you can see walking in every Walmart in every Costco a lot of the times you don't have that option you know I mean so for the people you know trying to you know push mask on us you know y'all got to you know keep in mind that we've had quite a bit past couple two years and we've been threatened with our jobs you know because of the vaccines now you know I mean so I mean I get it you know you know we should just be like really pro-choice you know I mean wear the mask if you want to and maybe we should recommend going to school with a hazmat suit you know me because I mean none of us are six feet apart you know we're really concerned about you know germs I mean you know maybe we should really close down the schools again because I mean we're all you know sharing the same germs in this room you know so maybe that's one thing you guys can recommend it is a hazmat suit or double gloves and extra pair of clothes going to school but you know you know we should all keep in mind in this room that we should always keep the peace but you know a lot of us haven't had an option because of these fascist rules you know especially with these you know vaccines you know me but yeah we're not I'm pretty sure a lot of us in here we're all against fascism you know I mean everybody so yeah I mean but I keep an option maybe a hazmat suit I don't know whatever you guys think but we are sharing the same germs in here but yeah I appreciate you guys trying to keep the peace so you know I mean we really need more peace around every community you know I mean and we should respect each other on our decisions you know because as you can see there's a lot of you know divisiveness out here we really need to come together like you know I mean no matter who you know but thank you guys for keeping the peace do we have Tom so after Tom we have Shayna followed by Mark Morris hello I would just like to speak out against the recommendations for masking children because I was a teacher and I saw kids wear masks and they really didn't like it and I think that is signaling something that they're not right for children the CDC had to lower the record speech requirements for children and that is a signal that they're not developing correctly with masks and when you're using any countermeasure for any illness you have to ask what is the cost of this and that hasn't been correctly done because the authorities setting these rules are entirely corrupt and as long as we continue to obey their guidance is you'll be embodying their hypocrisy and I think one thing that we can all look at is that this nation and this world is under the spell of materialism and we need to recognize that we have a spirit and a soul and that to continue on with these ineffective measures is just signaling failure and that if you really wanted to help people not get sick there's plenty of things you can do but forcing people to do things is not the way health and public goods work I think there's so many good things we can do and it requires an ongoing conversation rather than people getting mad at each other because I think like Jose said we're all in this together and I think is good if we all put our hearts together instead of getting up in arms thank you is that the clock? okay give me one second Superintendent Rodriguez and trustees my name is Shanna Krigger and I am a pissed off Rio Del Mar parent I want to put into words the frustration the anger and the sadness I have over your failure to put our kids first during the past two years from sending teachers on summer vacation and abandoning our children in March of 2020 to 100% distance learning in the fall which was a total joke to the colossal colossal failure in April of 2021 when you made a mockery of this district with one and a half hours of in-person instruction the lowest in the entire state of California your poor decisions have made one thing clear students are not your priority being led by Nellie and her union minions has been detrimental to the educational and emotional well-being of all school children and PBUSD mandating masks for kids is delusional and it's dangerous there is zero evidence that masks in classroom do anything at all to slow the spread it's been cited in numerous reports the risk of kids getting COVID is astonishingly low and those who do get it bounce back quickly according to the CDC COVID deaths in ages 0 to 7 are 0.009 of total deaths so stop pretending that you're protecting the kids stop pandering to the union masking children has detrimental impacts on communication in the classroom and attributes to high anxiety among the kids not to mention the bogus mandate has turned kids into mask police which is absolutely heartbreaking keeping unproven measures in place is no longer justifiable now's a chance to finally put kids first take away the mask mandates full stop your jobs are on the line because if San Francisco can do it we can do it too thank you thank you do we have mark and then after mark we will have chris webb and maryland correct get it hey good evening everyone my name's mark I was born right here in this hospital born and raised 40 years ago I'm a father of two young children and history will look back on what we've done to our kids and not be kind the suicide rates the rates of depression kids fearing the fresh air that they breathe outside the untold consequences of what we're doing do not justify the small minuscule minute trivial benefit of wearing a mask I was a firefighter in this district for 10 years I was trained in you know dealing with airborne viruses and disease we would wear a full face respirator or an in 100 because those are the only tools effective to stop a virus completely and you had to be fit tested and properly fitted with a shaven face and not only then it wouldn't work you had to have sizes for every person the science does not back up what we're doing to our kids you've seen a kid made to run a track with a mask on like we've done kids are running in PE classes dropping of heat exhaustion because they can't breathe because we're so afraid to grow a spine and say enough is enough well enough is enough we've suffered through this this is the 2019 virus it's 2022 the information is here it's not the beginning we know the best peer reviewed studies say that masks are 90% ineffective and on little kids who touch their face and pull them and snotty nose they're not effective whatsoever my kid takes a break and eats snacks indoors without his mask then they put it back on then they take a nap without it on it's asinine everyone knows it what we're doing is child abuse and to continue it any longer it's enough enough is enough I want to thank board president diserpa for the strength of her leadership at the last meeting and enforcing the mask mandate and to the district for having required masks for so long I credit that measure for allowing me to go through this entire pandemic having never contracted the virus I have teacher friends in other states in other cities and they've shared a lot of anti-mass sentiment and I'm not surprised when I hear that they did get COVID so I feel to that extent my anecdotal experience reflects that mass do work when early in the pandemic I remember reading about other states like Kansas and how counties with mass mandates had lower case rates lower deaths so again I want to thank the district for protecting the students protecting the teachers I have unvaccinated children at home I really appreciate that I wasn't unduly harmed in the workplace and sent home to infect my kids I also want to just say that I really don't appreciate saying that distance learning was a vacation I can't tell you how much it was not a vacation having to read tool and everything it and also it kind of mess with people's work-life balances so that's just really speaks to me the other thing I just want to say I support the resolution I feel like to the extent that kids may I haven't had any kids at Renaissance complain about the mass I'd almost never have to remind anyone I seen kids in gym they don't they're not complaining I go to the gym I lift with the kids I don't even have to take off my mask because of strain I don't know maybe some people are just I don't know it's to the to the extent that people's kids are like affected I suspect it's coming from the parents so the bad kids are complaining and some kids some kids have less anxiety because of the mass because that's another way for them to kind of thank you Marilyn Garrett I taught in this district for about 20 years we had a group farm without harm trying to stop the poisoning from the pesticides from the toxic agriculture we don't hear anything about that anymore nobody's getting sick from pesticides or cancer are they it's only COVID anyway I want to recommend this trifold and I don't have I only have one in front of me it's titled miss and truce about COVID-19 contagious virus question mark or 5G microwave technology on the back COVID-19 and the 5G connection in here it includes what's in the shots people are getting and comments on masks and here's a myth masks and lockdowns have helped prevent disease and death truce this is what some people have said states that have not required masking and lockdowns have had the same or lower rates of disease and death compared to those that have required masking and lockdowns it goes on myth wearing a mask can protect you against COVID truth more than it does incredible medical studies prove that face masks do not work even in hospital settings even if COVID-19 were caused by a virus which it is not it's never been isolated the pores on the recommended masks are larger than any virus myth wearing a mask poses no danger truth analysis of face masks formed by children found 11 dangerous pathogens bacteria that produce poisons under conditions of low oxygen on the mask mask also reduced let me finish the sentence oxygen levels leading to headaches reduced so everyone gets two minutes and we're going to be respectful of that so thank you WesternAprice.org so those are all the speakers for this item okay are there any any discussion from the board? hi Trustee Shaffer I would just like to make one suggestion in our therefore that we just change the wording the very last therefore to be safeguarded from harassment, intimidation or bullying regardless of mask choice so I'd like to make that a suggestion below the mat I will make a motion to approve this resolution okay we have a motion on the floor we need a second first and then you can comment after the second I'll second okay continued discussion yes Trustee Soto you are up man you know I initially voted against the mask mandate when it was first proposed I was a sole vote I gotta say it's interesting to hear the comment and the facts brought forward by the public I'm kind of a cynic when it comes to this or not kind I am a cynic I do research I follow up on different stuff I don't follow mainstream there are a lot of facts and information out there that shows that if these things are useless I wear any good measure here because I've been asked to believe me I'm hard headed I don't listen well but I'm doing it as you can see I have it down right now I gotta say I support the resolution on two things the fact that it gives you a choice number one and thanks to Trustee Shocker's updated verbiage on that