Okay, thank you for your patience. We're trying to get reacclimated to our regular boardroom here We're going to go ahead and start with item 3.1, which is the Pledge of Allegiance and Would trustee hero like to lead us, please? Thank you Okay, again welcome everybody and this is our first meeting since the beginning of the 1819 academic year So we're really excited To have everybody back and it was a little sparse and at our board meetings over the summer But that's okay. We had our directors here, which was great to see you, but nice to see some other folks, too Anyway, I am going to go ahead and move on to item 3.3 Superintendents comments dr. Rodriguez. Yes Well along the same lines welcome back to the 2018-19 school year We're proud of all the work that we've accomplished this past year and we're looking forward to another great year of success for both our staff and students. So bienvenidos al año escolar 2018-19 Estamos muy orgullosos de todo el trabajo que logramos El año pasado y esperamos otro gran año de éxito para nuestro personal y nuestros estudiantes This year we have an anti-bullying campaign called be a kinder more empathetic you and We'll be holding the kickoff day with students on September 26 And so we hope that you join in on activities at the various school sites and throughout the year So este año tenemos una campaña contra la intimidación llamada Se un tu mas amable mas empático Empático vamos a celebrar el día de inicio con los estudiantes en 26 de septiembre en todas las escuelas So esperamos que participa que van a participar de las actividades ese día en las escuelas o los Departamentos y durante todo el año. So thank you Okay, thank you and We will move to board comments but I also wanted to mention if anybody would like translation services see our translator right over here and She can outfit you with some Earpieces And beyond that I will Willie I'll go ahead and I'll start with Willie and go down this way Yes, solo queríamos informarles que tenemos traductoras y ocupan ese servicio Wow, thank you very much We had a chance to visit red red cliff elementary school And I just want to mention if you have an opportunity to go to red cliff school and just look at the fencing around the front and for some reason the fence brings the artwork right out very well and What really began as a safety? Project turned into an art form. It is really nice and you should go see it We also had a chance to go to the amesty school right up the street Looked at looked at some of the work done there to really begin to Make that facility super safe and so that they actually put in a nice frontage road a driving for the buses everything and Since a Victor walked in will will give him recognition for the outstanding work Not only Victor, but everyone that is associated with a facility doing a wonderful wonderful job and and when I say we my Partner in crime has been a bill beacher who is the chairman of the bond oversight committee So it's a it's so it's a nice to see People that are involved with the supervision to make sure that the funds are are well spent and Making all of our schools very very nice bill. Thank you I got the opportunity to attend the district-wide breakfast Maybe two weeks ago now about two weeks And it was a fantastic turn out. So I was really happy to see a lot more staff present and returning staff actually In addition to that I was able to volunteer at the strawberry festival for the friends of waltzville parks and community services We were selling strawberry tamales. So that was a really fun event I think that's that's something that our carl valley foundation to consider in the future I think is the publicity and a good source of funding And I am looking forward to kicking off the D-Lac meetings Thank you Thank you very much like Maria and Leslie and Willie I attended the district-wide breakfast Where we welcomed back our amazing staff and teachers. It was a really special event We were happy to have our union leadership present with us and we're looking forward to a great year I've been carefully watching the developments at Valencia elementary school with our measure L project That's just completed and it looks great. I want to thank Our construction and maintenance and operation group Victor. Thank you very much for making that happen and I look forward to a great year. Thank you. I screwed up and forgot the breakfast like but um And I also bought some strawberry tamales from And they're super good, they're really good um, I Actually go to committee meetings in the summertime I think I'm the only board member that does that probably because I go to the migrant head start meetings and We're now where we're not we don't have executive meetings we have meetings from all the representatives from all the different three Areas and preschools and all over the place, you know that my good head start works so there's Instead of having about six or seven of us. There's probably about 30 of us at the meetings now And it's really wonderful to hear about, you know, they talk about their parent meetings and their parent meetings They have their parents meetings have 40 30 People at these parent meetings that they they do it's like whoa How many times do you hear about that many parents going to meetings? It's pretty incredible and I live right next to Radcliffe, so I've been Dry, I've been seen their beautiful fence all the time The only thing else I could say is that I rode my bicycle out to this Sierra Asul Nursery and gardens and they have all the sculptures there, you know incredible They have about 60 sculptures there and They had two really beautiful sculptures from adult education students They had really two beautiful cells from our adult education Thanks Yes, so this is a very exciting time returning back to school and all the excitement in the air with parents and students for my family particularly it's an especially Exciting day as our son just started today his first instructional day at Cal Berkeley and their College of Chemistry so my family and I just want to extend our gratitude To the educational system in our community that has been a significant part in putting him on this Educational path and journey that he started today as parents and As students we have been given a plethora of information from the school as I'm sure the parents and students in our community And our school district have as well It was brought to my attention this past week by parents who are constituents in my area that this letter was sent home with their children As you can notice on the letter which came from the district office It has the current date the current board president and the current vice chair of the board However, when you go down to the board members names for trustee area to you see that has the name of the former trustee Who was voted out of this office nearly two years ago? Not my name The parents who brought this to my attention were very confused as they thought they had elected me into the seat They were further confused because this former trustee is currently running for another position elected position in our community so I'm just bringing the district's attention Michelle I know that you and I had a dialogue back and forth in the spring of 2017 about this I brought it to your attention and you immediately corrected it So I'm not sure what is going on with it at this point But it seems to clearly demonstrate a lack of professionalism on the district's administration Since the letters coming from the district office at a minute on this needs to be corrected and Honestly, I believe an apology is due to the constituents who elected me into the seat whose voice is not being respected or heard Good evening. Good evening. Thank you for coming. I don't have much to report What I will say as the spouse of any teacher will tell you I have spent the last couple of weeks setting up a classroom So if any of you guys go to real Del Mar classroom, you're gonna see a great classroom And I know that because I've spent more time there than Than I intended to the other thing I want to talk about is some of the great work and That's some of the great work that we're doing at the Pajaro Valley Educational Foundation Myself Maria and Leslie sit on the board for the educational foundation and I can honestly say I'm really excited to To sit there We're we are really coming up with some great ideas on how to better serve the children of our community as Most of you I'm sure know and are relieved to hear I will not be running for re-election this season But that is really when we talk about our legacy and what we want to leave behind as we move on That is really something that I'm proud of. I think the educational foundation is Very exciting and I really do hope as I know the rollout went very well two weeks ago at the breakfast I really do hope as we start to Frankly hit you up for money That you see some of the great work that we're going to be doing and some of the great work that Can come from an organization like this. Thank you Okay, thank you trustees So I too went to the strawberry festival. I didn't see there were so many people there I was trying to find people that I knew there were so many people there It was hard to find people that I knew but I did not get a strawberry To Molly But it was a great event. It was really nice to see so many people out there It was great to see so many people at the breakfast the welcome back breakfast. We had a lot of new employees there and it was actually the Largest crowd that I've seen and I've been going to every one of them for 12 years So it was really nice to see so many people and vendors there too who support our district PV PSA per whole valley prevention and student assistance that though we do have year-round meetings and I'm happy to announce September 12th. We're gonna be doing our groundbreaking for our new building So very excited about that. There's been a lot of work that has has been put into that moving forward so Hopefully very soon. We will have a new behavioral health center I'm also excited to report that we're gonna be starting the inner governmental affairs committee again That's with the city of Watsonville and we will have our county supervisors to be a part of that too so we can work together on Initiatives that Will benefit ourselves the city and the community as a whole so excited to have those starting again Okay Okay, so item 4.1 is approval of the agenda Making a motion to approve tonight's agenda. Thank you Okay, so we have a request on notification. Sure. I know that we have Some teachers here present and so I would want to move The item 8.2 to item 8.1 So before 8.1 correct start with 8.2 Okay, if there is I'll amend my motion to Well, would you like to amend your second to move that item? Okay, so all those in favor I Any opposed? Motion passes 7-0. Thank you. Okay item 5.1. This is approval of minutes for our meeting of July 25th Second all those in favor Are you're going to abstain abstains in here Was that the one no it was it was okay Okay motion passes 5-2-0 correct or 5-0-0-2 5-0-2. Thank you and Minutes for the August 8th meeting which is our was our special board meeting for the superintendents evaluation And move approval All those in favor I any opposed or is the abstentions Okay, motion passes 6-0-1 with one abstention And item number 6.1 is our visitor non-agenda items public comment. Do we have any speakers? We do With Jeff stepping down after his eight years, I decided I was going to run for his position and a Lot of interesting things have happened while I've been on the campaign trail and I thought I'd share those with you tonight Now this is what? Jeff and Willie did not tell me about running for this position District 7 is 10 miles long I've had to replace one pair of shoes at this point in time. I'm not sure I can charge that to my campaign expenses 83% of that district vote That means there's 8300 people I have to talk to it's dangerous on the campaign trail The first day I met a man who answered the door. He said I'm dying leave me alone go away What do you say to a guy like that? shootings We had a as you know last week. There was a shooting over in C-clip. Well two days before that I was on that same street knocking on doors It's not safe Drugs a day later. I'm over in seascape and there's a young man who's passed out in his car We couldn't get him to respond. We had to do 9-eleven To have him come out and finally get him going in the sheriff took care of the situation And then savage dogs I'll tell you those dogs look 10 foot tall and they have teeth that are about that long It's it's it's frightening I even tried to hang my door hanger on the fence and the dog ate the end off from the door hanger and Then just the other day over in C-clip. I had a ferocious B-mail mathematician Chase after me. She said how can you run for the board when your English grammar in your handout is so bad? It was embarrassing Unfortunately, she was right. So it was really embarrassing Let me share what I've heard while I've been out there because I think that's germane to all of us in this room Vocational training is very important over and over again. This is the number one thing they've echoed back to me What the heck happened to our vocational training? And I told them what it's coming The dropout rates as we've discussed and we've had presentations aren't acceptable Because that's feeding our local gang This was a kind of a surprise to me Principles should have worked in the classroom before their principles because they're clueless and we've had some principles at one time Who did not have that experience? Diabetic students are at risk because of not knowing how to inject insulin Some trustee's do not return their calls Some of the people call the trustees and they never call back and this leads into how does a person Escalate a situation And it's not just a trustees is how does an employee escalate a situation within the school district? So I'd like to thank you for your time. Can I clarify any of these issues my shoe size? Thank You mr. Beecher Okay, no more speakers To visit our non-agendas, so we're going to move to item 7.1 Which is our employee organization comments, and we will start with pvft Welcome Hi, thank you Francisco Rodriguez Pajaro Valley for ocean of teachers Just wanted to speak on a couple items on your agenda Number one the climate action change if you're not familiar we have a committee in pbft That has been working with this group or initially started working with this group I should correct and at this time I serve as advice from the board, and I think the resolution that is before you is a first step in Addressing some of the issues that the committee as a whole or Regeneration as a whole wants to address and that is Ensuring what that we know what the and address the impact of climate change on our most vulnerable communities The other item is with regards to two MOUs One is an MOU for Pajaro middle school I do want to make a clarification that the teachers at the middle school voted To change the existing schedule Not necessarily to a six-period day, but to something that would work for everybody and The district is committed to working with us in coming up with such a schedule So I wanted to make that clarification The second MOU has to do with a Providing coaches for teachers on sips pips and steps We had that last year. It's a very Very much the same of course the years are different and things like that, but The problem is the same. We still have an issue with building positions with fully credentialed teachers And that does create a burden on the teachers at the existing sites not necessarily a burden Because many of them gladly do it, but it does take additional work for them to help these teachers and At this time there really is no other agency that can