their job and they really believe in what they are doing. It's a rare thing and I think we should value that. Thank you. Good evening, President Holm, Board of Trustees and Dr. Rodriguez and Cabinet. My name's Dan Weiser. I'm the Director of Technology Services. I've been working for PBSD for 28 years. I started as a bilingual teacher in this district and then started teaching technology classes and wound up here. Through all that time, I've been 18 years working here at the district office, working for technology services and our incredible tech team does the impossible every day. We always say no one knows what happens on the other side of the wire and it's true. It takes a lot of specialized skill and knowledge and a lot of hard work to make that happen. We have one of the largest networks on the Central Coast. We support thousands of computers, mobile devices, applications, accounts, passwords, database, servers, security systems and on and on and technology is constantly changing. So it has become a critical part of every child's education, every employee's job, not to mention the need to generate data to guide all the decisions that we're making every day and through the years, I've worked with and worked for many cabinet members. One of the main reasons we have such a robust technology infrastructure and working devices for all staff and students is because of the support and leadership of our cabinet members. Things have changed so drastically in the last seven years in terms of technology, curriculum and education and I have a unique perspective because I've been a part of it for so many years and it's the leadership and vision of this cabinet and the superintendent and we need to keep them here. If they leave, it's gonna start moving backwards and we need to keep moving forwards. So I urge you to approve this item. Our next three, Lisa Sandoval, Brian Saxton and Dr. Nancy Billisich. Good evening, President Holm, Board of Trustees, Dr. Rodriguez and Cabinet. My name is Lisa Sandoval and I'm the director of the Child Development Department. I'm here to encourage you to recognize the hard work that our cabinet puts in by approving their total compensation. I have had the honor of working with this cabinet in my current role and last role. I really learned in the last few years these positions are 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Just as many of my nights, family celebrations, vacations, et cetera, are interrupted by emergencies, I can only presume based on our district size that theirs is tenfold or more. Based on my experience, I have had cabinet members reach out to support our programs, students and families even when they are on vacation, rather be locally or out of the country. I can also say with confidence that they are here for our students first and foremost, even if that includes having tough conversations or making unpopular decisions. Oftentimes these positions are the toughest and receive the most criticism. It is hard to be the center of such unrest and false pretence at times, but Dr. Rodriguez and Cabinet still model integrity and leadership. This is the first time as a parent and an employee I have seen such a dedication to bring innovative programs and increase diverse opportunities for our kids and families via our superintendent. As we hear with other organizations, we have a hard time recruiting based on our salary schedules. Well, the same would be for these positions. Any one of them could move to another district and make more even in non-cabinet positions, but they are dedicated. As with our amazing teachers, our fabulous classified staff and our awesome administrators behind me, you know they are truly 100% dedicated to our children, families, and district, and we should strive to keep them and be equitable with the increases. Thank you. Good evening, President Holm, Dr. Rodriguez, Board of Trustees. My name's Brian Saxon, I'm Director of HR. Nice to see you again. So I just wanna say as I stated in my last comment that management is an integral part of PVUSD and cabinet is an integral part of management. We are all collectively one body. It's been my privilege to be in the district for the last 21 years and I've worked with a lot of cabinet members and I don't think you would find a more collective cabinet work harder or be more focused on a daily basis to improve what's happening in our district. It's amazing what Jennifer Littleton Bruno said just about all the individual things they do being available at all times, mentoring us. Every time I walk into Allison's office I learned something new about HR that I didn't know existed. So, and Clint's there to answer and Casey and Lisa and Dr. Rodriguez, they're so actively involved as a site principal for 12 years. I didn't see the superintendent very much, it was just a different deal back then and I think I was with Bradley for four or five years when Dr. Rodriguez came, I think I saw her more and Casey more in those four or five years than my previous 10 years as a site admin. So, they just are moving us forward. I would encourage you to approve their salary increase as proposed, thank you. Well, good evening, President Holm, trustees, Dr. Rodriguez, I'm Nancy Bilicic, I'm the director of adult education. I tell you, I've changed roles so many times, I sometimes forget what I'm doing. But I've been in this district well over 35 years and in education probably close to 50 and I've watched a lot of things, but tonight I wanna be in that celebratory mood. We have the teachers, you helped management and now it's time for the cabinet. Cabinet is part of our team. Cost of living has gone up for everybody and the warriors won tonight. So, we have to celebrate, all of us have to celebrate. That's how I see tonight. I see it as a big celebration and I hope that you as trustees, I know you work hard too and it's hard making decisions and which ones and the right ones, but this is important and cabinet, our superintendent, they're part of the team. So, I hope that you consider their compensation. Thanks. Thank you. Three speakers are Rich, Ruth, and Peggy. Good evening again, Rich Ariano, director of purchasing. I have the pleasure of working with all of our cabinet from time to time, mostly with our CVO Clint and with Dr. Rodriguez and I just wanna say how much of a difference it makes to be a middle manager for what we do as directors than to know that I have somebody that always has my back with whatever battles I need to fight or whatever questions I may have about, how is this gonna look for our whole district? A lot of the things we do are district-wide initiatives and just wanting to make sure that we're on the right path, the messaging's right, that we're not leaving anyone out, that we've addressed every single angle that we can. It makes a difference, right? Like the, it just does. Like having somebody to be able to call or text and get an answer back when you need it, it makes a huge difference. So for me, when I get lost and I can't think of how I wanna address things, I always think back to being a parent or being a coach and sports. So for me, playing football in college, I got the opportunity to play for somebody that was a professional football player, right? He was no lineman, coach McIntyre, played with 49ers, won a bunch of Super Bowls and all that stuff, right? When I met Dr. Rodriguez, that's what she reminded me of, having like a pro. Like somebody that, you know, you had to soak up everything that she gave you because you only got a couple of minutes of her time and it only happened, you know, maybe once a week, we got to share ideas and thoughts and projects. I've been on both sides getting the pets on the back or getting her getting after me to do something differently that I need to do different, but it always has the same effect. So the thing I'll say is, don't take this the wrong way. You're foolish if you think that she can't go somewhere else and do it for somebody else, right? And get paid more and, you know, the loyalty goes both ways and that's the thing that I'm, you know, the most thankful for, please approve the raises. Good evening, President Holm, Dr. Rodriguez on board of trustees. Again, I'm Ruth Boogie on the risk and safety manager for the district.  And I've seen the dedication he devotes every day to his job and he has an open door policy. There's never a time I can't go into his office and ask him a question. So it would be a tremendous loss to this district if we saw him go. And I know that came really close last time when you were voting on his contract and that was a very scary time. So please vote yes on this and please support because voting no is not just a monetary figure that you're voting on, it's really showing them that you respect them and they're a part of this school community. So thank you. Good evening, Dr. President Holm, Dr. Rodriguez on board of trustees. I'm Peggy Pugh, I'm the executive director for teaching and learning. At the March 30th board meeting as well as earlier this evening, I spoke on behalf of equity of those increases across all the bargaining units and all employees, including administration and our cabinet and superintendent. I wrote something else, but I really want to speak to that idea of breaking apart our leadership team. This is a very important team with a tremendous group of leaders who lay out a vision for us like no other. I've been in the district for 26 years and each of those years I worked my tail off regardless of what position I was in because that's my work ethic. This is the first time in my career in the time that Dr. Rodriguez has been here and with these cabinet members that I feel like I gotta keep up. And that to me says something because I have always set for myself way far off goals and ideals and I'm constantly reassessing that based on the work that I see from our cabinet. I don't want them in a separate group. I want to be within one leadership team together. We've always been one leadership team. I don't understand a divisive decision to separate them out. They are the visionaries of our district and we stand with them. So please make a good decision tonight, thank you. Our next three speakers are Orlando, Saulo and Sergio. Good evening, President Holm, Dr. Rodriguez, board members, cabinet. My name is Serlindo Fernandez, I'm the director of maintenance and operations. I've been working here for the school district for about 30 years plus. In those 30 years, we had a lot of emergencies and stuff like that was a CSA member. Those 30 years that I work here, I've never seen a superintendent, cabinet member. How about it in any emergencies? This year when we had the emergencies, the floods, Dr. Rodriguez, Clint, Allison, Casey and Lisa, we're