therefore is the second reason you know there is going to be a lot of backlash possibly next week everybody's got a different opinion but that being said we had a situation here last week or not last week last meeting where there was some disagreement but we can agree to disagree but at the same time we gotta coexist we can't be divisive we have to respect everybody's space if you believe in little green men from Mars or your God or if you believe Jesus Christ is your God that's your choice but don't force it or push it upon other people you know so so thank you everybody and you know make your choice next week I have a conflict of interest with this resolution I appreciate the work the superintendent and the agenda setting committee have done and bring forward a resolution that recognizes the importance of continued caution I think that this addresses best practices while acknowledging the limitations of our authority as a trustee I think it is our best option at this point my conflict comes from the fact that I also represent thousands of nurses as a member of the California Nurses Association Board of Directors in that capacity we have been advocating for operating under precautionary principles for years as much as we would all like this pandemic to be over it isn't not yet our healthcare system continues to be impacted and those who work in it are simply exhausted to vote yes you know or or no would be to abrogate my responsibilities to one organization or another and I cannot I cannot ethically do that for those reasons I will be abstaining as the only way I can see of honoring both sets of commitments thank you so for me if I may yes so I understand there's really strong opinions on both sides of this issue and you know I respect both perspectives one of the things that I also as I was reading this resolution and you know I highlighted even when we we were reviewing it as agenda setting was the fact that and you know that bullying will not be tolerated so I also agree with the comment that the gentleman brought forward about ensuring that that's made clear because again our priority are the kids right and so I don't want them to be bullied whether they choose to wear a mask in the classroom or not so so I will be supporting this resolution moving forward without amendment as well thank you are there any comments Daniel I also support trustee motion to include her wordage but I also just wanted to ask how a bullying intimidation be defined now we thought about that yet or you know we can look into that so there is technical answers to that and so specifically bullying is when and so it's the same definition that we use when we're doing bullying with children but bullying specifically is when someone of power or perceived power whether it's status or title it could also be students rights units can have additional status over someone else and they exert that authority generally in repeated ways so more than one time that specifically is the definition of bullying and so that will be the definition that we continue to use intimidation includes is really we also have definition for that specifically it's it's an ed code of what intimidation is but specifically it's someone is being told that something of negative generally negative force will occur to them if they don't comply and so that's the definition the simple definitions of intimidation and bullying thank you trusty cost thank you so I just really I want to clarify that I and I appreciate you adding that language because I was already thinking the same thought that was something I was struggling with with this on both sides so that language Eva just to clarify the readback on that for trusty shocker's amendment to this resolution it will read therefore all staff students and families will not only be strongly encouraged to wear masks but will also be safeguarded from harassment intimidation or bullying for said for regardless of mass choice for regardless of mass choice is that correct okay so thank you for making that amendment because that was something that I was struggling with when I read this and thank you trusty for seconding that and I would agree that I want to emphasize that this is essentially creating a choice at this point right and it was also a choice that can be ripped back not based on any decision by this board based on what I had heard you in some of the whereas with CDPH right and the Santa Cruz County Health Department right that could be stripped back away from this board without a say you don't even have to bring it back to the the board is that correct so there are specific on ramps which they are talking about so if they if we get to certain matrix it when it happened as a district it would most likely happen school by school based on case rates okay and so we try to be transparent that is if you read the law that is one of the one of the things that's in there regarding mitigation strategies and so what we're doing is that public health would be the one that would mandate that and then mandate the timeline for that so that wouldn't necessarily be a pv usd selection nor the board selection correct okay and I just want to thank for that clarification again and that as well and then also to follow back up on what trustee George jr. was just asking about the harassment intimidation and bullying on both sides of the coin of this right for choice yeah I was going to word it a little bit differently than you guys had just because I think it makes sense to put regardless of regardless of choice towards the front and so have it say and regardless of choice will also be safeguarded from harassment intimidation and bullying for doing so I think it reads better that way so therefore all student staff students and families regardless of choice will be will be strongly encouraged to wear a mask and regardless of choice a mask choice will be safeguarded from harassment intimidation and bullying for doing so okay so that may sound like you may need to bring that back to trusty shocker and Orisco to prove that change in the verbiage which still sounds good by me my follow-up to what trusty dodge jr. asked and I and I get what we have with regards to our bullying policies and state and code with intimidation what will be the protocol for following through with that should and again this says all staff students and families so that includes our employees as well as students right and families so what protocol will be followed should something arise to a side administrator someone to the just so we will follow progressive discipline like we do for all cases and that would be brought forth most likely in a closed session correct no progressive discipline doesn't get brought to the board unless it's for suspension or or removal so wouldn't be brought to the board we unfortunately there we have staff that receives progressive discipline that doesn't necessarily reach the board okay I guess it's just making sure that we're having some assurance as a board that there is the follow-through but thank you for your clarification on the that yep okay are there any more yeah Jen I just want to say I I'm okay with the clarification of the uh testing option of testing Marilyn point of order Marilyn no we can't answer that point of order okay Jen Dr. Rodriguez I am okay with having the verbiage placed at the front so that the resolution reads that they're protected regardless of mask choice and you're are you amending your your motion my first motion yeah okay and then I'm amending your second my second okay we have a first and a second all those in favor I I anyone opposed anyone abstaining I'm abstaining okay so the motion passes six zero one thank you okay next we move to item six point one a public hearing to dedicate a permanent easement right to improve the overall safety around Lakeview middle school the report is a public hearing led by our CBO Clint Rucker test okay good evening president to serve about board of trustees and Dr. Rodriguez tonight I have for you at a public hearing you may remember at our last board meeting we did talk about granting the permanent easement rights to Caltrans who is working with Santa Cruz County in order to improve the highway area near Hubehan and college road what we have now tonight is a public hearing so the public can see the district's intent to grant easement rights after this public hearing we will vote whether or not to pass pass the resolution at the last board meeting it was brought up to ensure that the sidewalk was maintained by trustee Acosta so I did work with the Santa Cruz County to not only review their plans but to take further and actually ask that in their proposal they included that they would maintain the sidewalk so the first piece I want to show you is just this blue highlight now little odd because the last maps we have we're facing up or north what I would see for the sidewalk that sidewalk though is across what is highlighted in blue is the sidewalk they will be putting in front of Lakeview so it is showing that the sidewalk is in their plans and is to be maintained but because I really wanted to make sure that trustee Acosta your concern was addressed I did ask that in their proposal they also put in that the sidewalk would either remain or would be replaced so we can bring up the other item on the agenda which would be the easement contract as we scroll down you'll see one section highlighted in yellow which says replace or remain existing sidewalk on the corner of college road and highway 52 so again the permanent easement that we're offering is 93 square feet on the corner of that offering any additional space it's just that 93 square feet and they will be maintaining that sidewalk by either not by either maintaining it or replacing it and again it's both shown in the plans and in their proposal to the board so with that that ends the public hearing on my part unless the board has any questions where we have public speakers we do have one speaker we have Chris Webb oh okay and no speakers to this item so we had quite a report the last board meeting I'm not sure any of our board members have further questions I'm going to look around anyone have further questions no okay I just wanted to say thank you for that added bit in writing thank you absolutely so I think that concludes our public hearing thank you very much thank you we'll be hearing about in a little later next we have visitor non-agenda items this is item 7.1 public comment hi so we have a total of eight speakers for this item we're going to start with Caroline West followed by Hermann and Elizabeth Thorn hello again I was actually asked to speak for on behalf of a parent a very special parent who contacted me she wasn't able to come to the board meeting because she has a child that's one to one care and who's immunocompromised and she was concerned about coming to the board meeting especially as we expected that there would kind of be what happened her concern that she's expressing and I'm just sharing this I don't have an opinion necessarily is that there is there was a raise given to the nurses to the certificated staff and then particularly those inside a self SELPA that will be and then there'll be the higher bonus which will be addressed later on she has a one to one nurse with her child who's in post secondary