Hi everybody, okay, so I want to talk today about the Eternal battle to do what is right and another way of saying it is to relate to Discipline from a deeper spiritual perspective And what do I say discipline? Well, I think a lot of a lot of us myself included We know that if we do certain things Consistently the things that we plan the things that we know are good for us long term That our life will get better Right our relationships will get better. Our health will get better our spiritual perspective will be stronger our Work will be more successful Our our country will be better. You know our world will be better if only Right, imagine right imagine if everyone did what was right or what they knew what they believed was our what their conscience Is telling them at each moment to to to do I mean everything from treating other people well even when we're tired and hangry To You know getting up From from the bed at the right time From you know doing our work from you know at the right time doing the right of the right kind of work that we that are Eating the right foods, you know doing the right kinds of health activities To any everything everything is about is each person following Their conscience to the best of their ability because if so the world will probably be a far better kinder stronger place, right so And and and then there's this sort of misunderstanding of spirituality as Being go with the flow do whatever you feel like doing because that's what the spirit my intuition my guidance So-called right is telling me to do this or telling me to do that my guidance my mind What I feel like doing is eating a bucket of ice cream right now on the couch You know, I am forgiven and forever loved by God, so it's okay for me to do that right and technically that's true Technically, it is true that you know God the universe source loves you forever and ever and ever and Is pouring forgiveness to you at all times and you can there's nothing And that's that's the paradox right that that is absolutely true that there's nothing Wrong that you can do there's no sin. That's great enough to knock you from the pedestal that God has placed you on as the most precious being in the universe to Cherish and to love forever and ever which is true for every being in the universe. God is powerful and you know Big enough to to place every every single being as on the to make every being feel as if they were the only Being the only beloved in the whole universe So that is true Which is why there is this common misperception of spirituality as Just do go with the flow to what you feel like doing even if it's not, you know eating a bucket of ice cream on the couch But it's like It's it's not following discipline. It's not following. It's not following your conscience. Essentially your conscience says Okay, let's do this do that. This is healthy for you. This is good for your long term And yet the ego comes up and says, oh, no, I think I want to do this right now, and then it's okay I'm forgiven go with the flow but so so let me suggest a Perhaps a deeper spiritual perspective. I don't know it helps it's deeper for me. Anyway, maybe it's obvious to you We'll see But if only if only We could feel The love of God Use the word that inspires you the most if only we could feel abundant source if only we could feel the oneness of the universe in the moments when we need to decide to do the right thing to Do the healthy act for our bodies and our minds and emotions to treat the person with Magnanimity with bigness with forgiveness Even when we don't feel like it even when they just did something That makes us feel uncomfortable and bad or whatever and we naturally our ego itself wants to reciprocate with you know with You know with revenge Even in the tiniest way of saying something back You know or of treating them with silent treatment or whatever, right? When we are doing our work We we might you know our work might involve Creating something and it's hard to create things that of value and so In that moment we will say oh social media Let me go and be a spiritual person and go and comment on other people's social media because that's of service to them Right or whatever excuse our brilliant brilliant mind Creates to seem spiritual to ourselves even though we've just violated or You know Moved away from what the conscience is saying now. This is what you plan to do. This is of integrity for yourself You know anyway, so If only We could feel deep abiding abundant love being loved in that moment and If we did feel that abundant love divine love in that moment of decision Then wouldn't it be easier to Decide to do what's right? Yeah, I think so I think so If we felt the connectedness to all of the universe right whatever you want to call love the the oneness the abundance the Grace if we felt that then Wouldn't it be easier to do what's right? I Think so Right no matter if we're tired. Let's say we're tired We're tired Okay more hungry and yet in that moment we feel abundant love and Grace and connectedness then it would be Easier to say yes, let me go and take a nap even though I feel like I'm addicted to social media or addicted to watching this video Or whatever addicted playing this game or whatever if we were with a you know with with another person and May somehow things didn't go well with us go well for us that day and this person says something that we perceive as rude or mean or insensitive or attacking our character or whatever or On loving and yet in that moment we were able to resource abundant love and Well-being it's spiritual well-being Then wouldn't it be easier at that moment to give that love back To to return meanness with love to return Yeah, to return to reciprocate their meanness with love with kindness with forgiveness with humor with lightness With caring with compassion. Yes, I think I think so At work, let's say we are Needing to create something that is risky that may you know may may may Not not make money Let's say make maybe something