support them as they are not currently eligible for services from other agencies that provide support for new teachers, so we are We the district and the union I think are taking a good step in providing that support for these teachers that are Just thrown in there as they say And then the other item with regard to interns again I Think that having internships with But making sure that Those interns are provided with the adequate support that they would need and hopefully those entering programs do provide that support We are Hoping that There comes a time when we won't need Those types of MOUs that we will have Positions that are filled and competitive People or competitive employees that You know, we won't have To fill positions with teachers that are still working under credentials, but with all fully credentialed teachers. So again Please consider supporting those items that I just mentioned. Thank you Thank you, and do we have someone from CSEA? Welcome From CSEA chapter 132 I stand here before you with a concern a concern about something that is on the board agenda It has to do with grant writing for landscaping I believe and I wish there would have been more in the board packet so that I could have read on it and know what it Was exactly about That just in my opinion if there's something out there that is going to generate funds Will it generate a company? What is attached to that? I'm concerned for our employees for the grounds department Especially so that's what I I'm is heavy on my mind Also wanted to thank CDO Dominguez because People will now in certain departments be wearing uniforms, which is very important to our community They would like transportation drivers identify who is the employee and He came in proposed that and it took off So hopefully we'll be seeing those uniforms soon and we'll bring this level of professionalism up I'm done anyway So thank you So there's also a concern in regards to what is being proposed today in regards to our health clerks and administering The Narcon There there are state laws that state that it's strictly voluntarily for an employee to administer The Narcon and the what is being proposed today is does not state that it's voluntary So we need that to be corrected Before you vote on it Thank you Perfectly Thank you very much and that is an agenda item. So that's something that we can inquire about Do we have someone from PIVAM for our valley Association of Managers? CWA communication workers of America substitutes Okay, thank you So we are at action items and we're gonna start with the climate change resolution Item 8.2 This is a report by dr. Rodriguez. Yeah, so thank you very much. So I'll say it was a while ago. Unfortunately, so several months back Maria Roscoe asked for me to investigate Our ability to do this resolution. So we did look into it. We are one of the first in California to do the resolution. So we are definitely ahead of the game on that There are other states that are doing it, but I say one of the first because as far as I know We are the first but I'm saying one of the first just to qualify someone doesn't come up and say aha So one thing that we want to make sure in and so I wanted to read Some of the commitment that we wanted to put forward So unless you would prefer Maria, would you prefer to read some of it? Okay So I just want to read it is fairly fairly short So whereas we believe it's important for us to advocate for climate change to curtail one of the greatest that facing communities throughout the world and whereas there is based broad Scientific consensus among climate scientists that human activities contributing to increases in a greenhouse gas emissions are the dominant cause in climate change and Whereas children represent a particularly vulnerable group because greenhouse gas submitted into the environment or atmosphere will Humiliate over the coming decades and will profoundly impact today's children throughout their lives as well as the lives of future generations and whereas we believe that climate change should never be a partisan nor a Political issue and that policy should be guided by the best available science and Whereas Pajaro Valley Unified School District recognizes climate change as a children's issue and Whereas a global impact urgency a magnitude of the challenge of addressing climate change calls for leadership in all sectors of society all institutions and all elected leaders We will ensure that Pajaro Valley Unified School District students graduate as globally-minded citizens and Whereas the district has a responsibility to minimize its greenhouse gas emissions Demonstrate leadership and provide education and actionable solutions that children can engage into address climate change And so that the board one thing they always ask us is to have actions linked to resolution. So here are our actions So we therefore we will continue to be clean air leaders as noted by the Monterey Bay Air Resources District and the Pajaro Valley Unified School District shall take action on climate change that is within the purview of the district such as but not excluding curricular and educational opportunities facilities and operational priorities and projects targets for reducing district greenhouse gas emissions and Engagement in local state and federal jurisdictions. Thank you. So this is an action item. So Let's go ahead and do the speakers first. So we have Nancy Ballstick Ballston, I'm sorry followed by Aileen Clark Followed by Rachel Kippin Good evening. Dr. Rodriguez trustees and community members So I'm Nancy Ballstick. I'm the director of reheneration Pajaro Valley climate action We work with community partners to empower everyone in the Pajaro Valley to respond locally To the global challenge of the changing climate I'm also a longtime PV USD early childhood educator and parent of a fifth grader at Alianza Charter School And I'm here because I care about our collective future and I want PV USD to succeed at its mission Right up here of supporting learners in reaching their highest potential Thank you for taking the significant step of preparing a climate change resolution The evidence is in the stable climate humans have enjoyed has ended Scientists agree the situation is pretty bad not just for polar bears, but for people Our students have a slim chance of reaching their potential or Enjoying successful futures that we want if we delay action Watsonville is precisely the kind of low-income community being hit hardest by climate impacts, but the game's not over yet At reheneration, we are determined to do everything we can to take the climate crisis as an opportunity to build a stronger community to end racism and economic exploitation and to center local solutions to this crisis on the people most in harm's way Farm worker families who are the backbone of our economy and who fill our schools We the people alive today are the ones who will determine whether this beautiful planet stays Inhabitable for future generations What an awesome challenge and what an incredible opportunity I think we can rise to the challenge and restore and protect the living environment of the earth. I Think we must make restoring and protecting the environment an overarching goal Driving all of our work as educators parents and community members As a district, please teach all students to care for our shared environment Please continue to implement policies to sharply reduce greenhouse gas emissions and eliminate waste When might PV USD take the step of centering secondary curriculum on reversing global warming and achieving social justice? We hope PV USD will partner with reheneracion to train new young environmental justice leaders Who from the PV USD leadership will be attending the global climate action summit in San Francisco coming up September 10th to the 14th I invite everyone here to go to San Francisco and take part in the largest West Coast climate action on September 8 Rise for climate jobs and justice. I know everyone here cares deeply about our students Let's act together so they can reach their full potential Thank you. I'd just like to circulate. We have an email list and information here about our website Everyone I'm I think Mark Nagoka. I'm a teacher at Iche High School and I'm a school member of reheneracion And I just I'm so happy that you're taking you've written this resolution It's really forward-thinking and and really wonderful I wanted to say a little bit about The community survey that the reheneracion did last year. We did a very extensive very scientific Survey that was guided by a professor and We had 350 respondents and We tried to get a Representative sample of Watsonville so and we were really happy that we were able to do that And one thing we found a couple of things we found out was that our community is very affected by the effects of climate change principally because so many of our Parents in the in the south zone are farm workers and extreme weather changes either high temperatures or lots of rain really affect their Their their livelihood so they they miss work they miss income and it's it's a very serious thing for them just on and on that on that level and then also I've been noticing in my classes every year that more and more kids have asthma and You know I review the emergency cards every year and this this year have more than ever that who who have Husband have you know at the pens in the office and so forth and that's definitely Because of environmental what it in part part of environmental changes So thank you so much because it's very responsive this this resolution very responsive to the the parents in our community also wanted to say that The there we at ha hide on every Wednesday We have a farm stand there another thing that came out of our community survey was that people want better access to Organic produce and so there's a farm stand that's there sponsored by food wet. I think And so it's really wonderful. It's like the very low prices much lower than you would see at the farmers market So if there's any way that you all could Encourage that to go on at more school sites that be that'd be really great And so just finally just wanted to say sometimes this issue can feel so overwhelming like it's such a huge issue And we're just these individuals and we do what we can but things like this really give us hope and as small as it might seem it's really big deal So thank you very much. Thank you Good evening. Good evening. Can you hear me? Yeah, okay My name is Rachel Kippen. I'm the environmental projects coordinator for the city of Watsonville. I I wanted to start by saying how excited I am and how much I commend and support this resolution To take action on climate change. I looked it up before I came here I did not see any other school districts in the state of California passing any resolution I was very curious myself if that was the case. So at least from my research and yours It does seem like this might be the first which is very exciting I also agree with the Pajaroa Valley Federation of teachers that this seems like the first of many steps And so I wanted to offer our support as a collaborative government We've gone through many similar actions. I'm sure you can imagine Creating our climate action plan working with partners like the Association of Monterey Bay Area governments to do energy Efficiency we're in a big energy efficiency project right now So we have a lot that we could share just in our successes and challenges in that way that I would like to introduce for us myself and offer that as a resource as you move forward and Yeah, I also as I'm sure you all know being educators and working in the field of education Recognize that intergenerational justice is a often overlooked issue or so focused on the present And that teachers really seem to get that more than anyone else That not only are we responsible for those young people that are alive today But those that are absolutely going to come after that and making sure that we're you know providing an environment that supports their thriving so Thank you. Thank you so much, and I hope that we can have lots of fruitful conversations in the future Thank you for coming And we do have two other speakers we have Pauline Seals followed by Daniel Dodge Thank you very much for Setting this up. I wanted to mention a couple of things. I'm a retired teacher. I worked in Aptos High School 15 years ago with my friend Roland we have been doing climate education as Volunteers last year. We've worked at the A Hall school We worked with the science teacher and social sciences teacher for several days. It was well received by the teachers and the students with very much believe an interactive NGSS type involvement We are available We have also worked with the horror Valley High School wetlands watch students training them and particularly Tailoring it to how climate change and the wetlands watch work interact So thank you for everything. We're available to help two little problems. We noticed one was serious Food waste during school lunches many many tossed full containers of milk I think this is a misunderstanding mistraining of the employees that they don't quite understand it They may have to make milk available But they don't have to force every single kid to take the carton. It's gonna end up in the trash This waste food ends up producing a vast amount of methane in the land though Which is a very serious greenhouse gas worldwide food waste is like number three Contributors to the problem and it could be eliminated The other thing was the teachers complaining about they have no control of the classroom heat and to avoid over heating They have to open the windows. So there's the heat on the windows open and terrible energy waste These things in a big school district are not easy to fix I remember fighting it in San Jose school district 30 years ago But those are issues that that could be looked at as well as actual classroom education. Thank you Thank you for bringing that to our attention low board Daniel Dodge Jr. Parent of a sixth grade in this district. I attended many white a hall once well high and it's good to see from teachers I Just wanted to say climate change is real Global warming is real We could see it with all these fires all around us the hurricanes that destroyed Puerto Rico I Just wanted to urge The board to support this resolution because all this is real all the facts has shown that it's real. I Just wanted to thank you for letting me speak because I was gonna speak that thought with another type of event But I'm glad I'm here and thank you all very much We have a motion and a second so to board discussion Does anybody have any comments Karen? So I'm hoping I have a really good friend who worked in another solar company that I worked in and he We have met with Michelle we met with Victor and everybody because he's willing to do Solar for all the rest of our schools for free Put solar on all the rest of our schools for free and including our district office, which is a lot of electricity that we're trying to work with and So I keep you know Texting Michelle. So what's going on with that? What's going on with that? And she says well I don't know that we have to go and put it out to bid even though his is for free I mean, I guess whatever you know that they feel like you have to do but I'm just saying I've been We met with Michelle to and Victor and Who else we've met with but And he my friend presented what he's he could do for the school district in terms of So we're talking about climate change And I've been supporting trying to put solar on all over schools with my friend that's able to do it So I'm hoping When we talk about where that work that we're gonna be the stewards of climate change in our district that we support this idea that I've been that I've put forward with the district about