Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for coming tonight. My name is Kim to serve. I'm your board president This meeting is open for April 27th, 2022 We're glad you're here if you'd like to speak to any of the agenda items tonight We invite you there are speaker cards. They are yellow and they're in the back of the room You fill out the agenda item You'd like to speak to before that agenda item comes up and you give your card to Eva whose wave Eva done at the end We also have an interpreter tonight who's sitting over here if you need interpretation services She'll be happy to give you a headset and interpret tonight's Proceeding I'm gonna start out tonight with the Pledge of Allegiance and I'm gonna ask trustee of Costa to lead us in the pledge And to the republic for which it stands one nation under God Invisible with liberty and justice for all Thank you, and then next on the agenda is the superintendent's comments, and we have dr. Michelle Rodriguez Yeah, thank you so much. So on Monday night. We have a fantastic LCAP input session. We had almost 60 Spanish speaking parents There participate with me. I just want to make sure that people know we're starting Miss Aguirre is going to be starting with our student voices next So she has those slated to where we'll be having conversations with elementary, middle, and high school students Anyone who didn't get a chance to go to a meeting Who is a community member? I encourage you to provide your input through thought exchange Which will be open until May 20th So encourage that also excited that we're continuing our restorative start work. We're now calling it restorative spring And it's been so popular. We're on set five of those lessons And we do have another parent meeting because we're making sure that we're including the parents on that on Monday, May 9th And so I encourage parents to attend that we have had hundreds and hundreds of parents in the past attend them And so I look forward to that and then I just want to let everybody know that I will be representing the district in a national Superintendents think tank called leading now into Lanta. So they're they're paying my way to go there and for the next two days and so I'm really Excited to not only bring our work forward on how we're ensuring equity But also learn from additional superintendents from throughout the nation. So thanks so much Thank you. The next step we have governing board comments and we'll start with Jennifer Holm Thank You president to Serpa Real quick. We had a great presentation about autism awareness during the most recent special education community advisory committee meeting and The recording is available for anyone who maybe wasn't able to attend. We highly recommend it I also want to congratulate all of our PVUSD teams that competed in last week's ROV competition Our all our teams got a robot in the water that you know functioned in that environment So bravo And one of our aptos junior high teams won an award for their presentation So I know that all of our students who were at that competition, you know worked really hard to get there and You know, I Congratulations to each of them Congratulations to you know all of the teachers and staff that supported them as well. It was Tremendous effort and fun. Don't see so that's what I have for this evening Thank you, trusty soto test test Lights not on wasn't sure if it worked. Thank you everybody. Thank you for joining us this evening They just want to take a moment and acknowledge last week's recipients or Students who are recognized for their achievements. I just want to wish you all the best and good luck next year and Keep up keep up the good work and stay with your education. It's important Thank you trusty Arosco Good evening everyone. So it's been a couple of busy past the weeks for me. We did have our green committee And so we had a great presentation on the ocean guardian application the requirements They go into applying for that and it's it was great to see several our schools interested in moving forward with that process So that's exciting to see I also attended our delac meeting parents were providing information on our cte pathways Along with summer school information Quick reminder that the borough valley education gala is may 13 of 6 p.m We're happy to announce that this year Coach Watsonville high school soccer coach our Roland Hedgepath was selected as the community champion So please come on support. It should be a fun evening With dinner wine student performances highland auction a lot more. So, um, please join us if you can I also got the opportunity to attend our students of the year event it's always Thank one of our favorite meetings, I think as board members where we just get to celebrate Youth talent within pv us days. So congratulations to students and their families I also participated on the ivy lake interviews. And so it was exciting just to learn about the the students who would be Visiting those campuses and learning about their stories their backgrounds or interests So it was exciting to sit through those interviews with them And lastly, um nirville 2.0 That's this sunday. So families students everyone is welcomed pv us students do get in for free We have lots of different activities from Art led workshops to call space contest and several other things. So come out and support We do want to thank pv usd for co-sponsoring the event Watsonville high school staff have been Super accommodating moving things around to make this event a successful one So thank you so much for joining us this evening Thank you trusty shocker Thank you president to serpa So april's been a busy month. Um, so we had our green team committee meeting as trustee arosco said We also had our dayluck committee meeting discussion with parents about the upcoming summer school program We also had migrant. I had a migrant head start committee meeting as well as parro valley education foundation meeting Discussing some exciting things For supporting our students We had our student recognition ceremony The banners will be going up soon in Watsonville plaza honoring some of our students Congratulations to all our students who are graduating high school This year as well as those being promoted from fifth to sixth grade eighth grade to ninth grade Great job all of you Watsonville city council dr. Rodriguez Kim to serpa and I attended a prior Watsonville city council meeting They had to do a follow-up last night But they will be giving us a grant to the emerald agasi kitchen of a hundred thousand dollars So that's really good news I also attended a starlight meeting about the emerald agasi kitchen garden project it was to receive input from community members And staff members as well as parents and students of the school And that was a lot of fun collaborating with everybody Last but not least thank you to our student athletes They've been just on fire at all of our schools working hard And I've been seeing lots of names in the paper of all the great things they're doing. So keep up the good work. Thank you Christia Costa Um, just briefly I just wanted to again commend Our last week's meeting recipients for all the student awards and recognitions and for all their great work That they are all doing and again Congratulate all of our graduating seniors and our promoting students and wish in all of our graduating seniors the very best In this next journey of their life. Thank you Thank you and Finally trustee dodge jr Good evening. Everybody. It's good to be back here. Good to see everybody Uh, just briefly on may 11th the watsonville high school French club is having a fundraiser at the father's hall and correlitos Uh, congratulations to all the students who got accepted to their colleges, you know Congrats and I just keep it going Um, I was also able to attend, you know, the watsonville high school baseball team softball team, you know Our athletes are always doing good, you know, so I encourage people to go and support Um All their teams local teams at once alive um I see a lot of construction at mini white and e hall and so I just like to think, you know, dr. Michelle Rodriguez and staff are keeping those schools upgraded and and finally Congratulations to superintendent dr. Rodriguez on being recognized as the superintendent of the year So I just wanted to say that and thank you for everything that you've done for watsonville schools. Thank you Thank you. Um, thank you trusty dutch jr. For highlighting the fact that our own superintendent michelle rodriguez was Nominated for superintendent of the year for region 10 region 10 contains 42 school districts and out of that 42 She was chosen as the top superintendent. We're very very fortunate and very proud of the accomplishments that you've brought On behalf of our students here in the pahoa valley and um, we thank you and we're so fortunate really to have you I'm going to just do a few highlights. Um As reported in the newspaper by todd guild Since dr. Rodriguez has come here our achievement Has gone up from 30 to 69.23 percent. That's unbelievable. We tried for years and years and years and threw a lot of money At trying to raise our test scores And we never could until michelle got here for dr. Rodriguez. Thank you for the hard work and thank you to the staff and the teachers who embraced Sips essentially which is a reading a special reading program which feel free to correct me if I get anything wrong here Um, so we feel very proud of that accomplishment Since you've been here you've had a focus on the arts Including music programs and rebuilt those Behavioral health you've implemented wellness centers. You've brought the latino film institute the emerald Lagos say kitchen and culinary garden. What am I missing? That's fine. Yeah There's a lot. I mean, I think one of the first things you did when you walked in was you You took our advice you took our pleas and you hired a grant writer and that grant writer has brought in how much $14 million in the last five years alone So thank you very much for hiring. Andrea. Willie. We're very fortunate to have her some of the other accomplishments that dr. Rodriguez has Um has been bestowed with just here in our own community is in 2020. She was the community health trust He what was it a hero? No It was the fill rather award which is essentially the highest award for Community service from the pahora valley health trust in 2019. She received the united way community hero award in 2019 she Was invited to be in the league of innovative schools Anything else I should say about that that's an important Yeah, I think the the reason why that one's so important to me is because it allows us to be on pace with innovation With the rest of the cutting-edge districts throughout the nation and every time that we can keep ourselves on par with the nation versus the state I think we're doing good. Okay, and then finally She received a competitive offer to be a fellow and the road in the prode Is the institute or fellowship the brode institute? Which is a it's a competitive fellowship for and you have to be invited and it's through yale university She completed an 18 month Training program with them in leadership and we're very very proud of your accomplishments. Thank you for helping Us help our kids here in the pahora valley. We're very excited and proud of your accomplishments. We'll be celebrating Michelle at a dinner on May 6th and Monterey. So thanks everybody Quickly just like to do a little recognition For some Acknowledge the following donations again to the emerald legace culinary garden and teaching kitchen project Wendy mollin donated $200 melanie ket warton and donated The barina family funds 2,500 ali and nick Sutton $1,000 Kira helpern and superior foods donated $5,000 And a very special thank you again To our friends at the watsonville city council for making sure a donation of $100,000 was received on behalf of the culinary kitchen and garden Is there um, do we know about how much is left to raise of the million dollars? We have 160,000 that we still need to raise 150 160 160,000 so for anyone out there who would like to donate We'd appreciate it Okay, so now we'll move on to item 3.5 our high school student board report Um, I think aptos high school has provided a video. I don't know if we could queue that up We have the proud principal here tonight Peggy Pugh. I'm Mia Argeletta your ASB treasurer I'm Alex especially your ASB secretary and sadly jackson is not here today, but he covers our athletics So first in activities. We are having our last club carnival, which will be taking place on april 29 And we just had prom at the coconut grove this last friday and it was a huge success And we are currently fundraising for the staff luncheon if you eat at aptos street bar view and And mention aptos high our ASB gets 20 percent of sales our sixth period class our ninth and tenth graders are fundraising and hosting the staff luncheon on may 25th And this is the first time that we've ever had our sixth period class Hosts to stop luncheon. So it's pretty exciting Also, so of our sixth period students just did a transgender and non-binary informational presentation at the staff meeting and last but not least ASB is hosting a 10 things I hate about you moving night in the cafeteria on the friday of may 15th And as for arts aptos high is visual and performing arts is participating in the county office of educations visual art exhibit on friday may 6th at the government office Also for over 400 frames have been put up in the watsonville mayor's office the library and Other adjacent offices those will be on on exhibit um on friday On may 11th, i'm sorry And then we have our choir has just finished up their pop music concert and it's now getting ready for their Magical music of disney concerts coming up on may 14th and may 15th Susie Cole the musical is performing This week is the debut on friday saturday and sunday and next week on friday saturday and sunday as well In our quad with an outside audience and outside sets All right as far as academics aptos high continues to kind of grow and strengthen Our current career technical Education offerings which is known as the cte Along with this we're going to have some new pathways coming up So we have visual and commercial arts one graphic arts and visual and commercial arts and photography Next year there will be a new applied chemistry and biotechnology class Biotechnology is an applied chemistry that is a sophomore level class and students who pass this class get the same credit as regular chemistry Students have completed their course requests for the 2022 to 2023 academic school year Freshmen also who did not take ethnic literature or ethnic studies this year are going to be prepared to take either Art one ethnic studies or world history ethnic studies and art what one ethnic studies is going to be a new class offering starting next year Many students you will see are working hard in their classes as we are so close to the end of the year And as always the access program is still continuing to provide the tutoring services during sixth and seventh period and after school Okay, so I will be covering athletics as well. So, um just to start off baseball is coming off with a big win against Santa Cruz and it is the sole possession of first place in the scc al And softball is in a tight race for league title with seven games left in their regular season And boys golf continues to dominate play led by a strong senior class girls track places first in the so-called Invitational and boys team plays third out of 19 Boys tennis remains undefeated and has a big match against so-called on Tuesday Here at outdoors and boys volleyball has had several strong showings during the carb mel and so-called tournament the last two weekends they They look to ride that momentum into the scc al tournament and swimming