that we think okay. This might be really valuable, but it might also flop There's a risk here. I'm putting energy into this project and I don't know if it's gonna do well But it's it's needed In that moment, it would be easier to for example go search social media Go and tweak our website a little bit more to go and do the one million other things do a little bit of bookkeeping Like bookkeeping or do do one million other things instead of take the risk and the scary and the anxiety of Creating something of possible value or possible failure If in that moment we felt abundant love If in that moment we Were we recalled the oneness of everything and the ultimate and abiding security of our souls If that were true, if we felt that in a moment Wouldn't it be easier to take the risk? Wouldn't it be easier to be courageous and experimented experimental experimentation mindset Growth mindset. Yes, I think it would be so That leads me to to my conclusion, which is perhaps the thing to do before the discipline the thing that the action before doing what's right is to return return return To the ultimate source of love Of security of oneness of joy of peace of Kindness of grace of lightness of enoughtness if we were to resource ourselves and Therefore feel The abundance and the peace and the love of source Then my goodness making the right decisions would be so much easier because we wouldn't be Making decisions or living life out of fear But instead out of love so the conclusion for me therefore is To me what I see at this moment of the purpose of my life is Moment by moment to practice resourcing love as deeply and as quickly as possible Right now it might take me a couple minutes of You know energy reboot and really like a little bit of meditation and prayer and Movement or whatever to like resource love again so that I can make the right decision for health for well-being for compassion for courage for Service, you know true truly selfless service But the more I practice the more I can find ways to quickly and deeply resource love then The more easily I can the more quickly I can make good decisions the more Possibility I can have of being disciplined the discipline self-discipline of Using my wisdom to plan what my what my actions are going to be and to do those actions Rather than be taken off track by my emotional my inner resistances and conflicts and fear essentially so The so this is why I I think okay, so besides Resourcing love is what we're talking about here, right the practice of resourcing love in as many moments of the day as possible And to do it as deeply and as quickly as possible, which again I Called the purpose of my life because it's going to take the rest of my life at least If not a thousand lifetimes right to to practice To do it really well I certainly am very much still I feel like I'm still and you know very much a beginner in this I'm like just realizing it this week. Oh that makes sense to me Oh, that's the mission. Ah, that's the purpose. Ah, that's the The main homework or task of every day of every moment is to resource love resource love resource love so that I am in this the best state of being I possibly can be to do the right thing to make the loving choice and so resourcing love has this obviously huge daily benefit of doing the right thing I also believe that By practice practice of resourcing love abundance grace joy peace resourcing the divine Okay, returning to the divine in as many moments of the day as possible So this is not just a morning meditation, right like I always caricature spiritual practice and this is Again, like it's a caricature. It's it's it's a it's a straw man It's easy to tear down this spiritual practice of oh, I I'm so spiritual I meditate for one hour in the morning and one hour in the evening and Then the rest of the day. I'm a jerk Rest of the day I completely have amnesia about what the heck spirituality is and what the heck equanimity is I don't I just practice my deep deep deep meditation and Rituals in the morning and evening and midday fine three times a day. I'm so spiritual But what about at 3 p.m. When it's not the middle of the day or what about that? You know 9 p.m. Or Iowa pick pick any time of the day when you're not when you haven't just come out of your meditation So to me My what works for what what is the mission for me? The practice for me is to come back like not three times a day, but 35 80 times a day like that is living consciously right like not not just a morning practice or evening practice or midday practice, but Every five minute practice like every five minutes. I should be like where am I? What am I aware of spirituality? Now of course the more deeply and the more frequently I practice the more it becomes integrated into Like just the way I am and like I level up a little bit more as the normal the normalization like the normal state of being is is higher because of my frequency of practice and then The continued frequency of practice raises me even higher and then even higher the state of being becomes more sublime as We keep practicing keep practicing throughout the whole day. It's not twice three times a day, but it's twice it starts with twice an hour and Then three times an hour and then five times an hour and then ten times an hour now I don't know if we can do beyond ten times an hour because that's literally every five minutes We keep you know conscious like oh awake again five minutes later awake again like a reminder, you know That might be you know more than that might be crazy making because we can't focus on whatever else we're doing because we got every minute We got to go back go back to God every minute. That's crazy, but But right now what I've been trying to do what what what what has become more normal for me is every ten minutes At least during my working day like when I'm not working with a timer It's it's harder to remember every ten minutes because if I'm with my you know with my with my family with friends I'm not gonna like have