Alright, good evening everyone. So welcome to our PVSD board meeting. We do have translation available in Spanish, so if you need that support please see Orania Lopez. So tenemos traducción en español. Si necesitas de este servicio, por favor pase con Orania Lopez. If someone would like to speak to an item that is on our agenda, please fill out a speaker card and hand it to Eva Renteria prior to the start of the agenda item. Each speaker will have two minutes. So we'll go on to our Pledge of Allegiance and I would like to ask our interim superintendent to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Thank you. And then we will move on to item 3.3, our interim superintendent comments. Welcome everybody. Welcome. If you don't know who I am, my name is Marie Scheckman and I'm about as happy as anybody to be here at a board meeting sitting in this seat. I want to thank the board for the wonderful reception, a 7-0 vote. I want to plant seeds that that's the way to go. When we get 7-0 votes, and I said this 12 years ago as an assistant, and when we get 7-0 votes, it means that the board is compromising, is moderating, is working together. The bond is the best example. So I thank you. I thank this community. I have I have been blown away, quite honestly, using a youthful vernacular at how welcoming everyone has been. I really appreciate from kids who are now grandparents, kids of mine from EA Hall in the early 80s, the office manager of McQuitty. Oh my goodness, she was my student a long time ago. And even a young man, well he's not so young now, a gentleman who said I suspended him, but it was a good time, which is why we don't want to do the suspensions. But thank you to the community. I really appreciate it. I'm excited to be back. It's been a sentimental journey, and I appreciate it. A couple other things I do want to report on. Thank you, cabinet. I am blessed with brilliant people. I was unaware. I knew how important cabinet would be to the superintendent or interim superintendent. Didn't know. And they're good. They're dedicated. They're really smart.  I've tried to keep him here. He he well, we have some things to say about Casey in a little bit. We have a breakfast on August 14th for all the faculty, all our employees. Sometimes we've had a good crowd in the past. It's at PV High. I want to have as many people who are willing to be there. I really hope we have a good crowd. We usually buy breakfast, cost 5,000. It's a good deal. I decided that it would be appropriate to see, because the community's been so sweet and there's a little momentum going on, I decided to basically call in some chips. We have it all covered from the community. We've raised over $5,000. We have De La Colmena giving us $250 in burritos. All three Rotary clubs, Granite Rock, Driscoll's, the Chamber, employees at KBK, John Skillicorn Real Estate, Melvin Cooper, who owns three of the auto dealerships. Quite honestly, they were happy because they want us to succeed. They want teachers and our classified staff to feel supported. And it was it was part of the pleasure in coming back. You'll hear a little more, or you already read about a wonderful grant that we just got. A few challenges. Not going to go into now, but testing our budget and enrollment are things that I am looking forward to focusing on. And now I'd like to ask Casey just stand free please. Casey lives a kind, a really good house in the district. I've had the privilege of working with Casey for eight full days. He is a brilliant gentleman. He's a kind man. He's got some really tough assignments in our district. And we live in a real way. Thank you. All right, we'll move on to three point for our governing board comments. And this is our opportunity for each board member to make a few comments. And we'll start with Trustee Flores. Thank you. Good evening. And thank you to everyone for being out here tonight. I don't have a whole lot to say of for the last couple of weeks. We didn't have any meetings to attend. I have been keeping an eye on some of the campuses near my district. And seeing many of the improvements that are going on. And I'm happy to, you know, see that our students are going to be welcomed back to improved campuses. I do want to keep an eye on on that part. And thank you, Eileen and MNO for everything that they're doing to clean up our campuses and prepare them for our students. Vice President Naposta. Thank you. Welcome, everyone. I don't have any standing committee reports either. I have been seeing a lot of work as is normal at this time of season through our MNO department. And I just really want to give a big shout out to Herlindo and all his team out there and all the work they're doing. I agree with Trustee Flores. I think our students, our faculty and staff are going to return to some really nice campuses with some improvements along the way. And other than that, because it's the first time I can formally do it in public, I just want to welcome our interim superintendent, Mr. Murray Sheckman to our district. Did have one committee meeting with him this last week for Agenda Setting Committee. And he handled that very well, being new to board docs and all of that. So I just want to formally say welcome. It is our pleasure to have you here. I also want to echo your sentiments on that 7-0 vote. I totally agree with you and you couldn't have said it better. So welcome. And I think we're in for a good start to this school year. So thank you. Trustee D'Sirpa. Thank you and happy almost August. I can't believe how fast the summer is flying by. I want to welcome our assistant superintendent, Murray Sheckman. We have spent a lot of years together in this board room and I'm very happy to have you at the helm. So welcome back, Murray. I did attend a PAHRO PVPSA board meeting and our Agenda Setting and look forward to the school year opening up. We'll be attending the breakfast and enjoy the rest of your summer, everybody. Trustee Soto. Good evening everybody. Thank you for being here. Just want to reiterate everybody else's comments. Murray, thank you for stepping up and taking on the position and, you know, take us in a proper direction. So thank you for doing that. I got an update regarding PAHRO middle on the progress of the reconstruction there post flood. A lot of good stuff happening. So Hurley, thank you. Thank your staff and all the guys working hard. I know you've got subs out there as well that are doing stuff. So keep up the good work. Yeah, there's a, there's a different vibe in the district. You can kind of feel it. I felt it in, in the closed session meeting too. So a lot of positive feelings. So that's good. So thank you everybody. Trustee Scott. Thank you. Good evening everybody and to everybody watching us on YouTube. Very excited to welcome our superintendent, interim superintendent, our superintendent, Murray Scheckman and thank him for stepping up and thank my board colleagues for the work we've done together in the past, not just the past month, but the past four or five months since I've had the pleasure to serve, giving our raises to our administrators, to our teachers. We've done some good work together and and I think it's really exciting to bring on somebody with his depth of experience as a teacher, principal, counselor, somebody who's trained so many people, administrators in our region. We're pretty lucky to have him. So thanks again, Murray. And you know, it's because we have somebody like him who offers our district so much that I really feel good about where we are as a district. Also, on recent history where we've come and I feel excited about all the work we're going to be doing and talking about some of the things on the agenda tonight. So just leave it at that. Thank you. Thank you. And I'll echo my colleagues welcome statements and your work is much appreciated. I also want to mention some donations that are, you know, in our consent agenda, but I just wanted to highlight them because they're exemplary of, you know, our community and the final pledge donation for the Culinary Garden Teaching Kitchen at Starlight Elementary has been received. And this was a $5,000 donation from Dr. Jackie Medina and family. And that closes out the fund development campaign that raised a total of $1,534,140 from our community of 163 supporters that included individuals, businesses, foundations, government and nonprofit partners. This program will continue to generate meaningful learning and teaching experiences, not just for our Starlight community, but across the district through deep connection with our garden based education partners at LifeLab. If you haven't seen this garden yet, I strongly recommend it. We thank Dr. Medina for her leadership with a special project during the planning, building and implementation phases. And I also want to thank Driskell's Corp. They donated $150,000 to renovate and upgrade, upgrade Watsonville High School soccer field alongside Blackburn Street. And I continue to be most appreciative of this community support for our students. For myself, this coming August is a special milestone for me. My oldest started Kinder at Rio del Mar Elementary in fall of 2003. So my youngest is a sophomore at Aptos. Hi. So this marks my 20th consecutive year of being a PVSD parent. And I know that my children's lives have been profoundly affected by the teachers, the staff and administrators of this district. And I am profoundly grateful. I think about how far we've come. I remember being so sad at the lack of access to arts and music that I remember having, you know, when I was a child. And while there is still progress to be made, we have come so far. I think about the developments in our CTE and ethnic studies curriculum. How amazing is it that our students can meet the requirements and areas that spark their interests? You know, who knows what further opportunities these programs will bring about? Anyway, I just wanted to acknowledge the work that so many people have done to make PVSD a district to be proud of. So thank you. All right. So we will go on to item 4.1, approval of the agenda. Can I have a motion to approve the agenda? I make a motion to approve the agenda. We have a motion. I have a second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 6-0. And item 5.1, approval of the July 12, 2023 board meeting minutes. And I'll make a motion to approve. But there was a question about the start time of the meeting. And I think that we started, I think we had quorum right at 6 o'clock. Just with that. Okay. If I'm remembering correctly, on the 12th, the last one. Yeah, because we remember the closest. Yeah, right away. Yeah. Okay. I'll second that. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries 6-0. We don't have any public hearings. So item 7.1, public comment. So this is our opportunity for members of the public to address issues that are not on our agenda for the evening. And just as a reminder, you know, if you're new, we can't engage in discussion back and forth. But know that we are listening to what you have to say. Do we have any public comments? Yes, we do. We have four speakers. And I'll call you up by two. And if you could come up in that order, that'd be great. And just as a reminder to what President Trustee Dr. Holm said earlier to reiterate, it's a two-minute timing for each speaker. Elaine Legorietta and Kerry Gill are our first two. There we go. Fixed it. Okay. I'm echoing, so I hear it. Okay. I have some thoughts. Call them strong suggestions as you consider who to hires our next superintendent. As efforts for increasing salaries continue, it is critical to also put effort into the human culture of a school district. We've adopted numerous programs to address student achievement and have not seen the growth needed. I contend that employee retention is an overlooked piece for increased student achievement. Based on my experience and listening to others, here are some qualities that will help us to retain and further develop the talent of our employees. Focus on people. See and value the person, not just the job. Trust staff. Respect the skills they bring and leadership they can provide at whatever level of the system they work. Be a good listener. Respect input from the trenches is important that struggles be shared safely shared as well as successes. Build rapport so people feel safe. Our next superintendent needs the skill to generate that safety of conversation and sharing up the ladder. Demonstrate respect for leaders and staff with collaborative practices and meetings. Nurture a comfort to be creative. Be a leader who develops leadership and lets leaders lead. Hold a focus on quality evaluations for affirming quality work and identifying needed growth. Lastly, cynicism of professional development is rampant. Not because the providers aren't skilled, but because the content is frequently not relevant or differentiated to the growth needs of our professionals. Toses, other coaches and site departments at grade levels have stayed stuck in the basics of onboarding to programs. Minimal employee loss in all departments allows for veterans to wrap around new staff to accelerate onboarding to the team. That also allows for deepening of excellence and practice with a great greater variety of professional development. Thank you very much. Everything she just said. My name is Kerry Yell. I'm a Marvista parent and I'm also a teacher at Aptos Junior. I was the PBIS coordinator up until this year. The PBIS initiative that the district rolled out four years ago is going to fail if you don't support it. Every year we're expected to grow and meet a new level of behavior support on each campus, but each year the district removes more support for the program. Our first year I was the PBIS coordinator. I received a stipend. Last year that stipend was removed and I was asked to keep a time sheet of my hours working on PBIS up to a certain amount which was the stipend amount. It seemed to be a slight slap in the face or lack of trust that I was doing my job. Now this year we have no district finances or stipend for PBIS coordinator and the funding must come out of site budgets.  I ran the school's social media accounts. I designed assemblies to focus on behavior expectations and how to treat other people. PBIS coordinators are expected to organize and shop for incentives for behavior and on our campus that includes a student of the month recognition for both grade levels. A monthly no tardy party for students with zero tardies. A PBIS store where they can spend their five star points as well as a bi-monthly will spend where they can spend five star points on incentives. In addition we have monthly PBIS meetings we can barely fit in amongst all the other required PDN meetings. They usually got you know that was the first thing to go. We're responsible for developing signage around campus and making sure we are hitting our marks on our annual TFI to submit for a PBIS recognition. It's not a small job that you will get a teacher to do for free. In fact it could be another FTE for each site. There is so much that we could get done with a dedicated PBIS coordinator but as with most programs in this district it is receiving less support every year while maintaining the same expectations. Another concern related that I would like to bring to you is safety on campus. Last year Aptos Junior had an additional campus security person for the last part of the school year. It was wonderful. This made a significant impact to our campus security in a positive way. I encourage you to find more ways to support additional adult supervision on our campuses for students. Thank you. And our next two none other than our Honorable Mayor Edward Eduardo Montecino and Chris Webb. Good evening. Eduardo Montecino, Mayor of the City of Watsonville. More importantly I'm a parent.  