wraps up the regular season this week With a duel against slv this thursday at slv after that all the focus will be on the league Tournament happening at harbour high school the last weekend in april And then lacrosse enters the round of league play battling for a chance at the league title with the hardest part of the schedule remaining Thank you Thank you And I think we have maybe somebody here from Watsonville High tonight Herman Come on up Do you have some good news for us? Yeah, I'll mention it in a second. Okay, there's a there's a spot for it. Don't worry So once again and as always welcome. This is Watsonville High School's board presentation on the day of today Oh, oh, it's not working Is that reason? It's not working I believe in you Oh, there we go So, yeah once again and as always my name is Herman Rafael Gonzales representative of Watsonville High School and at the request of my ASB teacher I'll be including now stanford class of 2026 and One of 300 of this year's gates millennium scholars. So Yes, yes, yes I felt a little embarrassed saying that but my ASB teacher is like you got to tell them you got it So I was like, you know, that's awesome Thank you starting off as always with our athletics So all of our athletic teams are going strong once again We have baseball volleyball track and field lacrosse softball And swimming and I'm not sure about golf But this season is always jam packed so last night we celebrated boys volleyball senior night in a game against Soledad That despite the first set getting really really dicey they caught up in the second third and fourth set taking the win We're also moving on to track and field league finals this coming friday with I believe a pca pca l mission tournament yesterday that quite a few of our Track and field members placed quite high on with two Very notable and upcoming freshman Rodrigo Barranco, and I forgot his last name But his first name is as they're both two very very very, yeah That's a quick question. Do we still have a tennis team? Uh We don't have a boys tennis team, but we have a girls tennis team that um played during the Fall season. Okay. Thanks. Yeah, so So we still have tennis but just not in the season Lacrosse has also Continued competing winning a large portion of their games and baseball like the rest of our teams have begun competing Going to different schools all of that big shout out to watsumah high schools Very own jasmine navarro and john codlow who's a sophomore for placing top three in their respective events this month And in different different times too. So that was always always always impressive I didn't I wasn't able to include a picture of our softball team, but I want to give a shout out to them and They're as always really promising they won league last year and so I hope for them this year moving on with what we're doing right now How life is going on at watsumah high school Today we celebrated denim day. I'm quite less formal a lot less formal than how I usually am But that is because today is denim day a day in sexual assault awareness month That is supposed to um be a sort of representative movement against the ideas of Blaming victims when it comes to sexual assault And really the purpose of celebrating this day and celebrating this month and recognizing this month is to make sure And ensure that all of the students and survivors at watsumah high school understand that they feel supported Understand that they are supportive and the support did and that the resources are there for when they need it In these past two weeks watsumah high school 11th and 12th graders have also continued with I believe it's either s-back testing or cast testing s-back correct Yeah, and testing has taken place via this modified schedule that we have with A very very very long advisory happening on Tuesdays and Thursdays with most of our 11th graders and 12th graders Finishing the tests makeup sessions are going to be provided next week But uh, I would say a large portion of our classes of the two classes have completed their standardized testing Following that every single fall hundreds of watsumah high school students put themselves Through the terrible experience that is AP exams, which I am also Unfortunately a part of we're all stressing out reviewing like crazy Uh, but we're getting it done. So wish us luck Following this we have prom as of this moment right now We are approximately 70 hours away from watsumah high school's prom And this is going to be one of the largest proms that we've had in the history of watsumah high school with almost 500 people in attendance So we're taking real a lot of precautions when it comes to COVID-19 ensuring that People get a test if they need it and ensuring that as many people wear their mask as possible So we're trying to keep this very safe and sober as well as we always do Um, and we're also including a lot of things that our prom sort of deal Well, the ticket is a hundred dollars is definitely worth it because we are at that ghetto DJ Manda a dessert bar a ton of different selfie stations a 360 photo booth a full dinner and much much more So this is one of the biggest events that we've hosted all year And it's definitely one of the most exciting There's rumbles of people like oh i'm getting my dress. Oh, this is my this is the color of my dress we have an instagram page for um Where people submit their dresses so that no one wears the same dress twice and it's like It's it's massive. It's a massive deal and we have guests from all over the district from I think every single school every single high school in this district also in attendance, so This is incredibly exciting I just want to give a shout out to some upcoming events that Aren't necessarily planned exactly by asb on single and my watsonville high school is going to be celebrating It's a single and my with a food day sale and a car show like As is tradition that we were not able to do last year But now we're back on the 6th of may the spanish department is hosting their Their celebration for a dia de la madre and el dia del niño y de la niña And so we're celebrating that the spanish department is putting that on i'm helping out with my ap spanish language class and I believe Professor Professor posa is going to be helping out with his ap spanish literature class So we're all just coming together for different things and as always. Thank you Thank you, herman. We're very very proud of you Congratulations on that that unbelievable gates millennium scholarship that that pays for all four years, right? Yeah, come on up This is why this is the things that I live for this is why i'm on this board is to hear about these things that you're about to say We're very proud of you. Yeah they're gonna pay for all four years and books and Some study abroad trips and some If I ever need a flight they can put me to and back from places. So it's been crazy. So it's just really exciting You worked really hard and and you deserve it and you're a very bright individual and you're gonna go really far Okay, and i'm also excited Especially because I feel as if watsonville in the community of watsonville has such an Interesting story. I wrote like half of my college essays about the history of watsonville and the the sort of town and just I'm really excited to take what I know about this town and how I can help this town and bring it to a higher level Which is I think really important Have fun. Yeah Thank you. Good job Another Next step is item 4.1 approval of agenda. I'm looking for a motion. I move to approve If I can make a request I had a request from the community if we could also Place 9.6 If we could place 9.6 Directly after 6.2 We have several community members that are here for 9.6. I'd appreciate the modification to the agenda, please okay, so So I amend my initial motion with the changes of moving item six 9.6 right after 6.2 a second all those in favor Motion passes unanimously Thank you Next is I'm hoping the approval of minutes. So we're on item 5.1 approval of the march 23rd 2022 board meeting minutes I move to approve all second all those in favor. I I motion Passes I think unanimously um Item 5.2 the approval of our april 20th 2022 special board meeting minutes I move to approve all second Um all those in favor. I Motion carries 7-0. Thank you Next up we have item 6.1 and this is a presentation on update on current Trends of crime For young people and we have two guest speakers tonight They're both named no way. So you guys want to come up to the podium? There's no way Well, you could be speed up here because there's a tv camera actually that's recording this and streaming it for us So you'll be on live tonight and then it'll go in recordings too Yeah, well, you're going to present to us Yeah, you're presenting to us So this was my request because I know that there's been a lot of gay activity because I work at a hospital in selenus and we're seeing a lot more Young people come in with injuries coming from watsonville area, right? So I asked for this to be presented tonight because I think as a board member and as a mother and as Somebody who cares about our community. We're all super concerned because we feel like it's Maybe escalating but we weren't sure so we wanted to hear directly from you um So raise your hand if you're noe rocha Noe rocha works for santa Cruz county. He is a supervisor in the district attorney's office So I work for the santa's county district attorney's office and I am currently assigned as a supervisor for the santa Cruz county anti-crime team Which is the countywide team? That's made up of different agencies of county To tackle drugs and games primary within our county That's great. And your partner here is noe harnandez and noe works for the watsonville pd And he's assigned to the special investigation unit We're the internal lots of office departments gang team narcotics team minus oppression team, but we're also very Big on doing community events. So we do a lot of speaking with those schools and do a lot of volunteer work also Yeah, so i'm so sorry you're gonna have to talk right in the microphone or else our community won't be able to hear you And there's like reporters watching this that are gonna report out on this tomorrow, etc So I just heard last night I watched the entire watsonville city council meeting because I was waiting to hear Our agenda item, which came last last night. So I watched the whole meeting, but I saw I think your assistant chief give a presentation about the crime rates in watsonville So anyway, so we're looking forward to your presentation. Thank you for being here tonight We appreciate it and if you I just speak right into that mic so that the community can hear you Thank you. I understand it's going to be about Our gap is about 30 minutes. So we'll try to cover as much as possible. We really Crunch this presentation down So again, what we're going to cover today. It's going to be a gangs general gang information within the city of watsonville And we'll discuss the current crime trends within the city and we'll speak about Some of the current gangs that we have in the city Yeah, primarily we'll we'll cover the locations where the what we call as strongholds or hangout areas of These several gangs within the city are that way the school is kind of aware In case the situation arises So we'll start with the nor than your gangs We have about eight gangs here in the city of watsonville Um And there is the list I'll get into the specifics as we go through the slides So we'll talk about the common watsonville nor than your gangs Um Here you can see to the left. There is a letter n representing the uh that specific gang and then the my end symbol number 14. You see the two lines Uh followed by uh four dots above and then the letter n and a large strawberry Um, so those are common signs or symbols tattoos that some of our gang members specifically associated to nor than yours will Utilize to represent their affiliation. So what's important about this is that I think it's important for school educators to Recognize this in case they see this we can hopefully stop This sort of behavior before it gets any any worst And again some more common watsonville nor than your gang tattoos signs or symbols Some of the most common colors or hats that we see here. There are sometimes more associated to the Specific nor than your gangs. It's going to be the letter w Have with the letter of the letter w or the letter c um, and then obviously the color red And then the world bird which they've adopted to represent their gangster ideology So we'll start with the first gang. Uh, we'll start from the southern part of watsonville and we'll more we'll move up north Um And then this is the uh local park watson stronghold This is the river uh Park, this is over by the levy area right at the border of uh Monterey county and sanacris county Um, this is where you get the majority of this gang members congregating And then some of the specific Hats or symbols that they've adopted themselves the specific gang uh, you're going to get a lot of uh Hats with the letter p or clothing with the letter p and that's again, uh associated to local park the p for the park So that's important again for educators to see somebody Um against a change their appearance and wearing red hats and stuff like that and they live in the neighborhood Um, not necessarily doesn't mean that they're gang members or anything like that But they're they might be beginning to gravitate towards that And then some other common tattoos associated to the specific gang obviously the lp for the local park and sometimes you might see uh Specific digits and you try to figure out what those numbers mean Um, and at first glance you don't know what it means Um, if you look at the telephone keypad You look at the five seven nine And if you look at the regular telephone keypad, it'll stand for lp w the name of the gang so You will get that sort of combination not just for this gang, but for every other gang Within Watsonville safe to say um, so some of the uh gangs, um They go as far as to uh for and other people police officers um And this is some of the uh taggons that you will see Um any opportunity they'll cross the uh the name of the rival uh Whatever they do as a rival whether it was a rival gang member or uh early in police authority in general And now moving up north Uh through the city then you got the uh city hall watson uh the stronghold is grand street 140 west beach area. This is a little bit closer to watsonville high school area. Um And uh because that primary grand street maple street that area there And so they were common, uh Chloe and pearl uh the hockey team they've adopted the uh ch from that team the Canadian yeah hockey team and then they've adopted the uh baseball White Sox called white socks if you look at the scoreboard during a baseball game You'll see there the uh, I believe it's c Hw so they used that to represent this game You'll also see many of them uh utilizing the uh champion logo to represent the c in the h And we've been noticing a lot of the new members uh utilizing the city of watsonville bird to represent the city hall gang So a lot of times you'll see that within their tattoos or drawings And at first glance it doesn't seem like much. It just means like they're representing the city of watsonville Well, it's more associated to city hall what's on gang And again going back to the tattoos uh See stands for city h for hall and then they get a little uh Uh Pretty smart. Uh, they'll if you read that in spanish say ache dole uh Translates to c h w So at first glance you might be like, what does that mean? It doesn't mean anything If you see it in the rival's neighborhood, it doesn't mean anything until you start paying attention and you interpret A little more into it And then from that, uh, we keep moving north and then