said I think and she this nurses through an agency and I guess she is concerned about this nurse being equitably reimbursed also so she asked me to represent her for this I do have to say I am familiar with this nurse and he is most excellent I wish he was ours and not through an agency so what I did tell her that I would share that she does have a great concern because he's an excellent caregiver and she was worried that he will be wooed away elsewhere that's all I had to say thank you thank you my good perfect I just want to speak really quickly and really briefly on something kind of unrelated to tonight but something that has definitely been demonstrated tonight and that is that in the coming years one of the graduation requirements will be an ethnic studies class I've always thought that being exposed to more diversity more different perspectives people from different cultural backgrounds always always always results and but gets diversity and accepting in one's own mind and for others and I just would like to say that I hope when the time comes for I know there's ethnic study classes out Watson High School I'm super super grateful for that and I've heard that those classes are the time comes for ethnic studies to be a graduation requirement that there's proper support in order to facilitate those ideas of accepting other people's perspectives understanding diversity understanding other people's perspectives in order for us to be able to have more mature conversations because while I can disagree with people in the audience and while I can disagree with board members of course I still respect everyone and I still demonstrate that respect through person with their own right to speak out and they don't deserve to be yelled at or criticized or insulted simply because they have a different perspective and I just hope that when the time comes for those classes to become a requirement that there is a lot of support a lot of care and just a lot of love put into that so that we can have a more understanding and even more understanding and an even more supportive community so thank you thank you Alyssa Betharn alright and then after her we'll have Bill Beecher followed by Marilyn Garrett Hello Board again you're going to get tired of seeing my face and I'm sorry there's a few items that I'm speaking on one of them tonight is I want to be clear about the intimidation and bullying that was in the last item that was mentioned just because as I had mentioned teachers asking and encouraging students to wear their mask I hope that does not qualify for intimidation and bullying but by the definitions that were read it could be because they would be considered in a position of power it does put teachers in a very interesting situation and so please address that consider having the Board ask Dr. Rodriguez to address that to provide more clarity because what is the difference between encouraging and bullying and intimidation okay so please be clear and the other thing is is again I want those N95 masks in different sizes okay because I the ones that I were given I couldn't wear they were way too small so I had to buy my own and I know a lot of teachers about to buy the road anyway thank you for all the hard work this is very very hard work and I recognize it is being very hard work that you guys are doing I very much appreciate all that you guys are doing so one of the opportunity to say thank you I also wanted to say we've got another round of negotiations going up as you well know and everything's going to be on the table as you well know you know that we're going to be asking for more money for raises it's very expensive to live around here and some of the people in the contract only got $2,000 raised some got a $4,000 raised in the survey that was sent out there was no differentiating that one group should get less money than the other group and so with that in mind I have had feedback kind of thing instead of $2,000 for one group and $4,000 for another and that's all I have to say on that subject thank you very much thank you good evening at some past board meetings I was frightened by discussion about how radiation is destroying our children in the classroom and so are our schools safe from radiation? well I'm a scientist so I said gee I can look at this from a scientific standpoint if only this worked I did and it's on so why don't you click okay so Wi-Fi and cellular use has exploded over the last 20 years well if there's a correlation then brain breast and testicular cancer should have shot up through the roof so next slide so let's look at the data next slide here's brain cancer over the last 20 years if anything it's going down next slide thank you breast cancer flat next slide here's testicular cancer it's flat so yes we are safe and it's based on real data nothing changed if if we'd had a major problem with radiation from cellular phones then we should have seen people dying by the droves more than COVID-19 because we have so many cell phones and Wi-Fi it would have been obvious next slide please there was some earlier cancer attributed to analog phones and they were because the digital has much lower power one-tenth the power that analog does so they saw some teenage breast cancer was seen because the girls were putting their phones in their bras and thank you I think you can all sleep well tonight I'm sure the lady behind me can sleep better tonight next slide we have Marilyn Garrett followed by Pam Sexton and Chris Webb lots of false statements there I recommend some books one is called The Invisible Rainbow A History of Electricity and Life by Arthur Fürstenberg and he puts out newsletters and that is has such documentation of the adverse effects of electricity and wireless radiation I highly recommend it his website is cellphonetaskforce.org info at cellphonetaskforce over the last couple of years he's put out newsletters and I can excerpt just one this is frequently asked questions on wireless technology my cell phone does not make me sick why should I stop using it your cell phone is damaging your health whether you are aware of it or not it is damaging your blood-brain barrier the barrier that keeps bacteria viruses and toxic chemicals out of your brain tissue the barrier that maintains the inside of your head at a constant pressure preventing you from having a stroke since brain tissue has no pain receptors plenty of damage can occur without pain instead it will cause memory loss difficulty concentrating anxiety depression sleep disorders and so forth in rats damage to the blood-brain barrier can be detected after just a two-minute exposure to a cell phone after a two-hour exposure the damage is permanent there is no reason for it to be different in humans the radiation from your cell phone is also slowing your metabolism your ability to digest sugars, fats and proteins this causes either let me finish the sentence obesity or weight loss depending on your genetic makeup causes diabetes heart disease and cancer wireless technology is the call of the mayor to respect the time thank you please check out cell phone task force doctor org thank you thank you hi you know there is a button you could push the podium down I think is there I can barely see you over I'm so that's okay maybe I don't even need that well you do because we're broadcasting oh okay the people at home want to hear what you have to say sorry I'm so short that's okay I'm proud of being short but I so oh and I'm losing time it's okay we'll give you that and I'm a little bit nervous too I've spoken to you before and I'm Pam I'm a parent of two teens an educator in the district and I am a community member activist in various local organizations including one called surge which is showing up for racial justice and I want to second the the students remark about really hoping that the district will make it a graduation requirement having ethnic studies I think it was evident today that that it already is oh it already is we were like the first in the whole county to implement that's really wonderful okay thank you I remember that it was here so I guess what I want to say is I want to see it expanded because my understanding is it's just at the high school level classes but to have it expanded to middle schools that would be great and the other point I want to make is I know there was a situation recently at the high school where a student was arrested I know that it was a situation that needed intervention and I'm just a little bit concerned with some board members one unfortunately who's not here to hear there's a cheering the arrest because for me the arrest is a sign of a real big problem and while we can cheer the intervention we need to think so what's what's happening now I'm a 13 year old and I don't know the whole situation but somebody but this the concern that this could be terrible for their future and that school to prison pipeline thank you and we are implementing ethnic studies it's already implemented I think at the middle school level yeah I want to first express my appreciation to Lisa, Gary and Claudia Monterras and anyone else who works in this building who's subbed in a classroom at any point during the COVID era I have great respect for that kind of teamwork and I firmly believe we can deliver better outcomes for our students and staff if we have more people in leadership positions getting into the classroom and seeing what it is I think we should modify our administrative positions to have to require administrators to teach one class during the day one thing I'm noticing is sometimes people in leadership they lose touch with some of the realities of the classroom and the delicate balance that exists in maintaining relationships with the students while also upholding school norms and challenging students academically sometimes it's easy to have that good relationship as a support staff when you're not really having to push students in the same way as the teacher. I also want to thank Dr. Rodriguez I know you also subbed so thank you for that I think it's a very good example that we're setting here I wanted to request that the green team consider allowing teachers or any staff to plug in their plug in electric vehicles at site facilities and when I first got to Renaissance years ago there was a teacher who had a plug in and he couldn't he was prohibited from that and then that meant he was driving a very large truck all the other days and for multiple reasons I feel like we should do that the other thing I want to request is that we survey the staff and assess the implementation of our restorative practices framework to make sure we're really doing the best we can and we're improving it every step of the way and capitalizing on the professional expertise of our teachers so thank you thank you Chris and that concludes our visitor non-agenda items next up is our employee organizations this is item 8.1 PVFT Hi, I'm Nellie President of the PVFT I think you heard about me earlier so we're here in this district to advocate for our students through our adults that we represent and so you've heard me say that before that when we bargain we bargain with our students at heart and safety is one of the bargaining areas that we address and it has been the most important the last couple of years and here we are at pretty much the cusp