But this district has a lot of potential and I want to welcome Murray for coming back and and giving us the help that we need to find a state leader for the future. But that's what I want to talk to you about. You know like Miss Legretta that said very eloquently we need you know support for retention. We have we become a training ground. We we want the district to be able to grow and foster. And this is this is a great opportunity to all of us to work together. Like Murray said seven. We need seven to steer our ship. Seven in a community because this is a growing community and I just you know I just want to highlight I just came from Salinas from an event for a new speaker. Mr. Ribas. Rural community. You know public school schools. We have a lot of potential in our community. Let's work together to achieve and get more speakers for our community because he's the highlight of rural communities and we can do that here in this district if we work together. Work together to make great goals and and I just want to offer anything we can help along the city. I already contacted Mr. Shackman. Murray Shackman M. We're there. We're there all of you. So thank you. Good evening. I'd like to to welcome you as well. Assistant Superintendent. I'm Chris Webb. I'm from Renaissance High School. I started teaching there in 2015 and I came from a more traditional school and then when I when I arrived I I carried a lot of the same practices and like expectations and one of the things I heard originally we're going over like Shag, Sanford History Education Group, some primary source document or something or I would say something like oh we're not going to leave until we you know like I'd said certain basic expectations your first day of school type stuff and one of the things I heard from the students was like oh you need to go to Optos. This is Renaissance. We don't do that and then like in the next couple years like as I acculturated to Renaissance like I discovered like actually we had like a really strong program and we were really good at getting students to realize their potential. We had huge turnarounds in attendance.  I want to get back to that. I want to last year teachers at my site took into heart feedback they receive from from their higher authorities at multiple levels to refine that PBIS system in line with the criticism they heard and then we never got off the ground it was like we prepared everything and then they didn't want to drive the car so and then in the end the teachers were in like silos and that's a really hard way to go through a year and I don't think it serves anyone. I feel like if we keep that we're going to have like low morale we're going to have low attendance we're going to have lost opportunities for students that killed me because I was so one of the people who was connecting with some of these outside groups on a personal level I know them from my rugby life and then I come here and my school didn't get to go because we didn't have the behavior culture set up and our principal was nervous about them going out and then other sites were doing it and other sites had those support so I'd like to get back to those supports that work so well. 2018 WASC recognize them thank you. Any other public comments? That is all. So we'll go on to our employee organizations so this is the time where we hear from our employee organizations and we'll start with PBFT. Good evening board and interim superintendent Mr. Sheckman I got here just in time apparently you all are flying through this agenda already. What am I going to say? Other than two more weeks I again like I mentioned this last time that we had a board meeting human resources I checked in with them on what our vacancies are looking like and they have really been doing a stellar job in filling vacancies as of today from what I gathered from the HR analysts there are 20 which wow yay they're not here so and we still have you know people are still being contacted to to you know take on a contract or not but I wanted to say thank you to approving that raise that we negotiated because I really believe that that's been very very helpful so that coupled with the amazing health benefits that we also negotiate for the for all of us employees all of us stakeholders here in the district that has definitely helped with putting us back into the sight lines of many people who are coming into education or even returning I met a returning colleague today so that's wonderful to see people returning to our district because they know that the benefits are great but now they see that the salary schedule is catching up so thank you for beginning to make those moves and investing in the employees in our district and then as we move forward into this coming year I know in a couple of weeks we have SBC days and I and there are these two voluntary days to work curriculum the seventh and the eighth and I think it's a great idea for those the new teachers that are coming in to have that opportunity to come in and to learn about that curriculum I was at an orientation a couple weeks ago when I first heard about of these voluntary days and so I was just like well what's that about want to make sure that people are also compensated and they are and one other thing that our negotiation team this last cycle negotiated was those optional four days and we are continually hearing from our members of how grateful they are to have those optional four days that they could use at at their discretion and you know in accordance with like working with their director or their administrator because they're going in and working some are pursuing to use that you know to get paid their per diem to go to a PD somewhere else that's going to that they're then going to bring back a wonderful skill that they're taking you know learning at you know in some training outside of our district so that is how this benefits not only our our member the employees here but our students because they're bringing that here it's something that is relevant to the work that they do and they're being compensated for their time because as we all know time is very valuable and and then as I get older and as my family gets older I you know time is is there's it's finite so it's important that our time is valued and it as professionals but also just as people who also dedicate their time to our district so thank you and yeah I will see speak to you at the next meeting in which we will have people back and we'll be back in the full swing of the new school year thank you thank you do we have anyone here that looks from csa I just like to note on that that I do believe csa has gone away at their leadership conference okay just for a note on that do we have anyone from pavail good evening president home superintendent checkman board of trustees and pvst community it's my privilege to be able to address you tonight on behalf of pavail my name is michael burman i'm the director of equity state and federal programs and accountability we're at the first board meeting of the 23 24 school year so it's that great time of the year where we can use one of my favorite savings which is happy new year um we are very excited to be working on quite a few things and i'm hoping to highlight tonight some of the efforts coming up and um currently happening to start this year on behalf of pavam and the first one is our administrator university in order to welcome and support our pv of usd administrators who are in their first few years as leaders in their current role directors and coordinators many of whom are in the room are hosting our inaugural administrators university this week um department leads from hr student services mno business services teaching and learning program evaluation special services and us at state and fed um we're all working closely with our new administrators uh in thoughtfully designing session thoughtfully design sessions um each topic was selected to support the administrators growth in their positions as well as differentiate the learning to meet the specific needs of those that are new to our district and those who have worked in our district prior uh each session is organized by topic with a focus on a common on common challenges hot tips and systems and structures to support now and throughout the school year um some of the topics include safety and discipline and positive school cultures uh human resources lisa came and joined us to discuss leveraging leadership to support effective communication and organization i got to talk about school plans and school site council and how to utilize school plans as a tool to support student progress um also about parent engagement uh brook was there to talk about data and assessments and kind of gave an overview of all of our assessments and the purpose behind them and then also the roles and responsibilities of each administrator um and how to communicate the results to improve instruction and then also how to access all of our platforms uh tomorrow we have business services joining us and they're going to be sharing their procedures and best practices and common hiccups regarding purchasing accounting finance payroll and benefits and then friday we have special services and they're going to be talking about inclusive practices special education staff organization compliance referrals and best practices um number two is our new teacher orientation you heard nely mentioned this on august 7th and 8th our newest uh certificated team members will join us for our second comprehensive new teacher orientation this is an opportunity um to support teachers as they begin their careers here with us on day one it's going to be making sure they have the technology and the access to our platforms that they need and then also really with a with a priority in ensuring that they have something actionable for day one we're really going to be looking at supporting them uh with building classroom community best practices in regards to establishing expectations supporting the school's pbis instructional strategies to support all students after lunch with their administrators are going to go back and put it into action and then on day two they'll have the opportunity to break out groups with their grade level or content area teams the third thing is our sbc day this year the sbc day will have all of our certificated staff together and we'll be focusing on filling our social emotional buckets and launching our year-long professional development strands teachers will have the opportunity to engage in mindful activities connect with their peers and focus on health and wellness as we head into the new year and lastly I want to ask you all to save the date for October 7th because of popular demand of our parent conferences we realized hey wouldn't it be great if we started the year with with a nice kickoff and we are working with special services and migrant ed and food services and we're going to do you know how we do that that big fat the February annual parent conference we're going to do two this year we're going to do one in the beginning of the year to start the year strong for our families and then one later on in the year as well so I hope you can join us on October 7th and once again happy new year thank you very much thank you we have one public speaker to this item Chris Webb I have a couple of remarks about collaborating with PIVAM and teachers but before I get to that I want to just commend the district and PIVAM members for their their processes related to the superintendent related to admin hiring including at renaissance and related to the budget I think in all these areas that that we've had good processes and I really appreciate the board and the deliberative approach that I feel everyone has taken as far as collaborating I feel like we should set down a couple core values one of those being like just asking the question does this policy or does this rule does this serve the students just simply asking that sometimes I feel like we make a change and it doesn't always serve the students and I kind of spoke to the to one of the things I meant in my previous comment also it doesn't serve the teachers and one other thing that kind of gets back to why I like that old method pre-covid is we had due process and when we've lost it I feel like students and staff have lost equity so I feel like we need to to value due process value stakeholder consideration I think if we if teachers come back on those first two days and it's like an entire new program and everything and you were planning on setting up things and refining stuff but now you're having to completely retool for the whole year that's that's not great that's not a great way to start if we're going to do major changes like that and a major change like that for renaissance would be like from grades to from credit variable credits to grades if we were to make a change like that we should be talking about that for a long time and we should never make a change like that without having that support structure that I previously mentioned if we didn't we'd be raising the stakes on students without the support and I'll tell you this as a teacher I'm not going to be scapegoated if a student falls through the the openings we set up in the safety net so thank you and so do we have anybody from CWA not today all right moving on to our action items so for visual and performing arts at the elementary level we'll have a report from Casey Clappenback our assistant superintendent of elementary education and Lisa Aguirreia our assistant superintendent of secondary education good evening president dr. Holm board of trustees and our interim superintendent mr. Schekman I'm here tonight my name is kc Clappenback assistant superintendent of elementary education with my colleague Lisa Aguirre assistant superintendent for secondary education and upon your request we are both happy here to continue our VAPA and release discussion 2.0 to carry on that discussion and to look a little further into the programs that we're offering our students upon in our system and we have added a few visuals to help us see the system again that we are providing and in support of our students so as you can see the first table here if you just take a look you'll see our elementary sites on the left side and this is your oops I'm going back I apologize to 2022 2023 the offerings that we provided by our sites for release and you can see on the left side the visual arts our music PE and science so if you look carefully you can tell that we provide a variety right throughout the different sites in our district within our system and if you're looking at our visual arts and that's where we're going to focus and our music you can see that we have two sites that we're not providing visual arts last year and you also see eight of our sites providing music as a release so these are our release programs offered at the site as you look at this year's this upcoming plan which was approved earlier by the board I want you to take a look again the same table and what you should notice is that we are offering additional instruction in music and nothing has been taken away in the visual arts for our students from that perspective within our system what I would like to also draw our attention to as we're looking upon the whole system and our offerings for our students we also have science right provided by a release teacher and that has not changed right so we're looking at the VAPA piece the music and our science all together for a system of consistent instruction for our students in looking at the table what we wanted to look at is that it's the offerings that we have for our students that they receive each day one of the things that you do notice is that there's not consistency across the district which we are committed to figuring out how we can make it consistent across the district so if you notice the visual