doing solar and all the rest of our schools and We don't even and it's and it will be for free. We can put solar in all of our schools my friend is willing to Put that forward for the district remember Remember Thank you, we need to keep bringing ideas forward. That's good. Are there any other board comments? Kim you want to go first Yeah, do you know that noises? Okay, thank you, you know, I I support the concept of solar. I support solar at the school I think it's a wonderful way to Shrink our footprint and at the same time save some money and my father I should say was a 40-year employee of PG&E so You know PG&E put me through college, but I think I think that solar is important I and I don't in any way deny the evidence of climate change. I understand I The as the young lady said the science is overwhelming. How are you gonna deny it? However, my concern with these kind of resolutions is that we are a school we are a school board And even though I understand how important this is is a statement the reality is this is really stuff that needs to be taken care of at the state and and and National level I I just I find it to be symbolic and not really We have we have bigger issues Locally right now in our schools that we should have spent the last 20 minutes on so even though I have I don't personally have a problem with this I think it's I think it's important. I think this is good work This isn't only work for a school board This is work that we need to take to Sacramento and we need to take to Washington, DC and that's my position Thank you, Kim Well, I think all change happens at the grassroots level, so I'm very proud to support this resolution tonight One of the things that I am curious about those we have teachers all over our district science teachers How are we ensuring that this? That global warming is being taught appropriately in these classrooms So I'll speak to it more. I'll speak to it originally and then if Susan wants to Step in as well, that's fine So we are actually we are again going to be presenting at the steam conference So it's now steam because there's the a in there for the arts And we are actually one of the school districts that's recognized for our environmental literacy curriculum that we have And so we'll be there presenting with staff on that work And in part it's mostly due to our collaboration with the Monterey Bay Aquarium But then it also is includes other entities as well So we do have a curriculum that at each level starting at kindergarten all of our students do receive environmental literacy It is part of the NGSS standards, which were mentioned previously And so it couples nicely with that one thing that I love about NGSS that wasn't true in past standards is that it brought it spirals up So it used standards used to skip So it would maybe get in second grade and then fifth grade and then seventh grade and how it works now is they ramp up each Those concepts each time get more and more complex, but they start learning about them at a very young age SS stands for what so next generation science standards I'm sorry. I just wanted the public next generation I shouldn't use acronyms Okay, and I still would like to see science in all of our elementary schools not just in the Classrooms, but actually a dedicated science teacher in each school. Yeah, we're moving to attack Thank you. I Support this of course, but I'm I am trying to figure out. I heard things tonight that were quite New to me and I have to admit I don't know the full depth of this but As a school board member what what we're interested in is the wellness of our Kids, right? So let's work backwards anything that affects the wellness of our group children Looking Backwards from that point. What are some of those factors? And I heard tonight that the the error and so forth Created by the by the climate change affects the air which affects the wellness and And there's a lot more to this than Then that and I and I and I think that that's ultimately the object of my concern anything that Affects the wellness whether it's air water, etc. We should be Actively taking a position on so so so I support this and admit that I need more Education and more Information as to what all of these things mean. Thank you Maria Thank you for me. What I do want to say is that just to piggy piggyback on what Willie just said anything that affects Our students our kids in the district It is the job of the board to address those issues in the way that we can and I think This resolution is a perfect example that we're not going to solve The issue now, but this is a step in the right direction I think when districts come together who are meant to support the success of students That is a statement and I think that we can move forward this way and really advocate Even at the national level To have initiatives in place that address the concerns And so with that I do want to make a motion to approve this resolution tonight Okay, if there's a second and then I have the comment Okay, so I too Support this I think that you know our goals here at PVSD are Well everywhere in education are to raise global citizens and I think if the district can model Sustainable behavior and show students what that what that looks like and that it is important to us then That's going to filter down to them So I I do support this Arosco for bringing this forward Okay, if there are no more comments, I will go ahead and Ask for all those in favor we have a mission in a second I Any opposed? Motion has to 601 We are now on item 8.1. This is a budget revision. It's called our 45 day revised and We don't mind being trailblazers in the state either. I don't mind saying Yeah Okay, I'm 8.1 is the 45 day revise and this is a report by our chief business officer Mr. Dominguez So good evening President de Rose and members of the board This evening just going to present our 45 day budget revision as we're aware the governor signed the May revise It is So the governor for the 8th consecutive time signed a budget on time The how it impacts districts throughout the state One of the highlights of the budget is that it fully funds Our local control funding formula as a district and throughout districts in California The other component that really is significant from May is that it reduces our current one-time funding It's reduced on the third bullet point on the PowerPoint there. You see that originally Districts throughout California had a budget amount of 344 dollars per ADA So districts within California that had that greater amount And may revise it was reduced to 184 dollars per ADA We're required within 45 days to make this revised revision within our financial Records and so how that impacts our district. It's about a reduction of 2.7 million dollars The other component is within the 45 Day revision it's implementing best practices. So when there is adjustments Whether it's an increase and or decrease is making sure that we have an implement fiscal transparency So we inform our board, but also members of our public and our stakeholders So this is just to provide additional transparency of what those revisions are for our district and the impact of the revise Specifically just want to go by line item. You'll see how this impacts 1819 so if you look at the The variance on to the far right you see that our revenues net decrease For 1.4 million dollars However, there's approximately 1.2 million ongoing in our multi-year, but for the current year. It's 1.5 for decrease in our revenue and As I mentioned previously there's a reduction of our one-time funding for the current year 2.77 million and you see that again on the far right column Second to the last of the 2.77 one-time funds So originally you see that it was at in 1819 in July adopt It was five point nine five million and because of the 45 day or the May revise is three point one So that adjustment has been made as well the state legislator and the governor In the approach has increased our as I mentioned brought us up to fully funded in our local control funding formula But then also strategically reduced our one-time funding to make sure that we're at our full LCFF And then ongoing they'll also work for one-time funds as we move forward We're not sure what those amounts look like in the outgoing years, but that To be continued as the budget and the state economy But overall if you look at the Increase and decrease in the middle of the columns there in the on the far right you see the variance So our ending fund balance has been reduced 2.69 million dollars and that is the impact to our budget Next steps for us as a district is once we have our May 45 day revision approved is we present that to and provide that to the county and Making sure that that's taking note of and then we continue our quarterly meetings with our site and department Leadership and I think I mentioned in a previous presentation is we worked on budget development And now this is the time to work on budget management And so making sure that with the resources that we have throughout our district that we stay within our means In September of 18 later in the year will provide our unaudited actuals And that's a an opportunity a point in time where we look at what's our allocated budget And where are we at as far our actuals? So how are we in comparison? And so we'll bring that forward and then December we start our internal or third-party Independent audit of our district finances throughout our whole district That'll probably take about 30 to 45 days, and then we'll bring that to the board in January So those are the next steps for us as a district So before we have board questions I want you to speak to the three-year multi-year impact because that was not presented so the impact to the multi-year and I'll kind of look at this slide here is we have a the reduction of the one-time funds and For the outgoing years, it's it looks like it's going to be a positive impact for the outgoing year However, that's still under question and not Every year annual budget to be verified, but as we speak right now They're trying to spread that throughout and so that's where I mentioned with the legislator Working on that component and then the other component is now that LCFF is fully funded is now We have a constant because prior there was a gap of financial Between what was allocated and or budgeted from the state and now in that we're fully funded We know what that amount is going to be for the outgoing years So we have LCFF fully funded. However, the one-time funds will be a decrease and or it could be an increase, but we As our current fiscal year comes to an end we will revise and review that as we move forward Okay, so let me put it a different way Okay So we have at the Senate level at the state level We've been saying for a significant time that the one-time monies actually poses us a challenge Because one-time fund funds in general you're not allowed to allocate that towards ongoing expenditures with having 91% of our budget being ongoing expenditures. That's a challenge So although this may appear as a negative in a way It's a positive because what has happened is they did take away One-time funds, but they increased the cola from 3% to 3.7% Which what that means is it gave us more money this year secured money not one-time money, but secured money this year Next well in a way it took away money this year, right because it the one-time monies went down, but the The ongoing went up slightly, right? So for this year it did not balance it out and there is a negative But because that ongoing amount will continue for the years if you look at the three-year projection The variance is almost nil, right? So in a way, it's a good thing for us because we can then get money that we can depend on Versus having money where they say here's one-time funds for you and they give it to you at a late date When we don't really know right and then that causes us to have challenges because our ending fund balance goes up And all of our expenses are where we want to put our money is ongoing So I wanted to make that really clear that although It did have a negative impact at this that you know that point seven percent for us and think of you know We have almost 250, you know, 243 million dollars Almost a whole percent increase is a good thing for us. And so I just wanted to make that very specific and the one-time Funding is dependent on the surplus or the economic status of our state And so the legislature also fluctuates with one-time funds with more volatile than our local control funding formula It's set in that formula is impacted on on our district and the parameters of our funding for low-income English language learners special ed etc Okay, thank you very much We do have some speakers to this item and then I'll open it up to board questions and comments We'll be sure Good evening again At a previous meeting when we look at the budget before I pointed out that our Rate for wages of total compensation wages and benefits went from 87 percent to 92 percent over the next couple of years. I Went home and thought about that and stewed and I went wait a minute That means the operating part of our budget books pencils paper Let me get cut 40 percent Now there is an alternative we could shut off the heat we could shut off the air conditioning save on energy That'd be one way to make up that difference We haven't heard From the CBO What are we cutting in the operating part of the budget because you can't make the budget balance? There's only so much money if we're going to increase Compensation what are we giving up? This is a question you the board have to ask he can't respond to me I'm just a little speaker from the audience, but you have an obligation to ask that question. Thank you Thank you Okay, no more speakers, so I will ask if there are board questions comments Well, you look ready to thank you Joe the the figures up there show Show us that This is this is the budget that you're asking us to to adopt Has the county office of Ed weighed in on this and do we meet all the specs for? You know three years out Type of thing. Yes. Good question. So with this our current year the county has been involved and they've gave Recommendation also with school services and the Department of Education And so the 45-day revision is meeting with all the guidelines that have been recommended And then some within Ed code the multi-year are three percent reserve So all the requirements that we set forth we still meet all those various requirements in our multi year what what if the I I read someplace just off the internet that the pension plans Through the state are are in the deep trouble and looking like they are Millions billions of funds behind and Every local school district is going to have to make up that amount What plans do we have I think one of the Recommendations that we were looking at and we presented when we provided our our annual budget Was knowing that our pension plans and the rising cost of stirs per Is making sure that positioning the district with the reserve Similar to what our state of California has positioned as a rainy day fund similar those components also need to be looked at and so that is dependent on What one-time funds are available and other sources of revenue So that would be something that we are looking at as we speak to position our district So that when that is a fiscal liability which it is But if that were to hit our our books that we are able to Move through that with a reserve and other options So it is an ongoing Liability and those costs are rising statewide and you're correct districts are grappling on how to take that on and so districts are the state and Department of Education is also recommending for some reserves to be To prevent but also position the district to take that on so that so that everyone's in the in the same situation