you get to the rodriguez street area um rodriguez street fifth street sixth street area That's where you get the uh WVN what's on barrio norte or the rodriguez street stronghold um And there you go devian for what's on barrio norte locals rst rodriguez street subset And then a common piece of clothing that they've been uh that i've been noticing within the last few years Um is the houston rockets hat for rodriguez street So i've seen that uh by many of the uh these uh participants members associates have also seen a Tattooed on their faces and stuff like that. So that's one of the more current trends And again, that's another tattoo associated to that specific gang um addition to the rodriguez street Tattoo on the right And then here's a uh recent tagging uh at the cemetery by this gang uh You can read it there 187 is the penal code for for murder uh in the state of california They utilize that to threaten officers and then Uh disrespect the task force that we belong to or the anti crime team So they've gone as far as to uh, vandalize sacred grounds and stuff like that. And this is i believe it was uh late last year And the next game as you move up north it's going to be the north side, uh, chico's um Some of the strongholds recently have been the atacaria mi tierra marisco es la garita area um Takaria mi tierra that's the one at the old uh uh k marked Shopping center and then marisco es la garita that is over by east lake and some other uh clothing that they utilize it's the chicago uh Cubs the sea for uh chico's and then they have a clothing line That it's associated to them um And it's never scared and uh the way I interpret it is uh the n stands for north and the scared s for side And then some of the unfortunately they've adopted some of our mascots that we Have at our local high schools Lots of high school this gang has adopted the wildcat uh To represent this specific gang The next gang up north is going to be the cliffer men or locals and that's primarily the 240 block of uh clifford um We're by main tree between main tree and freedom And again, they also have a clothing line uh locals gang with a symbol of a ak 47 the middle of it And again, uh, they've adopted the uh the block w from our high school from watson high school So it's not uncommon to see a member of this gang to have a large block w somewhere on their body Which makes it a little bit easier for us to identify who What specific gang this person belongs to Next street up north is going to be the landis street, which is across from takari amityera came our shopping center And that's landis avenue the dead end of it The name of the gang is landis street And uh some of their common clothing items it's going to be the same louis cardinals For landis street and same louis cardinals Symbol use a tattoo to represent that gang also The next gang up north is going to be the uh vodder of green valley vgp Um, this is a little unique to the northingo gangs within our city because not only do they utilize the uh color red They've also added the color green to it. So it won't be uncommon for you to see If somebody wearing all green Um and displaying gang tattoos So again, yeah, not only are they using utilizing the color red. They're also utilizing the color green And some of the apparently that they wear is the green bay packers to represent green valley Gang or the oakland a's because of the color green Again in addition to the color red And there you see again, uh the g green bay packers, uh g Implemented into their gang culture And then the last gang than watson mill. It's it's more a so jurisdiction County jurisdiction, but it's the messa village and that's a stronghold is over at the ironically it's over at the Sheriff's office park area Um, and it's called the messa village And just like every other northingo gang in the city They utilize the same color symbols pretty much to represent their gang And some of the tattoos uh envy for messa village, which is that specific area within the neighborhood And we have a video We're going to skip that just in the interest of time And now we're going to get into the sudanio gangs in watson mill So To uh main sudanio gangs in watson poor poor side, uh chicos and mexican side locals Uh a lot less gangs in the northingo gangs that we have so they've diminished to a smaller number Uh you see uh the strawberry Symbolizing they're still from watsonville, but they've colored in a color blue instead of a red because they'll never put a red tattoo on their body There's the watson with the one three Uh the sudanio gangs identify with the number 13, which is the 13th letter in the alphabet Uh which represents the mexican mafia, which which oversees the sudanio gangs Nk, which stands for northingo killer Um common tattoo you'll see on sudanio gang members And then you see the tattoo on the left that has a Like a human like a cartoonish human, but it has three dots on the uh The closure of the hat symbolizing the three dots for poor side Uh buster free Uh sudanio is commonly uh call Norteños busters, so he they're basically claiming that they will never associate with the northingo Uh x3, which is a roman numeral for uh 13 another common tattoo for a sudanio gang members The stronghold uh in the area of radriga street in front street, which is commonly called the monalisa the building's still there There's no business or anything there, but that's one of the main strongholds for the sudanio gang members Which is a southern part of watsonville And then another one was the discount mall They had such a stronghold that people were afraid to go shop there Because they'd go in there and they'd basically either get their items taken away from them money taken away from them It slowed down quite a bit now, but it's still considered Um a stronghold for poor side or sudanio gangs How do you know the value? That's uh murphy. It's a migrant camp um off of uh Riverside and murphy's crossing uh They're a migrant community so they their parents go to mexico when uh work ends here sometimes the children stay And the they don't have a lot of supervision So what do they do as they start associating and that's how you get the majority of the sudanios In that camp becoming gang members And tirata, which is also the sheriff's officer jurisdiction off of bonavista by the old uh the old dump um in the county That's historically been a sudanio gang territory ever since it was built Um up until now, uh, they try to create different subsets for sudanio gangs But poor side what's on i think it's still the strongest holding there We might have an emerges emerging uh sudanio gang from this area It seems like they're trying to create a new subset of sudanio So you might see new uh if you ever see anything associated to tirata It's possibly a new gang that's forming from that area 295 sand dress. It's another migrant community where they're the they're mainly field workers that migrate from They come here for the work season and then go to mexico and they leave their children here because they're 15 16 17 years old Um, there's another stronghold for poor side Uh, we've seen a lot of activity from this area Uh, we followed a lot of cars going there and uh realize that they're coming from our local schools And then they're going there and they're being followed by Older gang members and all of a sudden we see these kids wearing the clothing that we've put out And they're starting to show the The signs of becoming associated with the gang These are pictures of one of their meetings that they've had Um, sometimes they post them on social media wherever to get ahold of them And this is just when they have their meetings. They show their tattoos They show they're proud of being a gang member that they show their gang size Firearms and firearms Uh, they associate with the color blue P for a poor side That's really common. Um, even though It's a p like local park would wear. It's a different one. These associated. These are the pirates, right? The these the pirates the pits. What is it? Pittsburgh pirates? Pittsburgh pirates so you probably would never see a north ania wearing a Pittsburgh pirates hat because Sudenos associate with this actual team Here's some tattoos poor side in the middle What's important about tattoos like some of the other tattoos we saw earlier There's a lot of hidden symbols. You really got to pay attention and uh as a teacher as an educator Maybe even the drawings if you pay attention to the pictures the drawings You might get some insight of of kind of where they might be going or gravitating to but I think that's a good way to start um stopping them before the forward As you can see on on this particular tattoo poor side the dice would symbolize a one three, which is a 13 Uh, there's another three dots above it. There's a three dots on the clown's face So everything that they do they have to add a little bit of what they believe in which they believe in their gang Poho Has always been Since I can remember so as a kid the biggest stronghold for Sudeno gangs, which is right over the bridge You cross the county line into Monterey county and the biggest stronghold is poor side on into imparo for uh gangs They associate with the hecho in mexico symbol, which is Like a brand that was created and then it's put on a lot of products that come from mexico You'll see that tattoo a lot. Um, I've seen it on high school students where they draw it on their binder And I just wonder if they're drawing it because they like it or they're drawing it because they're already associated with with uh, mexican side locals They also associate with the color blue and msl Which is mexican side locals Here's uh Two people that were detained and in possession of firearms in their waistband loaded firearms when they were detained Also southerners So this one's going to be hard to see but uh, there's firearms concealed within the vehicle hard to see It's going to be underneath the cub holder Skip to the next photo You can probably see the firearm on the right hand side a little bit better there Um, so they're concealing these firearms. There you go in the threshold of the door jam revolver in there firearms in the engine compartment behind the stereo system and then underneath the uh The dashboard underneath the driver side And why are we showing all these farms? Um, so for me, I've been in law enforcement for about 12 years I was part of the the sanikers can answer crime team as a watson police officer before for three years I worked for watson before I went to the da's office And being on the force for three years. I don't think I've seen as many guns I've as I am now seeing on the street being back on the same task force that i'm on now it seems like Explorer like three times the amount of guns that I used to see back between uh, 2004 to 2007 The amount of guns I see now. It's crazy crazy how many more guns I see now Um, and one of the biggest issues that we have now as you may have already heard news media Is a problem with the ghost guns We have a lot of ghost guns not only in watsonville, but throughout the entire state. I think throughout the united states And we're seeing it here in our city Like I said, there's tons and tons of guns here in the city a lot of them being ghost guns We're taking them off the kids not even 18 years old And part of the problem is that they're so easy to get a hold of And then sometimes when we remove these guns from uh, from the kids Because of the way the laws are sometimes written they don't spend a lot of time in jail And there's very little consequence sometimes Uh, but to talk more about the ghost guns if you can explain to them What that means and then we got a couple of uh Examples of ghost guns that we can show you guys We'll handle them, but we'll show them to you. They're totally safe and unloaded if anybody has any issues We'll leave them in the case. We won't show them But if nobody uh Mines, I'd like to show you guys So the common trend right now is uh They're they're called the 80s. They're basically a piece of plastic you can buy online for about 150 dollars. It ships to your house Uh, it's considered a piece of plastic.  Now you have a working firearm So So you can order everything to build a firearm online and you don't need to do a background check You don't need to do any of that stuff because it's not a complete firearm So the I I want to say about 80 of the firearms we're taking off the street now Are this type of firearm because I can order it right now. It'll be at my house by Tuesday I order all the internal parts. They all come Disassembled or not considered a firearm I build it in less than an hour and I have a working firearm There's no serial number. There's no way to track it. That's why the term ghost gun comes in There's no way to track these firearms. There's no way to track their purchases Unfortunately, it's it's out of our hands. We cannot do anything about it. We can't stop people from ordering them We get the end result of getting them once they're loaded completed Or when someone commits a crime with them We have two examples of them. We have one as it it's been modified already But the ships it's just a piece of plastic and then we have another one that's a completed firearm And both of them were taken off the street Can I get it before we continue? What do we have a time check? Is anyone keeping the time? Yeah, we have about 10 minutes. Okay, so 10 more minutes. So what I really wanted this presentation to cover was What the data is that we're seeing and and what we're doing to prevent So I don't know if you guys are prepared tonight to give us that I I I did not know we were going to get an education about gangs tonight Which is fine I don't have any we don't have any numbers with us Okay Well, I think your your assistant chief had it last night. I actually saw a great presentation last night But um, but we don't I mean I think a lot of us know a lot about gangs. We all we know a lot about ghost guns um I'm I'm going to be following up with the next steps At this exact presentation. So after they're done, I'll quickly go over the next steps that we're doing with the task force. Okay Okay, carry on So with that being said, would you like to they asked us to bring some samples of a ghost gun? Is anybody opposed to it to showing a partial? Well welcome in front of you. You don't have to handle them. They're aware You insert a trigger assembly And then all you need is for the slide over And it locks right into place and with less than an hour you can have a working firearm And with this crowd I don't want to just help you have fun, right? It's slowly unloaded It becomes basically this is this was at some point it goes then. So this is exact But it's a plastic that I had in my hand It's been completed Trigger assembly all the internal parts The slide at their own Any questions we're here to answer any questions Do we have any speakers to this item? Thank you very much. It was super interesting We might have some speakers who want to come up to the podium and ask And they have they're going to address first and then and then the board might may have questions for you guys Yeah, so we don't have the speakers to this item Is there any board questions or discussion? Daniel dodge junior Good afternoon. Thank you for being here just a quick question With the violence that we've been seeing in watsonville Um, do we see it would you be able to say if it's organized or just random? As far as uh, what violence the uh, you know, I know an incident someone was killed on riverside road So I won't speak about the case itself. Yeah, just just in general. Yeah, but for the most part gangs are very organized So seldomly in my experience working gangs Does a crime just occur because of the moment? I mean it does happen, but typically for gangs There's a way of operating. There's an organization and for