arts from last year to this year there are it's still the same where there's two schools that are not students students will not be receiving that but there and there's different than the ones that there were from last year but it is still the same number of schools so as we're looking at next steps we are bringing since this is an action item we have three requests that staff is bringing to you as a board the first one is to approve moving forward with the plan that was approved at a previous board meeting and then looking at the prop 28 monies that is coming up that is something that we have discussed as a board and that's come up we want to look at developing a template for sites to use so they can look at the monies that they have allocated to them based on state funding and develop a plan with their own community to decide what's best for their school and so lastly that third one is we know that we have some inconsistencies in our district right for our students and so we want to work on a long term strategic plan and vision for providing not only the VAPA piece right music and science to make sure that we are supporting our students right to have that consistency across the district so it doesn't matter what school you're attending this would be your program and so as you're looking at that in the future we would like to form a specialty committee to develop the strategic plan one of the things that have come into play is looking at visual arts versus music just today I had a principal come up and talk to me about well my community actually wants trauma and we want theater so as we've there's been different folks have come and speak and we have our thoughts board has thoughts different community members has thoughts but at the same time through the PROC 28 the templates and also speaking with individual sites they also have thoughts that we haven't necessarily come into play and heard from their community so like I said drama was not something any of us had even talked about in all of our conversations but yet that is something that is a priority of one of our elementary schools so coming together and building a community where we have experts in different in a variety of positions will help develop a PVUSD long-term five-year plan that incorporates many voices including parents and families so staff requests that your approval for the three items that we just brought up and will open up for discussion thank you do we have any public speakers to decide yes we do we have 13 and I'll call you up by three if you could come up in that order and again to reiterate each speaker has two minutes and also if I do mispronounce your name please do feel free to correct me Rebecca Steinberg Stephanie Tran and is it Katie or Callie Simpson okay good evening my name is Rebecca Steinberg and I have been an art teacher in the district for a while and I've taught at three different school sites elementary school sites and looking at the graph I just wanted to help you build some background knowledge of what my day is like as an art teacher so I usually see five to six classes a day so over a week I see approximately 500 students and one of the solutions that the district has come up with is that I should be split between two schools so if you think about seeing 500 students a week and the prep time that goes into that the supplies that are moved in and out I'm not sure how it would work being based out of two different schools art is such an important subject and a specialist really can bring that to life there there is no wrong answers in art every child and art is successful it doesn't matter if you speak the language or not art is a way of expressing yourself we think about the importance of art therapy a lot of our students coming off the pandemic need art as a way to express some styles they are still struggling with the emotional toll that the pandemic has taken and art is a way to express the good and the bad I grew up in a family of artists and I've had a lot of opportunities that I know my students have not had they have not been able to go to go excuse me to go to the museums and the galleries and just explore I have I have been able to open up my classrooms at lunch students who don't feel safe on the playground I invite them they come my classrooms are full students really really want to find a safe place and art gives them that if they're a struggling reader they don't want to go to the library they want to come to the art room I've had students tell me when we do art projects and they get messy this is the best day ever and just last note from what one of the assistant superintendents told me when I worked in the central valley doesn't matter how good your lesson is if you're teaching to an empty chair scared to touch it hi first time here my name is Stephanie Tran I'm a math instructor at Cabrillo college I've been teaching college math for 20 years including the calculus series my two children attend my Vista elementary school art is important because the exposure to art in a student's early years are the foundation for ideas in higher education higher ed science and math for example this fun tessellation drawing that children can do connects to nature such as this nautilus this nautilus shell and later that idea connects to fractals such as this Fibonacci spiral which is in higher mathematics which finds order in chaos learning to sketch 3D objects such as this can build a child's spatial perception and is the stepping stone to calculate volume using the method of cylindrical shells in calculus too this image shows the sketch on axes as well as the calculus formula most universities are starting to connect stem and arts which is called steam elementary school should be the foundation for kids to learn arts, math and sciences cutting arts will not prepare our kids for higher education in fact it will do the opposite thank you for your time is it Katie or Kali Simpson here our next three Judy Stavile, Kerry Gale and again our honorable Eduardo Montesino good evening I'm Judy Stabil with arts now Pajaro Valley arts now Santa Cruz County and create California I'm here tonight to reconfirm our belief and commitment to all PVUSD students at all grade levels having equitable access to sequentially taught standards-based visual and performing arts learning opportunities we must address the issue of equity and believe that there is a way to move towards meeting the goal of equity within the current constraints without sacrificing thriving programs we recommend the following with Proposition 28 funding going to individual school sites we recommend principals and district administrators work together to secure a plan to fund a visual arts teacher at every site at the elementary level we encourage creative thinking about utilizing budgeted FTEs and sharing staff assignments as schools who have no visual art teachers while maintaining veteran art teachers full-time at their current sites develop a new equitable five-year community-driven VAPA plan that reflects the current climate funding and circumstances and engage the community in a transparent process and rely on the expertise of the VAPA district staff rather than responding to decreasing enrollment through FTEs we encourage the district to consider the long-term implications and provide equitable arts education to those who are attending classes right now art students in each and every school at every level deserve the same opportunity to excel in and through the arts art students gosh in addition to building creativity and imagination the arts teach critical thinking empathy and resilience art support learning and all other content areas and engage students and bring joy to learning and we encourage you to allow that joy thank you Hi Kiergill I'm a Marvista parent and my older daughter actually got to take art at Marvista my daughter that goes there currently has never taken art at Marvista and it's incredibly sad I signed her up for an art camp this summer so she could get some extra time I was also disappointed to hear and I actually took the job at Aftas Junior because I was told it would be job security even though we were told that these elementary positions would be permanent positions due to the release time in the contract so I made that choice and now I'm glad because I was very disappointed to hear of the decision that was being made not to rehire the empty elementary art positions and asking art teachers to be split between two campuses some of these art teachers are integral part of their campus you know they work in the afterschool program they've made these connections with their community and to split them is unfair it's not an ideal job for anyone at the time when I was hired the community had rallied and asked for a visual art to be brought back to the schools and as a parent I feel the same way today as a teacher I know that the arts are part of what makes certain kids want to come to school every day so if we want to work on attendance art is critical in my own experience as a student I cannot tell you how many times I've had a teacher say I'm not an artist or I can't draw as they begin to demo an art lesson on the board why are we putting one more legally required subject area on general ed teachers at these schools and from my understanding Mcquitty does not have an art teacher three schools this year with no art teacher not two there has been no professional development of how to use these new national standards in their classrooms although we're spending two days on science the arts have always been a subject that has been seen as disposable they're now paying art teachers less in houston because it's not seen as as valuable the arts have also been a subject that has been able to be disposed of and research has shown it's integral to learning to develop visual literacy for young kids the arts incorporate all subject matters to deepen and expand student learning and the best thing is for our students to have access to visual arts music drama PE all of the things they are legally entitled entitled to when I got my multiple subject credential the focus was not on art it was math language arts social studies and science so we need to make sure that we give our kids specialists who know how to teach art Eduardo Montesino you know as a community and in our community we need the art you know if you saw we were very supported as a city at the Porter building because because the community wants the benefit because we don't see that enough and and I encourage you to fund both of them and continue around that path because as I remember my school age years I then grew up here I grew up in Santa Cruz and I went to the La Vega school and I had had opportunity to draw and I had an opportunity play instruments so we want to provide that for our community and foster that because people learn in different ways in different manners and some people you know flourish with these opportunities so thank you very much okay and our next three speakers Susan Gralty Christy Sudale and Julie Baird is Susan here no sorry okay Christy Sucho and then after Christy is Julie Baird good evening I spoke previously on this very briefly just going to say I can't imagine an art teacher going to two locations and having to memorize that many students and supposed to have an impact it's a little bit contradictory to the whole purpose of the arts right you're you're making connection I'm just thinking back to my son he's now in high school and the experiences he had he was at one of the charter schools lots of extra opportunities there and yet I still put him in an after school drumming group Tyco here in Watsonville I still made sure that he had additional arts and we would go all the way to Aptos for those Wednesday camps that they have because it just wasn't as much opportunity happening in Watsonville it's pretty sad after school programs are great but that's after homework right and so it's important that the arts are being paid attention to as a primary need it shouldn't be a secondary goal it should be a primary need so I'm just hoping that everybody is paying attention to what's actually happening with the students as everybody has mentioned multiple times and it's only brought up once tonight the pandemic has had a huge emotional toll on these students I'm a cassa and every time I'm working with my kiddos and they're going through tough times it is drawing that gets them out of their shell that's how we make those first few connections and that's pretty much always how it's going to be so if we're not prioritizing this for the students on a regular basis it's highly unlikely that there's going to be any major changes for the students at this time I hope that there is going to be more funding not less funding than what I just saw in this presentation thank you hi my name is Julie Baird I don't have anything prepared but I spoke here before advocating for the arts so at the risk of sending repetitive I'm a carpet designer I started in the carpet industry right out of college because I went to school for textile design because I love my art class in high school my art teacher just passed away this past year but she was the one who pointed me in the direction so I work with architects and interior designers so there are a lot of design jobs out there and we design in the built world and I love the props earlier because I've designed a whole a fractile collection because the research that she's teaching these kids their studies that show the impact of fractals on the built world and when you go into a senior living those bringing that nature element inside relaxes and has a positive impact on our society as a whole I'm also a parent my kids went through Mar Vista and Aptos junior and Aptos high school Kerry Gill was my daughter Quinn's teacher and Quinn has benefited from having her as a teacher and won an award for the mosaic project that's going on down here in Watsonville so that was very exciting I had the luxury of being able to supplement the arts that they lacked by going to Mar Vista and I helped start an art school for children mostly Aptos children and then I realized that the kids in Watsonville weren't getting that same outside experience so I when the kids were little I was able to work from Mariposa art and go into the high school and be part of that program my career keeps me too busy to be doing that anymore but all kids need art some of them need drama some of them need music some of them need art they all find their safe place I tried music I wasn't very good at it but I did thrive in the arts and I did find my safe place that she was talking about so they need all kids need access to all of them our next three Jennifer Khan Lucia Herrera and Ria Hurt good evening my name is Jennifer Khan and I'm a retired PVUSD kindergarten teacher I taught for 38 years my last 34 here I'm a quitty elementary studies have shown the students who study music have increased achievement and proficiency in math reading and cognitive development studies also show that visual arts have a positive impact on students' ability to organize their thoughts and writing and promote sophisticated reading skills art programs also have a positive influence on student behavior and school climate I'm advocating for the implementation of both visual arts and music at all elementary levels in a way that the teachers are not stretched too thin and can be provide quality lessons I know from firsthand experience how the arts make learning more engaging and fun I used to incorporate a lot of both visual arts and music into my curriculum for many years I would have up to five performances a year where parents would come into my classroom to see their children perform they saw firsthand what we were studying and also learn techniques of how to work on academics in a fun and engaging way