a timer go off every ten minutes because that's that's socially inappropriate So I have to find other ways during my off times to remind myself again That's why some people wear like a like a bracelet that they can remind themselves You know or some other visual or physical cue to keep reminding themselves to come back and come back come back come back So well, I was gonna say one more thing I think besides This this resourcing of love besides the benefit it has for doing the right thing of discipline of living life Consciously besides that I think and play with me here This is a nice imagination whether it's true or not. I'll leave it up to you, but every time we resource love Like bring love Again that bring the divine again to this dense third-dimensional reality every time we do that we create this ripple effect That ripples out into many dimensions many dimensions beyond our physical senses That's what I believe. I mean that's a nice imagination. So imagine every time you resource love you like like put put a a Vibration of the divine Out into many dimensions again like like and so somehow that's a really important work. I Believe it's my highest work Right every moment as many moments every ten minutes right now All right, right now you might be starting this in me I got God if I could just do once an hour that'd be amazing if I do three times a day of resourcing love That would be amazing great right start With what's doable. Don't go great. I'm gonna do it like George every ten minutes It's gonna be too much it takes more stamina than you might have at this moment, right of like your brain having to Return again, so maybe maybe it is good to start with once a day twice a day three times a day, right three times a day It's wonderful morning midday night Wonderful as anchor points anchoring love again Into the into the dimensions beyond our physical sight like how many beings does this affect unlimited? I mean how many we cannot even imagine possibly unlimited numbers of beings every time a resource love It just goes out into the I imagine this like beam of light this beam of love Into the into the many dimensions Start with three times a day you know and Then beyond three times a day and then every time you're at work try to do a half 25-minute half hour timer on your phone So every half hour you return again to energy reboot, which is my practice of resourcing love essentially If you don't know energy reboot you can look it up on Google energy reboot Google knows my energy reboot and you can watch my videos about that if you want to but anyway, I Hope this is inspiring if we can resource love The more I resource love in every moment thereby transforming this earth and its many dimensions and therefore having the resource to Be light again to have to feel enoughness again To be able to make a good choice at this nexus point again To understand again that this is a safe stage Forgiving love, so I hope this is helpful in some way and thank you. 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lability within that after school program, definitely. Okay. Program course. Great. Thank you. And then as far as the policy piece under, on page three, under nutrition guidelines for foods available at schools, on paragraph, it says to maximize student utilization of these programs and ensure that no student goes hungry, the district will explore available USDA waivers allowing the feeding of all children for free and for free and apply for these waivers if the percentage of free and reduced qualifying students makes the program cost effective. So it was my understanding that I think the board approved and did without having to charge any students who had to pay at least a portion out of pocket. So to me, this is concerning because it's based on the number of waivers. Is that, am I understanding that? No, I think it's just saying that whenever there's a program available that we're going to try to bring free meals or to a school whenever possible. So that's the community eligibility provision that I spoke about. So 18 of our schools, I applied for that. It can last up to four years and I can renew. And so those 18 schools currently receive breakfast and lunch at no cost to every single student. Whether they take advantage of it and come in the cafeteria or not is available to them. And we're going to be growing that as the schools have the numbers to qualify. And so that's just like a promise that whenever we can qualify and be able to run the program for it to be cost effective, we will apply for that benefit for families. Yeah, I would hate to turn a student away from a school that's not qualifying within this waiver program who doesn't have access to, you know, for your reduced lunch. So currently- Could you repeat the concern? I'm sorry, I- Yeah, so for schools who have not qualified as part of this waiver process, students who, let's say, get in line during lunchtime, are they turned away if they don't have money to pay for lunch? So without applying for a provision, then every family, every household can fill an application and get qualified for either a reduced fee or free meals. And so, and then in our district for anyone, any family qualifying for reduced meals, we actually, we waive that fee and we cover it. So basically only families that do not qualify in our district would not be assisted in that way. So that's, without any provisions, if we didn't apply, if I didn't apply for any, then every single household is able to apply through the application process and get qualified. So on top of that, we have these universal programs that we're able to apply for. So 18 schools don't even need to worry about that because we're able to qualify them automatically. Thank you. Sorry, my microphone wasn't working. You know, as a parent of kids that have come through the district, I'm very pleased to see the professionalization of the roles and leadership. This is an awesome presentation compared to presentations I've seen in the past. Your