out there helping us sandbag the school district. So they got, they're actually out there to support us and help us with everything that was going on. During this last storm when power flooded, if it wasn't for the superintendent, Clint and all the cabinet were for their quick thinking of getting over to Lakeview, who knows how long it would have took to get the school up and running. But thanks to them, we got the school up and running in a few days and I'm proud to work alongside of them and I could always count on them, Clint, he's great. Anytime I have a question, he's there to help. So I encourage the board members here to please approve the race for the cabinet members. Thank you. Hello, Holmes and Dr. Michelle Rodriguez and board of trustees. So today I'm here to be and pretty much think Clint and our cabinet, Dr. Michelle Rodriguez, it's been some rough years and they've been able to stay here and dedicate their time to the school district. COVID, floods, everything that happens, they're still here standing. And I wanna thank them today for everything that they do. And I remember when we were in the floods, they were here, like Jarlindo, my director said, we were here 10 a night, one in the morning, three in the morning, four in the morning, we worked as a team. They always supported everything that we do. As well in facilities, I've never seen so many projects come to the table and it's stank to them. I've never seen anyone work so closely with the city and the county to get new fields and to do a difference as they are doing today. So I really want you guys to think about the decision you make today because it's gonna make a big impact and honestly we don't wanna lose any more members and a great team that we have like today. So thank you, appreciate it. Good evening again, President Holmes, Dr. Rodriguez, Board of Trustees, like I said before, I think we all work hard here, we all play for the same team. We got a call the night that the district shut down because of the storm, we got a call to relocate our yard.  So we get there and Clint was there. He was driving like us. So I go in and tell him, Clint, I got this. You can leave. He told me, if you're here, I'm here. That meant a lot to me. Thank you. Our next three speakers are Andrea Willey, Julie Edwards and Judith Camacho and Don Berget. Thank you. Good evening again, President Holm, Dr. Rodriguez, PDUSD Collie and our community. I'm Andrea Carlos Willey, Impact and Resource Development Officer. As you are hearing this evening, Dr. Michelle Rodriguez and cabinet, Lisa Gidea, Casey Klappenback, Allison Nizawa and Clint Rucker, model for our collective leadership team and we are a team, deep integrity, depths of experience and knowledge and an unwavering commitment to excellence in education for our students. Through hard work and long hours, they are facilitating the co-creation of a PDUSD that reflects the boundless potential of our students in this community and enacting this mission statement that belongs to this board as well. This is not the PDUSD of seven years ago. This leadership team has overseen the implementation of transparency within our budget and financial statements that is clear and accurate and affirmed constantly by numerous auditors and our county office of education. Under this team, the execution of school district operations and support for programs that serve the whole child, whole family and whole community are a strength and an asset for our community, our Pajaro Valley community and there's great pride in that. Work to uplift and center the voices of our students, staff, families and community in our priorities is paralleled in few districts and all of those voices are your constituents or future constituents. These efforts are being widely acclaimed and recognized in forums and convenings within local, county, regional and state arenas. I urge you to rise above partisan politics and without any qualification, give our superintendent and our cabinet the raises that you have already have been budgeted for and that are so well-deserved. This will demonstrate to all your commitment to PDUSD. Thank you. Good evening, Board President Holm, Trustees and Superintendent Dr. Rodriguez. I'm Julie Edwards, Coordinator of Career Technical Education for PDUSD and on March 30th, I shared some of the most significant improvements and accomplishments we've made since 2019 when we assumed leadership of our CTE program. Every aspect of those accomplishments and the progress we've made is a direct result of the unmatched belief, vision and commitment to our students' future success led and modeled every single day by Dr. Rodriguez and her dedicated cabinet members, Lisa Agarria, Casey Klappenback, Allison Nizawa and Clint Rucker. It's important for me, for you to know that Dr. Rodriguez and her cabinet ask and listen to learn the aspirations of our students, families and community and they use what they learn to activate all of us together to realize the outcomes that we collectively want for our students, abundant lives, gratifying careers with a living wage, contributing and celebrating a flourishing Pajaro Valley. I am personally grateful to Dr. Rodriguez and cabinet as leaders of the meaningful work we humbly engage in together. I ask each of you without hesitation to act responsibly and approve the total compensation for Dr. Rodriguez and cabinet employees for the 21-22 and 22-23 school years. Thank you. President Holmes, trustees, Dr. Rodriguez, you have a leadership team. Support your leadership team. Thanks to Lisa, Casey, Allison, Clint, Dr. Rodriguez, you have the opportunity to make a difference in this community. You are making a difference. And we at LifeLab are deeply, deeply grateful for your leadership. And we wanna share with you that thanks to the leadership that you have and specifically I wanna acknowledge Dr. Rodriguez. Dr. Rodriguez has championed not only music for children, but also school garden, connection with the earth, connection with their bodies, connection to the earth. This is what is going to be needed right now and for the future and that's what we're preparing children for. We have also, thanks to incredible partnerships and leadership, been able to successfully achieve the Starlight Culinary Garden and Teaching Kitchen. Dr. Rodriguez has invited you all and you're all welcome to join us on May 3rd, next Wednesday to celebrate what you have all been able to and with this incredible leadership. This is an example as André Aguilo was saying, regionally, statewide and nationally, you are on the map because of your leadership. Keep supporting them and have their race be approved. Yes, and I'll just add with any remaining time that when we talk with people all across the country about what we're doing here and the model programs that are happening here, the first thing I tell them is, I don't know if you can do it because this is an incredibly special community and an incredibly special district and part of that is not only the support and partnership all up and down and across the district that we hear about within district employees, but I say, I think it would be enough, it would be more than enough of a job to just manage the core public functions of a district, but this leadership team invites in community partnership in a way that is synergistic and that results in hugely more resources coming to the district, to its students, to its staff and to the community, so thank you. Thank you. And point of order, it is almost 10-10 and we have several more speakers and quite a few more action items. I would like to make a motion to extend the board meeting till 12-30. I have a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 7-0. Our next three speakers are Veronica, Chrissy, and Nancy. Put my glasses on. Good evening, Dr. Holmes, Dr. Rodriguez, and Board of Trustees. My name's Veronica Moran and I'm the Executive Assistant to Clint Rucker, our Chief Business Officer. I'm sure some of you board members have seen the agenda and are anticipating a long night and some of you have not, which is typical. Yes, this is going to be a long night and these five cabinet members are the first to arrive and the last to leave at every board meeting, but I can't say the same for many of you. On March 8th, this board was so close to not renewing our Chief Business Officer's contract. My boss, many of you thought let's not renew his contract and get someone else to replace him. Again, making a rash decision, not knowing the consequences if you voted no. Thank God it was brought to your guys' attention. By voting no, this position would not have gone away. Again, making decisions, not knowing the repercussions of your negative vote. We would have lost the best CBO PVUSD has ever had. Also, where would that leave me? A classified worker that you guys say you support and care about. My position also would have been affected. I ask you as a board, do your research, ask the questions and have discussions with these five cabinet members. I'm very active in the community and I get it. I hear the noise. By the noise, I say the bitching, the complaining, anything, everything and anything, but your job as a board member is to listen and hear their complaints and address those tough questions with the board member by you just agreeing with other concerns because you know them or because they voted for you, it's wrong. Your job is to understand the whole picture and some of the board members don't grasp the whole picture. Some of you joined this board with vengeance, hate towards staff. How does this help our students, staff members, community? With you not approving cabinet raises, you are basically stating to our students, our staff members, don't hire your education, don't work hard, don't persevere, don't better yourself.  