Throughout the state probably yes, right so that we're all waiting We don't know if the income is going to go up or we don't know what's going to go down or Whatever it's based on the state economy our general state taxes, but we do know that the liabilities of our retirement the purge and stirs is increasing Similar to our healthcare Those are rising costs. So those are areas that from a fiscal standpoint We have to recognize that and look at the percentage growth over multiple years and position the district to in a financial situation to deal with that okay, and and Trying to get an answer from what Bill was asking about the total Compensation is going from 87 percent to 92 percent How do we wonder what is the plan? What are we going to cut what? So what we what's up what we presented to the board? we talked about Internal efficiencies if you recall and I believe that was in June Where we provided and also in our board workshop where we talked about enhancing internal efficiencies One of the areas that we need to focus on is our average daily attendance One is our enrollment, but then the students that we do have is making sure that we take and Capture our average daily attendance We're estimating anywhere from six to eight million if as a sizable comparable district if we were to increase our ADA and just take attendance So that was one of the areas of efficiency another area is reducing our workers comp liability And so providing safety training throughout our departments throughout the district. So we're making sure we reduce our claims The other component is establishing and I think the superintendent can speak to this about Establishing an educational foundation. So not only about reductions, but also increasing revenue And so working and establishing a foundation to bring in Partnerships and grants to support other academic programs Throughout our district. And so there's various approaches that we're taking on as a district to resolve that and also looking at You know, I think back in June we gave examples of a Transfinder in our transportation department having a routing software and we've implemented it to making sure that we have the Most cost-effective but time management a route efficiency One not only for the cost savings, but one for our little ones or little children being on the bus Whether it's an hour an hour 30 minutes Why are they on the bus so long and so making sure that we can shorten our route times get them to school on time And they're ready to learn. So those are the Examples that we shared in June and we're continuing to move forward with those what it Joe, can you give us a Timeline, you know in the future as to when we might be facing some of these cuts Let's say that we expect the revenue to go up, but it doesn't go up or let's say that we have to Come up with more money for the pension plans What what what is the timeline for all this to happen? When do we have to react? Okay, so one in our budget we have all the increases to person stirs already in there So it's not it's not a mystery and it's already within our multi-year projections So we already are aware of where those percentages are going to go up and we already have that at this point we are Clear for our three-year projection And we still have the three additional Percent reserve so as you guys remember we have our our required three percent reserve and then there's the additional What I would mention is and we'll hear some of it tonight But the both the efficiencies and the increased revenue is important to us So like we're gonna hear tonight that we have almost six million dollars worth of grant Sorry, I'm spoiling her thing But six million dollars worth of grant funding that has come into our district in the last 18 months That's important, right if we can increase our ADA by just 1% it includes millions of additional dollars So our goal is to continue whether it's Workers comp which we have already decreased by 1.2 million right all those things are things that we will continue to do So while I am superintendent my goal is for us to be forward-thinking and not to make cuts And so we will continue to look at how we can both do efficiencies that doesn't affect staff and children and Also raise additional funds through our grant writer and when the foundation can through the foundation But specifically through the grant writer and one another great example that we are working with our child welfare and attendance is also Full implementation of a Saturday school for attendance recovery. And so that's something that we're actually going to be rolling out And the next month or so and so just other opportunities to increase efficiencies and revenue We also heard that there's a increase in in the enrollment that That we're actually getting more Kids back from the private store wherever At the high school level, all right, which is which is also revenue that we didn't figure on So that's outstanding. That's a very good Okay, trust that you're seeing him He stole my thunder Joe. Thank you really asked most of my questions The I'm glad to hear that we're talking about increasing revenues and not just cutting costs because I think what you can only cut so far at some point you have to Raise your income to support the to support the lifestyle that you're looking for I Was but I was reading an article this morning somewhere. I think the journal talking about the the longest bull run in in history and so We're out now the Great Recession for I believe it's eight years and I in California is very prone to the swings of the economy and I Supertender Rodriguez, thank you for reminding me that we've already accounted for the stirrers and purrs increases That's that's very important. That's excellent planning. Well, we but we also need to plan for and please tell me how we're doing that planning for the Inevitable dip in the economy What are we doing? I think those are the components that we have, you know restricted and unrestricted revenue Enhancing our internal efficiencies. That's where it comes back in building up our own rainy fund rainy-day fund But in order to do that we need to make sure that we enhance our internal Efficiencies and have some cost-saving measures once we From a fiscal standpoint have that ability to do that then it's a discussion with the superintendent and the board Of what how to position our district to make sure that we can take on if that The dip in the economy and or funding does happen, right? It's the win trustee discerpa you So this is what I was concerned about Under my one of my presidencies. We did have money pulled back from the state and it forced us to make some very deep cuts I remember correctly furlough days and some other things So this is feels very palpable to me that this budget is while we think it's gonna be good like You just don't know sometimes. So that's why we always proceed with caution So just to remind the public our rainy-day fund. We have a 3% do we have an additional 3% in the rainy-day fund? So we have 6% Okay, so if there were I mean this this is the exact scenario that if we needed to dip into it Potentially we could correct, okay And I know a 3% reserve really only makes payroll for I think one month, right? That's my approximate More than a month. You think a little bit over a month. Okay, so just to give everybody an idea of what that means It's not like we've got You know gobs of money just laying out there that we can just use it really would only pay the bills for a month Okay So I had written before Bill Beecher said anything on my little pad of paper It says reductions and I think you've offered some ideas for that some revenue building and some I mean, I feel like we've gone through this budget our own budget our books so tightly now I'm we used to have a little cushion, but now it is so lean that That I guess, you know, it's always a good idea to do some planning for what if I'm glad we talked about the three-year multi-year Would a full-date kindergarten bring in extra ADA? That's a question for the superintendent really I Do not believe so I believe it's because because kinder is Non-compensatory we don't well of course we have to do it, but people do not have to attend But I don't believe the extra hours would bring in because we don't receive ADA by hours We receive it by day by day. Okay. I'm just curious. I thought that was a good idea potentially It's a good idea. Anyway, um, I love the Saturday school idea. How far down are we doing Saturday? Are you thinking like in elementaries also or what are we thinking? Yeah Elementary middle high school in every school. We're trying to look at we're assessing right now every school, but there's some Looking at the various opportunities that we have so that's right. That's great And using that are we would we think about using the same formula that we had put in place? Before which is to reward the school with a certain percentage of that revenue We're looking at also various incentives and a percentage going back to the site For the attendance recovery. Okay Okay, thank you. You answered all my questions. Thank you Karen the Saturday school are it's not like Students are required to go to it obviously I mean if they haven't been if they haven't attended But they're encouraged to go to it is that was is that what happened with the Saturday school encouraged correct, okay They're I mean there would be a way to I don't know who is the teacher Going to encourage them if they haven't been there to encourage them to go to Saturday school It'll be a site leadership our teachers and partnership to encourage our students and then it also it's an opportunity not only for Attendance recovery, but it's also an opportunity for our students to learn because One if our students aren't at school, they can't learn and so whatever they missed out on it It's an also an opportunity to get additional or some learning time that they missed out on right exactly So that's the other way that they're encouraged and hopefully their parents see that is an opportunity for them to do that their parents as well Yeah So the only thing I was just gonna say the stirs and purse thing is so Such a bummer so frustrated And I mean I don't hear you know I remember the CSBA was working on I forgot what the thing they were working on but they finally won I forgot what it was the CSBA that we're working on for such a super long time What it was the issue they finally got it whatever it was anyways, so I don't know if that's a CSBA issue We should start working on her something How to deal with the stirs and purrs because every school is district is having to deal with it I mean just like and and those increases are big enough that some school districts are really gonna hurt I mean more than even we are they're gonna really hurt will by those recruits. I mean hurt So it seems like so Important that There there needs to be ways to demand from the legislature or something That you know when we talk about increases in our LCA F that you know we need increases To help us pay for the stirs and purrs or whatever. You know what I'm saying? I mean it just it just seems like an issue Important for us to look at in the future because having them continue to go up and up and up You know, it's I I not only feel really bad for this district But bad for all the other districts, you know that are having to deal with that. I mean some of them are really gonna be Almost in somewhat in trouble really having to pay the big purrs increase. They're gonna be in trouble districts are gonna be in trouble You know I'm saying yeah, thank you Karen. I'm gonna go to Murray. It's that okay? Something I just want to put out it's great that we're thinking about Saturday school But I really want to bring that back as an as an item for discussion because what the least thing I want to see Is having students attend summer school? Where they just sit down on the desk? There's really no instruction whatsoever and it's so it's almost like oh do your homework And just sit there, you know, and I think that's a waste of our time and that's really not useful to our students So when we're planning putting putting that into plan I really want to caution that I really want to move away from that Because how a status code to me is always said it has always had a negative connotation You know, it shouldn't be that way. Well one time that was for people who are in trouble So we can bring that back as an item I think it will be great for the board to be aware of Things that we're doing for for those for those that population We might just want to rename it not Saturday Yes, I have a question Joe hello, my fellow East Bay fellow Could you clarify for me an explanation to the Increased variants on the expenditures where that came into play In expenditures and thank you for the question is specific to The 1.1 reflects the because in in the previous budget We were still negotiating with classified and so this is after negotiations were finalized And so that reflects the the retro that was negotiated for classified Okay, so this also captures any adjustments that were made after the May revise Advise and that would include management contracts and any of the like great, okay All right, and you know and I would just like to tell on Maria I actually had the fortune of visiting one of The summer school programs in my trustee area over the summer and it was a wonderful program and it was much more Innovative than students just Sitting and doing homework and I was just amazed to see some of the stuff that the students were doing over the summer And how excited they were and their parents that they had that opportunities in summer schools It's not always that negative and I think that goes back to the super Saturdays, right? And I think that's a program that we do have in place, but I think this is slightly different And I agree I would agree the delivery of the connotation of it is important But I could just say from my experience of visiting Schools in my area for the summer school it was really quite innovative the things that they were doing and The excitement of the students and the parents alike as well as the teachers We have so many teachers doing that they don't have to be doing that and they're doing it so Okay So I don't think we have a motion on the floor yet. So if someone would like to make a motion Okay, a second a second. Okay, so all those in favor of passing our 45-day Revision of our budget Any opposed Motion passes 6-0-1 and We're on to item 8.3. This is the approval of an MOU between PV OSD and PVFT regarding the six-period day at the Harrow middle school If we can get some clarification on that in the In the report Francisco had mentioned mentioned that there might be a Difference there President DeRose Dr.. Rodriguez as a PVFT president Rodriguez shared earlier the vast majority of our Pajaro middle school teachers Voted in May 2018 to move from a seven-period day to a six-period day to be closer in alignment with the other middle schools and to Promote student achievement the district and PVFT agreed to negotiate the schedule change for implementation No later than the 2019 to 20 School year We will be working with PVFT PMS staff and district administration to form a subcommittee To research six-period day options and to provide a proposal by November 1st and going to try to implement it sooner Then 2019 to 2020 and do we have any speakers this item? If you can clarify them put a card in after thank you so the vote was to Move from the existing schedule to a either six-period schedule or a seven-period schedule And the idea was to explore which one was was the best and so that's that's the clarification that I wanted to make the MOU still says The vote was to a six-period day, but the staff is open to a seven-period day as after-size school for example has but not