wellness groups are well represented. I'm very impressed with Alison Alamon. Are you new to our district, Alison? Or April, sorry. April, third year, great. Well, anyway, with all the representation that's here tonight, it's really great. One of the first things I did as a parent before I was even on the board is I came and addressed the board, and I was very upset because all of the food choices on the school menus were every single day was a fast food item. And whether it was healthier or not, it was teaching our kids that they should be eating fast food every single day. So anyway, I just wanna say congratulations. I know one of the things that was changed on this wellness policy is the ability for parents to still do occasional treats in the classroom, which was a big problem in the original document where it said they could not do that anymore and it caused a lot of unhappy parents on campuses. So I appreciate the rewording. And I wanna thank John Fisher for his work and school gardens. My kids came through the Valencia program and did weekly field trips up to UCSC and participated and we thank UCSC for their participation with our district. I'd like to see that program again expanded to the schools that they're not at because only a few campuses seem to be getting the benefits. So anyway, thank you everybody for being here. Good job. Willie or Georgia, do you have any comments? Pardon me? Do you have any comments? Am I up? Thank you. What is the count? How many lunches a day do you prepare? On average, we're preparing 20,000 meals per day and that's between breakfast, lunch. 25 what? 20,000. 20,000 a day. And we have a staff of about 100 in our department. I wanna just bring this out because I haven't heard one criticism all year out of the thousands of youngsters that we serve. Usually there's people upset about something but I haven't heard one comment out of 20,000 lunches a day. So I find that really wonderful, remarkable. My next comment is kinda sounds silly but Joe and I will volunteer to be on the lunch committee to go and sample lunches every day. Joe, I've been trying to find the perfect French fry for the last 15 years and I think it's my responsibility to do that. The other thing I wanna add is that the work that I am up to every afternoon is in the medical insurance area. And what we're trying to do is we're trying to marry a health plan with wellness because we know that if we can keep people healthy, they will not have a claim, medical claim and the rates should either stabilize or head down. Our health insurance for our people within the school district, 40 million a year and if it goes up to 6%, that's $2.4 million a year that thing's gonna go up. In 12 years, that 40 million is gonna double to $80 million. We won't be able to afford it. So we have to look at wellness plans for everybody, not only for the children but for all the other staff people so that we can eliminate or reduce medical costs for everybody which is gonna help us financially and maybe put that money back onto the salary schedule. So anyway, you guys have done a great job. This is the start of the program that I can see but we need to now move it to the faculty, move it to the staff people. Thank you very much for bringing it out. So Willie, are you asking that to be added to this policy or think about moving that direction in the future? Well, I don't think that we have to give direction but I think that it's something that we can look at. Actually, I just wanna provide an update. We are meeting with our health plan carriers just to review our wellness programs that are offered currently through our carriers. And one of the other items that we're also looking at is as a healthy workforce is looking at gym, membership and partnerships within that here in the community and with our district. So that's another area that we're looking at right now. Okay, and Michelle has something to add too. So April mentioned it briefly but we are very fortunate because the Kaiser Foundation has sponsored us or supported us to be part of the alliance for healthier tomorrows. And so part of that is we found a big gap or a big need to support staff wellness. So that will be a significant part of the work that we're doing because we agree with you that that is one area in which we're very weak. Good, Wunder, thank you. Also to address your question in the new language added to the wellness policy under family, community and staff involvement, section B, it says health promotions for staff and it talks about the district shall promote opportunities for staff members to participate in health promotion programs. When feasible, the district will offer professional development opportunities and resources for staff to increase knowledge and skills about promoting healthy behaviors in the classroom and in school. So there's some language that addresses health promotions for staff as well. Thank you. Trustee Acosta, do you have any questions? Okay, I have a couple. So you mentioned that the document that we have isn't the updated one. Yeah, so on May 9th, we brought this then for discussion and then the attachment was the correct one and I noticed that the one attached for this one is has just some slight differences. So I'm not sure how we can get that updated. Well, we'd be able to update that like within a couple of days. So we have the two weeks. So we will get that and it'll be posted publicly as well, right? Okay. So that way we can review it and forward any questions to Joe and C.C. Michelle. So this one you may have been updated but right above where you were just reading the family community and staff involvement, page 10. Item D, health and safe school environment and then there's a question mark. Right, that's why, yes. So I noticed when it was, I could see the highlight and the question mark that it was earlier. That's where I heard that, okay. So even going back to, in board docs, going to look at the May 9th, I see the agenda item on there and the attachment has