That's what you're saying. Good evening, President Holm, Dr. Rodriguez, Board of Trustees. My name's Chrissy McLean. I'm the coordinator of counseling programs and you've heard a lot this evening about the momentum of PVUSD and I don't think I have to outline all the things for us all to know the very different PVUSD before Dr. Rodriguez and after. So you've heard from many partners, you've heard from administration, you can, you know, Bill Bleacher outlines some things very clearly. PVUSD's better and it keeps getting better. I am, when I came, you know, I was a teacher in the classroom and I love being in the classroom because I live in possibility and every time I see a student, I just think all the possibilities. That's how I know Dr. Rodriguez sees every student in PVUSD and all of us. And as I've moved from side administration to district administration, I've seen the capacity in us grow. That's not by accident. Dr. Rodriguez, this is not by accident. She sees the possibility. She keeps the high expectations. She's building the growth for this team that has been there no matter what, any time of the hour. All these people could tell you, these folks don't get a day off and it's not by accident that PVUSD is better. And to not approve this is like cutting us off on the knees and ruining that momentum. So not only is this a time to heal, this is a time to just show us that you want us to keep getting better. Let this team keep growing and keep helping us grow so that we can give all the possibility to all those students. Because PVUSD is better and getting better and better. So let that continue, please. Thank you. Good evening, President Holm, Dr. Rodriguez, Board of Trustees. My name is Nancy Zuniga. I'm this distant principal with the Expanded Learning Department. I want to use this time to thank Dr. Rodriguez and to think cabinet. For all you do for our students and our staff, a lot of what you do goes unseen and unrecognized. I want you to know that I see you, the long hours you spend working diligently, all the drives you do to visit sites and support, the work you do that is being done. I see your passion you have for student achievement and student success. I see your dedication. President Holm and Board of Trustees, I hope you see it too. And please support this action item. Thank you. Our next three speakers are Yasmin, Kristen and Bonnie. Hello, good evening. My name is Yasmin Herrera and I'm a program director at the Digital Nest. The Digital Nest is a career development center for 14 to 24 year olds here in Watsonville. And we've had the privilege in our short amount of time of eight years to work with PVUSD on many projects. And I want to say that successful school districts like PVUSD invest in their staff, whether they are direct instructors or administrators. Administrators and all leaders are essential to a healthy work environment and provide the support teachers need. In the last couple of years, that support has come from the entire community. And this district led by Dr. Rodriguez and our cabinet is successfully partnering with community-based organizations like the Digital Nest to provide even more resources to students. I'm currently also the board member and president of the Watsonville Film Festival and we are proud to also partner with the district. And I have a story. Our executive director contacted Dr. Rodriguez very last minute because a famous actor came to the community and he came early and wanted to speak to students and inspire them and he's a very captivating speaker. And Dr. Rodriguez made it happen last minute and he was able to go to six different schools and inspire over 200 students. And it was just a really special moment that just shows how much Dr. Rodriguez cares about the big picture but also the small magical moments that could happen. And I'm really proud to be just one of the many community partners and thank you. Hello, my name is Kristen Brubaker and I'm the deputy director of the UC Santa Cruz Educational Partnership. I'm here with my colleague Shelly Horn who is the director of our EAOP in access programs. We are here on behalf of the Educational Partnerships Center to read a letter of support, which Shelly has, for Dr. Michelle Rodriguez and the cabinets. The Educational Partnerships Center has been serving PVUSD through its EAOP and MESA programs for over 30 years and it has had the chance to partner with the district on other programs throughout such as GearUp. Through our long partnership with PVUSD, we've had the privilege of working closely with Dr. Michelle Rodriguez. Over the years, Dr. Rodriguez has earned our respect and we greatly appreciate and value her leadership. She's been an exceptional leader who is passionate about her work and who has always had the best interests of all students at the core of all of the decisions that she's made. The cabinet furthers this work and the vision for the district. It is often because of these individuals that we're able to successfully partner with school counselors and teachers to build innovative programming customized for each school community to support their students' academic preparation for high school and college. These programs have allowed us to provide individual advising to get students back on track for graduation in A through D completion, celebrate student successes with events that honor future choices and provide fun and engaging college week activities. Dr. Rodriguez and her leadership team's goals are aligned with the Educational Partnership Center and preparing students for success in their life's post-high school graduation. We wish to emphasize that we hold an enduring commitment to PVUSD in continuing our work with the district and Dr. Rodriguez. Thank you for your time. Good evening. I'm Bonnie Guterres. I'm a community member and I represent the Maya Foundation Board. The Maya Foundation has been collaborating with the school district since 1979. I also worked in the school district from 1985 to 2005 in a management position. Today I reviewed the district and board goals. Goal number one, the board shall engage and sustain the trust and involvement and responsibility of all parents and community to promote collaborative programs. Goal number two, the board shall develop and retain an excellent staff throughout the district. In my observation of the last three board meetings, the board created and supported the devaluation of the work and worth of both management and the cabinet with the entire salary raises issue. In this district, teaching staff would flounder without management and the cabinet and superintendent carry out you, the board's vision. Since 1985, I have not seen a more focused, prepared, engaged, transparent and dedicated superintendent than Dr. Rodriguez. And she has chosen the cabinet members wisely. As we move out of COVID, the floods, the staff shortage and the crisis brought on by three current board of trustees in the last few years, it would be wise to keep cabinet and management together on the salary and raises issue. Keep the district united and move forward for the benefit of students, parents and community. Thank you very much. Our next three speakers are Lauren, Doran and Stephanie. Good evening, President Holm, Board of Trustees and Dr. Rodriguez. I've had a lot of thoughts and feelings on tonight's meeting and I wasn't sure what I could say tonight that you haven't already heard. It's disappointing to see that we've yet again created another divide among the district that is supposed to be one team. I'm a voting constituent of area six. Mr. Scow, you were appointed into this position to do what's best for our district and best for our staff and our students. You have countless times said every employee deserves a raise. While all employees includes the five cabinet members that sit alongside you every board meeting. If you choose again tonight to vote down another raise, you are going against your word. Please do what's right by us as staff that work for these amazing cabinet members and give them the well-deserved raise that everyone else in this district has received. Also, please note these people cannot stand up for themselves and speak on their behalf. So please listen clearly to what we have all said on behalf of our managers that we report to. I've had the privilege of working with Clint when he was at the COE. He is an amazing, amazing employee. You should be lucky to have someone like him. Dr. Rodriguez is an amazing superintendent. Dorma, who was she? This woman has brought this district up and you should be thanking her and not sitting here and not giving them a raise based on what, five people coming up here and telling you they don't deserve it? We are the people that report to them. We support them. They support us. Support them back. Good evening, President Holm, Board of Trustees, Cabinet, everybody in the house. Hello. My name is Daron Comercheros. It's Daron, my phone. And I'm part of Food What. Thank you for, yeah. Thank you for a few minutes to speak. I wrote a speech and really what I'm feeling is I'm reading this list and all these words of all these resolutions and it's about compensation for this and compensation for that. And really beneath that all, I guess what I'm feeling is that this is about our young people. And that's why I would assume everybody in this room in whatever seat you're in is here and that's really moving. And my experience with working with PVUSD is that everybody has been needed. In our partnerships, just like every nonprofit that I've heard speak, everybody at every level has been needed and everybody has been such an incredible vision and valuable partner to our work. And I wanna thank you all. And I really hope that tonight isn't really, even though it is about the people that were voting for compensation, that really what we're voting for are for the young people in our community. And if we could keep them in our heart and in our mind, I think we could come to a really strong vote tonight and just have the triple win and then go, I'll go party with Dr. Nancy. Thank you. Good evening, board president, home, trustees and superintendent Dr. Rodriguez. Once again, I'm Stephanie Monroe, the coordinator of Gaten and Vapa. And I'm very proud of the progress our district has made to expand the arts because we know that students who go to schools with strong arts programs have higher engagement in all subject areas, higher rates of attendance and better mental health outcomes. Our district was recently named a best community in music education for the second time in a row by the National Association of Music Merchants. We are nationally recognized. The progress to expand programs over the past several years would not have happened were it not for the dedication, creativity and commitment to student promise and success by our superintendent, Dr. Rodriguez and cabinet members, Lisa Garia, Casey Clappenback, Allison Nizawa and Clint Rucker. And of course, this is just one of hundreds of examples of their impact. I'm deeply grateful to this team for their support of our schools and to me personally as an administrator. I ask that the total compensation for school years 21, 22 and 22, 23 be approved for the cabinet members. Thank you. Our next two speakers are Alicia and Angelica. Good evening, President Holm, Superintendent Rodriguez, board members and cabinet members. First of all, I wanna say Lisa, Casey, Allison, Clint and Dr. Rodriguez. It is an honor to work with you every single day to support 18,000 students. If this is about our students, you have to know we are doing better than ever. If this is about budget, you have to know if these people go where they are paid more, valued more, you will not pay less for anyone who replaces them. No one is gonna come at a lower salary. No one. If you go and speak to other districts, everyone has the need to class. When every other employee receives a raise, administration and cabinet always get it after. I appreciate Dr. Rodriguez because even though she qualifies for a raise every single one time when you evaluate her, she will not take it. Months after she was hired here, she was pursued from her prior district for close to $300,000. It's not about the money for her. It shouldn't be about the money for you. It should be about what is happening and what is happening is that our students are thriving. Our staff is thriving. We are held to a much higher standard now than ever before. Why? Because leadership is modeling behavior that we have not seen before. This is the first time in my 22 years at the district office that I have to speak in public. Normally I'm a little coward when it comes to speaking up for myself, but when it comes up to speaking about the benefits to our community, our students, I have no problem.  