of the second of the two year anniversary so I want to thank you for passing the resolution I believe the amendment the edit to it was a really good edit I want to thank Dr. Rodriguez for agreeing to include the labor partners in the resolution because we all work together to address to work together that's what we do we work together to move our students through their educational career and it's our professional career to do that so thank you for that and then there are a couple of items on this agenda as well that will come up for memorandums to offer an added incentive to new hires we do hope that along with the recent agreement for the increase to our salary that it will be helpful to attract some people to our district because we are in desperate need of teachers the areas of serious need have been classroom teachers and then our school nurses so thank you to the district for agreeing to address the need for filling the vacancies that we have in our school nurse positions the health and safety of our students still continues not only will they address all of the students in our district but they also test students in SELPA and our special ed services and they attend IEP meetings so their service is as important as everybody else's but they have a very large caseload and so having more nurses is important they don't just put band-aids on and and so that's the thank you on all the items that we have on the agenda for tonight and I want to also thank this board I know you've heard me speak to community schools in the past and so Dr. Rodriguez has let me know that we are able to sit down and have that conversation we don't want to leave money on the table from the state I know that in this next couple of years so we have already heard it mentioned that we will be going into an actual contract negotiation cycle in this coming year so what we just negotiated was a re-opener for the very last year of our three-year contract so now we move forward with a slightly improved salary schedule but we have now the next three years contract and every year we talk about total compensation but then there are other articles in our contract that we address because there's always needed improvements to our learning environments and our working environment is our students learning environment another slogan you hear many teachers unions say so thank you and have a great evening are there any speakers Bill Beecher hello Bill good evening again I'd like to thank the teachers and PVFT for the academic performance in our previous COVID-19 online year many districts performance dropped dropped badly ours did not so thank you if you go through all the SARC data that you've seen before you'd see that this was a group effort with the district who supplied the academic direction under Dr. Rodriguez and Lisa and the fantastic IT support from Dan it was a true team effort I think that we learned that you can do online education effectively perhaps we could use this today to backfill the classrooms that do not have teachers the lessons are there from last year why not use them work with the district to use these existing online lessons to help our students after all it's all about providing an effective education for our students thank you thank you Bill do we have any representatives tonight from CSEA okay anybody here from Paveim oh Veronica, great hi so Veronica I understand you're the principal of Alianza and you're speaking on behalf of the Association of Managers thank you good evening president de Serpa board of trustees and Dr. Rodriguez my name is Veronica principal of the Alianza Armadillos tonight I'm here to represent Paveim and PVUSD's amazing charter schools a message from our principal of the chameleons WCSA Amy Thomas our chameleons at WCSA annual invention convention being judged this weekend science camp for sixth and seventh grade students and our eighth grade trip to Washington DC and New York City is well on its way we're also thrilled to bring back our art auction on March 19th with a Hollywood theme at the Portuguese Hall WCSA is thrilled to be piloting playworks to begin the transition into a safer more inclusive recess time it is just fabulous at the chameleon house stop by to visit anytime at Alianza our armadillos are hard at work our amazing science teachers and students have just completed the invention convention all the winners will represent Alianza at the California State Invention Convention virtually we have fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grade students all going we're also excited to report we recently co-hosted Family Art Night with the Art Council of Santa Cruz County students families were able to enjoy a night full of art activities dancing for Glorico with Ruby Vasquez visual arts activities storytelling and music and singing lastly on March 2nd we hosted Read Across America students were able to bring their essays to school in their favorite book all classrooms had reading activities throughout the day they highlighted the importance of reading in addition during lunch we gave away books and bookmarks to all students to take home Alianza staff and teachers are excited to be able to engage all students and families in fun learning experiences and truly it's been a great year to be an armadillo thank you and have a good evening thank you for that positive report we're moving on now to our action items this is 9.1 resolution I'm sorry we did that one 9.2 this is a resolution 21, 22, 28 to dedicate the permanent easement rights to improve the overall safety around Lakeview Middle School thank you president to serve the trustees and Dr. Rodriguez as I presented a few moments ago at the public hearing this is again a follow up to our resolution where we declared an intent to grant permanent easement rights this is now the board's opportunity to grant those easement rights to the project that again is dedicated to improving traffic and overall safety on the Hulahen Road as well as 152 College Road at that intersection there so I'm happy to answer any questions the board might have and I would recommend that we approve this resolution to improve the safety around that school okay do we have any further speakers to this item no we do not I'm looking for a motion to approve I'd like to make a motion to approve I'll second all those in favor aye anyone opposed motion carries unanimously thank you Clint item 9.3 approve a resolution I can't read without my glasses 32 acknowledging Governor Newsom's executive order N-3-22 aye good evening President D'Sirpa Board of Trustees and Dr. Rodriguez I'm presenting executive order N-3-22 so on January 11th 2022 the governor issued executive order N-3-22 providing staffing flexibility measures to address staffing needs for in-person instruction the flexibility measures authorized by the executive order include but are not limited to suspending requirements that substitute teachers have on file with the California teaching credential teaching credentialing prior to the issue of a temporary certificate extending substitute service to not more than 120 days suspending requirements that student teachers be under the direct supervision of a credential teacher and providing incentives for CalSTRS to return to classroom service the PVUSD school district finds that staffing flexibility measures specified in executive order N-3-22 greatly have greatly assisted instructional programs operated under my auspices to provide in-person services to students despite the staffing shortages caused by the Omicron driven rise in COVID cases that's the recommendation of the district staff that the board approves this resolution for executive order N-3-22 so I hope I need to read the whole thing thank you Mr. Saxon are there any speakers to this item we have no speakers and any comments or discussion from the board I'll make a motion to approve second so in a nutshell this will improve our ability to use substitute teachers correct so we it allows us to get substitutes into the classroom quicker allows them to stay longer and then allows our retired teachers to work longer without affecting their STRS retirement and more quickly I hope because don't they have to be out of the off the job for like a year six months immediately the day after they retire some of them have done okay we have a first and a second all those in favor aye motion carries unanimously thank you very much okay our CBO is up again Clint Rucker will be presenting our 2021 2022 second interim report and this is a budget issue thank you once again president de Serpa board of trustees and dr. Rodriguez yes for tonight for tonight I have for you our second interim report go ahead and jump right in so firstly just once again talking a little bit about what the second interim is I'm going to note there's a small error that says 2021 on there that should say 2122 Colleen was supposed to catch it but she did put a lot of work into preparing second interim so I'm going to let her slide on it but I actually do want to take that moment to thank Colleen for all the work she puts into this because while I do get to come up and present and talk about our budget and go through it and say thank you to her and her staff for all the hard work they do put into the budget before it's presented to board with that this is an update on our actuals from July 1st to January 31st so as we present second interim we're able to show you what we have spent which gives us a good idea of what we think we'll spend in the final months of the year it also includes the assumptions from February 1st to January June 30th which also includes the governor's proposal that has a little asterisk on how we should build out our budget is we get what we call the common message from the Santa Cruz County Office of Education all the county offices in the state work together to review the governor's proposed budget look at the COLA that's been proposed by the Department of Finance as well as by school services and then they work together to give us a recommendation on how we should make assumptions so what COLA we should use how we view ADA all of those pieces it'll be very first interim that was approved back in December so what is it not it's not a new proposed budget this is not asking the board to make a change or change our priorities mid-year this is really an update on what was already approved back in June it's also not a forecast based on future economic situation so we hear a lot of times things come out we hear there's going to be new more new money for this or that if we haven't seen it in a actual proposal it's not in his January budget update typically you will not see it in second interim because we're not making forecast based on what we think could happen or what we hear is coming out of the Department of Finance or the legislative analyst office where they're making assumptions and then lastly it's not a roadmap to identify our future reductions again it's not a new budget it's an update on the budget that was already approved so what do we see new in second interim so as many as we can propose for 2223 that's actually increase of about 2.8 from what it was what you saw at first and prior to the January budget update we also see about a 0.5 percent increase in COLA in 2324 so great news in that sense we're seeing COLA