the new language. Okay. And then I don't know who can answer this question either Michelle or Joe. Do we have a separate policy that addresses bullying or would that be in this? Because I did a control find and I couldn't find the word anywhere in this document. I'm sure that I would have to look it up. I'm sure it's under student services that we have it and it's under, I know that we have a policy on cyberbullying for sure because we're updating that one currently. So I'm sure that we have one in terms of bullying under student discipline. It wouldn't probably be under the wellness policy but it would be under student discipline. It seems to me like wellness, a wellness policy. I mean, if we have it, it's fine. I guess it doesn't matter, but it is talking about counseling, psychological and social services. So that's just something that we can bring forward. Sure, we can add. Okay. And then the changes in the fundraisers, state and federal regulations have changed, you mentioned. So I feel like it's really important to communicate that out to school sites and families on why we have to make those changes. It's not just the board decided that we have to adhere. I think that's really important because it can seem like we're just implementing things. Willie Milley. I wasn't gonna use that, but go ahead. No, and the first time that this was brought to principals, there was trainings and group meetings with principals with handouts and explanation at that time and with my previous director. And then looking to do whatever it takes to help explain that this time around. Okay. I just want one more thing. Quick, because we're getting... But I just want one more thing. I would think you would be, I would imagine you would be promoting, I know it's not totally wellness, but it's sort of things like recycling. And I don't know if you actually do composting because we talk about all the people from different community lifelabs, all this fitness for life. Promoting sort of composting kind of ideas, recycling composting. I would think you'd be doing that too. Yeah, I thought about including that in my presentation as well just as a personal interest of mine. It's never addressed in any of the rules and regulations pertaining to school nutrition, but I know our area and I get a lot of phone calls and questions about it. So I've worked with a few schools that have worked with Bonner Bay Aquarium and have a campaign against spork packets. So we've done things to kind of provide them a dispenser and not have the packages that they've talked about. So work with the few schools that really have this green team going on and try to address their concerns. And food waste and packaging waste is something we've worked with. There was an outside group that came in last month and worked with us and did some analysis at some schools during meal time. And so that's just something personally we're looking at just to make sure that food waste and packaging waste is at a minimum while still meeting all of our regulations. So in general, there's a lot of packaging because of the types of kitchens that we have. A lot of satelliteing happens and so everything needs to be covered. So there's a little bit of that, but we explain that and we do our best. It's not something that we've put into the wellness policy, though. Okay, so this, I'm sorry, did you have something else, Joe? No, I was just gonna say in closing, on behalf of the team, we thank the board for the opportunity and your support. And I'd just like to give a round of applause to the team because they're definitely moving this forward. Thank you very much and thank you all for coming. I was nice to see a good representation of what's happening at our schools. So I'm gonna ask for a motion to approve the first reading of our board policy 5030 wellness policy first reading. Make a motion to approve the first reading of the wellness policy. I'll second that motion. Okay, all those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Thank you, motion passes 601. Item 12.5, this is a request for approval on Allianza Charter School Measure L bond project reprioritization. So before we continue, I do wanna make a motion to extend the meeting to 11 p.m. Okay, and yes, because we do have some action items that we have to take. So all those in favor of extending the meeting to 11 o'clock? Aye. Any opposed? Aye. Okay, motion passes 511. And okay, and this is Victor Sandoval is giving this presentation. Hi, Victor, thanks for waiting. Good evening, Board President DeRose, Board members, Superintendent Dr. Rodriguez. Tonight, the planning department is recommending the approval of 12.5 reprioritization of projects. The reason for this recommendation is that recently we had a site inspection by CalOSHA and the inspector of CalOSHA identified several items that were addressed immediately. And in addition, three more projects that are quite sizable in scope and dollar value. So tonight, because of that, we wanna exercise one of the procedures that was previously approved late last year, the reprioritization that was co-authored by our bond oversight chair and myself for this particular reason. What we wanna do is take the remaining funds from the measure L or what's remaining from the allocation to Alianza and address these three issues. I've been guaranteed by our CBO that we're gonna be able to cover them. However, we're gonna have to use several other budgets and hopefully that we can cover these and get these addressed prior to any other issues coming up. So tonight, I'm recommending that you guys approve this motion so that we can go forward with it. Okay, and we do have a speaker. We do, Bill Beecher. Good evening. The good news is we created a process and it worked. But like everything that's new is you usually learn something from doing it. And I think we've learned something and I'll comment at the end some of those things that we need to do a little differently, not with this process, but with our sites. So it turns