committed to that but We want to leave the opportunity To explore that possibility. Are you asking for a change in language or you just wanted to make the clarification? I want to make the clarification that the vote was to move away from the existing schedule Okay, and we the subcommittee will be exploring different options Is there any board comments You're saying that the teachers are Supportive of it. They're not requesting any changed language as you were asked I'm just a little so that they are there the vote was to move away from the existing schedule The existing schedule is a seven-period day Yeah, but it's a seven-period day. It's very different than the seven-period day at after-size school And so but they're open to keeping a seven-period day, but with the Provisions and conditions that after-size school has No, the MOU just specifically says moving that the vote was to move to a six-period Schedule what I'm saying is that the vote was to move away from the existing schedule So I think that we are televised and that is that's on the record now. That's why I asked that question That's why I said it during my five minutes With this MOU as it is right the way November 1st Timeline and with the fact November 1st 2018 and with participating and looking at Changing the or creating a committee to look at the change Or the teachers that are affected I'm asking are feeling comfortable. Yes So we did we did clarify that what the vote was and we if you want to change it that would be fine But as trustee DeRose said it's on the record both during this agenda item and There is in the MOU of you notice it's pretty general Whereas the district and PVFT agreed to negotiate the schedule change for the 2019 to 20 school year So it it's pretty much in there. We have to negotiate what options We're going to explore the options and then negotiate what options we feel is best for PMS and the students So the real question here is not so much the language in my mind of the MOU But what is this for the kids at the school? So why the change? What kind of I thought I had read that they were already at seven periods, but maybe that's if that's correct So it sounds like maybe they want to move potential I mean, I know there'll be a subcommittee and they'll be findings that will likely come before us or maybe not I don't know maybe you can clarify that but what's wrong with the current schedule and why this move now The the teachers when they voted they felt that the seven period Traditional schedule wasn't the best schedule to serve the needs of the students So and it was very different from the schedules that the other middle schools have as well as the high school So what we wanted to do was form a committee with PMS staff as well as district administration especially at services in HR to and PVFT to explore different options that might Help promote student achievement better and we are hoping that the subcommittee can come together with a proposal by November 1st and Try to implement it as soon as we are able to Okay, so Oh, well that sounds Reasonable reasonable to me what what what's the objection again Francisco? There's not an objection. There is none No Okay, so that you guys are okay with that. Yes, we are okay with having a committee in which the teachers participate in What your schedule is going to look like they have the have input in a timeline as to when This will be accomplished Thank you. Thank you. Would someone like to make a motion. I'd like to make a motion to approve the MOU. Thank you That's our second. Thank you. All those in favor. Hi any opposed Motion passes seven zero. Thank you Francisco and thank you dr. Colleen item 8.4 Asking for approval of An appointment of a teacher on provisional internship permit Yes, um President Roderick is and I agree sometimes, huh? There's still a significant shortage of teachers nationwide and although our district team Assertively engages in a myriad of recruitment activities shortages of appropriately credentialed teachers still exist similar to other districts We are submitting for review and approval for by our board of trustees Applications for provisional intern permit to meet our teacher's need This PIP application is for Julie Pasantino who already has a bachelor's degree and a master's degree and she Is going to be working on a multiple subjects credential to allow her to teach math science core at PMS Okay, we don't have any speakers to this item too. Is there any board discussion or questions? I'd like to make a motion to approve I will second that motion, but I do have one question. Okay. Go ahead and then I So I know that We we often get these and so my question to you is We're allowing These individuals to work for the district But looking at past experiences how many of these individuals that have received the special permit Have Committed and stayed in the district. That's something I would want to know We have some of that data for you and I was planning to address it on the next item Okay, any other questions? Okay, so it's my recollection that we used to have Many more of these there will be a there will be a few more this year because we started recruitment early and We have a lot of teachers that stayed with us this year We Are not, you know, we're not going to need as many of these as in previous years And I was just going to say I was gonna give the administration kudos for going out I believe you start a recruitment efforts in January, which not only Fills those spots, but we really get the cream of the crop when we start early like that So I was really impressed and this is a reflection of that effort. So, okay So we have a motion and a second. So all those in favor I I any opposed Motion passes seven zero. Thank you And item eight point five Go ahead, Dr. Colleen. Thank you, I'm president de rose trustees. Dr. Rodriguez Coaching support is needed for teachers and intern programs as well as teachers with short-term teaching permits and provisional intern permits and these are teachers that are not being served by the New teacher project because they only serve the teachers in the beginning teachers Program and this MOU with PVFT will allow the district to provide coaching support to maximize the effectiveness of this new group of teachers and voluntary teacher coaches at each site will be selected from current Experience and tenure teachers with PVSD to provide general non-evaluative support in curriculum planning instruction Pacing strategies and successful classroom management. The voluntary teacher coaches will receive a stipend of $1,300 and seven 13 oh seven for the year Last year when we first implemented this program. We had 60 teachers Approximately that participated this year. We only will need 49 so we dropped down by 10 and last year we had 60 that participated And although 17 Left the district. We had an approximately 43 that were that remained with our district 10 of whom actually finished off with their credential and 33 we would like to continue the support of our stellar Coaches at the site and you know continue to work with PVFT on that so this year. We're only looking at 49 instead of 60 and Only 16 of those are our new 33 are continuing Great. Thank you Are there any other questions Kim? I see your thumb hovering on the speaker No anybody else Well, I do I just want to make a comment After I make a motion to approve So I was for many years every year for many years a parent volunteer on the campus of one of our elementary schools And I witnessed As I worked in the classroom and alongside the teachers several of these voluntary coaches which some of them did special programs through Cotson which you know was an amazing program that helped teachers reach their full potential and then coach other You know tea while you guys know the program Some were special science teachers. Some were Had done Really amazing math programs so and they were so good at teaching math and teaching their colleagues math that my kid Scored like the highest score ever on his math, you know Tests many years in a row So I do see this they're so valuable to have these volunteer Our voluntary coaches on the campuses and I want to thank whoever brought this forward And I think it's a good use of our money and resource to help our new teachers find their way. So thank you Thank You Kim. So we have a motion and a second all those in favor. I I any opposed motion passes 7-0. Thank you and We're item 8.6 and this is the second reading on board policy on graduation requirements So how we do with our board policies and just to reiterate for the public is we do a first reading That allows the public to see it also the board to make comments And then we come back. So one thing that came out of the additional the original first reading Was that the board policy actually did not with silent on adult education in general? And so what you will see is you will see that there is Additional information we did that purposefully. So you'll see it in green that shows How we are going to be integrating adult education into the board policy? There is one slight change and That is on the grid Which is within the administrative regulation it states incorrectly that adult education is still 220 credits it's actually 200 credits because they don't require the PE requirements But I just want to highlight for you guys the the key changes that I know I'd mentioned this before but We had some absences. So I just want to Really highlight the the good work that we did so this came out of the education equity audit Which was an 18 month process that really looked at how can we align our? Our course requirements our grad requirements to what we believe is important And so one thing that was mentioned was that we want our kids because of looking from an asset model We want them to Use world language or language other than English we want that to be a requirement I'm not only so that then they have the ability to go to a four year if they wanted to go to four year But traditionally our students actually do really well with with that also before they either chose between Vapa or world language and they chose between the two So now what we're doing is we're stating that there's also an importance with Vapa, which is It's it's fairly common requirement for other school districts The other is that we actually are going to now have a requirement for the students to take a one-year CTE or applied arts Class and so that can be a broad range So it doesn't have to be one specific area can be in digital media or it can be on Automechanics or whatever that that child wants we have multiple pathways Where you might say well, where is all that stuff coming from right? So where is it that are we requiring kids to do more classes and the answer is no that prior? We had 45 elective credits Many of those elective credits were a lot of times empty credits meaning that they didn't really lead the Student to anywhere because they were kind of a one single ten courses here or there and didn't really build for the students This portfolio of I have great content knowledge based on my talent interests and passions, right? So the actual number of credits did not change I'd mentioned this before but the hard credits we already had high So the hard ones with three years of math We already had that in our grad requirements, and then three years of science was another one And we already had that I will note that The state is going towards both of those as requirements. It's currently to 2020 or two years two years And they're moving towards that so we're going to be ahead of the curve on that as well and so We're proud of the requirements, and it definitely was a collaborative process That we had almost in total if you count the steering committee a hundred people that were involved for 18 months on it Do we have speakers to decide them? We do Gina Gagino call Good evening board On that side as well it's on do I just need to speak closer to it and I I'm here to speak About removing the health requirements for being a graduation requirement that really concerns me As a mom for starters, I have one child. It's already been through High school one that's a sophomore one that's coming into high school. I see that this doesn't go into effect for quite some time however You're stating that the the health The following subjects that are required by the ed code first aid narcotics dangerous drugs and alcohol fire prevention Safety and accident prevention hiv prevention and that they can be completed through health PE or science courses So if you're going to pull a site or going to pull health The PE Requirements the only thing and these don't match what I pulled up from the ed code. That was another concern Maybe I was looking in the wrong place. I'm not sure but the health requirements that I looked I saw from the ed code We're nutrition and physical activity growth and development and sexual health Injury prevention and safety which is attended to here alcohol tobacco and other drugs mental emotional and social health personal and community health I I know that those are being addressed in the health classes in the high schools now I know that different high schools do it in different ways that Pajaro Valley High School has gone to integrating with With PE I'm not at all convinced that those standards are being hit during the PE classes. I just don't In my experience in dropping into those classes. I'm not seeing that happening I'm concerned because the the growth development and sexual health really concerns me I can't tell you how many girls do not understand how their menstrual cycle works and That to me would indicate if we're not getting it at school a lot of times culturally we're not getting it at home We're not having that conversation with our daughters Where is that going to happen and what safe space in a class of 70? You know 45 anyway of PE a giant class of PE. Where is that safe place for that to happen? So that is a big concern for me as a mom of a daughter I I know that PE is really important that I Thoroughly believe we should have four years of PE. I know kids can do that as an elective But I do not feel that health is something that can be Pushed aside that can be integrated into something else. I think that health is something that is Super super important and all of those things nutrition and physical activity. Sure. They might hit that in PE Growth and development probably they're gonna hit that a little bit in injury prevention Sure, but the sexual health is not gonna get there the alcohol Tobacco and other drugs may not get there social emotional Health may not get there and community personal and community health might not get all the attention that I believe it needs So there's my two minutes Thank you Can I ask for a clarification? Yes, um, are we dropping a health class? I was not aware of that No, so how it works is the state requirements have changed in which now it there is no longer the requirement to have one semester of health It is true that each one of our high schools does it differently So Watsonville High has health teachers P. V. High uses their PE teachers and and Aptos high users science teachers what I will say is that there is required and you guys Approved it last year. So it was or there was updated required Curriculum so all that curriculum is actually in the school. So regardless of who it is Whether it's a PE teacher Or it is the science teacher or the health teacher all of those teachers have the particular curriculum Whether it's the required sex as it sex ed We have a huge requirement now for HIV and and health sciences So all that is up to date and within the schools and all the PE teachers that do have health They also have a classroom in which they can work with the students and we make sure and do Appropriate sex correspondence during the time in