these performances were great PR and helped develop a safe trusting environment where parents felt welcome and included we know how important the arts are and how they help to provide differentiation to all modalities of learning they need to be implemented for all students and I know you're working on that and I thank you and appreciate it as the late great Maya Angelou said when you know better you do better well we do know better and I hope that you do better and welcome back Mr. Shetland thank you good evening my name is Lucia Herrera many of you already know me I have been attending many of the latest board meetings in June 28th board meeting agenda was or said each school can determine which program or programs it will offer school administrators in collaboration with teachers families students should together make the choice that best serve the students in their local school community the Amesti community parents teachers students and community members chose to keep the visual art program at our site could you please reconsider the decision and keep the program as it was for the last nine years we can use Amesti as a pilot to see how it will turn out I have my plans for many plans for for our school a mural next to the our cafeteria about migration represented with my migration of the morning butterflies this will pair with the students creating animation about migration stories of our families this will be very positive for our bilingual community please reconsider your decision remember teachers parents and community members came and speak about their choice they want visual arts in Amesti do not forget that thank you good evening board members and interim superintendent Marie Shekman I appreciate the opportunity to speak today my name is Ria Hurt I'm the TOSA for visual and performing arts at PVSD and I also teach a masters in education graduate students at UC Santa Cruz how to teach art in public schools so the last time I was here I brought up my concern that the arts plan that was in place and articulated in the LCAP was changed without community input regarding visual arts specialists at the elementary level there are a few things I wanted to clarify one offering 50 percent visual arts specialists at sites by splitting is actually changing the programs it's offering 50 percent less just to clarify that and there were a couple of little errors I know it's a lot to keep track of but this coming year for example Mcquitty Marvista and Rio de Marv will not have a visual arts specialist regardless of what Prop 28 may bring our community had envisioned a plan for specialists for both visual and performing arts not one or the other and just so you know that when we talk about arts literacy visual art specialists can really tackle many of the five disciplines of art and music teachers can do drama music dance so if we have those two in place we can really reach a lot of our requirements for edco this pivot to general ed teachers teaching visual art isn't really done within a foresight if we're a successful implement implementation for this coming year I'm concerned about that and so I'm asking like as I suggested in the proposal I submitted to the board that we continue to rehire for those teachers who have left and really include arts experts and curriculum and the art coordinator in order to make any changes to programs to make sure that we're doing it through our lives thanks and our last public speaker on this topic is our very own Nellie Vaqueta Boggs all right hello Nellie Vaqueta Boggs president of PBFT but also an educator here and I wanted to speak to this as well because and you've heard me speak to it in May when this first came forward and it what's was kind of surprising to me is that you are trustees we're going to take this information provided from by the administrators and and either approve it unfortunately you didn't you pushed it forward to another date and here we are Prop 28 you can go to the CDE page and get the frequently asked questions I'll give this over to Clint since he's our CBO and he should already like kind of be confident on hey 80% of that money goes to staff now what you're seeing in the presentation is what our contract language is stating and great we negotiate for parameters for for our our work for people are members so that they could have a sustainable workload but one of the things that's happened over the many years recently is the workload of the teachers has been increased and the proposal is to increase the workload of the art teacher and the argument is over following the contract because what that's telling the parents is that we don't want to offer your student anything more than what the pvft contract has laid out for the teacher so release time yes we have that release time is important for our educators so that they can grade papers so they can plan lessons so they can communicate with their colleagues so they can communicate with parents so they can maybe attend an IEP meeting actually that doesn't happen during their release time to take that back scratch that um and then there is the opportunity to have a teacher come in while the teacher of the classroom the general teacher is still there which has happened that's actually how save the music came in because save the music doesn't bring money into this district it brings instruments prop 28 is funding is additional funding additional so there is no reason to make some serious cuts for this upcoming year those two minutes thank you but status quo before you start making some serious changes thanks any discussion from the board trustee scott it's my understanding that as of today McQuitty will not have a visual art teacher as of today is that true because we've heard that earlier we heard and just to clarify where we're coming from the board the board heard about these changes from the community when our teachers were getting notices saying you're going to be split that's the first I heard about it and there was concern so there wasn't the process that should have taken place in my opinion and my understanding is we have we have an art plan from four or five years ago where we're supposed to have sequential art and I don't see how this honors that if we're not having any visual art specialists at two element three elementary schools and by the way is we don't have any at three middle schools so can and the first question is Mcquitty next so I believe I will have to refer to HR but I believe we are in the process of hiring one I think we have a vacancy there right well because what was the it is a 0.5 and we're looking to hire one right now yeah because we were told last time that the mentee white teacher was going to be reduced there and split and Mcquitty and then she was told she wasn't going to do that so she is going to get to stay at mentee white where the kids there will enjoy art two times a week but the other schools will not so you're saying the 0.5 the plan is to hire just a 0.5 from Mcquitty as of now so our hope is to hire that position in the meantime we are making sure that we are holding to not moving a teacher when we do not have that space when we don't have when we don't need to right so we want to keep them providing that release time and that instruction there and in a hope to be able to fill that position over at Mcquitty thank you another question I had is with regards to the inconsistence the chart didn't show but it's important that one of the community members said some schools we've had are two times a week last year and sold on a Mesti had kids were getting art twice a week although some schools were getting one time a week and so what we've heard is that the past the previous administration said let's not rehire VAPA teachers who are leaving like so we had one at and sold though we had one at landmark and we're going to split instead I don't recall our board approving that decision can you speak to that so I'll talk to that it's not about how many times a student see it a week it's the number of minutes so if a student sees an art teacher two times a week it could be for each time it's 50 minutes while when it you only have art one time a week it could be 400 minutes so it's dependent on how the schedule is built for each individual school that's dependent on how many teachers they have how many students they have so each release schedule or each schedule looks different dependent on the school so we'd have to look at the actual minutes that the students received art that's the first one with the second one what we're looking at as you know part of that decision that was coming by is we are in declining enrollment and as we decline in students we are we do have a need for less teachers it's not just art teachers it's not just science teachers it's not just PE teachers but it's teachers as a whole and so part of that decision that came down is because we do have to hire or have less teachers in our teaching staff because we are on declining enrollment when you have less students you have less staff though I note that varies school to school some schools are having greater rates and others and different parts of the district and something our board should grapple with I don't think we've we made that decision formally yet I mean I think and what I want to say is that this was you know prop 28th's great but that's not what this is about this is really about programmatic funding the program our arts program our music program our science program at our elementary schools across the board it was never about one or two schools and so I'm glad I want to thankful to my board colleagues that we've continued this discussion and so then I understand the need for the preference for consistency across elementary schools some elementary schools have six grades some do not so there's there's always tweaks and some of other characteristics that make them unique but I think it would would be great to offer it would be excellent for PVSD to offer art music and science at least two times a week and that's not what this this plan is saying well let's take art down across the board one time a week and that doesn't seem fair or visionary and it doesn't seem consistent to me with our previous heart plan what it talks about and I also want to know we do not offer art to any of our fourth and fifth graders and so I think we can make some improvements it's a good idea to come up with a long-term plan certainly I think that's a great idea and this time to include our VAPA staff our VAPA coordinator and our VAPA staff and our teachers I think that's a great idea but I think we can make some improvements this year because there's still some time and what I'd love to see is some collaboration we have an excellent new superintendent we have our arts staff eager to collaborate to try to make some improvements before the year starts I think there's time I think we can do it so that's I would love to see a little more work done on this to be brought to our next meeting so that's which I know that's later on the agenda we may we're going to figure out what to do about August 9th but I would love to see an improved plan on how we can ensure art is at all the schools and that we're not punishing reducing the schools that were really heading in the right direction and soldo and amesty so I think we can do a little more work here within that work I'd also like to see like what you're saying it's not just about the visual arts it's also about the music it's also about the science so it's the programming for all students because the the other disciplines are just as important and so that's something that we have to include 100% so when we when we go to meet it does need to include educators from the all disciplines well I'm 100% with you on that that's getting fair point absolutely trustee flores thank you for that presentation I think it would be nice to see a little more clarity instead of just like X's maybe adding to that minutes that they're actually being taught because it does differ amongst the campuses I am in full support of forming a committee to come up with a you know five-year plan just like we had for Save the Music I think we definitely need to have something in place I think this committee needs to have stakeholders like what we've seen here today I think it's amazing that we have these community members willing to be here meeting after meeting after meeting to really stand their ground and say you know we're not going to let this go so I think it needs to include a lot of them and our we've had several students here I love seeing our youngsters here you know fighting for what they want to see in their day and so I we can't just ignore it and I do think it needs to be a little more thought out and so yes I'm in support of again the you had three criterias three items there definitely in support of that last one for sure right now we know we need to start that I just wanted to because I remember there were some questions about like the maybe this is a question for you but can you reiterate what was the issue with the prop 28 funding sure so prop 28 funding like a lot of funding we see title one additional restrictive funding has a supplant versus supplement clause so we can't necessarily take a teacher and say we're going to pay for this have prop 28 so you no longer lose a teacher because the state could look at that as supplanting what we're doing with that in reducing there is the possibility of a site having a council meeting and adding back in reduced FT because that wouldn't be considered supplanting because to Lisa's point we're declining enrollment so we do need to make reductions consistent with what the needs are to be able to stay physically solvent as well as provide not just what's in the contract but actually ensure that teachers are working the seven hours that we're providing them because we do get into stirs implications if they're have extra time and they're not doing what's in their actual job description we do run in problems with stirs so with prop 28 our biggest concern was there's really two things one is it is truly a site decision so if the site should meet you heard them speak about Amesti has spoken Amesti really needs to meet as a group and show what an auditor will look at is did you actually meet and discuss what plan you want to do that plan also has to show that that our teacher is providing services to students for the time we're paying so we can't add time if we're going to say we're adding an additional four hours to this individual but they're only teaching for two unless they're we can show that what the other parts they're doing are directly impacting students so if they're prep time which is in their contract is being used totally fine but we do have to follow a lot of regulations especially with restrictive money as Nellie mentioned yes 80% has to be used on staffing no site actually gets enough money in the elementary level to fund a full staff member unfortunately CDE if you read that FAQ which yes Nellie I have read it multiple times one of the FAQs actually asked what do we do can we share among sites is that something we're able to do where two two sites share one teacher with Prop 28 funds and Prop 28 says CDE says absolute because that's their intent I was talking to Soquel their CBO they're getting like $11,000 for one site can't do much with $11,000 when 80% has to go to staffing for us we're we're thankfully we get a little bit more where you know some of our own entries are at 70-80,000 it's still unfortunately not enough for a full teacher but it is enough to share with another site so even with Prop 28 some of the intent is you're gonna share or potentially if a teacher right now is sharing two sites you could pay for their other 50% so they don't share a site and they're only at your site but again that would be looking at what