the most part, it's organized And yes, we have that organization here in the city of watsonville Yeah, um, you know, just like, you know, like I said not into specifics, but like riverside You know what happened behind target? You know just Things like that Yeah, like I said for the most part, um These groups of uh gang associates or participants. Yeah, there's some sort of an organization and uh There's some sort of planning that goes on before something like that something major happens Not to say that sometimes it doesn't happen On on any given moment, but for the most part they're very well organized Thank you I'll just tell you based on the two specific incidents that you asked about unfortunately, there's still ongoing investigations So we can't discuss details about them, especially because there's there's stuff that still needs we still need to look into So we apologize, but can't give you any more than that Justy shocker So the ghost guns, um, are these things that kids can be ordering off of amazon on their parents accounts? Some parts. I'm sorry Not specifically from amazon Directly from the website from p80 polymer 80 They're really easily accessible as long as they're in stock. Uh, there has been A big Like influx of orders into that website, which is actually Down the website a couple times because people have figured out it's so easy to build them Why not order 10 of them and then sell them for a thousand dollars? Okay, so there's clues that parents can watch for Any children anything polymer 80? Uh, wolf industries are the most common Manufactures that people are ordering to build these guns. There is some parts that you can order on amazon for Polymer handguns But mainly is going to be coming from it's mainly going to be coming from polymer 80 wolf industries Okay, and the guns that lately have been coming off the streets Have they been mostly ghost guns? I want to say a good 80 of what we're getting are ghost guns because it's easier to acquire A ghost gun or build it yourself than to try to buy A actual serialized gun Thank you so much Can you explain what you mean by stronghold? Because you guys showed a lot of different areas and some of them were businesses So I want to apologize to this business owner Yes Because we want we want people to continue to go there and not feel scared Right, so tell us what you mean by strongholds. So strongholds are generally the areas where the Gang presence has been observed by us Historically and and actually right now recently These are the areas where we tend to Observe certain gangs congregating the most at or in that general area Thank you And um, since you guys are on a task force, what are and maybe dr. Rodriguez or christin can talk to this too What are the most important factors in trying to keep kids? Um Out of the out of harm's way for me personally, I'm from watserville. I grew up in watserville my whole life I attended public schools Almost every public school. I grew up in a migrant household Buena Vista camp So for me, I can only speak for myself What worked for me is having my parents being involved in my school my education And keeping tabs on me on what I was doing throughout the day throughout the days Um, and I think that's where it starts Our parents have to make the time To to figure out what it is we're doing and to make sure that we stay on track As busy as they are they got to figure out a way To stay on on top of us So from my perspective, I think that's where it begins And then Within the school we need support from the teachers educators and so on so forth and the rest of the community Okay, and no way number two. Do you have anything to add? Yeah, I I also grew up in watserville My parents involvement in my school Sports was huge for me. I was always busy with sports And trying to stay good in school because my parents were always on top of me I've noticed I've done a couple presentations at schools I've noticed that Some of the kids feel that they're not supported as far as financially going like going to college I recently did a presentation in school where one young man said that he wasn't going to college because his parents couldn't afford it And my immediate response to him is to don't don't worry about the money. I said there's always grants. There's scholarships And I've taken him basically as I told him I could be your mentor I can help you go through this, but I want your school to support you too So I connected him with the teacher told him what I had heard from him and that you just said that's not a problem We're going to start looking into scholarships and all this form So I think the they there's there's young men and women or women That feel lack of support financially because their parents have to work And they feel like they have to go to work right away or they have to do other things to help their family Um, I unfortunately never felt that because I was I was always in sports both my parents worked They were able to make it work. Um times are really hard right now for everybody, but I think uh identifying those kids that Are basically on the fence whether should I go to school and go the right path or I'm not going to be successful anyways. I'm going to go this way and it's either join a gang or go do this instead um, I think as educators if we can Target those those children and identify them. I think it's very important Thank you I did have I'm sorry. Okay You know and to that point I I um Both trustee home and I are professors and educators She at cabrio college myself at csmb And to that point of what you said about education um In the affordability and the cost right of higher education. We know that that that's a major issue, but um, maybe also a lot of People in our community both students and parents aren't aware that students can attend cabrio college or monterey peninsula college Or heart nail college for as little as less than 50 dollars a semester So that's something big probably as a message to be communicating on our level as an educational institution as well To give you that knowledge that you know, at least it's a starting path, right? Um, and then again. Yes, even at the next higher level the university level. There's so much that is out there um, but I did have a question um In consideration, right that not necessarily gangs and gang violence doesn't necessarily know boundaries to city limits or county lines Right and we did speak a bit about that line. That's a really thin line on that bridge, right between san jacuzzi county and monterey county And what we also know is going on in that county and considering that our district straddles both counties in our service to nearly 20 000 students on the daily basis What sort of work and efforts Are happening between san jacuzzi county Watsonville pd and the monterey county sheriff's department that you could maybe speak to for us So we do share, uh, we do hold meetings with other agencies like monterey county san jacuzzi county area And we do hold meetings and we talk about common Trends like we did here and we bring up certain things that we've been noticing new tattoos and stuff like that So that's that's what we do as As law enforcement That's what we do. We share information with certain task forces From monterey county and santa claire county Um, and we san venido county as well san venido county as well. Yes, we do san venido county. Uh, we actually uh, we Sometimes have san venido county or the other agencies Come to our city and assist us in patrolling the area and do gang suppressions And we do it once in a while also Because of the pandemic we haven't been able to do it as much as we did it before Um, so now as crime's starting to pick up we're starting to get back into the groove of how we used to operate Um before part of the pandemic. So yes, we do collaborate a lot with the uh, neighboring counties to include san venido monterey county san jacuzzi county And that's happening regularly you're saying it happens. Uh, I can tell you that I at least about once, uh Like quarterly I would say at least yes, and then there is some some large gatherings, uh meetings Um conferences that we attend and and that happens at least once a year So yeah, it'd be nice looking at the trends of what's happening not just that as well as the state level the national level And international level, uh, correct correct Yes So I just want to thank both of you for coming and sharing some of these common trends that you see because as you call Um, they're common trends that you all see but not necessarily common knowledge To a lot of us outside of this. So I do appreciate you coming and sharing that knowledge with us tonight. Thank you You're welcome anytime I think dr. Rodriguez has a few comments Yeah, so um, I I'll just present this you guys can stand there if you want but um, so working with um, with chief samora with erica pedia chavez from PV PSA and several other members. We've really continued to expand our focus on whole child whole family whole community Um, so for us what we know because I'm going to speak specifically to adolescents now and students So what we know is there has been an increase in violent activity at the state county and local level, right? Which is one reason why we brought we asked for this presentation to come forward We also recognize that it's important to recognize the cause of this behavior And something when you look at the research is adolescents are in the most vulnerable environments and did experience particularly negative impact from the pandemic and so a lot of times these levels of stress and trauma that adolescents Are are seen are actually higher than most adults and they are linked to adverse development academic achievement health and the risk of exposure to violence and so We're going to talk a little bit about what we're going to do with this accumulating and cascading effects of the pandemic. So we're seeing these That are resulting these risk factors that are clustering together and providing these cascading effects So we do have a collaboration with PV PSA Watsonville PD the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office gang enforcement team and um Santa Cruz County probation and we came up with specifically six things that we're going to work on together in order to Really limit these cascading effects Reduce violence increase consistency and structure to address this regulation. So for about 18 months We had students that were out of the schools In the homes, um, we saw gangs infiltrating neighborhoods They had access to our students that they didn't have access to before because they were at school All into support student success. So i'm going to go over these one by one just quickly So we do believe that this is going to be a community effort that it's going to be a multi-agency Collaboration and problem solving Because we believe this is a multi-system challenge. This isn't a challenge that one of us alone can do So we have committed to regular collaboration meetings. Um, about every six weeks We're going to look at established actions for for example these these four remaining actions Did they happen? If not, why not? What additional partners we need to support and next steps? We also have other collaboratives that are constantly working To support and we're going to bring these action steps and ideas to the south county triage MDT, which is a multidisciplinary team and also our own healthy start collaborative We also believe that we have to address the root of the cause So we are maintaining our additional social emotional supports We did increase our social emotional counselors by 55 percent. We increased our mental health clinicians by 210 And we opened our first family engagement and wellness center. So those supports are going to continue to remain We are talking specifically to president to surface question of what do we believe we need to do We have to focus on excessively truant students the students that we're finding that are engaging in the activity Where they're being arrested or they're committing crimes Many of those students are supposed to be at school during that time And instead they're at parks. They're at other areas. Um, and so we're going to reinforce our district wellness team With the support of pvpsa's valour team with bi-monthly meetings We're also going to implement safety protocols to increase the number of home visits Um, because the pandemic did curtail some of our number of student contacts So we're going to increase those number of student contacts Um, the valour team's going to conduct some needs assessments and make sure that we have a plan in place for each one of these students Um, we also plan to address tardies at the three comprehensive high schools So just when I did my day in the life as a campus supervisor I saw that really we needed to focus on this. Um, so we had kids come in 30 45 minutes late from lunch many of them as we say, um, as my father used to always say, um, you get into mischief when you have idle time And so that's why whether it's sports or other things that keep you on the straight and narrow But we're going to increase messaging of expectations have a better process for student accountability And awareness and notification with parents. We're going to set a rotation of campus supervisors We're going to work with each site leadership team to really discuss the roles of teachers and others in supporting expectations, right? um, maintain, um, better visibility at classroom doors and Um, do parallel tracks. So we are not giving up on pbis But we do need to continue to move forward with progressive discipline when necessary because there has to be some consequence and A movement towards getting kids back to regulation, right? So currently there's some dysregulation there And so we need to to move that forward We as I mentioned earlier, we're continuing with the restorative start or restorative spring We know that we have to hit not only the Progressive discipline, but we also have to do restorative practices Which does involve looking at the root cause of why students are doing what they're doing Maybe it's um disillusionment lack of hope for the future of what can be And so we have a really successful team of behaviorist mental health clinicians And social emotional counselors that continue to develop these lessons again. They're on set five um as we speak and then going back to what both Officers we're talking about is increased family Engagement so up top because I think most people that know about me know I'm a research gal So up top it kind of speaks to that And the fact that our parents are instrumental in really making sure That they're supporting any maladjustment or dysregulation And so we have a strengthening family program grant PVVSA I'll restate so PVPSA has a Strengthening families program grant um that they are going to Support us with to provide targeted interventions and wraparound supports the families It's a series of eight workshops That talk about dealing with stress Substance abuse pressures influences communication And it's going to have its original focus In the watsonville high area for that parent group And we really believe that if we do this multi agency A focus that we will Support students in becoming regulated with structures and expectations We will be able to increase their supports their happiness And obviously their academic success And so we look forward to continuing to support these efforts As we move forward Thank you. Dr. Rodriguez Is that the conclusion of the presentation? Okay. That's great. She wrote that's great. I love that that ending I want to thank both of you for your the work that you do every day to help keep kids safe And for educating our community. I think this was um a presentation that was likely hard to watch for many people but um Important for people to know so that