out that at a previous meeting and also at the COC meeting in February, we had Alianza site council and parents that came in and complained about issues at their site. So prodding from trustee Yahiro, he forced Mark and I to have to go out to Alianza. And so we did a review with the principal and I'll share with you some of the things that we saw while we were there. Well, in order to get to the Alianza campus, there was no parking. So we had to go over to the charter school of the arts to park, problem number one. But we were able to look at both campuses and truthfully, they just don't look as good as our other campuses. That brings up a question that I'll talk about at the end. So at Alianza, here were the things that we saw that fit into what Victor has on his list is the new bathrooms are going in and it's all, they weren't all done, but boy, they look nice. There was color coordination with the school colors. They look good, but they brought up that there was a shortage of classrooms that they had teachers that had to move around and that they don't have office space. They also had a bunch of windows that had been condemned part of that process that Victor alluded to, and they are scheduled to be replaced. We also saw dry rot up in some of the beams and the traffic issue with buses and cars and the lack of parking is not a minor thing. I mean, I went through this out at Mar Vista where something needs to be done. And then the playground surface was old. Actually, there's two playground surfaces. One was nice, the other one is real old. Most of this stuff has nothing to do with Measure L. And so there was confusion by the principal and I saw this at Mar Vista and at Rio where the site council and the principal wasn't sure what do you do when you have these kinds of issues that need to be dealt with. And so for me, I looked at that and I said, gee, there's training that's missing. And I saw this when we first implemented in why we did the process thing last year is these site councils and the principals don't understand what all the options are and what they can do or should be doing. Secondly, in going by the charter school of the arts, their roofs are about as old as I am and that's not good. They look terrible. Not only that, but just the charter school just looks dingy. Don't know what we can do about that, but it falls in that there's nothing in Measure L that could help them out. So what I've done is to do an area map showing where some of the problems were. We saw a dry rot in the circle on the right and we saw the old playground was on the circle on the left. Now I have a thought was that they have a security problem that have a low fence that runs along that side road that's only about two foot high and people come along and they grab children and pull them over and so the principals worry that people may take children away. They could abscond with them because it's too easy to get to the children. Well, if we were to put fencing along there and either created parking for cars or for buses, you improve the situation immediately. But they also have a fairly large area in the front where you could do parking and you go. But it was never identified in Measure L. Sorry about that. And then with the Charter School of the Arts is that the red circle area is those roofs, if you went out there and looked at them, you kind of go, oh my God, waiting for a disaster. So how do we have equity with our charter schools and the rest of our district? Now how do they fall into our whole facilities planning? And that kind of leads into what's missing where eight years into Measure L in the planning facilities committee. I was on that facilities committee. Well, we need a facilities committee now that's out there looking at these buildings, identifying these problems that we hear by people coming to us. We need an active facilities committee and that closes what I have to say. Thank you. Thank you, Bill. Are there comments or questions from the board? Willie, I see you're going right ahead. Hey, Victor, the priorities at Alianza need to get changed and that's why you brought this tonight, correct? Well, they have OSHA violations. It's kind of two-fold. Let me answer, please. It's kind of two-fold. They only have very little money left to address the two projects that we have at hand. We need to really just kind of focus on those two items solely because they're fire life safety. One is the fire alarm and the other one is a clock bell paging system so they all call. So we need to salvage whatever is left and focus on those two projects. Yeah, you know to add to what Bill said, I went out there expecting far less maintenance and things which you guys have already done. There's a wing out there that's brand new. There are bathrooms. Matter of fact, when I first walked out there, I said, pour the potties for our kids. Pour the potties? No, that's never going to happen. But what I found out was that when the bathroom's modernization catches up and is finished, those poured potties are going to be gone. Immediately, everyone there is, get those out of here. So anyway, my comment is that I was pleased to see so much work being done. Alianza is the old South Subway D. School and it's very, very old. And so everything out there needs to get done, I think. And so anyway, it's been worked on. And so I like to make the motion to approve the request here. I'll take a second and then we can continue with discussion if there's more. A second. Any more discussion or comments? Okay, I have a, I'm sorry. And on the document under process, it says, it's talking about when the school plan was established, there were priorities set and it had to include parents' notification of the community. Is that being done with the revision as well? No, what the document says or the approved document, which is attached, it's under 12.1. I'm talking about 12.4. 