increases in both of the out years at this time we're also seeing a 5.33 COLA for special ed which is great a lot of times special ed gets part of the COLA they don't always get that done it is great news that they are getting it because as we all know special education is severely underfunded we also in your second term you will see the inclusion of PVFT's ongoing increase as you heard mentioned by Nellie we did settle with PVFT and we will be bringing that to our future board meetings so we did include that in our second interim assumptions of what that will cost for the out years average daily attendance in the district around California is seeing almost an 8 percent decrease in ADA we're actually only seeing about a 5 percent from normal but every district is seeing a severe decrease in ADA that impacts our funding in the out years because we see a lower ADA this year and as you may recall from our January budget update we do use typically the prior years ADA for funding for the current year and then ELOP funding we have seen that come through for next year as well as the following year that's that program you may all remember it was the expanded learning opportunities program that is an expansion of the expanded learning opportunities grant that we all saw as one time money so what do we see from school services currently on the dart board you can see that COLA coming out in 2223 and 2324 CalSTRS I want to just make a quick note you'll see that it's static at 19.1 percent that's because every year STRS actually does their looks at their books they look at their how their stock market is effectively doing and they create their new rate each year typically STRS is required to not increase more than 1 percent we typically see it increase about 1 percent however it's we don't make estimates on it because they are purely based on their actual arrows that they get once they look at their finances CalPERS on the other hand does typically do it through the out years you can't one in 2223 so what do our multi-year projections look like so at first interim we actually see an increase in our fund balance for 2122 a lot of that goes to the fact of whether it's unfilled vacancies or additional one-time funds that we weren't able to spend this year that we'll be planning on spending next year you'll see also in 2223 that net increase or decrease in that fund balance actually goes up quite a bit as I mentioned in the prior board meeting as we negotiate and we see that COLA we do see a lot of loss from declining enrollment as well as that new ADA hit as I told you about a 5 percent drop this also and I'll get to in a little bit does not include the governor's new ADA proposal but this is again a multi-year without that proposal that the governor currently has in January and then 2324 you see we get additional COLA and it does decrease that fund balance that deficit spending we're seeing it goes down to about 3 million one thing this does highlight is as we spend that one-time money that we knew we had that was a large amount but it was only one time we do see that somewhat it's not a large but a structural deficit still there we do need to address that as we move forward in the outgoing years contribution so these are our contributions to other funds so from our general fund unrestricted so our least restrictive dollars where we have to contribute to actually ensure that the other funds that we support are able to support their expenditures what I want to highlight is we do have that $1 million we put into deferred maintenance for this year and it's not in the out years it's currently only in 2122 if this is something we want to see going forward that would be something we would bring in June to the new budget we also see you'll see a slight increase in child development you might wonder why we're now funding child development when in the past as you know we looked at child development salary schedules we did want to improve those the only way to do that and for them to be able to afford it was actually to help contribute from our general fund to some of their increase that was negotiated with PVFT with that being said you notice that it drops down in 2324 as programs like Angelica's migrant seasonal head start is able to apply for additional funding showing what their costs are we do anticipate that they'll be able to absorb some of those costs but there is going to be a contribution from the general fund to ensure that those teachers can get paid more of a livable wage so what about our deficit spending so again it looks a little tough in 2223 however if you look back to where we were at 1718 we were at almost $16 million in deficit spending so we've worked diligently to reduce positions reduce contracts to be able to reduce down that deficit spending so in 2021 as well as this year we had no deficit spending we actually saw an increase to our fund balance utilizing some of that one time money was able to help us in terms of not seeing that deficit spending we're seeing a bit of a jump back up in 2223 but then it drops back down in 2324 2223 and 2324 there are projections at this point a lot can change between now and June especially with the May revision of the governor's budget however I do just want to remind the board this is something we want to continue to look at continue to right size as we see declining enrollment impact this district so what challenges have we faced this year so as we're developing our budget some of the things we've continued to see is declining enrollment still really impacts this district in a negative way the 2122 ADA are average daily attendance that's where I noted we're down about 5% so although we're getting a larger pull next year with the current proposal from the governor and the current common message from the COE we have to use what is currently in law which says our ADA from prior year or current year whichever is higher the problem is with having such low ADA this year next year our projections don't say we'll use this year's ADA we'll actually use next years which means not only are we using hopefully a higher ADA but a lower enrollment so it does impact our finances quite a bit we still see increases to health and welfare benefits and then as I noted before that increased the per is kind of a big one in 2223 but then also the increases to serves are unforeseen at this point so I want to talk a little bit about declining enrollment I know I've shown you a slide before I've shown you the dip in students but I think it was important to show really what does it mean for our district as a whole when we see this kind of a declining enrollment hitting us all at once so remember we've been held harmless for two years so we're going to see two years of decline in one year in 2223 unless the governor does approve that ADA proposal I ran the numbers multiple times really wanted to ensure they're correct but it's true based on our ADA drop down to 91% roughly as well as our decrease in enrollment we lose almost $15 million the following year we lose, now again this isn't cumulative we're down about $15.5 million so in the span of what we saw this year to two years out we'll have $15.5 million less in revenue now you'll look at the multi-year and say but Clint the revenue's actually going up in that third year it's more than it is, correct that's those two colors compounding and those two colors are barely making up for the fact that we lost so much ADA so really hoping that we see something from that from the governor's budget in May that confirms he will be doing something with ADA even if he does we still see that shortfall from our ADA this year that 91, 92% we're hoping to end at is going to follow us now for three years as a proof of that proposal so again what's not in our second interim as I noted average daily attendance so the common message that the COE sent out as I noted what they encouraged districts to use for their assumptions told us that we actually had to continue to follow state law so state law for average daily attendance says you either use the greater of last year or this year so that is what our second interim is currently based on so if you look at it and say I thought the ADA would provide us some relief it doesn't look like it is it's not currently in second interim so I don't want the board to be surprised if by June we throw out a new budget for 2223 and you say wow your deficit spending suddenly is much lower or you have a lot more revenues than you anticipated how were you off so much we are already aware that that number could fluctuate based on what the governor approves the LAO is actually at the moment proposing a higher cost of living a higher COLA than is currently in the governor's budget however once again that's an estimate from LAO we can't include that in our second interim as it's not part of the common message and then the governor has also proposed additional TK funding on top of the kind of planning grant you've seen or the initial TK funding he proposed there's been talk of additional funding coming out as I noted in that first slide second interim is not a time to make forecast based on what we think will happen or what dollars we anticipate coming in through the May revise or potentially in the out years so that is not currently in second interim so we may see some additional dollars for our TK funding so I want to talk a little bit more about that ADA solution so once again the proposal out there is using average ADA based on 1920, 2021 and 2122 so the prior three years would be our ADA funding for the next year you can see currently if we use current law which our second interim is based on we're at about 15,414 ADA that would be our average daily attendance for that this does not include our charter schools this is our general fund unrestricted only however with the governor's proposal it would be 16,081 so it's a change of about 667 students that we would be funded on so you can see quite a bit of a change it's almost 5% increase so around 5% so that's a huge change in our revenue if you take into account that we could be funded on 5% more students just want to have the board kind of see that see that again if we come to June you see a difference in that revenue this is going to be the biggest place it's going to come from and I noted in a prior board meeting and I won't talk too much about it this time but I really hope that we see a better solution than is actually currently proposing the budget I don't think this addresses the problem long term nor does I think it nor do I think it addresses the problem even for next year because of the ADA shortage we're seeing right now due to COVID-19 so what are the common kind of the big takeaways the board should walk away with second room and say what did I learn I know a lot of times I hear follow up questions on the pieces so I wanted to kind of try and get ahead of it give you guys some takeaways to walk away with one is we see an increase revenues due to COLA however we see that revenue decline due to the ADA decrease so we're seeing an increase of COLA but if you look at it and say you know Clint we got 2.5% more COLA roughly how did our revenue not go up 2.5% because our ADA went down from first interim so we're seeing it we're seeing a drop there the variation in expenditures between 