we've done in terms of reductions and then being able to prove to the auditors in the CDE we're not supplanting we're actually providing above and beyond what we need to provide by not just contract but by staffing ratios and I know at the last meeting we were waiting for some clarity on that did we have that clarity now yeah so we talked to our auditors because one of our biggest concerns was if we were to say reinstate somebody who was a half-time and said we're gonna now make them a full time at this site would we be able to do that or would they consider because what typically auditors do is they'll look at 22, 23 which we just ended that year and say what did you spend and now what are you spending this year if you're not spending more then you're not spending prop 28 on additional staff you're actually supplanting and you can't do that however the argument we made with the auditors is when you're in declining enrollment you're gonna reduce staff it's gonna happen so how can you give us additional funding and say it's gonna be supplanting when we're actually reducing so does that mean that we couldn't actually use the prop 28 to supplement to that if we didn't reduce in this way to start with that we couldn't then use like if we do it this way and approve a plan that temporarily reduces then we can use prop 28 because we've reduced and then we can build it back up but if we don't do it that way then that's considered supplanting and then rather than sorry is it supplementing is that what I'm understanding correct so effectively what we're doing is we're showing we're making a needed reduction based on what's required in our contract and our staffing ratios that's a necessary reduction due to declining enrollment prop 28 now can come say I want to reinstate those because you have additional funding for the arts again that is a decision as Lisa noted based on the site they could ask for dance they could ask for music they could ask for coding there's a lot of different options in prop 28 but I but yes when we talked to our auditors we kind of let them know if we show that we've reduced because we need to through declining enrollment would would you find this to be supplanting again our auditors one person but what they say is what we're most likely going to look at is that you have added with prop 28 and they said based on the explanation you've given us we feel that would be sufficient to show you're using the money in good faith so this is a way to actually to grow it although it is a temporary unfortunately yes to be able to utilize prop 28 we do need to show that the district did have the intent to reduce based on effectively what we call creating our base what is the base level of need prop 28 would be everything above that base level of need so to the point that came up of art in a classroom for one for one day versus two days if we say our base is one day that's what we we are going to provide district-wide is one day of art then we absolutely could say but this site wants to provide a second day with their prop 28 funds absolutely allowable couple points so we know we heard in our budget workshop declining enrollment is a problem faces our district it's a statewide problem and we're going to have to figure out how to cope and deal with it and I respect I understand I'm not disputing that this notion that we should therefore reduce art and music to only one and I don't agree with music music is one time a week but I music 45 minutes a week one teacher it that's not a visionary that's not where we need to be and I know understand we have this agreement with Save the Music and it is where it is for next year but that's we can I think we can do a little better than that respective of of the challenges Clint is is describing and so the notion that we're going to reduce everything to one time a week with art and music I don't that I think we can try a little harder that's the spirit of what I'm trying to get out here and we can be creative I'm not against splitting a hundred percent of the time I do think it's unfair when you have programs successful programs to at and sold to an amesty and minty I do think that's but there are I know Bradley and Starlight has a split that's been somewhat manageable so I'm not against that but I think we can do better three elementary schools or two the two elementary schools the two aptos schools having no visual art specialist equity maybe if they can I think we can do a little better so what I'd like to do is I'd like to make a motion that our staff work with our music art science or Vapba our necessary stakeholder Natalie the teachers anybody else certainly a new superintendent to figure out how can we do a little bit better this year and and to bring back a updated proposal at our next board meeting which will hopefully I think be August 9th I know that's later on the agenda so but I'll say just say the next board meeting and I would also include the committee idea to figure out a long-term plan as well I think that's also a good idea that would be the motion I'd like to make I just want to to clarify are you expecting them to meet with stakeholders between now in the next board meeting yes can I ask the clarifying question with that in the proposed plan do you is it also a board's expectation that we make it so that we can supplement and not supplant well I think that's worthy of the discussion but this is not just a prop 28 discussed like that doesn't it would put restrictions on pop 28 on the school sites so I'm just curious as to board direction on the proposal if there are restrictions because that would put limitations on school sites so we just need to know the direction that you would like us to go so no I don't want prop 20 to limit our thinking if that's what you're trying to what it would no so depending on if we come back with a plan that is where we then when sites get their prop 28 funds yeah and looking at whether it's supplanting or or supplementing based on what we bring right it would limit their use of the prop 28 funds based on what we do when we bring forward so I want to see if there if there are is a board direction on making sure when it comes back but can't they do can't they do more like when the prop 28 when we get a sense because I know Clinton is going to put that in the budget later when it comes can't they I mean it's not going to be a concern if they even do a little more if they have some drama theater I mean why why do we need to conflate that right now all right let me say a few things um if you give if your decision is to allow a committee to move forward the committee will take into account what Clinton talked about with the prop 28 yeah and Lisa is guarding the ford so let's say there's a school out there like a messy that has a vibrant school site council with parents involved and you know it maybe not kids like at a high school but it represents the community of a messy teachers principal classified and parents they after a committee make some recommendation and you know dives in can come back and say we'd like to keep the teacher half time and we'll pay for the other half leading to a full time that could be done we've got to you know make sure we dot the eyes and cross the tees but I also want to add ladies and gentlemen two things one I was using a youth over a vernacular I told myself I'm not supposed to be too bad I was blown away at how this district has grown with art I left eight years ago good job you coalesced funding in a way you got grants out there and you really increased it so we're kind of in a difficult point now Clint is very right about enrollment but the bigger issue for me was seeing the inconsistency across the board not just art science music now some of the schools and some parents will say no music's not important I don't know but science a third grader an x y z school isn't exposed to science at all that's not right and if I can influence the board and this community in any way I made up a word a long time ago and it's called consistify bad english sorry but you all get it my children went through this district and had a good a good education but it seemed like what they and a couple of them changed schools it seemed like they had the same opportunities at different schools that's a goal of mine that's a bigger picture but the focus is art I think that my colleagues here have given us an opportunity to explore if you know if you want us back on August 9th fine if that works for the those agenda items I don't think we'll have the thorough discussion that we can have over two weeks but zoo makes things a lot more accommodating and I would love to thank you I just want to reiterate my understanding is that Rio de Marre which is one of the schools that didn't have they have a parent alliance funded art teacher through the the Santa Cruz Arts Council is that correct for my understanding that is correct so they do have art it's just not district funded correct Trustee Acosta thank you President Holm I think I'm I'm fine with moving forward with seconding Trustee Milano-Skow's motion with that I do have a couple added comments and and things that I'd like to see I fully agree about the committee's right I think that was a third bullet point there and I think that's a third bullet point there and I think that's a third bullet point there and I think that's and I think looking at it sort of like how I think it was referenced like to the bond committees right I think so there's a bigger bond committee and then there's the site committees that decide for the sites right I think to look at at that level and so there should be like a greater committee but then the site level and the site feeding into that and then that greater committee also feeding into this board because the board gets the final say of that direction right so that's kind of the vision that I'd like to see with that and hopefully we could see that and and I also have to agree with I think that the rollout timing of this about how we as board members heard of it at least seemingly maybe the majority of the board members heard about this and having to hear about it from the public versus the administration is totally unacceptable and I think that's what a lot of the discourse that has brought us to this point that we've been having this conversation since May you know that's totally unacceptable I mean it is the seven members the seven elected members of the board that makes the decisions for the direction of the district right that directs one person in the district so hopefully we just don't ever see that again I think that's been a huge part of what has brought this problem to where we're at today three months I'm counting May June July we're having this conversation we're looking at going into August so trustee um Belano-Scow I full heartedly second your motion and we'll see if we have the August 9th meeting I do degree that's a further agenda item with other topics but I support that and support these additional committees a greater committee for the district and then the site committees for each school site to to clarify at what point would like if we have further discussions at what point would that limit like is there a time frame by which our options for prop 28 funding would be limited so really what it's going to do is it's going to prevent the time in which we can spend prop 28 so we have prop 28 for the 23-24 school year so the longer you wait the longer you're unspending dollars we don't have any information yet on prop 28 will it end up in fund balance what will you be able to roll it over the next year and use it on something else they haven't clarified so I don't know if it's a use it or lose it type of funding or if it'll end up rolling over to the next year they that is one piece they haven't really discussed in their FAQs so that's the biggest limitation I think to your point that you were trying to address earlier if we don't say that the district is reducing based on declining enrollment so this is not a need about it's not about reducing art it's not about reducing VAPA we could reduce science we could reduce PE but overall we need to reduce release due to declining enrollment if we don't do that and the board says no we actually want to continue art the way it was funded last year we will absolutely not be able to use prop 28 to fund those positions which means we'll be adding about roughly probably five hundred a million dollars to a budget where we're getting deficit spending nine million dollars on our third year out versus used utilizing brand new funding to be able to provide above and beyond the necessities to run the district so again it's it's strategically using prop 28 to provide additional above and beyond what we've been doing I think I've I've mentioned this before in my presentations um prop 28 really was designed for districts not really like ours we've done an amazing job of providing art and music to our schools um there are schools I know CBOs in Santa Cruz County where we get a lot more funding from concentration than they do we were able to allow it so prop 28 was really trying to influx art into schools we ended up getting the benefit of we already had it so I just want to be like if if we wait as a board if we decide to wait two more weeks is that going to jeopardize that option so really again what it'll do is it'll just mean that the prop 28 so sites technically wouldn't be able to build their prop 28 plan because if we say we're going to fund an extra for example we use a messy we're going to fund the additional 0.5 that a messy out of general fund so unrestricted dollars then they wouldn't be able to say we're using our prop 28 to fund an additional 0.5 because we would have already funded now they could do on another 0.5 on top of that but we run in really which has been brought up before is we run into a problem of minutes there's just not enough minutes in the day there's just not to provide math science ELA I mean all of the things we need to provide so technically we have already reduced correct technically the board did approve the the reduction yes that a private so if we continue the conversation then we're already recovered as long as we're not we don't sorry trying to the words just kind of all got into jumble in my head pardon me we don't jeopardize that until there's a point at which if we decided to reverse it correct so if if you were to say now we actually want to fund those and we want to add the additional through general fund unrestricted we would jeopardize the ability to use prop 28 on those positions all right so that's something to be mindful of but like deciding to continue the discussion now is not jeopardizing it correct Jen I have some comments yeah go ahead if if that's okay thanks anyway can we go can we put your presentation up again like to see the slide that showed I think the current year plan so since I've been here and while you guys are putting that up since I've been here a long time I do remember when we had no art no music and so I feel really proud of the of what we've built here in this district and what we've been able to afford by scrimping in other areas to allow for arts education so I think and you guys can correct me that the original plan and how we were able to put the art teachers into the elementary schools was because the first through third graders bargained for and were and we negotiated release time for them and the release time teacher was an art teacher correct that is correct okay and that was a point five position if I remember correctly depends on the number of students serving their head at the school so it all depends on the number of students that are off the school so on average it depends on the number of classes I should say not the number of students so the number of teachers that they are releasing so it all depends on