which we're doing the sex ed piece So my daughter a freshman at Aptos. I had a health class. I thought it was a requirement It's currently done by it's currently done by science teachers That was not my recollection. She was not a science teacher and I think that we should have health classes at every single One of our comfort or I'll every high school actually not just Comprehensives but all of them. I don't think PE teachers should be teaching health. I'm sorry So anyway, that's my two cents You know having been a parent who's just gone through this with high school students I Echo some of the same concerns and you I'm backing on what you said you said at Watsonville high at PV high Aptos I would assume that renaissance based on what you're saying. It's being taught differently By different teachers at each one of these institutions these schools within here within the district So what I'm questioning is why can't this be uniform because you know if a family moved from Aptos to Watsonville or vice versa and they're for whatever reason and the student change So that student when they enter a freshman year of high school doesn't matter which school That when they're gonna be a graduating senior the expectancy can be the same. I mean, is there like is there a reason we can't With just those four high schools have it At least the three be The same so there's no possible fallout. Yeah, so Um There's quite a bit of disparity at the at the schools Are differences of how things were allowed to be implemented one thing? I will say is It does have to do with credentialing and current staff So it's not Impossible But it would definitely require us to have shifting of staff at the site. So again, it's not impossible I think what we're trying to do is we're trying to adhere to state requirements and ensure that we are Moving forward on the items that we feel are important for the education of our students I do feel I feel strongly that Our teachers are teaching it with Parity Now their credential the teacher that's teaching it may be different, but they're teaching the same curriculum So Would you be open to if this was approved with that stipulation that it be made uniform? So it was an actual structured health class at all high schools and Being open to seeing that that be implemented. So it is uniform at whether you're at Watsonville high PV high or renaissance The challenge is that it's a half-year course So that When you're looking at full-year courses and trying to align through a through G So I'm a big one if you and you know people that work with me know that I say Almost nothing is impossible, right? Almost nothing is impossible It's just trying to figure out. How do we maintain the other requirements? And still allow that to happen and then work with the staff that we have This isn't going to be implemented until the year 2022 I believe the students are for 2023. I'd have to look at the so You know, it's definitely something that we could we could look at for sure Okay, and then the other aside from that being brought up the other one that I had concern I know I heard you say that the students aren't going to be expected to take Because knowing how much it is on high school students and what they expect and see and other things whether they have the extracurricular of sports or they have to work My concern to I heard you say that there would be no more expected courses put upon them That's correct But when we talked about you spoke about the language and it sounded like a language versus Vapha vice versa Like there'd have to be a pick and choose know it with these new they get they would do both be currently the current is They choose one they'd be mandated to do one or the other or no They would do both and how does that not add more on top because they don't have to do as many They don't have to do as many electives So always the courses was 220 credits, which was 22 courses if you kind of think of it that way So they were always required to do 22 year-long courses What is happening is it used to be that 45 of those credits were Just different one and now we're funneling that in and we're having it to where only 30 of those are Different elective credits now we're we're promoting them to You know to be language learners wearing we're promoting them to Expose themselves to one year of a visual and performing arts, right? Whether it's choral or it's drama or something like that. So we're we're trying to help them Sometimes, you know to broaden their horizons with and just with a one-year course Okay, thank you for clarifying that my Feeling on it is just for security and sake that I could only move forward supporting it if we could get that clarification and assurance tonight That we would have the help the semester health course be the same and Aptos Watsonville, Bajaro High and hopefully Renaissance High So that's kind of where I stand with that Having having taught PE at Watsonville High School for many years You know, I think that we we We we shorten the emphasis on each of those on health and PE And I and I kind of support what what trustee Georges is going to to having separate Health classes and a separate PE classes because because the emphasis and and and then the other thought is that in PE classes now many of them are coed So you need to separate I would think anyway And so so I think By the way, Gina's father was probably probably the best PE teacher that I've ever worked with my life So I just want to throw that out to you know Anyway, the the the point that I'm trying to make in support of what trustee Georgia is saying is that We need to keep the emphasis health is so important that we that as a PE teacher You need to just concentrate on that class for that hour and someone else do the The health that stuff and is there any way that because this is not going to be put in put in place until 2025 or something like that. Maybe we should Take a take a little time to see if that's possible and if it's not possible come back with the option and if it is okay, then then let's see it See it because maybe it might be the best best avenue and at Watsonville. We always had a Southmore What's it called Southmore requirements and it was it was health ed driver safety And and all that stuff so Which was a circuit class and and I think that We ought to back off right now and see if that would work would you mind addressing that what his His question is what would happen if we did pull this and we brought it back um We can pull it It's the it is important that we start the conversations with the students These are eighth graders the the current eighth graders are the ones that will be affected by this So it'll be important that we start the training with the counselors in the fairly near future now Many of them were involved in this I would Prefer to pull it and answer the question just because it's not out of not wanting to make the change I want to make sure that we technically can With staffing requirements and looking at how it would affect master schedules because right now It would highly affect the master schedule of Many of our schools and it seems like well it's so far off it. Why would that matter? But when you think about it, it's it's just next year's and we do master schedules We batten down high school master schedules by January. So It we just would need to make sure that that it's possible before we commit so would have Less of a disruption if you took another five off of the electives and put that back into health And my second question is are we We're not providing health classes in middle school because I think that's where it really needs to be Middle school. There's there's also requirements at the middle school level. Okay, this is just pertains to the high school requirements So it's not that we don't do it. And this is just the graduation high school requirements So we can pull this and we can bring it back sometime in the near future with Some options sure Okay, is the board okay with that? Yes, okay. Okay. Thank you and if I may Just just just one last comment. I was so happy to see the requirement that now we're putting in CTE into the graduation requirements that's really important and I want to thank Michelle for and and also the staff for making sure that the CTE We feel that that's going to be something in the future that everyone's going to have to do and we're a hit hit of it And so I thank you Michelle doing such a good job. Thank you. Thank you for mentioning that and and also we saw in Bill Beecher's His presentation about his campaign trail that the community wants that and when we started the Local control funding formula in our LCAP. That's what we saw in our community meetings as well But that was one of the top three priorities throughout the community. So yeah, that's that's a good thing Thanks for bringing that up Okay item 8.7 This is the second reading of proposed board policy on administering medication and monitoring health conditions and This is A report From Heather Gorman. I'll go ahead and I'll speak to it So we had the presentation by the nurse The last time that we we got together and so this is just the board policy that that aligns with that and so we You know, we we can go over the PowerPoint again But we did have a complete presentation the last time during this my CSCA meeting It is accurate that they spoke to me regarding the addition of the voluntary and so we would like to add that that it is those that are Volunteer that volunteer to be trained because they do need to be trained. So I want to make that note and If the board would like to we can go back over the PowerPoint, but the purpose of the second reading is Revision in between So Oh No speakers to this so When enough emotion is made I would just ask that that change be included in the motion Yes, thank you. And is there any questions or comments from board members? Kim No, I mean I'm in full support of this. I think It would be a very rare Occasion that something like this would need to be used but like Bill said he found somebody in a car who was passed out And who knows he could have needed Narcan. So I think it's a good thing for us to have this on all of our campuses And I'd Probably like to make a motion tonight to support this with the noted change In wording that it's voluntary for training. Thanks I'll second that motion. Was that a motion? Okay, Jeff Talk to Rodriguez. I'm in full support of this, of course, but if it is voluntary, how are we gonna ensure that we have somebody at every campus So the the nurses were the ones who brought this forward originally and asked us to look at it And we know that the nurses are in full support So they not only came and presented on it and you had many of them in the audience the last time So what it would be is the nurses would be the ones that would for sure be trained some of them have already been trained and then both administrators would be trained as well as The classified staff that volunteered which we the health assistant So you'd always have the the principal and assistant principals trained They're always trained. They will be trained. So the principal assistant principal don't have a choice. Um, no, they're management Okay, so what you're what I'm hearing you say is even though it's voluntary There will be somebody at every campus that has that that has this training. Yeah, it's voluntary For non-management. Yeah, it's voluntary training quote-unquote. Okay. Thank you You made a motion. Okay, and we have a second. So I'm all those in favor. I Any opposed Motion passes 601 with trustee osmondson away from her seat for a moment Okay item 8.8 and I'm gonna start this one if you don't mind dr. Rodriguez So part of the responsibilities of the board of trustees is is to do Evaluation of the superintendent once a year just like all employees get evaluated It's our job to give Michelle and Evaluation or the superintendent which we did at a special board study session on August the 8th prior to that each of the trustees received an evaluation form and I've led the effort as as president. So I collected those and summarized the Evaluations from the the trustees and then presented those findings to dr. Rodriguez last Tuesday at our regular one-on-one meeting and With that once an evaluation is completed if the board recommends that we continue with her her contract as our superintendent we Would extend the contract for one year. So I will go ahead and let you finish So last year I did a presentation for the board and we didn't We didn't make it public just because evaluation processes in general are are our Private I Wanted to be transparent and demonstrate the level of accountability that all employees have and so people can see the presentation that I did for the board and Then I Just think that we have made incredible progress and I'm proud of the work that we have done We do have significant work still to do and we're dedicated to do that work so the extension of the contract is a one-year extension There the base salary Is updated and it reflects the six? It's the six percent Which is customary with management in the district. I'm other than that. There's no salary increase and With that I will ask if there are speakers to this item None, okay, and any any comments questions from the board Let's go Willie and then clarification when You said extension of one year or it's one year So we're adding one year to the contract correct. So so it's a contract That we originally had plus work adding a year to it I just wanted to make sure that it's just not one year, right? Yeah, so she's locked down to win Forever, no No until This would expire 2021 is that correct a little over three years We're adding a year I'll talk about that You know, I don't really have much to say except to Michelle. Thank you I when I think back about how far we've come and in a short period of time sitting through that evaluation and Hearing about all the progress that we're making you can kind of feel it in the room sometimes when People are uncomfortable, but our students are being positively impacted by the changes that are start starting at the head of the house And all the way down so I make a motion to approve this if it was up to me If I got to choose I do a 20-year extension and really nail you down a long time You have made positive and you've made a positive impact on 20,000 students and we appreciate it very much Any other comments comments Michelle I you know that I've been here for many years and probably worked with the seven superintendents. They've all been good and And and they all served a purpose They got us through the recession and so forth and so forth the last two years have been the most exciting for me Because all the things that we've been building in the past are now coming Coming up and getting done because you're I was a watching a Movie the other night and done now to do and I and I saw this movie called the closer and We're talking about our superintendent being able to close things and getting things done and finishing like the PB high Project was was huge and she got it closed and there's other things that we've been working on over the years Matt the math and I want to just mention the math because one of the things that we put in the graduation Requirement is the additional year and algebra. Well, if you don't start in the third grade To get kids ready. It's not really fair for these kids to come up and now fail We got to start earlier and so the report about the status of the school district shows a definite gain in Third grade and fourth grade math So when these kids come up, they're gonna be ready to graduate because we put in the fact that you have to pass Algebra and if you don't start early, it's almost impossible to so things like that It's that vision and getting things done. Thank you very much. Okay Okay, well, I'm