Do the right thing. Thank you. Good evening, President Holm, Board of Trustees, Dr. Rodriguez, and dear cabinet. My name is Angelica Renteria, Director of Migrant and Seasonal Head Start. At the March 30th special board meeting, you all had the opportunity to hear from 79, I believe 79 of the district administrators about the work we all do and how proud we are of the work we do. I felt it was a very informative, yet an extremely emotional meeting, but I went home feeling proud of my colleagues and for what took place in that room that night. At the same meeting, you also had the opportunity to hear from Dr. Rodriguez on her presentation that included data on the range of salaries and benefits of key positions in other districts. And you also, the differences reflected on those charts. In addition, in many repeated occasions, you have also had the opportunity to hear about the wonderful initiatives and programs and the growth in academic achievement that takes place here with our students from pre-K to 12th grade. I don't know if I've ever shared with you, but I've been working for this district for more than 35 years. And through those many years, I've seen cabinet members and superintendents come and go. And as Mr. Beecher shared earlier tonight, under Dr. Rodriguez's leadership and the current cabinet and within the past seven years, we have all witnessed the incredible progress in the academic growth and learning of our students with no doubt. And yes, it is teamwork. And teamwork is crucial. And the work of classified employees, certificated teachers and administrators as we all contribute to the success. And we are all part of this puzzle. But let's not forget that in navigation, the captain is who steers the wheel to the success. So I hope tonight, because I don't have more time, you approve this item. Thank you. All right, do we have any discussion from the board? I thought it was interesting as I was driving in, I listened to NPR and it's marketplace. And as I'm pulling into the parking lot, they're talking about the crisis and superintendents. And 30% of superintendents have been leaving. Not surprising. They were talking about a program in Maryland where they're training, trying to get the pipeline going for superintendents and one of the biggest issues that, trying to get people prepared for being superintendents is dealing with difficult and challenging board members. And duly noted NPR. That was where I had to turn off the car and actually come into the meeting. So I'm like, well, okay, fine. But the work that you all do and the balancing act that you all have to play in balancing the needs of the people who answer to you and Dr. Rodriguez in answering to the seven of us, I can imagine there are some challenges. Balancing the needs of what you will want to accomplish. All of you want to accomplish with this district within the constraints of California Ed Code. With the federal and state budgets, with the conflicting guidelines, needs, priorities of all of our various constituencies is incredibly difficult. And I think that the progress that I've seen as a parent who has children who have gone through PBSD and as a child who is still in a PBSD student. It's like, I am incredibly grateful at the progress that I've seen. And I very much want to see that continue. So thank you for the work that has been done. And I've been on this board, it's going on my third year and it seems like pay is always the theme of most meetings. And the point has been brought up that every level has had their increase. And we're always talking about equity and all that kind of stuff. And it's at every level. Percentages are the same. The numbers are obviously different. But the work that everybody puts in at every level to keep this place running is what counts. And there was a lot of good quotes or phrases of teamwork. And I was part of this district for a while and I was part of that team and I was doing what Serge and those guys are doing weekends and nights as well. So I know the dedication and commitment those guys put in, they kind of have a special place in my heart because I know what they do. During some of the disaster, Dr. Rodriguez would contact me, keep me in touch all hours and whenever something was going on, she'd update me. And it's true, they're always diligent, they're always vigilant, they're contacting OES or this agency and that agency. So thank you guys for the work that you guys do. And I've been part of this district probably 10 years now off and on. And I've seen the difference because I was here when Dorm was here and there was a different vibe back then. I mean, there was a little bit of detachment there and things were kind of easy going. And when Dr. Rodriguez came on, that all changed. And now we are where we are now because of that. So thanks. Yeah, well, all right, well, that being said, I'll make a motion to support this agenda item. I'd like to second that motion. And I think with some comments, of course, I think Oscar said it really beautifully that our previous administration, our previous superintendent, she's a nice person, but hadn't worked anywhere else, I don't think. We had three suicides at Aptos High that one year and she never once stepped on the campus to support the students or the faculty or the staff who work there. I think that says everything and that's when I knew she had to go. We had a long, long process of interviewing superintendents and Dr. Rodriguez came ultra prepared. She knew the data of the districts of the kids. She set out a vision and she has proved to be an excellent superintendent and we are lucky and fortunate to have her here. So there's a new level of accountability here in our district over the last seven years and that accountability is uncomfortable for many people who want status quo and wanted to remain the same and a lot of people have left the district because they cannot work under the circumstances of high expectations and I say good riddance to them. To the cabinet members, Lisa was here before Dr. Rodriguez came to Casey who essentially came with Dr. Rodriguez to Allison who has been mentored into her position. There you are, sorry, you're over here.  You've been mentored into your position and you're doing a great job and we're so grateful that you continue to choose PBOSD, all of you. And to Clint who's an excellent CBO and we are again very fortunate to have everybody here and thank you for your grace and your graciousness, honestly with your staff. I mean, it's unbelievable that people come up to their direct report supervisors and say how much they care and appreciate them and you don't get that everywhere. So anyway, thank you to everybody and I hope this item gets passed tonight, thank you. I have a first and a second. Do I have any further discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? I didn't, so motion, sorry, I didn't catch. Can we do a roll call? I didn't hear everybody's votes. Trustee Soto, your vote. Trustee Flores, your vote. Aye, they're done.  President Holm, your vote. Aye. Motion carries, 6-1. All right, party people, enjoy. We got stuff to do here. All right, item 9.9, approved memorandum of understanding between PVSD and PVFT with resolution 22-23-57 to commit funds for a specific purpose. Allison, it's still you. So yes, thank you, President Holm, Board of Trustees, Dr. Rodriguez. So as I mentioned in the previous item of, teachers wait, let's wait until I can have a skin. So as I mentioned in the previous item of the TAs with PVFT, this is an MOU. So I actually really appreciate the creativity of PVFT. This was their idea on how to utilize one-time money instead of just doing it in a lump sum. This actually benefits their members in a different way. So just giving one-time money, it does impact their retirement, but doing it in the form of days and the optional workdays in this fashion actually increases and offers them a different utilization in their retirement. So we were definitely all on board for supporting this and working with them to come up with this creative solution to days as well as some of the one-time money. So what you have before you is an MOU that would add an optional workday for this school year, four optional workdays for the following school year, and four additional optional workdays for the third year out. And they are similar to the MOUs we've agreed to with our full-day kinder pilots. And so that's kind of where this idea came from as well. So there's the MOU as well as the resolution to commit the funds in order to pay it in the out years. So I respectfully request that the board approves the MOU and the resolution to commit the funds. Thank you. Do we have any public speakers to this item? Yes, we have one. Roddy. Good evening again. President Holm, board of trustees, Dr. Rodriguez, I'll keep this really short. I know you guys have listened to a lot of comments. So I just, I wanna appreciate the district in working with us on this. As Alison said, we were trying to find some creative ways to provide uses of that one-time money for our membership. And as we heard in the resolution of earlier tonight about the national day of the teacher, teachers do go above and beyond for their students every day all day. And this allows them to utilize as they choose extra work days to prepare their classrooms to be those learning communities that our students deserve. So thank you and I hope you approve this item. Thank you. Any discussion from the board? I'll make a motion to approve. We have a motion. I'll second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 601. All right. Item 9.10, approve memorandum of understanding between PVFT and PVSD, signing bonus for classroom teachers at impacted sites, school nurses, SLPs and psychologists. Yes. Thank you, President Holm, board of trustees, Dr. Rodriguez. So again, I have two MOUs for you in collaboration with PVFT. We have had some heavily impacted sites with regards to vacancies in the last couple of years. So that is what this MOU is there to address. Watsonville High, PV High, Rolling Hills, EA Hall and Lakeview. So I do really appreciate the collaboration with PVFT to put this forward. It's gonna be effective May 1st through July 31st to help fill some of our much-needed positions. It's a $5,000 signing bonus for these school sites. And then in addition to that, if there's a BCOT authorization, and it's also in addition to the signing bonus that is already in the contract of $2,500 for math, science and special ed. So again, our math, science and special ed positions at those five named schools could get up to a $7,500 signing bonus. Then everyone else's classroom positions would be $5,000. So that's that piece. And then for nurses, SLPs and psychologists, a $5,000 signing bonus, because those are also some of our hard-to-fill positions as well. So I respectfully request that you approve both MOUs tonight. Do we have any public speakers to that, Evan? Yes, we do. We have one. Roddy.  