the size of the school of how much that they receive but all students would get 120 minutes approximately a week that was the original yes yes plan so many schools only had a point five art teacher at that time people are still shaking their heads no because I don't remember they're ever being a full-time art teacher at many of these schools even like Valencia which is my home school we had you know almost 500 550 children there and I don't remember having a full-time art teacher there so freedom's one of our larger schools that had a full-time teacher so it all is dependent on the number of teachers that are being served if it is a smaller school say like Mar Vista it was probably a point five teacher I know those early years were very difficult because those teachers were given an art cart and they essentially went from classroom to classroom and we got a lot of complaints about that but we didn't have the extra classrooms on campus at that time to accommodate but I felt really happy that kids were getting access to art during those times that is correct so what is the plan from our Vista and Rio since that happens to be in my area because we can't leave them without an art teacher so hopefully we are actively looking for an art teacher or what what is happening there so currently I believe for Rio for example they have P.E. and music and that's the number of release minutes they get they had more than enough they had too much you know we are trying to conceive they had too much release teachers are the visual arts teacher actually I believe they were tired this last year so it helped us with that attrition piece as we moved to the Save the Music the music and the and we continued with the P.E. that was there so how are some of the other schools getting art music and science if like at landmark for example so they would not be full F.T.E. so sometimes you have they're divided let's say a primary grade like a first grade teacher might be getting some music and some art based on the again the number of teachers at the site okay well I'm just going to say on behalf of Aptos Mart Vista and Rio Del Mar need in our teacher so I don't know how we're going to make that happen but they have to have it so that goes back to looking at our our five-year committee plan and Consistify across the district Consistification across the district our science physical education and also the visual arts and the music so there needs to be Consistification yeah so let's just talk for a minute just about the PE and the science areas because I have asked this for the 13 years that I've been sitting here is why why doesn't Rio Del Mar have science like that seems very important and yet I know the answer to this because I've asked it enough time so I'm just going to say it and you can tell me if it's right that the school community prefers PE like the school chose the school has been offered multiple times whether they want a science release teacher and they chose to continue their PE program instead for the release of the fourth through sixth graders yes when the release first came out that was the initial choice yes and now I don't know when the last time we're making that like the site council still making that decision along with those I don't think it's the same physical education teacher that has been there and so that same physical education is there if they chose to leave then that teacher would be displaced and so because it's the same teacher that teacher is there and consistent and is that the same like for Bradley and Calabasas and McQuady like they're choosing that is correct yeah and PE is important like we all can agree that all of these things are very very important however I do think science needs to be in all the elementary schools so that's my preference is there a way and this is a nutty question I know so I'm sorry Nellie in advance is there a way to negotiate more minutes in the day so that some of these things that we want she's saying no well because I'll just yeah yeah it is state requirements for it is okay I'll just say you know being a parent in the early years in my kids school the curriculum the things that teachers need to teach it goes by very very fast and I feel like the kids are really rushed so and the recesses have been squeezed down to not very many minutes anymore and I just feel like anyway but I understand okay so there's a lot of questions a lot of things that we can think about with the committee and we have just to remind you we have an excellent opportunity with our expanded learning opportunity program that is extremely robust the after school program yeah that well no it's before and after school it's a it's a full day that's part of the school day that's a continuation of the day so in the old days when there was I was the arts coordinator and I wrote a lot of grants in those days but in particular to the spectra arts program which is through the Santa Cruz Arts Council and I still think that $2,000 every semester is up for grabs for every school and we are completely eligible across our district and many years when I was coordinating the arts programs grants would go and they had money left over they had nobody was applying and that meant all of the power of schools like there was only a few people a few schools applying so I would like to see us apply for that money if possible it's not a lot of money I know but I think it would help noted thank you trustee dodge junior I'd like to support trustee's scouts idea of having establishing committees as this chart clearly shows many white is ranking towards the bottom and you know with no science or music you know I attended those schools Mr. Sheikman understands that many white is a feeder school and to eat a haul and want to go high and without science or music that affects our children and so I would like to you know to have that committee establish and hope the parents I know the parents that many white have a very good school site council I know the principal at many white is a visionary and I hope they could see the importance and see what we're missing and we're missing music and science that are schools and so hopefully they get involved and be active so I stand behind your the first and the second to continue this conversation thing Vice President I closer to you for the comments yeah I just have one additional was coming to my mind when I was listening to trustee dodge junior speak in December at our organizational meeting right we have the committees that board members select to be on and I think that it might be part of the direction of this when we're talking about having a larger committee and then the subcommittees at the site levels that maybe we consider board placement which could be up to three members that there's speed for that and so just for us as a gender setting committee when we're looking forward to going into December to make that meeting that we consider adding that as potentially a committee with an openings for up to three board members to be sitting on to be also reporting back I think that will be very helpful we already have an arts committee well right but I'm we're speaking about whether it's an expansion of that you know that this is encompassed because I think what what I was feeding off of what trustee Flores said and what trustee scowl was supporting she said was we know also from what Clint has said I believe there has to be the site committee levels but there should be a greater committee right the sites are sort of reporting and feeding into and then that committee feeding into this board so that greater committee I think needs to have you know seats for we need to consider having that a subcommittee for this board whether it's one in the same an extension of it or something completely separate I just think that's for topic for us to consider going into December so can you reiterate your motion again please yeah I was going to say I'm not sure what the motion is so I wanted my motion would be to that we have a long-term committee looking at how we can have art, music, p, and science at all of our elementary schools in a building way in a declining way and that's going to take some time and that in the short term that staff work with the relevant stakeholders including our our VAPA team and our teachers on how we can improve this to offer to close these gaps this year and considering Prop 28 and other things in our budget I think we are poised to have 50 or 60 million dollars in reserve so maybe there's something we can dig I mean maybe we can afford to hire a few more teachers I mean we're a school district we're supposed to hire teachers and I realize we're in declining enrollment but I want to see us build all the great work and I acknowledge that we've been building on art and music so let's not to produce it let's let's keep it up so that that's sorry for the rhetoric the motion so the motion is to have a to the long term committee for the looking at solutions for filling the gaps and then just to continue the conversation with you know VAP with VAP leaders and short term solutions as well as well filling the gaps and then to come back to the board with you know potential solutions and the next board meeting at the next board meeting whenever that ends and I seconded that motion yes I yes and can I ask just one elaborating question I know we don't have our assistance of HR here but Clint maybe you can answer and if not Mr. Sackson might be able to answer this is we keep hearing over and over and we all know it I mean you've got a few of us up here who work in higher ed we're dealing with declining enrollment at that level too right is inevitable we keep talking about this declining enrollment issue we just heard earlier our teacher vacancy is at what our regular teachers not so our 20 for that was for our special ed and regular teachers okay so we're talking about declining enrollment but we also haven't reduced the number of teachers we have in the district at this point correct so what we did if you don't mind just for clarification yeah so what we've done over the past three years actually when I first started at CBO Allison and I got together and said we really need to look at staffing because we didn't feel it was being adequately looked at each year so what we did is we created a formula to identify how much staffing site needs based on the number of students for that year we never looked at release because it was such a complicated system of trying to determine minutes and how many sites are offering different minutes to Lisa's point so release was actually not reduced in the past three years in a way of consistently across the board so what we ended up with is some sites that needed say 1.5 FTE so full-time equivalent so one and a half teachers to provide the necessary release had three teachers of release and other sites that needed 1.5 have 1.5 and we said so you have some sites that have their release some sites that are double the release they need and really when we're declining enrollment we need to look at reducing across the board not just in classroom positions but also release because as you have less teachers at a site you need less time to release those teachers if teachers need 120 minutes and then I think it's also 150 minutes now both of those so if I'll just use the 150 if you have 10 teachers you need 1500 minutes of release if you drop down to five teachers at a site you need 750 so if you have 1500 minutes of release is that teacher providing 1500 minutes or are they not providing their full time as release so that's where it gets tricky if we do need to start looking at how we reduce that so sorry for the long-winded answer to your question we just didn't look at it in the past few years because it's a complicated system to review we did start looking at this year just to really right size and show that we're not going to be burning FTE of giving a site double what they need what we try to do and again we did it only through attrition we didn't lay anyone off is if you have 1.5 and you have 3 how about you now instead you have 2 and you have 2.5 we'll make it a little bit more for general ed we have reduced we have for general yes okay just not for release okay thank you for the clarification and I believe trustee Flores have a question I had asked for this last slide to be back up because yeah this is what you're requesting for the next steps to be for us to potentially vote on tonight I hear what trustee Bernana Scowell is saying he I think it's the first bullet that is you know I think we're having trouble with you've mentioned before and trustee home we've also mentioned that we already voted to approve it I don't remember it being a vote I remember it being told to us did we vote on that you did vote you did we did I'm sorry to clarify that I think we approved just to bring it forward for further discussion I don't think it was approved per se I'm trying there have been so many meetings in the past few months I'm so sorry it's all mushing together one big pile because I was I was in the same boat assistant superintendent it from from my recollection we'd have to go back it was approved the as it is shown on the 23-24 plan what meeting I believe it was to yeah so not Dr. Rodberg as president of the item at the end of June the last meeting of June would be two regular board meetings ago June 17 and we continued it you asked it to be brought back you'd have a vote there was a fair amount of angst about there my recollection as you had a vote it was two board meetings ago I watched on tv I wanted to see what I was possibly getting into but my recollection says you did vote and it should show in our minutes you did ask it to be brought back you can choose to rewind the clock and have a new action that's up to you so did you what you had put your mic on earlier did you have did you have something else you wanted to add yeah thank you I just want to make sure whatever you approve that you see the word long term vision yes the community folks here and folks who are not here must be involved there have been plans for VAPA there have been plans that have been put in place your LCAP was well done last year but I just want to make sure we're not going to we'll have a committee and it'll come back with a report it won't have all the solutions I think the the way I hope we can look at this is that this group will work for not four or five years but to have a vision to put X's on all of those spots and I have to say and I this may not go over well the community may say no to science we want PE I have an issue there folks sorry we have a curriculum that the state has adopted I love as a principal my community was as important as anybody but and students are tested by the state of California on science thank you sorry it was fumble and I support the spirit of that and I'm not going to put a timeline on that long term and it's going to take time and obviously I'd like to have input on that too and I think the motion is clear is that in the second I'll look at it good so I just want to say clearly second yes we have first and second and I just want to thank everyone for your patience and for your willingness to engage in dialogue and discussion about this I think this is a really important issue and I just appreciate you know the standing up here for what 40 minutes or so you know and just yeah but I just want to acknowledge the work that this takes and the thank you so we have a first and the second all those in favor aye any opposed motion carries seven zero thank you all right so moving on to nine point two memorandum of understanding with Monterey County soccer club report will be presented by Clint thank you president home board of trustees superintendent checkman yeah I'm here as you may remember a few meetings back we had Jorge come by who is part of Monterey