Yeah So I would just like to echo what my two board members said we had this was a district where For many years on the board I felt like I was hitting my head against a brick wall in terms of wanting Certain things to happen change to occur academic achievement to grow certain departments to To not put barriers in our way of Achieving something new and different and important for our kids and I feel like under your leadership That's happened when I look around this room and I I see the faces out here some Excellent people that have remained in their positions or been promoted and others Grown from within and promoted to directors. I know every single person out here is working As hard as they can To achieve the changes that we so desperately needed for the kids in this district We have a this were a family really in Pajaro Valley and we have a lot of Really good things and I think those things haven't changed what has changed is that people who don't want to do the work Are not here anymore people that don't want to do that that one that want things to remain the same Even though they're not working or not here anymore and what I see are the people that remain are Dedicated to making this place better and I want to thank you for For your work because I know it's not easy. I know I'm I don't think you sleep actually So I think all of us as a board want you to take good care of yourself We are very happy that you're building a great cabinet. We're very happy with the work that's happening here looking looking forward to To to watching the continued growth and success over the next few years. So thank you for your service I really couldn't have said it much better myself. Thank you. Thank you, Kim So I'm just gonna echo that I'm really pleased with The movement that we've seen in the short time and I'm looking forward to That I think we're gonna get a report in December again because Movement is happening so quickly. We get multiple reports throughout the year and yes, it's everybody's feet on the ground pushing for the same outcomes and It's hard to come in and make change So that's commendable that you have created a team You hold yourself as accountable as you hold everybody else accountable to yourself and I think that that's commendable So do we have a motion? Yes? Yeah, this is you know in my I don't know how many years I've been here These have been the most exciting years that I've been here I mean a lot of us because of you but you know just a lot of things that having Vapa, you know having actually Art and actually having music and having bands in the school and people You know doing vocal. I mean just like It's like whoa You know, I mean my years have you know, they haven't been this great, you know before and a lot of it has to do with work that you've done to I Feel so optimistic about our future really I super feel optimistic and You know and just the way we've been able to we're gonna have the grant writer talk to us tonight about all the grants that she has Written and it's just like incredible how much money we've gotten from our grant writer and that was a suggestion from Michelle Michelle said, you know, I would like to be able to hire a grant hire I'd like you to support hiring a grant writer and Yeah, we did okay and And and just the amount of money we've saved in We're doing much better in special education with you know, all the stuff that we hadn't done there before in terms of Parents and issues they've had whatever but I'm just saying and They're just you know the the money we've saved in workers comp, whatever, but I'm just I I've just seen such a big difference in the school district in my years Makes me really excited and also I was gonna say to you I was gonna say to everybody here You're gonna give a presentation of your of your progress at the breakfast It's on the 26th of October There's going to be a breakfast for all you to know that there's gonna be a breakfast at the community room at the city and Michelle will be there giving a presentation on the progress that we've made and there's gonna be other things happening there, too State of the district. It's the state of the district. That's what it's called. It's called the state of the district It's gonna be October 26th from 830 to 945 and then everybody that here and hopefully a lot more people would be able to come and Listen to her state of the district. It's gonna be pretty exciting to listen to it. Great. Thank you Really quick I do want to thank Michelle for the amazing what she has done I want to thank you for being so student centric but also Providing staff with the support that they need the cushion they need to ensure that they reach their potential I think that's a very valuable is something that I hadn't seen in the past At least the first four years as a board trustee And it's something that we were looking for I like the fact that you're a leader that leads by example, so If you don't slack Expectation is that other staff members won't be able to do the same, right? Because you know you hold yourself to so many high standards and that I think energy and motivation trickles down To the rest of the district and you even hold us as board members accountable for our actions So, so thank you so much. Okay. Thank you So with that I actually would like to make the motion To approve the extension of Our superintendents contract Okay, all those in favor. Aye. Any opposed? So motion passes 601 with trustee Acosta away from her seat. Okay Now we're on report and discussion items and this is item 9.1 pursuing Purposeful new funding aligned with aligned with district goals through a grant writer Andrea Wiley our district grant while or we'll be giving the The report Andrea Willie Thank you for sitting through the yeah Thank you Board members Dr. Rodriguez colleagues and community members I'm thrilled to be here tonight to talk to you about the activities I've been doing as the district grant writer I'm delighted to have this opportunity Maybe other way My efforts lie in finding new funding sources to support the district and I Regularly scan across four domains that you see up here local And these are either funding sources We've secured or funding sources where I'm looking for opportunities to come up or things that are actually in the hopper right now So local it is the County Office of Education the Community Foundation Santa Cruz County Core investments, which is a Santa Cruz County? Funding consortium Watsonville Rotary Monterey Peninsula Foundation Kaiser Community Benefit Program and the Pajaro Valley Community Health Trust at the state level I monitor and and staff and colleagues and others often send me information if they see something come up California State Department of Education Orange County Department of Education The California Collaborative for Excellence in Education and the California Energy Commission At the federal level we are always scanning across the Department of Education Very little coming out of that department right now National Science Foundation Health and Human Services the Department of Justice the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Endowment for the Arts and then there is of course the private sector which tend to be foundations and Corporations footsteps to brilliance Chevron stem zone project lead the way Cisco systems target Omnipro Alliance for a healthier generation Raleigh's extra credit program VH one the Wells Fargo community giving program and the Cedar Tree Foundation And One of the biggest Initiative that really has landed in the world of proposal development and philanthropic World is collaborative landscape meaning that to be effective in seeking proposals and Winning proposals you have to build and maintain and expand relationships with community partners and all funders at all times I'm also working to advocate and message the district's vision Priorities successes and areas for growth and I keep abreast of the futuristic directions and challenges within pre-k To 16 educational systems both at I mean at local state and national arena Things move fast and some funders Want to see dynamic proposals. They want to see people who see where we're going and so I'm always monitoring that to make sure that the Work we're doing aligns with that vision And this is just a short list of the collaborative partners where I'm engaged in that relationship building and Co-creation process you'll see UCSD up there Cabrillo College Kaiser Permanente digital nest Applied survey research the education training research associates up in Valley second harvest food bank life lab Santa Cruz County College commitment The Community Action Board Community Foundation Santa Cruz County and Papua Valley Health Trust again and the South Hounding Collaborative and this is just a handful of the organizations with my Talk and work on a regular basis One example of what this collaborative landscape funding Looks like is through Kaiser Community benefit program. So when I started in 2017 a call for proposal came up In the spring and we went after a twenty five thousand dollar Grant award that was funded to support the healthy start centers increasing the number of families and by adding on staff time and then Following up on that to build the relationship. We invited the head of community giving to come to our centers and Dr. Rodriguez met with them We met with Rich Quintay and they got to see firsthand and hear from our staff and see what we actually do and Lo and behold about three months later We got a call from the head of Kaiser and he said I I want to meet with the South County Housing Collaborative that you're a part of and he gave a gift and Asked for a gift to the group to continue the work of supporting fragile populations Then about six months later, we got a call from Steve Wall and he said I have a neat opportunity For a school district in my region, which is San Mateo Down to Santa Cruz for one school district to participate in the Alliance for a healthier generation Program at no cost to you and I want your district to have it if you'll take it. So we did a call and That initiative is being led this year at 10 sites under the leadership of April Aleman one of our school nurses And then we applied for some funding to support activities at those sites this year and Kaiser said Yes, we'll give you money to do that So we leveraged the fact that we had a gift to secure more funding and then finally We got a call from Steve along with several community partners to do an invitation only Grant application which if you know anything about the grant world. That's kind of like your you know money in the bank And that was a hundred and fifty thousand dollars again to a consortium here in South County that included us to support homeless children and families so The relationship building piece of what I do is really a critical to our future success and serving our students families and community And and it's a part of the work that I truly love When I'm looking for this new funding these are my guiding Documents which you all played a role obviously in creating and so I wanted you to know that that's clearly on the front of my mind and Conversations with dr. Rodriguez the target for student success the LCAP goals and the educational equity roadmap and An example of what I mean by that's my focus LCAP goal number three is visual and performing arts LC stem is a program that began in our district last year at Radcliffe elementary Again when I started in 2017 I worked with Santa Cruz LC stemma to apply to Monterey Peninsula Foundation for $20,000 which we received to support that And we maintain that relationship. They don't need to visit, but we've kept them abreast of the progress and This year we applied for 45 because we've expanded to a second school And they're very interested in continuing to fund us and we're excited to see the success of the program and as part of Again the collaboration I work regularly with the Santa Cruz LC stemma director on other grant opportunities where we cannot Be the applicant because they don't fund a school district But she can and so we co-write things we edit and we are always finding ways to bring more funding to support the program Which again benefits our students And then this is a summary slide of past Vernon anticipated successes So the total funding received since the start of my tenure which was in March 2017 has been About five and a half million dollars during the calendar year of 2017 We received eight grant awards for a total of almost five million this So this far in 2018 eight grant awards have been received to about 700 million and two of those with collaborative partners which means either they were the lead or we just did it as a Collaboration because that's what funders wanted in that incident and then right now We have five that are submitted and pending with a value of almost half a million dollars And I have eight more either concepts or applications in development right now and three of those are with collaborative partners And this is an example of when I say pending so The National Science Foundation is a wonderful organization that funds a lot of innovative on things in the arena of science And we applied with some colleagues under the category computer science for all researcher practitioner partnerships, and it was our colleagues were ETR associates digital nest Cabrillo College and The title is a coordinated cross institutional career and technical education cyber security pathway We submitted in May and we have been asked for additional Documentation in fact are now being recommended for funding. We just can't say we have the funds in hand yet, but that's Exceptional and it will bring a hundred thousand dollars to our district And it is really to build a CTE cyber security pathway for our students Once again in the news today. We know this is a growing and expanding job sector for our students and we have a wonderful new Lecturer up at Cabrillo College in cyber security, and we're working very closely with him to develop this pathway So My last life And just to say it's an honor and a privilege every day to come to work With such enthusiastic and wonderful people and in your direction and guidance has been a part of that and I'm thrilled Great, thank you so much. Do we have any speakers? Okay, I see Willie leaning in go ahead Willie I'm ready All right, can we can we put our orders in now or our favorite projects? I think Michelle will happily take your order She is one of my best funnels for opportunities and direction. Yeah, the the state has had funds for ETC shops and Middle shops and so forth with this with this program coming in as a requirement We have an opportunity now to revamp the shop program at Watsonville High School Make them really functional like Salinas and so this is a but it but the state had a huge grant Amount of money that went to Arden High School a couple of years ago And they they completely rebuilt their entire program So it's really outstanding the second order is the second thing I'm like is Redcliffe school needs a all-purpose Artificial turf field and if you can find some of them grant money we can we can really put that make that happen And the third thing that we need We need a towel service For our PE classes that we Kids don't shower because we don't have towels and that's a fact and years ago RPE classes were a lot more physical because kids had had the Ability to shower at the end of the day Well, so if you don't have a towel, you don't shower so you don't you don't run as fast You don't sweat so anyway that those are my three things I'd love to do love to have Thank you for your comments, and I'm sure Dr. Rodriguez will take Fantastic job, thank I saw you did 4.7 million in 2017 did about 800,000 so far in 2018 or nine months through the year. Did you have what? What's