they can recognize the signs and symbols and try to intervene as appropriate So thank you both for being here And talking with us tonight I I just have um one recommendation And maybe under a request it might be to move forward I I think that this agenda item was agreed with you President trustee to serve it was very important and appropriately placed on tonight's agenda And unfortunately was slated for about a 30 minute Totality on tonight's agenda and it's about almost an hour in I would like to request maybe a follow-up back Both with your teams and other collaborative teams And and even if we have to you know requests come to the board and request maybe a special board meeting to do that to really give The awareness and presence of the time to just have a focus on this because this is a fairly important topic for our community So I'd like to make that request and recommendation. Thank you Thank you. Okay, we're going to move on to item 6.2 uh 2022 extended learning summer offerings And this is a report by carol orteez Hi carol Good evening everyone. Good evening president to surpa superintendent regigus members of the board I'm carol orteez director of the extended learning department here in pv usd I just wanted to make a quick comment on the previous presentation I'm a product of um front street of monalisa neighborhood And I'm also a product of pv usd schools And that is why I do what I do because I want to provide a safe Supportive place for all of my students in the community before and after school and during summer. So that's why I'm here I'm going to be sharing information on our summer programs We're deep into planning our summer programs. We have lots of collaborative Partnerships going on lots of exciting opportunities for our students going on This is our summer school schedule First day of school will be june 13th last day will be july 8th with the 4th of july off We're planning to serve approximately 4 000 students And we're also planning our before and after school programs during the summer with the illo funds We're very excited about um piloting that this summer to see how it works for us In our summer program. This is our first year. We're offering a six hour summer program as well So we'll be offering a six hour program in addition to the three hours Which will total the nine hour days for the illo programs We've also already been in discussions with the transportation department regarding the before and after school programs have not finalized those times yet but i'm really um Fortunate and excited to be able to work with transportation. They've been been very flexible and collaborative with us. I appreciate them Our high school program is aimed at students in grades 9 to 12 who have us We're finalizing the recommendations with counselors. Um should be done by tomorrow or yeah today tomorrow And we'll be sending out the recommendations to um families in the next couple weeks We have the registration process and timeline there on our website So all families can see what the plan is We've been doing um online edge annuity credit recovery with our high school students for About two years now, maybe and so the processes and procedures are pretty well established our students know to be checking their emails regularly Which has been very helpful. Um, we're also collaborating with um the ill um Staying federal programs to offer EOD classes to our students in person as well And of course always talking with adult ed for the concurrent enrolled students and summer grads So we always make sure that if Students were not able to completely be successful in our summer credit recovery program We um do a warm handoff to adult ed and make sure they get their their high school diploma completed there And we've been doing that for um quite a few years This is our application flyer for the elementary and middle school students with grades tk to 8 Our theme is mission possible It's the summer summer um Space kind of nasa thing We have lots of activities planned out for the the elementary and middle school students Hopefully the middle school students like them, but I know the elementary students will we have lots of um library materials We've already purchased to to put out when we hire library media techs over the summer as well So lots of um hands-on project activities that students can be doing in their classrooms and also in the libraries This is what our application looks like you can find the application online on our or on our website The apo 15 deadline was for priority enrollment so we can be planning our um Best routes, um, but students can continue to enroll all the way up to the last day of school Of course families who need to or prefer a printed copy Can also request a hard copy either in any of our after-school offices Or they can call our office and we can either Guide them a hard copy or we can actually fill out the application for them. So, um, no family should feel deterred if they are unable or Or don't need to or don't want to fill out an online application We definitely want to support all families and whatever they'd like to do The next few slides are going to be about um specifically about The summer programs the schedules and the curriculum. This is just an example The students are going to be rotating between language arts math and enrichment We will be embedding social emotional Learning activities in the morning part of the program. So the students get to school They will have time for a welcome class meeting attendance activities We're welcome with the teacher and then they will be going together as a class to breakfast and recess We tried that um the last time we were in person A couple years ago and it worked out really well because it gave the students a chance to come and settle in in the class and um feel kind of Relax with the teacher before they went out to as a group to breakfast and recess And we are as as you can see there's Before and after school programs planned depending on the start time of each school So there may be some sites because they start too early for the summer We'll not have an opportunity for the before school program But we will then offer the three hours after school or we would split before and after depending on the sites So see we are still working on that The next couple of slides specifically are about our language arts and math curriculum We do provide curriculum in spanish To our schools as needed. They all have um social emotional items integrated into the curriculum We um bundle materials for the teachers to make it easy for them to access And not have to create any new materials Um while at the same time not having to necessarily access the classroom materials because Some of the sites aren't open It's so a teacher may not be teaching in their own particular classroom So we need to be able to give them materials and curriculum and not have to scramble and dig through that teacher's classroom So we we try to make it as easy as possible curriculum wise for the teachers With regards to math specifically We are partnering with curriculum instruction department to provide tntp To um handful the teachers to do some coaching Um and support as part of integrated into their their day program We're also working with um elevate math. This is our third year Offering the elevate program to our students our upper middle grade students We are very very proud to be collaborating with migrant animus program We've been working with them for quite a few years now And this is the first year that we're actually integrating the migrant program within our six hour program In the past we've had a four hour summer school So migrant program has been after the regular four hour summer school program But this year they will be integrated Into our our six hour program Um the migrant program is very popular. The curriculum is very popular with all of our students this year Unfortunately, we are not they were not able to get their um by by national teachers that they have gotten in the past years But um, we hope to be able to do that next year But the migrant program has wonderful Curriculum and themes that the students focus on and we're just very happy and proud to partner with migrant We always integrate social emotional learning and physical education into our extended learning programs Based on the successful camp connect program last year. We will be offering continued social emotional activities Structured um social time for the students. We are providing sparks Equipment and training to our teachers so that when the kids are out on recess they have a structured play And um similar to playworks that's happening during the regular day Which we're also hoping to be able to incorporate either during the summer or if not in our after school programs next year We are very fortunate to have so many community partners working with us every year during summer school These are our partners who come and bring the student lessons to all of our after school programs these professional Organizations offer very high level classes And we are very happy that they're coming back to work with us again this year Um, we'll just talk to isabel from ellis system a couple days ago And we're talking about um continuing the youth orchestra over the summer as well So we have lots lots going on this summer We will be offering literacy packs and summer reading challenge again in partnership with the watsonville public library That poster over on the left was actually created by one of our after school staff members Who's a graphic artist? We will um The the i've mentioned this a lot and i'm going to keep mentioning it But the the reading program at the watsonville library is very important to me as someone who participated in it every year Walking from front street to library and they're walking back. Um, so we're very happy that um, we have jen actually who's Making those conversations and making sure we have those partnerships And we are also offering specific Programs through the ELO Funding this year. We are also looking at um Seeing what the ymca and city of watsonville parks and recs um can work with us on to offer Programs that i mean they don't necessarily supplant What we're doing, but maybe they're just flexible Programs that families need something different than what we may be offering them during summer And i think that's it And i just wanted to thank everyone as think the board for your ongoing support of the extended learning department The department has been in existence for 24 years. I've only been with it for maybe 10 or so, but The department started as two people the director and anna hernandez who's a fiscal analyst. She's still there The the board invested money into the extended learning department after two years It became an independent grant funded department did not need general fund money anymore And it's been investing and it brings in 10 million dollars in grants every year to support all of these programs And i just wanted to thank the board for that support Thank you for the for the personal Um disclosures at the beginning, you know, it makes a difference to feel connected to the kids that you're working with And thank you for letting us know the history How it started with just two people and now brings in 10 million a year. It's unbelievable Thank you. That was a great presentation. Do we have any speakers? Any questions or comments from the board jen? Um, I just wanted to acknowledge the work and the progress that I you know, I've seen You know, especially in our summer learning programs, you know, my my older kids, you know, they had done with and it was great for You know catching them up on their school work and what I noticed, you know, my you know, my own student You know went through the the summer program last year And what I was thought was particularly remarkable it It addressed the the learning needs But it also addressed the connection to school and the love of learning that was really that that under that foundation That he needed to be successful this year And like watching, you know, seeing how these programs expand. So like thank you for, you know, all of the Curriculum development that happened all the coordination that had to happen between all the schools I you know from a board trustee perspective from a mother's perspective, you know Just and as a you know, seeing knowing how that ripples out into our community Like thank you to everybody, you know, who's involved in making these programs work because they are working And it's giving our students, you know, an opportunity for, you know, just a brighter future. And so thank you. Thank you It's trustee home trustee shocker I just wanted to say thank you. I know a lot of kids think about summer school as oh, no I have to continue school, but at pvusd. That's not the case Summer school is fun. I visited camp connect last year at Cesar Chavez And the kids were so excited to be creating paper mache Art and just being with each other and having that that support So I think that um, we have one of the best after school programs and summer school programs in the state And we're probably an envy of a lot of other districts So I encourage parents to definitely take a look at what we're offering Their kids will learn they'll have fun and they'll be begging for more Thank you Christia costa. Thank you. Um, I just wanted to say that um As well chime in on what my um colleagues have said is that I am so grateful to see all the collaborative Community partnerships and relationships particularly with the city of watsonville as well The library. Yeah The library don't want libraries to become extinct, right? And and it also goes back to even what we just saw in the previous presentation, right? This is really About community collaboration. None of us In this community, right the school district the city of watsonville the police department the santa cruz county sheriff's department None of us are just an island to ourselves Right, we all are part of this community and having that collaboration and working together as we again Saw in the previous presentation as well as with yours is so imperative and important That we are building those community partnerships that we're working together for the betterment of our community Meaning our students our families, right all of those because we're all part of this together So thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you Okay, daniel dodge jr. I just also want to Say thank you.  So I just wanted to say thank you very much and summer school actually looks fun Thank you Okay, thank you carol. Oh, sorry, uh, tristee roscow has questions. You were being so quiet I was like, what is wrong over here? You know, it's exciting. It's summer Okay Right a little a little bit of a break um Going back to the previous presentation Um and just feeling in the gaps So summer school ends july 8th and we don't go back to school until august So i'm wondering if there's uh some work in progress To feeling those gaps you did mention the partnership with um Watsonville city of Watsonville um And so i'm wondering If there's some work or a process we can have in place to be able to refer families Or even have staff like the rec leaders come percent And give that as an option I do know that most of their programs are fee based So are we as a district going to Help with that? um So i'm not sure if we've thought about that. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm Yeah, I have actually um It's a it's a tough balance because on one hand we Want to and need to provide opportunities to families during that time. Um, that is a whole month And at the same time we also want to and need to need to provide an opportunity to for a break for staff um, it's it's It's really hard not for the for staff. It's like office staff and you know the the School site staff transportation food services all the people who work almost year-round to give them a little bit of break in between Right just a little bit of time before we start back up in august. So it's that that's definitely on my mind um, so it's uh, it's a matter of having conversations like you said with our community partners and seeing how um how we balance the The funding opportunities because we we can't necessarily supplant or pay for things like Child care or like specific services like that But we can work with community organizations to offer programs To families but not necessarily say i'm paying for your fee. You know what I mean? So we have to be really cautious about how we um how we offer services and um spend the moneys with the grants that we have While keeping in mind that there's that um That a community need there's always a different type of community no matter what and that one month is um Is always the kind of the tough sweet little spot right there But it's definitely something that that we've we've talked about and actually um jambruno Is very close with the city of watsonville. So parks and rec but also the pal program That's over on rodrigo street and ymca and we haven't necessarily worked as closely with the ymca because of covid this last year But that's another opportunity to say like okay We're not going to pay necessarily for specific families fees But how are we going to provide some type of opportunities for families to utilize the program? You know what I mean just take the tough balance. Dr. Rider. Yes has a comment And so I think the the reason probably for the question was that some lines were Blurred because we had some flexibilities during covid that we don't necessarily continue on So during covet time when we did have all schools closed We had some of that ability to pay for slots at ymca and other areas Those flexibilities have since ceased. So there was flexibility So I just wanted to mention that because you might be thinking like well, we used to do it So why not? Um And so I just wanted to mention that point and then miss chow has a comment on top of my comment I do just one more piece. We're also working with the healthy start collaborative which joins many of our partners We have over 36 partners at the table in all different facets of the community That team is getting together. We actually opened up another meeting. Um, we generally are Kind of in that downslope at this point in the school year However, we decided as a collective it would be better for us all to meet and look at what those gaps are in service So part of what we're doing on may 4th is reconvening that group And being able to document what all is happening in the community even outside of the school district So that will also help us give a resource to parents of what other programs are going on during that time period And really be able to highlight the good stuff that's going on with the library city of watsonville And of other partners that have Additional camps and things that are going on so we'll be able to provide that resource to our families as well So that they have some additional options Yeah, you know, even if we're not able to pay obviously that's the wrong-growing option Thank you for that clarification But I know the ym the ymca offers reductions In their camps and through the city of watsonville We do have the friends of watsonville parks and recreation services Uh, and we have our scholarship program Right that also allows family to pay half of the cost So I think it's it's uh if we're not able to uh Necessarily financial support families we can provide them with those resources and make them easily accessible Um, I know just from sitting on the board of the friends We don't get as many scholarship requests As I would think otherwise because the need is huge Um, and even having uh, you know the application waiver through the ymca accessible At our schools Um, I think will be huge Um, so that's just you know options to explore. Yeah, those are great ideas a communication and alignment of that. Thank you Yeah, thank you. Dr. Rodriguez for mentioning that I'd completely forgotten that we had offered that during covid time Yes, and then just for our high schoolers, you know expanding. I'm not sure how popular the program is but the summer at the city program I know that's So even expanding those opportunities does not necessarily, you know credit recovery though, that's obviously a huge part of Um A support that students need but also expanding opportunities for them to be able to earn Um a wage, you know over the summer while also gaining access to this awesome internship opportunities so I mean we have lots of partners And i'm sure that there will be willing to Coal out of right what does to further expand those opportunities for students? Definitely Thank you carol. Yeah, thank you. Thank you carol. That was a great presentation. Thank you. Appreciate it Can I make a follow-up request? Do you just start the president? Eager to get to the next But no, can we just put this information actually in the wellness center also? Um, it's because we are having more families that are accessing that and maybe the cost of the program To like mariella stating. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Sorry about that. Thanks carol And now without further ado, um, we have principal peggy pu come up to the podium And I want to thank everybody for their patience Tonight, thank you so much. I am really honored to be here. Thank you president to serpa trustees and superintendent rodriguez We are honored to be here tonight requesting the honor of remembering and honoring our forever mariner bobby salazar And I did send some slides A couple days ago well on friday Do you want me to resend? Oh, okay. It's the yeah, I could resend it. Okay. Thank you Is there anything you could do to set the stage before the slides come up or do you want to wait? No, I'm happy to I am happy to speak off the cuff. You know that uh, I like a mic I'm I uh When um, bobby passed away There was a lot of community Outreach and and thinking of ways that they could honor him and We wanted to work with his family and with our local community to make sure that it was something that was truly worthy of of commemorating him and Over the course of these couple of years There's obviously been a lot of challenges through COVID and so we just we took our time really settling on something That our community felt like was was would really be worthy of His generous heart and generous spirit. Um, so he touched so many lives here in pv usd But also obviously at the aptos high school community. And so that was really important to us that it was Worthy of him and his his giant heart that was um One of the I think kind of the the driving force for us was making sure that He was kind of at the center of that And the love that he shared with so many of us was at the center of that So, you know, I I'll say just from my own perspective I was a parent at aptos high and bobby was always just a very and everybody already knows this So i'm not saying anything that isn't already out there, but He made everybody feel good He greeted everyone every morning with big smile When he came here to the board meetings, he was always a gentleman He always made me feel like he cared about me and everybody else that came into his Purview and we really really miss him because he's irreplaceable. Yeah Thank you for being here. I'm sorry. It took so long tonight I remember I was sitting at a football game one night And um the timer on the lights like Expired and all the lights went dark And it was I just remember there was a loud loud like rock music playing Which still continued to play but there was no lights on And um and there were two teams on the field and people in the stands and it was bobby Of course that went and fixed the whole thing, you know within like five minutes it was fixed There we go, okay So, um Thank you I'm honored to be here to represent obviously my school community, but really the community of aptos And is this the clicker? Thank you So we went through the board approved process We held two meetings in march our those meetings were publicized through all of our Normal channels through our website and through our local newspapers and our athletics website as well At those committee meetings the first meeting we developed our criteria And we used those criteria that were unanimously voted on to Help us make our decision because it's an open process So the committee's criteria were connections to aptos high whether it was a graduate athlete family members attending aptos high or What were the specific connections? past contributions to aptos high whether it's in time in spirit donations or just general gregariousness And also mariner pride and spirit and spreading positivity about our school out in the broader community And we used those criteria to guide us After our discussion we discussed What names of people would meet those criteria and it was a unanimous decision That we would send forward to the board for your consideration The name bobby salazar field for our lower field our lower athletic field Which is the field is just as you're coming into the campus And um, I I hope that it warms your heart as much as it warms ours when we look at these pictures And you can really just see the pride he had in our school community So for the first criteria his connections to aptos high school Um, this is sort of a greatest hits of bobby salazar He was our lead custodian for over 40 years He was available to anyone who needed his help staff students campus visitors Seven days a week at any time of day His children melissa and robert attended aptos high melissa is here with me tonight as well as his wife rebecca They lived at aptos high school. He truly was a part of the campus community in 2010 He was inducted into our sports hall of fame as an honorary member One of our sports hall of fame members is here tonight. Mr. Jamie Townsend former mariner himself He served as aptos hot. He served both aptos high and pbsd community As a leader in csca including as president of the chapter In terms of his second criteria is his his contributions to aptos high school I'll make this quick because I know it's a long meeting already But it's a long list Assistant football coach basketball coach. He spoke at so many of our events He was the person that most people associated with aptos high school Well after they graduated His contributions were from club leader to Name reader at graduation singer at graduation fiddle player in the school plays He was selected many many times to hand roses to the seniors at graduation The list literally goes on and on he changed every light bulb on campus Unclogged every clogged toilet. He did every single thing And I'm sure there were there were So many injuries involved with those things that we don't even want to list him He was available You could knock on his door at five in the morning as activities director. I did that. Sorry bobby. Sorry rebecca And late late at night as we'd be closing up our dances at late at night. He was available there to us as well And for over 40 years. He treated every single student staff member parent local community Guest with love and kindness friendship and he was incredibly warm His third criteria his mariner pride. It's I can still feel it beaming His uh, just general love of aptos high school. He was truly a fixture in our community He greeted greeted students and staff by name Always letting them know when they arrived that aptos high school was the best school in the county Which we strongly believe he greeted students and staff and families with a wave keep smiling. Good morning everybody I can still hear him saying that I wore pink for him tonight. He was a he always wore pink in 2015 the aptos chamber of commerce selected him as their community hero And that was a great asset to to aptos high into pd usd The local community still to this day if i'm wearing mariner wear, which is most days Many people when i'm out in the stores in aptos ask how you know, how are you remembering the mayor of aptos? bobby So the field has yet to be named and we are hoping to name it For bobby salazar There he is in his beloved pink And that is him judging at one of our many homecoming parades So in conclusion he believed truly in the power of community and his community was aptos high school And we were humbled to be able to request naming the field for him bobby salazar field Thank you Thank you peggy are there any speakers to this item tonight Would you mind coming up to the podium to say that because you know the this is televised and live streamed So it would be great if our our viewing audience could hear what you have to say We have jamie townsend Is that jamie? Yeah I know jamie Come up right to the mic. My name is jamie townsen and yeah This is Melissa bobby Okay To me bobby arrived 10 years after I started teaching and coaching at aptos high and so That was the first time I was able to greet him and then I got to witness everything that We've all described bobby and put together with your beautiful package um I the only thing that I want to add is that Two words some people would say A person like bobby if they just saw him. Oh, he's just a janitor Forget that he is a custodian And if you start adding all the things that custodians can do It the list just goes and goes and Peggy pewds just described a lot of the things that he has done as a custodian in our community He truly is a mariner and we love him and this is One of the things that we can do To put his name On the field closest to the street that goes by and comes into our school So all of us can remember how he greeted all of us And we get to see his name every day Even though he's gone. Thank you. That was really beautiful Who's next we have melissa cello. Sorry melissa. Hi Um So kind of connecting to the presentations earlier My dad was always there for everybody regardless who you were or what you did and Part of that he would reach out to those kids. They were talking about earlier who were at youth The youth who were at risk. He would try to push him towards Sports and he wouldn't mentor them. So that fits with tonight's kind of tonight's theme Also, I remember like yeah, I had to go to summer school. He was there and he would mentor those kids too So he was always there reaching out to kids so I mean He wasn't just my dad. He was everybody's dad in some capacity or form. He was there for one and all and Like to me, he's always coach towns and said You know what better way to honor him and his legacy than to name the field after him because he was there for the sports the community And You know it being Like a softball field one of my favorite movies is the sandlot and there's a code in there Where babe ruth is telling one of the boys Heroes get remembered but legends never die So how I look at it because people keep bringing up my dad all the time My dad bobby selazar was a legend at a high school and aptos and in the community Because I even moved to southern california several years ago and I came back but Even in southern california Talking to people or were you from aptos? Do you know bobby? I'm like, yeah Yeah, I do. He's my dad So the legend for him will continue on and naming the field after him I know if he were here, he'd be saying hi everybody, you know But also he would be humbled being like no, no not for me But yeah for you, you know, you you work so hard to help the community Why not have a place for students and people to get together like in the theme tonight to feel safe and Do things so Thank you. Thank you, melissa I just want to say thank you. I'm I'm speechless And it's hard because I miss him a lot and I'm sure that everybody at the school does too Thank you Thank you, rebecca Okay, thank you and With that I'll