County soccer club and offered that he wanted to come into a memorandum of understanding with our district to be able to utilize EA Hall field to use for for the Monterey County soccer club providing youth activities for students and for community of both Salinas and Watsonville I worked with him he's been great to work with and we did develop a MOU it's very similar to the one that we have with athletics for all which is another nonprofit that we work with Monterey County soccer club is a 501 3C nonprofit and they provide again youth sports for students what we're looking at is providing them with the Sundays that currently athletics for all does not use they'll have the opposite Sundays to be able to use the EA Hall field and the synthetic turf field free of charge but they will provide free registration to all Pajaro Valley students which Jorge informed me they actually already do they already want to provide free access to our students so actually our facility use agreement does say for any nonprofit that provides direct services to our students that we already don't charge a fee so we're not really doing anything abnormal in terms of the cost it's this memorandum of understanding is really to show that every other Sunday we're just basically pre-booking those for Monterey County soccer club the MOU is for one year we typically do this with brand new MOUs as it gives the board time to hear community feedback here if there's any problems that we're having and that way we're not committed to a long-term agreement we do have a termination clause if anything were to go wrong again the man has been a wonderful I think it's a wonderful organization and I would recommend the board approve this MOU so that we can support our students with athletics thank you do we have any public speakers to this item we do not all right I'm I was super excited to see this come forward and I've heard from the community I've heard from you know Jorge himself and it's I'm so thank you for for getting this worked out do we have any of other board comments trustee dot junior thank you president home thank you for this this is a great idea but I also heard from people who had some questions of concerns you know I got some phone calls I talked to some people from other soccer clubs because soccer space park space in general in the city of Watsonville is really limited and some other soccer clubs were concerned that why weren't Watsonville clubs allowed to use the field so a couple questions that I received was you know how and when was this club chosen how long how these talks been in with the Salinas soccer club another question was how many people are we expecting during these practices in these games how many PVOSD students do we expect to actually join this league I also understand there in the MOU it said that we're waiving fees what does that exactly mean what is going to be the status with the restaurant facilities are they going to be using our facilities so they're going to bring in facilities restaurant facilities and just those are just some of the questions that I heard and so I just wanted to see if you can answer those questions yeah let me try to remember them all so the for the first question regarding when did these talks happen I believe Jorge came to a board meeting back in May I believe it was isn't here still May spoke to the board Dr. Rodriguez reached out to me asked if I could reach out to Jorge and meet with him and talk about their program so that's when it started it has not been long talks we've been briefly again about a month or two but trying to get an MOU together to again support our students in terms of some of the other questions I'll ask if Jorge can come up and answer some of those himself because he'll know kind of the number of students how many would be utilizing it on those types of questions so I'm happy to have him come up and speak sure just to give a little bit brief background about ourselves we're the largest soccer organization Northern California here in Watsonville itself we have 600 kids that attend the school district that's the largest population around here and we do not charge anything just this past weekend we had ODPs that's Olympic Development Program for the kids we took five kids from here five kids from Salinas and they went to Ripon California for Trialf Olympic team so that's a cost that we paid for the families we transported them and what we're trying to do is we're trying to do a joint effort between Salinas and Watsonville because the last time we remember there were kids here with parents and coaches saying that they go to travel LA but they have no place to practice and the fields are just sitting around not being used and so that's what we're going to give the kids here a choice to be able to practice and play here at home and like I said I support this you know but just for some reason you know these different soccer clubs we're like why are we giving priority to Salinas club but we already have clubs here and so I just wanted to let those people know that I'm listening and you know thank you for explaining yeah and then absolutely and as I noted this is why we do a typically a one-year MOU we can see how it goes see if it benefits our community if our students are benefiting from this MOU with Monterey County soccer club and then I would just highly recommend if you have questions please let me know and I'm happy to work with Jorge as well as answer any questions and that as we kind of go through the process throughout the year and see how this works out I will let you know so what I think of course is I would like to make a motion that we support this such an idea this evening I'll second do we have any further discussion I have a first and a second all those in favor aye any opposed motion carries thank you all so much all right so going on to 9.7 or an ipod so what nope I got my I know I was like wait a second sorry it's like when I printed this out today everything got jumbled out in my printer I know 9.3 tell me what 9.3 is thank you good evening board president doctor home trustees superintendent checkmen and pvsd community my name is julie edwards I'm the coordinator of career technical education for pvsd and tonight I bring you three cte pathways to share extending pvsd's hands on technical and academic learning opportunities for our students this growth work is funded through multiple grant awards and the pvsd lcap goal two okay super excited to tell you about a brand new pathway at new school professional music it is in the arts media and entertainment industry which is one of the 15 industry sectors in california it is an entrepreneurship music production and recording arts pathway that we are bringing to new school in a collaboration with el systema so el systema as you are well aware of is an incredible organization their instructor has built great relationships with the students at new school and will be the instructor for this new pathway it has a great set of partners to go with it we have approved courses and that will be kicking off this year we have a partnership with universal audio there is state of the art equipment in the classroom the grant funding and el cap goal two monies for new school helped to fund that and we are very excited to get that off the ground this fall next at aptos high school through a very special grant through the california department of education called specialized secondary programs we were awarded a four year grant to build an engineering pathway which is an engineering technology pathway and it's called land sea air and space we're partnered with joby aviation ucsc and cabrillo college the first class starts this fall it is an engineering class with a lot of hands on building of drones and robots and programming is woven into that fully grant funded and we also have a grant to extend it to an additional high school in the fall of 24 so this is our for lack of a better word it's our pilot year for a drone program to pilot it it's our shakedown crews and then we will be looking at probably either watsonville or pv high as an expansion to it in the following year and then the second class is air and space so get ready for rockets and exciting things happening there trips to vandenberg to watch launches and and things like that as we inspire our students the third one is we have programming pathways at watsonville high school and pv high school no computing to date at aptos high school so this year are incredible building and construction trades instructor dustin denis who is also has a credential in this area is going to be offering ap computer science principles which is a very entry-level computing class that is meant for sophomores and above and in the second year we're looking at either a second ap course students could move on to the engineering pathway from this particular course or a dual enrollment math class through cabral college Mr. Redford and I talked about that yesterday it's called discrete math that's as strong as i am in math he could talk more about what that means but it actually is a good fit as a second course for this pathway so staff respectfully recommends your approval of this item and I'm happy to answer any questions thank you do we have any public speakers to this item we have none do we have any discussion from the board as as one of the supporters and advocates who's had the opportunity to travel to DC and advocate for continued funding for our CTE program it's very near and dear to my heart and thank you for the work you're doing thanks a huge supporter of it and with that I'm going to make a motion to approve this agenda item so I'm going to jump in and second that as a parent who's got a kid who like this is this is the kind of thing that lights him up and this is that you know it's like he didn't get lit up a whole lot in the last three years you know and I know that what I'm seeing in my own household I know a lot of our families are seeing that and what I talked about in my you know opening comments is it's like this is what I get excited about with our district you know like what we are doing what where we are making these successes so I will happily second that motion do we have any other discussion trustee deserpa yeah I just have a comment so this will be at Aptos High PV and Watsonville other kids will they have access to this program or do we have a plan to roll it out in those other two schools or what can you say more about that are you referring to the Lancy Air and Space we'll scale that in the fall of 24 to an additional school site yes and depending on when it's placed in the school day it's possible that we can we can have some access for for the school where it isn't you know what I mean yeah what's the dollar amount over four years again oh gosh it's just shy of a half a million dollars and it's paced out over the over four and a half years the first year was a planning year the year we just finished and the two teachers that are going to be teaching the course wrote the course and the curriculum did tons of research and have been flying drones to practice what they're going to be teaching the students so yeah can I just add in response to Ms. Deserpa just remember Watsonville High I'm not objective is full of academies there were three academies in 2006 there were seven academies in 2008 so every student at Watsonville was placed in pathways that were very rich and very connected to the core curriculum believe the engineering academy is no longer in existence which is tragic but right just just I think one high school was really a model and that Julia was just doing a sensational job of coalescing funds from Sacramento bringing in our folks in the community and it is spreading thanks but I had to say that thank you yeah great well we have a first in the second all those in favor I I any of any I post none and but in one extension okay still a 7-0 vote why the 7-0 he works for else he's getting better so 6-0 1 thank you very much thank you yeah thank you yeah all right item 9.4 pvusd sunshine proposal to california school employees association chapter 132 for the 2023-2024 school year take it away thank you president home board of trustees superintendent checkman so this is our sunshine proposal so the district sunshine of proposal you may remember on july 12th we received the one from csa this is now the district's proposal of what articles we want to open this is a re-opener year so we can choose up to three articles right now the only one we're selecting is article 8 which is hours and over time so we're asking the board to approve this so that we can begin negotiations with csa which I believe our first meeting is august 21st any public speakers to this item we have none any discussion from the board I have a question why out of the four separate articles that they presented to us are we only selecting to pick one to reopen at this time so they respond to that they select their own articles we select on the what reason we selected this one is as you know we just had a full contract open with them so we actually hit transportation a lot of the ones we wanted to do one of the ones that held us up last year was article eight hours and over time there's some changes we want to make csa was gracious enough to do an MOU with us to kind of get us through the board may remember one of the pieces that was being talked about was how we offer out over time especially when it's related to one time funding because there's a lot of times individuals will want to use comp time but when it's one time funding that funding is only available to a certain piece so if you do it as comp time and they want to get it paid out after the one time funding is gone we no longer have the money so there was just some pieces of clarification csa has been very good about understanding where we're coming from that it was just too hard to close out that one article last year so it's really the one we're bringing back from last year that was the one of the biggest ones for us that we wanted to just kind of yeah sorry that was just distracting distracted me too I'm sorry so good I appreciate that clarification with regards to the other three that we approved that they presented to us there's potential that we will those are all open yeah so they open sorry it's okay they open theirs and they can bring now those to the table we get to choose our own three so the only one we really want we wanted to bring was hours and overtime they may have did they also do hours and overtime they may have they did and the reason we do it as well is if they want to withdraw it we still actually have some pieces in it that we want to talk about so that's the reason we're opening that one from our side so just for clarification does it mean the other three are not getting discussed because that was approved they have every right to discuss those yes okay so with regards to article 14 that they brought forward last time I missed making a comment on this on paying allowances and I know I've said I've said it publicly many times too many so I just want to take the opportunity to state it here with regards to paying allowances right Pajaro Valley Unified School District is the second largest employer in the county the largest employer in the city of Watsonville right I think there's a huge problem in our district that we have employees and it's not just classified employees there's teachers as well in this district that are making less than twenty dollars an hour and I just think that's part of a conversation that this board needs to have when we realize that we are competing with seven Starbucks in Watsonville going on eight and we're the largest employer and it's arguable arguable to even say that twenty dollars an hour is livable wage in this community so I think I mean that's just sort of really my