21 22 and 22 23 so you'll see a big jump and you might look at it in certificate salaries and say are we really filling that many more positions are we hiring that many more individuals it's not about the salaries increasing because of hiring out many more it's really the unfilled vacancies in the current year as well as including that tentative agreement in the out years so you start to see that impact we have one time money that we can help fund that agreement for this year but in the out years it really will fall into our general fund so that's where you'll see it that's where you'll see the variation of one time funds so we're seeing that in 22 23 as well as 23 24 some of that one time money that we had that was offsetting expenditures or allowing us to have higher purchasing power things for our facilities the 30 million that the board graciously approved to improve our facilities that money will be running out so that one time money is starting to dwindle away when we look at the out years the ADA proposal and I know I'm hammering on the head because again the common message stated that we need to use current law not the proposal and really expect many changes with governor's may revision we typically see changes to our June budget from second room based on what we see in the may revision in this one I in I expect to see great changes because if nothing else that ADA solution so with all of that being said where are we at second room we are positive so again three different types of certification types we have positive qualified and negative we are positive so we do expect to be able to meet our obligations throughout the next current year plus two and what are our final steps so in April I mentioned at January's budget update there's a few different calculations used to determine what the COLA actually is those calculations are typically finalized in April that's when we get what's called the statutory COLA which is what's required by law to be put into the budget typically we do not see the governor put in less than COLA we did see it you may remember in 2019 when COVID hit he did put in much less than was the statutory COLA this year I expect to see that finalized COLA in April will most likely reflect what we see in the May revised budget and then that may revise budget we'll see from the governor typically around May 15th we'll see an update from Governor Newsom on what he thinks actually the budget will look like after working with assembly and working with senate and then June you'll see the 22-23 budget and with that I'm happy to answer any questions we do have a speaker to this item Chris Webb I know there's hiring bonuses to offer to new teachers and I'm here to say that there's savings in retaining and that means respecting the teachers that you have and part of this comes out of there's an incident in my site and it basically kind of reflected that perhaps we're not as restorative as we could be and so I would posit that if we maintain principles like equity accountability, transparency, clear expectations stakeholder involvement if we think back to when renaissance has done this best and take elements of that program we can do a better job of retaining our teachers and I'm saying this partly because one of the teachers who felt a major affront they're thinking even after the raise news they're thinking of leaving and this is a teacher who's known for their experience with restorative practices so I'm thinking that we need to learn from what we've done best and I also I saw the ADA numbers 1920 that was the best year for ADA not counting the distance learning it's a little weird but 1920 that was our old system part of the old system that worked so well was we had after school program in person and that was a chance to recover ADA so part we to do that we need transportation to come back we need to offer EWRs for staff they were willing to do that to hire out to have that and also that would be another chance for us if we have our field restored again we can bring in some more revenue I know I said this before but I know local rugby team they practice at Cabrillo I could get them to go to Renaissance I could get the students to join up and have a really enriching time but these are some ways I feel like we need to capitalize on our strengths and also we need a language other than English teacher thank you okay any discussion or questions from the board members general comment first thank you for a very very clear presentation and I know particularly with the issue around ADA that's you know having a the governor and the legislature come up with a plan that actually works for schools is so important and you know I have as many of my constituents and teachers and such have been emailing me and I've been urging people to contact their legislators and it's like I hold to that principle as well you know it's like I and I believe trustee shocker she and I will be involved in some meetings with senator Laird and assembly members Mark Stone and assembly member Robert Ravis urging you know for funding that works for our schools so for the public for anyone else it's like definitely please you know keep that pressure on so that we can do what we want to do with our schools trustee dodge just quickly I would like to ask this board if we could look into passing a resolution the which was bought by senator Nancy Skinner Senate bill 878 wrote a success it would establish the state funded program to ensure that every TK through 12 public school student in California get the transportation to and from school each day I think that would probably help out as teacher web was saying you know I brought this up before and I just wanted to kind of touch up on again have we been able to narrow down what schools are being affected most by the declining enrollment I know at people on the ground I know high school is filled out to the max and they are being sent to we talk about declining enrollment and I know you know better than I do but do we see what areas are being affected the most what schools are being affected the most so we see it really district wide when looking at the percentage drops at each school it's pretty it's pretty steady what we do see that throws it off for example at the high schools you'll see a bubble where a lot of students exiting middle school going into high school which then sees more declining enrollment the middle schools because we don't see as large of a sixth grade class come in the middle schools do we have any examples of those schools for example Lakeview Lakeview got hit very hard with their bubble last year they saw quite a few students move up into ninth grade they did not see as many students come into sixth grade I'm more than happy to provide the board with the information though we do have a demographer who looks at trends looks at our interest so I'd be more than happy to provide detailed information but overall we see declining enrollment across the district what you tend to see in the trends is whether it's elementary losing a lot so a few years back three or four years we saw elementary lose quite a bit because that bubble moved into middle school so you have a large number of students who move in and then that bubble moves up and finally moves into high school I think that'd be great so we all can have a chance to see because otherwise declining enrollment but it might be different for me then it might be for trustee you know shocker you know I'm sure Lakeview and it might be different and trustee the surface area trustee so does and so I think we might would like to have a look at that so thank you trustee shocker I just have a question I know we're kind of waiting on things but we had opened enrollment for TK do we foresee possibly gating some students from the changes what's TK going on hopefully I'll let Dr. Rodriguez speak this is a tough one because we also see additional funding specifically for those students that needs to be spent on those students but I'll let her speak more to it I think when it comes to students we hope so so what's going to happen is TK is going to be expanded by months across the years right so it's not every month but I think we do hope that we have additional TK students that come in which will then we will just get them earlier I don't know if it will help us totally in the long run but they we will have one more year with them we definitely are seeing declining enrollment at the kinder level and currently which you know I think some of the things that we're working towards to help that currently we have significant parents who do not take advantage of TK they do not take advantage of it and so it's for a myriad of reasons but one of them is you know they they just prefer to have a full day program and so they can't get to a child midday and so we typically have very very low TK numbers and then that causes us to have to do TK kinder combos which aren't necessarily bad but because we have such low numbers so I think we're trying to do two things one we will expand the number of students that can enter in the program but two we're trying to continuously brand it and help people see the benefits of going into TK because it is a pretty small number unfortunately for us just a follow up to that so TK like full day TK is only offered at certain schools right currently we do not have any full day TK classes we have what's called expanded expanded day but I would not call it full day okay is there a goal to move in that direction we're working through a demand bargain on kindergarten and so we're working towards a pilot so we'll bring that to you once we finalize it I think that I'm sorry did you have another question? it's okay just going back to enrollment and ADA and so forth I know we used to have a programming place call summer academy a while back we're a Saturday academy yeah summer academy are we looking to bring that back in the future or was it not proven to be as effective no it is I think and if Ms. Chaus wants to speak to it more as well I think so it requires people power in order to be able to do it and this year has been challenging for people and so asking people to work a Saturday was already challenging pre-pandemic so getting enough significant staff to do that during the pandemic we believed proved to be challenging I think now that our positivity rate is down and I'm hoping it will be after spring break as well then we may have some staff that's willing to do it it definitely is something that we have not chosen to do partially purposefully because whether it has to do with exposure notices and commingling of additional classes but it is something that we need to return to especially in the spring and so that's why you heard Clint speak to it's currently 91 possibly 92 we do think that with summer or Saturday school we can't get credit for but Saturday school we could bring it up approximately a percent and then I'll toss it over to you check yeah so we were very conscious of the fact that we were commingling students so we were very conscious that if we have seven periods and then we put them all together on Saturday it is an increased risk so we were a little bit cautious in terms of starting out I will say that Watsonville High within the last three weeks has started a small rendition of seeing can we pull