Good evening again. Yes, just to echo some of what Allison said, and I know you have all heard it this entire year of those hard-hit sites and how that those vacancies impact the workload of the teachers there. So we were really thankful to work with the district on providing the signing bonus for those specific secondary sites. That's been the biggest challenge this school year. And then as we all know, and as we supported a resolution for mental health and for school nurse day, those, not only are we facing teaching shortages, those are extreme shortage positions in our district, and they also, those positions, provide mental health services for our students. So we're very happy to provide a bonus and hopefully attract some of those people. Thank you. Do we have any discussion from the board? I'll make a motion to approve. I'll second it. Very good idea. I'm happy we're doing this. We've had some vacancies there at these schools for a while, so I would just, to anybody watching our meeting, we need teachers to come to PVOSD, wherever you are, it's a community effort. And so let's please do, if we can all pull together and do our best to fill these positions, and thank you for including this. Just a second. I'm just wondering how we'll be publicizing this to get the word out. Yeah, so Brian and his team, right, they have a meeting tomorrow with all of our analysts, so we will be changing our job postings immediately so that they will reflect these signing bonuses. We have a recruitment fair scheduled for May 6th. We had one already, and we're gonna have another one because it was very, it helped us a lot. We filled about six positions just from that. Our HR specialists are actually recruiting through flyers. We're gonna look at bringing on Indeed. We're gonna look at some other avenues to bring in applicants just aside from Ed Join. So we're really gonna try to put our fingers out a little bit further. I've been working with CSUMB, Cabrio, getting on job boards, posting it kind of anywhere and everywhere, social media, and really trying to flood. We put a couple flyers out through Peach Jar, which is our flyering system through the district to try to get parents and stuff for some of our hard to fill positions. So we're really trying to rethink our recruitment efforts to get it out to the people that we wanna have bring to it. I'll just say one thing, because I constantly recruit people too into the district, and people are always asking me, can they bring their years? So I don't know what the answer is to that. I always send them to you to discuss that. Yeah, we can verify in the collective bargaining agreement with PBFT, we accepted the 17 years of teaching experience or for our nurses, psychologists, industry experience, and depending on if it's a CTE teacher or whatnot, we can look at kind of what their work and industry experience that would match that or be similar to teaching. So they'd come in at a higher step. Correct. Exactly. You're welcome. Is that regardless of what state bearing it doesn't matter or is it just California? No, teaching experience is teaching experience as long as it's for a full year. So you need to have worked like a full year in order to get a full year of credit, but no, we honor teaching experience regardless of the state it's in. I have a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. All right. Any opposed? Motion carries seven, zero. All right. It's still me. Last one. Yes. So member of the understanding between PBFT and CSEA chapter 132, transportation school, bus driver, trainee, signing bonus. Yes. Thank you, President Holm, board of trustees. Dr. Rodriguez is my last, I don't know for the night so you'll get rid of me after this one. So we worked with CSEA as well as the director of transportation. I know it's also been a request of the board and also to look at our signing bonus for bus drivers and so that's what we did because we were seeing that after we have trained our bus driver trainees and paid for the training, they were not sticking around and so we're trying to incentivize them for that. So what we are continuing with is the $5,000 signing bonus for anyone that comes to us already certified because we can put them right in a bus and they can get right to work and so we wanna value that experience. But what we've expanded it to is a $2,500 signing bonus to our trainees and that would be paid out over two years. So we're trying to do how we build our other signing bonuses, we pay them over time so that there's a little bit of an incentive to stay. So this is something new that we are bringing forward with regards to the trainees so although we pay for the program, we're also wanting to give them a signing bonus to incentivize them to stay with the districts once we've trained them. So I respectfully request that you approve this MOU as well. Any public speakers to this item? We do not have any public speakers to this item. Any discussion from the board? I would like to say that I'm about time. I'm absolutely in full support of this. This is great and so I am with that going to make a motion to approve it. Second. I have a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries seven, zero. Bye. Bye. All right, so item 9.12, Adopt Declaration of Need for Fully Qualified Teachers Report will be presented by Brian Saxton, our Director of Human Resources. Good evening, President Holm, Dr. Rodriguez, Board of Trustees. I am Brian Saxton, Director of Human Resources for Certificated. And so yearly, the district must bring as an action item the annual Declaration of Need. This declaration, if approved, allows the district to employ a variety of means to help reduce teacher shortage by allowing us to provide for internship programs, waivers, and emergency credentialing. These emergency credentials, interns, and waivers are authorized by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing and by approving this Declaration of Need allows us to process these so that in our areas of need, such as bilingual education, special ed, math, science, and others, as if needed, we can use these particular types of permits and internships. So I do request that you would approve this declaration of need for the upcoming school year. Thank you. Any public speakers to this item? We do not. Any discussion from the board? Make a motion to approve. We have a motion and I heard a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries seven zero. I'm with that. We're halfway through our action items. Thank you very much. All right. So item 9.13, CSUMB, PVSD, Speech Language Pathologist Collaboration Report will be presented by Heather Gorman, our SELPA Director of Special Services. Heather. I'll do it again. Sorry. Good evening again. I'm excited to bring forward this wonderful opportunity to collaborate with our local CSUMB to help us to decrease the number of SLP vacancies in our district. For the last 13 years, since I've worked as an administrator in special services, we've not been fully staffed with our SLP positions. Several years back, we increased the pay for SLPs and this helped, but there's still an overall shortage of students that are going into the profession. And this is why this opportunity is so exciting. So we would partner with CSUMB to build a teaching program for speech pathologist. It would be a two year rigorous program with oversight by a licensed SLP professor and CSUMB staff. The students would obtain 400 direct service hours and they would do that at one of our school sites, meeting the services and needs of students with IEPs. Prior to the placement with us, they will have essential coursework completed. About 40% of the students in this program are local to our area and many of them are bilingual. So when they are ready to be hired, they will be living here, know the cost of living, what it takes to be a member of this community and have bilingual skills, and many other have bilingual skills, which many of our students need. The speech students in the program will provide services indicated in the students IEP. They would be able to work on the following. Articulation, voice, fluency, building language skills, literacy skills, social pragmatics, executive functioning, students will assist in IEP assessments, and of course the licensed professor and SLP will oversee all the services, assessments and IEPs. This program would be one of, this program would be at one of our sites and would provide services to all students at that site. The program would support in building our SLP workforce and potentially help us completely fill our SLP vacancies with PVUSD personnel. Any public speakers to this item? We do not. Any discussion from the board? This is awesome. This is a wonderful, wonderful partnership and idea. And it's a way that we can pipeline new grads right into our school district. So congratulations on bringing this forward and make a motion to approve. Yeah, first, do I have a second? I'll second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? I'm going to abstain. Motion carries. Six. Zero one. Yeah, thank you. Thank you so much. Sorry about that. No, first. Item 9.14, Williams 2022, 2023, quarter three report. January, February, March report. Oh, it's in your bag. I forgot to call the other ones. You missed me. I know I'm back. All right. Thank you, President Holm, Board of Trustees, Dr. Rodriguez. This is the Williams Quarterly report brought to