entertain a motion. I'd like to move to approve it. I'd also like to make a comment You're moving to approve. Yeah, I'll second All those in favor, I'd like to make a comment. Oh a comment. Sorry. Go ahead I didn't hear that problem I just wanted to say, you know, I remember the first time I saw bobby And it was you know, august of 2012 when I dropped my oldest off to aptos high and You know that that smile and wave Did so much to ease the nerves of this first time high school mama, you know and That welcome and that that true joy and connection Was something that he carried in every interaction I had with him and throughout his time with all of us and well before I entertained the thought of serving on this board It's like I I knew that he was a special part of our community and Although I'm going to miss like my youngest starts at aptos high next year and I'm Missing that he won't be waving But getting to see his name on that field and getting to connect my youngest to who he was and who he was for our community is still incredibly powerful and so you know Thank you for sharing him with us Any other comments from the board Danny I just want to say hey The first time I met bobby's when he invited me to talk to caca members and He loved his union. He loved the members And as soon as I walked in and said hey dodge I I didn't know him and that was the first time I met him but just but just the way that You know how some of you were saying like even if he didn't know you Like he just gave that I don't know you but I know you and I felt that um No bobby loved aptos and aptos loved bobby and You know, thank you aptos community members I Thank you. Thank you Any other comments? Okay I have a first and a second all those in favor I Motion passes unanimously the bobby sells our field Thank you all for being here tonight Next on the agenda is visitor non-agenda items. This is two minutes each Um, this is item 7.1 a public comment. All right. Are there any speakers? We have two speakers tonight. Okay Um, the first speaker is maryland garret followed by chris web. What is this blue attachment? Oh, it's a thing to turn up. Okay I don't know what this is two hours to get two minutes in this microwave radiation Not good I'll ask the question. What is the most important thing? In keeping kids out of harm's way You asked that of the policemen who were here Wireless devices and if microwave radiation unknown biological harm hazard Every time a wireless device Is used you're exposed to microwave radiation The world health organization labels this radiation as a class 2b possible carcinogen In the same category as led dbt and chloroform Cell and cordless phones and other wireless devices cell towers and antennas and towers Smart meters microwave ovens and wi-fi Routers all create electro smog Microwave radiation is harmful Scientists link wireless radiation to health problems both short and long-term cancer infertility damage to dna and fetuses sleep problems memory and cognitive impairment hard problems and deficiencies and many others I'm submitting today for the record An excerpt from the book An electronic silent spring by katie singer that came out in 2014 And one chapter I want to excerpt from because it relates to how you've put cell towers and wireless devices on campus Thank you, Marilyn. This is them We have another minute, please You had Over a half hour for the police presentation on harm to our community. This is harm. Thank you, Marilyn I would ask you to invite dr. Carl merit or other Authorities on the harm of this technology to children. Thank you. I ask that you respect the time presentation Like we saw here. I hear you, Marilyn. Don't you want children to be healthy and not in a microwave oven environment So i'm going to submit this for the record And thank you so much for your kindness on giving me extra time Thank you. I really appreciate it. I work 20 years in this district. I really appreciate your kindness Is chris still here? Hi chris Come on up Um, I want to Express my gratitude. I'm not sure whether it belongs to The the district or my site admin, but I noticed that in the teacher restroom I used that there was Feminine hygiene products made freely available and i'm assuming it's for our For for girls at the school and for Trans students and i'm hoping that it's also available and the regular girls restrooms But I really appreciate that we're getting ahead of state law on that And I hope we keep it up also like particularly with respect to ece teacher wages that they're well above minimum wage I also I'm a little disappointed because I've recently found that our at renaissance again. We're not going to have in person Summer school which we historically have had And it kind of makes me think that we're we're just not learning from our students' experiences Particularly the renaissance students and and where you didn't really learn from distance learning like edge and woody That's that doesn't bring a lot of fun and cheer to my students So I just want to say that I also want to thank trustee Diserpa and and dr. Rodriguez for the presentation with the police officers I want to thank the police officers for their service But I I really appreciated that because it It was a breath of fresh air because I feel like this year at renaissance We've been living in like an upside down world where we pretend Gangs on a thing and we we say like restorative justice So it was it was it was nice to hear that. Yeah, we're is a touch of reality and um I'm I'm think I just wish that we we it didn't take major incidences and like documented data of declining Ab or declining student achievement and increased absences to realize that yeah, we do sometimes need progressive discipline And we do need sometimes consequences and for those reasons it was truly a mistake when we took away our old restorative program to do Restorative start In a way that was less restorative than what we had So I think we really need to get with our leadership team and find out what worked and let's bring that back. Thank you Thank you, chris Okay, next up. We have employee organizations comments. We will start with pbft This is item 8.1 Hi, nelly. Hi. Good evening All right. Good evening board. Um Let's see. Uh, there are I'm going to keep mine short tonight. Um, hopefully I know I can get along winded um But I wanted to um address the Many things that are on our agenda tonight that you're going to be speaking about the resolutions appreciating teachers school nurses and our classified staff. Um And I also wanted to note that tomorrow is april 28th is workers memorial day It's a day that honors the memory of workers who have been injured or died during their jobs Um, we know that in the last couple of years with under this pandemic the stress of working through this pandemic has had an An impact on mental health of many workers, especially our our health care workers And so we want to just acknowledge that tomorrow is um workers memorial day Um may 3rd, uh, you have the listed as the appreciate national teacher appreciation day. Um Our teachers our hard at work this year have lost many many Hours of prep time. That's time that they can use to communicate with families students. Um And grade papers and write lessons. Um And due to the impacts of of what we're working under a teacher shortage and our pandemic which creates vacancies or absences Many of our teachers classroom teachers have lost their their prep and because they're stepping in to be with our students um So it would be really great if they had like maybe wednesday and may 4th During our restructure day as a day to be able to close their doors in their classroom and get Business done, you know and and as we get close to the end of the school year um, and I do want to Thank our classified staff for all of the work they do. That's actually how I started out in this profession In public education for k-12 world. Um, I was My path was to be a professor. So um I do want to invite Also in I I just met some Watsonville high students and I wanted to invite them to be able to speak It's um tough when they when our students come and they don't know the process of our meetings And they have something important to say and so I would like to um, give my time to them Thank you Thank you Good evening members of the board and superintendent dr. Rodriguez. I'm bricklin yamas and a junior at watsonville high school We are watsonville high school student union the majority of us notice the flaws within watsonville our school community and home We grouped up and combined forces collaborating with one another Ultimately we want and long for change But most importantly we desire for our voices to be heard We have been failed countless times as we the students don't see action Therefore we've arranged a cleanup program which takes place every wednesday after school the beautification of our campus Is a small step in the right direction We are greatness from small beginnings although we might be slight in numbers We aim to grow and create change both community and schoolwide as we are stressing now The bathrooms have not been a problem In the path in the present but also in the past We acknowledge that our school is aged and has seen its fair share as the years Our school increases in population and we must accommodate to this our bathrooms are simply outdated Another issue we have present in our restrooms is vandalism In schools that include young people it is inevitable for this will occur Whether it is drawings of inappropriate figures on the wall or just floodings due to age facilities We as a district must accommodate to these occurrences anti-graffiti barriers Can be applied to both restroom walls and stalls instead of the marks being painted over This along with daily checks can help ensure our restrooms are properly maintained We hope you see the severity of this issue as it not only is detrimental to the student morale but also health hazard Hi, thank you for listening once again. So going back to that wednesday cleanup program we mentioned beforehand so it's actually we Took us about four weeks to get that approved and not only is it a great way for students to get involved on campus But we also actually offer community service hours Which is great. However, it's kind of upsetting that this ultimately has to be up to the students Again, which is not very ideal. However, it does show that we're trying to take action here And speaking on the bathrooms and the vandalism I kind of think it has to do a lot with attitude. So going back to those bathrooms and how old they are I like to compare it to I think just this year we got gender neutral bathrooms in our cafeteria And when I go in there, I was I was surprised to see how nice and upkept they were even after this like We're already into our second semester and they still look nice So it's kind it shows how students want to take care of something I think when given something new that is clean and Dated it's modern. I think students will actually take care of them Thank you for the comments I think the time's up now We appreciate you guys what you're doing and coming forward In the future if you guys want to speak on any issue like this put a speaker card in and you can come up to the mic Each one of you can have two minutes Okay, thank you very much for Taking care of your campus and bringing these concerns forward to the board. I know dr. Rodriguez appreciated hearing Thank you I don't know My dear you cannot speak like this in a public meeting. I'm sorry Yeah, in the future if you have a question you can just email dr. Rodriguez or call on the phone and she's really good about responding. Okay No, this is a public meeting. This is a board meeting held in public. So it's a meeting of this board held in the public Okay Um, next up we have item 8.2 California school employees association Tonight from csea No, okay Item 8.3 pavam. Is there anyone here from the pahoa valley association of managers? That's great. Thank you Okay, good evening president of serpa. Good evening board members. Good evening dr. Rodriguez Does it go up? That's okay. I'll do this. I'm good. All right. So thank you Uh For let me speak on the behalf of the parl valley Uh administrators and managers Uh, I'll try to go quick. I'm gonna quickly highlight a few of the things we've been doing this year I think you guys are pretty well aware of what's going on in the schools Um, but you know pblsd cares. We are connecting and enriching the lives of our students Uh from family arts night Up at landmark to Um days of kindness at radcliffe to some of the things that Um Calabasas whether it be our active green team with I think about 25 members going kayaking out at elkhorn slough To a family reading night, which was so Well attended we intended to have families work with the students But we had so many short we had to send all the students outside to play just to accommodate all the parents So it's quite a good highlight Um not to mention student jobs and other things throughout the schools to give them ownership and a feeling of belonging to the school sites Beyond connecting and enriching as site admin we are Accelerating student learning by accelerating our leadership skills Whether that's collaborating and professional developments together working with outside consultants who are modeling lessons for us and Doing other things or even with some of our site administrators like the middle picture with mr. Perez at Calabasas modeling learning strategies and other expertise for teachers Uh site admin is getting out there and accelerating Uh not just student learning but our own learning so that we can improve our students academics Um, not only are we improving our student academics, but we're taking a big Step in improving their social emotional learning as well. That's been difficult coming back from the pandemic Um, so we put a lot of effort through programs such as sanford harmony Playworks, uh, we are facilitating student ownership Uh giving the students a feeling of belonging a feeling of ownership at school sites Um, whether it's playworks trainings and games Uh to sanford harmony community building meetings Um, you know restorative start lots of those things um so yes for them We do truly care, but uh We've also been doing I wanted to Also talk a little bit about what makes our team special um So I kind of jumped on the cares acronym thing figured feel like we're all doing Double the work. So double up on the cares acronym Um, so what makes our team special? Uh, we are extremely collaborative as administrators um even a good example is uh you know during a Development with our awesome self of staff They had breakout rooms for our site admin to meet together, but Uh, a lot of our site admin were out covering classes. So we were alone So I went ahead and jumped into mr. Moran's breakout room from a messy and sure enough I found other Site admin jumping into their rooms as well just to collaborate together So they look for any opportunity to collaborate and build on each other's strengths accessible We're totally accessible to each other as well as responsive I know that when I'm out doing lunch duty covering classes doing whatever When I come and check my missed calls on my telephone the first thing I do Um, it's usually call back principles another site admin they call and others do the same for me So people are very responsive accessible Encouraging Extremely encouraging And solution oriented is a big one We don't Spend a lot of time on the problems. We spend a lot of time on the solutions Uh, and generally what makes our team strong is everybody has a genuine genuine Um loving caring relationship and we all love working together and uh that Comes out through the work of the sites. So I think that was about it. So thank you That was a great positive presentation. Thank you very