this off and do we have enough staff to do it as well so themselves it does require an administrator on campus as well so these are all kind of things that have come into play as far as you will in addition we also have a small group that's talking about it currently at Rowling Hills but it really has been reliant heavily on the number of staff that are also willing to be able to do that and we've been very cautious as you can imagine just making sure that we're kind of rolling out slowly but there's definitely a need and I will say both programs usually get a lot of kids when we do it so a lot of hope that we'll get them up in the future okay because it doesn't necessarily have to be staff or does it give you as a staff specifically it needs to be have certificated staff present yes I mean it can an administrator also needs to be present as well I guess the only other thing I would decide is I'm glad to see that and we're increasing salaries compared to other districts and that's a good feeling so we have to think of ways to bring more kids into our district so maybe we just hire only people that are bringing kids from out of the area sell how great it is here on the central coast near the ocean in the sun in the redwood more students definitely does increase revenue improve improve access to fertility we have to think out of the box Clint anyway okay I'd like to make a motion to approve the second interim second thank you all those in favor aye any opposed aye any abstentions okay the motion passes six zero no six one zero thank you next up is item nine point five approval and memorandum of understanding between pvusd and pvft classroom teacher signing bonus twenty twenty two twenty twenty three yes thank you president the serpa board of trustees dr. dr. Rodriguez so I have an mou signing bonus in front of you tonight for classroom teaching positions for the twenty two twenty three school year so currently we have in the contract that we are we provide to a twenty five hundred dollar signing bonus for people with a math science or special ed credential and so this mou expands on that so the expansion is that we are now offering a twenty five hundred dollar bonus to any classroom teaching positions so whether you're teaching first grade English at a high school what have you you will receive a twenty five hundred dollar so a classroom teacher in either math science or special education your bonus would now be $5,000 and it goes even further as we've heard during the school year of how hard hit our high schools have been at pv and Watsonville and so we want to try to mitigate that as well and so the bonus would further compound to another twenty five hundred dollars so you could earn up to seventy five or receive up to seventy five hundred or special ed teacher and you take a position at one of those two high schools as we have in the past we've written language that also pays this out over a few years so that we can try to retain these people in our positions longer so you'll see it's being paid out the first half at the end of the first excuse me the end of the second semester of their first year and at the beginning sorry the beginning of second semester of the first year and the beginning of the second semester of the second year and they need to still be employed with us so that is the MOU that we have in front of you we worked with pvft to develop it and so we're happy to be able to put this out we have a career fair job fair this Saturday so I'm really excited to put that out there and so are the directors in HR so I request that you please approve this MOU tonight any speakers we do not have speakers to this item okay any questions or comments from the board Jen Shocker I just want to say thank you for adding the bonus for Watsonville and Pajaro Valley I know that they've been really hit over there and I think it's important to get more teachers in the classroom to maintain equity in our district so I wholeheartedly support that extra bonus for bringing in teachers to those two schools so I will make a motion to approve this MOU second that motion any other comments okay first and the second all those in favor aye any opposed motion passes unanimously thank you this is item 9.6 approve the memorandum of understanding between pvusd and pvft school nurse signing bonus 2022-2023 report by Allison Nizawa thank you president D'Serpa board of trustees Dr. Rodriguez so again we have another MOU for you tonight for a signing bonus for our school nurses across the district we have had a challenge hiring all positions and everything is important classroom positions were just before this but school nurses have also been hit pretty hard and they have had quite a load this year especially coming out of COVID and so we definitely want to fill out and be able to retain this much needed position so I'm excited to bring this forward tonight too for your approval so I request that you approve this MOU are there any speakers we do we have two speakers to this item so we have carolyn west and then lissa the thorn hello president D'Serpa Dr. Rodriguez I just want to let you know today is my birthday and I appreciate spending it with you but that is a measurement of how important this is to me how important the issues were this evening that I wanted to be here obviously I do support the sign on bonus for more nurses we really have been struggling we have schools right now that do not have an assigned nurse so we're all kind of suffering and doing the best that we can right now it has been really hard it's been hard to attract nurses it's been hard to keep nurses there is a nursing shortage that's kind of a known thing and school nursing is really especially it's all jokes aside it's not all passing out bantains it does take it's an unusual unique setting it's not a medical setting it takes a specific skill set and a willingness to I guess think out of the box and that is hard for a lot of different people I've been a school nurse for 14 years I've been an RN for 28 years so I have different areas that I've worked in I do fully support this I hope that you support this also I would like to ask though I noticed that there was the sign on bonus and the earlier MOU in regards to the bilingual and I'm wondering if we can add that for the nurses because we don't we only have one bilingual nurse and I guess is that something to consider to attract more bilingual nurses because I really think our community deserves that to have more bilingual staff bilingual nurses and thank you for hearing me and thank you for spending my special day happy birthday no song just kidding alright hello I also want to thank PBFT Nellie and Roddy for bringing this up in the HR meeting or whenever you did and thank you Dr. Rodriguez and Allison for putting it on the agenda it is wonderful to see this it would be nice to have a bilingual stipend but really what I'd like to see as another incentive would be there is an MOU at PBFT about funding the credential clearing for teachers, for SPED teachers if that could be added I am specifically looking for ways I can poach nurses from other districts I didn't say that did I so because it would be really great if we had them already trained as Carolyn has already mentioned this is a specialty that is the lowest paid specialty although we have come a long way since I started 14 years ago as did she but we require the highest credentials for this specialty you can be a hospital nurse with a two year degree out of Cabrillo College you need a four year degree and one year post baccalaureate minimum as you know just as our teachers do to be a school nurse so I am very appreciative that you've put this on please consider also looking at funding the credential because that's a $10,000 thing that would be really something else that we could do Allison has just informed me of another district that may be having their nurses let go and I'm going to reach out to them so thank you Allison I appreciate that and Jennifer if you know somebody in Watsonville who would like to perhaps have a schedule such as ours and not work bedside anymore with everything that's going on please please reach out to them I appreciated any help we can get and thank you so much please do approve this one okay any further discussion or questions for the board yes Jen just that you know I I have a really good sense of what y'all have been through this year knowing from you know talking to my nurses at the bedside in the hospital and you know what people school nurses and other in other districts and it's been incredibly difficult and I know what it's like to work short staffed when the circumstances that's just the way it goes and what it feels like when it's like okay we need to have some hope in sight just to carry on through the day and so if this helps you know one get us closer to the staffing that we've committed to you know great and so I would very much like to make the motion to approve this further discussion Danny I just wanted to quite quickly say thank you Elizabeth Thorn I've seen you in action and what's behind the thousands of students you you deal with every day and you work hard you never complain and you just roll up your sleeves and you do it so I just wanted to say thank you very much I've seen you in action and just want to say thank you anyone else comment okay Oscar thank you Allison for the information I just have one question just regarding retention I mean we're offering this bonus is there anything stating that as a condition you could stay on with me to stay with the district for at least a year or something I mean just in case somebody gets hired gets the bonus and six months later something better comes up is there anything specifying that so that's what we can't write anything that they were they can't exit their contract that's why we're trying to pay with this MOU and the last one why we're trying to pay it out at a certain point and you must still be employed so the point is is in January if you're not employed with us because you left in October you don't get anything if you stay in only one year you only get half so we're trying to put those pieces in place too so it's about as best as we can do because we can't require a multi-year contract okay anyone else we have a first and a second all those in favor aye anyone opposed motion passes unanimously thank you this is item 9.7 art of education for visual art teachers good evening I was hoping there was going to be a step stool good evening board president board of trustees and doctor I'm here tonight to talk to you about the art of education we started this program during the pandemic when we realized that we really needed an articulated program to go from K-12 for our teachers to provide high quality instruction and you can see here some of the quotes from our teachers they the ones that started with it fell in love with it what we found with this is that the curriculum is very flexible and can be used at all of our schools in various ways while providing quality standards based content our teachers have everything they need in one program to provide high quality standard based curriculum that is always evolving to meet the needs of our students there are culturally relevant curriculum added continuously and the representative from the company works with