you. So you will see that we did have a Williams complaint in the third quarter. It was from Watsonville High School. It was regards to the HVAC in the Art Wing. And once the complaint came to my office, I contacted M&O and Herlindo responded very swiftly. They fixed, there was a coupler that was not circulating the heat properly. So it was all going into one room and not circulating to the three rooms properly. So they fixed that as well as checked just the circulation of the air and everything. So it's working properly. So although we got the complaint, which was great because we knew about the issue and it also was dealt with quickly. So that's the only piece we have to report is that there was a complaint at Watsonville High that has been rectified. So I request that you please approve the Williams report. Thank you. Any public speakers? We have none. Any discussion from the board? Trustee Batch, you're new? Just like to say thank you Herlindo. You know, I know we've had some issues with the pool and the air conditioning and the heating and everything. But I know when I bring up issue right away, you guys deal with it. So I just wanted to say thank you and I like to make a motion to pass this agenda. Thank you. I'll second that. We have a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries seven zero. Item 9.15, grade six through eight mathematics instructional materials adoption report will be presented by Terry Redfern, our director of mathematics. Good evening, President Holm, board of trustees, superintendent Dr. Rodriguez, cabinet and our PVUSD community. So we began this work in order to promote highly effective first instruction and to do that with the lens of integrity. So like all of the textbook adoptions, we have a well-established process and it's mirrored across all the disciplines. And this is kind of our timeline of what we did. We began at the very beginning of the year. We talked with all of the teachers about what we were gonna be doing. We then did some screening, both paper and digital. Then we got together and we selected which of those texts that met our qualifications that we would actually pilot. And then ultimately the committee came together for the final decision. So the paper screening process. There's a group out there called Ed Reports and they evaluate curriculum across the country and they look at those that meet a lot of the high leverage criteria. So using that we only selected curriculum that met those criteria in all of the areas. And so from that, there were four curriculum that came out. It was iREDI, Desmos, Mid School Math and CPM. And these criteria came from a well-established toolkit called the Mathematics Curriculum Evaluation Toolkit. When we did that, when we got together on the paper screening, every single six through eighth grade teacher had the opportunity to look at those materials and we all filled out a Google form and we tabulated the results. But we selected seven criteria that were more than important than all of the others. Supports for students who are non-native speakers. Supports for students with learning needs, universal access, learning objectives that were closely aligned to the standards and collaborative activities were embedded throughout the text. And was there embedded student-centered academic discourse and more importantly, critical thinking? And were there real-world applications that were contextualized the learning so that students can then apply it to their own lives? And finally, were we getting those just-in-time interventions so that students were getting the help in the moment weren't having to experience the frustration? And later you'll see how well this lines up with our LCAP goals. So the process itself, after we did that screening, two curriculum bubbled to the top, I Ready and Desmos. And when we looked at that, we noticed that I Ready was very comprehensive. It had every one of the tools that we were looking for. And Desmos is a very attractive platform. It's very interactive, there are a lot of simulations. By doing this, we went through a five-week process for each of the curriculum. So it started by a full day of training. Now, the people who did this, the eight teachers who volunteered, were from all grade levels and we even had a teacher who represented an SDC class which is a self-contained class for our students with learning needs, all grades six through eight. So we had some of our best teachers looking at that. They got coaching on how to use it and they went out and implemented it for five weeks. After they did that with both curriculums, we came back together and we talked about it with the publishers and got further feedback. Then ultimately, we came together for a day. And on that day, we went back and we looked at how did these curriculums meet those seven prioritized requirements? What were the strength and weaknesses? And more importantly, we were looking at things from the lens of the students. What were their needs? How were they met or not met? And then we looked at student feedback. We had them give us some feedback. Where do you learn best? And so based on this analysis, the group unanimously chose to recommend the IREDI curriculum for grade six through eight instructional material adoption beginning this coming August. What were the strengths of IREDI? Well, IREDI had many strengths. Important for us was multicultural bilingual resources. The supports for differentiation and scaffolding, the universal access are built into the daily lesson plans. They're not something else that the teacher has to do. And there is a key emphasis on student protocol for discussion. They call it the try, discuss, connect. I try a problem, I discuss it with you, I connect it to other mathematics or relevant topics. It focused on the eight mathematical practices where a key part of the common core state standards and there was a huge emphasis on student engagement and thinking, they're gonna carry the load. And there was strong technology integration. So from that, we made our final decision to choose IREDI and quickly here, it lined up with a lot of our LCAP goals. If you look at goal one, it met 1.3, 1.4, 1.6, 1.7, 1.18, 1.19, it aligned with goal four and we're gonna have board approved instructional curriculum, goal five, A to G course alignment. That helped decrease the number of long-term English learners because we know that for a lot of our students, they have the math skills and it's the language that gets in the way for them to be able to demonstrate those skills. And this curriculum addressed that. And finally, they have, in fact, the proposals, they're gonna come and do family math nights with our parents. So getting the parents engaged in their students math curriculum. So it's no longer this black box of what is my student doing at school and how are they learning it, I get to understand all that. So with that, I'd like to bring the teacher recommendation forward to this board that we approve the iReady math curriculum as the district-wide math adoption beginning in August of 2023. Thank you. Do we have any public speakers? Any discussion from the board? I just have a quick comment. As a mom to foster kids in my own two, and this is a complete disclosure, an embarrassing disclosure, I stopped being able to help them with their math at around sixth grade, not kidding, because some of the word problems were so difficult that I just, I couldn't. So how is this curriculum for parents? Like for parents to be at home helping their own children? There's several ways that the parents can interact. First of all is, at the beginning of every unit, there is a summary of what the students are going to be doing in that unit that can be sent out as part of the family engagement. Additionally, the students have online access to the curriculum that they can share with their parents. So a teacher could kind of say, these are upcoming units, you can take a look at it. And finally they have family math activities that the parents can do the math with the student that's kind of going along with what they're doing. So there are family math activities as well as the communication tools. Are they currently using Desmos right now? So currently our adopted curriculum is big ideas. Desmos is a, they have a multi-level product. They have a free platform where you can kind of pick and choose and use some of their interactive, oh it's hard to say, lessons, you know, but it's not really a curriculum. And then they have the curriculum which we piloted that has those along with some direct instruction. So yes, but our main curriculum right now is big ideas and Desmos if being used is used as a supplemental tool. Because I know I've helped my son look good. Yeah, it can be homework sometimes and they are student explorations, so. So just quickly, I was at Lakeview yesterday and the teacher was one of the pilot teachers and she is continuing to use that for the remainder of this school year. So that could also be what is happening if one of the teachers is a pilot teacher. I know she really liked Desmos. She agreed with IReady, that was the better, but she is gonna continue to use Desmos and the children were using it in the classroom when I was there yesterday. Yeah, like Trustee D'Serpa, you know, well I tend to think I am good at math but I still struggle when I see this new way of teaching and the one thing that I did like about Desmos is I can go on and I can watch it like, okay teach me, then it teaches me so then I can teach my son. So I do like that for that one. I'm hoping IReady has something similar for parents because we all learned a different kind of math. Yeah, definitely, there's a big focus on it in IReady and you know, there is one result but there are many pathways to the results and so the solution means there are multiple solutions to get there and so they do emphasize demonstrating multiple ways so people can understand it coming from different perspectives. I'll entertain a motion. I'd like to make a motion. A motion to pass this. A second. First and a second, all those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries and ends. Well, thank you very much on behalf of our students. Thank you. All right. Our next item is approved one-year contract so this is item 9.16, approved one-year contact with Brigade. Report will be presented by Jeannie Aitken and our Director of Food and Nutrition Services. Hello, good evening. Dr. Holm, President Holm, Dr. Rodriguez, board of trustees. Yes, I'm super excited to ask for approval to hire a chef from a company called Brigade. They work specifically with schools, only with schools. They're trained professional chefs. We're just super excited about this opportunity. We received about $750,000 in kit