12.4, no, it doesn't take place of what happens is because of the severity of the issues that were identified by Cal OSHA. We're exercising just 12.1, which the board says because of fire and life safety, we're making a motion on reprioritization of their priority list. Okay, all right, I see that. Okay, thank you for clarifying that. Thank you. Okay, so I will go ahead and we have a motion and a second, so all those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Thank you, say it's student safety is one of the most important things that we have to keep on top of, so thank you. No report and discussion items onto the consent agenda. Would anyone like to make a motion to approve? I just want to pull a couple things from the consent agenda, do I do that now? Yes, you tell me what numbers those are. Okay, I want to pull 14.3, yeah, 14.3, yeah. 0.3? No, no, no. Well, Leslie, oh, I'm sorry. One moment. The one about agile minds, what is that one? 14 point, oh, they're 14.13, 14.13. Okay, and then the last one is, maybe I just wanted a little bit more information on the 14.16. Service agreement. Analytics schools. Okay, okay, do you want to make a motion with those pulled? I'm making a motion to pass everything with the two, with the session of the two deferred items. Wait, I want to, before you make the motion, okay. What I like to do is just, I don't want to pull it, I just want to make a comment for the record. Item 14.26, I believe, is the EA Hall, EA Hall field. And I just want to thank Victor and Michelle for everyone, and also for the people on the board. I thank you guys very much for supporting this. It means a lot to EA Hall School and to the Watsonville area. And it is, we've all worked on this for a long time, so thank you very much. Okay, is there a second? We have a motion by Karen. A second. Okay, all those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes 601. The second was Kim. So deferred consent items, we'll start with 14.13. So is there an actual mind person here? I forgot who was the one. So either Susan or I can speak to it. I'll speak to it first. Okay, so actual mind is unique in that it pairs, it couples math instruction with basically providing students with social-emotional support simultaneously. So for example, one thing that it promotes is what's called effective effort. So it's helping students to realize how they can, the effort that they are applying, is it being effective or not? So for example, if we have a test on Friday, do we wait until the night before to cram and do all of it or do we actually to systematically look at chunking it so that we can apply the best effective effort? It also works on goal-setting and it works on persistence and self-efficacy, meaning believing that what I do actually supports the work. The difference between agile mind and other things that I appreciate is that it doesn't do it in isolation. So meaning, if I try to tell you, well, apply effective effort and we just do it abstractly, then it doesn't help you versus if I apply pressure to you and then I'm helping you simultaneously to apply effective effort, you learn it, right? Not just conceptually, but actually you literally learn it. So it has proven to have a lot of support in accelerating math. So this is gonna be, it was used this year for the first time. It's now going to be used in two different places, both with our Math 1 teachers and with our brand new pilot with Summer in the City. So the Summer in the City internship program is also going to be using agile mind as well with our teachers that are teaching the curriculum. And again, it's about helping the kids to learn these skills that really make them effective learners and effective adults. Yeah. Okay. Any other questions? Okay, Karen, do you wanna make a motion? I make a motion to approve this one, 14, 13, second. Okay, all those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes 5-0 to Trustee Acosta absent. I don't know if she left or if she stepped out for a moment. Okay, item 14.16, this is also a deferred item on the analytic agreement. Analytics schools, yeah, so. Is that also? Okay. Hey, Helen.  I love being here this late. President DeRose, board members, Dr. Rodriguez. This software is what we use for our budget development and our multi-year projections. It is very user-friendly for my staff to use and provide. But software, analytical is software. Analytic, yeah. Analytic. Yeah, it's a software that we use to prepare the budgets for you. Okay, so I wasn't sure, I was reading what it said about it and I was like, well, I'm not even sure 100% what that is. Yeah. Okay. And we have this contract every year. Oh, okay. All right, thanks. Okay. Yeah. I move to approve 14-16. Okay, is there a second? Second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes 5-0 to with Trustee Acosta and Arsenault absent. For closed session, we do not need to reconvene, so we'll move to 17 action on closed session. And we had one expulsion under item 2.1. Trustee Asmonson, would you, oh, thank you for telling her that I forgot to. Go ahead, make sure you've got the mic, so. I move to approve the recommendation of the district administration for a suspended expulsion of the remainder of 2017-2018 year and the fall semester of 2018-2019. Oh, and this one has with placement and under school outside the district. This is different than most suspensions. For 17-18-039. A second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes 5-0 to, and the rest of closed session, I'm sorry? So under item 2.2 I move to approve the Parallel Unified School District Certificate report, personnel report as presented by the district administration with the addition of six administrative appointments to other assignments and nine separations. Is there a second? Second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes 5-0 to. I do want to congratulate the eight appointments, administrative appointments. We have Carrie Lerox, who is now our CELPA director. She comes from, program director, I'm sorry, CELPA director, so I'm just reading, comes to PUSD from Santa Cruz Garden Elementary where