ambition and goal as a trustee sitting here to see that we can somehow get there and whatever decisions need to be made as a board because I just do not think it is at all appropriate that we have any employee in this district making less than twenty dollars an hour so that's just part of you know my piece to that to the clarification I appreciate all your clarification on that again I think I've already made a motion to approve it so and thank you and look forward to the ongoing conversations about this thank you sir just to clarify you move to approve yes excellent do we have a second I have a first and a second all those in favor aye aye any opposed motion carries seven zero thank you so much all right nine point five approve the variable term waiver request for a social science teacher Brian Saxton our human director of human resources all right good evening president home board of trustees superintendent checkman I am Brian Saxton director of HR so I'm here tonight to ask for your approval for a variable term waiver for Manuel Contreras to teach social science at EA home middle school this waiver is used when a prospective teacher has not finished all of their final credentialing and is getting ready to go into an intern program allows him to have a year teaching while he gets himself into an intern program so I would ask for your approval do we have any public speakers to this item we have none any discussion from the board make a motion to approve sorry okay I have a motion and a second I have a question and we have a question I'm sorry just jump in real quick do you know how many variable waivers we are currently are going to be having going into this school year this is the only one we have so far okay thank you for the clarification all right we have a first and a second all those in favor aye any opposed motion carries seven zero all right going on to nine point six approve the appointment of teachers on provisional interim permits and it's still you good evening president home board of trustees superintendent Schuchman yeah I'm here again to ask for you to approve we have five teachers that are on provisional internship permits that we're requesting these permits allow these teachers to teach under a credential as they finalize their enrollment into an intern program these are one-year permits and so we would ask that you would approve these do we have any public speakers to this item we have none and a board discussion a question are these the only five that we have no we do have other what are called short-term staff permits as well as a few more provisional internship permits that are going through the process so they have to meet with the county we had a meeting last week where he came to us and then we have a few that weren't able to make it so they go through the county we check out all their transcripts make sure they have everything they need and then he approves them and then we bring them to you do you know about how many of those there are we probably have another seven total combined okay all right thank you I'll make a motion to approve I have a first and a second all those in favor aye aye any opposed motion carries seven zero and now we're on to 9.7 Williams uniform complaint quarterly report quarter four April May and June good evening president home board trustees and superintendent Shekman I'm here this evening to present the quarterly William complaints for the period of April 1st through June 30th during this time period there were zero Williams complaints and with that I ask for your approval of the report do we have any public speakers to this item we have none any discussion from the board all right I'll second I have a first and a second all those in favor aye any opposed motion carries seven zero thank you all right I've got 9.8 approve agreement with ever driven for student transportation services that's Katie good evening president home board of trustees and superintendent Shekman my name is Katie Bejazi I'm the director of transportation and before you tonight I have a contract with ever driven it is a car service company much like a droid that can be used to transport students who cannot use the yellow school bus for a variety of reasons and before you I request your approval of this contract it would be used only to like when a droid is unable to accommodate our needs or when they don't have a driver this would be an additional resource so it wouldn't be adding to a droid it would just be in place of a droid when they are unable to accommodate our needs thank you do we have any public speakers to this item we have none any discussion from the board make a motion to we have a motion and then trustee scowl we have a question sure do you know how much their drivers get paid I do not know how much their drivers get paid and that's no I'll still support it but we're still curious is that a second can I get a second yeah I'll second all right I have a first and a second all those in favor aye aye any opposed motion carries seven zero um going on to 9.9 approved notice of award for the fencing installation at Cesar Chavez middle school window take it away good evening president home superintendent shekman board of trustees cabinet my name is Alino Fernandez and I'm here to ask for the approval for the installation project fencing installation project at Cesar Chavez this is there's a misprint on this agenda it is endowment not major bond just clarifying that and I'm here to ask for the approval for to continue with the contract with Olivera fencing for the amount of 37,430 to finish the installation fencing project at Cesar Chavez middle school all right can we have any public discussion on this item we have none any board discussion I'll make a motion to approve I have a motion can I have a second second that first and second all those in favor aye any opposed motion carries seven zero all right item nine point ten approve notice of award for the real demar elementary schools ramp and stairs replacement project good evening it's me again I'm here to ask for the approval for the this is an SR project that we're doing over at real demar elementary school is the stairs and ramps this project existed we had a on June 9th and June 16th the district advertised the real demar elementary school ramp and stairs upgrades a mandatory bid was held on June 20th 2023 six contractors were present on July 7th the district received two sealed bids from the following contractors JPD designs incorporated with the amount of three hundred and eighty four thousand and premier builders for the amount of two million eighty nine two hundred and fifty four dollars as you can see JP designs was the lowest bidder but there was there were unresponsive their bid they weren't pre-qualified as as every time we have a projects go over a million dollars they get a they need to be pre-qualified and also his number was way off if he didn't bid on the whole project so that's he was deemed unresponsive so I'm here to ask for the approval to continue with the project with premier builders for the amount of two million eighty nine thousand two hundred and fifty four dollars for the real demar stairs we have any public speakers to this item we have none and thank you for clarifying that because I when I saw that estimate I'm like I know how much we were estimating before and yeah really I thought nobody just dropped his error yeah we tried we tried to ask him did you forget a one or a two in front of that and he said oh I don't know what happened so he went back to his office and oh boy yeah well I am so pleased this is finally coming to the board you know I mentioned in my opening comments just how long I've been a pbsd parent and those stairs have been less than delightful for a long time so the the Rio students families staff you know will be most appreciative to have this work done so I will I would love to make a motion to approve this it's a well needed project second and Erlindo I'd also like to thank you for after the name of the bidder that you put the address and where they're from because that helps me know how many of these contracts are going to our local agencies and companies so thank you for that you're welcome all right I have a first and a second all those in favor hi any opposed motion carries seven zero thank you all right got one more all right approve Eleazar and Bayog design studio ink agreement for the Pajaro middle school HVAC replacement phase two project so this is another SR funded project this project is estimated at nine hundred and fifteen thousand dollars and I'm here to ask for the approval for EBD signs a local architect company that's going to help us with the biddable set drawings to go out to bid for the phase two HVAC replacement project of our middle school their dollar amount would be a hundred and forty thousand dollars and I'm asking for the board to approve this so we could continue with this project all right do we have any public speakers to this item we have none any discussion from the board just to sort of I just have a question for clarification heard this project isn't in the scope of the flood this is a pre-prescribed project that need to get done for the site correct the first phase was as part of the flooding that happened and this is in the library wing which this HVAC didn't get affected with the flood but it's in desperate need of a new HVAC system there so if we're going to do we might as well do all of it right yeah correct right thank you and I'll make a motion to support thanks I'll second I'll second okay Spartacus all right so we've got a first and a second and I just wanted to add to my my second because I said it first I just I know I said it in my opening comments but I just wanted to say it again and commend you and your team and all the work you're doing over the summer I know it's a busy time of year for you and I'm just really appreciative of all the work you and your team are doing and proving our schools during this time thank you all pass it along thank you all right we have a first and a second all those in favor aye aye any opposed motion carries seven zero thank you all right so we will go on to item nine point twelve which is a great date by the way further planning related to the search for the permanent superintendent report will be presented for by Maria Sheckman thank you I guess we just found or I just found out when your birthday is yeah these are really board items I work with them on the board agenda committee and they had good discussion the board agenda committee about the use of in my mind that these two board these two items are linked but the discussion at this time on nine twelve is basically do you want to use that's the next item you want to talk more about and I sense it's community involvement in the search for a permanent superintendent so the nine twelve is we're going to hear discussion from our board questions of each other and then the next item will be to if nine twelve goes in the flow to nine thirteen the next item will be to determine the use of august ninth that board meeting that board meeting the agenda that was published indicated it was the time to evaluate Dr. Rodriguez well the board realizes they don't need to do that that's going to happen in another city so they have an option and they're going to discuss now about the use of that date the next item related to the search for a permanent superintendent in other words moving the process a little sooner than later we've got an open date but I guess we need to wait for nine twelve to have that one for nine thirteen so I will be quiet and turn it back to our president do we have any public speakers to this item we have none all right so we do need to whether or not we use the ninth or not we do need to determine you know what date we have the kickoff meeting for leadership associates and in you know in looking at the leadership associates proposal like the kickoff meeting is fairly straightforward you know the purpose of that meeting is for the board to set the pace and process of the superintendent search you know will finalize the timeline um verify you know contact information to exchange information with leadership associates and clarify anything about the process that we might still have questions about the biggest advantage that I see about possibly having that meeting on the ninth is having that initial board discussion about those three key questions that were outlined in their proposal that you know what are the desired characteristics the board would like to observe in the next superintendent what are the strengths of the district what are the challenges of the district and these are the same questions that will be raised at the stakeholder meetings holding the kickoff meeting sooner rather than later gives our community an opportunity to see where we as a board are at in our thinking and if we have that now at the stakeholder meetings you know after the start of the school year this gives folks plenty of time to consider that initial conversation and to respond as they feel is appropriate and I have heard from some stakeholders and some fellow trustees of course you know that there's a desire to wait until later in August or even possibly September as more people be around however I've also heard from you know members of the community that once school begins attending a meeting or even watching becomes even more challenging as they're trying to need to figure out that you know schedules and on all that and you know vice president across to you raised a concern about a lack of transparency by holding it sooner and I want to applaud your advocacy for transparency in all of our processes I think that's so important I think we can address that concern this will be a public meeting with two weeks notice we can live stream it make a recording available for review and of course the minutes will be posted publicly and regardless of when we hold that meeting I hope that stakeholders will either attend or watch you know at a time that is convenient to them and then provide us with feedback so that you know we can ensure that we are representing our community as we were elected to do at our last meeting you know you also advocated for having our stakeholder meetings and as why the geographic representation as possible and again I applaud and totally agree with that I would encourage this board to expand that advocacy to include this one meeting before the frenzy of the school year to accommodate those in our community who do find it challenging to attend when schools in session you know this would also give our community more lead time to plan around like when those stakeholder meetings will be I've had a chance to discuss options with leaders of our unions with our interim superintendent other education leaders in our area and community members and overall you know I feel like this kickoff meeting on the ninth as you know I see it as a way for the board to put our cards on the table and let the community see where we're thinking and you know this is a critical process and I want them to know where we're at and we can use this as an opportunity to broaden you know opportunities for engagement and to ensure that our community has plenty of time to respond as we move forward into the active phase of that permanent search so I would like to move that we hold the kickoff meeting on the ninth of august is there any other discussion from the board um thank you president trustee dr. home for your comments so you were almost successful with reputing almost every input that I made on this topic in both the last public board meeting and in agenda setting committee meeting and I still full heartedly disagree with you feedback that we've heard here in this board meeting from the union leadership as well as also conversations I've had with one of our union l