different so we had the huge footsteps of brilliance matching fund grants that came in which I continue to help manage That was a three point nine. Okay, so the three points. So you have four point seven take away three point nine So you have about 800,000. Yeah, so we're on track for a better year taking away that Absolutely, absolutely. What do you think is a is a realistic number for the board to ask or to expect? I think on a consistent basis Yeah, I think about that maybe to a million and then there will be those big whoppers that will come in part of it is there are grant opportunities out there, I see things and At times we are almost there because we're getting data about the success of our program, right? We're almost there where I have a Sensational story to tell to get funded and sometimes I don't have a story that I know is going to earn us the point Or get the visibility to be funded and so I just keep those in my tickler for Next year we're ready. So like this year, we've seen the improvement in test scores all of a sudden There are new opportunities in places that I can start on building You know grant Applications and relationships that I can nurture. Hey, we're on the move and so it's sort of a long-term thing And what I would say is probably probably about a million every year, but then again every once in a while watch out for me to be exceptional We already think you're exceptional As the board moves forward We already think you're exceptional But as the board moves forward, I think it's nice to have a figure in her head You know the 3.9 millions are gonna come sometimes that's great and some years you're gonna get 500,000 I get it, but on a consistent basis I think it's important for the board to keep in mind about a million dollars We're getting a ten for one on you Okay, thank you Well, I just loved hearing about how you think about how we're doing and how how the stories come up about things that have happened here because You're totally right. You have to have something That you could tell a grant writer. I mean a grant writer Whatever where you get your grant where you get your rent grant funding Place You need to be able to tell them these kind of stories that they could say whoa Okay, that sounds really good that they've been able to accomplish this or do this or do that whatever So so yeah, I really liked hearing about how you really Well, I'm so glad that you're so involved You're incredibly involved with our school district and you have been able to figure out You know where that you can focus on based on what we've accomplished what we're doing You know what I'm saying to be able to see okay Yeah, I can I can work there because we've done you know like this. We've done some stuff here. We know Thank you, I do that is part I love Thank you. Thank you Hi So For all do disclosures you are a friend of mine I'm very happy that you're in this position. I do grant writing myself over the years here and there so I know How hard it is when I put in the playground at Valencia, I think I wrote about 150 grants and maybe 40 of them funded and every $2,500 that I got was like when in a jackpot. So I know how fun it is to hit them So one of the requirements of grants and I heard you say a little bit about it Is the monitoring and evaluation of the money because the funders expect to know How their money was used and what the outcomes were related to the goals that you presented to them So that feels to me like a job in and of itself And I know we've got some grants going into different departments. We're potentially directors or leads or managing monitoring and evaluating but I Guess I maybe this is a good one for the superintendent So if you could tell us more about that because I know that we have to report back to funders and that's a lot of work So that was actually one of the five positions that we added So one of them was on the grant writer the second one was the teacher on special assignment that was there Specifically in order to free up Francis and the department in order to be able to do program evaluation So this summer they were busily doing all the program evaluation work So whether it was FC Stama which allowed us to get the secondary grant that under I was speaking to or the other things We do have a full-time extra person that is in our Research and accountability office to be able to do that work. That's great Because I know sometimes the if we don't report back then we're we may not apply We were not allowed to apply again for money sometimes ever sometimes for a certain period So so that's I'm glad to know that I'm very happy to hear that you are working with ETR because I'm also on the board of ETR And it's an amazing organization and they know how to write for money ETR is an organization that it's a national organization multi-million dollar organization that Essentially produces evidence-based scientific curriculum in the areas of like harm reduction, so pregnancy prevention HIV prevention STSTI prevention tobacco cessation drug use alcohol like anything that harms like the human being essentially they're producing and researching ways to affect that in in positive ways, so they are like a Contractor with federal government in many areas like they are a preferred provider So they're able to really pull down money and deliver curriculum to schools to health clinics public health medical It's an amazing organization. So that hopefully you guys will get that grant. That's great I think we will and I think they're more to come that's becoming a very positive relationship So one of the things I'd like to put a plug in for thank you, Willie And this is for all high schools is that I have written in the past a grant for a grad night The Monterey Peninsula Foundation provides, I think 2,500 per school For grad nights, and I'd really like and I don't want to have to write it again for Aptos High But I think all schools PV Watsonville Renaissance anyone that has a grad night or wants to do a grad night is eligible To apply so if they could have your help doing that. I think that's an important use of the money And Andrea if you could just give us maybe two sentences about your background and your parents and Well my dad my dad is an anthropology professor who taught and retired from both UC Santa Barbara and CSUMB I'm actually a sixth generation Watson billion. I am part of the white cough family which Settled here in the early 1800s. I was not raised here But came back here when my parents relocated for my father's second tenure at CSUMB I am a medical anthropologist by training but have always worked in Social service and justice oriented positions whether it was at a human rights organization out of college or a medical ethics education program about the rights of patients and Then I did a spint as a non-clinical hospital manager over five departments down at USC in Los Angeles I have a pretty varied career, but it's always about Organizations that care for human souls and improving their outcome when we have Applied our service to them and so that's sort of the strand in my life And this is exciting and fun work and I bring all those And how many kids do you have? I have three and they've gone through To have gone through Pajaro and are at Taborio right now, and I have a junior at at the high And I know you have Thank you. Yeah, good. Good work. Thank you so much Yes, I'd like to just say This is this is another great example when when when when we voted that night to To form the grant writer position I Got several phone calls during the day from friends who said you don't hire any more people at the central office You guys are building the central office and yada yada yada and So that we did it, but I but I knew that I had people Calling me that we're really against adding people to the central office Michelle's vision and saw the need for this and For this position and I can hardly wait till I phone these guys back and go ha ha. We got fine Anyway, thank you. Thank you. Thank you everybody Going back to trustee suggestions And I'm very interested in perhaps bringing that back as a separate item and really looking at where the needs are in the district and how Some of that funding can be allocated to fund improvements So anything that's not program-specific out of the revenue received through the grants So I know like there's like they'll see stemma. That's a specific for that program, but if there's Sources of grants that are not program-specific. I think we should explore the option of where we want that to be invested Yeah, we can most of the time they are very program-specific, but I'll double-check on that on that of all of them that I can think of when we write their proposal It's late the money for a particular area. It's um, I Can't think of a time except for Chevron probably so Chevron would be one where we received a small grant from them That wasn't slated. So I'll investigate How if we have more off the top of my head this stem the Chevron stem zone is the only one I can think of That's like that. We can Bring that back on that one and others that we have Okay, thank you Andrea, I think we're lucky to have you. I remember when this came forward also I believe dr. Rodriguez said this position will pay for itself and and Congratulations on on good work, and it's great for the district good for our kids I really like the fact that It's Michelle is using the grant dollars to increase student achievement, which gives you More to go I just love that. It's just it's a cycle and It can continue to grow as our achievements grow too. So that's great so that was a Report and discussion items. So no action. Thank you again for being here I'm so late Congrats. Okay item 9.2 is the summer school report And This is by Carol Ortiz our director of extended learning. Hi Carol. Thanks for for hanging out with us. We appreciate it They're very shy Good evening President DeRose Superintendent Rodriguez members of the board. I'm Carol Ortiz director of extended learning department We oversee after-school programs and summer school here in PBUSD I'll be doing a brief presentation on our summer programs and Before I get started I would like to acknowledge the two Staff members who made it through the meeting and stayed because I had invited all my staff members But everyone has things to do, right? But Edgar Monjarras right behind me is our edge annuity guru for after-school programs and for summer school He's in charge of ensuring that the credit recovery Edge annuity courses get along well and then summer school programs as well. He organizes all of the classrooms Works with the teachers as a training Isaiah Chavarria Has been a staple of our after-school programs as well for many years He currently works at Lakeview after-school program But he also works with us throughout the year preparing our curriculum boxes that we put together for the teachers for summer school It's very labor intensive and it's very hands-on project-based summer program And he and another a partner of his work many many months ordering all of supplies putting all the kits together by grade level And I really appreciate that very physical manual work that he does He delivers a curriculum out in June picks it up in July does inventory I mean he does a great job So I just want to acknowledge not just the two that are here But all of my staff who work hard year-round to get our summer school programs going This is just the write-up of a quote from the National Center for after-school and summer enrichment We know that summer learning losses is a very great concern for not only our students in our community But just across the United States and this is kind of a guiding force for us as to why we have such a high High standard for our summer program Our program background is that we serve during the school year after-school programs serve about 4,000 students every day During summer we serve approximately 2,700 students our average daily attendance at our elementary and middle schools during the summer is 2,200 students and at the high school. It's approximately 595 students our summer programs go for four weeks Four hours a day for the elementary and middle school six and a half hours a day for the high schools Our high school students have the capability to get up to ten credits of credit recovery during the summer This is just a little example of what our classrooms look like all of our curriculum is based around two very important curriculum Content standards that we worked with some curriculum coaches I would say about three maybe four years ago where we developed our summer school curriculum in-house Based around certain content standards that they felt were missing That kids needed some reinforcement over the summer We all of our curriculum during out for the elementary and middle school sites is Based around science so I know that students are get very engaged when there's anything science related hands-on related So we created our summer school curriculum based on that student need This year we did a partnership with the public libraries in Watsonville Aptos and La Selva Beach personally remembering being a Child in Watsonville walking over to the public library down on Union Street and Doing the summer reading program and then walking across the street and getting a 50 cent hot dog from Taylor's there on the corner The reading the summer reading program was a critical part of my growing up So I wanted to make sure our students were accessing the public library more than I think they have been in the past in The in the packet that I gave you the actual report not the slideshow There's a quote from the public librarian who actually noticed the an increase in students Getting their library cards this summer and signing up for their summer reading program So I feel that was that partnership was a success and will therefore be continuing again our summer school program is Science-based it's based around those high school summer school principles or those extended learning principles of active mastery support Collaboration expanding their their environment the environment and making learning meaningful to them This year we collaborated with an organization to bring a Lego steam camp To one of our schools as a pilot program This Lego steam camp is offered at Cabrillo summer youth workshops that they provide where students are charged two hundred and forty dollars for a for a four-day workshop We've brought the exact same class to our students at HA hide We had a separate class for two weeks for our k3 students and then another class for two weeks for four or five students It was the exact same teacher the same curriculum same program just offered to our students here in our district And I was very proud of my staff that that were that brought that to our Department or our school district and I'm hoping in the future that we could expand these types of camps to have more opportunities for more of our students who may not be able to have the funds to Be in other type of summer camps that may be possible this is just a quote from my article in the register for heronian regarding our Physics bus that came and visited us as you could read in the report the physics bus came from Came from the east coast and drove over sorry again our our own Jen Bruno who works in our department brought the physics bus over along with the Lego camp This physics bus provided some hands-on NGSS activities to all of our students at the elementary and middle schools They just drove around the different schools and had the kids go in and do some of the activities And then they did some outdoor activities. They partnered with the city of Watsonville He has some of the city of Watsonville staff from the science workshop work with them as well at the site So the students had opportunities to work with a variety of s