funds last year, which is specifically for kitchen infrastructure and training of our staff. So we would use those funds to pay for this chef who will hopefully not only build on the existing skill set of our current staff, we're hoping that the chef can also move us forward in the direction of implementing more scratch and semi-scratch cooking. So I respectfully request that you approve this agenda item. Thank you. Okay, do we have any public speakers to this item? Any discussion from the board? Yes, Trustee Dodg Jr. You talk about schools, what schools are you talking about? What our intent is actually we would have this chef focus mainly on elementary schools, all the elementary schools, just because of the way our infrastructure is set up and the fact that we do a lot of satellite cooking, that's where the potential lies for most improvements. All elementary schools. The chef will be based at Central Kitchen because that's where all of our meals get packed out of and that's when we do cook, that's where we cook. The Central Kitchen meaning is that the... Here, it's here at the district office. Okay. I love that we're doing more cooking from scratch. I've been asking for this for like, even before I was on the board, it's one of the first times I ever addressed the board before I became a board member. I asked for scratch cooking and this is super exciting. So I'll be happy to make a motion to approve. And I just wanted to add, it is a way to ensure that we're meeting the needs of our community in a healthy and sustainable and mindful way and insist it's great. Well, I'll second because yay. So first and second, all those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. All right. Item 9.17, Approval of Calabasas Watershed Mural Report will be presented by Casey Klappenback, Assistant Superintendent of Elementary Education. All right. Good evening, President Holm, Board of Trustees and Dr. Rodriguez. I'm Casey Klappenback, Assistant Superintendent of Elementary Education and I am here. It is a pleasure to present on behalf of Mr. Todd Westfalt and the Calabasas Cougars, their proposal for a watershed mural project. And so their proposal started from their site green team who wanted to make sure that their parents and students were well informed and knew the impact that they had directly on the life of the watershed. And so this, they were able to find donations and contributions that will be paying for the mural from the Ocean Guardians Grant, the Santa Cruz Arts Council and the green schools. And so this is just a quick glimpse at our actual watershed. And the purpose was really to make sure that all of our students and families actually know where they are in the watershed and that who do we share it with, who affects the health of our watershed and what can we do to make sure we're protecting it. And so two of our well-known community artists from the Santa Cruz Arts Council will be helping work with our students at Calabasas to actually develop and create the mural. It's Nessa Ledesma and Irene Gustamante. And again, like I said, all of the materials will be paid for from those donations and grants. Calabasas will continue to keep it up throughout the years and it was approved unanimously by their parents in school site council in March. And so this gives you a quick glimpse of how it strategically intentionally placed or will be placed on their playground. So you can see that you have the drainage, the storm drain number one on the left side and two on the right side. And so the mural will actually wrap all the way around and we'll give you a glimpse of the section on the left by the storm drain number one. We'll include the wetlands and the middle will be the connecting plants that are there and then also the right side will focus on the Monterey Bay. All right, so without further ado, we're requesting that you approve Calabasas's mural proposal. Great, any public speakers to this item? Any discussion from the board? Go Art. Go ahead. I just have a quick question. Who came up with the design? That's new, right? The logo? Usually they have students every year. They actually design a new logo and so this is probably, this isn't their newest one actually. I've never seen that, but it's really nice. I will make sure I pass it on to the Coogers. Thank you Casey and thank you to Principal Westfall, an excellent principal and Calabasas School. Mirror and Deer to my heart, this is very exciting. Also, somebody who has a career in water policy, very, very exciting and very important given recent events to learn about our watershed and the way we recharge groundwater and sometimes don't recharge groundwater and how the quality of the water is so important to protect. So thank you, very exciting. I'll make a motion. We have a motion, do I have a second? Second. You have a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries seven, zero. Thank you so much. All right. Item 9.18, approve notice of award for Landmark Elementary School Fence Installation Project. Report will be presented by Alindo Fernandez, Director of Maintenance Operations and Facilities. Good evening, President Holm, Dr. Rodriguez, Board Member's Cabinet. My name's Alindo Fernandez and I'm the Director of Maintenance and Operation and I'm here with this first project to bring up the Landmark Elementary Fencing Project. This is to add fencing on the side of the NPR. We're gonna be adding, if you see the map, we're adding two gates and ornamental fencing on that side there, 44 linear feet of ornamental fencing. And this proposal came in at $21,556 and I'm asking for the Board to approve the amount for Olivera fencing to continue with the project. And this is an endowment-funded project. Any public speakers? We have none. Any discussion from the Board? I'll make a motion to approve. We have a motion. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 7-0. Item 9.19, approve notice of award for the Cesar Chavez Middle School Fence Installation Project. I didn't know it was still you. Good evening. Once again, President Holm, Dr. Rodriguez, Board Members, Cabinet. For my second project here for approval is the Cesar Chavez Middle School Fencing Installation Project. This proposal came in at $50,000, $943, with 30 cents. This is an endowment-funded project. We're gonna be putting fence over, as you can see in the yellow down at the bottom, by the turnaround where the cars park, there's gonna be a total of four gates. And 214 linear feet of ornamental fencing. And I'm asking the Board to please approve the proposal for Olivera fencing for $52,900. And $43. Any public speakers? We have none. Any discussion from the Board? Sure. So they nailed both contracts with their proposals that came in right in? Correct. Not bad for today's work, huh? Two contracts. Is that a motion? Yes, a motion to support, sorry. Great. I'll second. I'll first and second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 7-0. Item 9.20, approve Edis Architects Agreement for the Buena Vista Child Care Facility New Modular Replacement Project. 2023032. Good evening again, President Holm, Dr. Rodriguez, Board Members, Cabinet. For this project, I'm asking for the approval to continue the project with Edis Architects. This project is fund 12. The project is systemated value at $750,000. So for their services, I'm asking for your approval for $160,980 to continue with the contract for Edis Architects to help us with the project. Any public speakers? We have none. Any discussion from the board? Trustee D'Serpa? Or Lindo or maybe our CBO can explain to us what fund 12 is. Absolutely. Fund 12 is child development. So that's, my good seasonal head start as well as early childhood education. So not general fund, but in this case, it's Buena Vista, so that would be EC. That would be under Lisa. So this money is not coming out of general fund. It's coming out of a different fund, fund 12. Correct. And this is actually funding that Lisa has specifically for improvements to her facility. So even in fund 12, it's also restricted for these types of projects. That's great. Thank you. I'll make a motion to approve. I'll second. I have a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 7-0. Item 9.21, approved notice of award for the H.A. Hyde Elementary School Court-era Modernization and NPR Sighting Replacement Project, 2-0-2-3-0-1-9. Good evening again, President Holm, Dr. Rodriguez, Board Members, Cabinet. For this project, we are, we, on February 3rd, 2023, and February 10th, the district advertised H.A. Hyde Elementary School Court-era Modernization and NPR Sighting Replacement Project. A mandatory bid was held on February 14, 2023. And six contracts were present at it. On March 28, 2022, the district received three sealed bids from the following contractors. Attached are the bid results. Coming in at the lowest bidder, C-2 Builders, for with a price of 395,000. I'm asking for the Board approval for to continue on with this project with C-2 Builders for the amount of 395,000 dollars. Any public speakers to this item? We have none. Any discussion from the Board? Is C-2 a local contractor or are they out of the area? C-2 Builders is out of Las Lomas. So here local, they're local, yeah. When we were looking over the bids, are they like for like, were they bidding the exact same, you know, work, cause that's a huge discrepancy. I'm just wondering if Premier Builders, you know, foresaw other like changelors that might happen that maybe C-2 didn't. So were they very like practically identical in what they were bidding? Correct. When we do a bid walk, everybody sees what every, you know, we're there. That's why we do a bid walk. Everybody goes through it and everybody shows up and then they get to see the plans. So everybody pays accordingly to the plans. Yeah. We're not gonna get any change orders after the bids. Well, some, I know, I know, I'm a structure, but no huge ones. What? Right, and to that, you know, for those of us who've done this right and you as well, been on these walks, I mean, that's the opportunity to also ask questions. But just to be clear, I mean, we do see lots of change orders and lots of the time and that's a good time to ask questions about that and what's happening. And we've seen them both ways, you know, where we've owed more and sometimes it's a significant amount and then we've also seen where we've had money come back. And Linda, what, so in terms of like just, you know, for our newer board members, you know, what is the, for change orders, like what is the limit for change orders? That's up to 10% of the, of the total cost. Back to the board, correct. But Dr. Rodriguez, I think mostly does bring pretty much, I think you bring really all of it back.  