much. I appreciate you doing that Uh, is there anyone here tonight item 8.4 for communication workers of america I think this is the 12th year in a row that nobody has shown up for item 8.4 Okay, um, we're going to move now to action items and the first action item is to adopt resolution 21 22 40 acknowledging may 3rd 2022 is national teacher appreciation day. Yes. Thank you president discerpe board of trustees dr. Rodriguez. I have the distinct pleasure of Presenting the resolution for teacher appreciation day, which is as noted may 3rd Um, we have over 1300 certificated staff that have been working tirelessly this year They work hard every year But I think we've heard and seen that they are going above and beyond to care for our students And I think this year more than ever we want to honor them and honor their work because they are providing Um Instruction to our to our students and doing a fabulous job. So I please move that you approve this resolution to honor our hard-working certificated staff Do we have any speakers to this resolution? We have one. Okay Uh chris web Um, I want to congratulate dr. Rodriguez on her nomination for superintendent of the year and note that one thing I think of with her is um Something one of my veteran teachers said and that that was that you're the best superintendent That we've ever had and in my experience across multiple districts. I'm inclined to agree And I hope that um to appreciate teachers we make sure that In the coming year we improve the contract to make sure we're supporting them as professionals As in offering pds that teachers elected to do and and that they're those costs are covered Sometimes certain sites will cover pd and other sites won't Um, I also want to say that let's make sure that we're listening to our teachers before Issues arise and before the data bears out things they said months ago Um A lot of this is a lot of my feelings on this are coming from The way restorative practices has come to to renaissance and and that The principles haven't always been held So I I feel like we out of respect to the teachers because when teachers do restorative practice with fidelity They make themselves vulnerable And when we don't um support that system truly They wind up getting harmed Instead of healed So I want to make sure that to Admin and across the district we clarify Restorative practice principles and that we make sure that we're serious about them or let's just not do it If we're not going to be serious Um and and kind of with that I I just want to want to say that I don't know that I can now that we're in the fourth quarter Of the school year and like it's crunch time for my students I I can't really devote any more time to site wellness Uh because it hasn't been really effective So I'm gonna I'm gonna step back from that and focus on what I can do to support students myself But I think if we want to appreciate teachers in the short run Um and make up for some of the harm Let's add a a retention bonus to this uh to this resolution. Thank you Thank you chris Okay, do we have any discussion from the board comments? I'd like to make a motion to approve this item all second And before I call for the vote, I'll just um Say a great big thank you to all of our teachers. We love you and we're glad you're here And we appreciate you working with all our kids and keeping them safe All those in favor Motion passes unanimously. Thank you Next item is 9.2 adopt a resolution 21 22 41 acknowledging may 15th through 21st 20 22 As classified school employee week. Yes. Thank you again president discerpa board of trustees dr Rodriguez I also have the distinct pleasure of presenting the resolution for the classified employee school employee In the district we have uh, which is may 15th through the 21st um as We have uh, nearly a thousand classified employees that have also been working tirelessly getting our students to school They're often the first person they see in the last person first and last people they see when they're leaving campus And they play an integral role in ensuring that are we're providing a quality and solid educational Program. So I Request that you approve this resolution Thank you. Are there any speakers? No, okay any discussion from the board Yes, okay. Um, I just wanted to make a comment thanking all of our classified workers for all their work hard work in our community and our district and With that, I'd like to make a motion to approve this agenda item. Thank you. Alison for presenting Oh second Thank you and again to all the classified staff We can't we can't do it without you your integral to to what we provide here So thank you for all the hard work all those in favor. Hi Motion passes unanimously. Thank you Item 9.3 adopt a resolution 21 22 42 for national school nurse day Good evening. My name is heather gorman. Um self the director Good evening president of serpa board members dr. Rodriguez tonight. I bring forward a resolution to celebrate and honor our school nurses National nurse week begins each year on may 6th and ends on may 12th Florence nightingale's birthday Florence nightingale is known for many amazing reasons but May be the most known for making hospitals a cleaner and safer place to be for inspiration tonight I'd like to read just a few of her quotes and I will make this quick Tough times don't last tough people do Ignite the minds spark to raise the sun in you I attribute my success to this. I never gave or took an excuse Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses We must be learning all of our lives I thought that encompassed our school nurses and from the resolution Whereas children are the future by investing in them today We are ensuring our world for tomorrow and all students have the right to have their health needs safely met while in school School nurses are professional nurses that advance the well-being academic success and lifelong achievement of all of our students By serving on the front lines and providing a critical safety net for our nation's most fragile children Therefore be it resolved that the pb usd board of education celebrates acknowledges The accomplishments of the school nurses everywhere and their efforts of meeting the needs of today's students By improving the delivery of health care and our schools and offers gratitude to the school nurses who contribute to the community By helping students stay healthy in schools and ready to learn and keeping parents guardians at work Not just on this national school nurse day But at every opportunity throughout the year Thank you. Thank you, Heather Do we have any speakers to this item? No speakers. Okay. Any comments from the board? I would for home I would like to move to approve, please But I also just want to acknowledge the work that our school nurses, you know do I what's been coming to mind is that that you know saying about you know, the ginger rogers did everything Freda stared at just backwards and in heels and in a lot of ways like school nursing is like that You know, it's just there's all these different things to deal with and and The school nurses just have such a unique and important role. And so I'll second. Okay. First and the second. Thank you to our school nurses All those in favor Notion passes unanimously seven zero. Thank you Next item up is night of nine point five No, it is not. It is night of nine point four adopt resolution 21 22 43 Recognizing asian american and pacific islander heritage month Hi Good evening president to surf at board of trustees and dr. Rodriguez Minorities and other vulnerable groups have been targeted for persecution During public health crises throughout history in 14th century europe. It was the jews for the bubonic plague 1900s the chinese for a plague outbreak in san francisco In the 1980s the Haitians were wrongly blamed for bringing hiv aids to the united states And now over the past two years the hate incidents against asian americans have skyrocketed due to the rhetoric of covid 19 Over the last two years violent attacks against asian american pacific islanders are 11 times higher than in the past We bring resolutions forward to recognize and celebrate different groups within our organization and our society For the resolution before you we are asking that not only do we recognize and celebrate the contributions achievements in history of asian american pacific islanders Like the first asian american vice president But also take time to reflect on our own actions on how we contribute to or help stop the persecution of others who are not like us Through the month of may in the news section We have resources for teachers And the public as well um to links to local asian american pacific islander organizations and information on upcoming local events And then resources for teachers Resolution 21 22 43 recognizes may as asian american pacific islander heritage month. I'm going to read just a few excerpts from the resolution Whereas asian american pacific islanders comprise many ethnicities and languages And their multitude of achievements embody the american experience And whereas immigrant refugee and american born community members of asian pacific islander ancestry Have contributed immensely to the growth and stability of the state of california the pahoa valley unified school district and community By deepening our american values of family education social justice and community Which further shapes the social and economic character of this county And now therefore be it resolved that the pahoa valley unified school district proclaimed May 2022 as asian american pacific islander heritage month to inspire equity And celebrate diversity within our community to elevate the voices and honor the stories of our local asian american pacific islander history To partner with local agencies such as the tabera project to educate teachers staff and students of the conscious and unconscious biases prevalent in our society today And thank you and with that staff asked for the approval of the resolution Thank you, lisa. Do we have any speakers to this topic? No, okay. Do we have any comments or questions? Uh-huh, sorry I just wanted to say, you know, thank you for bringing this resolution up the japanese filipino and chinese Residents of watsom were the first farm workers in the pahoa valley During world war two When the united states government sent away the japanese americans They still volunteered to fight for the united states And my district alone You know, we have a buddhist temple on bridge street where they celebrate the obon festival In august and what the obon festival is is where Japanese american citizens celebrate their ancestors I'll bring some more information. It's I'd recommend it You know, there's a small japanese american family that own A restaurant off of eastlake There's a small filipino and grocery store I believe on eastlake by garden gardeners And also on Blackburn street with the japanese american citizens league Where they focus On not just human rights to everybody So I just like to show that there are strong presence in onceville And thank you for bringing this trusty shocker I just wanted to say thank you for bringing this forward again We brought forward a resolution similar last year when our community Um Was going through the pandemic and many asians were being blamed like you said for the corona virus I just want to acknowledge the work that watsonville and the heart does They just launched their digital archives archives recently And it's important to remember Everybody's heritage here in watsonville and the asian filipino community plays a big part in our heritage Of watsonville. So thank you and i'll second You have a second. Okay, trustee roscow. Do you have a comment? No, I think Okay, the resolution says it all we have a first and a second. Thank you for bringing it forward all those in favor I Motion carries seven zero. Thank you Now is an item item 9.5 approved resolution 21 22 39 for rural school bus pilot program Hi, hi Good evening president a serpa board of trustees and dr. Rodriguez Um several years ago on behalf of pvusd. I applied for a grant with the rural school bus pilot program in the third year of selection We have been selected and awarded a grant for a replacement bus The award is for one electric bus funded up to four hundred thousand dollars with a small amount of money for infrastructure charging charging infrastructure One of the requirements prior to completing the application process is that we have a board resolution showing approval Um of the submission of the application for this grant process So staff respectfully request your approval of this resolution Are there any speakers to this item? none Great any comments from our board? Um, I'd like to say thank you for taking the opportunity to apply for this grant. This is fantastic And we appreciate um the motivation that you had in going after that money. It's very special So Motion to approve second all those in favor I Motion carries unanimously. Thank you. Thank you Okay, um We already covered item 9.6. So we'll move to item 9.7 a williams quarterly report for january february and march of 2022 Yes, thank you president president de serpa board of trustees dr. Rodriguez. So I have the quarter three williams report As you know, the district needs to adopt um a complaint procedure And so we have done so and are following it. So for quarter three. We did have one facilities complaint that we received um for lakeview middle school and the complaint has been addressed and resolved and responded to and so Um, that is what our quarters report is showing Are there any speakers? No. Okay. Any questions from the board? Tristia costa. Yeah, I just have a question. Um with the So you said we received the one complaint from lakeview middle school. Yes, and um in the third quarter and I mean numerous meetings we keep getting complaints Particularly from wasa bahai about the bathrooms. We heard it again tonight and I know we're not going to gauge in that dialogue here But I'm just wondering if we're getting those complaints here at the board meeting. How come the are do the do To our teachers administration our staff our students Do they not know how to file a complaint to have it raised to this level of awareness? I'm Why are we hearing it at the board level but not seeing it here is my guess my question So this complaint procedure is predominantly for like the community members and or they can be filed at the school site But it is also for this one was actually filed by someone who is not even a part of the school district necessarily They can be filed by anybody right regarding conditions to being brought to the attention of of the board Um, so it's an avenue similar to like when we have complaints filed against either employees or the district You can follow that procedure But still if things are brought up to district administration that are not necessarily following the formal process does not mean that We don't follow up and respond to them So there's just a formal process that are that are that is out there and is public that people can engage in That might not be a part of the school community But it's just a venue for them to be able to file a complaint But it doesn't mean that all of the ones like you've said that we've either heard or that engage in any one of us That we're not addressing them just because they maybe didn't file a formal williams complaint Great, I and I appreciate that explanation and I I get that and I'm not saying that I want it to have to go to the formal You know, but I'm just wanting to make because it just It just seems to be a continuum We continually continually continually see to having these complaints brought to the boardroom and that's fine I mean, you know, people have their their right to approach this board with that but I just you know Wanting to sure that