she's a principal with much experience utilizing a student-centered approach to later teams. We also have Josh Phillips, who is now our assistant principal at Aptos Junior High, comes to PUSD from Monterey Bay, where he is an assistant principal and a lot of secondary education experience as an administrator, athletic director and teacher. We have now Susie Alarcón, child development coordinator. She comes from Hollister with much experience in the public and private sector in family services and CTE. We have Laura Smith, now our academic coordinator at Mar Vista. She was promoted from teacher at Radcliffe. We have Mike Berman, now our director of Equity, Federal and State Programs. He was promoted from high elementary, from high elementary principal. We have Mayra Fernandez, now our principal at Hall District Elementary. She was promoted from academic coordinator. We have Rafael Ramirez, who is now our principal at New School. He's bringing expertise, lending his expertise at charter and K through eight programs to alternative education. And lastly, we have Andrew Singleton. Now our interim principal at PCCS. And he would be bringing his leadership experience to help with the end of the year closing and school opening activities. I do wanna highlight that of all eight administrative appointments, five of them are in house. And I think that's very valuable because it shows that as a district we're trying to build our own. So thank you Chona for putting this together for me. And so now under item 2.3, I move to approve the Power of Valley Unified School District Classified Personnel Report as presented by the District Administration with the addition of one separation. Is there a second? All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes 502. All right, and under item 2.7. Do I have this correct? One second. Yander item 2.7, the board approved a workers' compensation claim settlement, authority claim for number 8106, 060123 with a 5011 vote. Okay, thank you. Well, it's making it without coughing. Excuse me. Under item 18, upcoming meetings, there has been a change made to the calendar. We have currently a special board study session scheduled for November 28th. That's gonna be moved to December 5th, okay? December 5th? I thought it was the 5th, okay. When it's on a re-org meeting, isn't that the first meeting? The 12th. December 12th, okay. So I don't need to do that right now? Okay. Okay. So the next meeting will be the 27th, and we'll be doing our 1819 budget adoption. So just to remind the board, if there are any additional comments, please send them to the superintendent's office within the next, I'd say, week to 10 days. So she has time to respond. And I believe that's it. So item 19 is adjournment. Thank you for coming.


Let's talk about oscillators for a moment. Now an oscillator is just something that can oscillate and lots of things can oscillate in fact nearly everything we meet can oscillate if organized quickly here are just three things I've found that people had left around my room and if I tap them You can hear that they make quite clear distinct sounds and that clear single frequency that they're giving off is Low in that case and high in that case and it's wearing off after a while And the fact that's wearing off means it's losing energy to its environment and that's called damping and so this thing here Gives off some sound and then it's lost its oscillation and so it's damped if I had the desk The desk is highly damped and it has a very broad spectrum of frequency So that didn't sound like it had a very clear frequency at all But it had a very broad spectrum and it was very strongly damped Alternatively you might have something like a tuning fork a tuning fork is very specifically designed to have low damping so that it keeps its note for a long time So it has a beautifully clear frequency We're just designed to have and it also has very little damping to its environment and so you can use that to Check the notes of other things and you also have other kinds of oscillations like a pendulum Which can oscillate for a while and it'll eventually get damped as well in this case largely because it's losing energy Because I'm not holding it too well with my arm and so it's losing energy to my arm Now it's no accident that the things that we saw were very highly damped Tended to have less clear frequency. So the clearer better frequency you could hear the less damped it was That's easy to understand if you look at the wave for a very clear frequency Remember as we go along in time a very clear frequency looks like a sine wave and If you have something that's really highly damped Then it doesn't look like a sine wave And certainly not obvious But you can make any kind of waveform out of a bunch of sine waves We need lots of different frequency sine waves in order to make something looks damped compared to something looks exactly like a single frequency like a single sine wave So for some purposes you definitely want to build something with very low damping So they get a lovely long pure sound and this tuning fork because it's got low damping Let's us have a nice frequency with which we can set other frequencies But sometimes you want to build something very deliberately with high damping And that's because the coupling of energy between an oscillator and the environment can go both ways for example take a swing So if you've got a swing if you push this at one frequency That's not the correct frequency for the swing. So it's natural oscillation frequency Might be particularly slower than this and it doesn't matter if I push it really quite hard If I'm pushing at the wrong frequency, but if I look okay, that's the frequency it has naturally and if I tap it With that frequency I get very big oscillations very fast So I couple energy from my environment to an oscillator much much better as at the particular Natural frequency of that oscillator and that phenomenon is called resonance and that frequency is the resonant frequency