Right. And so if it's over 10%, then there's additional approvals that you guys have to make. And so you might see some change orders, you won't get close to premier builders number. The only time that we saw major change orders, I would probably say was PV high, the field. And that was because there was just a lot of things underneath that we didn't know and couldn't see until then. And so that one, I don't think over the 10% either, but it was close probably. Well, we have seen some that have been on sites and because so many of our sites are so old and we've had these issues, and especially when we're doing things like plumbing and piping and some things just really do go unforeseen. And I know that many times, and even to your predecessors, myself as well as some of my other colleagues have really pushed back on that to try to really vet that better. And I think I would say I've witnessed some improvement with that, so. Sorry. One more thing to take into consideration and just a little perspective, Trustee Flores, you know, you had a question in the discrepancy and the prices. Each one of those companies had different operating costs and overhead. So their prices are gonna be different because they have to pay rent and they might have other costs that they incur, whereas C2 builders might have a small yard or who knows how they operate, but they're able to put those prices out. I mean, you know as well, you have a functioning company as well. So just a food for thought. But I'd like to say I think that this is a very good question and observation. And I, do we get a motion there? Not yet. I'll make a motion to support. Would you like a second? All right, we have a first and a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries as 7-0. All right. Item 9.22, approved notice of award for the Freedom Elementary Door Replacement and Room 31 Alterations Project, 2023-014. Good evening again, President Holm, Dr. Rodriguez, Board Members, Cabinet. For this project is the, I'm asking for the approval for the Freedom Elementary Door Replacement. On April 7th, the district authorized the Freedom Elementary Door Replacements and Room 31 Alteration. A mandatory bidwalk was held on April 10th, 2023. Six contractors were present. On April 20th, 2023, the district received four sealed bids. As you can see from the bid result, C2 builders came in at the lowest again. So I'm asking the Board approve the contract so we could move forward with C2 builders for the amount of 240,600. This is an ESSER funded project. Do we have any public speakers? We do not. Any discussion from the Board? I'll entertain a motion. I'll make a motion to approve. I have a first. I have a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries, 7-0. Thank you. All right. Last one for you, really. Item 9.23, approve, huh? Approve Edis Architects Agreement for the Starlight Elementary School Shade Structure Project 2023-035. Take it away. Okay. Good evening. President Holm, Dr. Rodriguez, board members, cabinet. This project is for Starlight Elementary School Shade Structure. This is in back where the new kitchen legacy is at. And this project is estimated at $50,000. And I'm asking for the approval to continue with Edis Architects Agreement so they could design and help us out with the project. The total dollar amount for this project would be $12,175. And like I said, this is a major L bond project. Public speakers. We have none. Any discussion from the board? All in turn to motion. I'll make a motion to approve. I have a first. Do I have a second? I have a second. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Thank you very much. Thank you. All right. Item 9.24, see if returned to in-person instruction and continuity of service plan. The report will be presented by Dr. Michelle Rodriguez, our superintendent of schools. Yes, thank you so much. So as we have done the last year and a half, in order to continue to use ESSER funding, we have to every six months bring back the safe return to in-person instruction. So regardless of the fact that now there is no longer a state or federal state of emergency, we still are utilizing ESSER funding. And so because of that, we must approve this plan. So as it has been customary the last three times, the only updates are updating it. So it now reflects current requirements from CDPH, which is the California Department of Public Health. If you look through it, there are two major changes. One is that technically people no longer have to test on day six and they can come back as long as they are asymptomatic. Previously they had to wait until day 10 or they could test on day six. And only if they had a negative antigen test could they come. Now CDPH has changed those requirements to now it is six days regardless, unless you have symptoms. The second major change is that we have taken out inspired diagnostic testing. So as previously, the entire county required a PCR test in order to come back if you had symptoms. Now we have aligned to CDPH requirements and now you no longer have to provide a PCR test, but instead an antigen test, which we do actually provide at all schools and departments. We did remove inspired diagnostic testing. And that is because with the expiration of both state and federal state of emergency, inspired diagnostic was now going to charge our community and charge our staff. And that was not something that we wanted to engage with. So we only allowed them to be on our campus and our district office if they were willing to do it free of charge. And they are no longer in any county location at this point. So again, we are still providing for students and staff antigen tests for free. And so we encourage anyone who is experiencing symptoms to get that from either their department or their school site. And so I ask for your approval so we can continue to use ESSER funding. I don't see any public speakers. All right. Any discussion from the board? Make a motion to approve. I have a first. Do I have a second? All right. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 601. All right. Consent agenda, we're done with action items. All right. Consent agenda, those are our routine items that are brought before the board. Do we have any public speakers for consent agenda? Are there any items that the board wishes to defer? Can I have a motion? I'll make a motion to approve our consent agenda tonight. Can I have a second? All right. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? All right. Did you want to vote on consent? I did. Okay. I was over there waiting. Oh, sorry. It's on the other one. I don't know if you want to. So for a consent agenda, 7-0. All right. So, all right. On action items. So let's see. Are there any items to report from closed session? Yes, there are. Yes, we have some items to report. Let me see. Okay. So on closed session item 2.2, I moved to approve the Certificate of Personnel Report as presented by District Administration on April 26, 2023 with 44 and 10 additional action items. We have a motion. Do we have a second? I'm sorry. I'll second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 7-0. On closed session item 2.3, I moved to approve the Classified Personnel Report as presented by District Administration on April 26, 2023 with 34 and nine additional action items. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 7-0. On closed session item 2.7, the Board voted 6-0-0-1 to adopt resolution number 22-23-54. I'm waiting. But I do have also a few announcements. So our first announcement on behalf of our superintendent and the District Administration, we are pleased to announce Ms. Jenny Eim's appointment to Director of Fiscal Service. Ms. Eim has over nine years of experience in finance with seven of those years in various roles in school finance. She started her career at the Santa Cruz County Office of Education and in recent years has been serving the Sonoma County Office of Education and the Petaluma City Schools. She has a strong background in the different functions of a school district such as accounting, payroll budgeting, auditing and school finance. Ms. Eim is described as an excellent team member, thorough detail oriented and brings new ideas to the work. Ms. Eim establishes and maintains great working relationships with everyone as she comes in contact with. She deals effectively with a wide variety of people and handles all situations with tax. She looks forward to moving back to Santa Cruz County and serving the district in her new role. We are proud to welcome Ms. Eim as our new Director of Fiscal Services. Yes. So, the Power Valley Unified School District is pleased to announce the following. Please welcome Manjeet Desi, Lisa Diamond, Gretchen, Guffrey, Carl Jackard and Georgia Tyrell to their new roles as Program Directors for Expanded Learning. Previously, these five administrators were coordinators of Extended Learning and are all moving into new roles with Expanded Learning. They bring a wealth of knowledge and experience surrounding Expanded Learning and will now be overseeing multiple sites and working with staff to continue the excellent programs that Expanded Learning provides to our students and community. We are excited to have this group of experienced educators in their new roles. The Announcement Three, we have the Power Valley Unified School District is pleased to announce Nancy Zuniga as Nancy Zuniga, excuse me, as the new Assistant Director of Expanded Learning. Nancy is moving into this position after serving as Assistant Principal of Extended Learning for High Schools. Nancy's new role will allow her to interact with students and staff from grades Cray through 12. Her in-depth experience as an Expanded Learning Administrator will help her plan comprehensive programs, monitor budgets and strengthen relationships between PVSD and the community. We are excited to welcome Nancy to this new role. And our last Announcement for the evening, the Power Valley Unified School District is pleased to announce Erin Meilenberg as the new Assistant Principal of Aptos High School. Erin has been serving students since 2016 as a math and choir teacher and most recently as a teacher at the Virtual Academy. Erin has also worked in Morocco with the US Peace Corps. Erin holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from UC Davis, a teaching credential in math from CSUMB, and will complete his administrative credential in June of 2023 from CSUMB. He is also currently working on his Master's in Education. We are excited to welcome this highly experienced educator into his new role, Go Mariners, and that is all. All right, well, our next regular board meeting will be on May 10th, 2023. And with that, our meeting is adjourned at 11.39.


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