our teachers when a new lesson has been added to the curriculum there's a screen castify that comes out and other things so that the teachers are aware of what is happening our teachers have everything they need in one program I'm sorry I just danced for two hours I'm a little bit tired there's a robust PD piece that comes with this curriculum which is part of what we really I'm sorry going backwards oh here we go sorry there's a robust PD piece that goes with this there is self-paced professional development that the teachers can watch on their own and there's videos that go with it videos with teachers teaching in the classroom so that they can look back at it and eventually we would like to put these into kick up the professional development platform that we're using in ACI the teachers get two full day workshops that comes with the program they can either do it on synchronously as it's happening or they're recorded and go back to doing it teachers can pay on extra if they want to get extra PD hours that would go towards their to move up a slot so like I said there's unlimited PD hours but then they can pay if they want to get credit towards their stuff and column supporting ELs this is key to our demographic here on PVUSD there's a curriculum that supports English language learners an academic language that goes along to scaffold their language development and we found that to be very with combining that with in elementary with our benchmark curriculum it really provides the students it's kind of front loading some of the academic language and or hitting again in a second time for the students in a different modality this framework provides a scope and sequence that we can customize as time goes on so as our teachers make lessons they can put them into a bank for us to be able to go back to and use that lesson again and it can be used as a tool to help provide professional development for new teachers as they come on to be able to do that PVUSD arts is committed to providing equitable learning opportunities to all students in quality arts programming and this is a step to ensure that this is happening because of the high quality of this program the access for growth of our teachers we believe this will help the teacher retention and happiness in the classroom everybody likes to feel good when they're in their teaching and this provides us a way to be able to give them high quality program along with the professional development to back that up and we want them to feel like they're happy about that all of our staff has seen this program we had seven use it all year and they all want to do this I uploaded two quotes to board docs and I'm sorry about that after I uploaded the first one I realized that I didn't have the one with the professional the ongoing professional development for our teachers so there are two quotes in there but I do ask that you approve the quote including the professional development any questions any speakers to this one we do not have any speakers okay any discussion or questions from our board about this item I'll move to approve we have a motion anyone want a second we have a tie I think Jen shocker won we have a first and a second I just like to say that as a long time sitting board member when we didn't have any art really in the school except for what teachers sort of cobbled together this is a beautiful example of giving teachers and staff ideas about best practices and how to really use that front load learning using art for ELL and I love it so thanks for bringing this forward all those in favor any opposed motion carries unanimously thank you good evening again each year PVUSD partners with other districts the county office of ed and Santa Cruz County Arts Council to provide arts integration institute brings together K-12 teachers teaching artists and school administrators to promote academic achievement equity and equal access through an in depth learning of the arts PVUSD offers 10 scholarships to the four day workshop the approval of this contract is to provide the 10 scholarships for PVUSD staff again this summer and I ask that you approve this item as well any speakers by the way this is item 9.8 the summer arts integration institute so we have no speakers is any board member comments Jen I just had one question how are the 10 scholarship recipients selected so we go by first come first serve we have had more than 10 from our district before and they have accommodated them because we have been doing this for so long so they have made sure that there was room for our teachers if it hasn't happened but if it did we would ask somebody who attended the year prior to give up their slap but that hasn't happened in the past so they have always accommodated us thank you any questions from the side of the table I have a question how are we doing filling our art positions we have two interviews on Friday which is wonderful for the high schools and both can I talk explain we went to a conference in February and we interviewed we had a booth there and we recruited a bunch of teachers which has been wonderful two of them are interviewing on Friday with the side administrators both I think would be perfect fits so it's going very well for that we got a head start this year by doing that and that's a great thing we've done it in the past Allison has supported us going to this convention to do that that's great I love hearing that proactive work that we're doing can Allison I don't know or maybe Sue how many art teachers not counting music but just visual 29 visual art teachers right now and I know we went from 1.5 to 29 and music teachers in the elementary we have 7 8 in the elementary and then 4 in the middle and middle I'm sorry we have more than that that's okay I know you weren't prepared to answer this question you know Starlight had 300 parents family show up tonight and I did a workshop and we were dancing we'll provide the number in the weekly effort anyway it's a lot so that's great so with I think no further comments do we have a first and a second I'll move to approve second all those in favor aye all those opposed motion carries unanimously thank you Sue and thank you for doing the Starlight dancing tonight great item 9.9 e-rate category 2 school site network upgrades presentation by our technology guru Dan Weiser yes thank you board of trustees Dr. Rodriguez I'm back in March as I am every year bringing forward our e-rate application e-rate as you know is a federal program that helps us and other schools and libraries afford network infrastructure we're fortunate to qualify at the highest discount rate which is 85% which allows us to keep the really the fastest and most robust network in this entire district but there's constantly a need to upgrade and so we're very fortunate that we get this funding source that keeps us using the latest and greatest in network infrastructure so this application for this year will support 28 school sites with needed wired and wireless equipment and this is the second year in the five year funding cycle so we still have three more years to apply for about three and a half million dollars so we applied for 1.3 last year got it and then as you see this year it's 472 but we don't want to spend it all at once because there's a need to continue to upgrade as new equipment comes out new technologies so our percentage the 15% which comes out to 70,000 dollars is paid for with measure L bond funds so it's not coming out of the general fund which is great we can use to leverage those bond funds and really have them make a great impact in our school sites and keep the network infrastructure up to the latest technologies so I hope that you'll approve this and I'm happy to answer any questions are there any speakers to this item? none okay questions or comments from the board I'll make a motion I'll move to approve we have a motion already you want a second okay and then just thank you very much for applying for e-rate every year how much do we have left in our measure L technology well so there's two kinds right there's the endowment funds and then there are project funds and I don't want to give you the wrong information I should just give you that we'll provide that later okay but we're almost all spent down though yeah yeah well we've been using those you know those project based funds for you know all the equipment the school sites and then you know a whole bunch of technology projects across the district and then using the endowment funds for a lot of instructional technology and innovative technologies that we're using in the classrooms and with students for projects so okay and by the way a member of the public let me know that there were no more glitches tonight in the broadcast so they were grateful that whatever you did to fix that it's working it's my pleasure and I'm glad that that public individual is able to hear the or no it was to see the I think both yeah okay we have a first and a second all those in favor hi any opposed motion carries unanimously thank you very much thank you item 9.10 approve a change order number two for the Starlight Elementary School and Merrill Lagasse kitchen project number 2-0-2-2-0-0-1 good evening President Dr. Rodriguez and Board of Trustees this is a second change order for the Merrill Lagasse kitchen it's in a dollar amount of 19,964 dollars and 34 cents the first change order was approved on February 9th meeting in the amount of 24,612 42 the work summarizing the attached change order request number two is required for the following reasons item number one it's a two part change order item number one the amount of 18,181 dollars and 17 cents existing conditions underground required working around it and rerouting several services existing drain lines in the fire lane required a six inch concrete cap to protect from breaking underweight the water line for the fire suppression system had to be rerouted around several existing utilities underground to reach the new building similarly the sewer line point of connection was relocated which required further demolition, excavation and paving these changes ensure that the site is left with operational and protected utilities campus-wide item number two in this change order for the amount of $1,783.17 the bat insulation specified was not readily available and a substitute was found and agreed upon that meets the same performance requirements similarly a change in the door handle finish was decided to better match the rest of the campus it's recommended that the board approve the change order request and authorize the planning facilities department to have the contract increased by this amount any questions are there any speakers no okay any questions from the board comment just that I really appreciate seeing the pictures of the work that's being done and how that relates to the change orders it just makes it more real so thank you yes thank you very much for the pictures if anyone hasn't been at starlight stop by it's amazing to see how our field went from green grass to the transformation at the start of the building I've been lucky enough to be able to visit multiple times and it's great watching it happen so I will make a motion to approve second question the bat insulation what was specified originally I'm not certain exact product that was specif